A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

So, he swallowed more pills. Earlier he swallowed just one, but now he swallowed four at once.

When they got to his stomach, they turned into excessive amounts of pyroforce energy. The amount was exceedingly large that it caused Alex's stomach to bulge out even after it had undergone compression in his stomach. Besides, due to it quantity, it began to leak out from his stomach into other part of his body and cause him pain.

Alex gritted his teeth in agony but he focused on his cultivation. Then because of the great degree of pain that racked his body, he was able to push his energy circulation ability to the maximum.

He began to quickly move enormous bundles of wisps of pyroforce energy to his energyhouse. These he infused into the fiery energy pool which began to quickly grow in volume.

When he was done moving all the energy to his energyhouse. He swallowed another four pills.

A few moments later, his pyroforce energy had grown in quantity and density that it could now match that of a mid-phase condensation cultivator.

But he couldn't be seen as one in that stage yet as his other energies also needed an upgrade in quality and quantity. Only until they all matched in characteristics could he step into the next phase or layer.

Not wasting time as he wanted to finish what he was doing before the three hours he gave them was up, he swallowed many ice-energy pills and prepared himself for the extreme pain that would result from his tissues and blood being frozen by the gigantic amounts of coldforce energy that would surface from the dissolution of the ice-energy pills he swallowed.

...

Two hours and forty minutes later, Alex's eyes snapped open. He had achieved what he wanted to achieve. He had upgraded all the ten energies. Now it remained the other five energies which he didn't have pills for.

After their whole training for the day, he would use the energy-synthesis formation in the cultivation hall to upgrade the rest of his energies.

He stood to his feet and looked to where Jake was. He was still cultivating.

Alex then looked at himself. Seeing how sweaty and smelly he was, he went into the shower room to have a nice shower.

When he was done, he came out looking fresh and smelling nice. Then he sat on his bed with a thoughtful gaze in his eyes.

Alex suddenly felt there was no need in using the battle room. He felt so because his augmented energies, which contained slivers of divineforce energy made him powerful and domineering during exchange of energy-attacks. Only cultivators in an higher stage which is the earth adept stage were his true opponents.

When he is done with the competition, he would leave the academy for two years like he once said in the past and go to many states to search for legacies of experts. He wanted to battle stronger opponents. He wanted to develop more battle skills like he did in the battle room.

Many minutes later, Alex called out Jake's name. Jake was jolted from his cultivation state and stood to his feet. He knew it was time for another round of intense battling.

Together, they left the residence and went to the battle hall. The others would join them there.

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- Smith City -

"Sir, when is Alex coming back?" A beautiful, young girl that looked seventeen asked Houston. This girl was Kate. One of the kids of the workers in the Houston house. She was Alex's childhood friend.

"Well, it would be a long time. He went out to develop himself." Houston replied.

"I just hope he is safe" Kate said worriedly.

"Don't you worry yourself over his safety. He is safe and doing fine where he is. I am certain of that" Houston replied calmly.

Kate was astonished by what Houston said. So she wanted to ask more questions, but before she could, Houston said with a smile "Alright Kate. I would like to get to something. But don't worry about that naughty and very disobedient boy. He is safe where he is. Believe me"

Kate was awed. She didn't know why Houston was so sure Alex was safe.

"Okay" She nodded. Then she left the room.

Once she left, Houston's face turned solemn.

This was because he could perceive powerful energy fluctuations from a very faraway place that was nine hundred thousand miles away.

He wondered what was giving off those terrifying energy pulses. Then he decided to go check it out.

Swoosh!

He arrived at that place through spatial warping. Once he got there, remaining afloat in the air, he saw something that made him furrow his brows. Then his face turned sour upon perceiving the future events that would start just because of the appearance of the thing before him.

What he saw was a large rectangular temple that floated high in the air. This temple that seemed to be purely casted from metal and was dark violet in color spanned thousands of meters in size; both in length and breadth. Then thousands of mysterious engravings and inscriptions could be seen on the lustrous, dark violet metallic walls of the enormous temple.

Above the temple could be seen a massive multicolored cloud that stretched for thousands of miles. Then flowing from a side and over the mountain-sized temple to the other side was a vast, dazzling silvery river. This river simply formed an arch over the temple. And this was no illusion, it was real. Except the river was not a river of water but a river of silver-colored sword-energy.

Frightening power of sharpness continuously emitted from this river and caused the air to slash widely, revealing the pitch-black void.

"Silver-Violet Sword Banisher? What the hell is his temple doing in here? Is it even time?" He asked inwardly.

Then he recalled something.

"How time flies. Damn! But why and how is his temple here in this small mortal world?" Houston asked inwardly in an unhappy tone.

The Silver-Violet Sword Banisher was a powerful expert of the way of the sword that lived in the Sword God Greatverse. The Greatverse, a grand world, was actually named after him.

He was a genius of the way of the sword that possessed the terrifying power to cut even large worlds apart.

He used twin swords he called 'The Silver and Violet Banishing Sword'.

Being a man of principle, he differentiated between families, friends, enemies and fiends.

After ruling for a very long time, he got old and prepared himself for death since he couldn't break through into the last stage of cultivation.

He was able to reach the penultimate stage of cultivation because he only cultivated and comprehended swordforce energy.

But he got old after countless eons of years because he couldn't break through into that last stage where one needed to be a master of all the energies in the realmverse. It was only at that stage one would achieve eternal life or become a true undying immortal.

So before he died, he hid away his temple that contained his wealth. Then he announced to every world a time when his legacy would surface again. And that he only gave permission to the cultivators at the saint stage to enter his temple and fight for his legacy. Any other rank would be awfully destroyed by the sword-bound arrays he placed at the entrance.

He did this to give the saint cultivators a chance to possess great world-lacerating power since they would become sword gods.

"Aii... Saint cultivators from far and wide will arrive here soon. Especially those haughty ones from grand and major worlds. They would mess up this small world." Houston said inwardly. Then he continued "How I wish that brat was already in the saint stage. He would have been able to fight for this legacy. Well, if he can't fight for this, he would fight for others."

Then he vanished from that spot.