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,"

was pleasantly surprised. "No problem. Any missions you

echelon of the Holy Judgment

The bartender inspected Gravis.

just a Late Major Circulation Immortal King, and he was intending on taking on one Peak Immortal King and five Late Major Circulation Immortal Kings in

very

the bartender didn't care. It was

put you down for the mission. You have 100 years to accomplish it. Please pay 10% of the

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

be required to pay a ton of money to Underworld every century. Missions like this were worth

will be done in less than a week," Gravis answered evenly as he paid the ten million Immortal Stones. That was

"I hope you can back

you later," Gravis said, directly ending the

all 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

back to the Holy Judgment Sect. When he

said with a

Major Circulation Immortal King," Gravis

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

the assassination 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.

Master," Siral said. However, one could hear a slight trembling inside

first tempering experience since he had

by assassinating Cultivators more powerful than him. If the Cultivator survived the first strike, Siral would

all or

southwest and found a Law Comprehension Area with three different Battle Laws for the Brilliance Element. All of these Battle Laws were level four Laws, which made

also a part of the upper echelon. Gravis

out his

BANG!

and hit the Formation Array that protected the Law

Array shook violently,

to make it seem

his appearance and released the Inferno Element around him while unleashing several Battle Laws of the Inferno Element. This would cloud his own

Gravis. When he felt Gravis' Realm, his face whitened, and he quickly informed the Sect that a Late Major Circulation Immortal King was

of the Inferno-related Laws and unleashed a powerful strike. He had already reforged a normal saber to allow it to absorb the

BAAAANG! CRK!

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!

the Formation Array broke,

Siral transmitted to Gravis with urgency.

that, he knew that he didn't need to

WHOOOOOOM!