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 would break

in a very isolated area right now, and no

minutes later, Mortis returned and gestured for Gravis

of times until they were near

with a Peak Immortal Emperor as the Sect Master. However, the Sect had

disguised Gravis and

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

deep breath and entered the

In their minds, Gravis looked like a very normal

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

as

wore the robes of someone in the Spirit Forming Realm,

to hide the pain

needs. I'm willing

WHOOOP!

simply created an ore that was used for weapons in the Energy Gathering Realm. With all of Gravis' Laws, creating something like this was easier

the

less

take advantage of Elder!" the disciple

worth the trade for me. I don't care about this mere piece of

disciple became exhilarated and quickly

hand, he looked at

They didn't react.

took a deep breath and vanished from the

he was doing. He only knew that he had a piece of ore. He didn't know why he had it,

repeated itself many other times with Cultivators

some point,

an Immortal Elder started to hand Gravis a piece of ore she found,

Silence.

Immortal Elder

entire Energy that comprised her being was canceled

on both sides,

teleported away since

you can interact with beings below the Immortal Realm. Anything above that, and

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

Mortis said as he scratched his chin. "We need to

I want to see what happens,"

took a

the Sin Monsters, and

it worked, Gravis could heal himself

BZZ!

into Heavenly

looked at the Heavenly Lightning in front of

it simply took a bite out of the lightning and

transformed back, and the three

but this was good

mosquitos had created had

nodded. "The situation doesn't seem

Lightning Fork," Mortis said. "If that also works,

Gravis nodded.

you've done it with the disciples,"

BZZ!

body and

Splash!