A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 144: Battle I

"Bastard, you will pay for this." The man angrily said.

Then he looked at his men.

"Bring me his head" He said coldly.

Once he uttered that, the masked men who came with him to the wine inn rushed out from they were towards Alex.

As they ran towards him, many flashes of light of different colors appeared. This was because they summoned their treasure-weapons to their hands. 

Then using the physical strength available to them at their cultivation stages, they leaped high into the air and launched attacks from that height.

Seeing the multiple, large and fierce energy-attacks shooting towards him, shocking amounts of myriad energies abruptly discharged from Alex's body. Then they mixed together, condensed and shaped into an extremely thick, protective dome of mixed energies.

Bang! 

Bang! 

Bang!...

Numerous loud bang sounds rang out as the energy-attacks struck the shield. But the shield stood solidly. It didn't tremble from the impacts. It was like a mountain in the path of a raging flood.

The men that sent out attacks at Alex became deeply shocked after they landed.

Such resilient energy dome! 

That was the thought that flashed in their minds which then caused fear to surface in their hearts. 

They were shaken by the fact that the dome could easily withstand many attacks sent by them using their treasure-weapons. 

Then what if he produces his own attacks. It could severely injure them.

Without thinking further, the twenty of them quickly got into formation and produced a disc each which they then threw into the air.

The twenty discs thrown, self-suspended in the air and produced a ray of light that connected to the other. Then in a few seconds, the self-floating discs fully connected with one another. 

The instant the connections were completed through linking rays of light, abstruse symbols appeared on the surfaces of the rings. Then they began to revolve.

Alex who was still in his thick, shielding dome of mixed realm-energies watched all that was happening. This was his first time seeing opponents enter into formations. Then he waited to see what they wanted to perform.

As the rings hovered in the air and spun at great speeds, they suddenly shot large columns of light into the sky. This caused the area to brighten up that it became like day. But this bright illumination only lasted for some seconds before everywhere darkened again.

Then rapidly, a form of energy began to discharge from the furiously rotating rings.

"Helm of Primal Godqueen"

The person at the front of the formation said.

Once the person uttered that, the energy that erupted from the rings transformed into square-shaped, thin screens of energy. Then they moved to surround them.

All this didn't take long to happen. It only took a few moments. 

Once they were surrounded by the screens of energy, they quickly changed the voidstones in their weapons to one with more powerful arrays.

Then from within the energy screen-generating formation, they sent full-powered attacks out at Alex.

Alex who was in his dome of energy now understood what they were doing in the first place. The formation they got into was to align themselves with the defensive formation-treasure.

As the energy-attacks shot towards him, more energies that composed the protective dome he produced erupted from his body and infused into the dome enclosing his figure.

He did this because this time around, he was facing experts at the initial-phase and mid-phase earth adept stage. His opponents this time were unlike the ones he faced and overwhelmingly defeated in the Three Treasure Land.

Alex knew that the combined destructive power of hundreds of condensation stage cultivators, regardless of phase equaled that of a single earth adept stage cultivator. And now, he was facing twenty of them. So it was like he was facing more than four thousand condensation-stage opponents. 

This would be a tough battle for him. But he wasn't fazed. 

He had his grand god-eyes of true destruction and his mutated strengthforce energy which he could use to produce attacks that would possess damaging power that can match that of a peak-phase heaven adept stage cultivator. 

He smiled wickedly when he reasoned all this.

When the attacks got to where he stood, they impacted the dome he was in with tyrannical force. 

The dome shook greatly like it was going to shatter apart the next moment. While intensely loud bang sounds that could partially deafen one's ears even if one was many meters away rang out as the numerous energy-attacks collided with Alex's energy dome. 

As the frightening attacks continued to impact the dome, a moment later, the dome suddenly cracked in many places. 

But the numerous cracks that had appeared in the structure of the dome rapidly healed as Alex continued to infuse it with energy. 

Alex wasn't worried about depleting his energy, he had excess of them to use for this battle against the earth adept stage cultivators.

But the cracks continued to appear at a faster rate since the dome was being struck relentlessly. Alex then felt that if this continued, his energy dome would shatter and he would be exposed to the unceasing attacks which would result in great injuries for him. 

So he discharged strengthforce energy which was golden in appearance from his body. 

His aim was to reinforce the dome of energy he put out to protect himself from the flood of aggressive attacks. 

