Lightning Is the Only Way

"I killed some beasts," Mortis answered.

Gravis narrowed his eyes inside Arc's clearing.

"How many?"

"…A couple," Mortis answered after a pause.

"How many!?" Gravis asked again.

"I don't know. I didn't count," Mortis answered with annoyance. "Like maybe 40 or so."

Gravis furrowed his brows. "And they are probably all Immortal Kings?" Gravis asked.

"Most of them, yes," Mortis answered.

"Why?"

"Because they interrupted my Law Comprehension or didn't allow me to trade for their resources," Mortis answered. "You know that we need to go to multiple different places to comprehend the Soft Pure Law, and most of them just stopped me and said that this was their territory."

"So, I killed them," Mortis said.

Gravis scoffed. "What? Are you the Opposer? Is your solution to everything just killing?"

"What's wrong about that?" Mortis asked in annoyance. "Your father managed to become powerful this way. It's a proven method."

"Yes, but back then, the concept of Karmic Luck either didn't exist, or father had a normal amount of Karmic Luck. Instead, in your case, if you manage to anger even one powerful person, the chances are high that this person would want to kill you," Gravis explained.

"So? Then I just wasn't powerful enough," Mortis said coldly. "If I die, I die."

"You gotta give yourself enough time to become powerful!" Gravis shouted angrily. "You can't expect a rabbit to walk into a crocodile's mouth and then saying that it wasn't powerful enough. No, it wasn't that the rabbit wasn't powerful enough, but that the rabbit wasn't smart enough!"

"Are you calling me stupid?" Mortis asked with a freezing and threatening tone.

"No, but you're acting stupid!" Gravis shouted. "You are part of me, and I know that you are definitely not stupid, but your idiotic pride that says that giving even a small inch means being inferior makes you do stupid things!"

I underestimated others? Remember Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus?

not me," Mortis

back. "So, learn from my mistakes so that you

big time, but he didn't want

to show Gravis that his way was better to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this shitty prison while Gravis had never been in

wasn't allowed to leave this place. He wasn't allowed

just stuck sitting there, doing

been

No.

beasts, he

Cultivators. After all, they were doomed to be stuck on their current Realm and comprehension while watching their longevity shrink and shrink.

side, while Mortis was on the defensive side. He knew

very well what Mortis was thinking. After all,

can't even admit that

you dare call me weak!" Mortis

you forever be stuck in your way without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in your belief is a

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

down by now. "You won't be injured by admitting a mistake. Your Battle-Strength won't decrease. The only thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake.

a mistake is growth, not regression," Gravis

Gravis was right, but it was so very hard to admit his mistakes. If it were anyone else, Mortis wouldn't find it difficult. He would simply say nonchalantly that

in front of

version of himself that was supposed to be a weaker version without any courage to

be admitting that the other Gravis was the superior

that Mortis still didn't answer

and disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

category compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him to be superior to Gravis in other

than Gravis in Battle-Strength, and wasn't Battle-Strength the most

was still the more powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in some very specific situations, his

Mortis said finally. "I made a mistake.

brightly. "No problem. Now, do you

"My sentence is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so