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.

enemies, which meant that Gravis had done these

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

Elder coldly

you know what a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

and if you do enough of it, you

some reason, the word Sin Monsters felt weird

it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted. The mortal definition of the word monster didn't really

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

a Sin

beings 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 Beasts and humans, and not

I will be hunted

about them, but we

have to kill them?"

can't kill them," the Elder said. "They are far beyond your power,

Gods fear

the world around him had transformed into an ominous

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

know," the Elder said. "We have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later.

as he

with pain at

contact with my friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly.

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

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

Elder

Gravis gritted his teeth.

similar to his time in the

was forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone, or they

from when he had been weak was now haunting him

been

to feel like it wasn't his fault, but he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had been targeted for no reason. Heaven

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

thought 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

It was just normal.

the Shining Purity Sect,

he was to the

everything Gravis had thought as normal turned

do I get rid of the Sin Aura?"

know," the Elder