A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

When his eyes opened and he saw where he was, his mind calmed. Then he remained on the ground. He was deeply fatigued from the fight. One could say that he had exhausted his soul-energy just to make sure that the move he put out would slay his opponent.

He thought that he had developed a tactical approach to easily and quickly slay the Saint stage cultivators in his path. But from what he witnessed, it didn't work out well. So he needed another approach if he wanted to have his hands on the legacy.

If Alex lost this, he would be very unhappy with himself. So he would do everything in his power to beat the other saint stage cultivators and acquire the legacy. He needed it; he needed the numerous battles to develop himself and the expert's inheritance to build his own collection and wealth.

As he was thinking, he looked around in the Azure Beastsman's hall. Amazed by it majestic look, he thought 'When would I be able to have my own mansion, palace, temple and my own acolytes? Haha! I really have a long way to go'

Just as he would stop thinking about the grand, stately beauty of the palace, he suddenly recalled something. Then his eyes shone. A thought had suddenly struck him when he was marveling at the greatly impressive look of the Azure Beastsman's palace interior.

'Would it work?' He thought.

He couldn't be sure. If it doesn't work and he engages in some form of battle with a saint stage cultivator, he could be killed.

Then he decided to try it.

Focusing on a thought and on the anger that had accumulated in his heart. His body transformed.

His new body began to give out ripples of power that belonged to a Saint stage cultivator. Once he transformed, he concentrated on his blood.

To his amazement and bliss, he could actually sense it.

Haha!

He laughed happily. He had just created another tyrannical battle-move for himself.

Then he reversed the transformation.

He then recalled that the cultivators who were drawn to the place he battled the Saint stage cultivator would have seen the outfit he wore. So he decided to change it as he didn't want intensely curious eyes to concentrate on him.

Becoming naked as he removed the defense-purpose robe he wore to reveal his amazingly built body, he produced another one. This one didn't have a cape. But it had a large hood and was grey in color. He chose a grey-colored one because he didn't want one that would make him stand out too much.

Then he sent a sliver of his awareness into the robe to know it abilities.

Name: Mom's dazzling pride.

Stage usage: Condensation stage

Defense Power: Can protect wearer from several full-powered, saint-tier attack.

Craft Material: Three-eyed Cosmic Greyworm grey silky-thread (one of the strongest and resilient cloth-like material in the realmverse. {Rarity level: only one can be found in six Greatverses})

Defense Suitability Degree: Suitable for defense till Great Saint stage (Reason: Single-weaved. {Others: Double-weaved: suitable till Sage General stage; Triple-weaved: suitable till Celestial Adept stage; Quadruple-weaved: suitable till Great Immortal stage})

Embedded Array: Blackstar Ominous Flameburst Array (Type: Offensive-array; Level: Monarch-level array; Ability: Unleashes emperor-tier, black-colored flame; Temperature: Degree of hotness can reach seventy-thousand degree celsius. Other: Vast amount of flame that would be unleashed is mixed with gloomforce energy (a sorrow-drowning realm-energy; This would deeply immerse cultivators from the earth adept stage to the Saint stage in intense, near-unbreakable sadness once exposed to the ripples of forlornness-inducng power that would emanate from it once discharged).

Wearer's protection to array-produced attack: globe of supreme-quality, emperor-tier energy envelops the wearer.

Alex then removed his perception.

He smiled.

His mom really put him into consideration. Everything she did was for him; for his growth, development and safety.

He wore it and pulled the large hood over his head.

Then he produced a mask which he sent his perception into.

Name: Faceless

Stage usage: Condensation stage

Ability: Changes wearer's face (Shapeshifting; limited only to face).

Embedded Array: Appearance-Warping Array {Absorbs morphforce energy [Form-alteration energy] from the world and reconstructs wearer's face with it}).

Huuu!

Alex took a deep breath.

Not wasting time, he put it on.

On activation upon wearing it, the mask began to emit a brilliant blue light as it sank into Alex's face and then melted in with it. Then Alex's face began to give a purple glow as the skin on his face began to stretch and twist, and bones began to snap and move to another position.

Argh!!

Alex screamed out in pain and continued to do so as the facial alteration occurred.

When it stopped, Alex fell to his knee with a grimace look in his face. He couldn't believe that was what he was going to go through.

"Mom, you should have put a warning or a notice!" Alex complained bitterly in a loud tone.

Then he stood back to his feet.

Right now, his face had changed.

He looked hideous as scars could be noticed everywhere on his face.

Alex was actually using the face of the boy from the Scarlet Flame Academy whom he fought back then at the Red Lotus cave.

Then he got ready for yet another battle. But this time, he was sure that he would be able to beat every one of them that would come his way no matter the degree of their 'Genius-ness'.

After strapping The Purifier sword to his back and looking like a sinister, sword-wielding cultivator, and grasping the ruby-colored halberd in his right hand, he set out.

"Palace-spirit, I am ready to roll out" Alex said.

"Okay" A voice sounded out from every direction.

Then in the next instant, space warped around Alex's body. He then vanished from that spot he stood at in the palace and appeared in the legacy-acquisition battle ground.

Once he appeared, his body began to emanate an aura of killing intent while his eyes gave off a frigid look.

Then he deployed his powerful hearing ability to perceive vibrations in the air. If there were any cultivator around and floated in the air, he would be able to sense them and guard against them on time.

Pushing his hearing-perception far into the distance, he sensed five saint stage cultivators flying from far away towards him at speeds greater than the speed of sound.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

They appeared many feet in front of Alex and gave a cold look which was then replaced with intense amazement.

They became shocked beyond what any word would describe.