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!"

Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You are part of me, and

not me,"

was me, not you!" Gravis shouted back. "So, learn from my mistakes

He knew that he had fucked up big time, but he didn't want to admit it in front of

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

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

just stuck sitting there,

been

No.

Mortis had just decided to ignore some beasts, he would

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

the defensive side. He knew that he had committed a mistake, but he just couldn't admit it

thinking. After all, Gravis was

so weak that you can't even admit that you

call me weak!"

way without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in your belief is a strength instead of a weakness?"

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

admitting a mistake. Your Battle-Strength won't decrease. The only thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The pain of jumping over

is growth, not regression,"

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

front

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

be admitting that the other Gravis was the superior

Mortis still didn't

disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

what if he was weaker in this category compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him to be superior to Gravis

was still more powerful than Gravis in Battle-Strength, and wasn't Battle-Strength the most important? Power was everything, after

powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in some very specific situations, his mindset was not

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

Now, do

3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so long, and it might be better to just finish it instead