Lightning Is the Only Way

"Greetings, Mortis," Siral said with a bow.

"Uhm," the forgotten person to Siral's left said.

"Your name is Yi Lu, right?" Gravis asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'm Yi Lu!" Yi Lu said as he regained his confidence. "You are Gravis, right?"

Gravis nodded with a smile.

Yi Lu just looked at Gravis like he couldn't believe it.

This was that amazing person!

This was the person that Yi Lu always felt inferior to!

Yi Lu had gone through all of his Realms in a short period of time, but whenever he reached a new Realm, the memories of Gravis' previous Realm would be unlocked.

When Yi Lu reached the Energy Gathering Realm, he had seen what Gravis had done in the Body Tempering Stage.

Yi Lu already had had a Will-Aura when his full body was tempered. He had even managed to fight an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator to a draw.

However, Gravis already had a Will-Aura before he even truly began to cultivate!

Even more, judging by Gravis' power, he had the ability to kill an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator!

Fighting to a draw, winning, and killing was a huge difference, each one more difficult than the last.

When Yi Lu had seen that he couldn't keep up, he had tried to become even more outstanding! Gravis was more powerful than him, but he couldn't give up!

So, he put everything he had into Cultivation and even managed to kill someone two levels above him in the Energy Gathering Realm. This was powerful! This was enough, right?

Then, when Yi Lu reached the Spirit Forming Realm, he had seen Gravis' fight against an extremely powerful elder with the fire element.

This elder had been three levels above Gravis, and he had had an equally powerful body.

Instead of feeling that he had come closer to Gravis' power, he felt like the power difference became even bigger.

So, Yi Lu became crazier and crazier and even managed to kill someone two levels above him in the Spirit Forming Realm, which was far more difficult than killing someone two levels above oneself in the Energy Gathering Realm.

Then, when Yi Lu had reached the Unity Realm, he had seen Gravis' fight with some kind of Priest.

How could he compete with that!?

Luckily for Yi Lu, all the delicate memories of Gravis' journey in the lower world were hidden. Yi Lu didn't know about Gravis' enmity with the lower Heaven or the fact that Gravis' Spirit had been attuned to Destruction Lightning.

After unlocking that set of memories, Yi Lu felt that all the foreign memories in his Spirit had been exhausted.

There had been no more memories to unlock.

What did this mean?

had reached the Unity Realm before he

and that he had gifted Yi

of the Sect Congregation, the ruler over

just won a war against another powerful Sect. Nothing appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi Lu had learned that this wasn't

taking out one Sect after the other until only they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and

had to be the calamity his teacher

wish? Did his dead teacher desire peace

his deceased teacher! He had

a hundred years, Yi Lu had finally reached the legendary

fulfill his late teacher's last

The calamity was averted!

then, his world broke

unfathomably profound Cultivation Realm had appeared before

were people this

had spoken to the woman, but he

was when

killed that Cultivator with but

summoned an even more powerful

Will-Aura had destroyed

something like

shock today, and he looked at Gravis

thinking and had to laugh a bit. "I think there are some misunderstandings

tell Yi Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and what the calamity

your opponent? You waited over a hundred years just to fight someone?" Yi

is nothing," Gravis

teacher was so old and powerful that eons passed in the blink of an eye for

I should leave. Nice meeting

eyes widened.

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

going to leave like that?" Yi

not?"

memories and your gift have shaped my entire life," Yi Lu said. "Aren't

"Nah," Gravis said.

was taken aback when he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere approach. "But then why did you help me? You

to protect what's important to me convinced me to give you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then, he smirked. "Also, it

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

with my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to imagine you constantly trying to

Lu felt like his world

died was

the elderly

Where was the praise?

was the problem or calamity that Yi Lu would be tasked with

that acted like a young adult that

Lu's

with you so badly that I went into suicidal situations just to temper myself, and now you're telling me you

Gravis said with a smirk. "So what if you died? That's just Cultivation. I gave you the knowledge that allows you to cultivate and

not happy that you went through some good tempering. After all,

body was shaking in a mixture of emotions. He had no idea how he should feel