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

took a deep breath as he looked at the Elder from

Elder coldly

know what a

Gravis shook his head.

Luck. Senseless slaughter decreases your Karmic Luck, and if you do enough of it, you will condense a Sin Aura. When that happens, you will be hunted by

word Sin Monsters felt weird

to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted. The mortal definition of the word monster didn't really exist

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

is a Sin Monster?" Gravis

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

I will be hunted by them?"

know much about them, but we think they will

have to kill them?" Gravis

Elder said. "They are far beyond your power, and you will be helpless in

Divine Gods fear

him had transformed

floor. "So, I

rid of their Sin Aura a couple

only remained silent as he

with pain

can't I come into contact with my friends and family?"

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

shouted. "They kill someone, and

are the rules of Heaven," the Elder said. "There's nothing

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time in

interacting or getting close to anyone, or

he had been weak was now

to feel like he had been unjustly targeted, but it just

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

this was not a superior making his life hard but a form of punishment

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

It was just normal.

the Shining Purity Sect, he had even

he was to the destruction of

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

do I get rid of the Sin

don't know,"