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 with

time. Gravis only talked with his father, mother,

went back

to Arc, Orpheus, and

only wanted

happened way faster

opened wide in surprise as he felt Stella enter his Spirit

asked as he teleported

saw that Gravis was still alive, a bright smile appeared on her

tribulation came early. Heaven probably saw that there is no reason to wait with the

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

think about his Heaven's

thinking about Stella as he

her Will-Aura had already reached the level of a level three Ancestral God. It was definitely powerful

hadn't had it

moment, Stella only smiled brightly at Gravis like nothing had happened, but Gravis knew that she had probably been close to dying just

that there had been a high chance

temper herself, Gravis was thrown into a swamp

want her to die, but he also couldn't help her in

the only thing Gravis could do was trust Orthar that he wasn't sending Stella an opponent that

that the survival of all of

her previous opponent, but

sending her against geniuses from a Peak Sect with similar powers. Those geniuses were

as powerful. Nearly all of the

for comprehending Laws, but he also knew

against someone like that,

his friend, but Orthar's sheer control over Gravis' entire

he couldn't know everything. For example, Orthar had been uncertain about Mortis' survival during Samsara, and he had also been uncertain when Gravis and Mortis had fought Arc and the younger version of

had chosen

Would Gravis believe that?

Yes.

become powerful, and he didn't want to end up on Gravis' bad side.