Female Novel
Chapter 168
Gravis had been training for over two days until he was finally finished.BOOM!
The surroundings exploded as Gravis stretched his muscles. He grinned and touched the muscles all over his body, which feltharder than steel. "Finally, a body equal to the tenth level of Energy Gathering. Now, | am invincible in the Energy GatheringRealm even without my Will-Aura," he proudly said to himself.
Yet, he also sighed a little bit when he looked at his current wealth. "| only have a couple of weapons from the Darkness Guildleft. | even used up all Energy Stones that | have plundered up until now. Luckily, | am only missing 20% Energy to reach thetenth level of Energy Gathering. After | sell those weapons, | should have enough Energy Stones to reach the tenth level. Then,I'll immediately break into the Spirit Forming Realm."
Gravis kept the Energy in his head at a constant 99%. If he shot a single dot of Energy into his head, he would immediatelybreak into the Spirit Forming Realm. Of course, that would damage his foundation. The stronger he was before a breakthrough,the better. The amount and density of Energy that he cultivated now would serve as a baseline in the future.
‘After | sell those weapons, | will directly break into the tenth level and then ascend into the Spirit Forming Stage. At that time, |only need to finish some unfinished business in the Middle-Continent and then...' Gravis looked up towards the sky, "the Core-Continent.”
CAW!
Skye shouted as it noticed that Gravis walked around. For the last two days, he had only been sitting around, eating pills withoutend. Skye knew that it shouldn't disturb Gravis during that time, so it kept itself busy with other stuff.
Skye quickly landed before Gravis and rubbed its head against his body. Gravis only laughed slightly and ruffled its feathers."How's it going, Skye? How far are you from a breakthrough?" asked Gravis with a laugh.
Skye pulled its head back and looked at Gravis with an unsure expression. When Gravis saw that, he lifted an eyebrow. "What'sup?" he asked.
Skye shook its head, and Gravis immediately understood what Skye meant with that. It meant that it wasn't even close to abreakthrough. As Gravis saw that, he furrowed his brows. "This shouldn't be right. You have eaten so many humans in the laterstages of Energy Gathering. You should be close to a breakthrough or even have broken through by now. Something's not right."
Gravis thought for a bit and grabbed a stick from the surroundings. He started drawing a smaller Skye and a bigger Skye with aline between them. Skye looked with interest at the drawings. It was naturally curious, and it was always interested in learningnew things from Gravis. Their last lesson had been some time back.
"This is you right now, Skye," said Gravis as he circled the smaller bird. "This is you when you break through," he said as hepointed at the bigger bird. "This line shows how close you are to a breakthrough." Gravis pointed at the line in between.
Gravis created three marks on the line. One mark was closer to the smaller bird, one in the middle, and one closer to the biggerbird. "This means you are at the beginning stages," he said as he pointed at the first mark. "This means that you are in themiddle, and this one means you are close to breaking through. Do you understand?" asked Gravis.
Skye looked for some seconds at the drawings and then nodded. "Where are you right now?" Gravis asked.Scratch.
Gravis' eyes widened as he saw where Skye marked the line. Gravis looked at Skye with concerned eyes. "You are a bit furtherthan the beginning? How is that possible?" he asked Skye and also himself. If that were true, then it meant that Skye had madenearly no progress ever since they left the Heaven Sect. This didn't seem right in Gravis' eyes. What was going on?
After thinking for a while, Gravis got a thought. ‘Something had to be wrong with all the food it ate. What is the differencebetween Skye eating something it had killed and eating something that | have killed?' Gravis thought.
Slowly, he realized what the issue was. Gravis took a deep breath as he looked into the sky. "The Heaven's Balance CultivationTechnique," he deduced. This was the only difference. As Gravis got the thought, he remembered that one Beast Core that hestill carried around. He took it out and looked at it.
“Just as | thought," sighed Gravis. "This core is empty of Energy," he muttered to himself. Normally, the Energy of a corpse wouldslowly seep out into the world over multiple days as part of the natural decomposition process. The Heaven's Balance CultivationTechnique made all the Energy inside of the corpse explode outward and scatter, instead.
If Skye killed something by itself, the Energy wouldn't scatter. In the next couple of days, Skye would absorb most of the Energyof its prey. With Gravis using the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique, there was no more Energy for Skye to eat. No wonderit made no progress.
Just four days ago, Skye had been stronger than Gravis, but now, it couldn't even come close to Gravis. Gravis wouldn't evenneed his Will-Aura to win. As that thought came, other thoughts appeared too. Gravis had given Skye lots of food without ithaving to hunt for it. Was this the best way for Skye to increase its power? If Gravis continued giving Skye free food, it would notgain more combat experience.
Gravis' eyes narrowed as he thought more about the situation. What if it managed to become a middle-grade Spirit Beast byfollowing Gravis? At that point, its battle experience would be below average in comparison to similar beasts. At that point, itwould become incredibly difficult to increase its strength by itself. Gravis realized that by wanting to do something nice for Skye,he had brought its independence into jeopardy.
Skye looked at Gravis with confused eyes. It was smart for a beast, but it couldn't hypothesize or think far into the future. Thatwas something exclusive to humans. Skye didn't even realize the "danger" of continuing like this.
As Gravis continued thinking, he grew a little nervous. If he didn’t have such a powerful will, his emotions would be going haywireright now. Skye was his only companion inside this world, and if Skye left, Gravis would be completely alone again.
Yet, if it remained, it would face many difficulties. The places where Gravis would go to in the future would be full of enemies inthe Spirit Forming Realm. The Heaven Sect would also hunt him down. What could Skye do in such a situation?novelbin
Every enemy and beast would be more powerful than it, and the only thing it could do was watch from a distance, trying not todie. Like this, Skye would become fully dependent on Gravis. It wouldn't be a companion anymore, but a pet.
Gravis turned to Skye and looked at it. What about remaining in the Middle-Continent and waiting for Skye to rise by itself?Gravis immediately threw this idea away. There were multiple issues with that.
First of all, with Gravis alwaysaround, Skye would not feel that itslife was in danger. Tha would impactits tem ring severely n top of that,the Heaven Sect would startsearching for Gravis crazily. If Gravisdidn't continually increase his power,his enemies would eventuallyoverwhelm him. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
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Wingn fat broke hrough tobecome a Spirit Beast like this, itwould become even morechallenging for it to regain enoughbattle experience to rise by itself. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
Was Gravis ready to sacrifice Skye'sfuture prospects just so he didn't feellonely anymore? Definitely not! Gravissaw Skye as a life\akctdeathcbmipani and sacrificing itsprospects for his own happinesswould be a betrayal. There was only asingle thing he could do that wouldhelp Skye, and he didn't look forwardto it. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
"Skye, we need to talk.”