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 had done

the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect. "What

Elder coldly looked at

a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

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

reason, the word Sin Monsters felt weird

used, and when it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that acted

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

a Sin Monster?"

Fire Sect said. "We believe that they have been created by Heaven to punish the Cultivators that commit senseless slaughter. They are different

will be hunted

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

have to kill them?" Gravis

said. "They are far beyond your

Divine Gods

him had transformed into an

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

Elder said. "We have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple

only remained silent as he looked into the

looked with pain at

with my friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now

whatever they kill will reduce your Karmic Luck even

this!?" Gravis shouted. "They

of Heaven," the Elder

Gravis gritted his teeth.

so very similar to his time in the lower

forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone,

been freed from when he had been weak

been unjustly targeted, but it

that it was his fault, this time. Back

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

done while doing it. He was used to killing large swathes

It was just normal.

the Shining Purity Sect, he had even

how used he was

would have thought that everything Gravis had thought as normal turned out to throw him into an abyss of uncertainty

I get rid of the Sin Aura?" Gravis

don't know,"