Chapter 351: Punishment Lightning (1/2)

Gravis nodded. ”Yes, please tell me more,” he said with interest. Finally, he would know more about his homeworld.

The Opposer drank more of his coffee. ”You are currently inside Opposer City. Pretty straightforward name, isn't it?” His father said with a smirk.

Gravis had never heard the name of his home city, but it actually made sense. Still, Gravis looked at his father with a complicated expression.

”Hey, don't look at me like that,” his father said. ”I wasn't the one who gave the city its name. No one actually intended to build this city. It just grew out of nowhere, and the name stuck. I'm a big Energy magnet, so my surroundings are the densest in regard to Energy. Therefore, a lot of people started building their own homes around ours.”

'Opposer city, what a simple name,' Gravis thought with a smirk.

”Anyway, Opposer City is located in the Central Plains. As the name suggests, this is the middle of the entire world. Nearly all of the Peak Sects are located in these plains, and you can find the absolute elite of cultivators and beasts here,” his father explained.

”You could compare it to the Core-Continent in your lower world. Yet, the Central Plains are much, much vaster than the entire lower world. To put it into perspective, the Central Plains are many times bigger than thousands of lower worlds combined.”

”Thousands of lower worlds?” Gravis asked with shock. ”The Central Plains are that huge?”

The Opposer nodded. ”Similar to your lower world, the further away you go from the center, the less Energy there is. There are no barriers or anything significant between the areas, and the Energy doesn't just get cut off. It simply becomes less and less.”

”You could liken the highest world to an onion. We are inside the core, but the further out you go, the more layers you will see. Just like in your lower world, the further out you go, the bigger the areas get.”

”The areas outside are bigger than the Central Plains?” Gravis asked.

The Opposer nodded. ”Yes. The massive size of the highest world can't be compared to any other world. The highest world has existed for the longest time, so it also had the most time to expand. On top of that, it also has, by far, the most Energy, so its expansion is also more rapid.”

The Opposer scratched his chin in thought. ”You could say that all other worlds combined are about just as big as the highest world.”

”But aren't there billions of worlds?” Gravis asked.

The Opposer nodded again. ”Yes, but that's just how vast the highest world is. The grass outside the city, for example, is the most powerful common grass that you can find. It doesn't even have Spirituality and, therefore, can also not be counted as a Spirit Plant. It's just really hard grass.”

”No wonder killing the grass was so easy,” Gravis said. ”According to its physical power, every stalk of grass would need to be at the Unity Realm. I might be powerful in the Unity Realm, but killing thousands of cultivators in my Realm? That seems a bit too much.”

”Yes. The grass has a body in the Unity Realm, but nothing else. It only acts on instincts and can't do anything else. That's also why the grass just attacked you without relenting. Every beast or Spirit Plant would have already fled from your lightning,” the Opposer said.

Gravis remembered something. ”Speaking of, what is this new lightning that I gained after absorbing Heaven's lightning strike, and why was I stunned when I absorbed it?” Gravis asked.

”It's Punishment Lightning,” the Opposer said. ”Normally, cultivators can only use it way later in their cultivation journey. That's because you need to comprehend some laws in regards to lightning to wield it.”

BZZZ!

Gravis summoned a small, white ball of lightning and looked at it. ”But I can use it just fine,” he said.

The Opposer nodded. ”Because you understand its laws.”

Gravis' eyes widened. ”I do?” he asked.

”Your Spirit is adapted to lightning, so it has a very deep connection to it. When you absorbed the Punishment Lightning, your Spirit started combining with it. It was like the Punishment Lightning was telling your Spirit all its secrets and what it was.”

”Though,” the Opposer said. ”Laws are very complex, and it is a long process trying to understand them. When the lower Heaven unloaded so much lightning into you, your Spirit was overloaded with understanding. It was completely occupied and couldn't do anything else.”

The Opposer scratched his chin again and looked at the ceiling. ”You could compare it to one of your legs falling asleep. When your nerves get cut off for too long, they can't transmit signals back to your brain. So, when the connection gets re-established, all the nerves send their signals at once, overloading your brain and making you feel uncomfortable. Though, of course, there are still differences.”