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.

meant

at the Elder from the Eternal

coldly

a

Gravis shook his head.

you do enough of it, you will condense a Sin Aura. When that happens, you will be

word Sin

it was when someone referred to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted. The

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

Sin

beings of unknown origins," the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by

I will be hunted by them?"

don't know much about them, but we think

to

far beyond your power, and you will

Divine Gods

felt like the world around him had transformed into an

looked to the floor. "So, I will

know," the Elder said. "We have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later. Not

as he looked into

looked with pain at

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

whatever they kill

shouted. "They

of Heaven," the Elder said.

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time

getting

had been weak was now haunting him again when

been unjustly targeted, but

his fault, but he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had been targeted for no reason.

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

hadn't even thought about what he had done while doing it. He was used to killing large swathes of living beings

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining Purity Sect, he had

used he was to the destruction of

as normal turned out to throw

get rid of the

know,"