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.

had destroyed one of their enemies, which meant

from the Eternal

coldly

what a Sin

Gravis shook his head.

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

Sin Monsters felt weird to

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

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

is a Sin

by Heaven to punish the Cultivators that commit senseless slaughter. They

hunted by them?" Gravis

know much about them,

to

them," the Elder said. "They are far beyond your

Divine Gods

him had transformed into an ominous

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

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

silent as he looked into the

looked with pain

friends and family?" Gravis asked

living being around you, and whatever they kill will reduce your Karmic

Gravis shouted. "They kill

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

Gravis gritted his teeth.

felt so very similar to his time in the lower

forbidden from interacting or getting close to anyone,

he had been weak was now haunting him again when he had reached

like he had been unjustly targeted, but

his fault, this time. Back in the lower world, Gravis had been targeted for no reason. Heaven had just directly

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

it. He was used to killing large swathes of living beings just by

It was just normal.

destroyed the Shining Purity Sect, he

was how used he was to

everything Gravis had thought as normal turned out to throw him into

of the Sin Aura?"

don't know," the Elder