A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 286: Surprised

Once Alex's voice rang out, the people who were after Alex furrowed their brows in shock and amazement.

"The bastard is here already? That fast? Haha. That shows he has one extremely fast transportation vehicle. And since he can have that, he would definitely have a large sum of sapphirstones. We are gonna be rich, wickedly rich. When we kill him, we would have all his possessions." Rebuke said excitedly to his men who nodded their heads with delight.

Few minutes later...

As Alex waiting, someone who wore a blue-colored cloak appeared before him. This person was Rebuke. Only him had decided to appear before Alex.

Once he appeared before Alex, Alex looked at him with indifferent eyes and asked "Where are the kids. Provide them now!" He then ordered.

"Or what?" Rebuke asked.

"Or I am gonna kill you and feed your body parts to the hungry wild beasts of the wilderness." Alex said.

Hahahahaha!!

Rebuke suddenly laughed like he was possessed.

"Oh. So, if I don't provide the children, you would kill me and feed parts of my body to wild beasts? Haha! Haha! I would love to see you try" He said.

Alex looked at him with a furrowed brow.

Then he asked "Are you a body cultivator or soul cultivator?"

"Why do you ask?" Rebuke asked.

"Because I can't sense any ripple of power of a cultivation stage emitting from your body. And since no sane mortal would dare to go against a cultivator, then that means you must be either a body cultivator or soul cultivator. So, which one are you? A body cultivator? Or a soul cultivator?" Alex mentioned and questioned.

"Haha. Well, I am anything you choose to believe in your mind." Rebuke said.

Alex looked at Rebuke for a few seconds, then he shifted his gaze away from his body to the environment. Then after looking around and into the distance for sometime, he turned his head to look back at Rebuke who had a sinister smile in his face.

"Where are your men?" Alex asked.

"Well, I don't have any men. I am doing this all by myself" Rebuke said. He was trying to have fun of Alex before he would order his men to come out for the kill.

"Oh. But from what I can sense, I can perceive that there are many people in a particular cave. Those should be your men. So, don't waste my time and tell them to come out to slay me. Or I would do the same to them if you keep on wasting my precious time." Alex said.

"My. What powerful hearing sense. You are using a sensory augmentation treasure placed in your ears to increase your hearing to great levels right?" Rebuke asked.

Alex looked at him and said "Well, no. I don't need that. And you don't need to know. Although you would die soon, I still will not tell you. I love keeping my secret only to myself, asshole" Alex responded.

"Haha...."

Rebuke started to laugh. Then before he could say anything else, Alex suddenly barked "Hey stupid, you are wasting my time! Do me a favor by telling your goddamned men to bring out the children. Or I would go into your cave myself to take the kids away with me."

Rebuke's sinister gaze then erupted unbridled killing intent.

"I would love to see you try" He said angrily.

Alex's eyes then narrowed.

With a thought, radiantforce energy flowed from within his energyhouse to his left arm and erupted from it in a massive amount. Then sharply, the luminous energy condensed and shaped into a large glowing spear that Alex pushed out of his hand with the will of his mind and with his absolute control over his energy towards Rebuke who suddenly unleashed a large, tidal wave of soul power that shot towards Alex at a great speed.

Passing through Alex's energy-attack unhindered like it was a ghost, the wave of soul-power arrived before Alex and shot into his body and into his soul where it struck his soul-beings with tyrannical hardness.

Boom!!

Since Alex's soul had solidified from it smoke-like form into corporeal entities, the large soul-wave struck them and caused a boom to ring out in his soul-dwelling region.

Alex staggered backward for sometime from the attack of the soul-wave that was unleashed upon him by Rebuke in retaliation.

After sometime, Alex gained his balance. Then when he looked up to gaze at Rebuke, Rebuke could see a thin stream of blood flowing down his nose and a side of his lips. While his eyes was slightly blood-red. A tiny amount of blood had appeared in his two eyes, making them red, while a small quantity flowed thinly down his nose and mouth. These happened because of the great force that the tyrannical wave impacted his soul entities with.

