A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Jennifer was highly surprised from where she watched his battle. And so was the instructor with her. They couldn't believe Alex was able to produce such great amount of energy which could possess such destructive capacity.

But Jennifer quickly got over the shock. She knew that Alex would have a great number of deity-grade methodologies as she knew what family he was from. And she was right. Alex had so many A-grade trinity and duality methodologies. That's why he had so many battle-methods that could produce tyrannical power since they were methods created by terrifically powerful ancient powerhouses.

Alex left the room and went to see his team members who were already waiting outside for him.

"Alex, don't tell me you had it easy with those damned puppets? How come you were able to last long in there? We have been waiting outside for you to rush out with fear in your face. But you didn't. Instead you calmly walked out." Jake said.

Alex smiled.

"I didn't want to. But it was very tough for me in there. I couldn't do much except run from those metal-bodied mechanical beings from striking me. I was frightened by their large-area vacuuming punches. They really are powerful. Guys, we have got serious work to do" Alex said seriously.

"Oh really? And principal Jennifer chose you to be the leader of the team. I think she made a mistake. We have to replace you with someone else. Draco or Jake should be the leader." Elena said with a tease in her tone while staring at him.

Alex looked at her and only smiled wryly. From what Elena said, he felt she didn't believe what he said.

"Draco, I guess you were be able to shatter those damned puppets into bits." Alex said.

Draco nodded.

"It was very tough for me in there too. At first, I was smashing them apart. But they kept coming till they eventually overpowered me" Draco said.

"Alright. This is what we would do. Let's go cultivate. Then in three hours time, we would return here to fight again." Alex said.

Everyone of them nodded their head showing they approved what he said. Then they split and walked towards their residences.

Elena came to Alex's side and curled an arm around his neck. While Jake gave an envious smile from the spot he stood. But he was happy for Alex. Alex was slowly growing into a man because he was in a relationship. Then he thought of himself. He hadn't gotten that girl he wanted yet. Then his resolve became strong. He vowed to get the girl after their competition which would last for two months. What he wanted to do now was train very hard and bring the first place prize to their school. At that time, if things worked out well, he felt his reputation would be restored and even be better than before. At that time, getting the girl he adored shouldn't be too hard.

Haha!

He grinned inwardly.

"Alyssa, Jake's coming for you very soon."

When the trio got to Elena's hostel block, Elena uncurled her arms around Alex's neck, gave him a kiss on the cheek and went in.

Alex smiled while Jake got more envious. Then they both continued to their quarter.

......

Alex could be seen sitting on the ground in the cross-legged position to cultivate. Same with Jake who sat at the other side. They had started cultivating.

In front of Alex were numerous cultivation pills. His plan was to upgrade ten of the fifteen energies that he cultivated.

The pills before him were earth-rank pills and were each about fifty in number. Alex produced pills of such rank because only an earth-rank pill would be able to provide the energy that he needed to upgrade his energies from the initial-phase to the mid-phase.

He knew that condensation-rank pills wouldn't be very effective in raising the density and quantity of his energies from the initial-phase to the mid-phase.

Then the reason Alex produced such large numbers of pills was because he felt that even ten pills wouldn't give enough of the energies he needed to achieve an upgrade for each of his energies.

He knew that the condensation stage cultivation layer for him couldn't be compared to that of others. He needed incomparable amounts of energy to be able to smash through from one cultivation layer to the next. Even without using a cultivation-receptacle, his energyhouse behaved like one as it required great quantities of energy before it could allow Alex step into the next cultivation boundary.

So, Alex's plan was to use pills to upgrade ten of his fifteen energies. Then the other five using the energy-synthesis formation in the cultivation hall.

He took a pill that emitted a glow of red light and strong heat. This was an earth-rank pill meant for production of pyroforce energy.

He swallowed it and braced himself for the intense degree of pain he would be having soon.

Once the pill got to his stomach, it dissolved and released a huge amount of pyroforce energy.

Alex clenched his fists hard and began to rapidly move large bundles of wisps of fire elemental energy from his stomach to his energyhouse. Then he infused them into the pool of fire elemental energy in there.

If one looked at him, one would see him covered in sweats. It was like he just came out a pool. This was due to the sweltering heat that emanated from the pyroforce energy in his body.

Also, green veins bulged from all over his body and he gnashed his teeth hard that they could almost shatter. This he did just to withstand the serious excruciating pain he felt.

His stomach organ began to burn due to the intense heat continuously discharging from the pyroforce energy in his stomach.

The way he felt was like his stomach was filled with molten magma.

When his body detected what was happening to his stomach which had turned black because it was being burnt by the powerful heat rampantly emitting from pyroforce energy, it kicked up his reactive adaptation ability.

Once the passive, adaptive recovery ability of his body was activated, slowly, the many seriously burnt parts of Alex's stomach fell off and were instantly replaced with new tissues that hardened to withstand the intensity of the heat produced by the fiery energy. The new tissues became more resistant to the heat and so the physical unbearable pain Alex was going through decreased a lot. So, he was now able to focus more on his cultivation.

Not long, he moved away the entire fiery energy in his stomach to his energyhouse.

Alex then looked at the pool of fiery energy in his energyhouse and saw that it had increased only a bit in volume.

"Just a bit? After all those pains? What a curse" Alex said disappointedly.

But he didn't let this faze him. He knew well about his body and it uniqueness.