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.

domain of Perceived

Gravis was in a very isolated area

returned and gestured for

a couple of times until

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

Gravis and

a Body Tempering Cultivator. Try to make a trade or

took a deep breath and

In their minds, Gravis looked like a

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

the disciple uttered as he

wore the robes of someone in the Spirit Forming Realm, and the disciple immediately became respectful. "This

trying his best to hide the pain of the

is something one of my disciple needs. I'm willing to

WHOOOP!

an ore that was used for weapons in the Energy Gathering

the disciple widened in

Anis was far less valuable

can't take advantage of Elder!" the disciple shouted

Gravis said with a snort. "I need it, and that makes it worth the trade for me. I don't care about this

and quickly

his hand, he looked

They didn't react.

and

immediately forgot his meeting with Gravis and continued doing whatever he was doing. He only knew that he had a piece of ore. He didn't know why he had it, but it was only natural for him

thing repeated itself many other times with Cultivators of different

at some point, things

hand Gravis a piece of ore she

Silence.

Elder stopped

Energy that comprised her

mathematical equation equal on both sides, her existence was reduced to

teleported away since their tests

Anything above that, and

with Immortals. That means that I have to

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

I want to see what

took a deep

severely anger the Sin Monsters, and they might kill

Gravis could heal

BZZ!

transformed into Heavenly

Monsters left Gravis' body and only looked at the Heavenly

when one of them was finished with munching, it simply took

back, and the three mosquitos went back

changed nothing, but this was good

the mosquitos had

nodded. "The situation doesn't seem as inescapable

Mortis said. "If that also

Gravis nodded.

done it with the disciples," Mortis added. "Go from weak to

BZZ!

Tempering body and kept it levitating with his

Splash!