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

gifted Yi Lu with his last memories

Sect

Nothing appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi Lu had learned that

other until only they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and the mortals

calamity his

this his teacher's last wish? Did his dead teacher

Lu had to do his best for his deceased teacher! He had to prevent this calamity and kill the Sect

Lu had finally reached the legendary Nascent Nourishing Realm,

to fulfill his

The calamity was averted!

his world broke

with an unfathomably profound Cultivation Realm had appeared

were people this

he had spoken to the woman, but he felt nervous and

was when his dead

Cultivator with but

summoned an even

his Will-Aura had destroyed hundreds of

something like

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

had been protected against powerful Cultivators

and your opponent? You waited over

century is nothing," Gravis

with admiration. His teacher was so old and powerful that eons passed in the

and I should leave. Nice meeting

eyes widened.

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

to leave like that?" Yi Lu asked

why not?"

Lu said. "Aren't we connected by Karma or something?

"Nah," Gravis said.

Lu was taken aback when he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere approach. "But then why

protect what's important to me convinced me to give you a helping hand,"

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

laugh. "I gave you the impossible task to keep up with my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to imagine you

like his world

teacher that had died was nothing like

the elderly

Where was the praise?

was the problem or calamity that Yi

he met someone that acted like a

Lu's

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

you the knowledge that allows you to cultivate and gave you a frame of reference. Whatever you do is up to you. You could have simply stopped cultivating. You could have taken it

like you are not happy that you went through some good tempering. After all, your Will-Aura is three levels above your own Realm.

of emotions. He had no idea how he