Chapter 240: Freyas birch (1/2)

WACK!

A cane hit Gravis in the side of the head, throwing him off the mighty, newly created tree. His body hit the side of a building, but his body didn't break it since Balzar was so hard. Instead, his body slid down the wall, towards the ground.

”I take my eyes off of you for five fucking seconds, and you summon a calamity!” came the angry shout of Old Man Lightning. ”Destroying my home not enough for you? You wanna destroy the whole Sect now?”

Gravis rubbed his head and grew annoyed. ”What's your problem, old man? I only absorbed some lightning! Is it against the rules?” he shouted with annoyance.

Old Man Lightning pointed towards the sky. ”Look what you've done! The clouds are as weak as never before! If I hadn't stopped you, they would have vanished! With your reckless actions, you have nearly doomed the Lightning Sect!” he shouted violently.

Gravis looked up at the sky and noticed that some parts of the clouds had parted, light shining through them. By now, Gravis had realized his blunder. What would the Lightning Sect be without lightning? He might have really overdone it this time.

”Hey, I'm sorry, okay?” Gravis said after he calmed down. ”I didn't realize that I absorbed this much lightning. I'll pay you back, okay?”

Old Man Lightning narrowed his eyes.

WACK

He appeared beside Gravis without any warning and whacked him with his cane again. The cane hit the side of his head, throwing him to the ground again.

Gravis immediately shot up again, annoyance, and a bit of rage in his eyes as he looked at Old Man Lightning. ”I said, I'll pay you back! What more do you want, you old prick?”

Instead of growing angry, Old Man Lightning looked at Gravis with interest. He played around with his beard a little as he thought about something. ”You're not being influenced by the temperament of lightning after absorbing so much of it?” he asked with interest.

The first hit with the cane was to stop Gravis, while the second one was to test if Gravis was influenced by the temperament of lightning. After all, that was a genuine issue that happened to a lot of disciples. If someone absorbed too much lightning in too short of a time, they would start going berserk, attacking everything that even slightly annoyed them.

Gravis now realized why the old man hat hit him again. Most of his annoyance vanished, but not all of it. ”No. That happened once to me already, and I committed a grave mistake. Luckily, lightning's temperament won't ever influence me again.”

Old Man Lightning raised an eyebrow. ”Bullshit! Everyone can be influenced by lightning's temperament, even me. What makes you different from everyone else?”

Gravis still rubbed the hurt side of his head. ”Because I am lightning. Lightning's temperament is my temperament. There is no difference between the two.”

WACK!

Another hit with the cane. ”Bullshit! That's not how cultivation works! You think you can lie to me? You think I'm a naive kid like you?”

Gravis stood up again, looking with anger at Old Man Lightning.

BZZZ!

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot from the newly grown tree onto Gravis, surprising everyone. This new tree had control over lightning? Also, why was it shooting lightning at Gravis? Wasn't it born due to what Gravis had done?

Gravis hadn't expected that this tree would suddenly shoot lightning at him, so he didn't react. On top of that, he was immune to lightning. The lightning bolt hit him, yet, instead of getting absorbed by his dantian, like normal lightning, this lightning bolt went through his whole body. It passed every organ, muscle, and bone, healing his body from the injury that the cane had brought upon him.

Gravis knew what had happened, but he almost couldn't believe it. ”Life Lightning?” he uttered with shock as he realized what had happened. 'This tree has control over Life Lightning? How is that possible?'

”What did you say!?” shouted Old Man Lightning violently and loudly, but not with aggression. Instead, his voice sounded incredibly shocked. ”Did you just say that this was Life Lightning!?” he asked Gravis, shaking his body violently.

”Yes!” Gravis said through the shaking of his body, getting more annoyed at the old man by the second.

Plonk!

Old Man Lightning let Gravis' body fall and turned to the tree. The tree was in the middle of the central plaza, taking up basically all the space. Its trunk was already over 30 meters wide, and its highest branch reached nearly the same height as the imposing Lightning Tower.