A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 12: Strange realm

Then Alex walked towards the stairs made of rocks, even without stepping on it yet, he could feel the pressure emanating from it. He took a deep breath as he braced himself.

Once he placed a foot on the first step, he trembled, but only slightly. Then he slowly climbed up the steps one after the other.

He looked at the steps, it would take a thousand step to reach that room the steps led to.

Unhurriedly, he slowly climbed.

The pressure was still within the range he could handle. By now, he had climbed up to the thirty-fourth step.

Many minutes later, the pressure had increased to levels that Alex felt he would shatter to pieces and he was just at the two hundred and sixteenth step.

He still had seven hundred and eighty-four steps to climb.

At this step, he couldn't take the next. No matter how he tried, he wasn't able to lift his feet, it was like they were filled with lead.

It was extremely difficult.

His entire veins begun to bulge out from his body, his eyes turned red as blood rushed there. His ear, nose and mouth began to bleed.

His face turned pale white, his innards, the organs in his abdomen, were tearing apart. Great excruciating pain racked his whole body, his vision became red and his head ached badly.

His body's skeletal framework, if one looked within, would see that they had cracked. Hundreds of cracks could be seen on every bones that comprised his skeleton.

He knew he had forced himself past his limit, if he dared to take the next step, the only thing was death.

If it was another person, he or she would have scattered apart into bit of flesh and blood.

Even body cultivators would be shocked at the toughness of Alex's body. Not being a body cultivator, he had a dense body, his bones and flesh were resilient.

"So stubborn, just quit." The control entity was at alert, once it feels Alex would be damaged or slain by the pressure emanating from a step, it would instantly deactivate the formation embedded in the stairs that was emitting the pressures.

"I can't stop here. I have to push on. I want that legacy. I can do this. I can't fail. I have to move on. Even the control entity has said that it has never seen or heard someone with a physique like mine. I believe that I am special. I can do this." Alex continuously said in his mind. And as he was muttering those words, like he was uttering a mystical chant, his consciousness was suddenly pulled into a strange Realm. Then in this realm, he saw countless numbers of bubbles the size of a minor world.

In each of these massive bubbles, he saw a body, not real bodies but illusory bodies formed by the power of the Realmverse.

These bodies were fearsome and looked divine. They radiated powerful presences that made them seem like animated bodies of gods.

His perception roamed about in this mystifying realm at many times the speed of light.

He was amazed at his speed, then he realized it was a sliver of his mind that was pulled in here and that he could reach such speed because it was backed by the laws of this realm, or he wouldn't be able to move around in here here since the bubbles were as large as a small world.

He looked at a bubble, and within it, he saw a body that was covered with complex patterns. It was dreadful as it discharged flames that were a thousand times massive than clouds in the outside world.

Then in few other bubbles, he saw in each of them, bodies that possessed different characteristics.

One produced astonishing numbers of lightning bolts that made it seem it was immersed in a vast sea of lightning.

Another had thousands of enormous blades orbit round like it was the sovereign of blades.

These bodies struck great fear and awe in him. "Where is this place I am in? Why have I appeared here? What realm is this dimension and are these physiques?" He looked at the uncountable numbers of bubbles and couldn't help but be marveled.

Trying to satisfy his curiosity, he touched a bubble that had a body that was golden in it.

The intense golden light emitting from it dyed the entire bubble golden and it looked indestructible.

The moment his awareness touched it, it was suddenly pulled in where it instantly blended with the golden body.

Once his consciousness melded with the body, abruptly, vast amounts of information surfaced in his mind.

He saw the name, 'Great Golden War Tyrant Physique', which was accompanied by tremendous amounts of details he couldn't understand, they looked cryptic.

These were methods of the physiques, for transformation and battle.

But in the next second, the transformation method was rapidly decrypted by his mind, it was quickly deciphered to a level before it halted.

Since he had suddenly understood the method for transformation, he was surprised but quickly recovered as he quickly deployed the technique to transform.

The instant he applied the method, he was connected to a power of the realmverse no being can detect unless they gain comprehension about the mysteries of it.

Then he perceived a unique power surging through his body, he couldn't contain them and seriously felt that he would explode.

Without knowing why he did so or it was perhaps the terrifying power that moved him to, he roared to the sky.

Raaagh!!!

The instant he yelled, intense golden light emitted from his body, bathing everywhere in it golden brilliance.

This made him seem his body was forged out of pure gold metal.

Omnidirectional waves of power emitted from him that caused the stony step he was on to begin to crack.

When he roared, it was like a planet-sized primordial beast bellowed in fury.

The growl was so loud it pushed air away from him creating a free space, a vacuum. This continent-shaking roar dispelled the clouds in the sky.

Once his body changed, the pressure exerting on his body vanished like it was never there in the first place.

His bones that had cracked rejoined and was now golden, his flesh turned golden like it was gilded, it became extremely hard and dense.

Everything in his body, his organs, blood, tissues also turned golden.

He was amazed but he quickly recovered from his shock. He grinned as he felt he was truly special.

He was elated by this particularity of his, he wasn't like the usual ones, he had always wanted to be a deviant and he was on the first step of that ladder.

Refocusing on the trial, he began to climb up the steps. He climbed up at an unbelievable speed, that in a few seconds, he had climbed up to the six hundred and forty-fifth step.

"What?" He looked at where he was and was absolutely astounded, realizing he was just a few seconds from completing the trial, he nodded his head elatedly.

Not wanting to waste time, he leaped and landed before the entrance of the tower.

Appearing here, he grinned.

Suddenly, his vision became blurry till everything in his vision turned dark. Feeling greatly weak, he collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud an blacked out.

The lustre emitting from him dimmed as Alex's body returned to normal.

Then a glow in his head dimmed revealing some enigmatic patterns that vanished without trace.