A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

As soon as Jared flicked the needle at Alex, the needle which was accelerated to an extreme speed by Jared's telekinetic power, instantly reached where Alex was.

Although Alex was warned of incoming danger by the danger-perception treasure at the center of his forehead, he was many seconds too late in evading the needle which was shooting straight towards him at a tremendous speed.

Alex wore an armor, but the needle pierced through it like a hot knife through butter. Then effortlessly into his body.

Once it got into his body, the yellowish-green energy that enveloped it tip was instantly, entirely released into Alex's body.

Alex felt a great degree of sharp pain as the needle pierced into his body, then he screamed out in agony the next instant when the yellowish-green energy was released into his body.

Immediately the yellowish-green energy was released into his body and flowed to different regions, many areas of Alex's white-skinned body turned green instantly and then began to rot.

However, no one would notice the change in his body color because of the full body armor that he wore. But they would know that something was wrong with him because of his face that was deep green in color. Besides, yellow veins could be seen bulging out of his green-colored face. So this made him look horrendous to anyone that would look at him. Also, it was with these strange facial coloration and appearance of colored veins that people would identify that he was in extreme agony.

But that was not all that happened. A few moment after he completely turned green, numerous, frightening decaying wounds instantly appeared all over his body and began to give off powerful rotten odours that would instantly knock mortals unconscious.

Few moments after the needle pierced into his body through the armor that he wore, and then caused appearance of large, festering wounds all over his body, Alex screeched out again in pain. His entire body racked with pain from the wounds quickly opening everywhere on his body. And if these many strongly, smelly wounds could be found on the exterior of his body, what about the interior?

At the moment, all his internal organs had rotted. Except his heart organ, which was shielded from the actions of the energies that rushed ragingly about in his body, by an indestructible, invisible force-field continuously emitting from his dad's spatial necklace. And his brain by the grain-sized, danger-signaling treasure in his head.

If it wasn't that the wings which were attached to his back continued to operate on their own, Alex would have plummeted from that altitude which he was to the ground. And there was no telling if his body wouldn't explode into pieces upon impacting the ground hard from that height.

The needle that Jared shot at Alex was actually infused with the energies that he cultivated, and these energies were poisonforce energy and corrodeforce energy. The former would produce poisoning that would badly affect the target's body, while the corrodeforce energy, as it name implied, was a corrosion-energy. It would corrode anything that it enters into.

The Sky Lord stage cultivators who had shot far away from Alex in every directions for fear of their lives and because of his relentless, fierce hurling of spears at them, stopped in their efforts to run away from him, when they noticed the sudden quietness in the initially slaughter-filled atmosphere. Then when they turned to see what was actually going on, they saw that Alex had been brought into a state which seemed like he was poisoned, and that he was somewhat injured as multiple wounds that gave off yellowish-green gases which were strong-smelling, decomposing flesh smells could be seen in his face.

Then their eyes glowed with a light of comprehension when they realized that the abysmal physical state of Alex's body was their Master's doing. It meant that their master had finally stepped in to stop the butcher. This gladdened them. And as they gazed at him, their eyes began to glow with a light of wrath and vengeance.

Jared and Liam observed the situation silently from where they floated. But they noticed to their shock and amazement that no one actually appeared to give Alex pills so that he could heal himself from the poisoning and corroding energies circulating in his body.

Why Jared fired an energy-coated needle at Alex was to draw out the multiple experts that he felt were hiding at different places in this region using some concealing means that he couldn't probably think off. However, since Alex who was their genius would definitely be harmed by his extremely fast stealth attack, he guessed that the experts who were in hiding and were observing everything that was going on would definitely appear out of where they hid themselves to come take Alex away for treatment which was to purge the poisonous and corrosive energy off his body.

'So he was all alone by himself?'

This question rocked his mind.

Then with a thunderously loud voice, Jared ordered "Bring me that foolish bastard"

He just had to call Alex foolish because all that Alex had done in his sight was utter foolishness. He found it hard to believe that a kid who had no backing would just come here and run his mouth, making threats at his organization. Even if he was strong, powerful and faster than his peers, and even than experts who were a few stages above him in cultivation, since he had no powerful expert or cultivator who was watching him and would appear in the next moment when he seemed to be in danger, he shouldn't have come here to start throwing off threats. Jared couldn't count this as bravery or courage. Rather, he counted Alex's action as extreme stupidity and foolishness.

