Female Novel
Chapter 259
With that short intermission over, Gravis continued training. He actually offered to give the Lightning Sect his mined Balzar freeof charge, but surprisingly, they declined. They said that no work remained unrewarded. So, in the end, Gravis was evenforbidden from entering the Balzar mine.
With nothing better to do, Gravis decided to test different battle techniques on some wild beasts. He searched around for mid-grade Spirit Beasts and found quite a few. The first beast, he killed with all his power, and the fight had been pretty easy. Thebeast was pretty fast and powerful, but just as he had expected, it didn't evade when an incredible amount of lightning had builtup around him. It fell victim to his Lightning Crescent.
The next beast, he killed without using his Will-Aura, which made it even faster and more powerful. Gravis got a little injuredduring that fight, but he was still able to win. After that, he found the sweet spot. He wouldn't use his Lightning Bomb or LightningCrescent but would use everything else he had. Those fights had been pretty exciting.
Sadly, none of those fights could temper his will. After all, as long as he had a weapon that would win the fight, every temperingwould become senseless. The will was increased by the emotions and by being forced to break through one's limits. If he alwayshad such a powerful weapon ready, that would never happen, even if he swore that he would rather die than use it. It was justhow emotions and the will worked.
Like this, another three months passed, and now, Gravis was back at the Lightning Sect. Even though his will hadn't beentempered, he received more battle experience and finer control over his body. Yet, why did he return to the Lightning Sect?
That was because he was about to have a breakthrough. His Spirit was ready to reach the next level, and he wanted to do that inan environment with no danger.
Gravis sat on the wooden floor inside Old Man Lightning's home. He dumped all his belongings beside him. The old man hadsaid that it would be better to keep his Spirit Space empty during the breakthrough. Old Man Lightning was sitting in the sameroom but in an armchair. He was also interested in how Gravis would reach the next level.
"It's time," Gravis said and shoved his lightning into his Spirit. By now, his Spirit was so densely packed with lightning that hecouldn't even see the individual streaks. Everything was just a mass of white and silver. It basically looked like his LightningBomb.
As the new lightning entered his Spirit, he noticed his Spirit shaking. It was almost like it was ready to burst. Suddenly, Gravis felta stinging pain in his Spirit. It was like someone had stabbed him in the head with a knife. The pain continually seared into hismind, and Gravis even had to grit his teeth.
This pain was incredibly powerful, but nothing he couldn't withstand. Gravis guessed that this was the reason why someoneneeded a more powerful Will-Aura to advance. The pain he felt right now was a little greater than when he had kept his mind at99% Energy while using the Pre-Forming Technique, back when he had still been in the Energy Gathering Realm.novelbin
The pain was powerful enough to make someone with a newly created Will-Aura go insane, lose consciousness, or abort thebreakthrough. Someone could nourish their Spirit with their Energy, but they could also take Energy from their Spirit. If someonecouldn't handle the pain, they would probably remove some Energy from their Spirit, thus halting their breakthrough.
Luckily, Gravis' Will-Aura was more than enough to handle that. He noticed the walls of his Spirit Space pulsing like they wereinjured. Then, slowly, his Spirit Space started shrinking. The lightning became more and more compressed, yet, surprisingly, thepain didn't increase in intensity.
Typically, one would think that by increasing the internal pressure, the Spirit would become more injured and, therefore, radiatemore pain. Strangely enough, that didn't happen. 'l wonder why that is?' Gravis asked himself. ‘Is it possible that this pain is notactually real pain, but something sent by Heaven to temper the cultivators? After all, Heaven wants powerful people, and ifsomeone advanced with a will that was too weak, they might become too weak in relation to others on their Realm.’
Gravis actually thought that this form of "tribulation" made sense. If that weren't there, most cultivators would just be weak-willedbabies that couldn't handle hardships. That might still be okay in the first few Realms, but Gravis guessed that something like thiswould become a massive issue in the future.
While thinking about the reason for the pain, his Spirit Space shrunk more and more. As the lightning was compressed, it grewmore and more volatile. The concentrated lightning made constant screeching sounds, but Gravis wasn't bothered by that. Hewas lightning, and this was just a form of lightning. The screeching actually made him feel elated, for some reason. It felt like adear friend was celebrating their newfound power.
