A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 14: Blood crystal

Many days later, Alex woke up.

He looked around and then stood up from where he collapsed to the ground. He saw that he was covered in dusts. He then dusted himself.

He was puzzled, "have I been unconscious for so long?" He asked inwardly.

"You have awakened after eight days. Something happened to you. It's about your memories. I detected a seal but it quickly vanished. Your memory was trying to break free from it" the voice of the control entity suddenly sounded from nowhere.

"Memories?" Alex asked inwardly. "That's odd" he said in his mind.

"Boy, go in and get what's for waiting for you." the control entity said.

It was elated. This boy did it. Besides, Alex had just revealed another physique. It wondered how many divine physiques Alex had.

"Okay." Alex nodded and went in.

The room he entered was large and empty. The only thing in this room was a large red rock that floated.

The rock was emitting a power that caused it to levitate in the air.

"A rock? What am I supposed to do with a rock?"

Then he approached the rock cautiously. He looked at it for sometime trying to notice any irregularity.

After observing it for sometime and discovering nothing dangerous about it, he moved close to it.

He then lifted a hand and placed it on the red rock. The moment he did, a force entered into his body. This force was soft and gentle, it moved through his body seemingly scanning it.

After a while, the force returned into the red rock and the rock exploded.

Bang!

Alex shook because of the sudden explosion, "What's going on now?" he asked in a surprised tone.

Then he saw a red crystal floating in the air. Before he could do anything, the crystal shot into his body.

Alex's eyes widened in fear. He quickly looked within and saw the red crystal melt into a good number of blood that had different colors.

These bloods moved into his arteries and veins blending with his blood.

Abruptly, he felt a burning sensation all over his body. His eyes, nose, ears and every other parts of his body felt like they were on fire.

He howled in pain as green veins bulged from his face. He held his face with his hand and his abdomen with the other.

He gnashed his teeth so hard they could shatter. Then he fell to the ground and began to roll about.

He screamed and screamed, with his voice becoming increasingly loud.

After a few minutes, the pain disappeared.

Alex remained on the floor panting. Sweat had covered his entire body and his clothes were soiled to the extreme.

Alex couldn't help but breakdown in tears. Thin streams of tears rolled down his face like a small stream.

The pain he just went through was extremely traumatizing. It felt like lava was pumped into his body.

Many minutes later, he stood up. His shirt was drenched in tears and was dark brown from rolling on the floor.

What filled his heart was bitter resentment for the control entity.

Why didn't it tell him that he would go through a traumatizing pain once he placed his hand on the rock.

Noticing Alex's facial countenance, a voice sounded, "Kid, I know you are angry. But you just had to. If I told you and you refused to carry on, it would be my great loss. I wouldn't find someone else like you ever again, am pretty sure of that."

Alex nodded his head when he felt the control entity was apologizing.

"Although you have my master's legacy, I can't call you master until you reach the realm my master reached." the entity chipped in.

"Okay. I understand senior" Alex replied.

He knew this powerful entity would surely be a proud one. "That red crystal that caused me such pain, what was it?" Alex asked.

"It's a blood essence matrix that my master designed. It consist of his blood essence and several hundred beasts' blood essences. These beasts were fearsome high-rank beasts. My master, the azure beastsman, went around many worlds to places where divine beasts congregated. He subdued many and extracted a few drop of their blood essences which he refined. He was able to conquer them because of his unique bloodline power." the control entity replied.

"What power is that?" Alex asked in a curious tone. "My master had the power to summon thousands of beasts." The entity said.

Alex was surprised. "How was he able to do that?" he asked.

"Okay. My master had a vast realm where he breeded millions of diverse species of beasts. This realm was linked to his blood. Through his connection to the realm, he could access it and what he stored there. It's like a spatial ring. He can put something in there and bring it out at will. It's that blood you have now and the blood of the divine beasts. When you reach a particular cultivation stage, you would gain access to my master's abilities and the abilities of each of the divine beasts he extracted blood essences from." the entity replied.

Alex's eyes glowed in amazement.

Divine beasts?

Then he remembered those beasts he saw in his dream.

"Blood essences of divine beasts? Wasn't that supposed to kill me? my body shouldn't be strong enough to contain the power in their essences" Alex asked.

"Earlier, I was actually experimenting on your body. But I was sure it would be successful because of those mighty physiques your tiny body transformed into. It was supposed to be be a tremendously huge overload on your body but it didn't crash. Besides, you have divineforce energy circulating in your body, that's an energy that only belongs to divine experts. So it wouldn't matter even if you had blood essences of divine beasts." the entity replied.

Alex nodded in a light of understanding.

Huuuu!

Alex deeply inhaled. "These divine physiques, divineforce energy. How exactly did I come in contact with them, how I got exposed to such? Did something phenomenal happen to me when I was younger?" he asked inwardly.

Then he tried recalling everything about his life before he reached twelve but to his amazement, he couldn't.

It was all blank.

He furrowed his brows, "What happened to my memories? Why can't I remember anything? No wonder the control entity said something was wrong with my memories. But why is that, at least I should be able to remember a few things about myself?" he asked inwardly.

Now, what he wanted to do was go home and ask his uncle what happened to him when he was younger or why he couldn't recall his past? He left this thought that bothered him and moved on.

"So senior, what's that vast realm the Azure Beastsman bred beasts in?" Alex asked.

