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?

Gravis had reached the Unity Realm before he

and that he had gifted Yi Lu with

Yi Lu learned of the Sect Congregation,

war against another powerful Sect. Nothing appeared

they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and the mortals would suffer under

calamity his teacher

wish? Did his

He had to prevent this calamity and kill

had finally reached the

he managed to fulfill his

The calamity was averted!

then, his

Cultivator with an unfathomably profound Cultivation Realm had

people

lighthearted when he had spoken to the woman, but he felt nervous and scared

that was when his dead

killed that Cultivator with

dead Cultivator summoned an even more powerful

Will-Aura had destroyed

was something like this

too much shock today, and he looked at Gravis with a complicated

guess what Yi Lu was thinking and had to laugh a bit. "I think there are some misunderstandings between

Gravis proceeded to tell Yi Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and what the

You waited over

century is nothing,"

so old

I should leave. Nice

Lu's eyes widened.

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

like that?"

not?"

and your gift have shaped my entire life," Yi Lu said. "Aren't we connected by Karma or something? Am

"Nah," Gravis said.

when he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere

convinced me to give you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then, he smirked. "Also,

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to imagine you constantly trying to push yourself further, trying to keep up with

felt like his world

tragic teacher that had died was nothing like Yi Lu had

was the elderly

Where was the praise?

the problem or calamity that Yi Lu would be

acted like a young adult that just wanted to

Yi Lu's

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

you the knowledge that allows you to cultivate and gave you a frame of reference. Whatever you do is up

didn't," Gravis said. "Also, don't act like you are not happy that you went through some good tempering. After all, your Will-Aura is three levels above your own

was shaking in a mixture of emotions. He had no