The strengthforce energy fused with the dome and increased it resilience and durability to extreme levels. And because of the supreme quality of Alex's energies and that of his strengthforce energy, when the enhanced strength-amplification energy merged with them, the dome became like a peerless-grade, firmament-rank (heaven-rank), god-tier, defensive treasure-dome.

Now emanating an eye-catching golden lustre like it was forged from real gold, the dome radiated power and gave the feeling that it was the most supreme defensive treasure in the world.

Alex could have worn one of the many peerless-grade armors his mother forged for him to protect himself from harm. But he chose not to do so because he simply wanted to develop his battle proficiency. 

He wanted to become adept at transforming his energies into shield to guard himself. 

He didn't want to rely on his parent's defensive treasure but on his ability to protect himself. 

Armors could fail one day, but his energies won't as they are a part of him and they were something that would grow powerful in leaps and bounds as he grows. 

Alex's attackers paused for sometime. 

They paused because they were astonished by the intense golden hue Alex's multicolored energy dome had taken. Also, the instant the dome became golden in appearance, they felt a godlike power emanate from it. 

This power they felt made them believe it was a godly power. The power to move mountains, part oceans and tear apart the sky. That was the power of might they were feeling which continuously emitted from the slivers of strengthforce energy that permeated the structure of Alex's protective dome.

After pausing in their unrelenting attacks for sometime as they were immersed into a state of astonishment, they resumed their barrages of attacks.

Alex's energy dome didn't tremble this time. It perfectly absorbed the destructive force produced by the attacks when they struck it.

Like that, the full-powered attacks of twenty earth adept stage cultivators couldn't cause a single crack in the structure of Alex's energy dome.

"You bunch of bastards and incompetent fools! Don't tell me you can't finish off a flimsy mid-phase condensation stage cultivator." Someone shouted. This was their boss shouting at them in an infuriated manner. Although he was surprised at the resilience of Alex's energy dome, he still believed that the joint attacks of twenty earth adept stage cultivator should be able to shatter the dome.

"Master, we are trying our best. It is so difficult to break his protective energy dome" The person in the leading position in the formation said.

"Hmm. If it's like that, use the ultimate defense-breaking attack of the formation and bring me the annoying brat's head." The man said.

Once he had given them the permission to do that, the rings which were connected to each other by rays of prismatic light, began to spin the more.

A second later, the rings grew larger and larger till each ring were about thirty feet in size. Also, more profound symbols appeared on their surfaces and began to glow brilliantly, producing many colors of light in the process. 

Then the beams of light being produced by each ring converged at a point. At this point, a type of energy from the universe started to gather until it became a small pool. Yet, it quantity continued to increase very rapidly.

When they felt that the ring had generated sufficient amount of energy. The person at the front uttered "Sky-shattering pillar"

Then the energy that had collected into a large pool shot out towards Alex who prepared himself against the incoming attack.

Emitting dazzling light that dyed everywhere in it color, the large pool of energy condensed and shaped into a massive pillar. This pillar formed from compacted energy gave the feeling that it was a pillar of utter destruction. One that could cause the sky to collapse.

Boom!!! 

It struck the dome and a deafening blast sound rang out. Then because of the highly destructive impact of the pillar with the dome, a tyrannical wave of violent energy was produced and this spread out in the form of a ripple into the distance.

It was good that the wine inn was situated a bit far away from the places densely populated by people or the berserk wave of powerful energy that was released would level residential buildings.

The men in the defense-formation were protected from the violent rippling energy. Likewise Brandon and the man that stood together with him. They were protected by the energy shields they put out. 

But after a few seconds of being struck, the shields shattered and they were both launched far away with a tyrannical force. 

Brandon's wine inn at the moment had been levelled to the ground by the powerful wave. Likewise the residences that were far away in the distance. But they didn't collapse. Instead, dozens of large cracks could be seen in their structures. But they weren't beyond repair. The buildings were still repairable. That is, the cracks in the buildings could be sealed.

The men within the defense-formation looked at where the dome was. Then shock filled their eyes. The dome was still standing. Except that it had cracked in numerous places and seemed like it would fall apart any moment.

While Alex who was within the protective dome looked sheet-white in appearance. He coughed out a mouthful of blood and then gazed at them.

"My turn" He said coldly.

Since he was still linked to the energies that composed the towering defensive dome, with a thought, the cracked energy dome turned back into different energies that recondensed, shaping into a massive golden fist that was spotted with colors.

Then it shot out at a great speed towards the defensive formation the twenty men were in.