Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 306

CRRR!

The door that had been silent for six months finally opened. Gravis turned to it and released a sigh of relief. "Finally, | cancontinue," he said.

It had felt like forever to him. Being alone without any outside stimuli for six months was incredibly boring to him. Mortals mightfind such a thought horrifying, but Gravis was already used to it. To him, it was nothing more than boredom.

Gravis retrieved his lightning and Spirit. He had been trying to make the Lightning Bomb stable. It was a huge issue that it alwaysabsorbed all of his lightning whenever he summoned it. This made the technique very problematic since he couldn't control theoutput of lightning. If he managed to use as much lightning as he wanted, he could build new techniques on top of thatfoundation.

Why did Gravis not ask for more Battle Techniques from the Lightning Sect? The issue with that was that all of the BattleTechniques had the same base. All the techniques were based on a combination of Spirit and will. As long as he couldn't controlhis lightning's output, any additional Battle Technique became meaningless.

One had to know that the Lightning Bomb and Lightning Crescent didn't have anything to do with the Rakshasa Saber. Theattack might be similarly performed, but only up to the base. The Rakshasa Saber needed Energy to function, not lightning. Assoon as lightning came into the equation, it stopped being the Rakshasa Saber.

The Lightning Bomb and Lightning Crescent were new techniques created by Gravis. Sadly, without the ability to control thelightning output, the usage of those two techniques became very limited. Gravis had tried to fix that for a long while now, withoutany result. The sphere would summon another him, basically, and the second him wanted his own lightning. It was just instinct.

Yet, the six months didn't go by without any result. His dodging became even better thanks to his new way of training. His controlover his physical power also increased.

What was the use of better control? It was the optimization of the user's power. More powerful attacks needed a longer windup,while weaker attacks would be faster. For example, using a slash with Gravis’ full power would be stupid if he fought against awind cultivator. The slash would be too slow to hit them. A weaker but faster slash would still be powerful enough to injure theperson.

“Anyway,” Gravis said as he cracked his neck. "Time to go. | wonder what you have in store for me, Heaven. Will you use yoursecret weapon right now, or later?"

With that said, Gravis walked through the opened door and looked at the walls. "Sure enough, the door was many meters thick.Trying to brute-force my way through that would have taken forever.”

Gravis walked for about a minute and then entered a small hall. The hall was identical to the one where his group has split up.And, funnily enough, his group waited for him there. When Gravis saw them, he was pleasantly surprised.

The group also looked at him and smiled. All four were still alive, relieving Gravis. Even though only two people from the groupcould be considered friends, Gravis still didn't want them to die. He was a little happy that everyone was still alive. He also sawthat their wills had grown a little bit. Apparently, the trial had been dangerous, but not that much.

Manuel's eyes lighted up in shock. He was very experienced in battles and with people. The moment he saw Gravis, he felt thatGravis’ Will-Aura had become much more powerful. Such an intense increase could only happen if someone went through anincredibly dangerous fight where the chances of dying were way higher than surviving.

He immediately saw many more connections. The trials were supposed to be tailored to the Realm of the user, not the BattleStrength. Only as the trials progressed would they become harder, and therefore, also test the user's Battle Strength. On top ofthat, the first trial should be the easiest one. With Gravis’ unreal Battle Strength, he should have been able to walk through thattrial. How could his trial have been this difficult?

Manuel's Spirit was also able to judge the physical body of people very well. He felt that Gravis’ body was equal to someone atthe Tree Stage. If he had had such a powerful body before going to the trial, basically nothing could stop him. What could be sodangerous as to increase his will that much?

"Gravis! Hey!" Joyce shouted with happiness as she waved her hands. She quickly ran to him and grabbed his right hand withboth of her hands. "Thank you so much for your training!" she shouted excitedly as she shook his hand vigorously.

Gravis could only bitterly smile. "It's alright. | didn't do much. | only taught you some basics of fighting.”

"Nonsense!" Joyce shouted. "You have taught me creativity! | am still bad at fighting, but | can, at least, see opportunities.""Well, you could call that creativity," the lightning disciple said from the side with an uncomfortable expression.

