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

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

coldly

a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

Aura is when you 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

reason, the word Sin Monsters felt weird

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

often used the word monster to refer to a very powerful beast. Of course, for Cultivators, a beast was just a beast. There was no

is a Sin Monster?" Gravis

Eternal Fire Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by Heaven to

I will be hunted by them?"

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

to kill

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

Gods

around him had transformed into an ominous

looked to the floor. "So, I will

to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later. Not much is

as he looked into

with pain at

my friends and family?"

every living being around you, and whatever

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

Elder said. "There's nothing you can

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time in the lower

interacting or getting close to anyone, or they

irony. The very thing he had been freed from when he had been weak was now haunting him again when he had reached incredible

to feel like he had been unjustly targeted, but it

this time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had been targeted

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

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

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining

was how used he was

as normal turned out to throw him into an

get rid of the Sin Aura?"

don't know," the Elder