Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis talked with Orpheus some more, and he had also gotten the answer how it was so cheap for the Research Institute to open portals to other worlds. After all, something like that needed a lot of Energy.

The answer was as obvious as it was brilliant.

Prisoners from Opposer City's Guards.

The Research Institute and the guards had a deeply connected relationship, and one could even say that one of them nearly couldn't live without the other one.

The Research Institute gave the guards plenty of techniques and Form Laws in exchange for some of the prisoners. All the prisoners that only had to work for a finite amount of time would be sent to the mines to mine God Stones, from which a huge part would go to the Research Institute.

However, the prisoners that had committed severe crimes wouldn't be sent to the mines but to the tubes.

The prisoner's will would be put into stasis by a complex Formation Array. The will of the prisoner still existed, but as long as no one woke them up, they wouldn't wake up on their own.

In that state, the prisoner would still count as alive, and their body would still absorb Energy. Several tubes would be put into the bodies of the willless prisoners that sucked out all their Energy, and their body's subconscious absorption of Energy would always refill their Energy storage.

These prisoners would remain in this situation until their longevity ran out.

They were essentially refilling Energy batteries.

It was quite a dark image, but Gravis didn't find it weird.

The Cultivation world was rather dark, after all. This wasn't anything special.

Gravis had also worked as a torturer for a couple of years, and that job wasn't any prettier.

Eventually, Gravis and Orpheus ran out of things to talk about, and Gravis left.

Gravis had told Orpheus about the fact that Lina was trying to find a way to repay him and that Orpheus should give her some time.

Orpheus scratched his chin in thought and then shrugged. "Sure, I'll give her some time," he said.

Gravis nodded. This was everything he could do for Lina. Everything else was up to her. If she couldn't make appropriate amends, Orpheus would kill her.

City to spend some

time. Gravis only talked with his father, mother, and the

Gravis went back to Manuel's

Gravis had talked to Arc, Orpheus, and

he only wanted to meet

that happened way faster than he

eyes opened wide in surprise as he felt Stella enter his Spirit

he asked as he teleported to

still alive, a bright smile appeared on her

is no reason to wait with the tribulation since

Stella asked with interest. "How was

Gravis didn't think about his Heaven's Trial right

was only thinking about Stella as he

level nine Star God, but her Will-Aura had already reached the level of a level three

definitely hadn't had it

happened, but Gravis knew that

a terrifying thought to realize that there had been a high chance that Stella

time Stella went to temper herself, Gravis was thrown into a

but he also couldn't help her

that he wasn't sending

frustrated him that the survival of all of his friends and loved ones

Stella as her previous opponent, but the new opponent would have

Orthar wasn't sending her against geniuses from a Peak Sect with similar powers. Those geniuses

as powerful. Nearly all of the time, the winner of the

that Stella had a very high potential for comprehending Laws, but he also

put against someone like

control over Gravis' entire life still left a bad taste in

been uncertain about Mortis' survival during Samsara, and he had also been uncertain when Gravis and Mortis had fought Arc and the younger

Stella accidentally died to her tribulation, Orthar could say that he had chosen an optimal opponent and that something had simply not gone

Would Gravis believe that?

Yes.

powerful, and he didn't want to end up on Gravis' bad side. There was literally no reason to damage their