A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Then a large ray of light shot out from the spatial ring to the sky and turned into a massive formation. It was about a thousand feet in size. Once it appeared, it produced a giant beam of light that shot to the clouds and then spread out like a curtain in all directions, connecting to the earth to form a dome-shaped barrier.

"This is a barrier that prevents teleportation. So don't think some treasures will help you bypass the teleportation restrictions of the barrier" The Saint stage cultivator said.

Alex smirked.

'Oh really?' Alex said inwardly.

Just as he was about to talk to Olivia that he wanted to do something and that she should be ready, Olivia looked at him and said "Alex, I am sorry I got you into this mess..."

But before she could continue further, Alex interrupted as he sharply cut in and said "Hey! Stop uttering foolish words. It was my choice. And I know that I made the right choice to stay behind to help a good friend. By the way, these guys can't do me shit. If I want to leave, I would leave"

Olivia's eyes widened.

Alex then looked at her with a thoughtful gaze and said "I would have want us to leave to show these morons that nothing can hold me back. But if we leave, the little girl and the villagers wouldn't be safe. We would always have to carry them in the apartment-treasure everywhere we go. So, the only thing we can do is to slay these men before us and go to their organization to burn it down to ashes so that the little girl can have a chance at a good and peaceful life."

Olivia's mind reeled in astonishment.

Then she asked in a worried tone. "But you are in the peak-phase condensation stage. How are you going to battle them? They would take you down instantly"

"Well, I am more powerful than you can imagine" Alex said with a smile.

"Haha! Still trying to impress at the point of death? You really want to enter the crack of this saintess. Anyways, you will have the chance after you die and after we have struck her to death with our womb-breaking, long and fat fleshy rods." The Saint stage cultivator said and cackled evilly. Then he looked at his men and spoke in a sinister tone "Kill the hero boy and bring me the bitch."

The earth adept stage cultivators on the ground nodded their heads at their leader and then rushed towards Olivia and Alex.

Olivia looked at Alex with worry while Alex looked at her with a confident smile.

She saw his smile and somehow, the worry in her heart vanished like it was never there. She couldn't explain how that happened, but seeing that smile gave her absolute confidence too. The radiant smile Alex gave boosted her morale and confidence. All that was in her head initially were frantic thoughts on how to escape this encircling. But now, she was going to fight. Kill and kill to her satisfaction and until not one of her adversaries here was still living.

Just when the earth adept stage cultivators were about to make a move at them, a resplendent light suddenly flashed, and with a whooshing sound, a spear that was abruptly launched, shot through the air at an inconceivable speed towards them.

Puchi!

It pierced into that person from the heart and carried him off the ground to a distance of twenty feet, pinning him to the earth.

The spear had been hurled by Alex who infused his arm muscles with his mutated strengthforce energy, giving him the physical (muscular and skeletal) strength of a body-cultivator whose strength matched that of a peak-phase heaven adept stage.

Due to the sudden, extremely quick fatal attack, the earth adept stage cultivators stopped and quickly produced an armor on their bodies. Then their eyes turned black and the tattoo of a black tiger surfaced on the faces of each of these men. It also appeared on their skins which had turned black and began to lustre like a type of hard black metal. But no one would see these as they had worn armors. As soon as the tattoos appeared, a ferocious beastly aura burst out from them and the growls of a tiger could be heard.

When Alex saw the tattoos of a tiger on their faces, his brows raised as he muttered in a shocked tone "Animalforce energy"

That was an energy that gave a cultivator animal-like characteristics. Also called beast-mimicry realm-energy, a cultivator would simply possess the ability of beasts. If it was the tattoo of a cheetah, one would possess the speed of a cheetah but in vastly multiple folds; since the cheetah possesses speed, they too would acquire speed that would be augmented by a factor of many large numbers. But this ability multiplication factor totally depended on their level of comprehension of the energy. So, now that these men had produced the tattoos of a tiger, they possessed the strength, bone hardness and crushing power of a tiger, and the abilities increased to a shocking level, like thousand times more. Cultivation of this energy was by killing beasts with desired attributes, absorbing the energy in their True Beast Cores and then refining it into this energy, while at the same time, comprehending it essence. But cultivation of this energy could become stagnant since cultivating it to high levels would require one to continue killing the same beast which have reached a high level too.

Olivia looked at them and could see the shadowy figure of an enormous black tiger behind them. Also, from the tattoos on their faces, they gave her the feeling that they were nigh-invincible. That their bodies couldn't be harmed by any means.

She too knew where these abilities came from. From the cultivation of Animalforce energy.

Now that they had gained the abilities of a beast called Blacksteel tiger, a beast known for it extremely tough hide and super-strong body, their bodies would become highly impervious to damage and would have astonishing physical strength.

Alex looked at Olivia and said "Let's take them down."

Olivia nodded her head and then they dashed towards the men. As she ran towards them, she produced her sword called the Nine Skies Burning sword which she wielded with her left hand.

One of the men produced an average-quality, earth-rank spear and threw it at Alex.

On seeing the man's action as he ran, Alex pointed his finger and a wide ray of golden swordforce energy shot out.

This ray of golden energy impacted the spear, and surprisingly, the spear was sliced cleanly in halves, before it exploded into bits.

Then slicing through the air like it was the conquering golden sword of an Immortal, it continued towards the earth adept stage cultivator that threw the spear.

The man's eyes widened with deep surprise before he quickly produced a shield to block the golden sharpness-energy ray shooting towards him.

But with a loud bang, the shield was cut into two by it. And then impacting the armor he wore, it was sliced apart.

Bang!

The ray struck the man and he was sent flying for dozens of feet. When he stood back to his feet, one could see a deep cut in his body at the area the sword energy ray struck him. He had actually sustained injury in the brief exchange. Despite the high durability his body had acquired, he was still wounded.

This was of little surprise to Alex. He felt that since the swordforce energy which he cultivated was the peerless-grade, sovereign-tier one, one that contained a powerful 'Will' to cut apart everything which would act like binds or restraints to its freedom, it would definitely slash the spear and armor to halves. It was an energy that wanted to move across the infinite horizons unrestrainedly and independently, all because of the 'Liberation Will' and 'Overlord Will' in it. Besides, he had divineforce energy circulating in his energyhouse. It would increase the cutting power of his swordforce energy to an high level as it did to his other energies. But he didn't know it would be this powerful since it went on to injure the earth adept stage cultivator, giving him a deep cut. He was surprised as he hadn't cultivated the energy to an high level.

Since he witnessed the penetration and cutting power of the laceration-energy that he sent out, an evil smile appeared in his face. He was now out for the butcher.