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

breath as he looked at the Elder from the Eternal Fire

coldly looked

you know what a Sin Aura is?" he

Gravis shook his head.

far below zero Karmic Luck. Senseless slaughter decreases your Karmic Luck, and if you do enough of it, you will condense a

Sin Monsters felt weird

rarely used, and when it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted. The mortal definition of the word monster didn't really exist in

for Cultivators, a beast was just a beast. There was

Sin Monster?"

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

hunted

them, but we think they will

have to kill them?"

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

Gods

felt like the world around him had transformed into an ominous

to the floor. "So, I

of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their

only remained silent as he

with

my friends and family?" Gravis asked

kill every living being around you, and whatever they kill will reduce your Karmic Luck even further," the Elder

bullshit is this!?" Gravis shouted. "They

of Heaven," the Elder

Gravis gritted his teeth.

so very similar to his time in

from interacting or getting close to

had been weak was now haunting him again when he

wanted to feel like he had been unjustly

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 been targeted for no reason. Heaven had

Cultivators. In essence, this was not a superior making his life hard but a form of punishment for what he

large swathes of living beings just by existing, and he hadn't questioned

It was just normal.

the Shining Purity Sect, he had

was to the

normal turned out

do I get rid of the

don't know," the Elder