<h4>Chapter 967: Gains</h4>
So, what had Gravisprehended in the past 20,000 years?
Gravis had onlyprehended the level five Law of Empathy on his own in the past 20,000 years, which could be seen as rtively slow Law Comprehension.
However, Gravis had learned a lot from Ste.
How many level five Laws had Ste known that Gravis hadn''t known?
Four, and all four of them were Mixed Elemental Laws.
That was already a lot more than Gravis had known previously. After all, Gravis had only known the Mixed Elemental Law for Graphite and Inferno, Magma. However, some people also called it Graphiteinferno.
The first Law Gravis hadprehended was the Law of Punishment Inferno. Just like the name implied, it was a fusion of Punishment Lightning and Inferno. Ste had even used that Law back when she ran to the beast territory after escaping from the Nine Elements Sect.
The second one had been Frostinferno.
Back when Gravis had retrieved Ste from the Nine Elements Sect, Ste had already known two level five Laws, which was already incredibly impressive for an Immortal King. After all, an Immortal King only needed to know a single level five Law to be an Immortal Emperor.
These two Laws had been the Law of Punishment Inferno and the Law of Frostinferno.
However, Ste hadprehended two more Laws since then.
One was the level five Law of Temperatures, which Ste hadprehended from the Law Comprehension Life Fruits that Gravis had given her.
The other one was the Law of Coreinferno.
The Law of Coreinferno was what Ste hadprehended while Gravis had concentrated on the Laws of Physical Power.
In actuality, it was beyond impressive that Ste managed toprehend a level five Law in such a short amount of time.
How did she aplish that?
Tempering.
Lots of tempering.
Ste was not weak!
Of course, Gravis had also gotten that Law from Ste.
Thest Law was obviously the level five Law of Temperatures.
These were the four Laws that Gravis hadprehended from Ste.
Yet, one had to remember that this was not a one-sided smash-and-grab but an exchange of knowledge. This meant that Ste had also received some Laws from Gravis.
Ste had received a whopping ten level five Laws and so many different level four Laws!
The level five Laws were the Hard Complex Law, the Medium Complex Law, the Law of Magma, the Law of Body Growth, the Law of Body Composition, and the five different level five Battle Laws of Lightning.
Sadly, not all of the Laws could be transferred with the Law of Empathy.
For example, other Emotional Laws couldn''t be transferred. After all, emotions only existed in beings. They weren''t precisely real in a physical sense. They were only a feeling.
The Laws of Perceived Reality also couldn''t be transferred. After all, they were arguable even more surreal than emotions. One could argue that emotions were real since a person could feel them, but were perceived realities real?
Another problem was that Gravis and Ste both only knew the level five Law of Empathy, which meant that they could only share level five Laws or weaker. This, sadly, made it impossible for Gravis to show Ste the Law of Divine Lightning.
However, Ste was already more than happy.
After all, she knew over ten level five Laws as an Immortal King! Even only knowing three Laws was already the stuff of legends!
Yet, this also put some pressure on Ste.
After all, with so many Laws, beings two levels above her were no longer a challenge.
She needed to challenge beings three levels above her, but it was still insanely difficult to jump so many levels.
Ste had mainly relied on the Fire Element for her entire life, but she had to change that now. After all, if she relied on Inferno now, she wouldn''t be able to jump three entire levels.
She had to focus more on lightning. After all, Gravis had given her five level five Battle Laws for the Lightning Element. Without these Battle Laws, it would be too hard for Ste to fight three levels above herself.
Luckily, she knew the Law of Punishment Inferno. With this Mixed Element, Ste could still use her fire while also using the Battle Laws of the Lightning Element.
After being with Gravis for so long, Ste decided that she also wanted to push her Will-Aura further. This meant that she would temper herself in the near future against someone three levels above her.
Gravis had told Ste that he didn''t want to know when she was about to temper herself. He didn''t trust himself enough. It was important to be in genuine mortal danger while tempering oneself, and Gravis didn''t know if he could keep himself back when he saw that Ste was in danger.
It was better for Ste to temper herself on her own.
Now, with all of that said, what about Mortis?
Gravis hadprehended four level five Laws from Ste.
What had Mortisprehended during this time?
Only three level five Laws.
20,000 years for three Laws.
That was a long time!
However, if one looked more closely at thews Mortis hadprehended, one would notice why these Laws had taken so long.
The first Law Mortis hadprehended was the Law of Punishment Storm, which was a fusion of the Storm and Punishment Lightning Elements.
How long had this one taken?
A bit above 4,000 years.
That was still reasonable. What about the next one?
The next one was Corelightning.
Metal was an Element that Gravis didn''t have a great affinity for, which meant that it automatically took longer toprehend.
How long did Mortis take for that one?
7,000 years.
Quite a bit longer.
What about thest one?
Graphitelightning.
Gravis'' and Mortis'' affinity for the Earth Element was by far the worst, which was also the reason why this one took by far the longest.
How long?
11,000 years!
If Mortis hadn''t already startedprehending the Mixed Elemental Laws while Gravis wasprehending the Law of Physical Power, Mortis still wouldn''t be done with that one!
However, this also demonstrated something else, which made Gravis take a deep breath.
Gravis'' Elements with the worst and best affinities should average out, showing the average time for a level five Law.
One had to remember that Mortis had only beenprehending the Lightning Laws.
This meant that every single Mixed Elemental Law would also take around 10,000 years on average.
That was a long-ass time!
However, if anyone heard Gravis'' thoughts, they would want to beat him to death.
Only 10,000 years for a Mixed Elemental Law!?
That was nothing!
One had to remember that Immortal Kings had a longevity of 100,000 years and that they only needed toprehend a single level five Law.
That single level five Law might take them 50,000 years ofprehension and up to three separate tempering experiences.
However, Gravis didn''t need tempering, and he didn''t need that long.
Why?
Was Gravis talented in Laws?
No, not really.
Gravis was so fast because his efforts had finally born fruit.
In the middle world, Gravis hadprehended one Law after the other, knowing that his Law Comprehension speed would get faster and faster with experience.
Gravis had spent so much time back then on seemingly unimportant Laws, which didn''t even increase his Battle-Strength. Thews of nt Growth and nt Composition were a good example.
These couple hundred years Gravis had invested back then into Law Comprehension had paid themselves out when Gravis hadprehended Laws in the Sect Alliance''s territory.
Gravis hadprehended 45 Elemental Battle Laws back then, and it took him around 40,000 years or so.
Without these couple hundred years in the middle world, Gravis might have taken double the amount of time.
Then, the 40,000-year investment back then was paying dividends now.
Instead of taking 30,000+ years toprehend a level five Law, Gravis only needed around 10,000 years on average.
By investing time when he had been younger, Gravis was now earning the rewards.
Gravis''prehension speed was probably the fastestprehension speed in this entire higher world, except for Arc.
However, Gravis didn''t think that much about these things.
Right now, he was only trying to get back into a Cultivation mindset. After all, he had just spent 20,000 years with his honey.
''Back to work!'' Gravis thought with conviction in his eyes.
''First of all, I should check out the Form Law for Sabers and Spears. Thankfully, Ste had informed herself about these.''
''Sadly, this will take up a shitload of time.''
Gravis shook his head.
''What are you even thinking about? I have so much time on my hands. I literally have hundreds of thousands of years to waste. Who cares about time?''
Then, Gravis smirked.
SHING!
And then, he teleported away.