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.

which meant that Gravis had done

the Elder from the Eternal Fire Sect. "What

coldly

you know what a

Gravis shook his head.

go far below zero Karmic 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

some reason, the word Sin Monsters felt weird to

when it was used, it was when someone referred to someone that acted incredibly cold-hearted.

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

is 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 from Beasts and humans, and not

I will be hunted by them?"

them, but we think they will start hunting

I have to

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

Gods fear

world around him had transformed into an ominous

floor. "So, I will die soon?"

have heard of Cultivators that managed to get rid of their Sin Aura a couple thousand years later. Not much is

only remained silent as he looked

looked with

friends and family?" Gravis asked calmly. Now was

Sin Monsters will kill every living being around you, and whatever they kill will reduce your Karmic Luck

is this!?" Gravis shouted. "They kill someone, and it's my

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

Gravis gritted his teeth.

so very similar to his

from interacting or getting close to

very thing he had been freed from when he had been weak was

like he had been unjustly

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

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

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

It was just normal.

had destroyed the Shining

used he was to the destruction

as normal turned out to throw him

get rid of

know," the