A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Alex and Elena were silent as they walked to her hostel block. When they got to the gate, Elena suddenly said. "Alex, you just started acting weird when the principal appeared before us. What happened?"

"Well, I don't like his presence. I felt terrible seeing him. Besides, he was disturbing the romantic talk of we lovebirds" Alex said teasingly with a smile hung on his lips.

Elena looked at him irritatedly. Then she pulled out her hand in his grasp.

"Well, goodnight good, young sir" Elena said with a smile.

"Yea. Bye sinister mistress." Alex replied with a smile and waved a hand. Then he turned around and walked away without waiting to hear what Elena would say. He then headed for Jennifer's residence.

He wanted to go to Jennifer's room and tell her all that he saw. But after contemplating, he decided to tell her tomorrow as she could be busy doing some things or probably cultivating.

Then he left for his room. When Alex got in, he saw Jake sitting in the cross-legged position on the bed. He was cultivating at the moment.

Alex nodded and sat on his bed.

After a deep breath, he said "I have things to read."

Then he looked into his dad's storage-treasure to bring out just about any book to read. With a thought, a large, thick-cover book appeared in his hand. Then he opened it and began to read.

The book he was reading was titled 'Tribulations of Sins in the Realmverse'. It was a book that gave information about the kind of tribulations that would come upon a cultivator if he or she did some things considered as a sin in this realmverse.

An example is killing innocent mortals. Once one killed a lot of them to a particular number, lethal tribulations would descend and for every three years.

It would also accompany the tribulation that would manifest when one breaks through to a higher cultivation realm, transforming it into a destructive tribulation. One out to totally obliterate the marked cultivator.

Such tribulations that surface because of sin such as killing of mortals are called 'Fiend Destruction Tribulation'

'Hmm' Alex thought inwardly.

He loved the book he was reading as he began to learn new and interesting things about the realmverse.

Alex was a lover and devoted reader of books. He simply loved reading.

When Alex entered, Jake perceived his presence. Then after a while, he opened his eyes. He was about to round up his cultivation when Alex came in.

Still in that cross-legged position on his bed, he said "Alex, Elena came to look for you? I told her you were probably at the cultivation hall since that's the only place you may go. Did you come across her?"

"Yea, I did" Alex said.

"Oh. Alex you need to strike the iron while it's still hot. That girl likes you. I seriously envy you. I have been here for weeks and no girl has come to search for me" Jake said unhappily.

Alex gave a mtcheew and said "She only came to apologize."

"Apologize? She wronged you or what?" Jake asked in a surprised tone.

"Yea she did. In public at that. Anyways, I have brushed it off" Alex replied.

"Oh. So you have been embarrassed publicly too? Haha. That's a good one" Jake said applauding Alex.

Alex looked at him disgustedly and shook his head.

"I want to read man" he said.

"Alright. Me too. I have homework to do"

"Oh. For what subject?" Alex asked with his interest piqued.

"Cultivation." Jake replied.

"Nice. Can I see it?" Alex asked.

"Wait a sec, I would read the question loud for you." Jake said.

Then Jake reached for his stuff and brought out a book. It was one of the notebooks he used to write things in class. The book was for a particular subject. It was for cultivation.

He opened it to the place where the assignment was given. Once he got there, he read out loud.

"Explain the powers gained by cultivating diamondforce energy, buddhaforce energy, monarchforce energy and destinyforce energy?"

He looked at Alex with a smile.

"Confused as fuck I guess. Haha. We have many energies you never knew about. There are just so many of them."

Alex looked at him with a smirk.

"So you wanna lecture me now about energies? Anyways, that's a pretty tough assignment. Why don't you use the library. When are you submitting it?" he asked.

"Library ain't my thing. It's too quiet in there. I prefer chaotic place. Or Alex could you go the library and do my assignment for me? Please!" Jake said in a begging tone.

"Heck. You are mad bro. Me do your assignment for you? That is the last thing I would ever do." Alex said.

"Come on. Aren't you my dashing, book-loving friend. You love to read, don't you? So, you could use this to improve your knowledge about energies. I am actually helping you man" Jake said with a laugh.

Alex looked at him and shook his head.

"Anyways, I know the answers to that question" Alex said with a smile.

"Sharrap! You don't. Can't write the rubbish you would tell me. I can't fail and be mocked in class. You wanna rubbish the reputation I am trying to build back? Huh?" Jake asked.

Alex's eyes shone.

"Oh really? Then go to the library to do your assignment. I don't have time for this. I want to read." Alex said.

"Are you really sure you know the answer to the question?" Jake asked.