"It's a realm that is a replacement for beastbags. Beastbags are used to store only beasts. Some possess large storage space while others possess small storage space. These spaces depend on their grades. But this realm was really vast. My master established a link to this realm with his blood when he discovered it was an extremely large continent that was a hundred and ten times massive than the largest continents found in any Greatverse. It was a lone continent as it didn't border between any continent. He didn't know where the continent was from. He named this continent 'Beast World.' It was full of special unknown plant resources that caused the beasts he kept there to mutate, they became stronger than other beasts of the same specie at the same cultivation rank."

"Hmm. Since he had such power, why did the Azure beastman go after the blood essences of divine beasts?" Alex asked.

The beastman was really powerful, being the commander of a massive army of beasts. He should strike fear in the heart of anyone. But he caused his demise by going after divine beasts for their blood essences so he can have their bloodline powers.

"Experts and their various ways for power. "What a world." he uttered inwardly.

The entity was quiet for sometime before it spoke, "Every expert must do their best to grow stronger, one way or the other or they would fall behind. And every experts have their own way of accomplishing this. My master's way was through journeying to wildernesses in continents to hunts for beasts to subdue and make his minions, after branding a soul mark in them. He kept very large amounts of beasts in that realm and reared them till their numbers became incredibly huge. It was through this method he invented he was able to overpower hundreds of divine beasts and take their blood essences. He refined these blood essences and merged them all with his extracted blood essence. But he wasn't there to know if they successfully fused. If he had infused this blood matrix into himself, he would have automatically gained access to hundreds of divine beast bloodline abilities. Unfortunately, he couldn't make it out from the battle. Although he was domineering, but he was later killed by an extremely strong corrosive poison, synthesized by a poison beast grandmaster."

Alex shook his head. What a great expert.

Then he bowed, paying his respect to the Azure Beastsman. He was in this bowing position for three minutes before he straightened himself.

"Senior. I believe those divine beasts knew master had something of theirs which they don't want to share with anyone. How were you able to escape from them?" Alex asked.

Since the divine beasts had eliminated the Azure Beastsman, they would ransack his hall and take what was theirs and everything that seemed valuable to them.

There was no way they would let the sentient being controlling the hall evade them. But it did. So he needed to understand.

"Immediately my master got poisoned, he gave the order that I should leave that region. If I was seconds too late, I wouldn't have been able to escape. After I left, I crossed large distances through the void to come here so that they wouldn't be able to track me." the entity replied.

Alex nodded and asked nothing anymore. But in his mind, he was exceedingly glad that he now possessed the bloodline powers of myriad divine beasts.

But he knew that before he could be able to exhibit their abilities, he had to reach a high cultivation stage.

Right now, he couldn't perceive anything related to their abilities at all, and he didn't try to.

Even though he seemed to have a special body, he believed those abilities were still far from him to use.

Then abruptly, something shot towards him like a ray of light and stopped in front of him. He looked at what that was and saw that it was a ring.

This was the total wealth of the Azure Beastsman in his lifetime.

Realizing this, he ecstatically grabbed it and inserted it into his finger.

He knew how to use spatial rings like this. His uncle had a large number of them at home and even he himself had one on him.

He sent his awareness into the interspatial ring, and instantly, the entire content of the ring appeared in his mind.

He saw vast amounts of silver sapphirstone, large amounts of treasures, treasure-weapons and books.

He was tremendously astonished by the amount of silver sapphirstones in the ring.

There were about two million silver sapphirstones (supreme-quality sapphirstone) in the ring where one silver sapphirstone could be exchanged for one billion yellow sapphirstone (low quality sapphirstone).

He skipped the treasures and treasure-weapons. He couldn't be bothered with them.

He knew they were something he couldn't handle even in the Grand Saint Emperor realm as the Azure Beastsman would only use treasures and treasure-weapons that was perfect for his cultivation realm.

Him activating any one of them would instantly end his life, so he reasoned.

Excited about the immense wealth he had inherited, he then directed his attention to the tens of thousands of books that had appeared in his mind.

These books were manuals of myriad methodologies for cultivation, battle and movement.

He overlooked the books of small or medium sizes and brought his attention to the large books. There were hundreds of them.

These large books had very thick covers and their appearances gave the feelings of superlativeness.

He pulled out a few of these large books and looked at their titles.

Butchering Fiendgod Darkness Methodology (B-grade Dual Methodology),

Great Conflagration Methodology (B-grade Dual Methodology),

Grand Arctic Palm/Sword Methodology (B-grade Battle Methodology),

Radiance Palm/Sword Methodology (B-grade Battle Methodology),

Worldbreaking Golden Overlord Fist (A-grade Battle Methodology),

Limitless Shadow Great Evasive Thousand Step (B-grade Movement Methodology) and

Great Empyrean Seven-Hue Lightning Methodology (A-grade Dual Methodology).

When he went through these few, he couldn't help but mutter" awesome", although he had an A-grade Trinity Methodology manual, he was still going to learn these.

These Phenomenal Warring King-grade Dual Methodology Manuals and the last book he drew out were really making sense to him.

Might and power radiated off of their titles.

He returned them into the ring and sent his sliver of awareness into the ring's space to look at other things.

This sliver roamed this vast space for sometime before it attention was arrested by a small, thin book lying calmly at a spot.

Looking over, he became blissful as he quickly pulled out this thin book from the space in this ring.