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

The Purist Sect.

and xenophobic. They didn't allow anyone to

nearly never involved itself with human

the Purist Sect. After all, the

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

far that the Highest Commander of humanity didn't control the eastern

to take care of the eastern

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

no point in looking at the

Sect was easily dealing with the beasts, and from what humanity was able to extrapolate by several clues regarding the beasts' movements, the Purist Sect

saw, the eastern front was basically the most stable

Purist Sect even had enough leftover forces to

Primordial Force Sect to the west couldn't deal with both

Sect did it

Sect almost

had to remember that it definitely wasn't easy to

Peak

fighting at the frontline directly belonged to the Human Alliance. Only the remaining

handled entirely by

the Human Alliance

didn't want to provoke a sleeping

sleep

Sect would be willing

"Yes," the man said.

is very isolated, some people are bound to have heard of me and might report it to the other Peak Sects.

four Peak Sects just

the Ancestor of the Purist Sect

blinked a couple

do you offer to

one will notice you," the

that supposed to work? I

choose which humans you come

Purist Sect is willing to be an

"No," the man said.

blinked a couple

Do you always need me to ask for clarification before you explain

man looked evenly

will act as an intermediary,"

what?" Gravis asked. "Can you even speak for Underworld

also

Silence.

like their

humanity, Underworld, was actually being led by the

Peak Sect

of the Purist Sect, this secret

"No," the man said.

is mainly a mercenary organization and trading hub. It is spread over

the

disciples don't know about the

and Liam had long gotten used

the world, the location of Underworld's

at the very

wonder no one had ever been able to release the secret

someone powerful wanted to hurt Underworld, they would immediately be

would an entire Peak Sect surround them, but

Underworld had never been eradicated

eradicate Underworld, they would need to eradicate the

even survive such a

overwhelm humanity after such an

telling us this?" Liam asked. "Aren't you afraid that we might leak

"No," the man said.

makes you so sure?" Liam

job is to weaken humanity so that they don't overwhelm the

and Stella took a