His Spirit Space shrunk until it was no bigger than a seed. It remained at that size for a few minutes and then enlarged with rapidspeed. In just a second, it reached its old size, but it didn't stop there. It continued growing until it reached the form of a ball witha diameter of ten meters. Of course, this was a separate space. Gravis’ head didn't swell to such a ridiculous size.
After the Spirit Space stabilized, Gravis felt his Spirit shudder. Then, his Spirit started expanding outward.From a radius of 50 kilometers...
To 60 kilometers
70 kilometers
80 kilometers
90 kilometers
And finally, 100 kilometers.
The radius of his Spirit had doubled. One would think that Gravis would now see twice as many things with his Spirit, but thatwasn't how circular areas worked. On a 2D plane, the total area that Gravis' Spirit encompassed was about quadruple that of theold one. Yet, if someone also considered the whole sphere, it would become even crazier. Though that was unimportant sincethere was nothing above a couple of kilometers in the air, and the ground also blocked someone's Spirit somewhat.
So, as long as Gravis' Spirit was big enough to reach the upper emptiness above the world, the increased height of his Spiritbecame meaningless. Yet, Gravis was thrilled with the size of his Spirit. At the start, he didn't know about the size of others’Spirits, but Lasar had told him that info.
Apparently, someone at the initial stage of Spirit forming would have a Spirit with a radius of ten kilometers. After everybreakthrough, that radius would double. So, Seed Stage had 20 kilometers, Sapling Stage 40 kilometers, Tree Stage 80kilometers, and the Self Stage would break that convention with having around 200 Kilometers. Heaven probably liked nice andclean numbers. After all, it had created cultivation.
With a radius of 100 kilometers, Gravis' Spirit encompassed a bigger area than someone at the Tree Stage but less thansomeone at the Self Stage. Sadly, his Spirit wasn't more powerful than others. It just encompassed more. Gravis guessed thatthis was one of the advantages that his lightning-adapted Spirit had over others.
Gravis looked back into his Spirit and noticed that the lightning hadn't widened along with his Spirit Space. It simply stayed at thesize of a seed. This also meant that there was no more lightning flying around his Spirit Space. His whole Spirit Space wasempty, except for the volatile, shining, little star-like thing in the middle. The little seed illuminated his whole Spirit, making Gravisable to check the walls of his Spirit Space.
Well, they couldn't exactly be called walls. It was more like a transparent membrane. Behind the membrane, Gravis could seethat his Spirit Space was surrounded by his own brain. One had to know that someone could transport their awareness into theirSpirit Space, which would be just like them standing inside their own head. This whole thing was rather bizarre, and Graviswasn't sure what he should think about looking at his own brain, which was surrounding him.
Poke, Poke!
Gravis tapped the membrane with his finger, but nothing happened. Then, Gravis used more strength, but still, nothinghappened. After that, he willed for his awareness to pass the barrier, but that was also impossible. After all, his "body" inside hisSpirit Space wasn't exactly real, but just a projection of himself. It couldn't exist outside his Spirit Space.
After seeing that he could not wanderaround in his own brain, Gravis wentover to the litle stanttiing, ft COuldn'tbe.called‘a’star since... it just wasn't astar. It just looked a bit like one withall the light. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Poke!
Gravis poked it, and it got flung awaylike a minuscule marble. Yet, itsactual body never touched themembrane. As sopixas it GoSdin onalfnémb Mate, a small bit of lightningwould halt its momentum and shootit back at nearly the same speed.Meanwhile, the lightning hit hismembrane, then flowed alongside it,and finally reentered the small seed.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!Read the latest chapter there!
“Huh, that's interesting,” Gravis said.Ponk, Pack!
Gravis took the seed into his hand and threw it against the membrane. Like a ball, the seed bounced off the membrane andlanded in Gravis' hand again.
Ponk, Pack! Ponk, Pack! Ponk, Pack!
"This is fun!" Gravis said with glee. After catching the seed again, he stopped with a surprised expression. "Wait, would thatactually work?" Gravis asked himself. Then, he looked at the seed with interest.
BANG!
Gravis used a strong punch to shootthe seed away. The seed hit themembrane and shot back again withjust as much speed. Gravis evaded,and the cod starteti Hitting anotherpartlof th Chembrane. Like that, itshot away again. After evading andwatching it for a while, Gravisrealized that it wasn't losing muchspeed. It only lost a little speed whenhitting the membrane, but nothingelse slowed it down. He guessed thatthere was probably no air inside hisSpirit Space. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
"| can use this to train my evasion ability in a chaotic fight!"