Lightning Is the Only Way

This was a huge issue.

The Eternal Fire Sect had a zero-tolerance policy when it came to breaking their rules. If one of the Myriad Sect's Ancestral Gods decided to attack an Ancestral God of another subsidiary Sect of the Eternal Fire Sect, the entire integrity of this competition would vanish.

This was a place for creating more powerful Sect Masters and Star Gods. The Ancestral Gods would help in creating and administrating these Sects, but the fighting had to be done by the Star Gods and Peak Immortal Emperors.

However, since the Ancestral Gods had also been the ones that created the Sect, they had the right to destroy their own Sects. The Sects belonged to them, and they could do with them whatever they wanted.

Sure, Manuel could try to quickly gather all the Star Gods of the other Sect, but the other Star Gods had come with their Ancestor, which was a bad thing.

Why?

Because her Star Gods were in the range of her Spirit Sense.

If she suddenly saw many Star Gods charge into the Myriad Sect, she would immediately kill all of them.

She was essentially using the rules to threaten Manuel with the lives of thousands of Star Gods.

If Manuel ordered one of his Ancestral Gods to kill her, the Myriad Sect wouldn't only lose their status as a subsidiary Sect. They would maybe even become enemies with the Eternal Fire Sect.

The Eternal Fire Sect had an incredible amount of Ancestral Gods, and they even had a new Ancestor at the peak of the Ancestral God Realm. Orpheus was still on the fifth level of the Ancestral God Realm. Sure, Orpheus was incredibly powerful when it came to his Battle-Strength, but he couldn't fight a level nine Ancestral God.

By killing this Ancestral God, Manuel wouldn't put the Myriad Sect into danger but doom it entirely.

Gravis was in a different room with Stella, and he was watching what was happening. A powerful Formation Array isolated the room where the two sides were negotiating, but that didn't stop Gravis.

Gravis saw Manuel hesitate, and he knew exactly what was happening.

Manuel was at a crossroads.

Gravis waited for a while and noticed that Manuel's emotions were slowly leaning towards acceptance.

"What do you want to do?" Gravis asked Manuel.

"I can't risk it," Manuel answered. "I'm not living only for myself. I also have a responsibility to all the disciples of the Myriad Sect. I can't doom them for a momentary bout of emotions."

"I understand that, but are you truly fine with giving up?" Gravis asked.

"Of course I'm not fine with it," Manuel transmitted back with a frown, "but I don't have any other choice."

"Don't you?" Gravis asked.

"Gravis," Manuel transmitted back. "As a Sect Master, I have to protect the Sect and my disciples. I have a responsibility, and I can't put them at risk for something I don't need but only want."

Gravis remained silent.

"It's what I have to do," Manuel transmitted. "It's for the good of the Sect."

Gravis only sighed.

were so close,' Gravis thought. 'If you simply went with what you wanted, you could have comprehended the Law of Freedom. Sadly, I can't make the decision for you, Manuel. Otherwise, it wouldn't

been so close to

aligned with the Law of Control, which made it incredibly difficult to comprehend the Law of Freedom. The more one knew about control, the harder it was to comprehend the Law of

comprehending the Law of Freedom meant giving up control. The Law of Freedom could only be comprehended when someone went with a stupid decision

smart and too calm to comprehend the

and to comprehend the Law of Freedom, he had to be a

had decided to

BANG!

the Ancestor of the other Sect

with shock at the place the

expected her to

with anger. "Orpheus!"

anger,

what he wanted for the good of the Sect. It had taken a

that Manuel was the one leading the

with panic and fear at

he

smiled

Manuel said

transformed into

wanted to kill

Silence.

Manuel shouted in anger. "That's why you killed her!? Do you realize that you made the Eternal Fire Sect our

answered. "I know

I really wanted to kill

Silence.

You can't just act on

I just did," Orpheus said

stress and anger at

Orpheus was unreasonable!

deep breath to calm

deed had already been done, and there was

Manuel needed to plan for what was

do that again," Manuel said

"Or what?" Orpheus asked.

Manuel's anger exploded again.

realized that there

had all

Orpheus from his position as an Ancestor, but that would doom the Myriad Sect even more. With no one

Orpheus now more than ever. They had to deal with the Eternal Fire Sect, and they

he can't fight the Ancestor of the Eternal Fire Sect. His

why did he do