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.

a Star God, it was necessary

terms of Energy and Spirit or in terms

Sentience, it would be impossible to jump six

unkillable in the Immortal Emperor Realm, even if

an

unimaginable heights in the Immortal Emperor Realm now only gave him a slight chance at keeping his current

of Death. Without that, fighting six levels above

counting the level

21 level seven Laws!

was absolute insanity for someone in

five level seven Laws, but that was it. Five level seven Laws would be more than enough to comprehend a really powerful level eight

have to pay a price. That price

at the people

years sitting in a room and comprehending Laws, while everyone else was dealing with enemies, administrating the faction, building up forces, teaching

all, they have spent far more time in the Eternal Fire Sect than in the Myriad Sect. The Myriad Sect had probably become a distant, fond memory of theirs. It's like it isn't real anymore or like someone else has lived their life in the

Spirit Sense, and he

they've all gotten used to

on Stella, and a grimace

just as much as I love her, and she hasn't seen me for over 150,000

don't even see her for 1% of my

one day every four months. That's fine for extended family

looked at Stella with

hard for Gravis to see all of her Law fragments, but

for Gravis was basically

wasn't something

often has she thought of me in

Silence.

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

felt a deep pain in his

for not

Stella