A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

But now, he had problem in advancing his cultivation of swordforce energy to make it step into the condensation stage.

Just like the others, he now needs pills for the cultivation of swordforce energy. And not entry-rank or condensation-rank pills, but earth-rank pills as only them would give him the great amount of energy he needs to step his cultivation of swordforce energy into the condensation stage.

But where would he get pills that would yield swordforce energy for his continued cultivation of it?

That was Alex's problem at the moment.

His eyes snapped open as he said out loud in an unhappy tone.

"Temple-spirit, I now have problem with cultivating swordforce energy"

"Hmm... I will see to that" A caring, all-directional voice sounded out.

Then few seconds later, a large vase appeared in front of Alex. The vase had a diameter of twenty feet and and was more than forty feet tall.

Once it appeared, with abstruse symbols inscribed into it entire surface, Alex's eyes began to shine with amazement.

'What a huge vase' He mentioned inwardly.

Then he asked "Temple-spirit, what's this vase?"

"The vase in front of you is an energy storage vase. There are many of this type of vase in this temple. This one is the lowest in size of them all."

"Cool" Alex said inwardly. Then he questioned again "What energy do they store?"

"Swordforce energy" The temple-spirit replied.

"What? How is that possible?" Alex asked in a surprised and curious tone.

"Well, anything is possible in this cultivation world once you can set your mind to it. So like I mentioned earlier, the vase is an energy storage vase. The swordforce energy it contains was discharged into it by my master. Since he would die as death is inevitable, it would be a great waste if the swordforce energy contained in his energyhouse leaves his body through his pores and returns to the realmverse. So he devised a method to preserve the energy. And the method was pumping the entire swordforce energy that he cultivated into storage vessels, for the use of his legacy-inheritor." The temple-spirit said and this caused Alex's to glitter with light of marvel.

Alex didn't know that this was also possible. He then felt that he only knew little of the infinitely vast cultivation multiverse and the ways or the methods of beings inhabiting the millions of worlds.

Then the spirit continued "Alex, the swordforce energy you attuned your senses to was an hegemon-rank swordforce energy, one that cannot be conquered by anything or be restricted in any way. I believe that you noticed it golden color. That color symbolizes the highest tier of government, a government that is above all other governments, its actions cannot be questioned. It's one that will allow you to sever all forms of bonds and cut all in your path as it possesses the will to liberate from all oppression and constrains. With the energy, you will traverse the firmament and walk the earth fearlessly because you are an overlord. Your path cannot be hindered or obstructed...."

Alex's mind shook because of what was being mentioned by the temple-spirit.

So that was the tier of swordforce energy he tuned his perception to. The highest and strongest of them all. He was simply amazed and glad. His journey to becoming the strongest was being slowly realized. He nodded his head with a broad, joyful smile.

"... So where am I driving at with this? The energy stored in the vase is different from yours. It has it own properties. Therefore, if you try to absorb it, they might conflict and cause harm to your cultivation. But this has been thought about by my master and he has done something about it. The energy in the vase and in the other vases have been purged. That is, they have been purified. So before you start to absorb after you have resumed your cultivation, I want you to check your memory. Thee is a methodology called 'Profound Principle Rebirth and Transformation' methodology. With the methodology, you can change any purged form of cultivation energy into the ones you have attuned your awareness to. Enough has been spoken! It's time for you to resume your cultivation."

Alex nodded as his shone with seriousness and determination.

The lid of the vase opened and a silver-colored energy emanating power of tyrannical sharpness that cleaved the air apart began to discharge outwards from within the vase in the form of a gas.

This energy which was in the gaseous phase saturated the entire room, enshrouding Alex's figure completely in the process.

Still seated in the cross-legged position on the ground, Alex resumed his cultivation as he employed the method of the methodology the temple-spirit told him about.

The energy which had engulfed his figure, totally concealing it from view began to move into Alex's body through his pores, wisps by wisps, but at a fast rate.

So by utilizing the method which would allow the silver swordforce energy gain the properties or characteristics of his golden swordforce energy, they began to change, also becoming a golden-colored swordforce energy.

Following what was described in the methodology, which was to firstly infuse his unique, profound comprehension of the way of the sword into each and every strands of silver laceration-energy entering his body, then allowing them to merge with the golden swordforce energy in his energyhouse since they now possess the same attributes which were the characteristics of bondage-breaking and salvation or deliverance, they too then turned into golden swordforce energy.

Then they too would merge with the other incoming strands of energy which already contained Alex's deep understanding of the capability of the sword, transmuting them in the process.

So it was by this process that the silver swordforce energy that flowed into Alex' body turned into golden swordforce energy.

Although it seemed like it would take a very long time, but it was very short for Alex. It was very fast for him.

Rapidly, the strands of silver-colored, sharpness-energy that entered his body turned golden.

Alex at this point in time had become like a black hole as his body which was a physique devoured all the energy around him very quickly, at a rate that even godlike experts who nothing can amaze again since they have seen and understood myriad of things during the countless eons of years of their existence would look at Alex with sharp, glittering eyes.

