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 had gifted Yi Lu with his last memories as a

Lu learned of the Sect Congregation, the ruler

another powerful Sect. Nothing appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi Lu had learned that this wasn't the first

taking out one Sect after the other until only they remained. Like this,

be the calamity his teacher had

Did his dead teacher desire

teacher! He had to prevent this calamity and kill the Sect Masters

finally reached the legendary Nascent Nourishing Realm,

to fulfill his late teacher's last

The calamity was averted!

his

an unfathomably profound Cultivation Realm had appeared before

people this

spoken to the

was when his dead

that Cultivator with

that dead Cultivator summoned an even

had destroyed

something like

Lu went through far too much shock today, and he looked at Gravis with

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

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

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

century is nothing," Gravis

was so old and powerful that eons passed in the blink

said. "Siral, Mortis, and I should leave. Nice meeting

Lu's eyes widened.

"Yes?" Gravis asked.

leave like that?" Yi Lu asked with some

why not?"

and your gift have shaped my entire life," Yi Lu said.

"Nah," Gravis said.

he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere approach.

you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then,

"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.

"I gave you the impossible task to keep up with my power by giving you my memories. It's funny to imagine you constantly trying to push yourself further, trying to keep up

like his

teacher that had died

was the elderly

Where was the praise?

the problem or calamity that Yi Lu would

that acted like a young adult that just wanted to mess

Yi Lu's

you so badly that I went into suicidal situations just to temper myself, and now

and gave you a

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

mixture of emotions. He had