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.

one of their enemies, which meant that

the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect. "What am

coldly looked at

know what a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

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

the word Sin Monsters felt

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

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

Sin Monster?" Gravis

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 not

will be hunted by

Elder answered. "We don't know much about them, but

have to kill

Elder said. "They are far beyond your power, and

Divine Gods

the world around him had transformed into an ominous

to the floor. "So,

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

only remained silent as he looked into the

with

with my friends and family?" Gravis asked

Sin Monsters will kill every living being around you, and whatever they kill will

"They

the Elder said. "There's nothing you can

Gravis gritted his teeth.

very similar to his time in

interacting or getting close to

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

he had been

to feel like it wasn't his fault, but he knew that it was his fault, this time. Back in the lower world,

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

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

It was just normal.

Shining Purity

he was to the destruction

had thought as normal turned out to throw him into an abyss of

rid of the

know," the