A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 145: Battle II

Bang!

The multicolored fist of energy smashed into the formation and a wave of energy was released from the point of their collision. But the defensive formation the men were in withstood the attack. It didn't shatter from the impact.

Then the men prepared another attack.

Abruptly, a large pool of energy appeared at the point where the beams of light emitting from the rings converged at.

"Pillar of desolation!"

The man at the front in the formation cried out and pointed at Alex. Then the pool of realm-energy that had gathered shot out towards where Alex stood.

As the large quantity of energy shot through the air towards him, it rapidly condensed and shaped into a large, solid pillar.

Alex quickly discharged large amount of pyroforce energy that was mixed with strengthforce energy from his body.

Then the enormous mass of pyroforce energy which had slivers of strengthforce energy in it condensed and shaped into a palm.

The palm formed from dual realm-energies which were pyroforce energy and strengthforce energy was golden-scarlet in colour. It radiated a perverse might that made it seem it would sunder mountains and emitted extreme heat that would turn large rocks into magma.

The instant it formed, it shot out at great speed towards the attack produced by the men in the formation.

Boom!!

The attacks collided and a deafening thundering sound rang out which was instantly accompanied by a powerful, tyrannical wave of energy.

Alex's attack shattered apart while the energy pillar continued towards him.

Seeing the pillar shoot towards him, he quickly produced a thick, golden screen of energy to shield himself from the pillar and from the rampaging energy wave that was produced upon collision of their attacks.

Bang!!

His energy shield exploded into smithereens when it was struck by the pillar.

Although the momentum of the pillar reduced drastically when it collided with the golden energy shield Alex produced, it still sent him flying into the far distance when it impacted him.

But before he could be struck by the pillar of energy, Alex quickly produced an armor which appeared on him and slightly protected him from the killing might of the energy pillar.

Then at the far place he landed, he coughed out several mouthfuls of blood. His face was sheet-white and blood could be seen thinly streaming down his nostrils and a side of his lips.

The pillar had transmitted a powerful shock to his body upon impaction and caused his blood to churn and some of his organs to tear from several places.

Very quickly, he produced a healing pill which he swallowed. This turned into healforce energy that moved round within his body and healed the injuries he had sustained from the terrible impact.

In an instant, the injuries vanished and he stood to his feet.

Alex now knew that no matter what he did, he wouldn't be able to shatter the energy shields generated by the defensive-formation the men were in or even exchange attacks with them as the attacks produced by the formation were too powerful for him.

Even if he used the strongest of his offensives which was the 'Prismatic God Hand of Punishment', as it was an attack composed from nearly all the realm-energies he cultivated, he wouldn't be able to to do anything to the energy-barrier generated and self-maintained by the defensive-formation.

But he understood that he was being held back by his low cultivation base. Or he would produce a greater power that would demolish the barrier.

Still, it was astonishing enough that he could battle twenty, earth adept stage cultivators who amplified their unified strike using the attack enhancement function of the defensive-formation they were in.

Alex looked at the barrier and thought that although the barrier of energy seemed durable and powerful, it would surely have certain weaknesses in it structure.

Energy-barriers like this wouldn't have a perfect form as they were produced by average-grade, defense-purpose, treasure-formations. Only supreme-grade and peerless-grade, defensive treasure-formations could put out energy barriers which wouldn't have a fault or weakness in their structure. Only with absolute strength and power could one shatter them.

Alex felt that to get the weakness or the fault in the structure of the energy barrier enclosing the men would be exceedingly difficult. And he didn't want to run away and come back another day. He had to finish them off for what they tried to do to him.

Just like his mom had said, he must wipe out everything that antagonized him and leave no root behind. He must exterminate everything. If he left now, he might not know what would happen in future.

Besides, these guys were plain bad guys. They could cause problem in the society in future. He didn't want to be responsible for the death of many people because of his inability now to destroy them.

Thinking in this direction, his will and desire to destroy them grew to an inferno from a small fire.

He recalled he had 'many god-eyes' just like how his uncle told him when he was still learning new things about himself back at the mansion.

Alex wasn't sure, but he believed he would have a god-eye that would enable him detect the faults in the structure of the energy barrier enclosing the men.

Then he gazed at the barrier of energy with only one thought in his heart. This thought was to see the weakness in the structure of the energy-barrier.

As he stared intently at the barrier of energy, abstruse symbols appeared in his eyes. These patterns surfaced because of the 'Heavenly Mystery Revealment Eye' had appeared which it manifestation was due to Alex's summoning.

