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 had done these things for

deep breath as he looked at the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect. "What am I supposed to

coldly looked

you know what a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

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

Sin Monsters felt

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

for Cultivators, a beast was

a Sin Monster?"

from the Eternal Fire Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by

be hunted

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

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 die

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

only remained silent as he looked

with

my friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now was not

living being around you, and whatever they

"They kill someone, and

the rules of Heaven," the Elder

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time in the

forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone, or they

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

like he had been unjustly targeted, but it just wasn't

his fault, this time. Back in the lower world,

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

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

It was just normal.

the Shining Purity Sect, he

how used he was to the destruction of

thought that everything Gravis had thought as normal turned out to throw

do I get rid of the Sin

don't know," the Elder