A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

When she left, Alex deployed his enhanced hearing ability to the maximum.

And the instant he did this, sounds from many kilometers away was perceived by him. His hearing ability had increased when he broke through to the mid-phase condensation stage.

Then he moved to a random place to search for the buried artifacts. And buried meant that it could be buried six to twelve feet in the ground.

....

Hundreds of portals appeared in the sky and these caused the mortals in the Smith city to be shaken to their core. They were frightened at the sight of these portals.

Very soon, lot of people began to come out from these portals. They were all at the saint stage.

These people were from greatverses, oververses and underverses and these were great worlds, major worlds and minor worlds respectively.

The one Alex lived in was a planeverse which was a mundane world or a mortal world. There were also cultivators at that cultivation stage who also came for the legacy from Alex's world.

These people came to acquire the legacy of the Silver-violet Sword Banisher.

There were tens of thousands of these saint cultivators. They gathered like armies of ants before the massive, metallic violet temple that floated high in the sky and rippled with the power to cut apart both air and space and reveal the pitch-black void.

But they couldn't enter just yet. The gigantic doors into the temple haven't opened yet. Besides, they didn't hear any voice that would give them instructions on what to do. So, they were only here to marvel at the temple of the Silver-violet Sword Banisher and at his power.

Then they left to go set up camps or rent inns that they would stay in till the time the temple's doors would open and would be given permission by some archaic voice to enter.

- Houston Mansion -

"Those haughty bastards have arrived. Hmm... Well, they had better not bring any of their trouble to my abode or I won't fail in instantly obliterating them." A tall and handsome, short-haired man said. He was Houston.

With his eyes closed, he could see everything that happened at that faraway place.

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Alex, where he knelt at a random spot placed his hand on the ground. He did this to feel the composition of that portion of earth. But it was mainly to know if there was any treasure-artifact buried deep within it.

If he detects any vibration or pulse or fluctuation, he would guess it must be from an artifact since an ordinary ground wouldn't produce pulses of power or fluctuations of energy.

Why Alex did this was because of his trust in his perverse physical senses.

His skin could perceive field-scanning power-senses and react to them. This was done by the hairs on it standing at their ends and producing a sharp sensation which indicated an invisible presence in the surrounding. Then he had powerful far-seeing vision, vast hearing abilities and enhanced olfaction or smell. He could detect smells from far distances. He also felt that his taste organ would be enhanced. It was just that he did not know how to use it yet which he would find out soon.

Since his sense organs which were his organ of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste were powerful than others, he felt that an energy from that Beyonder must have altered their characteristics and heightened their functions to shocking levels.

So he believed in his organ of touch which was his skin. By placing his palm on the ground, he tried to feel any form of vibration or pulse or fluctuation moving or flowing in it.

With his eyes closed, he pushed his sense of feel to the maximum. But he could not perceive any form of vibration or fluctuation.

"Well, maybe there's nothing here or I just couldn't sense it." Alex said inwardly and stood to his feet.

Then he walked for another thirty minutes to a new place. He knelt and placed his two hands on the ground and deployed his sense of feeling to his limit. With his eyes closed, he tried to detect any form of strange vibration emission in the earth. After a while, he removed his hand since he couldn't detect anything.

"This would be difficult. I wonder how those guys are gonna do it." He said inwardly as he looked around.

Then he stood from where he was and moved on to another location.

The search continued for weeks until one day, a large beam of resplendent shot upwards, illuminating the entire land in it prismatic color.

Everyone were alerted by the dazzling, multicolored beam of light that suddenly appeared. Then they dashed towards the place where the beam of light surfaced from. They knew someone had discovered a place where a treasure-artifact was buried. So they rushed there to snatch the treasure-artifact from the person.

Alex too was surprised when the massive pillar of chromatic light appeared. He knew someone had discovered a treasure-artifact. But he didn't bother rushing there to try and snatch it. He believed it was that person's luck and that he would find one for himself using his powerful senses.

He believed it was just that he had gotten to the place where any of the other two treasures would be buried.

Just as he would turn to leave, he heard a scream of his name from a very far distance.

He unexpectedly froze where he stood. Then his eyes narrowed before it coldened. He then infused his leg muscles with strengthforce energy and this caused them to emit a golden light. Also, his eyes abruptly turned intense cyan the instant he deployed his wind manipulation power to it fullest.

Swoosh!

Then he ran at dozens of times the full speed of a cheetah to the place where his name was shouted from.

He was incredibly fast he left after-images of himself behind. Also, an unusually fast gust of wind could be seen behind him. This swept lot of dust into the air that became a massive, thick brown cloud which drastically reduced the brilliance of the light emitting from the object that provided illumination to the subsurface land.

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"And who the fuck is this whore calling? Your boyfriend? Is he that strong that he can handle everyone of us? Haha! You make me want to laugh. I am sure your boyfriend is somewhere hiding. Too scared to reveal his face. Bwahaha. Anyways, I have spoken enough beauty. Give me that treasure-artifact in your hand or you would loose something very precious to you today. That's if you still have it" A boy said lustfully and dozens of males from other academies laughed.

The beauty they were referring to was Elena. She had discovered a treasure-artifact buried in the earth using her power of earth through cultivation of terraforce energy.

Cultivating earth-energy enabled her to detect unusual and strange vibrations in the ground.

But instead of being happy and excited, her gaze became frosty and radiated with sadness.

Her gaze was ice-cold because of all that the boy said and an expression of gloominess was plastered in her face because she would have to surrender the treasure-artifact to the male in front of her.

She looked away from them to the distance but she saw no one that resembled Alex. Instead, she saw more people, both males and females from different academies dashing towards her at a great speed.

Thinking that Alex was just blabbing earlier, she decided to give the male the treasure-artifact.

Just as Elena was about to, Alex appeared thirty feet away from where she stood. Then with a hard stomp against the ground resulting in it fissure, he shot into the air like an arrow that was furiously fired and landed between her and the male in a few seconds.

Then with unbridled anger in his eyes, he looked at the male and barked "I dare you to repeat what you said earlier!"

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