As soon as the mysterious patterns appeared, the barrier of energy became a grid in Alex's eyes.

He could now see how thousands of lines of energy connected at thousands of points and crossed each other to form the energy barrier the men were in.

When the barrier became a grid in Alex's mystery deciphering vision, he detected many points at which the lines of energy didn't connect well. Those were the many faults in the structure of the energy barrier.

He smiled inwardly in a wicked manner.

The men in the formation who had prepared to attack Alex again sent out a larger and more powerful offensive this time.

As the attack shot towards him, Alex who still had his godly, mystery-revealing eyes on, saw in his vision how the energy-attack shooting towards him became like a grid.

He could see how millions of lines of a type of realm-energy connected together at thousands of points to form the solid structure of the dense energy-pillar.

But he detected lot of faults too in the structure of the energy pillar. This meant that the structure of the pillar-shaped energy-attack produced by the formation was not perfect too since it had many areas of weakness in.

He sent his palms out and abruptly discharged large amounts of strengthforce energy. Then following the advanced technique for creation of energy-weapons, he rapidly compacted and shaped the mass of strengthforce energy before him into many large golden blades that gave out an intense blue light.

The dazzling, blue-colored brilliance the large golden blades began to emanate was because they were being quickly infused with colossal amounts of novaforce energy; a type of realm-energy that increases the destructive power or damaging power of energy-attacks by multiple folds.

This energy which was also called attackforce energy was drawn from the surrounding in large amounts by the profound, energy-gathering mystical symbols Alex inscribed into the golden blades using his mind.

"Lesser Hundred Golden Nova Blades" Alex said as he formed a name for his new attack on a whim and pointed out at the pillar shooting towards him.

Then the dozens of golden blades floating in the air and emitting a brilliant blue light shot out at great speeds towards the weak areas of the energy-attack which was in the form of a pillar.

BANG!!

A thunderous bang sound rang out when the large blades simultaneously struck the weak areas of the energy-pillar attack with tyrannical force.

Then since they had broken the points at which the lines of energy connected to form the pillar, more faults rapidly in it structure.

Very quickly, the energy-attack lost it pillar form and the energy that constituted it returned to the realmverse.

Shocked gasps rang out from the men in the formation as they became extremely shocked.

Alex had just nullified their attacks.

'What sorcery is this?'

They asked inwardly.

They just couldn't understand how Alex was able to decompose their energy-attack.

The men didn't think further. When they came out of their astonished states, they decided to launch as many attacks as possible.

Alex too knew what they would try to do next. Not wasting time, he discharged great amounts of strengthforce energy from his body which quickly transformed into hundreds of energy-blades that produced a blinding blue radiance from their long, sharp edges as he utilized the advanced technique for creation of energy-weapons.

"Greater Hundred Golden Nova Blades" he said.

Now that he produced hundreds of the blades, he named it so. Unlike the previous one which were less than hundred.

The blades shot out at tremendous speed and heavily stabbed into the faulty areas of the structure of the energy barrier.

Then with a loud bang, the energy barrier explosively splintered with the formation-discs that generated the barrier quickly reducing in size and falling to the ground.

Since the formation they operated exploded with them within, they received a destructive feedback that caused them severe internal injuries.

Their faces became pale-white and blood streamed down their nose and mouth. Some who couldn't settle or calm the blood violently seething within their bodies coughed out many mouthfuls of blood. And because of the excruciating internal pain they were going through, their eyes were red and green veins could be seen bulging out from their faces.

Very quickly, they produced healing pills which they swallowed. But low-quality healing pills wouldn't assist them in recovering from their injuries on time. Besides, they had to take many of it to accumulate the one-percent healing energy that they would get from it consumption.

Alex knew this, but he was still in a rush to quickly slay them. He wanted to give nothing chance.

He pointed at them with a finger from where he was and began to erupt windforce energy from it. Then in the next instant, the energy condensed and shaped into small blades that shot out at great speed towards the men.

Puchi!

Puchi!

Puchi!...

Many piercing sounds rang out as the blades pierced through the heads of the men.

The instant their heads were pierced through by the blades, their eyes became void of life. Then their now lifeless body collapsed to the ground with blood spurting out from the large slits in their heads.

Alex took a deep breath.

He had just achieved a multiple-kill which was his third kill.

Then he turned his head in the direction of Brandon and the boss of the men that he just killed.

When they were struck and hurled far away by the tyrannical energy wave, they didn't return. It seemed they felt Alex would surely kill their men and then kill them since he seemed powerful and could hold numerous battle cards that would bring about their miserable ends. So they tried escaping from him with hope that his men would delay him and give them time to escape. This was Alex's thought.

