A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 290: The exchange II

"Hmm. Then I would tell you." Rebuke said.

"One surprising thing you would want to know about this city is that, the number of soul cultivators is nearly the same as that of energy cultivators"

What?

Alex became tremendously shocked by what he heard. 

"So, huh... how d-did you all do it? You know, become soul cultivators" He couldn't help but ask in a stuttering manner.

"Many years ago, something appeared someplace in this city. When it first appeared, it caused the souls of people around there and to a great distance to greatly chill. But it didn't actually harm anyone as the frostiness that had appeared and engulfed their souls disappeared in the next instant. It was like it was alerting everyone of the appearance of something mighty which was indeed mighty. So, continuing what I am saying, those that were very living in the area or were close to the area where the thing had appeared in, experienced a stronger chilling of their souls. Terrified and exceedingly puzzled by the insanely strong and pervading coldness of their souls, they reached out to every other person who wanted to visit the area and that were far away, warning them that a hideous soul-eating creature had appeared. Then due to what they had thought, the mortal folks that lived there in fear relocated to another area, while powerful cultivation experts from different academies in the city and from neighboring cities went to that area to check and inspect it. After inspecting it and discovering the amazing effects of the chilliness on the soul, they then announced to everyone that it was a legacy which was related to the soul that had appeared." Rebuke said.

Then he continued "So, realizing the immense fortune that has appeared in our city, many energy cultivators and non-cultivators hurried down there to wait upon the legacy. However, the true legacy never appeared. But a type of lingering unseen power which seemed like enlightenment was what came from everywhere in that place. It was this power which also caused the intense chilling of the soul that made all of us who were in the area at that point in time to suddenly, deeply comprehend the soul. Therefore, since we had unexpectedly received a profound understanding of the soul, and then an ancient voice that rang in our heads, saying the method for cultivation of the soul, we all began to try to cultivate soulforce energy. After some days, many of us that were there were able to harmonize with soulforce energy. Then employing the soul cultivation technique that had surprisingly branded to our minds, we began to draw in soulforce energy to cultivate our souls. While it took the few others from many days to months to attune to the energy of the soul and cultivate it"

Alex's eyes glittered with awe.

'Hmm. So that's how there are many soul cultivators in the city. But why would that voice do that? What did it gain from carrying out that action? Is it to produce many soul cultivators? Whoever has that voice must definitely have a reason' He questioned and concluded inwardly.

Then he proceeded to ask Rebuke a question that appeared in his mind.

"Where is that place? The area where the voice and the chilliness that affected the soul came from"

"Haha. You also want to know that? Well, I can't tell you." Rebuke said with a laugh.

"Why?" Alex asked.

"Because I am seriously itching to kill you and take your wealth" Rebuke responded.

"Have you suddenly forgotten?" Alex asked.

"Forgotten what?" Rebuke questioned back.

"That I don't have my spatial ring on me as I have hidden it. Just tell me what I need to know, then I would tell you where my spatial ring is. So, after we have settled each other, we would resume our battle to the death" Alex said.

"You bastard!! What are you going to do with it after I have killed you? I can't believe that I am foolishly educating a dead person" Rebuke said angrily.

"Haha. Just spill out the location. I am waiting" Alex said calmly.

"I would tell you alright." Rebuke responded. Then he continued as he said further with great bitterness in his face like as if he was forced to say his deepest secret. "It's in a place that we named Soul Transformation Sacred Ground, as it is seen as a ground where cultivators and non-cultivators can go to become soul cultivators, even though the enlightenment power that allowed us to harmonize with soulforce energy, and the old voice that spoke the method for cultivation of soulforce energy are no longer present since twenty years ago"

"Oh. Alright then. I give my thanks. Now, let's resume our battle" Alex said.

"Where did you hide your ring?" Rebuke frostily said, fearing that he had been played by Alex.

"Oh that! I have already even forgotten about it. Haha! Please check you ass. I think I stuck it in there before I showed myself to you guys" Alex said.

"What?!! You bastarddd!! I am going to kill you! Arghh!" Rebuke said and shouted wrathfully.

"Isn't that what you were going to do before? Carry on with it, you donkey" Alex questioned and then grinned.

