Lightning Is the Only Way

A couple of weeks later, Siral contacted Gravis again.

"I found a suitable target, Master," Siral said.

"Tell me about the Sect," Gravis answered.

"The Sect is called the Holy Judgment Sect, Master. They are a Sect of Weapon Cultivators that use the Brilliance Element for their support. Most of the Element-related Sects are affiliated with the Nine Elements Sect, and this is one of them."

"What about the Sect's philosophy?" Gravis asked.

"They act kind and righteous, but in reality, their rules are draconian. They strictly control the movement and actions of their disciples, stopping them from ever betraying them. Apparently, when the Sect had implemented stricter rules in the past, a lot of disciples had left the Sect, weakening it immensely."

"However, instead of lessening the restrictions of the rules, they doubled down. Anyone that enters the Holy Judgment Sect is bound by a Formation Array in their mind, which allows the Sect Elders and Sect Master to kill any disciple from a distance," Siral explained.

"How did you find this Sect?" Gravis asked.

"I entered a couple of assassination strongholds of Underworld and checked the missions, Master. Some of the disciples that managed to escape this restriction by paying a ton of money to the Life Sect to destroy the Formation Arrays in their mind pooled their resources to request a hit on the upper echelon of the Holy Judgment Sect," Siral explained.

Gravis' eyes gleamed. He needed some money right now.

"What's the reward?"

"100 million Immortal Stones for the Sect Master and ten million for every Elder. The Elders also act as Vice-Sect Masters, which means that there are five Vice-Sect Masters in total. All of them are in the Late Major Circulation Immortal King Realm. If you kill everyone, you can earn 150 million Immortal Stones, Master."

Gravis nodded. "Meet up with me, Siral."

"Yes, Master," Siral said.

Gravis directly went to the location of the Holy Judgment Sect and inspected their Sect. He wanted to see everything for himself.

With his Law of Perceived Reality, it wasn't difficult for Gravis to hide his Spirit Sense from everyone below the Immortal Emperor Realm.

When Gravis arrived, he saw a bright and friendly Sect. Everyone was talking politely and with a kind voice with everyone else.

However, Gravis was able to see through the façade of the weaker Cultivators. They were only putting up a front. In reality, they felt afraid and stifled.

Gravis also saw the bottles filled with small parts of Spirits, surrounded by a gigantic Formation Array.

Sure enough, everything that Siral said checked out.

After seeing everything he wanted, Gravis went to the Nine Elements Sect. However, he wasn't going there to visit it. No, he wanted to visit someone else.

"You said that your stronghold also acts as an assassination stronghold, right?" Gravis asked the bartender of Underworld.

"Yes. Would you like to request a hit?" the bartender asked.

to accept

pleasantly surprised. "No problem.

of the Holy

The bartender inspected Gravis.

on taking on one Peak Immortal King and five Late Major Circulation Immortal Kings

would be very difficult to

the bartender didn't care. It was

down for the mission. You have 100 years to accomplish it. Please pay 10% of the mission reward as a contracting fee. If you are successful, you will

would be locked as soon as someone accepted one. Everyone

restriction was put in place to stop the Sects from blocking their own missions. Like this, they would be required to pay a ton of money to Underworld every century. Missions like this were worth a lot of money, and a Sect would slowly succumb

than a week," Gravis answered evenly as he paid the ten million Immortal Stones.

the bartender answered. "I hope you

said, directly

looked with amusement at Gravis as he left. Obviously, all of this had been done via voice transmission. While Gravis and the bartender had been

When he arrived, he saw that Siral was already waiting for

Siral said with

Major Circulation Immortal King," Gravis said. "Can you do

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

the assassination serve as tempering for

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

Judgment Sect. I will lure an Elder out, and you can directly assassinate them. After

said. However, one could hear a slight

tempering experience since he had

by assassinating Cultivators more powerful than him. If the Cultivator survived the first strike, Siral would undoubtedly die, creating a powerful feeling of pressure and

was all or nothing

couple of times to the southwest and found a Law Comprehension Area with three different Battle

obviously also a part of the upper echelon. Gravis checked out the person's aura and compared it to the small pieces of the souls inside the gigantic

took out his

BANG!

charged forward and hit the Formation Array that protected the Law

Formation Array shook violently,

make it

the Inferno Element. This would cloud his own aura and make

felt Gravis' Realm, his face whitened, and he quickly informed the Sect that a Late

infused his saber with all of the Inferno-related Laws and unleashed a powerful strike. He had

BAAAANG! CRK!

wasn't enough to break the Formation Array. It only cracked. This was an important Law Comprehension Area, and the Formation Array had to be strong enough to buy some time for the Sect's

BAAANG! BAAANG! BAAAANG! CRACK!

attacks, the Formation Array broke, and

finished, Master," Siral transmitted to Gravis with urgency. "One of the Elders is

that, he knew that he

WHOOOOOOM!