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 achieve exactly that in the highest

in terms of physical power due to his special beast body. However, that also changed with the

hadn't known the Law of Sentience,

alone would have made him nearly unkillable in the Immortal Emperor Realm, even if he were only an Early Minor

of Sentience only allowed Gravis an entry token to fighting someone six

that had boosted Gravis to unimaginable heights in the Immortal Emperor Realm now only gave him

Without that, fighting six levels above himself would also

21 level seven Laws, not counting

21 level seven Laws!

was absolute insanity for someone in the

but that was it. Five level seven Laws would be more than enough to

thought. 'I refuse to compromise on my Battle-Strength, but I have to pay a price. That price is the lack of personality progression and the unreal wastage of

at the people

I spent the last 500,000 years sitting in a room and comprehending Laws, while everyone else was dealing with enemies, administrating the faction, building up

probably don't even feel like they are the Myriad Sect anymore. After all, they have spent far more time in the Eternal Fire Sect than in the Myriad Sect. The Myriad Sect had probably become

Sense, and

they've all gotten used to living without

Sense focused on Stella, and

seen me for over

her for

day every four months. That's fine for extended family and children since they have their own life, but it's different for a

at

it hard for

for Gravis was basically

but it wasn't something she had been

often has she thought of me in the

Silence.

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

felt a deep pain in his

for not

hurt that Stella had basically forgotten