Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 313

Gravis quickly exited the third trial and made his way to the usual hall. After around an hour of walking, Gravis reached the halland saw his group. Everyone was still alive, making Gravis smirk. Everyone's Will-Aura had increased, and Claude had alsocondensed his Unity Will.

The darkness disciple also had a fully concentrated Will-Aura now. Joyce was well on her way to reaching a level two Unity Will,but that would still require some tempering. Manuel had also started to slowly concentrate his Unity Will, but he was still a longway off from a level two Unity Will.

When the group saw Gravis, their eyes opened in shock. Gravis had already reached the Tree Stage? Wasn't that a little toofast? His will also felt much more powerful, but by now, the strength disparity was just too large. They couldn't judge Gravis’ Will-Aura anymore. It just felt incredibly powerful.

"Congratulations!" Joyce shouted with a smile as she clapped into her hands, excitedly. "Now, no one below the Unity Realm canfight with you anymore!"

Gravis nodded with a smile. "Thanks. | should be able to reach the Self Stage in another ten months. Then..." Gravis trailed offas his smile transformed into a smirk.

Gravis didn't need to finish his sentence to make the group understand. They knew exactly what his goal was. After two moretrials, Gravis would reach the Self Stage and then the Unity Realm. At that point, he would fight against Heaven, something thathad seemed unimaginable to them a couple of years ago.

"| want to see it when it's time," Manuel said with a smirk as he stepped closer.

Instead of smirking back, Gravis’ face transformed into a frown. "Manuel. There's something | need to tell you," he said.The group noticed Gravis’ change in tone and grew serious. Yet, how did Manuel react when he heard that?

Manuel only sighed.

"| think | know what you want to tell me," he said with helplessness. "Since humiliation didn't work, Heaven probably wanted tomake you regret and rage. My disciple brothers are dead, aren't they?” he asked.

Gravis nodded solemnly.novelbin

When Manuel saw Gravis nod, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Tell me how it went down," he said with a calm toneas he sat down in the middle of the hall.

The others looked at Gravis and Manuel with a mixture of disbelief, frustration, anger, and pity. Heaven was really taking it toofar. Gravis walked closer and sat down opposite Manuel. The remaining three people also walked closer. Claude was just aboutto sit beside Gravis when...

Bang!

Joyce shoved Claude to the side, surprising him. Then, she sat down beside Gravis. When Claude saw that, he laughed a littleand sighed again. Helplessly, he sat down beside Manuel. Gravis was more preoccupied with Manuel, so he didn't pay thisdisplay any attention.

“It all started when | entered the third trial..." Gravis started as he told the group about everything that happened.

In the beginning, the mood was still somber, but after a while, it turned to laughter. While the thought of their deaths was stillharrowing, their antics and the heroic end to their lives made the situation much easier to accept. The group from the Wind Secthad been able to insult Heaven however much they wanted.

"So that's why we felt the earth shake for such a long time," the darkness disciple chimed in.Gravis raised an eyebrow. "You also felt that even though you probably were multiple kilometers away?" he asked.

The whole group nodded. "Yeah, we were surprised why the earth started shaking out of nowhere," Claude said and thenlaughed. "| would have never guessed that the earth shook because the Wind Sect's group was insulting Heaven. It must havebeen really angry if we felt that from so far away."

Gravis smiled slightly. "It sure was angry," Gravis said. Then, he continued telling the tale of the five heroic men from the WindSect. Their inevitable deaths elicited some laughter. The five men had been heroic and defiant to the bitter end.

Manuel had already started smiling for a while with closed eyes. He had closed his eyes to better imagine that scene. He knewall five of these men, so he could very well imagine how everything happened.

"So, in the end, even though they were about to die, they had the opportunity to insult this world's ruler and captor," Manuel saidslowly. Then, he laughed. "This is a better death than nearly all cultivators will ever experience. While everyone had been caged,these five had managed to break out of the cage and spit on our captor. This is an unprecedented honor for my Wind Sect."

“They went out how they lived, free," Gravis said, and Manuel nodded to that.

"Thank you, Gravis," Manuel said, "and don't feel bad. It's not your fault. Even though they have died, they had been able toshow their disrespect to Heaven, something we won't be able to ever do, well, except for you. Thank you for giving them thischance, Gravis."

