A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

"Huh? Ashbolt, how would you be able to help me?" Alex asked in a surprised tone.

"Actually, I am about to help you cheat. I am not supposed to do so, but seeing your intense struggle against the Saint stage cultivators, I can't just seat back and do nothing. I want you to acquire the legacy. So, the help I want to render is a particular pill which I want to give to you. The name of the pill is Golden Revolution Soul Powering pill. It's actually a pill for high-level soul cultivators. Therefore, it makes me not comfortable in giving you the pill. But I would give it to you. But remember, if you feel that it's too powerful for you to imbibe, don't force yourself to do so" Ashbolt replied.

"Hmm." Alex nodded 

"Let me see it." He said.

Then the empty space in front of him distorted and a large, golden pill appeared. As it appeared, it began to release bone-chilling, palpable waves of soul power; just from the power coming from the pill, Alex knew that he shouldn't try to swallow it or he could simply die.

As the pill self-floated in the air and continually produced dreadful waves of soul power that even caused the air around it to churn, Alex began to ponder over many things in his mind. One of them was if his body could handle it. Not really his body, but his soul. He wondered if his soul would be able to withstand the immense amount of energy that would be produced by the pill once it dissolves after he had swallowed it. Just thinking of the violent flood of energy that would rush into his soul-dwelling region sent chills down his spine. He was simply terrified by the power coming from it.

With deep contemplation which went on for more than thirty minutes, Alex decided to take the pill after reinforcing his belief in his body and soul's resilience.

He walked closer to the pill that self-floated in the air and stretched out his right hand to grasp it. But to his shock, he found out that he couldn't grasp the pill. The waves of power coming from the pill made it so that Alex's hand couldn't close around it.

"What?" Alex said out loud in a shocked tone.

"How to take it and swallow?" Alex questioned in his mind.

Then Alex began to make some calculations in his head.

"Well, that can only be the way" He mentioned inwardly.

He closed his eyes and focused on some words. He wasn't sure if he would get what he wanted as that was the thought in his mind, but he had to try anyways; for the legacy.

The words Alex focused on were 'Strongest, Unparalleled Physiques'.

Although there could be nothing like that, he had to give it a try.

The protoforce energy residing in his soul was stimulated by his emotions as it began to revolve in it. And as it revolved, it yielded a realm connection power. The power which was a dimension-bridging power linked Alex's soul to the strange, arcane realm where near-countless congregations of mystical symbols which appeared in form of spectacular and terrifying, illusionary powered-bodies were.

Once it did, Alex when he opened his eyes saw himself in that dimension; but with widened eyes because of intense shock.

He saw himself in front of 'bodies' that were overly huge. But they were each enclosed in extremely massive spheres that prevented their vast calamitous powers from emanating outwards.

Alex then looked at one of the bodies which were exceedingly tall and colossal in size with deep awe and veneration in his eyes. He couldn't help but marvel at the power erupting from it.

Alex was like a small dot in front of these massive bodies. One could compare his size to that of the Bodies as a grain of sand to a tall mountain. That was the degree of their hugeness. Actually, these bodies were as large as a small world. And a small world was a Mortalverse (Planeverse), the smallest cultivation world that mortals lived in. Just like the one Alex inhabited presently. That was how large the bodies were.

"No! I can't do this" Alex shook his head.

Judging from their sizes, Alex felt that they shouldn't be the kind of power that he should borrow. He felt that it wouldn't only wipe out his soul, his body would burst into mist of blood.

Just as he wanted to try to leave the realm, a thought came to his mind.

Then with irregular breathing resulting from deep fear, Alex asked inwardly 'would it work?'.

He was very fearful for his safety at the moment.

Then after going through his plan well for hours in this realm which wasn't affected by time, he nodded his head as he said "For the legacy".

His soul which was in the actual form of his real body approached one of the spheres. He touched it with soul-hands, then instantly, his soul got pulled into the sphere. Then the world-sized, illusory body of seemingly boundless divine power changed into it true form which were billions of ancient symbols and fused with Alex's soul-body. Then Alex's soul was returned to his body after a successful fusion.

The instant he appeared in his body which looked like he had just be gone for half a second, without utilizing the transformation method of the physique, his body rapidly changed.

Seeing the transformation going on, Alex didn't waste time. Very quickly, he shot towards the self-floating, golden soul pill and took it into his mouth without care and fear of the frightening waves of power continuously emitting from it.

Since he had now transformed, his mouth could handle the rippling pulses of palpable, fearsome soul-power that was endlessly discharging from the pill.

Then with a swallowing action, the pill went down his throat to his stomach and turned into a vast amount of soul energy that instantly shot to his soul-dwelling region. It was like a towering, highly destructive, raging flood as it moved to Alex's soul-dwelling region. From the amount that it produced and the tyranny it moved with, it gave Alex the feeling that it simply wanted to destroy his soul. But he hoped that this wouldn't happen. 

When the symbols fused with Alex's soul-body, a name appeared in his mind.

'Grand Primordial Apocalyptic Lightning Tyrant Sovereign-Physique'

Alex had actually chose to produce a lightning-generating physique. And unknowing to him, he had chose a sovereign-type physique.

A moment after he swallowed the pill in his transformed state, astonishing amounts of electricity suddenly discharged from his body and this caused the Azure Beastsman palace-spirit to quickly evict Alex.

Appearing outside the palace, the palace then shot into his mom's spatial ring. 

At the moment, Alex's entire skin was dark scarlet in color and his body was covered with dark violet electricity. Then as a sovereign-type physique, the dark violet arcing about on Alex's body actually formed into an armor that had a cape which mysteriously fluttered in the absence of wind. A dark violet crown formed out of dark violet electricity could be seen floating atop his head.

His long black hair had turned into strands of dark violet electricity and if one looked into his eyes, one would see dark blue electricity arcing within it.

He simply looked majestic, divine and dreadful. Anyone who looked at him would think he was an unaging, immortal God of Thunder. This was the way he would be portrayed to anyone that saw him.

Then behind him was the image of a gigantic, illusory figure that sat on a large, ruby-colored throne. The figure was utterly massive that only it head would completely overshadow an entire mountain range. So one could imagine how large the body would be. And astonishingly, the figure had the hideous, scarred face of the student of the Scarlet Flame academy that Alex morphed his face into to conceal his identity. If Alex didn't change his face, it would be his peerlessly handsome face that would appear in the face of the mighty-looking figure behind him. At this moment, the figure's gaze was ice-cold and it exuded an aura of aloofness and lordliness. It was like all were ants before it as it seemed like a Peerless Divine Ruler over gods and demons.

Then on this figure could be seen an armor and a crown. The armor which was shiny black in color had dark violet electricity and dark blue electricity pulsate about on it surface. Then the crown which was black too in colour and had two horns by it sides also had two-colored electricity arcing about on it glowing black surface, giving off loud crackling sounds. Then floating behind it as it seated on it enormous, ruby-colored throne were two massive, blood-colored halberds which were crossed. All these gave one the feeling of unmatched barbarousness and heaven-warring tyrannical strength.