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.

destroyed one of their enemies, which meant that Gravis

breath as he looked at the Elder from the

coldly looked

know what a Sin Aura

Gravis shook his head.

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

the word Sin

rarely used, and when 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 exist in the world of

beast. Of course, for Cultivators, a

a Sin Monster?" Gravis

Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by Heaven to punish the Cultivators that commit senseless slaughter.

I will be hunted by them?"

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

have to kill them?" Gravis

beyond your power, and

Divine Gods fear

him had transformed into

looked to the floor. "So, I will die

have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later.

as he

with pain at

and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now was not the

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

bullshit is this!?" Gravis shouted. "They kill someone, and

rules of Heaven," the Elder said. "There's

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time

from interacting or getting close to anyone, or they would

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

been unjustly targeted, but

time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had

he had killed so many Cultivators. In essence, this was not a superior making his life

had done while doing it. He was used to killing large swathes of

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining Purity Sect, he had even

was how used he was to the destruction of

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

I get rid of the Sin Aura?" Gravis

know," the Elder