Gravis sighed and shook his head. "I didn't do anything. | only told them why they were in this situation. Everything they did afterthat had been their decision."

After that, the group started talking for a couple more hours. Apparently, the group had been fighting a mixture of the first twotrials in their third one. They had fought solo and in groups, always outnumbered two to one. Yet, surprisingly, even though thetrial could objectively be called harder, subjectively, it wasn’t harder at all. According to what the group had said, the third trialwas just as hard as the second one.

What was also surprising was the fact that the enemies had strengths tailored to the individual. For example, the enemies thatManuel had faced were way stronger than the enemies that Claude had faced. If the enemies' power were uniform, either nearlyeveryone would die, or the strongest of the bunch wouldn't receive tempering.

They had been fighting for a long time. In fact, the door to the fourth trial had opened only a day after they had passed the thirdone. This also showed the progress that everyone had made in the trials. One could even say that their battle-strength wasskyrocketing.

Due to Manuel falling down a full Stage, his total strength was still weaker than when he had been in the Seed Stage. Yet,instead of being a full Stage weaker, Manuel was now only about half a Stage weaker. He had made a lot of progress.Previously, he had been able to win a one-on-one fight against someone a full Stage higher, but now, he could fight around threeof them.

Joyce, on the other hand, only had average Battle-Strength if one ignored her Will-Aura. Yet, that was still impressive. After all,she hadn't really participated in fights before this Heaven's Trial started. But if one compared her to the rest of the group, herBattle-Strength was way weaker. One shouldn't forget that this group consisted of the absolute elite.

After some hours of talking, Gravis stood up and wanted to walk to the door, yet he stopped when he noticed something.Meanwhile, the group smirked at him. They had already noticed this peculiarity earlier.

Gravis didn't see two doors, like the previous times, but only one door. On top of that, the single door also had a big '5' inscribedabove it. When Gravis saw that, his eyes narrowed. "What are you planning this time, Heaven?" Gravis asked out loud.

The group was a bit surprised that Gravis had talked to Heaven. Wasn't that useless? After all, Heaven didn't answer. Wouldn'tthis be considered as talking to oneself?

Gravis continued thinking for a while, but he couldn't find any reason why it would do that. Killing the group would be ridiculous.The highest Heaven would, obviously, not accept that. Yet, if Gravis entered the trial, shouldn't it get tailored to his power then?Like this, the others wouldn't be able to temper themselves, which would also be a colossal waste.

Pack!

Two excited arms grabbed Gravis' shoulder. "We're staying together from now on!" Joyce said with an excited grin. "You canteach me more fighting now!"

Gravis looked helplessly at Joyce.Wasn't she taking this situation alittle too lightly? ees hedpdkedinto hengaaer'aic! xcited eyes, hecould only sigh and accept it. Howlong has it been that someone hadbeen this excited to spend time withhim? The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Yes, friends liked to spend time witheach other, but it felt different.Excitement like this wasn't partsomething like that yirfeatiy-TRe onlytine he sould remember whensomeone had looked at him like thatwas when he had spent some timewith his childhood friend, Stella. Shehad looked at Gravis with a similarlook. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis fell into thought and startedthinking about his childhood. Thedays had been without any realworry. Even thouatiGradis hadvaried} Sune it didn't have asmuch of an impact as he had thoughtback then. After all, Gravis had stillbeen able to forget every worry in hislife, as long as he had spent his timewith Stella. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Was something like this possible today? Gravis was really not sure. The world looked greyer now.Poke!

An aggressive poke shoved Gravis’ head to the side. "Hey! Stop spacing out!" Joyce shouted. "I just told you how excited | wasto spend more time with you, and you immediately looked like you were in for a lifetime of bitter torment!"

Gravis shook his head and sighed. "Sorry, | was just lost in thought. | was thinking about a childhood friend who had died." Then,he turned to Joyce and tried to smile, but he wasn't in the mood. His smile looked very crooked and forced.

When Joyce saw this weird smile, her face transformed into disgust. "Ew, what's with that smile? Stop that! It looks disgusting!"Gravis' eyebrows shot up in surprise.

BANG!

Joyce kicked the door open before Gravis could say anything. "Onward!" she shouted as she pulled Gravis along.

The remaining group looked with helpless smiles at each other and followed.