Joyce turned to him and went red in the face. "Shut up, Claude! You promised that you wouldn't talk about it!"

Claude only smiled bitterly and became quiet.

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "Oh? What happened?" he asked.

Joyce pouted with her still red face. "Can't you see that | am obviously embarrassed about this!? Read the atmosphere, dummy!"she shouted.

Gravis rolled his eyes. "Sure, keep your secrets then," he commented.As Gravis saw the group, he got an idea. "Do any of you have more body tempering pills?" he asked.

The group was a little taken aback, but Claude, Joyce, and Manuel nodded. "I left the Sect with enough body tempering pills toreach the Tree Stage,” Manuel said. "| also don't need them for the time being. My body is already more powerful than myRealm, which makes it difficult to use my element."

"| only have enough to reach the Seed Stage," Claude said."| have enough to reach the Sapling Stage," Joyce chimed in.

Gravis rubbed his chin for a bit. "No offense, but that amount of pills won't help me, Joyce, Claude," Gravis said. "Manuel, do youknow how to use a spear?”

Manuel scratched the side of his head. "| know how to use a lot of weapons. | am most comfortable with a long sword, but | amalso fine with a spear. Though, | already have a weapon. So, if you want to trade one, I'll probably decline."

Whoop!Gravis summoned the spear. "You sure?" he asked with a smirk.

When Manuel saw the spear, his eyes widened to their limits. "Holy shit, is that a peak-grade Spirit Weapon? Only Sect Masterscarry these!"

The others hadn't been able to judge the weapon's quality, but when they heard Manuel's shout, their eyes also widened insurprise. Where did Gravis get that? The spear quickly floated over to Manuel, and he looked at it even closer. After that, hisbreathing became even faster.

"This isn't just an average peak-grade Spirit Weapon!" he shouted with shock and surprise. "Normally, about 80% of theweapon's grade is decided by its Formation Arrays. The materials are not the main point of the weapon. Yet, this spear is entirelymade out of Core!"

Joyce was a little confused. "Core? Like a Beast Core?" she asked.

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Manuel suddenly went quiet and then looked at Gravis in shock. Only the Heaven Sect had the ridiculous amount of wealth tomake a weapon out of Core? Gravis went through an incredibly difficult tempering experience? The dots inside Manuel's mindconnected, and he took a deep breath.

“How are you still alive?" he asked involuntarily in a quiet voice.Gravis smirked. "It was pretty close," Gravis said.

The others also connected the dots and were just as shocked. Gravis had fought a priest? And he won!? This was impossible!Gravis was only at the Sapling Stage! Didn't this mean that Gravis was the strongest person in the Spirit Forming Realm while hewas still at the Sapling Stage? This was way too ridiculous!

"Anyway, so you up for the trade?" Gravis asked as everyone was watching him with open eyes.Pack!

A huge sack of pills was immediatelythrown at him. Manuel didn't evenneed to consider. After that, heimmediately starte espanging'sek ofhis webiith Or all the bodytempering pills in the group. Even ifhe scrunched up enough bodytempering pills to promote a physicalbody to the Self Stage, it still wouldn'tbe even close to enough. This spearwas worth about as much as thewhole Wind Sect! The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis wanted to protest about theadditional pills that Manuel wasfervently trading for. Yet, Manuel justshouted at Wy ithe ppeafWdswaytodexpelsive and that hewouldn't feel at peace if he didn't dohis best to repay Gravis. Afterscratching his head a little, Gravisgave up. If the spear was worth thatmuch, why not accept the additionalpills? The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

"Oh, by the way,” Manuel said. "Why are you not using the spear?" he asked.

Gravis summoned his saber. "| have this."

And again, Manuel was shocked. "This is also made of Core! How are you so rich!?" he shouted.Gravis scratched his chin. He didn't think that he was rich. After all, his Spirit Space was nearly empty.

The group sat down and talked for some hours. They shared their experiences and what they have gone through in their trial.