A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Many days later, Alex and Elena arrived before a mountain.

The mountain was so enormous that it caused them to marvel. It was very large in size as it spanned thousands of meters in size.

Elena looked at Alex and asked.

"Is this mountain natural?"

Alex shook his head.

"I don't think so. It could probably be formed by the mountain-generating power of some cultivator that cultivates terraforce energy just like you."

Elena nodded her head.

"Should we go in?" She asked looking at a cave that was at the foot of the massive mountain.

"Yea. Let's go in" Alex replied.

Then they entered into the cave.

But it was dark. The light coming from that object that illuminated the vast subsurface land couldn't enter into the cave.

"It's way too dark. How are we even going to see?" Elena asked.

"I think I can do something about that" Alex said.

Then he looked into his energyhouse and moved radiantforce energy to his palm. The energy discharged from his palm and condensed into a large energy ball that emanated brilliant light, providing luminance to the cave.

"Awesome" Elena said with a grin.

Alex smiled.

Then he released more illumination-energy from his palm which condensed into many, small, crystalline energy orbs of light that emitted great brilliance.

Since they were linked to Alex's mind as they were formed from an energy that he had connection to, they floated towards Elena and surrounded her figure. This made her look like a fairy of light. She appeared exceedingly beautiful as she was bathed in their luminescence.

Elena chuckled and shook her head.

"Alex, be serious" She said.

Then the light energy-orbs sorrounding her figure shot forward into the distance where they suspended in the air far from each other in the cave. This gave the feeling that they were magical lamps as they floated in the air.

Then Elena got to work.

She removed her shoes to directly stand on the ground with her bare feet. She then closed her eyes and tried to sense any unnatural vibration in the earth.

Since she cultivated terraforce energy which was earth elemental energy, it would give her an ability to discern between natural seismic vibrations and vibrations produced by something entombed in the earth.

Alex's eyes shone with understanding. He didn't think in this direction at all which was to remove his shoes and stand with his bare feet. It just never occurred to him.

Once Elena took off her shoes and closed her eyes, she began to walk into the distance. There wasn't any fear in her mind. Alex was with her. This gave her great confidence.

Alex decided to copy what Elena did.

He took his off shoes and closed his eyes.

Now standing bare-footed on the ground, he released his entire enhanced sensory abilities to the fullest. And the instant he did, he could suddenly perceive many vibrations in the earth.

But these were natural ones. They were vibrations generated by tiny or near-microscopic living organisms moving in the earth. These creatures had fully adapted to the conditions of living in this subsurface land. And there were many different types of them here.

Alex smiled.

"This is beautiful" He uttered in awe within.

He said this as the organisms appeared in his mind in different shapes and colors.

After a few moments of marveling at the wonders of nature, he stretched his 'feel' sensory ability to the distance.

When he tried to extend that sensory ability, he became greatly shocked when he discovered that it was like the coverage range of this particular sense had no limit. It kept on going and going, scanning deep within the earth for all forms of vibrations which it sent back to Alex as mental images.

After the 'feel-sense' reached nine hundred meters, it stopped. Not because it had reached it limit, but because Alex saw in his mind a three-feet staff that had voidstones in it.

That was a treasure-artifact!

The voidstones were glowing since the arrays in them had been activated. So these caused the staff to produce pulses of power.

If the arrays weren't activated, it would be difficult for Alex to know there was a treasure-artifact there.

Alex smiled. Then he opened his eyes.

He looked at Elena who had gone far into the distance.

Elena at the moment had her brows furrowed. This was because after walking such a long distance, she still hadn't discovered anything.

Then she felt that there was no treasure-artifact here. She stopped and opened her eyes. Then she turned around to go meet Alex in the distance.

When Alex saw her coming over, he went to meet her.

"You discovered something?" He asked her when he got to her side.

"No I didn't. I don't think there is anything here. We should return" Elena replied.

"Well, why don't we just continue searching. Let's get to the end of the cave. Who knows, luck might be on our side." Alex replied.

"What luck is that?" Elena asked with a smirk. Then she continued "Such don't exist. We would only be wasting our precious time. I say we leave this cave and go somewhere else to continue our search"

"Come on. Don't give up so early Elena. Let's get to the end of the cave. Then if we discover nothing, we would leave." Alex said.

Elena exhaled deeply. Then she looked at Alex with a gaze that gave him the feeling that if they get there eventually and discover nothing, she would deal with him to the best of her ability.

Alex smiled wryly.

"Okay." Elena said.

Then she set off into the distance without waiting for Alex. As she walked, the energy orbs producing radiance followed her.

A long time later, she got to the area where Alex's feel-sense stopped at. Then her eyes abruptly snapped open. Great shock could be seen in them.

She sent terraforce energy to a hand and this caused that hand to emanate a deep yellow light. Then she placed that hand on the ground.

In an instant, large cracks appeared on the ground surface before a solid column of earth shot upwards from within through it.

On this column could be seen a treasure-artifact in the form of a staff.

Her eyes glittered with astonishment.

A moment later, the artifact shot upwards a powerful, resplendent beam of energy that penetrated through the colossal mountain.

Everyone far away from the mountain were alerted by the colorful, radiant energy beam. With greedy eyes, they began to dash towards the mountain.