A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

An hour later, they arrived at the academy.

Chime!

When they arrived, the school's massive announcement bell was rung.

Moments later, students began to to rush out of their classrooms. They knew why the bell was rung. That the students selected for the competition had returned.

Jennifer flew out of her office towards the gathering ground.

There she met Alex, John, their team members and the instructors that accompanied them.

But she didn't go forward to stand on the platform. She left it to the instructors to address the students.

"Alright everyone. Our school did really well at the competition ground. Our school was blazing that we came back with all three positions. We brought back the first, second and third positions with us. How amazing is that?" An instructor asked in an excited tone.

Everyone's eyes fully widened in shock and amazement. They couldn't believe what they just heard. Their school actually won all three positions. Then an uproar of excitement broke out. The news got their mind spinning.

Now, they would be more proud of their school. They would raise their heads and shoulders high anytime there was a large gathering for an event in which many other schools would partake.

The Three Treasure Land where the competition took place was a platform for mega-competition amongst only the genius students. It was mega as it only showcased the strongest and the valorous.

For a single treasure-artifact, one would have to fight hundreds just to possess it.

Anyone who could do that was absolutely amazing. That meant that person had great combat prowess, doggedness, unflinching determination and tenacity.

In all the competitions carried out in that region for the past thirty years when it was initiated, their school had never won anything. Not even third place. But now, they brought back all the positions. The news was just too wonderful to them.

They had been laughed and mocked at by peers from other academies that their cultivation institution doesn't produces geniuses. That it produced only weaklings.

But now was not the case. They would be able to behave like kings and queens among the assembly of tens of thousands of students from many academies.

The instructor then continued after seeing that the excitement in the atmosphere had calmed.

"Alex, Elena. Do step forward." He said.

Alex and Elena did as they were told. They came to the instructor's front.

"Now, these two got us the three positions. Alex took the first and second place for himself. While Elena took the third place for herself" The instructor said.

The other instructors who had flown out to the gathering ground just to know the fate of their academy at the competition were hit by the information and got deeply amazed. It was not just just them. The entire students too were astonished. They looked at Alex with unbridled awe in their eyes. It was like they heard something that was nigh-impossible.

How could someone in the mid-phase condensation stage hold his ground against hundreds of peak-phase condensation stage cultivators? Only attacks unleashed by several of them would land Alex in fatal conditions, talk more of a hundred of them. Yet, he was right before their eyes. Doing fine and giving a glamorous smile. It became highly mysterious to them how he was able to accomplish such an incredible feat.

Then the instructors wished they had left the academy to go watch the battle between him and the rest. They felt pained that they had actually missed the most spectacular battle ever.

But they would ask their colleagues who went with Alex's team to describe in details how the competition took place and how Alex was able to get two top positions without coming back missing some body parts and looking like he was one leg into the grave.

Only Jennifer gave a knowing smile.

How would they defeat the son of experts that once flourished in a greatverse?

Then when they were done with the announcements, Jennifer flew forward to the platform where announcements were made from.

She landed and walked to Alex's side. She smiled at him and said. "Hey kid. You did well"

Alex smiled and nodded at the same time.

She then turned to face the crowd.

"I waited for these students to return before giving out this new piece of information." She said scanning the faces of the tens of thousands of people before her.

Then she continued "This information is actually for our students in the saint stage. There's an ancestral legacy now available for you guys. This legacy was rumored to have come from a higher world to our world. I don't know the reason why. But what I know is that it's a good thing for you all. Now, if you believe in yourself that you are strong enough, come and meet me to register your name as people who would be going for the legacy. Only interested ones who think they are strong enough to battle saint cultivators from higher worlds should come to me"

The moment Jennifer finished saying this, the eyes of the saint-stage students began to erupt battle intents. They would definitely go for the legacy. Acquiring the legacy of such an ancient expert was a one-step ladder to power, wealth, fame, veneration and dread by all.

Alex's eyes shone with excitement and zeal for battle when he heard 'Ancestral expert's legacy'.

But when he remembered he was still at the condensation stage, his excitement and zeal instantly vanished.

Then a thought struck him.

'Of course I can still go. Haha. Just a little bit of trick would grant me passage into the legacy acquisition ground. I would see instructor Jennifer after this to ask for permission to leave the academy for two years.' He said inwardly in a delighted tone.

"Alright. Back to classes everyone. As for the competitors who just returned, go to your hostel block to relax. Your classes would start immediately after tomorrow" Jennifer said.

After she said this, everyone began to return to their lecture blocks to resume their lectures.

Draco left since he was heading to his hostel block. Only Jake and Elena remained with Alex.

"See you later Alex. I am dying for a good bath" Elena said.

"Alright" Alex responded and nodded.

Then he turned to face Jake, "You should go wash yourself and relax too. I want to see principal Jennifer for something important" He said.

"Okay." Jake replied without questioning him further. Then he left, heading to the student resident apartment he and Alex shared.