A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Alex came out of the shower room looking good. There was a smile in his face that gave one the feeling that it couldn't be erased by anything and would last for eternity. His smile broadened when he recalled all that he did and he couldn't believe that was him doing those things.

"So I was that bad? I have been hiding my beast all this while. Haha. But man, that feeling and those sensations were blissful and wonderful. How would I really feel if we actually did that thing?" Alex asked himself with a puzzled tone.

"No wonder Jake is always after girls. Since he has done that thing numerous times like he told me in the past, he knew the joy in doing it." Alex said.

Then he shrugged.

"Well, I can't possibly be like that pervert. Instead of going to them, they should come to me. I know my worth. I am greatly good-looking and amazing." He said and gave a smile.

Then he thought of Karen.

"I wonder where that ridiculously beautiful, fun-loving expert is. Perhaps because her secrets were exposed to me, so she doesn't want to face me. She might feel I would look at her as a powerful saint-level expert and not as a peer. That we wouldn't be able to relate or interact well due to our known differences in power. But she is so, so, damn gorgeous. Imagine I did those things to her too. I would be full of happiness. How I wish I didn't go to that area that day. I would never have discovered that she was a saint expert and I would have been able to do those delightful things to her too." He said and grinned.

Then he brought his mind back to what happened between him and Elena and his smile reinforced.

"Having many beautiful girls in one's arm isn't a bad thing. In fact, it's life. It's the best thing that could happen to anyone. But they would have to come to me, not me going to them." He said firmly.

But his resolve wavered when he thought of Jennifer and Michelle. Those were two powerful female experts that wouldn't look in his direction. He knew he was young and too weak for them. Every female experts would only look up to someone who is more powerful than them. Not someone who is far lower in cultivation stage to them. He believed that when he got to a stage where he can darken skies of thousands of continents in the blink of an eye, only then would they look at him. Although he knew Jennifer likes him very much, she might see him as a brother or something. But he liked her. Ever since he was young, he had always admired beauties.

"Well, I shouldn't be thinking about women. They should be the one thinking about me. I have to resume my comprehension of soulforce energy. Only with it would I have a sight chance of lasting longer in my transformed states." He said as he became serious, putting the matter of women aside.

Then he sat in the cross-legged position to comprehend the essence of the soul and soulforce energy.

All while he was saying this, an exceedingly beautiful girl was smiling at his speeches from a far away place.

In her eyes were bright violet pupils that matched that in the gigantic but unseen violet eye in the sky that was directly but far above Alex's residence.

And surprisingly, she was able to hear all that Alex said.

"Oh really? Girls would have to come to you and you not going to them. Well, you are right about that. But you saying that you wanted to do those things you did to Elena to me. Haha. In your dreams pretty boy. You would have to go through agonizing pains to be able to do that. He actually thought lewdly about me. He has profaned my pure body in his mind. He just did the same thing I taught him a lesson for back there. Well, for committing a sacrilege to this holy and sacred beauty in your mind, I will do all it takes to deal with you. Perhaps a better one is knocking you out of that competition you would go to represent your academy." She said with a mischievous smile in her face. Then she flew away.

.......

Alex and his team members continued to train using the battle rooms.

In this manner, they trained till the week ran out. Even their weekends was used for intense training.

Jake's and Elena's battle proficiencies had gone up. Although they weren't able to defeat the gold-colored battle puppets, they could fight them to a stalemate. There was no winner or loser. There was only a tie as their strength matched equally. While Draco smashed everything in his path to bits. The golden-colored battle puppets had pushed him to his limit and so he could put more smashing power into his punch. The only one he couldn't defeat was the black-colored puppets which were half-step earth adept-stage battle-puppets. But he could fight them to a draw. He too had his battling capacity augmented beyond his limit.

As for Alex, he once fought the black-colored puppets and totally destroyed them. So he lost interest in fighting the battle-puppets and tried going to the battle room for the earth adept stage to fight the earth-adept battle-puppets. But the staffs there refused to allow him in. Although it was Jennifer that gave them the instruction that they shouldn't allow him in.

Since there was nothing to fight, he focused on his soul cultivation. He did this from morning to night for days. Yet, he couldn't perceive soulforce energy.

But Alex didn't give up. Rather, it strengthened his zeal to enter into harmony with the energy and cultivate it.

........

One day In the morning, Alex and his team entered into an ultivehicle. Same with John and his team members. They also stepped into the ultivehicle that Alex and his team entered.

Today was the day for the competition, so they got ready to move out to the site where the competition would be taking place.

An hour later, they got there.

When their ultivehicle landed, Alex, John and their team members stepped out of the ultivehicle to the ground.

Then around them were many ultivehicles where students from different academies stepped out from to the ground.

There were fifty ultivehicles here and that made fifty academies that came for the competition. They were not all from the Skytrident state. Only twenty-five academies were from the states. The others were from neighbouring and faraway states.

When every students had descended from the ultivehicles they came here with, they heard a loud booming voice from the distance.

"Everyone, welcome. Now, I believe we are all here to represent our schools for the competition. This competition requires no battle platform or arena. Instead, you would journey to the Three Treasure Land. If you ask me what land that is, it's a vast area of land far below the one you are standing on. You can only go in through the large hole farther up in the distance." The voice said.

Then the booming voice continued "the Three Treasure Land is a land where a heaven-rank artifact was buried. And buried along with it were firmament-rank and earth-rank artifacts. These artifacts are supreme-grade artifacts. To win, one would have to get at least one of these artifacts. So, only three people from different schools would be able to win the competition. And if you think you are strong enough, you can snatch the three artifacts all for yourself. This competition will last for two months as you would search for where the treasure-artifacts are buried in. Good luck to you. You can go into the hole now"