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.

which meant that Gravis had done these

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

coldly looked

what a

Gravis shook his head.

your Karmic Luck, and if you do enough of it, you will condense a Sin Aura. When that happens, you will

some reason, the word Sin Monsters felt

rarely used, and when it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted. The mortal definition of

Of course, for Cultivators, a beast was

is a Sin Monster?"

of unknown origins," the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by Heaven to punish the Cultivators that commit senseless slaughter. They are different from

be hunted by them?" Gravis

know much about them, but we

I have to

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

Divine Gods fear

like the world around him had transformed

looked to the floor. "So, I will die

to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later.

as he looked

with pain

come into contact with my friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now was not the time to

Monsters will kill every living being around you, and whatever they

this!?" Gravis shouted. "They kill someone, and it's

the rules of Heaven," the Elder said. "There's nothing you can do about

Gravis gritted his teeth.

so very similar to his time

was forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone, or

had been freed from when he had been

wanted to feel like he had been unjustly targeted, but

wanted to feel like it wasn't his fault, but he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the lower world,

essence, this was not a superior making his life hard

was used to killing large swathes of living beings just by existing, and he hadn't questioned his

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining Purity

was how used he was to the destruction of

had thought as normal turned out to throw

I get rid of the Sin

don't know," the