He couldn't doubt Alex's words. He knew Alex was highly intelligent and was a devoted and enthusiastic reader.

"Sure. I have come across those energies in cultivation books before. That was how I got to know about them." Alex replied.

"What do you see so much in reading? Is there any benefit to it?" Jake asked in a puzzled tone.

"You want me to help you or not?" Alex asked.

"Sure"

"Alright. Diamondforce energy, also called tissue augmentation energy is the energy that when infused into the flesh and tissues of the body makes them tough and powerful. When this energy permeates the flesh and tissue, they become crystalline. This change in body form, as the cultivator would appear crystalline gives the cultivator increased body durability and great physical strength. The enhanced body toughness gained enables the cultivator to withstand fearsome attacks without the use for an armor to protect oneself and then vast superphysical strength since the muscles would be extremely dense. The crystalline form the body would take is more like an armor." Alex said elaborately.

When Jake finished writing that into his notebook, he looked at Alex with awe in his eyes.

"How did you know about that? I have never seen you go to the library to read or take out a book to read and return later. Where do you get the knowledge you have? I wanna know" he asked.

"Well, I have read a lot before I came here. My dad has a super large library of books. He is a lover of book and a collector. He has copies of just about anything in this world. So as a lover of books, I went through his collections, therefore enriching my knowledge about so many things." Alex replied.

"Bro, you are awesome." Jake said sincerely.

He couldn't imagine imagine himself spending time with books. He would rather spend that time on beautiful girls if he can't spend it on his cultivation.

"Can I go on mister?" Alex asked impatiently.

Jake quickly nodded.

"Sure!"

Then Alex continued with his explanations.

"Buddhaforce energy, also called indestructibility-energy, is a white-golden energy that is only infused into energy-attacks. It makes one's energy-attacks extremely durable. That is, the attacks gain great durability and at the apex stage, indestructibility. The attacks wouldn't shatter upon collision with other energy-attacks. This energy would make an energy-attack very deadly as it wouldn't be crushed by other attacks and still retain it form and the momentum it was moving with. Such an attack could be seen as an overpowering or domineering energy-attack."

Jake shook his head in amazement.

"Damn! So many tyrannical energies in the world. That's powerful man. I wished I cultivated buddhaforce energy, my attacks would be fearsome. All the female cultivation experts in different worlds I would journey to would adore and come for me when I dominate them and their male lovers in a battle. Haha" Jake said with a hint of regret in his eyes.

Alex who was in a lecturing mode looked at him and felt like hitting him. He felt that everything Jake said and would ever say would always be related to women.

"Should I continue?" He asked with annoyance and impatience in his voice.

"Go on." Jake said looking serious again.

"Hmm. Jake, no more interruptions. If you do, well, I think three out of four questions done is enough to show you are serious with your studies." Alex said.

"Nooo! Fuck that. I want it four over four. Ride on bro. Don't mind my annoying deviations" Jake said.

Alex nodded. Then he decided to say the last two answers to Jake's question at a stretch.

"Now, monarchforce energy also called kingforce energy is the energy that makes one look like a sovereign. It portrays one as an overlord to opponents. It's not infused into attacks or into the body. Instead, it's discharged from the body. When emitted, it brings upon adversaries a feeling that one rules over all and shouldn't be attacked. It has an influence on the mind of the attackers. Or more precisely their will. It would disable them from unleashing their offensives at one. While destinyforce ener....."

Before Alex could give the last answer, he was suddenly interrupted by Jake.

"Pardon me bro. Since you are so knowledgeable, let me chip in this question. For instance, let's say I cultivate monarchforce energy. So it's only useful for attacks and not for any other thing?" He asked.

Alex smiled. He already knew where Jake was heading to.

"Well, it's not only on attacks. Once discharged, it would affect the minds of every living thing, forcing them to submit to you. You would be seen as a Lord, an emperor that reigns supreme over all things on lands and in the sky." Alex replied.

"Damn! Haha" Jake said and laughed.

Alex looked at him with a smirk.

"Thinking of cultivating it so women would have no choice than to bow their heads to you and do what you want? Execute what you command? Listen to your choices of lewd positions? Eh? You will always remain a pervert man. Your soul is damned, it can't be redeemed, ever." Alex said.

"Haha. Damned is better." Jake said with a laugh.

"Do you know the technique on how to cultivate the energy? Please tell me, don't hide it from me" he said in a begging tone.

"I don't know it man. I only know the powers gained when one cultivates the energies." Alex replied.

"Shit. That's the best cultivation energy in the world. I would go to the library or ask about it from an instructor. They might know a cultivation technique for it" Jake said happily.

