Lightning Is the Only Way

Nira's mind nearly broke with shock.

What was going on!?

Why was she in the body of her mother!?

And was there herself that she was holding in her arms!?

While Nira was going through one shock after the other, Gravis was preparing himself mentally.

Gravis couldn't close his eyes since he was taking the place of someone else.

Gravis couldn't let himself drift away.

He had to be conscious while all the perspectives of Nira that every person in the world had of her played before his eyes.

Nira was far older than Gravis, and the accumulated perspectives of all the people around her would stretch everything even more.

Gravis knew that he would have to force himself through around a million years of memories of someone else.

Gravis was 200,000 years old, but for how many years had Gravis actually remained conscious?

One couldn't really count the Law Comprehension time since Gravis' mind always entered a trance during those.

Gravis had maybe only been conscious for 50,000 years of his life, and those had been all the years he had spent with Stella.

Nira and Gravis watched as the young Nira slowly became older.

Everyone around her looked at her like she was the cutest treasure in the world.

The little Nira was so innocent and pure.

One couldn't connect this cute and innocent child with the bitter and angry Immortal Emperor she was bound to become.

Nira had started cultivating ever since she had been a small child.

Her father and mother were Cultivators in the Unity Realm.

Their grandfather, an Immortal King, had told them that this was too early to have a child. Cultivation was always opposed to family.

The grandfather wanted his son to also become a powerful Immortal King in the Nine Elements Sect.

Nira's father wasn't part of the Nine Elements Sect since the Nine Elements Sect strictly forbade nepotism. Everyone had to work for their position, even if they were related to an Elder.

Members of the Nine Elements Sect were only allowed to support their children with Sect resources for the first 100 years of their life.

Why?

First of all, it was cheap to support these weak rookies.

Second of all, they couldn't ask humans to directly throw their children away.

Third of all, there had to be some perks that a Sect offered, or the powerful members might join a different Sect.

Nira's father had become a Unity Realm Cultivator with the help of the Nine Elements Sect, but he had found the love of his life in a very short amount of time.

It was love at first sight, and Nira's father dropped everything to be with his wife.

Nira's grandfather was against it, but he didn't force his will onto his son.

If that was his son's decision, so be it.

The first 30 years of Nira's life consisted of happily Cultivating and fighting against weak, captured beasts for tempering.

She hadn't killed a single human in those 30 years.

When the two parents saw that their child was in the Spirit Forming Realm, they decided that they had waited long enough.

Seeing their daughter become powerful reawakened their desire for power.

So, the two of them joined a mock war with another Sect.

These Sects didn't even have any rankings in this higher world since they were simply too weak. Because of that, the more powerful Sects didn't mind it if those weaker Sects killed each other.

The Sects sent equally powerful forces into a life-and-death battle.

Sadly, Nira's parents would never return.

seen their child as the light of their life, and

had been

had taken a

mind,

home and

Why?

to become powerful, but the rules of the

to work so much for

have time

the killers

Nira made looked at her like she was

didn't make any

Why?

that having friends was a weakness, but in reality, she

annihilate the

went to the Sect

united against her, including the Sect her parents

saw her parents' Sect go

with several Cultivators and

years of memories even though Nira had barely reached 100

past struggles resonated

struggled through very similar feelings in

deal with 1,000 years

the actual Nira feel during all of

had been pained when she saw the death of her parents again, but everything after that was

Nira of the past was acting just like

years

attacked the Sects again, and her power was so great

someone from a

and this person wouldn't allow Nira to

managed

time passed, and when Nira became an Immortal, she

members that had been alive during

much time

Nira, it hadn't felt very long, but in

Her revenge became senseless.

the Sect

this didn't give Nira any closure. Instead, her grudge and hatred only

the first time since she had left her

her dearly and had even cried

was

saw how her grandfather looked at her, her heart

in the memories

most

hurt the

knew exactly that she hadn't loved

had used her grandfather

Nira

grandfather still saw her as the

felt a disconnect from

she have used

loved her

Gravis was repeatedly reminding himself of Freedom, Stella, his father,

years had already passed for

as long as Gravis had

had noticed that his mindset had become more

changing into something he didn't

'Stay yourself!'

More years passed.

demands for her grandfather became

her grandfather always fulfilled

had changed more

her biggest goal

was power and

in the world to stop her from

had stopped her from taking her revenge, and she wouldn't allow

going through more and more

saw her grandfather working so hard for her, she began

to stop her

what kind of monster she had

to resemble the present Nira more and more, it also became easier for

of years