Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and Orpheus talked for several years after their awkward reunion.

Orpheus praised Gravis' Battle-Strength especially, telling him that when Gravis had pulled that one stunt, even Orpheus had felt a feeling of mortal danger.

"Haha, I still remember when I first met you," Orpheus said with a bright smile while sipping some coffee. "You were only a Body Tempering Cultivator. In fact, you couldn't even be truly called a Cultivator."

"Just that one teacher you had who had been in the Unity Realm had already been worlds above you. And now, look at you! You're powerful enough to even make me feel threatened. It's almost unbelievable that you achieved all of that in only a bit more than a million years."

Gravis only smiled. "I still remember when I saw you back then. I had only heard about the first four Realms, and the Unity Realm truly felt like something that I would never reach in my life."

"And then, I met you, and you were on a level of power I couldn't even comprehend. I had no idea how powerful you actually were. I knew that you were powerful, but I didn't know how powerful."

That's when Gravis started laughing. "I still remember when I couldn't control my Will-Aura, and I used it on that one teacher. What was his name? Forneus, I think? Of course, he also suppressed me, but I wonder how he must have felt when you suddenly showed up."

"I wonder how it feels like to be reprimanded by a Peak Star God while only being a Unity Realm Cultivator," Gravis said with a smile.

Orpheus only smiled bitterly. "I still remember Forneus, which is surprising since he was only a Unity Realm Cultivator. He was a subordinate of my subordinate of my subordinate. Yet, whenever he interacted with me, he never really showed any fear. He only showed boredom and annoyance. That's quite admirable for someone of his level."

Gravis nodded. He still remembered that his teacher back then had even given Orpheus some attitude, which was shocking beyond belief considering the difference in their power.

"By the way, what did you do all day in your job?" Gravis asked.

"Mainly just managing the overall development of the different departments," Orpheus explained. "My subordinates were the ones that trained all the Researchers. I only looked at the different Cultivators in training from time to time to evaluate their growth."

"After that, my subordinates give me all the reports, and I have to find an effective way to improve the results without going over budget. I also had to evaluate all the different techniques the Researchers brought back and decide if they were marketable or not," Orpheus explained.

"Speaking of," Gravis interjected. "How does the Research Institute even make their money? I know that they sell techniques, but I don't see how that's viable. After all, basically everything has to do with Laws at the Unity Realm or higher."

Orpheus only leaned back. "It's not only about the techniques. It's also about ways of smithing, alchemy, Sect management, disciple training, Law combinations, and Form Laws."

again. "You have a very powerful Form Law. How did you create that? By comprehending 14

how much from these 14 level seven Battle-Laws are you actually using? You're probably only using 10% per Law at most. So, what about the remaining 90%? It's basically a waste since

a Form Law via comprehending several Battle-Laws is the purest and oldest way to create them, but that's

aspect of your power, and investing so much time into it is a huge waste of

and check out all of their facets.

the best people for the job. Researchers didn't have

of power. The details of the

has been ironed out, the Researchers transform the newly created Form Law from an aggregate of Law principles into a technique and give it to the customer. With that method, the customer gets a perfectly suited Form Law nearly instantaneously,

a waste of resources. The true geniuses of the Sect would comprehend their Laws on their own, which meant that they didn't need that service, while the normal Cultivators are

of their Ancestral God commanders to come up with a level seven Form Law for a Star God that isn't even sure to become truly powerful in

one," Orpheus added with a smile. "Additionally, these Ancestral Gods wouldn't be very used to this task, and they would feel quite some frustration towards their Sect

just described to you is our most exclusive one, and it's very expensive. Only Sects that are comfortably

even thought about tailor-making a Form Law for someone else. He had always assumed that everyone had to comprehend their Form Laws on their

about the Eternal Fire Sect?" Gravis

is full of politicians and strategists, and they know exactly how cost-efficient this

for a while, I noticed that the Eternal Fire Sect spends nearly 10% of their wealth on exactly these kinds of services. That's

nodded. "That's really

wonder the Research Institute was so big. They got 10% of the Eternal Fire Sect's wealth, and other powerful Sects probably also gave

the Research Institute were

that service is not even 20% of the

uttered

nodded. "Techniques for people below the Immortal Realm are where

with confusion

Gravis," Orpheus said. "Lightning Crescent, Mortality, Samsara,

you right now, but they have been relevant in the past,

Institute shines. The Research Institute has billions of shops all

Gravis asked in surprise. "You do business in other