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!"

underestimated others? Remember Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You are part

was you, not me,"

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

Gravis. He knew that he had fucked up big time, but he didn't want to admit

was better to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this

allowed to kill beasts. He wasn't allowed to leave this place. He wasn't allowed to summon any Laws to

just stuck sitting there,

it been

No.

decided to ignore some beasts, he would have already finished the

horrible punishment for Cultivators. After all, they were doomed to be stuck on their current Realm and comprehension while watching their longevity shrink and shrink. It was basically

ten more minutes. Gravis was always on the aggressive side, while Mortis was on the defensive side.

Mortis was thinking. After

weak that you can't even admit that you have made

you dare call

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

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

won't decrease. The only thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The pain of jumping over your stupid

a mistake is growth, not regression,"

admit his mistakes. If

in front

supposed to be a weaker version without

he be admitting that the other Gravis

still didn't answer and

and disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him

still more powerful than Gravis in Battle-Strength, and

was just that in some very

made a mistake. I shouldn't have

brightly. "No problem. Now, do you need

and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500