A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Alex had actually summoned an illusion-producing physique called 'Myriad Illusions-Casting Dreamverse Grand Ruler Physique'.

With his eyes giving off unbridled power of reality warping and deep mysteriousness, he produced a thousand meter-wide, invisible sphere of illusion-power.

This sphere which was a circular field of illusion-immersing power expanded forth from his body to a distance of nearly one thousand meters. Alex had quickly deployed an illusion-based, supplement battle technique of the physique called 'Great World of Thousand Chaotic Dreams'.

If Alex reached an insanely high comprehension of the physique's power, he would be able to expand this unseen, reality-distorting power-sphere so much more that it would swallow up Greatverses and put everyone in it into an unending dream.

The saint stage cultivator flying towards him became enclosed in the unseen sphere formed from the power of illusion.

He didn't need to look into Alex's eyes to enter into an illusion. Just the sphere produced from the power of illusion was enough to do this.

As he shot towards Alex, he suddenly appeared in a vast and very strange area. The sky here was green and cloudless and he could see a large number of twelve-winged, monolithic, hideous green-skinned monsters. Pillars of scarlet fire that connected to the green sky could be seen in the far distances. Beautiful and ridiculously tall, red-skinned, naked women possessing three breasts and armed with dazzling silver swords could be seen. And attached to the back of these strange-looking women were small men who had tattooed blue skins. They had large mouths and fangs and long, purple-colored, scaleless snakes as tongues. They were also armed with weapons and these were large yellow skulls connected to a ruby-colored wood.

The Saint stage cultivator's eyes widened when he realized from his shock and amazement that he had been placed in an illusion. And illusions were very deadly. Once one couldn't break out of them in time, that would be the end of that person.

Not dilly-dallying, he quickly punched out and fired a hundred meter-sized, red-colored, solid fist of pyroforce energy in the direction he remembered Alex was.

Alex knew that he would do this once he realizes he is now in an illusion. So he had long moved away from the path the Saint stage cultivator would probably throw an attack in.

After some moments, the enormous, fiery energy-attack which was in the form of a fist shot off in the direction Alex initially was. But since it impacted no one, it continued into the distance.

Alex whose feet and fists began to emanate a golden glow but were covered with armored boots and armored gloves respectively, leaped towards the place in the air where the Saint stage cultivator looked confused and frightened. Then when he got to where the Saint stage cultivator was, he sent an immensely-heavy, might power-infused punch to the chest of the Saint stage cultivator.

BANG!!!

Ringing out like the simultaneous claps of hundreds of frightening thunderbolts when Alex's super-hard and extremely heavy fist because of permeation by strengthforce energy struck the chest of the Saint stage cultivator, the body of the Saint stage cultivator shot backwards like a furiously-fired arrow through the air and into the far distance; for roughly four hundred and sixty feet.

Unknowing to Alex, the Saint stage cultivator was wearing a good-quality, saint-rank defensive armor under his robe. So he was completely protected from the immense splintering force of the fist that was delivered to his chest which Alex intentionally threw there with the aim of causing the man's body to explode into pieces.

So as witnessed by Alex to his shock, he saw that he didn't succeed in his aim to slay the cultivator in one punch. He had now realized that the male, saint stage cultivator was able to withstand his instant-obliteration punch because of a particular armor worn under his clothes. He knew that the armor had fully absorbed the peak heaven adept stage-damaging power of the punch he sent out, thereby, protecting the Saint stage cultivator from even sustaining injuries.

When Alex landed, he quickly made a powered-dash to the place the body of the Saint stage cultivator crashed in. Then on reaching there, with a hard stomp of a foot against the ground, he shot himself high into the air, about three hundred feet.

Now clasping the handle of The Purifier sword with both hands, he exuded the aura of fierceness and his eyes shone with unbridled killing intent. A cold glint surfaced in his eyes and with all the strength he could muster, he hurled the sword at near-supersonic speed towards the Saint stage cultivator who was about to stand up, using the peak-phase, heaven adept stage-strength granted to him by the strengthforce energy which had fully permeated his entire arm muscles.

