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.

the very end, Nira's parents had seen their child as the light of their life, and with good

had been a

of her parents had taken

clouded her mind, and her innocence

away from her home and joined a

Why?

the rules of the Sects didn't allow her to become powerful

to work

have

needed to kill the killers of

made looked at her like

make any

Why?

but in reality, she was afraid of feeling the pain of losing someone dear to her

the Sect that

the Sect and attacked

the Sects united against her, including the Sect her parents had belonged

Sect go against her, her hatred

Cultivators and fled

over a thousand years

past struggles resonated with

through very

deal with 1,000 years

actual Nira feel during

had been pained when she saw the death of her parents

Nira of the past was acting just like Nira

many years

her power was so great that the Sects couldn't

anyone, someone from a superior Sect appeared that stopped

and this

barely managed

and when Nira became an Immortal, she returned again

members that had been alive during her parents' death had already

time

felt very long, but in reality,

Her revenge became senseless.

the Sect was

this didn't give Nira any closure.

to her grandfather for the first time since she had left her

her dearly and had even cried when

him, Nira was still

her grandfather looked at her, her heart

the memories showered

become the most important person

that was what hurt the

that she hadn't loved her

used her grandfather to gain

innocent Nira

still saw her

a disconnect

could she have used her grandfather

her with all

repeatedly reminding himself of Freedom, Stella, his

50,000 years had already passed

just as long as

had become more similar

changing into something he didn't

'Stay yourself!'

More years passed.

Nira's demands for her grandfather became more

her grandfather always fulfilled

changed more and

goal

was

to stop her from

and she wouldn't allow anyone

grandfather was going through more and more pains to fulfill whatever wish Nira

saw her grandfather working so hard for her,

stop

hadn't she seen what kind of monster

Nira more and more, it also became

resisting hundreds of thousands of years of memories was still