A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Once they entered his body, they turned into strands of energy of varying thickness which flowed to his head and into the soul-dwelling region in his head where they infused into his soul, strengthening it and passing great amount of knowledge about so many things to him. Also, he got a vast map that gave locations of legacies of dead ancient experts, caged or slumbering divine beasts, dormant eggs of monster pets, buried fearsome treasures and so on.

He then thought of the systems his parent mentioned to him earlier. Especially the 'Beyonder Library System'. He felt that with the system, when one acquires comprehension of thousands of energies and cultivate them, one would achieve the Supreme Alpha Eternal stage.

The Supreme Alpha Eternal stage which can only be reached by comprehending and cultivating tens of thousands of realm-energies and then fusing them can be accomplished with the library system. So Alex felt.

Once one successfully cultivates the tens of thousands of world-energies and combine them to produce the 'Omega-energy' or Genesis Realmforce Energy', one is said to have achieved the Supreme Alpha Eternal or 'Master of Realm' stage.

He nodded his head happily.

When he was stronger, he would journey across worlds to search for the two systems. With the systems, he would be able to reach the 'Master of Realm' stage faster. Although he would have to complete thousands of tasks before he could receive transmissions of comprehension of mysteries of the vast numbers of primordial energies in the realmverse.

As he looked around in this dimension thinking of how to leave, he heard a feminine voice ring out from nowhere in the vast white dimension that he was in.

"Young Master. This is the artifact spirit of this treasure. My name is Ashbolt. I am pleased to meet you."

Alex was initially surprised, but he quickly recovered his state of mind. It was right for powerful treasures to possess artifact-spirits or treasure-spirits.

"I am also pleased to meet you." Alex replied.

"Young master, I possess the keys to open the large numbers of vaults and locked stores in your father's treasure-palace. But I have been ordered by your parent to not give you the keys until you get to a certain cultivation stage. But if you need help like consultation on something, strategy, information and so on, you can enter this treasure's pocket dimension to contact me" The treasure-spirit, Ashbolt said.

"Hmm. Okay. So how do I leave here?" Alex asked.

"Alright, I will take you out now" Ashbolt said.

The instant Ashbolt mentioned that, the space in here distorted and Alex's consciousness was returned to his body.

Although his awareness had returned, space and time were still paused. This was because the treasure between his brows radiated power that froze space and time.

Then Alex quickly produced an armor that appeared on him.

Once the armor appeared on him, time and space continued. The arrow which had turned invisible struck the armor but it couldn't penetrate through it. An average-grade, earth-rank treasure-arrow wouldn't be able to pierce through a peerless-grade, earth-rank treasure-armor.

It shattered upon impact with the armor.

Alex then kept the armor away and rushed out of his room. And by focusing in the direction the arrow was shot from with his powerful vision, he saw a masked man very far away.

Although it was night, he could still see clearly.

When he saw the masked man who was deeply shocked at how he was able to survive his stealth attack, Alex channeled strengthforce energy to his leg muscles and dashed towards the man at a shocking speed.

Seeing Alex dash towards him, the masked man quickly shot many arrows at him.

Moving speedforce energy to his eyes and saturating them with it, his perception of the speed of things around him heightened. He could see everything move in slow-motion.

An instant later, the dozens of arrows shooting towards him suddenly accelerated and turned invisible.

Alex expected this. He knew his attacker would be using the same arrow again. He could see clearly from where he ran from how the arrows absorbed cloakforce energy; an invisibility-energy from the surrounding and slowly faded away from vision as the cloaking energy permeated their entire structure.

The instant they became unseen to the eyes, Alex leaped high into the air towards his masked attacker, evading the arrows shooting towards him in the process.

While in the air, he quickly produced a peerless-grade, violet-colored treasure-spear in his hand and threw it at the man with all the strength he could muster.

Swoosh!

The spear pierced through the air at great speed towards the man.

Although he quickly produced an energy-shield, the spear being an heaven-rank treasure-spear and moving with great momentum penetrated through the energy-shield the man hastily created, impacting him hard. And since it came with a lot of kinetic force, the spear which had penetrated through the man's body lifted him off the ground and into the distance where it impaled him to the earth.

