A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

"Alright. Have this first." Alex said as he passed an armor to her.

"That should help you block the coldness that is trying to invade our bodies. Besides, you need it because I don't know how deep the lake is. So the deeper we go, the colder it may become." He said further.

Layla nodded.

Then she accepted the armor from him and jumped into the lake.

Alex too then jumped into it immediately after Layla did. He had also worn a body armor to protect himself from the blood-solidifying coldness of the silver-colored lake.

Alex then swam to where she was.

Then holding her by one of her hands, he began to swim, pulling her with him.

Not long as they tried swimming deep into the lake, several beastly aquatic creatures suddenly appeared out of nowhere and shot towards them.

Alex's and Layla's eyes widened in shock before they quickly produced weapons to battle with the beastly water creatures that had suddenly appeared.

"Can you handle them on your own?" Alex asked when he looked at Layla.

Then his eyes widened in shock when he realized that he could talk underwater. Same with Layla who eyes widened in amazement.

That was one impossible feat Alex just did as a human.

Layla gripped her flitting mind and nodded her head. Then she shot towards one of the beast that had appeared in front of her.

Slash!

She instantly lacerated the head of the beast.

Then she shot towards some other ones that were raging towards her. And when she appeared about ten feet before them, she aimed her hands at them and discharged woodforce energy from it.

Once the energy was released, the woodforce energy instantly condensed and shaped into hundreds of leaf-green energy-spears that shot out at great speeds towards the few beasts that had appeared before her.

Puchi!

Puchi!

Puchi!...

The beasts were impaled by the spears all over and their blood colored the cold lake at that depth that they were.

When she killed these, because of the blood that had appeared which oozed out of the areas that the wood-energy spears pierced into, many of the hideous water beasts screeched in fury and then shot towards her at great speeds. And before they would get to where she was, their bodies which had began to glow in crimson as hundreds of bright, crimson-colored electricity arcs surfaced and began to move round their thick bodies, suddenly discharged thick bolts of crimson-colored lightning towards her.

Layla quickly put out her two hands in front of her and rapidly discharged large amounts of woodforce energy from them which then abruptly condensed into a large and thick, leaf-green barrier to protect her body from the lightning bolts shooting towards her.

The bolts struck the immense barrier she generated with a great force and this caused the appearances of violent, rampaging ripples of water at that depth which then swept out with tyrannical forces that could shatter buildings if it appeared in the outside world.

Layla remained where she was while many of the beasts were knocked away by the devastating water ripples that had appeared after the powerful attacks of the beasts collided with her shield formed from her woodforce energy.

Then she swam towards the beasts that were knocked away by the destructive water currents that surfaced and began to use her sword to either cut off the heads of the beasts or slash them into halves.

Anyways, the beasts weren't that powerful. They were only at the earth rank. While Layla who was at the Earth Adept stage was at the peak phase. So their strength couldn't be matched together.

As she killed the beasts ruthlessly, more of the beasts shot towards her to devour her.

However, they were slightly insignificant to be able to knock her off her balance and do damage to her.

Alex who was at the other side also killed the beasts too. But the ones he fought with were many times larger in size than the ones that Layla fought and killed. Although it looked like he would struggle hard to slay them because of their mighty sizes which were dozens of times bigger than bungalows, however, with extremely strong punches that if his glowing, golden fists were punched into the air, the air would become very violent; that is, it would become the type of destructive, shattering air that would be produced from the simultaneous explosions of numerous large bombs.

So, once his two fists which glowed luminously in a golden color connected with any part of the bodies of the beasts to deliver super-explosive punches, the bodies of the beasts instantly bursted into immense clouds of blood at that depth that they were.

Layla's attention was captured by this and she couldn't help but be awed.

'Powerful!' She uttered in her mind.

This was her second time noticing Alex's battle prowess which was highly impressive. This was because, normally, the human body can't rival that of even the weakest beasts in thickness and toughness. This then made for their serious advantages against the humans, and even cultivators, especially the cultivation beasts which possessed stronger and thicker, highly durable skins as they grew. However, Alex caused these cultivation beasts to explode into clouds of blood with just his punches in which his fists should break into pieces upon impacting their hard skins.

She shook her head impressively and resumed her fighting after a slight pause.

Not long, after killing about six hundred beasts and more still coming out from seemingly everywhere, many loud wrathful roars suddenly rang out from a great depth in the deep lake. These roars sounded like some primordial water beasts had woken up to see their children been wickedly slain by both Alex and Layla. Because of the mighty, terrifying roars, Layla's mind shook in horror while Alex furrowed his brows. They both knew what that meant, which was the parent beasts and the rest of the water beast families were coming for them. And they knew that these would be intelligent beastly creatures since they would have reached a certain cultivation stage where they would develop more awareness and a greater level of intelligence.

Layla quickly dashed towards Alex's side to stay under his umbrella of protection. She had already developed a gauge of Alex's battle power and prowess because of all that she had seen. So, with this gauge of his strength and combat skills, she felt that he would be certainly strong enough to repel the horrifying horrendous beasts that would come for them soon.

A few seconds later, glowing hideous beasts that were hundreds of feet large appeared in the distances within the massive lake. They had come from the far depth of the deep cold lake. These beasts were actually very enormous. They were many times bigger than Saint-rank beasts which were only sixty feet in size. And in their eyes shone full intelligence and the unbridled murderous intents to wipe off both Alex and Layla from the realmverse.