Lightning Is the Only Way

"Broad Walker is dead?" Gravis asked in surprise.

"Yeah, a lot of our members died. We're lucky that he's the only one to die in like 500,000 years," Ferris said.

"500,000 years?" Gravis repeated with a shocked expression.

"Yeah, it has been something like 500,000 since you had to deal with the entire Sin Aura thing. It's been a really, really long time!" Ferris said.

Ferris' words hit Gravis hard.

500,000 years.

It had been 500,000 years since Liam, Skye, and the others had died.

That was so long!

Gravis looked at his hands absentmindedly. 'But it feels like it happened only recently. Yet, it's been 500,000 years?' he thought in shock.

Gravis did some calculations, and he realized that he had already been a Star God for over 600,000 years.

'I have been a Star God for so long already? I haven't even truly fought another Star God during that time. My friends go through one tempering experience after the other while I simply don't. It's surreal.'

Of course, Gravis knew why he hadn't gone through as many temperings as the others.

First of all, Gravis had received a lot of tempering from Samsara and then even more from the Sin Aura. In essence, Gravis had skipped two to three temperings with those.

However, that wasn't everything.

Gravis knew exactly what the main reason was.

He had to comprehend so many Laws.

Gravis wasn't willing to fall a level in Battle-Strength, but everyone's Battle-Strength took a huge leap starting at the Star God Realm. In the higher world, comprehending a level seven Law as an Immortal Emperor would be the stuff of legends. No one was even certain if that had ever happened before.

necessary to

always had either the advantage in terms of Energy and Spirit or in terms of

hadn't known the Law of Sentience, it would be impossible to jump

Sentience alone would have made him nearly unkillable in the Immortal Emperor Realm,

only allowed Gravis an entry

that had boosted Gravis to unimaginable heights in the Immortal Emperor Realm now only gave him a slight chance at keeping his

Law of Death. Without that, fighting six levels above himself would

not counting the level

21 level seven Laws!

absolute insanity for someone in

level seven Laws, but that was it. Five level seven Laws would be

my Battle-Strength, but I have to pay a price. That price is the lack of personality progression

at the people

room and comprehending Laws, while everyone else was dealing with enemies, administrating the faction, building up forces, teaching forces, and seeing their forces

have spent far more time in the Eternal Fire Sect than in the Myriad Sect. The Myriad Sect had probably become a distant, fond

again with his Spirit Sense, and he felt like a slight thorn had buried

gotten used to living without

Stella, and a grimace appeared on his

and she hasn't seen me for over 150,000 years. On top of that, the time we were together was only a

don't even see her

family and children since they have their own life, but it's different

at Stella

making it hard for Gravis to see all of her Law fragments, but he still

Gravis was

it wasn't something she had been thinking

has she thought of me in the last 150,000

Silence.

probably thought about me a lot in the first few years, but I probably slowly vanished from her

felt a deep pain

guilty for

that Stella had basically