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!"

Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You

you, not me,"

me, not you!" Gravis shouted back. "So,

agreed with Gravis. He knew that he had fucked up big time, but he didn't want to admit it in front of the perceived

to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this shitty prison

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

stuck sitting there,

been worth

No.

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

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 damaging their future potential by taking away

over ten more minutes. Gravis was always on the aggressive side, while Mortis was on the defensive side. He knew that

Mortis was thinking. After all, Gravis was the blueprint

that you can't even admit that

you dare call me weak!"

in your way without questioning

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The pain of jumping over your stupid pride will transform into motivation to never make such a stupid

mistake is growth, not regression," Gravis said

while. He knew that Gravis was right, but it was so very hard to admit his mistakes. If it were anyone else, Mortis wouldn't

in front of

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

admitting that the other

Mortis still didn't answer

and disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

so what if he was weaker in this category compared to Gravis?

Battle-Strength, and

version of Gravis. It was just

said finally. "I made a mistake. I shouldn't have killed so

"No problem. Now,

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