Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and Stella traveled back to the Myriad Sect to prepare for every eventuality. Chances were high that the remaining two members of the Shining Purity Sect would attack them soon. However, even if they did, they wouldn't be a real danger.

The Myriad Sect had already won the war before it had even started.

Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Shining Purity Sect were trying to come to terms with their new reality.

They only had three Ancestral Gods, one level four Star God, and one level two Star God left. Sure, there were also some level one Star Gods outside on missions, but they wouldn't make a difference.

All the other Sects had several level two Star Gods.

The entirety of their power and future now solely relied on Austin.

"If you had simply accepted to become a level five Star God, nothing like this would have happened!" One of the Vice-Sect Masters shouted while pointing an accusatory finger at Austin. "We would have already conquered all the other Sects by now!"

Austin looked with even eyes at the Vice-Sect Master.

However, even though Austin appeared calm on the outside, he was the one that had been most shaken by the event.

He had destroyed his Sect.

"Stop trying to find someone to blame!" the actual Sect Master shouted at the Vice-Sect Master. "If that girl hasn't lied, she came from a new Sect, the Myriad Sect. They should have arrived only recently. They should have overtaken the territory of our neighbors."

"But if he had just-"

"And then what!?" the Sect Master answered with fury. "Then even our last remaining level two Star God would have been destroyed! This would have made things only worse!"

The Vice-Sect Master only grew angrier. "But if he had more power, he might have been able to see through whatever illusion had been put up! I've seen it near the end! He has attacked someone from our own Sect! That was also why there was no Judge!"

"And you think that would have made a difference?" the other Vice-Sect Master asked with a scoff. "Not even we have been able to see through the illusion. We three are all Ancestral Gods, and we haven't noticed anything! Don't try to blame Austin for our own shortcomings! The demise of the Shining Purity Sect is our fault."

The first Vice-Sect Master gritted his teeth.

However, instead of arguing, he looked to the side with a bitter expression.

He had realized that he couldn't blame this on Austin.

This was on them.

Silence.

The silence dragged on for minutes.

Everything they had worked for had been destroyed in a single day. They had built up the Shining Purity Sect for over 500,000 years!

Now, everything was gone.

This was the destructive effect that Star Gods had on their environments.

Without The Heaven Company or someone more powerful overlooking a fight, entire Sects would be decimated by a single attack.

It just needed a single slip-up for an entire Sect to be destroyed.

"What now?" the second Vice-Sect Master asked the Sect Master. "What do we do now?"

The Sect Master remained silent for a while.

Then, he sighed.

asked helplessly. "All our Karmic Luck has been depleted. The gathered Karmic Luck of 500,000 disciples has

two Vice-Sect Masters

we build a new Sect?" one

the time?" the Sect

Silence.

Sect Master

join the Eternal Fire Sect as Elders-In-Training

Vice-Sect

Entering as Inner Disciples?

that they wouldn't

Karmic Luck so important to get a good position

that these three Ancestral Gods only had average Battle-Strength. If they could jump a level, it wouldn't be an issue to become an Elder in the Eternal Fire Sect in the

they couldn't

other methods to become a

of the methods was God

Stones, they would be able to buy their way into a good position where they wouldn't have to

amount of wealth

one person

not

a God

Crystal had the amount of Energy of one

that knew the True Law of Matter, a level nine Law,

for two billion God Stones precisely due to

was the use of a

either be absorbed incredibly fast, or they could be used to create powerful Virtualization

traded Law Comprehension Areas. Yet, instead of straight-up handing them over, they infused their God Crystals with the Laws

to the other Sect. This would allow them to lease out a Law Comprehension Area safely. They wouldn't need

Sect had no issues with giving someone

worth far more

early Ancestral Gods to get

three of them couldn't possibly pay

only left the second

Karmic Luck.

If one Sect had more Karmic Luck, they would sometimes be informed about an upcoming ambush by coincidence. Their own ambushes would

their own fighters

one Sect was more powerful than the other Sect, Karmic Luck wouldn't make a difference. However, if they were about equal in power,

Sects

From disciples.

outstanding the

of the Karmic Luck of the disciples would gather in

Gods had already created a

even that ridiculous amount of Karmic Luck wasn't enough to buy one's way into the Eternal Fire Sect. After all, in comparison to the entire Eternal Fire Sect, some 20 Star Gods were nothing. The Eternal Fire Sect had hundreds of Ancestral Gods and

where the Sect wars came into

every living being of the

simply join the

won by one side, they would put the survivors of the

Submit or die.

submit, they had to sign a contract that forced them to remain in the new Sect for 20%

that time, the new disciples would be treated very, very

that, when the mandatory time was up, most of the

for

in the surroundings, they would have hundreds of Star Gods and millions of

also joined the other Sect to take a