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 a mission,"

surprised. "No problem. Any missions you

upper echelon of the

The bartender inspected Gravis.

Immortal King, and he was intending on taking on one Peak Immortal King and five

would be very

the bartender didn't care.

it. Please pay 10% of the mission

be locked as soon as someone accepted one. Everyone in the world could accept the missions. They didn't need

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

a week," Gravis answered evenly as he paid the ten million Immortal Stones. That was nearly all of his money, but not for

answered. "I

Gravis said, directly

of this had been done via voice transmission. While Gravis and the bartender had been talking about the death of a High-Rank Sect, the bartender was happily serving

Sect. When he arrived, he saw that Siral was already

Siral said

Major Circulation Immortal King," Gravis said.

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

serve as tempering for you?"

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

wait near the southwest of the Holy Judgment Sect. I will lure an Elder out, and you can directly assassinate them. After you've finished the assassination, inform me. I will quickly return. You have

However, one could hear

would be Siral's first tempering experience since he had become Gravis'

him. If the Cultivator survived the first strike,

was all or

couple of times to the southwest and found a Law Comprehension Area with three different Battle Laws for the Brilliance Element. All of these Battle Laws

part of the

out his

BANG!

Gravis charged forward and hit the Formation Array that protected

shook violently, but

Gravis wanted to make it seem like someone was

of the Inferno Element. This would cloud

his face whitened, and he quickly informed the Sect that a

a powerful strike. He had already

BAAAANG! CRK!

This was an important Law Comprehension Area, and the Formation Array had to be strong enough to buy some time for the Sect's upper echelon to

BAAANG! BAAANG! BAAAANG! CRACK!

Formation Array broke, and Gravis charged

with urgency. "One of the Elders is

that he didn't

WHOOOOOOM!