Lightning Is the Only Way

Stella thought about Arc's answer.

Fun to watch?

That obviously wasn't enough reason to keep this war going, but his first reason was already a pretty good one.

The war truly helped Cultivators to become more powerful.

Yet, Stella had expected more.

This reason felt a bit... simple.

Some seconds of silence passed.

"Gravis," the man said suddenly.

Gravis was a bit surprised that this illustrious senior brother wanted something from him.

"Yes?"

"Everyone in the world thinks that you are a beast, and you have been declared an enemy of humanity," the man said.

Stella felt like a heavy punch had hit her.

This was all because of her.

She knew what it meant to be the enemy of all of humanity.

Gravis could never show himself in the human territories again.

And why?

It was all because of her!

If she had been stronger, Gravis wouldn't have needed to save her!

"Okay," Gravis said without surprise. "So?"

Stella and Liam were surprised that Gravis was taking this development so well.

However, after thinking about what they have heard from Gravis' past, this really didn't seem to be that bad in comparison.

"Didn't you have some grand plan?" the man asked.

"Yes, but it seems like I can't go through with it now," Gravis said. "It requires the cooperation of at least one Peak Sect."

"If that's all, then you can still proceed with your plan," the man said.

Stella, Liam, and Gravis were all confused.

Didn't this man just say that Gravis was the enemy of humanity? How would any Peak Sect dare to cooperate with him?

"And which Sect would cooperate with me now?" Gravis asked.

"My Sect," the man said.

The three of them looked with surprise at this person.

His Sect?

So, this mysterious person was part of a Peak Sect!

Stella quickly went through all the different Ancestors and Ascenders she had met in the past.

None of them fit this person.

However, there was one Peak Sect that Stella had never gone to.

"The Purist Sect," Stella said.

The man nodded.

Ancestor of the Purist

The Purist Sect.

Purist Sect was always very isolated and xenophobic. They didn't allow anyone to

Purist Sect nearly never involved

all, the other four were working together very closely, while the Purist Sect only did

Sect wouldn't talk or cooperate with the other Peak Sects as long as it didn't involve something

the Highest Commander of humanity didn't control the

thing that the Purist Sect did was to take care of the

strategic maps in the important command centers of humanity just had the eastern quarter of the

no point in

and from what humanity was able to extrapolate by several clues regarding the beasts'

eastern front was basically the most stable front out

enough leftover forces

Force Sect to the west couldn't deal with both of their

the Purist Sect did it

almost seemed mysterious and

definitely wasn't easy

Peak Sect wasn't

directly belonged to the Human Alliance. Only the remaining

the eastern front was handled entirely by

main reason why the Human Alliance didn't force their cooperation on the

didn't want to provoke a sleeping

sleep and do

Purist Sect would be willing

"Yes," the man said.

very isolated, some people are bound to have heard of me and

you would be willing to offend four Peak Sects just so that my plan works,"

right," the Ancestor of the

blinked a couple

why do you

notice you," the

"And how's that supposed to work? I need to be

which humans you come into contact with," the

the Purist Sect is

"No," the man said.

a couple

you always need me to ask for clarification before you

man looked evenly

as

"Can you even speak for

because I'm also the leader of

Silence.

and Liam felt like their reality was

Underworld, was actually being led

Sect was

part of the

"No," the man said.

mainly a mercenary organization and trading hub. It is spread over the entirety of the world. Only the headquarters are in

Underworld is the leadership of the Purist

elders and disciples don't

gotten used to becoming

of the world, the location

at the very center of

wonder no one had ever been able

to hurt Underworld, they would immediately be

Peak Sect surround them, but

why Underworld

humans wanted to eradicate Underworld, they would need to eradicate the

even survive

would immediately overwhelm humanity after such

telling us this?" Liam asked. "Aren't you

"No," the man said.

makes you so sure?"

Underworld's job is to weaken humanity so that they don't

took a deep