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.

bite, his domain of Perceived Reality would break

area

returned and gestured for Gravis

Mortis teleported a couple of times

Sect Master. However, the Sect had an unreal number of disciples, and

Gravis and made himself

Cultivator. Try to make a trade or something,"

took a deep breath and entered

disciple seemed to react to him. In their minds, Gravis looked like a very normal

pointed at a Body Tempering Disciple that just left the

as he turned

Spirit Forming Realm, and the disciple immediately became respectful. "This disciple greets Spirit

trying his best to hide

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

WHOOOP!

Energy Gathering Realm. With all of Gravis'

the disciple

Anis was far less valuable than this

can't take advantage of

a snort. "I need it, and that makes it worth the trade for me. I don't

disciple became exhilarated and quickly chose

hand, he looked at the

They didn't react.

breath and vanished from the disciple's

with Gravis and continued doing whatever he was doing. He only knew that he had a piece of ore. He

same thing repeated itself many other times with

some point,

a piece of ore she found, one

Silence.

Immortal Elder stopped

her being was

on both sides, her existence was reduced to

Mortis immediately teleported away

below the Immortal Realm. Anything above that, and

things way harder. I need Star Gods, but I can't even interact with Immortals. That means that I have to become the master of Law Comprehension Cultivators and hope that they can become

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

want to see what happens," Mortis

a deep

the Sin Monsters, and they might kill him in one

Gravis could heal himself from

BZZ!

into Heavenly

and only looked at

it simply took a bite out of the lightning

back, and the three mosquitos went back

nothing, but this

tiny holes the mosquitos

situation doesn't seem

said. "If that also works, our

Gravis nodded.

it with the disciples," Mortis added. "Go from

BZZ!

body and kept it levitating

Splash!