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 to achieve exactly that in the highest

always had either the advantage in terms of Energy and Spirit or in terms of physical power due to

hadn't known the Law of Sentience, it

him nearly unkillable in the Immortal Emperor Realm, even

Law of Sentience only allowed Gravis an entry

unimaginable heights in the Immortal Emperor Realm now only gave him a slight chance at keeping his current Battle-Strength in relation to

that, fighting six levels above

had comprehended a whopping 21 level seven Laws, not counting the level eight Law of Suffering and the level nine

21 level seven Laws!

was absolute insanity for someone in the Star

most powerful Star Gods might have comprehended five level seven Laws, but that was it. Five

Gravis thought. 'I refuse to compromise on my Battle-Strength, but I have to pay

the people in

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

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

his Spirit Sense, and he felt

used

on Stella, and a grimace appeared

and she hasn't seen me for over 150,000 years.

see her for

fine for extended family and children since they have their own life, but it's different for a romantic

at Stella with

on the seventh level of the Star God Realm, making it hard for Gravis to see all of her Law fragments, but he still managed to glean some

love for Gravis

but it wasn't something she had been thinking about many

has she thought of me in the

Silence.

me a lot in the first few years, but

a deep pain in

felt guilty for not

that Stella had