A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 309: Lurking

But before the law enforcement agent could do so, Alex suddenly unleashed another attack from the God-eyes of Ice World Creation and Glacial Desolation. And this time, he deployed all the Ice and Frost generation power that was available to him.

Once the power was unleashed, a coldness that could turn three feet-thick steel into ice suddenly descended upon this area. And immediately this type of excessive coldness surfaced, the ground for hundreds of meters became thickly layered with ice; the thickness of the ice that covered the surface of the earth in this region was about twelve inches. The same also went for the tall, lush mountains in the valley. So, fundamentally, everything in this valley was covered in extremely thick ice; including the caves in some of the mountains with the beasts inhabiting them turning into solid ice. And because of the exceedingly cold temperature that had abruptly surfaced, large amount of snow began to fall from the clouds in the sky. The clouds had also been affected by the power of Ice and Frost produced by the God-eyes of Ice World Creation and Glacial Desolation.

But the primordial power of Ice and Frost unleashed in this area wasn't limited to only it, as inhabitants of regions that were very far away from here experienced exceedingly cold winds that caused many long ice crystals to form on their roofs, windows. So, basically all the buildings in this area had numerous, tall ice crystals growing in them. Also, the land was encrusted with ice, making it slippery for anyone to walk on. And it was very thick that it would take them many minutes to break to expose the land surface.

The God-eyes of Ice World Creation and Glacial Desolation hadn't reverted back to Alex's eyes. And if one looked at them, one would see enigmatic patterns in them which gave the feeling of extreme profoundness. It was this incomprehensible mystical patterns on the surface of the eyes that brought down the excessive and exceedingly cold temperature that badly affected this place, covering virtually everything in ice and causing snow to fall endlessly. These patterns on the eyes and which glowed with a white light represented the full profound comprehension of Frost Originforce energy that the expert who owned the eyes infused into it to allow the wielder of the eyes to tap into and deploy the unfathomable coldness generation power that it possessed.

At the moment, one could see Alex grabbing his head with an expression of intense pain on his face. He was going through an agonizing pain from unleashing that tiny amount of ice and Frost generation power of the God-eyes. The pain he felt was one mortals who were ordinary humans would feel when they were thrown naked into an extremely cold desert; one that was a barren, ice-covered land and had bitingly cold winds move about in the area and which possessed innumerable numbers of towering, gigantic glaciers of ice standing tall on the surface of the ice-encrusted land of the icy desert.

Alex at the moment felt like his eyes had completely frozen over. His vision was blank like ice had formed everywhere in his eyes, blocking off his vision. So, because of this feeling which was that ice had seemingly formed in every layer of his eyes, he experienced a lot of pain in his eyes. And as his eyes were being afflicted with the pain from the feeling of numerous ice formations in them, his blood which didn't circulate round his body again also caused him severe pain. His blood which was as thick as mercury metal because of the infusion of duraforce energy into it actually stopped moving in his tempered blood vessels which had also frozen over. So, this caused Alex a lot of pain. Anyways, he felt extreme pain everywhere in his body because of his exposure to the intense coldness that was produced by the powerful Frost God-eyes.

Alex hadn't reach the stage where he could unleash this level of power and not be affected by it in anyway. Besides, if not that the coldness wasn't directed at him but at his enemies, he would have turned into a solid ice statue that was seemingly carved out of a thick ice block. So, it was just the residual, metal-freezing ambient coldness in the air that was affecting him in the slightest. Besides, he could slightly resist the insane freezing coldness affecting his body to a degree because of his toughened body; now that his entire body had been strengthened and tempered at a cellular level to a certain degree, they were made near-impermeable to the intense frigid coldness circulating in the atmosphere in this valley.

After enduring the intensely excruciating pain that he felt, and at the same time fighting with the extreme coldness that totally immobilized his body, he regained the seized ability to move and control his body sometimes later.

However, his eyes still stung him causing him painful pricking sensations, but he made the God-eyes to remain and then gritted his teeth as he tried his best to endure the agonizing pain that he felt in his eyes. And as the eyes continually stung him, he watched with his eyes wide open for any activity from the cultivators that were trapped in the towering crystals of ice that had swallowed up their figure. He was actually ready to ignore the intense pain that he felt and unleash another powerful ice-attack from the God-eyes of Ice World Creation and Glacial Desolation.

But this time, he detected no activity from them. It was like they had become lifeless.

Alex then exhaled.

It was like he had successfully turned them into ice.

But he couldn't be sure as they were experts that could be pretending within the ice that they had been frozen over, just so as to deceive him and then take him away when he drops his guard and lower his alertness to the criticalness of the situation that he was in.

However, Alex wasn't a fool to fall for that.

And also because he contemplated how to break the ice on them apart so that he could get to their bodies and take their spatial rings away with him, he decided to employ the power of the True God-eyes of Grand Destruction to do that. And this time, he wanted to really unleash a tiny fraction of the actual devastating power of the destruction God-eyes that should only affect the immediate area or zone of the targets that he sets his gaze upon. Unlike the last time where he produced a huge, dark-colored sphere of destruction-imbuing power that increased the destructive capacities of any of his attack, whether short-ranged or long-ranged attacks to shocking, godlike levels which went on to destroy many places and annihilated thousands of people in the process, thereby bringing the blood of innocent people, mortals especially, upon his head which could cause massive, exponential leaps in the obliterating power of the next Beyonder-level tribulations and Absolute Soul Destruction tribulations that he would be faced with during any of his breakthrough to higher energy and soul cultivation realms.

And since his body could be said to be tough, he felt that it should be able to withstand to a level, the power of Destruction that would be unleashed from the eyes.

Now, one should be able to comprehend the reason why Alex decided to use the true power of destruction of the destruction God-eyes; which was mostly because he didn't want to unleash ranged attacks which would possess astronomically amplified destructive capabilities that would surely go on for thousands of miles to destroy or devastate many places in numerous cities in the state. And also, he didn't know where Layla was at the moment and didn't want her to be unfortunately and sadly killed off by his vastly augmented attack.

While Alex prepared to use this power to shatter the enormous, towering ice crystals and the frozen cultivators into thousands of fragments, what he didn't know was that the City Lord, and another really high-level cultivator who concealed himself using cloakforce energy had been watching everything that he was doing with astonishment in their gazes.