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.

towards Opposer City to spend some

note happened during that time. Gravis only talked with his

Gravis went back

Gravis had talked to

wanted to meet

faster than he had

surprise as he felt Stella enter his Spirit

already back?" he asked

saw that Gravis was still alive, a

there is no reason to wait with the tribulation since I was doing nothing but waiting anyway and sent

more importantly, what about you, Gravis?" Stella asked with interest. "How

Gravis didn't think about his

was only thinking about Stella as he

the level of a level three Ancestral God. It was definitely powerful enough for her to become an

hadn't had

had happened, but Gravis knew that she had probably been

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

to temper herself, Gravis was thrown into a swamp of

want her to die, but he also

was trust Orthar that he wasn't sending Stella an opponent that

frustrated him that the survival of all of his

he could simply send an equally powerful person to fight with Stella as her previous opponent, but the new opponent would have Laws that could counter Stella or had a higher potential for growth during

still alive was because Orthar wasn't sending her against geniuses from a Peak Sect with similar powers. Those geniuses were geniuses because their minds

as powerful. Nearly all of the time, the winner of the fight would be the one that had

Stella had a very high potential for comprehending Laws, but he also knew that there were people with an

Stella were put against someone like

control over Gravis' entire life still left

wasn't perfect. He knew a lot, but he couldn't know everything. For example, Orthar had been uncertain about Mortis' survival during Samsara, and he had also been uncertain when Gravis

Stella accidentally died to her tribulation, Orthar could say that he had

Would Gravis believe that?

Yes.

he didn't want to