Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 355

Gravis felt like time stopped. Heaven had created his mother? What did this mean? Why? "You're a Heavenborn?" Gravis askedin shock.

His mother tapped her chin. "You could call me that," she said nonchalantly like it wasn't a big deal. "Heaven created me to be ascompatible with your father as possible. In the beginning, your father wasn't very thrilled with me. He just thought that this wasanother one of Heaven's schemes.”

Gravis couldn't wrap his head around this fact. So many moral conflicts and implications appeared with that fact. "Were you alsocreated to love him?" he asked, fearing the answer.

His mother nodded. "Of course. We were perfectly compatible with each other. So, | quickly fell in love with your father."

This was the answer that Gravis feared. The fact that his parents didn't meet or fall in love naturally made a lump appear insidehis chest. This didn't feel like love. It felt more artificial than that. "And you never questioned these feelings, fearing that theyhave been instilled by someone else?"

"Oh, | did, trust me on that," his mother said. "| was unhappy, angry, and hated my life. It didn't feel like | was my own person. Itfelt more like | was a tool that had been created just to please someone else. | hated that feeling," she said.

"| stayed like that for a long time and mostly spent my time with the mortals. | have built a lot of relationships with them, but |always felt sad when they died of old age. In the beginning, our times together felt like an eternity, but as more time passed, theirlives just seemed to become shorter and shorter."

“Back then, your father and | talked a lot. He was the only constant in my life. On top of that, | just didn't feel any love for anyother man or woman. They all felt so fragile and distant. It was like we were living in different worlds."

“After a long time of talking, we became closer. Just like today, he always seemed to be busy with something and just sat insidehis room, frowning all the time. His demeanor might not seem different from today, but | felt the difference. It felt like your fatherwas lost," she said.

Gravis gulped again. "And even though Heaven created you to fall in love with each other, you just went along with it?" Gravisasked.

His mother sighed. "| guess we both felt lost. | felt isolated from the mortals, and your father felt isolated from everything. Exceptfor Heaven, we were the only two constants. We always were there and stayed the same. | fell into thought for a long time, justthinking about my life, emotions, and life in general."

"So, after a long time of thinking, | came to a conclusion,” she said."Which is?" Gravis asked.novelbin

“Emotions are necessary to give life meaning when you have nothing else to strive for," she said. "You might believe that you areabove such emotions, but your emotions are part of who you are. They drive you forward when you have no goal.”

“Also, the want for freedom is also a kind of emotion. You just place it above any other one. Yet, if that want disappears, youneed a backup to fall back on. | think feeling happy is the goal of everyone. Whatever emotion or circumstance creates thishappiness is different for everyone, but basically, being happy is everyone's goal.”

"If your dependent emotion for happiness vanishes, you need a different one to give your life meaning. The desire to reachsupreme power won't ever be fulfilled for nearly everyone, so, with their goal in mind, they could strive for happiness for theirentire lives, but that's because they can never reach it.”

"It's like the saying that one bread can feed you for your entire life, but that's because, without more food, your entire life won't bevery long. The desire for power follows everyone until the day they die because they will never reach supreme power."

His mother smiled, "but you have an actual shot of becoming supremely powerful. Yet, if you bank everything on this one desire,achieving your goal will only leave emptiness behind. In my opinion, betting all their happiness onto supreme power means thatthey have already committed to never achieving it. After all, if you do reach it, only emptiness or death remains."

Gravis listened intently, reflecting on his own desires.

"| realized these things back then. So, | decided that | wanted to be happy. | loved your father, and even though these desiresmight appear artificial, I'll follow them. | don't want to die or live an empty life. It felt like | lost to Heaven's schemes, but so what?Losing isn't so bad. You can learn a lot of things by losing something," she explained.

Gravis actually admired his mother. It surely wasn't easy to give in to what Heaven wanted. Gravis felt like he wouldn't be able todo that. Something inside of him just didn't want to give Heaven any victory, no matter how small it was.

Yet, wasn't his mother happy now? Of course, his father's words also returned. "But didn't Heaven create emotions like love topush people to power? Following this feels manipulative," he said.

His mother tapped her chin again. "Honestly, I'm not so sure about that," she said.Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"It's like when you really dislike someone. You see that person commit a mistake and automatically think that this person isstupid, but if one of your friends made the same mistake, you would say that humans make mistakes and that it's normal. Weautomatically assume the worst of the people we dislike and often ignore their positives."

“What if Heaven had been entirely different when it had created this world? What if it only wanted to create a happy world withlove and closeness? Maybe it felt empty and wanted to see what people would make of these emotions? Maybe it wanted togrant the people a chance to decide their own happiness?" she asked.

"Imagine a world completely without emotions. We would only strive for our own survival and die at some point, but with enoughintelligence and wisdom, we would realize how senseless this life was. What's the point of living? After all, we'll only die in theend."

Gravis thought about these words. Was it possible that Heaven hadn't created emotions just to force people to get stronger?What if Heaven really had been different back then? Gravis noticed that his mother had said that Heaven might have beendifferent in the past. This meant that she acknowledged that Heaven seemed cold and selfish right now.

If she said that Heaven currently was different, he wouldn't believe her. That just seemed delusional. Yet, by acknowledgingHeaven's current conduct, it actually opened up new possibilities for the past. People change. So, Heaven could maybe alsochange?

Yet, Gravis realized that the most pressing question still hadn't been answered. "You said that father might not love us," Gravissaid, bringing the original topic back.

His mother remembered that this had been the starting point of everything. "Ever since we got together, your father tried toregain his love. | helped him along the way, but it just seemed impossible for him. After a long time, he started believing that itwas impossible for him to ever love again."

"Yet, he still tried against all hope. We created a family, grew bigger and bigger, and the world recovered. Sadly, with a biggerworld, danger also returned to cultivators. At some point, the cultivators became powerful enough to fight our children evenly,"she explained.

"You know your father, and you knowthat he values fairness. If one of yoursiblings died in a fair fight, hewouldn't stop it_Y fajhee tFetl'tofeel iove again, om when he felt thepain of his children dying, it becameeven more difficult to open up. Afterall, no one wants to feel the pain ofhaving a loved one die. Ever sincethen, we have been working on that,"she said. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Now, Gravis understood what his mother meant. It wasn't that his father didn't love him, but that he couldn't. Yet, what of hissacrifice when Gravis reached the Spirit Forming Realm? Also, he had felt his love when he had been with him previously.

"| think you're wrong, mom," Gravis said.

His mother only smirked. "No, I'm not," she said with a small laugh, which didn't fit the atmosphere. "! didn't say that your fatherdoesn't feel anything, but that he hadn't felt anything. It's past tense," she said.

Gravis' eyes widened, and he felt anticipation. "What do you mean?"

His mother laughed again. "It's you,"she said. "About five days ago, whenyou broke into the Spirit Forming,Realm, yssituation flood yourfathet to decide between beingemotional or emotionless. Justimagine it. On one side was the deathof his only remaining enemy while onthe other was the life of his son." Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!

His mother smiled warmly and happily. "At that point, he had realized his own feelings. He couldn't bring himself to sacrifice you.Why was that? It was because he loved you. You might not realize this, but you have created an unprecedented storm insideyour father's heart."

"Me?" Gravis said incredulously, pointing dumbly at himself.

"Yes, you," his mother said with alaugh. "Your father has truly openedup for the first time. It mad bin)realize at hewasnt SRopelesscise! A ter realizing his own love foryou, he finally felt something. Youhave helped your father more thanyou could ever imagine," she said,poking Gravis in the side. The contentis on NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!