A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 278: Soul Tribulation V

As Alex's eyes glowed with an unbreakable resolve to absorb the soul-corrosion energy, he immediately deployed the myriad energy and essence devourment power of his body that possessed the ability of the Negaria race.

"Absorb!" He said resolutely and determinedly within.

Immediately he mentioned this, thousands of abstruse symbols appeared on his body. And now emitting the Power of Suppression, the hundreds of thousands of corrosion power-emitting arrows that also produced a tyrannical suppressive force that was exerted on Alex's soul pillars and tried to reduce them into the smallest fragments couldn't cause much damage to them again.

As soon as the symbols appeared on his body and released the power of Suppression, the terrible pressure that once again acted on his souls quickly vanished. However, it was not that the pressure totally vanished, it was the power of Suppression emanating from the mystical incomprehensible symbols on Alex's body that suppressed it, reducing the amount of pressure that Alex felt.

Then with his body now emanating the power to absorb everything under the realmverse and in the inaccessible spaces in the realmverse, the essence that constituted the poison and corrosion-attributed, soul-slaying arrows that was shooting towards Alex's head with the intention to corrode his soul pillars were forced to halt in their flight. Now hanging only a few inches above his head, a green-colored misty substance began to exude from each one of them. And as the green, mist-like substances exuded from each one of the arrows and caused their sizes to abruptly reduce, they entered into Alex's body and were drawn into his soul-dwelling region where they then infused into his towering soul pillars.

Not long, the hundreds of thousands of arrows that were hanging only some inches above Alex's head began to rapidly reduce in size and then vanish. They vanished because the essence that constituted every one of them had been forcefully extracted from them and absorbed into Alex's body.

A few moments later, all the arrows that hung above Alex's head couldn't be seen again. They had been completely absorbed into Alex's body and then channeled to his soul-dwelling region where they infused into his soul pillars, causing them to grow another hue which was a third hue. Previously, it had white color which represented the bestowed Power of Intense Frost and Absolute Zero Ice Generation, and dark scarlet color which represented the gained power of Strongly Searing Heat and Blazing Devouring Fire Emission respectively. But one shouldn't forget that these wouldn't act on physical objects, only on the soul. They would bury the soul in extremely thick, innumerable layers or folds of ice or cause it burn into nothing completely. But Alex hadn't reach this stage yet. So now that they had also gained a pale green hue, they now possessed the ability to boundlessly unleash corrosion and poison-attributed, terrifying soul-killing attacks.

A few moments after Alex stopped the poison-carrying arrows condensed from the realmverse's soulforce energy and then absorbed their essences, the unusually colored vast stretch of sky that was directly above the building Alex bought to turn into his organization, abruptly change from bright green into two colors. The two colors that the part of the sky had taken were violet-golden and jet-black. And as soon as these colors appeared, a large silvery cloud appeared below the tribulation-sky. While violet-golden and jet-black lightning arcs could be seen moving like furious and aggressive snakes within and around it. Also, exceedingly powerful booms that would shake the earth rang out. However, no one heard these booms except Alex who immediately coughed out a large mouthful of blood when the booming sound-attack viciously struck his mind.

After coughing out mouthfuls of blood for a few times, Alex quickly prepared himself for what he would call the Ultimate Soul-Annihilation Tribulation.

Then immediately after preparing his mind and body for it terrifying attacks, he suddenly recalled the methodology that he used to cultivate lightniforce energy. And this methodology was the 'Great Empyrean Seven-Hues Lightning Methodology', a tyrannical trinity methodology which had astonishingly powerful cultivation, battle and movement techniques.

Once he remembered a high-level technique from this methodology, which was for the Lightning Sage stage to be exact, Alex quickly employed it.

If one wouldn't be able to recall the levels, the lightning-based methodology was divided into seven stages which were: Lightning Adept stage, Lightning Reverend stage, Lightning Emperor stage, Lightning Sage stage, Lightning Celestial stage, Lightning Godlord stage, and finally, the Lightning Grand Venerate stage. These were the realms or stages one would attain in the cultivation of electriforce energy (or lightniforce energy) using the unique methods that it possessed. But now, Alex was going to attempt something more highly profound, which was to use a soul-related technique for the Lightning Sage stage to absorb the soul-tribulation lightning and use it to temper his soul pillars. His intention was to make the soul pillars contain vast amounts of soul-lightning which he would unleash anytime at any foreign soul that was going to enter his soul-dwelling region with the malicious intention of absorbing or killing off his soul and taking over his unmatched powerful body. Therefore, by doing that, they would have become lightning soul pillars. Also, by carrying out that method, his soul pillars would become more resilient that they might easily resist shattering-type attacks from high-level soul cultivators.