As Alex looked at Rebuke with an understanding that Rebuke was a soul cultivator, and one who was far senior to him in soul cultivation, Rebuke who was exceedingly shocked at the moment because of the way Alex's soul didn't damage in any degree from his soul wave attack, looked at Alex with great astonishment erupting off his gaze.

He had always thought that Alex was an energy cultivator, and that even if he succeeded in cultivating his soul, it wouldn't be able to withstand an attack from him. But from what he witnessed, Alex who was a cultivator of energies was actually also a cultivator of the soul. And from the way Alex was able to regain his balance from staggering backwards for sometime, instead of collapsing to the ground and be rolling about on it in intense pain, Rebuke couldn't help but have his mind reel in shock.

'The fuck! So he is also a soul cultivator? How come? Despite being an energy cultivator. I understand now. He's one of those insane cultivation genius. But still, where did he get the time to cultivate his soul to the point where he was able to withstand my low-powered attack, without fainting or even directly entering into a comatose state?' Rebuke questioned himself inwardly.

Then he said further within himself 'No wonder that guy said I shouldn't underestimate this boy. He's truly powerful. But from what I watched in that screen, his soul was being affected by any of the attacks sent out by his challenger who was at the Soulcore Establishment stage. So when and how did he cultivate his soul to such a stage that it even terrifies me. Aii! What have I gotten myself into? This boy surely mustn't escape from us, or he would grow to become a terrific cultivator that would come back to slay all of us. I have to kill him by all means'

Once Rebuke uttered all these within himself, an aura of evilness began to erupt from him.

Although Alex was at the Soul-Being Creation stage which was a soul cultivation stage that was between the Soulcore Establishment stage and Firmament Soul stage, his corporeal soul entities were able to withstand the attack from a Firmament Soul-stage soul cultivator; a stage that was equal in level to that of Sky Lord stage cultivators for 'Energy Cultivation'. While Alex's current soul cultivation stage which was between the two stages mentioned above was slightly greater in power to that of the Soulcore Establishment stage, which was the same as the Earth Adept stage. If one looks at it from an energy cultivator's perspective, the soul cultivation realm Alex cultivated his soul to which was the Soul-Entity Creation stage, was more powerful than the Soulcore Establishment stage which was the same as Earth Adept stage for energy cultivators. While the Sky Lord stage which was the same as Firmament Soul rank for soul cultivators was quite powerful than the Soul-Entity Creation stage. So, for this reason, Alex's soul-beings couldn't be damaged in the slightest by the low-powered attack that Rebuke sent out. However, one mustn't forget that Rebuke was in the peak-phase, Firmament Soul rank soul cultivation realm. Therefore, if he unleashed his full power to attack Alex's soul, his attacks could affect Alex's soul, such that he could cause numerous large cracks to appear on them or cause them to shatter into smithereens.

Then using a technique called 'Soul-Whistle', Rebuke projected a sound that could only be perceived by the soul. He made this sound to call out his members. Besides, the soul-calling whistle could go very far than when he shouts.

Alex also picked up the soul-whistle Rebuke sent out using his soul and smiled.

'The bastard has finally called out his members.' He said inwardly.

Then when dozens of men appeared before him, unbridledly emanating pulses of soul-type power that was at the late-phase and peak-phase, Soulcore Establishment stage, Alex's eyes widened, while his body shook. But no one would notice his body tremble as it was extremely brief.

Why Alex shook was not in fear because of their large numbers or the soul cultivation stages that they were in or anything like that, but because he was awed at the number of soul cultivators around him, when soul cultivators were supposed to be exceedingly rare.

"How come there are many soul cultivators here? Aren't they supposed to be rare?" Alex couldn't help but ask. But he knew that they must have definitely used or did something that caused them to become soul cultivators. Just if he could get that item or the method that they used, he would be able to transform the members of his organization who are Energy Cultivators also into Soul Cultivators.

"You want to know? Then sign a soul slave contract with me. Haha" Rebuke said with wickedness in his tone and laughed maniacally.