Then he began to wonder what direction they would have taken. He had to kill these people. Not possibly for his sake, but for the sake of other people who these sinister-hearted men would dish out their anger and vengeance on for what he had done to them.

Also, since it had come to this, he had to kill them and pillage them of everything they had. He needed their low-quality sapphirstones and their treasure collections. Since they tried killing him to repossess what he legitimately won from them, then he had no choice than to slaughter them instead and ransack the wealth on them.

This was the way of this cultivation world. Alex was quickly getting used to it.

As he contemplated what to do next, he arrived at some thoughts. He had thought up a few ways to track the two men down.

Then after removing the spatial rings of the men and stowing them away along with the formation discs on the ground into his mom's spatial ring, he removed his shoes and tried to use his feel-sense. He now wanted to trace the men to wherever they were.

Standing bare-footed on the ground, he released his powerful sense of feeling and touch.

The instant he did, a vast power of perception spread out from his feet like ripples into the far distance. Then every vibration generated in the earth by every living thing were detected by him.

Alex deployed his feel-sense to perceive the location of the men. If they were running, they would generate vibrations in the earth as they ran which was because of their feet hitting the ground.

But he detected nothing. Then he arrived at a conclusion that they had gone to hide.

Alex then switched to using his powerful sense of smell. With a powerful, augmented smell-sense that would enable him to distinguish between various body smells and scents exuding from things, and detect smells and scents from far distances, Alex was then able to perceive different body smells in the air.

He knew who the body smells belonged to. It belonged to the men he just killed. But he then sifted out the different smells to acquire two which he believed belonged to the two earth adept stage cultivators.

Allowing the smells to lead him, he dashed at high speed towards the location where he would find the two earth adept stage cultivators.

While Alex battled with the twenty, initial-phase, earth adept stage cultivators, an old, emaciated man looked on with glittering eyes at Alex from where he floated in the air. He was with a large number of other young and old men who floated in the air.

There was no way the loud booming sounds produced by Alex and the twenty earth adept stage cultivators during their intense battle would not attract cultivators.

Many had flown from faraway to come watch the fight when they saw Alex, someone in the mid-phase condensation stage put up a fight without any attacking or defense treasure against twenty earth adept stage cultivators who increased their damaging power using the offensive power of their formation-treasure.

They saw how he erupted colossal amounts of various energies from his body at a shocking rate. His body didn't blow into bits because of the great quantities of myriad energies been quickly discharged. Instead, it was perfectly fine. And this was impossible even for them who were at the Great Saint stage and Saint Emperor stage. It was either they burst into mists of blood or have their cultivation ruined permanently which would be accompanied by severe chronic diseases. Also, the quality of his energies was astonishing. It was far greater in quality than that of even a late-phase, earth adept stage cultivator. But they wouldn't know Alex's energies had divineforce energy in them which increased their quality (density) to astounding levels. It was for this reason Alex's true opponents were from the mid-phase, earth adept stage and not condensation stage that he was in. As he grew older and cultivated more, the quality and quantities of his energies would leap greatly.

Then they began to wonder if he practiced a type of methodology that allowed him to do those things he did. Such cultivation book could exist. But they weren't sure. Anyway, they still decided to ask him how he was able to achieve the amazing feats.

Alex of course knew that his battle with these men would attract lot of cultivators who would come to check out what was happening. And that they would focus more on him since he did things that would be near-impossible for a cultivator even in the immortal stage to do.

The miniaturized treasure in his head between his brows had long signaled him of danger. Besides, his heart-sense ability came up again because this time, the emotions were intense.

Then using his emotion perception ability, Alex could discern the type of emotion coming from these people. It was the emotions of unbridled greed radiating from them.

Pretending like he didn't know they were around, he finished off the twenty men and sought for the two that escaped from him.

What he knew was that if they tried to harm him, he would simply unleash the devastating power stored as cores in the treasure between his eye brows.

He decided to do this because there was no one who would help him ward off the cultivators who looked at him with intense greed. Also, using his vast heart-sense ability, he could detect more than ninety emanations of emotions of greed. This meant that there were more than ninety cultivators around him who floated at a great altitude in the air masking themselves from him in the night sky.

"What a nice body. This is what I have been searching for. This body is simply a gem. Hahaha! Now that my body is drying up because of the sickness I was afflicted with by the Deatheyes Emperor. I will absorb your soul and take over your body. Then I would have my revenge. How sweet"