Lightning Is the Only Way

"As long as I am not bound by much, I wouldn't have anything against becoming an Ascender," Gravis said.

The Sect Master nodded with a rarely seen smile. "Then, welcome to the Purist Sect, Gravis."

Gravis raised an eyebrow. "You know my name?"

The Sect Master nodded. "Our previous Ancestor has informed us about you and your secrets. However, you do not need to fear us. We do not covet your secrets."

'Secrets?' Gravis thought.

Gravis had an inkling of what the Sect Master meant and decided to test it. After all, he already had a clone in a safe place in case something went wrong.

Gravis deactivated the Law of Perceived Reality for the Sect Master. He still kept it activated for everyone else.

The Sect Master didn't notice any difference. After all, the Law of Perceived Reality didn't work on her since she already knew the truth about Gravis. Therefore, she also didn't notice that it had been deactivated.

Because of that, the Sect Master didn't react at all. To her, nothing had changed.

And that was exactly what confirmed Gravis' suspicions.

If the Sect Master hadn't known about Gravis' beast body, she would have become shocked as Gravis would suddenly have the image of a Black Demon superimposed over himself.

Yet, she didn't react at all.

This meant that she knew that Gravis had a beast body.

'Interesting,' Gravis thought. 'Then, that means that she was willing to hand the position of Sect Master over to me, even though she already knew that I have a beast body. Sure enough, the Purist Sect is very different from the Nine Elements Sect. Probably mainly thanks to Exar.'

This relieved Gravis quite a bit.

Constantly keeping his true form hidden put a bit of pressure on him. Additionally, Gravis felt a slight bit bad for deceiving everyone. Sure, if they were enemies, he wouldn't care, but the Purist Sect had been rather accommodating.

'I can actually truly be myself here,' Gravis thought.

"You mean Exar with previous Ancestor, right?" Gravis asked.

Some of the present people felt a bit uncomfortable. Yes, Gravis was powerful, but he had also referred to their previous Ancestor by name, which was a bit disrespectful.

However, they didn't disagree. Who knew, maybe Gravis had known their previous Ancestor?

Sect Master answered. "As you are probably aware, he

I saw him leave

Sect Master continued speaking, she

Sect Master said. It was a bit awkward to talk to Gravis while all these Immortal Emperors were

Emperors stood up and focused on

Then, Gravis was assaulted.

attacks but with

and asked Gravis if he wanted to talk with them. All of them were interested in

What did Gravis do?

accepted

were all powerful Immortal Emperors. Additionally, Gravis would probably spend a lot of time with Stella again, and he needed something to

people and

Immortal Emperors were surprised that

wasn't as prideful as his previous boasts made him

meet you, Gravis," the Sect Master

looked at the Sect

that had spoken to Gravis before, the one with the seemingly high status. "Samantha,

thought as he looked

as she gestured for

were making their way to the east of the Purist

and Liam, telling them

a couple of

remind you of something?" Gravis suddenly

looked at him with a smirk. "Yes, it does. Around 170,000 years ago,

only smiled. "You think I

with a smile. "We have only met once, and that was

Gravis only smiled.

people with the name Samantha in his life. One had been killed by Gravis as tempering in the Sect Alliance's territory, while

had given him Arc's emblem. When Gravis had crushed that emblem, he had been teleported to Arc's clearing. Back then, it was Samantha

meeting, but Gravis had remembered

he hadn't really consciously thought of her in forever, but he got reminded of her when he heard her

had also inspected Samantha's Cultivation Realm just now,

Circulation Immortal

the most powerful Cultivators that could be deployed. After all, only Ascenders, Ancestors, Sect Masters, and Vice-Sect Masters were

her status was

Core Elders but