A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Alex then went to meet principal Jennifer in her office.

Kom!

He knocked on the door.

"Come in" Jennifer said from within.

Alex entered and closed the door behind him.

"Hey Alex, what are you here for? Here to disturb me? You should be in your room relaxing. Classes would start in two days time. So use the free time to relax and cultivate" Jennifer said.

"Thanks principal Jennifer. Actually, I am here for something kind of important. I want to request for permission for it." Alex replied with a smile.

"Okay. Then spill it out." Jennifer said.

"C—Can you please give me like two years to leave the school? But I would be back before the two years is over" Alex said with slight difficulty.

Jennifer's eyes widened in shock.

"What? You want two years off the school? Where are you going to?" She asked.

Alex knew she would ask. So he said with a smile "My uncle would be worried since I have been gone for too long. And I think that he might have started searching for me. So I wanna go home to see him. When he sees me, he would put his mind at ease that I am safe and doing fine. I just want to remove the fearful thought of me being missing or abducted from his heart. Besides, I want to do a whole lot of things at home."

"Hmm." Jennifer muttered.

She couldn't be sure if Alex was lying.

She recalled that it was her that brought him here to help her win the three-piece treasure. Then Jennifer felt that perhaps that time she brought him to the academy, he was out of his uncle's house to develop himself.

After thinking for some time, Jennifer agreed.

"Alright Alex. Permission granted." She said. Then she continued "Make sure you you avoid troubles. Never try to immerse yourself in one. Just go home, do your thing and come back"

Alex nodded.

Then he asked with indifferent eyes, "Instructor Jennifer, where exactly was the inheritance rumored to have surfaced?"

He didn't want her to know he had interest in it. So he asked like he was just curious about the location of the legacy.

Jennifer fell for it as she replied "Well, some place in Smith city"

"Oh. Alright." Alex said.

But his mind was full of joy. It was actually the city his uncle's mansion was based in that the legacy was reported to have appeared for acquisition by the strongest saint stage cultivator.

With indifferent eyes, he bade her farewell and headed for his residential apartment.

When he got there, he saw Jake cultivating. He nodded and went to have his bath.

After he finished bathing, looking all nice and clean, he sat in his bed and began to go through again all that was in his dad's storage-treasure.

He built up a small heap of treasures for the journey he was about to set out for. Doing this took him many hours as he went through their abilities and functions and picking what he felt was best for the journey. Also included in this heap were many types of pills.

After he was done, he sat on the ground in the cross-legged position to cultivate. But he wasn't trying to cultivate energy. What he wanted to cultivate was the soul. Only with a powerful soul would he be able to last longer in the physiques.

But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't harmonize with the energy. It was too elusive.

But he didn't give up, he continued to do so.

Many hours later, he stopped when Elena came by.

"So when are you leaving?" She asked.

"Very soon" Alex replied.

"I am going to miss you" Elena said.

"Yea. Me too" Alex said with a smile. Then he continued "Uhm... Elena, I would like to give you something. It's a cultivation manual which I discovered in an underground cave during one of my adventures before I was brought here by principal Jennifer. It matches the elemental energy you currently cultivate." Alex said.

Elena's eyes glowed with surprise.

"Really? You aren't kidding me right?" She asked.

"Sure I am not." Alex replied.

"Wow. Alright, let me see it" Elena said.

There was a flash of light and a book appeared in the air.

Alex caught it in his palm and handed it to Elena whose eyes radiated with amazement.

Her eyes were full of astonishment at just the appearance of the book. It was large in size and the cover was really high-quality.

But what she saw next almost made her head explode.

"Earth Cultivation Manual. A-grade Duality Methodology"

'Wow!' She said loudly in an unbelieving tone.

Cultivation manuals like this were exceedingly rare. They were something that could only be found in the highest of worlds and this was the Greatverse or great world. But now, Alex had casually pulled it out from his storage-treasure and gave it to her.

Still surprised by the immense fortune that accompanied Alex and made him found this, she asked, "How exactly did you come across this?"

Elena just found it hard to believe. Such extremely rare and priceless book was in Alex's hands. She then felt that Alex was getting mysterious day by day. He now became something that she wouldn't be able to understand as he comes up everyday with all kind of things which would deeply amaze her.

Responding to her question, Alex said "Like I mentioned earlier, I found it in an underground cave. But it wasn't just lying on the ground as that would be the greatest of insult to such a top-quality, god-tier, duality methodology manual. I discovered it when I was practicing with my powerful senses. It was hidden deep inside the crack of a cave wall. Whoever hid it there did so in haste or I would have never been able to find out about it. So, I am just fortunate. I am a child of great fortune."

