Lightning Is the Only Way

"It worked," Mortis said. "The 100,000 God Stones have bought you six days the last time. We can delay it."

"Great, how do we continue?" Gravis asked while sweat ran down his back. As time progressed, it only became worse.

"We need to test something else," Mortis said. "Become a level two Star God."

Gravis looked with shock at Mortis. "That would eat up over three million God Stones!" Gravis shouted.

"You're really becoming stupider when under pain," Mortis commented in annoyance.

"You try being in my place! It's not easy to focus with fucking Sin Monsters munching on your fucking will!" Gravis shouted.

Mortis didn't react to Gravis' comment. "If you are a level two Star God, the Sin Monsters might need longer to consume the pieces they eat. They are probably consuming a set amount of Energy, which will increase with time."

"Right now, one Sin Monster needs one minute to take another bite. If you are a level two Star God, they might need four minutes to take another bite," Mortis explained.

Gravis immediately understood and took out more God Stones.

This would make the pain less frequent!

Gravis quickly consumed enough God Stones to become a level two Star God. Gravis felt his power increasing, but he couldn't feel happy right now.

As soon as the Sin Monsters took their first bite, they started chewing.

And…

Success!

They took four times as long to take another bite.

Gravis released a sigh of relief.

It was impossible to imagine how much relief Gravis felt at this moment.

The bites were truly terrifying.

Mortis nodded. "Consume another million God Stones for another test. Then, feed the Sin Monsters your remaining God Stones."

Gravis had already realized that it was hard for him to make correct decisions under such pain. His Emotions were on the apathetic side, but that didn't protect him from the pain.

Because of that, Gravis decided to simply listen to Mortis.

Right now, Mortis was the one that had a clearer head.

The first Sin Monster ate the 16 million God Stones in an instant before going back to consuming Gravis.

"We need to do three more tests," Mortis said. "First of all, we need to check if the Sin Monsters allow absolutely no one to help you or if they will only stop the powerful Cultivators. After all, the best way to repay the debt is to accrue more Karmic Luck, and that's basically impossible to do if you can't interact with anyone."

"How should I test that?" Gravis asked.

"Wait here. I'll scout the surroundings," Mortis said.

SHING!

Mortis left, and Gravis was left alone.

Gravis activated his Law of Perceived Reality and tried to keep himself hidden. Until now, Mortis had kept the two of them hidden since every bite Gravis endured shook his concentration violently.

a bite, his domain of Perceived Reality

isolated area right

and

a couple of times

Immortal Emperor as the Sect Master. However, the Sect had

disguised Gravis and

with a Body Tempering Cultivator. Try to make a trade or something," Mortis

deep breath

seemed to react to him. In their minds, Gravis looked like

he pointed at a Body Tempering Disciple that just left the exchange hall with a

as he turned to

disciple's mind, Gravis wore the robes of someone in the Spirit Forming Realm, and the disciple immediately became respectful. "This disciple greets Spirit

respectfully, trying his best to hide the pain

of my disciple needs. I'm willing to exchange it for

WHOOOP!

Gathering Realm. With all of Gravis'

eyes of the disciple widened

Moon-Glowing Anis was far less valuable

take advantage of Elder!"

worth the trade for me. I don't

exhilarated and quickly chose to trade

held the flower in his hand,

They didn't react.

deep breath and vanished from the disciple's

only knew that he had a

many other times with Cultivators

some point, things

Gravis a piece of ore

Silence.

Elder stopped

comprised her being

on both

away since their

with beings below the Immortal Realm. Anything above

his teeth. "That makes things way harder. I need Star Gods, but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that I have

said as he scratched his chin. "We need to test the next

lightning. I want to see what happens,"

a deep

could severely anger the Sin Monsters, and they

it worked, Gravis could

BZZ!

transformed into Heavenly

body and only looked at the Heavenly Lightning in front

finished with munching, it simply took a bite out of the lightning and

and the three mosquitos went back on

but

the mosquitos had

doesn't seem

said. "If that also works,

Gravis nodded.

it with the

BZZ!

and kept

Splash!