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.

of their enemies, which meant that Gravis had done these things

looked at the Elder from the Eternal

Elder coldly looked

know what a Sin Aura is?"

Gravis shook his head.

go far below zero Karmic Luck. Senseless slaughter decreases your Karmic Luck, and if you do enough of it, you will condense a Sin Aura. When that happens, you will be hunted by the Sin Monsters," the

word Sin Monsters

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

powerful beast. Of course, for Cultivators, a beast was just a beast. There was no reason to refer to

a Sin Monster?"

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

I will be hunted by them?" Gravis

"We don't know much about them, but we think they will start

to kill

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

Gods fear

him had transformed into an ominous

"So, I will die

don't know," the Elder said. "We have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later. Not much is known about Sin

only remained silent as he looked

looked with

can't I come into contact with my friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now was not the

every living being around you, and whatever they kill will reduce your Karmic Luck even

shouted. "They kill someone, and it's

Heaven," the Elder said.

Gravis gritted his teeth.

similar to his time in the

was forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone, or

very thing he had been freed from when he had been weak was now haunting him again when

had been unjustly

he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the

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

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

he was to the destruction

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

I get rid of the Sin

know," the