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.

end, Nira's parents had seen their child

been

had taken a heavy

clouded her mind, and

away from her home and joined a

Why?

the rules of the Sects didn't allow

work

didn't have time for

the killers

the acquaintances Nira made looked at her like

make any

Why?

was a weakness, but in reality, she was afraid of feeling the pain of losing someone dear

a sufficient Realm to annihilate the Sect that

to the Sect

against her, including the Sect

Sect go against

a deadly battle with several Cultivators and fled in

over a thousand years of memories even

past struggles resonated with

had struggled through very similar feelings in the

could still deal with 1,000 years of

the actual Nira feel during all

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

just like Nira

many years later, many

again, and her power was so great that the Sects

she could kill anyone, someone from a superior

Sects had not broken any rules, and this

managed

when Nira became an

members that had been alive

time had

hadn't felt very long, but in

Her revenge became senseless.

Sect was also

closure. Instead, her

returned to her grandfather for the first time

her dearly and had even

him, Nira was still

Nira saw how her grandfather looked at her, her

Nira in the memories showered

had become the most

hurt the

she hadn't loved

had used her grandfather to

Nira

still saw her as the innocent

a

have used

had loved her

repeatedly reminding himself of Freedom, Stella, his father, Arc,

had

long as

noticed that his mindset had

something he didn't want

'Stay yourself!'

More years passed.

passed, Nira's demands for her grandfather became more and more outrageous

in the end, her grandfather

mindset had changed more and

biggest goal was not

biggest goal was

world to stop her from

taking her revenge, and she wouldn't allow anyone to do that to

more and

the actual Nira saw her grandfather working so

to stop

kind of monster she

the past Nira started to resemble the present Nira more and more,

years of memories was still grating