Alex just looked at him with dull eyes and waited for his excited mind to calm before he continued.

Noticing Alex's bored gaze, he stopped laughing and composed himself.

"A-hem, please continue" Jake coughed and said.

Alex shook his head. Then he continued. "Lastly, destinyforce energy is the energy that when channeled to the eyes, it gives one the ability to look into the mysteries of the world. One would be able to see it programmings and come up with accurate deductions on why certain events may start and why they ended in that way. On why some things manifest and predict the way they would end." Alex said.

When Jake wrote that, with a wide smile hung on his lips, he clapped for Alex.

"Bro, you are good"

Alex only nodded with a smile. Then he looked at the book in his hand and started to read.

.......

"Lady Poisonheart, I hope you do your work well this time." Gerald said.

"Sure. This time, she would be dead for good. I would leave with fragments of her bashed head." Lady Poisonheart said determinedly.

"Hmm. When would you strike? I want to be there when you would do it" Gerald said.

"Well, you wouldn't be able to do that because i will strike when an opportunity presents itself. You know I can't just enter into the academy to battle Jennifer. I would be surrounded by the instructors. Even if I am in the sage general stage, I could be injured or worst, become crippled. So, let me make my plans well." Lady Poisonheart replied.

"Okay. I would advice you to be careful. We can't tell what that girl now has up her sleeve. Since she was killed back then and mysteriously recovered, she would be on her guards. If she sees you again, there's no telling you may come back alive" Gerald said

Haha!

Lady Poisonheart laughed.

"No matter what she may do, she would still die terribly in my hands. She is no match for me. True, her body's skeletal strength is formidable, but she is still no match for me. How can a saint emperor-stage cultivator fight a sage general-stage cultivator. Only a great defeat at my hands mister" She said.

"Hmm. That's good. I like your confidence. Just make you have a back up plan and something powerful to protect yourself." Gerald said.

"Hmm. Now, all these is because of a boy? How precious must the boy be to you?" Lady Poisonheart asked surprisedly.

"Well. There's not much about the boy. He only knows the location of some powerful ancient treasures." Gerald replied.

Once Gerald said that, Lady Poisonheart's eyes glowed.

"Ancient treasures? I see. That's why you want that female saint emperor-level expert out of the way so you could get the boy. Hmm, well Gerald, when you get the boy after I kill her, make sure you send some treasures to me after you get them" Lady Poisonheart said.

Hahaha!

Gerald laughed maniacally.

"Sure. Sure. I would be on my way now." He said.

Lady Poisonheart nodded.

.....

Next day.

"Alex, are you sure of what you are telling me?" Jennifer asked with deep shock in her voice.

"Yes instructor Jennifer. I had visions about the principal. He changed his face to another. That's not his real face." Alex said.

"Alex, that's one crazy accusation. I am sorry, I can't believe you in this." Jennifer said.

"Hmm. Okay. Um... Your mother went for an inheritance, she got it but she was attacked by a masked cultivator who used a cultivation poison on her." Alex said summarily.

Jennifer became speechless as her eyes shone with unbridled shock. She didn't know what else to say.

"A—Alex, how did you know about that? Who told you?" She asked with a trembling and fluctuating voice. A thick, alternating expression of bewilderment and surprise could be seen on her face.

"No one. I just suddenly received a vision about the man. He is the person that killed your mom and caused you all the pain that you have buried in your heart over the years. You have to do something about it. Won't you avenge your mom? He is right in front of you, you have to destroy him. He may even be planning against us" Alex said.

He was saying so many things to bring out the anger Jennifer had buried deep in her heart. He wanted her to go fight the man and destroy him. He wanted his life wiped out.

That was his vow to Nadja and her child that he would slay the bastard. So he would use any means to accomplish it.

Jennifer was still lost in her thoughts. All memories of her mom came rushing to her. Her eyes glistened with tears as memories about her flooded her mind.

She saw her mom's happy smiles and all the things she had to go through as her husband wasn't around anymore. She suffered a lot but kept quiet about it and used all her strength to raise her little female child.

Finally, the tears that had welled in her eyes causing them to shine, rolled down her cheeks like a bead.

She wiped her tears and then her eyes began to glow with fierceness. The light of ferocity emanating from them could be likened to that of an hungry tiger. She was ready to pounce and devour.

Swoosh!

She teleported away from the room and appeared before the gate to Gerald's residence.

Boom!!

She sent a fist out at the gate and the two large pillars holding the gate at both sides shattered into pieces with the gate flying, crashing into the roof of Gerald's quarters.

"Jennifer!! What the fuck are you doing?!!!" A furious voice boomed out from within.