After he said that, he gave a smile while Elena shook her head.

"Alex, you are indeed one fellow accompanied by good fortune. Just imagine." Elena said with an astounded gaze. Then she continued "But you really thought much about me by giving me this. I don't know if I should accept it. Haha! Why would I do such a thing? It would only be my loss if I did such that would be seen as the ultimate of foolishness. I really appreciate it Alex. Thanks so much for putting me in consideration."

Alex grinned.

"No need for thanks between us. What you should do is learn how to efficiently deploy the terraforce energy cultivation technique. With such a powerful energy-accumulating method, you would be able to reach the earth adept realm very fast. And don't forget to practice the battle techniques. It's very important. You would possess greater attacking and defending power. Also, as a warning. Never cultivate in your student apartment room. Instead, you should use the cultivation rooms. This is because you would attract lots of attention when you begin to utilize the energy-gathering method. Students of higher stages and even instructors would suspect that you are using a unique manual and may order or threaten you to produce it. So you need to be very cautious." Alex said.

Elena nodded seriously.

The technique in the book would produce astonishing amounts of earth elemental energy by drawing it in great quantities from the realmverse. This would generate powerful energy fluctuations that would attract everyone.

"Alex, I will do my best to grow stronger. Who knows, I might even reach the sky lord stage before you even reach the peak-phase condensation stage" Elena said in a teasing tone and stowed the cultivation manual in her spatial ring.

Alex smirked.

Then he stood and said "Elena, I am leaving now."

Elena nodded. She then stood to her feet and gave Alex a long, tight hug before she released him from her embrace.

Then he left the room with her and continued towards the school gate, while Elena headed to her room. Little hints of sadness and loneliness could be detected in her eyes.

But these emotions disappeared from her eyes in the next instant as she made up her mind to diligently cultivate to achieve breakthroughs into the other stages.

Alex didn't give Jake a cultivation manual as he didn't know what he might decide to do. He might even try to accompany him in his journey.

But Alex doesn't want anyone, not even Jake to know of his plans. But when he is back, he would surely give him a sword cultivation book since Jake cultivated swordforce energy. It would help break through into the earth adept stage quickly.

Then he smiled as he imagined Jake's explosive reaction after Elena tells him that he had left the academy for two years. He could visualize Jake scream 'Alex, you are a bastard!!! You will die wherever you are' in anger and bitterness.

When he left through the school's gate after giving the permission note to the gateman, he said in an excited tone "Finally, I am out for another adventure."

He had been held up in the academy for many months. Now he had space to do whatever he likes.

After walking for a long time, he left the school vicinity and arrived at a particular street.

The street was bubbling as people moved here and there. There were simply lot of crowds doing their things. There was trading everywhere. Some even called Alex to come buy stuff. But Alex politely declined with a wave and a smile.

After asking for directions to an ultivehicle garage, he arrived there.

Alex chose to go with the large-size ultivehicle used to transport large crowds of people. He preferred to do this as people who have the intents to rob and harm wouldn't look in his direction. It was better to enter this than move with small-size ultivehicles that would attract hordes of nefarious cultivators.

When he paid the conveyance fee which was cheap since they would realize more profit by transporting thousands of people, he rented an inn to stay till the time the large-size ultivehicle seats would be fully booked by flight customers and then move to desired location which was the Smith city.

But the time for the seats to be fully booked would take months.

So Alex hoped that the door to the ancient expert's legacy bestowment ground wouldn't open till he got there.

He didn't want to miss out on such a legacy. He had the Azure Beastsman's legacy, but he still wanted more. Alex had always desired to build his own collection of treasures.

Sitting in the cross-legged position on a bed in the inn, he closed his eyes and tried to cultivate his soul.

He needed to advance his soul so that his plan to enter the legacy ground and acquire the primeval expert's inheritance wouldn't rebound. In there, he would be up against thousands of saint stage cultivators. So he needed to be able to last for many minutes in his physiques.

That was Alex's plan. Since the cultivation stage requirement to enter the legacy ground was saint stage, he would produce a physique that would enable him possess the power of a saint stage cultivator.

He knew that soul invigorating pills wouldn't help him in any way, so he would try to perceive soulforce energy in this new environment and absorb it so he could support his soul with it. He believes that through constant channelling of the soul-energy into his soul, his soul would be able to withstand the pressure exerted on it by the physiques. Therefore, he would be able to last longer in his super-powered form.

- Many hours later -

Alex, still in the cross-legged position had an unhappy look on his face as he hadn't detected soulforce energy. He wondered what was wrong.

But he didn't stop. Not being able to perceive the energy only strengthened his resolve to enter into harmony with it.