A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 306: The lure

When Layla heard that, she shook.

'What's he planning now?' She asked inwardly with worry in her tone.

'He should have just listened to me earlier on. We would have avoided all these problems.' She said worriedly within herself.

But she still did as he said. She walked towards the crowd watching the whole thing from far away with great astonishment in their eyes. They were like, 'What exactly does this boy want to do?' This question kept flashing in their minds.

"Girl, where do you th---" The angered law enforcement agent who started talking to Layla as she walked back into the crowds with wrath in his tone abruptly ended his speech because of the appearance of something that produced a bright, colorful flash of light.

What had appeared was a treasure-palace. That was the Azure Beastsman treasure-palace.

"I believe y'all know what this is? Haha. It's a treasure-palace that contains the legacy of a supreme expert from one of those beast-inhabited Great Worlds. The owner of this palace was called the 'Nine Lives Sovereign Beast God'. I was actually, extremely fortunate to have easily gotten his palace in a perfect state from a deep ravine in one of my many adventures for cultivation resources. So, if you want it, do everything in your power to get it. Haha" Alex said and laughed.

Immediately he ended his statement, and before any of the senior cultivators could say anything or question him, space unexpectedly warped around his body and he vanished from where he stood, appearing in the palace which then abruptly shot away at a great speed without concealing itself in another layer of space.

Alex's plan was to actually lure all of them towards him. And he was sure that they would follow him because of their immense greed for cultivation resources and treasures. Well, for just about anything that would make them stronger than their peers anyways.

When the treasure-palace appeared and shot away in the direction of a lush, mountainous valley in this city, the cultivators in the air whose eyes shone brightly with greed quickly teleported after the palace that was moving at a speed that shocked them.

If not for greed and for the powerful treasures that they felt might have merged with Alex's body, they could have reasoned a lot of things through. But they couldn't let Alex escape with the treasures on him, so they quickly went after him. Or it would be their great loss and then be mocked at.

When the palace appeared, drawing everyone's full attention, Layla quickly left the carriage park into the street where she entered a beast-drawn carriage that carried her to a inn that was not too far away. Then immediately she got into the inn and rented a room, she quickly looked into the content of a spatial ring that Alex had secretly passed to her when he crossed her fingers with his.

In it, she saw a treasure-mask and a treasure-robe. Then without thinking too much about them, she quickly wore them. And when she fully understood how to use the treasure-mask she wore after sending a sliver of her perception into it and flash-reading it directions of use, she quickly activated it.

Once the treasure-mask became activated and began to glow, it suddenly sank into the skin of her face. Then it drew large wisps of morphforce energy from the world into it which it utilized to rapidly restructure Layla's face.

Although Layla was ready for intense pain as it had been said in the directions of use for the treasure-mask, she still experienced a whole lot more of extremely agonizing pain when the skin on her face stretched and twisted, and the bones of her face making snapping sound as they broke about to rearrange, thereby forming a new framework or structure for her face.

However, the facial alteration didn't go on for a long time. So, approximately ten seconds later which was 'hell' in one word for Layla, her face had fully, perfectly transformed. Now, absolutely no one would notice anything amiss with her form. Not even exceedingly powerful cultivation experts from Oververses would have a feeling that something is wrong with her face. And this was because of morphforce energy; an appearance-modification world-energy that's suitable for a thousand-percent, perfect camouflage or disguise, and near-effortless successful infiltrations into all organizations. But, she looked so much different from how she usually looked which was drop-dead gorgeous. Anyone that saw her at this moment would simply be disgusted by her face. Her face was almost like the face of a horse; it was simply, surprisingly long. Also, she had huge and thick eyebrows.

Then when she looked at a mirror in the room that she rented to know if the mask truly worked and to see exactly how she looked like, she couldn't help but scream in horror. Then when she got a grip on her reeling mind because of her face that was seemingly wickedly altered, she couldn't help but curse Alex in her mind. What sort of exceedingly ugly, retarded form did he program in the treasure-mask for her? But that was least of her worries. Now, she prayed in her heart that Alex would be fine.

Then when she put on the treasure-robe, she discovered to her amazement that she could use it to turn invisible upon thinking about it. It was a robe that contained voidstones which possessed many massive arrays that could individually produce cloakforce energy (invisibility-energy).

When she fully activated the items that Alex gave to her, she couldn't help but wonder where he got them from. Then she greatly hoped in her heart that he would be fine.

She didn't go anywhere else, she just remained where she was, waiting for Alex to come meet her as he had promised that he would come for her soon.

***

Many hours later, the treasure-palace that Alex was in appeared in the valley that Alex had secretly told the entity in control of it to go to.

Then when Alex appeared in the valley, he immediately stowed away the treasure-palace and awaited the appearances of the furious and greedy high-level cultivation experts that were chasing after the treasure-palace he was in through deployment of their teleportation powers.

Not long, about twenty minutes after his arrival in this valley, hundreds of frightening pulses of spatial power could suddenly be felt in the area. Then as Alex expected, hundreds of portals manifested in the sky with hundreds of cultivators whose eyes shone with great greed stepping out from within the portals and looking down on him like he was an ant.