Swoosh!

In less than three seconds, the sword reached where the male saint stage cultivator was. Then because of the momentum it came with and the great sharpness it possessed, the sword smoothly and effortlessly pierced through the saint-rank armor he wore, pinning him to the ground and stabbing deeply into the earth.

Then Alex landed from that height and made a dash for where the Saint stage cultivator was pinned to by The Purifier sword.

Arriving at his side, intense coldness radiated from his eyes, then a colorful light flashed and a ruby-colored halberd appeared in his hand. He had returned this to his dad's spatial necklace when he conjured a physique.

At this point in time, since he was able to finish the battle very quickly, he willed his body to reverse the transformation.

Alex had being able to end the battle very quickly; he had finished the battle in about forty-five seconds. So he wasn't strained and stressed as he was only in that super-powered form for a very short period of time.

When Alex removed the spatial ring of the Saint stage cultivator and stowed it away, along with The Purifier sword that stabbed deep from his chest into the earth, he lifted the halberd firmly grasped in his hands and swung down with great force to behead the Saint stage cultivator.

Bang!

The blade of Alex's halberd struck the earth heavily, then the force produced upon the halberd's blade impacting the earth hard caused it to shatter in a ripple-like fashion into the distance for about forty feet; raising large amount of dust into the air and scattering thousands of small fragments of earth everywhere.

Alex had actually missed beheading the Saint stage cultivator since the halberd's blade struck the earth.

Before Alex could behead him, the Saint stage cultivator who was still aware of his surroundings and only suffered from the intense, excruciating pain that flooded his senses, since a sword had pierced through his chest and impaled him to the earth, quickly used the teleportation ability available to them once they broke through into the Saint stage cultivation realm to vanish from where he was to evade the Alex's beheading strike.

Then appearing very far away, he quickly produced good-quality healing pills which he swallowed all at once. These turned into large amounts of healforce energy that spread throughout his entire body and healed the wound in his chest instantly in the process, and without scarring.

Alex's eyes shone when he realized he had actually missed his first kill. Not wasting time, he produced about twenty soul refreshment pills and throated them.

Of course, how would Alex easily kill a Saint stage cultivator from a higher world who indirectly claimed himself to be a battle-genius since he could come here for the legacy despite the inheritance-acquisition condition announced by the legacy-bestowing spirit that they would all battle and slaughter themselves till only one Saint stage cultivator was remaining.

Alex understood this. That's why he took a tactical approach in quickly eliminating the Saint stage cultivators he would encounter in this place.

So by firstly placing them in an illusion and smash-punching them into bits or using The Purifier sword to slash them into halves, he would be able to end the battle quickly and without noise which might attract other saint stage cultivators that might be close to his proximity. That was his plan as he knew these people would certainly do anything to seize the opportunity presented to them which is to kill the combatants who are greatly weakened and perhaps injured after a long, intense battle.

But now, he had no choice than to engage the saint stage cultivator in a noisy duel to the death.

The Saint stage cultivator where he floated in couldn't believe a condensation-stage cultivator could almost kill him.

His voice boomed out as he spoke; he was now using his saint-level power to amplify his voice.

"I can't imagine that a condensation-stage cultivator could nearly cause my demise. The feat you pulled few moments ago was marveling and brilliant. It shows that you are simply one of those monstrous geniuses since you could place me in an illusion I couldn't quickly break out from despite being in a cultivation stage four steps higher than yours. But it's a great pity that you would die here without a body and your legend wouldn't be made outside there in worlds"

Alex's eyes shone with battle intent.

A true battle was now necessary. And he would use absolute strength to conquer and slay this his opponent.

Shouting from where he was, he stated "Are you sure? Then bring it to your daddy!"