Alex landed and ran towards where the man's body laid. When he got there, he saw the pitiful condition the man was in. But Alex didn't feel pity for him.

With eyes radiating frostiness, he coldly asked "Who sent you?"

Although he knew, he still asked.

The man coughed out blood and said "I saw that you won a hundred thousand yellow sapphirstone from a drinking competition back at that wine inn. So I tried to kill you and take the money for myself."

"Oh really? You don't want to speak the truth right?" Alex asked.

The man coughed out blood again and said "That's the truth."

Alex nodded and produced a sword.

The man's eyes widened in horror.

"What do you want to do? Please forgive me. I beg you." He cried out.

Alex smiled.

"Why do bad people always beg when they see their death? If I were the one in your position, would you let me go? Enough spoken. Time for you to head to the death-world" He said with intense coldness radiating from his speech.

The man's face turned pale-white from terror. His heart began to beat wildly that it could almost jump out of his chest. And out of great fear for the inevitable death coming his way, the man began to cough out blood. Blood welled from his mouth unceasingly.

When Alex got to where the man's body was pinned to the earth, he raised the sword in his hand and swung it down.

Slash!

He cut off the man's head with force and this caused the head to shoot into the air and roll for sometime before falling back to the ground.

Alex then knelt by the side of the man's headless corpse and began to tremble. He actually forced himself to do what he did. It wasn't easy for him as it would be his second time killing. He shook for sometime before he got a grip on himself.

He stood from where he knelt and looked at himself. The cloth he wore was covered in blood. They came to be when he slashed off the man's head from his neck.

He took a deep breath and exhaled. Then he took another. After his breathing regularized, he pulled out the treasure-spear that pinned the man to the earth and cleaned off the blood on it with his cloth. Then he returned the spear and the sword after cleaning it too into his mom's spatial ring.

He then took the man's spatial ring and the man's head which he stored into an empty spatial ring. And before he left, he discharged fire elemental energy on the man's headless dead body, burning it to ashes.

Now that it had gotten to this point, Alex decided to eliminate the wine inn manager and whoever was involved in this deed they tried to carry out.

Then he took off in the direction of the wine inn.

....

- Wine inn -

"Blackblood should have returned by now. It shouldn't be too difficult to track and kill an haughty, mid-phase condensation-stage brat." The wine inn owner said worriedly.

He didn't want the task he gave the guy to go sideways.

"Brandon, relax man. Of course, Blackblood would have eliminated that brat. Your money would be returned to you soon. But remember, we take forty percent of the money." A man seated before the wine inn owner named Brandon said and smiled. He was in the peak-phase earth adept stage unlike Brandon who was in the mid-phase.

As they discussed, Alex who was very far away heard all that they said and gave a ruthless smile.

When he got to the inn, he didn't go in. Instead, he removed the head of the man he killed and flung it with force into the place in the inn where Brandon and the man sat and spoke.

The bloodied head hit the ground and rolled towards where they sat and discussed.

The sound attracted the attention of everyone at the place where Brandon and the man were seated.

Then they looked towards the source of the sound and saw the head of Blackblood. Shock filled the eyes of everyone that saw the head. Then anger replaced them. They quickly rushed out to see who threw the head in and saw Alex.

But Alex was no fool to show his face to them. He had wore the bloodied mask Blackblood wore and had changed the clothes that he wore during the competition which blood had also splashed on when he beheaded Blackblood.

He wore one that was dark black in colour. Then coupled with the blood-stained black mask and his chilly gaze, he simply looked like a ferocious, cold-blooded assassin.

They couldn't recognize him when they saw him. But their wrath intensified.

"Bastard, you did this?" The man who was speaking with Brandon came forward with Blackblood's head in his hand and showed it to Alex.

Immediately the man asked the question, Alex whose eyes were permeated with speed-perception energy produced a spear and threw it at the head in the man's hand.

Before the man could react, the spear which was thrown by Alex who had a faster reaction speed under the influence of the speedforce energy he cultivated, pierced through Blackblood's head and pulled it off the man's hand, impaling it to a wall.

"So, do you still need to be told?" Alex asked coldly and gave a sinister smile.