Chapter 879: Not as Expected (1/2)

”Greetings, Mortis,” Siral said with a bow.

”Uhm,” the forgotten person to Siral's left said.

”Your name 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 time, but whenever he reached a new Realm, the memories 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 become 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 someone 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 extremely powerful elder with the fire element.

This elder had been three levels above Gravis, and he had had an equally powerful body.

Instead of feeling that he had come closer to Gravis' power, he felt like the power difference became even bigger.

So, Yi Lu became crazier and crazier and even managed to kill someone two levels above him in the Spirit Forming Realm, which was far more difficult than killing someone two levels above oneself in the Energy Gathering Realm.

Then, when Yi Lu had reached the Unity Realm, he had seen Gravis' fight with some kind of Priest.

How could he compete with that!?

Luckily for Yi Lu, all the delicate memories 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 memories, Yi Lu felt that all the foreign memories in his Spirit had been exhausted.

There had been no more memories to unlock.

What did this mean?

Did this mean that Gravis had reached the Unity Realm before he died?

Did it mean that Gravis was dead and that he had gifted Yi Lu with his last memories 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 kilometers!

How was something 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 some 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 someone?” 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?