His body actually produced an attractive power that pulled all the energy around him into it and then along his energy meridians (force-arteries) to his energyhouse.

The temple-spirit that was observing Alex was deeply shocked by what it was witnessing. It then began to wonder when Alex would stop giving it surprises.

All the time Alex had spent here, he had given the temple-spirit too many surprises that the temple-spirit began to feel that many of the things that it ever knew were now obsolete; outdated. It felt like majority of the knowledge it possessed about so many things were now invalid.

Looking at Alex with a light of astoundment in it wisdom-filled eyes, it noticed how the energy which existed in the gaseous phase and concealed Alex's figure disappeared very quickly. And this amount of energy that enveloped Alex, shrouding him, was one that would take more than a hundred cultivators many months to fully absorb. But now, it vanished very quickly like it was some meagre amount of energy. This gave the feeling that Alex wasn't human but a primordial beast with a fathomless appetite.

"What a phenomenal cultivation ability" The temple-spirit said in a deeply amazed tone.

It too was glad that it was Alex that inherited its master's legacy or it and its late master would have suffered the greatest, irrevocable loss.

At the moment, Alex's body which was a physique had mystifying patterns all over it. These patterns glowed as they produced the power that pulled in the energy very rapidly into Alex's body.

Alex actually didn't know what was going on as he fully concentrated on the task at hand. He was using his unmatched, multi-tasking ability as he infused each and every wisp of silver swordforce energy with his unique comprehension to make them fusible with his golden swordforce energy. Any other person doing this would spend years doing it. But Alex had spent only few hours because of his unparalleled ability at multi-tasking, which was further augmented by his 'Ultra Perception State' that gave him an extreme degree of concentration. Therefore, he wouldn't be aware of what was happening, of what his body was doing. He missed it or he would have discovered something new about himself.

But as he utilized the method to change the silver swordforce energy into golden swordforce energy, he saw that his energy level; the quantity of golden swordforce energy in his energyhouse was rising too fast. Also, he felt really good in the form that his body had taken. He didn't experience pain like before. Instead, he felt a wonderful sensation wash through his body and bring him peace, calmness and a feeling of harmony; oneness with the world.

Since he was exceedingly glad at the way energy rushed into his body and without causing him heart-rending pain in the process, he subconsciously muttered 'Devour' inwardly.

Then the entire, strange symbols on his body produced a brilliant, resplendent light that dyed the ground in it color and put out a power that pulled in a larger amount of energy into his body. And because of this, the massive vase began to tremble as the astronomical-scale suction force produced by the physique acted on it. Although it wouldn't fly towards Alex as it was enormously weighty, the entire energy stored in it exploded out, resembling a gigantic mushroom cloud. Then this huge mass of energy shot towards Alex like an exceedingly furious, destructive flood. Like it simply wanted to disintegrate him.

Very quickly, since the swordforce energy cultivation had reached the condensation stage, it rapidly shot up from the initial-phase condensation stage to the mid-phase condensation stage. Then to the late-phase condensation stage in an hour, and finally to the peak-phase condensation stage after a few hours.

But Alex didn't stop there. He continued to cultivate till his swordforce energy reached the half-step earth adept stage after many days. Twenty days to be precise.

It was here that Alex stopped. Since he had gotten to the half-step earth adept stage, he wouldn't enter it till he brought all his other energies to this level before he could officially enter the earth adept stage.

'This is nice' Alex said inwardly in a happy tone as he opened his eyes.

By now, the patterns on his body had vanished since he had subconsciously given his body the order to stop since he wanted to end his cultivation. Not really end, he still wanted to cultivate his other energies. So, since there was a time acceleration factor, he would use it to his maximal satisfaction.

In the next moment, hundreds of different, peerless-grade, earth-rank pills appeared before him on the tiled floor on ten, large, flat plates. These were only for the ten of the sixteen energies that he cultivated. The remaining five which were strengthforce energy, phantasmforce energy, radiantforce energy, darkforce energy and speedforce energy didn't have cultivation pills. So he could only use an energy synthesis array to upgrade them. But the Silver-Violet Sword Banisher didn't have such as he focused on cultivation of only one energy which was swordforce energy. This was a major drawback for Alex, but he wasn't worried. He believed that soon, he would step into the earth adept stage.

Then like candies, he grabbed a handful of pills for a type of cultivation energy and threw it into his mouth. This turned into large amount of energy that made him feel bloated and caused him intense pain. But he endured the pain as he gritted his teeth that they bled and then directed the energy to the pool of that energy in his energyhouse, quickly raising it quantity to high levels by massive leaps.

In this manner, Alex cultivated ten of his sixteen energies to the half-step, earth adept stage. Then he ended his cultivation at this junction and stood to his feet.

"Temple-spirit, I am done cultivating" He said.

"Good!" The temple-spirit responded, concealing the shock in it tone.

Then Alex vanished from the room and appeared in a new place.