Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and Mortis kept themselves hidden while approaching the Heavenly Divine Sect. They didn't yet know if their friends truly were there or not, and they were uncertain in what capacity they were there.

After they arrived, they noticed that, just like with all the other Peak Sects, there was a striking absence of many powerful presences.

In fact, there were only two Peak Divine Gods. One was someone they hadn't seen yet, but based on context clues, they assumed this was the Ancestor of the Heavenly Divine Sect. The other existence was the Core Plant.

There was no Sect Master, and there were no Vice-Sect Masters.

On top of that, there were only two Core Elders.

After looking through the Law fragments of several people, Gravis realized what had happened.

'They lost the battle but won the war,' Gravis thought.

'Their Vice-Sect Masters and nearly all their Core Elders died. Even Divine Junior died against his three opponents. In essence, the upper echelon is completely crippled.'

'Yet, they won the war since they won the battle between the Ancestors. Under normal circumstances, they would have lost that battle too, but someone has interfered quite a bit,' Gravis thought with a smirk.

'First, Arc killed a Sect Master, and then he made one of the Ancestors go to the True Life Sect. After that, he got involved in the fight. The Ancestor of the Heavenly Divine Sect and Arc killed all the other Ancestors.'

'After everyone realized that their Ancestors had died, they all fled by using emergency teleportation emblems. The Heavenly Divine Sect didn't know where everyone had retreated to, but that isn't a problem anymore. After all, I took care of them.'

For a while, Gravis only thought about the impact this day had on the world.

In all the Peak Sects, only two level nine Divine Gods were left. There were even only a couple of level seven Divine Gods left.

Before Gravis had come into contact with the Peak Sects, every single Peak Sect had at least four Peak Divine Gods. The Ancestor, the Sect Master, at least one Vice-Sect Master, and the Core Plant.

Back then, there had been seven Peak Sects, and several of them had two Vice-Sect Masters.

That came to over 30 level nine Divine Gods.

Now?

Two.

Only two.

'Well, I kept my promise,' Gravis thought. 'I said I was going to destroy the Peak Sects, and I basically did.'

Gravis awkwardly scratched the back of his head. 'Doesn't feel as significant. One would think that turning the strongest Cultivators in the world to ash and remaining as the sole strongest being would do wonders for one's ego.'

'Yet, it only feels natural,' Gravis thought with an awkward smile.

'Every single member of the Peak Sects could have turned me to dust initially, but I somehow still felt like we lived in different worlds.'

the Peak Sects had never

Gravis sighed.

to create an empire, but I want to become a Heaven

at the world around

familiar to

his entire life in

also felt like it was someone

dissociation appear?' Gravis thought. 'Is it when I realized that I'm

feels a bit like looking at your parent's house

your

accepting that I'm moving on. I

Cosmos is all that exists. It's actually shocking when I think about it,

was inside this Cosmos, and this Cosmos only has Energy. They don't know that there is

is all they

the Heaven's

Gravis as one of their own. In their mind, Gravis was just like them, a

that he wasn't like the other Heaven's

Magnates were like

course, calling Heaven's Magnates innocent children could almost be seen as comical, but

children that dreamt of finding

were actually slaves just waiting to be

day, they worked hard for their owner. After all, he gave them silver and

so many valuables that it was almost

one of them, that person would quickly have an accident happen to them.

least, that was how the kids perceived

seller simply took all the money away from the kid and handed them

other kids saw none

seen that one of them had made a

continued to work hard. After all, one day, they would be able to

Gravis saw the

becoming more and more powerful

the very best of them would

money to buy a new

would attempt to

to crumble into

would take away their lives and consume their Energy to increase his

the old foggies. After all, they said that there was nothing they could do. No matter what they did, all paths lead to the end of

Heaven's Magnates didn't believe that. That was just loser talk! These three old foggies were only talking like this because they still didn't manage to

mad at their own

reality, the other Heaven's Magnates were

three old foggies were

they would never be able to create