The extremely profound, Lightning Sage soul-lightning cultivation technique which Alex was going to use was the 'Primordial Thunderous Soul Refinement' technique.

Alex knew how incredibly difficult and torturous this would be for him. But he just didn't care, nor was he scared. If one recalled a few things about Alex, he was simply the type that would definitely not give up on anything that would make him far stronger than his peers. He had always had the aim or objective of excelling far above his peers. He had always wanted to succeed and excel in a realm where his mates or peers wouldn't even imagine being there in the first place.

Therefore, exceedingly difficult or not, now that there was the opportunity to cultivate soul-lightning and even infuse some of the exceedingly chaotic realm-energy into his soul, he absolutely wouldn't lose such a chance. Seize and absorb was what he was going to do right here in this place. He wouldn't let the incessant booms that could seemingly cause the earth to tremble and the lightning-attributed soul-tribulation attacks to frighten him.

With a calm smile in his face and radiating the aura of readiness and unyielding resoluteness, he awaited the soul-slaying lightning bolts to descend from the large blue cloud that had formed in the sky and rampantly strike him.

Not long, an unseen, three feet-thick bolt of jet-black lightning shot down from the cloud and struck Alex's head. However, it didn't cause damage to his head as the bolt instantly teleported into his soul-dwelling region upon impacting his head. Then once it appeared in his soul-dwelling region, the soulforce energy-bolt of jet-black lightning tyrannically struck Alex's soul pillars.

BANG!

Arghhh!!!

Alex screamed out in pain when the single bolt that descended from the soul-tribulation thundercloud struck his soul with an immensely heavy force and then delivered excessive electrical charges to them like as if it had the intent to burn them into nothing or vaporize them into mists. Not long, due to the heavy collision of the bolt with his soul and the massive amounts of arcing electricity that began to roam about on his soul pillars, a great indescribable pain began to rack Alex's mind and entire body.

Alex who had fallen to the ground and rolled about on it with his head grabbed by his hands continued to groan loudly in pain as the vicious, black electricity arcs roamed about on his soul pillars.

However, trying his best to endure the unbearable pain that they inflicted him with, he quickly employed the profound absorption technique of the Lightning Sage stage. Then at the same time that he utilized the methodology's soul-related energy absorption method, he unleashed his body's powerful ability which was to rapidly and tremendously absorb every form of energy that he targeted. 

As soon as he did all these, the innumerable, pitch-black electricity arcs which moved violently and ferociously about on his soul pillars with the intent to destroy or totally ravage them, began to surprisingly flow into them. They were drawn in by the powerful, invisible pulling force that came from the center of Alex's pillar-shaped Soul Cores.

Crackling like woods in fire as they were pure ravaging electricity arcs, they began to flow like liquid to the center of his pillar-shaped Soul Cores. Then when they got to the heart of each of his soul pillars, the individual electricity arcs in there merged with the other to become one and then condensed into a cube-shaped, black crystal of soul-lightning.

The cubic lightning soul crystal which was formed from the compaction of the essence of soul-tribulation lightning was however little in size. It was as small as a grain of sand. It would need to be infused with more soul-lightning to be able to grow large in size. 

Not long, with two soul-shattering thunderous booms ringing out from the invisible, blue thundercloud in the sky, two ten feet-thick bolts of black lightning descended from it and struck Alex whose eyes shone with a light of preparedness.

Then before the two massive bolts would strike Alex, they disappeared and appeared in his soul-dwelling region where they strongly and heavily impacted Alex's soul pillars which then resulted in the generation of rippling waves that possessed tremendous shattering force. If these waves were to appear in the outside world, a large layer of earth would be stripped away and result in a massive and deep crater.

While Alex upon being struck coughed out several mouthfuls of blood as his soul pillars cracked again and began to slowly crumble apart.