With flames of fury burning blazingly in his eyes, Rebuke sent a palm out at Alex. Then instantly, a massive amount of dual-attributed soulforce energy that was present in the dome shot towards Alex like a raging, gigantic flood. But a second later, the frenzied, tsunami-like soulforce energy unexpectedly condensed and shaped into a soul-fist that shot towards Alex at an extreme speed. And as it shot towards him, it emanated the different powers of Illusion and Enchantment which began to act unbridledly on Alex's soul.

While Alex seeing the massive, raging soul-attack that Rebuke sent out, quickly sent his two palms out. And immediately he did so, great amounts of soul-tribulation lightning and dark scarlet, soul-tribulation flame erupted from his two palms. Then borrowing powerful battle-methods for Energy Cultivators, Alex transformed his fire attributed-soulforce energy into an enormous, dark scarlet fiery soul-fist, and then his lightning-attributed soulforce energy into a large soul-spear that shot at insane speed towards Rebuke's mighty soul-attack which was in the shape of a fist.

Boom!!

A loud boom sound that only soul cultivators could perceive rang out, while a tyrannical wave of soul energy erupted from the impact and raged to all directions with soul-destroying power. While Alex's two soul-attacks which were composed of soul-tribulation flame and lightning turned into devastating waves of fire and electricity that spread out into the distance with seemingly calamitous power as it invoked the feeling that it could end all things.

Alex's corporeal Soul-Entities were struck and he was knocked into the distance by the raging waves of energy and power when they penetrated into his soul-dwelling region. While Rebuke staggered for sometime after his Soul-Entities were struck hard by the seemingly furious, attributed-soul waves that erupted from the points of the collision of their dreadful attacks. But as he tried his best to regain his balance from staggering backwards, the attributed soul-waves which were carrying the power of Devouring Flame and electricity acted on his Soul-Entity, trying to burn it down to a crisp.

When he eventually regained his balance, he screamed out in agony from the intense pain that he felt as the powers of consuming fire and decimating electricity engulfed his Soul-Entity and tried to reduce it to cinder.

However, as a Firmament Soul-rank soul cultivator, he was able to quench the flame and electricity trying to burn his Soul-Entity to cinder. But his soul-Entity had been greatly disfigured as large holes and numerous cracks could be seen around them. Therefore, because of this, he experienced unceasing headaches in his head. It was like his head was being continually struck hard by an ax.

His face contorted to resemble that of a monster. And this was due to the intense pain that he felt.

"I am going to kill you, you freaking bastard. Arghh!" He said with rage and then shouted in pain when a sharp and heavy aching pain afflicted his head.

Then with a determined gaze to kill Alex, which was also full of pain and misery, he sent his two palms out at Alex. And the instant that he did so, the dual-attributed soulforce energy that abound around him suddenly rage towards Alex like it was a tide. Then in the next second, the tidal soulforce energy that was rushing violently towards Alex like they wanted to devour him up completely, suddenly condensed and shaped into a massive rod. And pulsing with the power of Enchantment and Illusion, the rod-shaped soul-attack shot towards Alex at blazing speed to sunder his soul and completely shatter it apart.

Seeing the massive attack that was shooting towards him, Alex prepared to unleash his own attack.

With a thought, thirty of the sixty Soul-Beings in his soul-dwelling region unrestrainedly released soulforce energy from within them, and at the same time, they discharged the myriad powers of Soul-Corrosion, Soul-Devouring Fire and Soul-Destruction lightning.

One mustn't forget that Alex hadn't use all the energies or powers of his towering Soul-Entities that he possessed since he started this fight. He was only using a few of them. But now, he had increased the number of Soul-Beings that he was going to use for this particular fight. His aim was to use them to produce the soul-energy and condensed soul-power needed to unleash a greatly destructive soul-attack. Actually, with all his mighty and terrific Soul-Entities, he can fight soul cultivators that are two to three soul cultivation ranks above his. That was one of the greatest advantages of his numerous Soul-Beings. And this was possible by fusing the soul-energy or powers that can be derived from each of them into one, which would then possess a grandly destructive power that could match the devastating power of a full-powered soul-attack that would be unleashed by a soul cultivator which was in three soul cultivation ranks above his, and this was the initial-phase, Saint Soul cultivation rank.

As soon as soulforce energy and the three attributed soul-powers erupted from the immense bodies of thirty of the sixty corporeal Soul-Entities that he possessed in his soul-inhabiting region, they rushed out of his body like furious floods and condensed into mighty-looking attacks that each shot out at great speeds towards the massive soul-attack that Rebuke sent out.