"Greetings, Mortis," Siral said with a bow.
"Uhm," the forgotten person to Siral’s left said.
"Your na is Yi Lu, right?" Gravis asked with a smile.
"Yes, I’m Yi Lu!" Yi Lu said as he regained his confidence. "You are Gravis, right?"
Gravis nodded with a smile.
Yi Lu just looked at Gravis like he couldn’t believe it.
This was that amazing person!
This was the person that Yi Lu always felt inferior to!
Yi Lu had gone through all of his Realms in a short period of ti, but whenever he reached a new Realm, the mories of Gravis’ previous Realm would be unlocked.
When Yi Lu reached the Energy Gathering Realm, he had seen what Gravis had done in the Body Tempering Stage.
Yi Lu already had had a Will-Aura when his full body was tempered. He had even managed to fight an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator to a draw.
However, Gravis already had a Will-Aura before he even truly began to cultivate!
Even more, judging by Gravis’ power, he had the ability to kill an Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator!
Fighting to a draw, winning, and killing was a huge difference, each one more difficult than the last.
When Yi Lu had seen that he couldn’t keep up, he had tried to beco even more outstanding! Gravis was more powerful than him, but he couldn’t give up!
So, he put everything he had into Cultivation and even managed to kill soone two levels above him in the Energy Gathering Realm. This was powerful! This was enough, right?
Then, when Yi Lu reached the Spirit Forming Realm, he had seen Gravis’ fight against an extrely powerful elder with the fire elent.
This elder had been three levels above Gravis, and he had had an equally powerful body.
Instead of feeling that he had co closer to Gravis’ power, he felt like the power difference beca even bigger.
So, Yi Lu beca crazier and crazier and even managed to kill soone two levels above him in the Spirit Forming Realm, which was far more difficult than killing soone two levels above oneself in the Energy Gathering Realm.
Then, when Yi Lu had reached the Unity Realm, he had seen Gravis’ fight with so kind of Priest.
How could he compete with that!?
Luckily for Yi Lu, all the delicate mories of Gravis’ journey in the lower world were hidden. Yi Lu didn’t know about Gravis’ enmity with the lower Heaven or the fact that Gravis’ Spirit had been attuned to Destruction Lightning.
After unlocking that set of mories, Yi Lu felt that all the foreign mories in his Spirit had been exhausted.
There had been no more mories to unlock.
What did this an?
Did this an that Gravis had reached the Unity Realm before he died?
Did it an that Gravis was dead and that he had gifted Yi Lu with his last mories as a form of successor?
Then, Yi Lu learned of the Sect Congregation, the ruler over this area.
The Sect Congregation had just won a war against another powerful Sect. Nothing appeared unnatural regarding that, but Yi Lu had learned that this wasn’t the first war.
The Sect Congregation was planning on taking out one Sect after the other until only they remained. Like this, they would have a monopoly over everything, and the mortals would suffer under their rule.
This had to be the calamity his teacher had warned him about!
Was this his teacher’s last wish? Did his dead teacher desire peace for the mortals?
If so, Yi Lu had to do his best for his deceased teacher! He had to prevent this calamity and kill the Sect Masters of the Sect Congregation!
After nearly a hundred years, Yi Lu had finally reached the legendary Nascent Nourishing Realm, the most powerful Realm in existence!
Finally, he managed to fulfill his late teacher’s last wish.
The calamity was averted!
And then, his world broke down.
A Cultivator with an unfathomably profound Cultivation Realm had appeared before him.
There were people this powerful!?
He had appeared lighthearted when he had spoken to the woman, but he felt nervous and scared deep inside.
And that was when his dead teacher arrived!
He killed that Cultivator with but a thought!
However, then, that dead Cultivator summoned an even more powerful Cultivator!
Just his Will-Aura had destroyed hundreds of kiloters!
How was sothing like this even possible!?
Yi Lu went through far too much shock today, and he looked at Gravis with a complicated expression.
Gravis could guess what Yi Lu was thinking and had to laugh a bit. "I think there are so misunderstandings between us."
So, Gravis proceeded to tell Yi Lu why he had been protected against powerful Cultivators and what the calamity actually was.
"So, the calamity was simply a fight between you and your opponent? You waited over a hundred years just to fight soone?" Yi Lu asked.
"A century is nothing," Gravis said.
