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.

their enemies, which meant that Gravis had

deep breath as he looked at the Elder from the Eternal Fire

coldly

what a Sin Aura is?" he

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.

the word Sin Monsters felt weird

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

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

a Sin

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

will be hunted by

know much about them, but we think they will start hunting you

have to kill them?"

beyond your power, and you

Gods fear

him had

the floor. "So, I will die soon?" he

Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years

only remained silent as he looked into

looked with pain

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

"They kill

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

Gravis gritted his teeth.

very similar to his

from interacting or getting close to anyone, or they

from when he had been weak was now

had been unjustly targeted, but it just

wanted 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

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

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

It was just normal.

had destroyed the Shining Purity Sect,

was how used he was to the

normal turned out to throw him into an abyss of

get rid of the Sin Aura?"

know," the Elder