A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

As Alex was discussing with Olivia, he suddenly felt a hot sensation at the center of his forehead. He knew what that sensation was. That was the sensation of critical danger, produced by the danger-signaling treasure at the center of his forehead.

Although his hearing ability was on, it didn't pick the sound wave generated by anything piercing through the air. Not dilly-dallying, he grabbed Olivia by her hand and pulled her towards himself. Now holding her by the waist, he leaped high into the air and far away in a random direction since he couldn't say it was this particular direction the attack was coming from.

A few moments after he jumped away, the spear that was launched, since there was no one to impact, continued onward into the distance, soundlessly.

When he landed, he quickly loosened his grip on Olivia's waist.

"An invisible attack was launched at us a few moments ago." Alex quickly said, trying to explain to Olivia why he did that.

Olivia looked at him weirdly and in a somewhat unbelievable way.

"Oh really? An invisible attack? And you could sense it while I couldn't?" She questioned in a puzzled tone. She had an higher cultivation, therefore, she was supposed to be the first to sense it. Not him. Besides, she still hadn't notice the attack since the spear continued forward as it couldn't impact anyone.

"Well, something like that." Alex said with sweat beads forming in his face due to his nervousness. He felt that Olivia would think he was simply trying to feel her. Then he continued "Please take no offense Olivia. I wasn't trying to take advantage of you. There was really an attack coming our way. But it's the concealed type. Somehow, I could feel it"

Olivia noticed the sweat beads forming on his face and looked at him. Then with a smirk appearing on on her lips, she said "Well, I didn't accuse you of trying to take advantage of me. I am only curious at how you were able to sense danger, an unseen one while I couldn't. I am surprised." She said.

"Well, I just have this ability to sense danger from far. Both seen and concealed ones" Alex replied.

"Hmm. Okay" Olivia said with an indescribable gaze and mentioned nothing else.

Why Alex couldn't sense the spear despite his powerful hearing was because the silencing-array in the voidstone plugged into a socket of the spear absorbed the sound produced by the spear. Therefore, he couldn't perceive the swooshing sound of the spear cutting through the air towards them.

Just then, he felt another tingling sensation at the center of his forehead.

"These guys are persistent" Alex complained inwardly.

With a thought, two objects shot out from his mom's spatial ring and turned into two large, round shields that traveled in a frontal direction to intercept whatever was shooting towards them.

Bang! Bang!

Two bang sounds rang out at the same time as two soundless, fast-moving spears struck the shields extremely hard. And the spears coming with a lot of momentum, delivering a lot of force, caused the shields to be knocked back towards Alex and Olivia.

If the shields impacted them, they would be seriously injured. Thinking of this caused Alex's eyes to widen before they instantly narrowed and began to to glow in a cyan light. Then a solid sphere of air quickly formed around them.

Infusing the air sphere with many wisps of his windforce energy which contained divineforce energy, it density was increased to an high degree.

BANG!

The shields struck the protective air sphere and shattered it, smashing into Alex and Olivia who already had armors on them and knocking them many feet away.

But the shields couldn't cause them injury as majority of their momentums had been eliminated upon impacting the dense air sphere that he rapidly generated.

They both stood up from where they were knocked to and put their armor away.

It was now that Olivia believed that Alex could see or hear something she couldn't. Or if he couldn't, they would have been pierced through by the spears. She looked at the ground and saw two spears lying there. They had lost their momentum when they struck the compacted wind shields.

Olivia then screamed into the distance "Bastards! Only cowards stay behind invisible barriers and send concealed attacks. If you are brave, come out and fight like the brave and courageous men that you are!"

Hahahaha!!

A raucous laughter rang out.

"I see. We are coming out now" A voice said.

With a dazzling flash of colored light, many men appeared at once. It was like they had arrived here using a spatial transference array.

Some of these men were in the earth adept stage while the others were in the sky lord stage. Then the person that spoke was in the Saint stage, and by his sides were men at the peak-phase heaven adept stage. They floated high in the air and looked down at Olivia and Alex like they were ant. Like they were something that could be matched upon to death effortlessly.

Olivia detected the cultivation levels of these people and her brows raised. Same with Alex. Besides, there were just too many of their opponents. And they were high-level ones.

"Handsome guy. I saw what you did. My men saw what you did. You kept all of the villagers into a building-like treasure. Nice shelter treasure-artifact you have got there. Anyways, when I kill you, I will get the treasure from you." The saint stage cultivator who appeared to be the commander of this group said and then continued" You made a very big mistake interfering in the matter that doesn't concern you in any way."

"Well, my good friend is in trouble. I can't sit back and watch as only she tries to handle the problem facing her" Alex replied.

"Haha! Good friend? Or you are here to impress her so she can spread her legs like wildfire for you" The man cackled and said.

Alex's eyes shone with coldness and killing intent.

"Haha. The cold and killing gaze. I guess I must have said the right thing to bring about that kind of look from you. Since your friend is one of the Great Holy Daughters of the Immovable Mountain academy, she is one of their virgin, top female genius. So you might want to have her virgin thingy for yourself. Or don't tell me you haven't figured out why the Holy is in her title? Haha! I guess you haven't. It's simply because she's a virgin, and the 'Great' in the title is because she is one of their top female genius. Therefore, when I kill you, I will be the one to desecrate her holy body and pass it around like a shred of soiled rag to my men to use it to wipe off their horniness. Bwahaha!" The man said in a lustful tone and laughed evilly.

Of course Alex had realized this since. But now, he felt incredibly bad at the way they talked profanely of Olivia's body. They just likened her to something that can be used to ease themselves off of their horniness. Just when he would talk, Olivia asked with a sense of coldness in her tone "You pricks know that I am a top genius of the Immovable Mountain academy, yet, you still want to harm me. Aren't you scared that the powerful instructors from my academy would come for your heads?"

"Heads? Haha!! What heads? No one would know what we did to you." The man replied.

"I have a way to alert them and they would instantly arrive here by teleportation" Olivia said to frighten them.

"Well, we have thought about that and have taken decent measures against it. Try sending a distress signal and see if it would go through. Haha! I can't wait to kill that boy beside you and have your sealed, sacred secret cave opened by me and widened further by the powerful rods of my amazingly strong men" the Saint stage cultivator said in a wicked tone.

Alex looked at Olivia and back at the Saint stage cultivator. Anger could be seen in his eyes. But the anger didn't cloud his senses or dampen his thinking ability. He had lot of thoughts flashing in his mind and these thoughts were on things to do from this stage that they had gotten to. He was in the peak-phase condensation stage and could face the earth adept stage cultivators using his augmented energies. And could possibly battle the sky lord and heaven stage cultivators using his mutated strengthforce energy. But what of Olivia, she wouldn't be able to. These were humans not beasts. They would be smart and cunning and would have studied many powerful battle techniques and movement methods. She would be quickly overpowered due to their large numbers and possibly taken away with the opinion that he would come searching for her. He couldn't let that to happen as he would have to dance to their tune. The best thing he could do was to run away dem here with her.

But like the man knew what was going on in his mind, he gazed at Alex and said with a smile "Thinking of running away?" Then he looked at his men and said "Activate the formation"