’A century is nothing?’ Yi Lu thought with admiration. His teacher was so old and powerful that eons passed in the blink of an eye for him?
"Anyway," Gravis said. "Siral, Mortis, and I should leave. Nice eting you, Yi Lu."
Yi Lu’s eyes widened. "Wait!"
"Yes?" Gravis asked.
"You are just going to leave like that?" Yi Lu asked with so apprehension.
"Yeah, why not?" Gravis asked.
"But, your mories and your gift have shaped my entire life," Yi Lu said. "Aren’t we connected by Karma or sothing? Am I not supposed to repay you?"
"Nah," Gravis said.
Yi Lu was taken aback when he heard how casually Gravis denied his sincere approach. "But then why did you help ? You had no reason to."
"Your conviction to protect what’s important to convinced to give you a helping hand," Gravis said. Then, he smirked. "Also, it was funny."
"Funny?" Yi Lu asked.
"Yeah," Gravis said with a suppressed laugh. "I gave you the impossible task to keep up with my power by giving you my mories. It’s funny to imagine you constantly trying to push yourself further, trying to keep up with ."
Yi Lu felt like his world was shattering.
The enigmatic and tragic teacher that had died was nothing like Yi Lu had imagined.
Where was the elderly warmth?
Where was the praise?
Where was the problem or calamity that Yi Lu would be tasked with to stop?
Instead, he t soone that acted like a young adult that just wanted to ss around.
Then, Yi Lu’s rage exploded.
"I could have died!" he shouted. "I tried to keep up with you so badly that I went into suicidal situations just to temper myself, and now you’re telling you were just ssing with !?"
"Yeah," Gravis said with a smirk. "So what if you died? That’s just Cultivation. I gave you the knowledge that allows you to cultivate and gave you a fra of reference. Whatever you do is up to you. You could have simply stopped cultivating. You could have taken it slower."
"But you didn’t," Gravis said. "Also, don’t act like you are not happy that you went through so good tempering. After all, your Will-Aura is three levels above your own Realm. Don’t push the bla of your own decisions on ."
Yi Lu’s body was shaking in a mixture of emotions. He had no idea how he should feel right now.
"Anyway," Gravis said as he scratched his head. "Since you are so emotionally invested in , let give you so advice."
This made Yi Lu perk up.
"Don’t increase your Realm for the next hundred years."
Yi Lu’s face turned white.
"A full century!?" he shouted.
Gravis nodded. "From now on, nearly all your power will co from your Laws. If you don’t know a lot of Laws, your Battle-Strength will fall behind. I was in the sa situation as you in the past. I beca a Nascent Nourishing Realm Cultivator when I was like 60 or so, not sure entirely."
"That was when soone powerful and smart told to pause my Cultivation for a century and focus on Laws, and it has helped imnsely. You don’t need to follow my advice, though. It’s your decision in the end," Gravis said.
Gravis got reminded of Azure and Styr when he said these words. Azure had forced Gravis to stop cultivating for a hundred years after he had killed the Inquisitor, and it had helped him imnsely.
He was now doing the sa thing for Yi Lu.
Yi Lu still couldn’t wrap his head around not progressing for an entire century.
"So, bye!" Gravis said with a wave.
"Wait!" Yi Lu shouted suddenly.
"Again?" Gravis asked with a frown. "What now?"
"How can I find you in the future?" Yi Lu asked.
Gravis scratched his chin in deliberation.
"When you’re an Immortal King, you can search for ," Gravis said after so seconds. "By then, the entire world should know my na, and finding should be easy for you."
"Immortal King?" Yi Lu asked with shock. "I’ve never heard of this Realm. How powerful is it?"
"Not telling," Gravis said with a smirk.
SHING!
And then, Gravis was gone.
"Wait!" Yi Lu shouted, but it was too late.
Yi Lu quickly looked for Gravis’ friends, but they had vanished with him.
After so seconds, Yi Lu looked with a lost expression towards the ground.
’I thought I would get my second set of mories,’ he thought.
’Am I not supposed to get a second set of mories that allows to beco even more powerful?’
Sadly, Yi Lu wouldn’t get a second set of mories.
In a novel, the main character might receive a blessing from their master when they finally t.
In a novel, the main character might have to resolve a problem that their master couln’t deal with.
Sadly, this wasn’t a novel.
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