However, he still ordered his men to bring Alex to him as he had to quickly extract the poisonous-corrosive energy from Alex's body, or if he was too late, and he died, he would lose a lot. These losses would be him not knowing the locations of the items that Alex stole from him.

Since he didn't know where Alex kept the little girl with the Radiant Healing power, his Other-Realm elemental beast and the looted treasures and resources that they had been accumulating since ten millennia which was ten thousands years ago, he needed to quickly remove the energy from Alex's body and completely heal him, and then severely torture him to speak where he kept the girl and his prized possessions.

Once their Master gave the order, The Sky Lord stage cultivators instantly shot towards Alex to bring him for their Master.

Olivia who was within the palace saw how Alex looked from the projection screen that she was watching, then she immediately requested to teleport out of the palace to go give Alex some healing herbs to flush or eject the sinister energies running rampantly and unbridled in his body. But she wasn't granted her request by the palace-spirit who told her that Alex would be fine. Besides, Alex had secretly told the palace-spirit never to teleport Olivia out of the palace.

It was fine if he was the only one outside as he understood his body and it many unique abilities, and would be able to control the battle to a certain degree because of the spectacular godly abilities that he possessed. But if she came out, the battle which he felt that he would be able to control to a certain extent due to his numerous astonishing abilities would quickly slip out of his control. Things could simply go awry if she appeared, so he told the palace-spirit never to allow her out, no matter what she said. And if she was stubborn and persistent about it, then that it can knock her unconscious.

Olivia who couldn't continue to watch the projection screen shouted at the palace-spirit to let her out so that she could go help him. However, the palace-spirit only refused and tried to assure her that Alex would be okay. But despite the palace-spirit saying that Alex would be fine, over and over again, assuring her that Alex would definitely be okay soon, Olivia was still intensely worried. And when the Sky Lord stage cultivators began to fly towards Alex with murderous lights emitting from their eyes, Olivia's fears and worries abruptly escalated to the point that she could start sending out attacks in every directions if the palace-spirit continued to refuse to her demand which was to teleport her outside the palace to go help Alex.

Hearing no response from the palace-spirit which seemed like it was ignoring her, Olivia surprisingly calmed, then she asked in a loud and provoked tone "Palace-spirit, why don't you teleport him in?! He seems poisoned and injured, and wouldn't be able to definitely last long out there. Besides, the Sky Lord stage cultivators are already flying towards Alex to deliver him to their master. Is this how you would just stand invisibly wherever you are at and do nothing about what the heinous thing soon to happen to your Master's one and only legacy successor?"

She said those to provoke the palace-spirit into action. But her words didn't achieve what she wanted she wanted to achieve. Instead, the palace-spirit after keeping silent for sometime, said "Olivia, I know that you are deeply worried about him, but what I would tell you is that you don't really know Alex. None of us ever will. Just seat it out and watch what would happen. You would be amazed"

Olivia was greatly startled by what the palace-spirit said. It seemed to be confident of an ability that Alex possessed which she wasn't aware about. She thought over what the palace-spirit said again and then exhaled deeply.

But without her worries abating and instead increasing the more, she unwillingly sat and then focused on the screen, with a blazing hope in her heart that something amazing and miraculous about Alex would happen.

As the Sky Lord stage cultivators shot towards Alex at a leisure pace since he was already a dead meat to them, Alex, whose eyes bled blood and seemed large, like as if they wanted to shoot off the sockets that they were located at in the next moment, groaned loudly in pain. He gritted this teeth hard that they could almost shatter from the excruciating pain that he was inflicted with. Therefore, as a result of gnashing his teeth too hard, his entire gums which had been totally affected by the corrosion-energy began to bleed. Blackened blood oozed out from them. Besides, his body which was bright green in color had turned dark black like it was burning. But no one would notice this as the armor that he wore had covered his entire body. However, one would still notice this from his face that had turned completely black. Besides, cracks could be seen on his face which began to fall off in the next moment, revealing the bony framework of his face.

Suddenly, his body which seemed like it would wither and turn to ashes in the next instant, abruptly produced thousands of mystical symbols that began to glow immediately they appeared on his entire darkened body. Then they began to radiate the power to absorb everything under the heavens.

Slowly, his blackened skin started to regain it usual, flawless white color...