Female Novel
Chapter 296
The days came and went.
With her father's and teacher's acceptance, Joyce destroyed her Spirit. After that, she started refilling her Spirit with Energy untilit was 99% done. With the help of a lot of Energy Stones, she reached the tenth level of Energy Gathering and immediatelycondensed her Spirit. All of this took only a couple of hours.
Like this, her path was set. She would go through the Self Stage in the future. She would also have a lot of time to get used tofighting in life and death tempering. After all, it was nearly impossible to speed up the progression through the Spirit FormingRealm. She would require 40 years of accumulation to reach the Self Stage. By then, she should have already been able tocondense a level two Unity Will.
If everything went according to plan, she would be able to train her battle capabilities and spend time with her family for 40 years.After that, she would leave her family forever. They would never see each other again.
This was the cruelty of the cultivation world. Everyone that wasn't able to keep up would get left behind. Due to the time dilationdifference between the middle world and the lower world, everyone she knew would be dead in a maximum of 30 years after shereached the middle world. Thirty years in the middle world would correspond to 300 years in the lower world, the absolutemaximum of longevity for Spirit Forming experts.
This thought was quite harrowing, but Joyce knew that there was no way around it. She would spend a lot of time in her Clan inthe next 40 years because that would be the last time she would have a family. She decided that she wouldn't have a family untilshe reached the highest world, which would take an incredibly long time. If she even managed to survive until then.
Joyce also sent out a lot of invitations to her friends. After all, they needed five people for a group. Entering with less than fivewas impossible, for some reason. This was probably one of Heaven's restriction that would minimize the wastage of Energy fortrials.
In the following days, many of Joyce's friends would arrive. She always greeted them and informed them about why they wereinvited. A lot of them weren't happy when they heard the reason. After all, the ratio of deaths was just too terrifying for theHeaven's Trial. Yet, others were thankful for the invitation.
When Joyce wasn't entertaining guests, she was taught by Gravis how to fight. Many people have fought more battles thanGravis, but no one had been through more life and death fights. After all, what worth did sparring and harmless fights have?
Gravis taught her how to take advantage of the terrain and that everything could be considered a weapon. He even said that thefact that she was a woman could be considered a weapon. There were still a lot of cultivators who held onto the traditional beliefof mortals.
Yet, Joyce wasn't this shameless. She would never want to take advantage of the fact that she was a woman, even if it could beuseful. She wanted a fair fight, where gender didn't play a role. Gravis didn't mind. After all, it was her decision.
She also felt really uncomfortable when Gravis told her about how he had managed to kill stronger demonic beasts when he wasyounger. Even though she had a powerful will, she couldn't imagine stabbing a beast into the behind or cutting off its genitals. Inher mind, this seemed kind of disrespectful, and not even her enemies deserved such a fate.
Gravis never forced her to fight his way. Everyone had their own way of fighting and their own philosophy. If she didn't want touse these things, it was up to her. Forcing her to follow his example would only dirty her own fighting style.
Three days before the Heaven's Trial would open, Joyce, Gravis, and her friends gathered inside a hall. Reginald and Marvinweren't present. If it had been before this whole family drama, they would have wanted to attend, but they realized that they hadto give Joyce more space. She was an adult, and she would need to make her own decisions from now on, and when thosedecisions were wrong, she had to live with the consequences.
Everyone in the hall was at the initial Stage of Spirit Forming, except for Gravis. After all, the four chosen people would befighting as one team. If there were someone on a higher Stage, the difficulty of the whole trial would change. Something like thatcouldn't be considered life and death tempering, but only suicide.
Joyce had also informed her friends about how the middle world would work and that it would be best to destroy their Spirit andreform their Spirit after going through the tenth Stage of Energy Gathering. Yet, not everyone was as determined as Joyce.Nearly all of them weren't willing to waste their years of effort just to start again.
Though, there was one person who agreed. One had to know that Joyce had friends from all over the world, and also from nearlyall the Sects. The person that agreed was, surprisingly, a darkness cultivator.novelbin
The guy had been pretty nervous and afraid while he was in the presence of Gravis. He knew Gravis’ face and saw what hadhappened back then. After he had seen the actions of his elders and Sect Master, he had decided to leave the Darkness Sect.
After Joyce had explained everything to him, he had gathered all his courage and asked Gravis if what she said was true. Gravisconfirmed it, and the cultivator decided to go through with it. Like this, their group had two people at the initial Stage of SpiritForming while having gone through the tenth Stage of Energy Gathering.
The remaining seven people were all willing to accompany them since those who weren't willing had left a long time ago. Now, itwas up to Joyce to decide the last two spots.
After a long debate and going through all the people's strengths and weaknesses, Joyce made another decision. The fourthmember was a disciple of the Wind Sect. His Will-Aura was above average, and his speed would also be quite useful. That waswhat made Joyce decide on him.
Yet, filling the last spot was quite difficult. None of the remaining candidates had any outstanding talents or powers. All in all, theycould be considered supremely average. After nearly an hour of debates, she still wasn't able to make her decision.
"Whom would you choose?" she asked Gravis with a voice transmission.
“None. They're all too weak and wouldn't be able to pull their weight fully," Gravis answered directly.Joyce released a frustrated sigh. "But we don't have any other candidates."
"Yes, we do," Gravis sent back directly.
Joyce perked up and looked at Gravis. "What?"
"Why is it necessary that they are your friends? Just go ask the Lightning Sect. They won't take part in this year's resource wareither way. I'm sure you'll find someone," Gravis transmitted back.
Joyce's eyes widened as she realizedthat Gravis was right. She still felt alittle bad for her remaining six friends,but her life was m (portant! Lkethis,shOs4id that she wouldn't takeanyone else from the group. Thegroup wasn't happy at all about this.Most of them cut off their friendshipwith Joyce and left angrily. Only twopeople remained on friendly termswith Joyce. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Joyce felt terrible about the leaving of her friends, but her cultivation was more important. Even if those people managed toascend too, they would just become fertilizer for other cultivators. After all, they didn't go through the tenth Stage of EnergyGathering. Maybe it was better this way.
On the same day, Joyce left for the Lightning Sect to get the last member. A day later, she returned with quite an outstandingcultivator. When she had announced that they needed one last member at the initial Stage, many disciples started vying for thatposition.
The reason why Joyce's group was so popular wasn't because of Gravis or the fact that she cultivated Life Lightning. It was amatter of group composition. Most groups were made up of only one power, and powers were mostly formed according to thecultivators’ elements. Therefore, most groups only had one element.
A four-man group of cultivators withdifferent elements would be evenstronger than a five-man group ofcultivators with thegagie éleferttAfter\a Tot 6 Shouting and fighting,one person managed to stand out.He had a nearly fully compressedWill-Aura, which was very impressivefor someone at the initial Stage. Thisperson was very close to being anAscender's Talent. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Joyce was incredibly happy with thelast person. Like this, they wouldhave a very balanced team. The windcultivator could sqoxt@rade And)distrqcti￥ob’ the darkness cultivatorcould stay hidden and deal a fatalstrike to any enemy. The lightningcultivator was a mixture of both. Hecould deal incredible damage butwas also fast enough to evadeattacks. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
And Joyce would be the backup. As long as the fighters didn't immediately die, she could heal them in a matter of seconds. Likethis, the fighters could fight more aggressively and trade injuries for injuries.
After everyone assembled, everyone said their goodbyes and left for the resource war. If they were lucky, they wouldn't return formany years. If they were not, they would never return.