Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis almost thought he hadn't heard Manuel's words correctly.

Cut off all contact with Gravis?

Why!?

"Manuel," Gravis said slowly.

"I have to!" Manuel shouted with gritted teeth. "I can't sacrifice the Myriad Sect for a meaningless show of loyalty. The entire Myriad Sect wouldn't be able to help you, and we would only die. I'm doing this, so you have someone to return to when all of this is over!"

Stella looked with horror at the Myriad Sect and with fear at Gravis.

Leave Gravis?

Never!

"What is a Sin Aura? How did I condense one?" Gravis asked with clenched fists.

The Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect looked at Gravis coldly.

"Have you recently killed a great number of weaker Cultivators?"

Gravis' mind immediately went to the Shining Purity Sect.

Gravis' face became white as he realized that he had done exactly that.

How had things suddenly changed in this way? He was used to doing stuff like this, and it didn't feel any different from what he had done in the past.

How had that suddenly become a problem?

The Elder noticed Gravis' expression, and he knew that Gravis had done just that.

The Elder took out an emblem and looked at it for a while. After a short time, his brows furrowed.

"The Shining Purity Sect," he said.

"It doesn't exist anymore."

When the Myriad Sect heard that, they all fell silent.

Hearing these words only increased their frustration and helplessness.

their enemies, which meant that Gravis had done these things

as he looked at the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect. "What am I supposed

Elder coldly looked

know what a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

your Karmic Luck, and if you do enough of it, you will

the word Sin Monsters felt weird

monster was rarely used, and when it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that

used the word monster to refer to a very powerful beast. Of course, for Cultivators, a

Sin Monster?"

that they have been created by Heaven to punish the Cultivators that commit senseless slaughter. They are different from Beasts and humans, and not much is

will be hunted by them?"

the Elder answered. "We don't know much about them, but we think they will start hunting

to kill them?" Gravis

them," the Elder said. "They are far beyond your power, and

Gods fear

him had transformed into

looked to the floor. "So, I will die soon?"

rid

silent as he

looked with pain at

friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now

living being around you, and whatever they

shouted. "They kill someone, and it's

the Elder said. "There's nothing you

Gravis gritted his teeth.

to

getting close to anyone, or they

freed from when he had been weak was now haunting him again when he had reached incredible

wanted to feel like he had been unjustly targeted, but it just wasn't

wasn't his fault, but he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had been

was being targeted because he had killed so many Cultivators. In essence, this was not a superior making his life hard but a form

about what he had done while doing it. He was used to killing large swathes of living beings just by existing, and he hadn't questioned his own actions while

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining Purity Sect,

was

thought that everything Gravis had thought as normal turned out to throw him into an abyss of uncertainty for

rid of the Sin Aura?" Gravis

don't know," the Elder