A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 53: Old man

He had been trying his best ever since to break out of the illusions. He knew that the illusions were being sent into his mind through his eyes.

Since his gaze connected with Jennifer's gaze, it created a link that Jennifer used to send illusions into his head.

He needed to break this gaze but he didn't know how. He had numerous god-eyes, but he couldn't summon any of them to use.

Then he remembered when he was at home. When he looked at that mirror and caused it to explode. What he did there was destroy the mirror. Perhaps destruction was one of the power of one of the numerous god-eyes he had, he thought.

So he would try to destroy that link that allowed Jennifer to continuously transmit illusory elements into his head.

Then he focused on his eyes. And with a will and resoluteness that wouldn't bend or yield to even Gods or Devils, he shouted "Destroy!"

It was exactly at this moment that he was being pulled into the gigantic illusionary maw of the unseen, colossal primitive beast.

Once he yelled 'destroy' with great unflinching resolve and with total concentration, his eyes turned completely white. Then large golden pupils appeared at the centre of his eyes.

The instant it appeared, nine small black pupils surfaced around them. Abstruse characters that glowed in violet appeared on the white surface of the eyes.

Once these eyes appeared, everything stopped. Then Alex's soul was pulled into a realm that seemed vastly infinite in size.

In this realm, he saw an old man.

He became shocked.

The hell? Where is this place?

He quickly greeted, "Senior, this junior greets you". The old man nodded his head. Then he asked, "Who are you and how did you did get here?"

Alex didn't know what to say. But he still said something, "I was terrorized in an illusion and tried to break out of it. So, I... I put all my wrath and will into it and destroyed the terrifying illusory world that I was in. Then I was brought in here." Alex replied honestly.

Lying to this old man wouldn't be a wise thing to do.

"Hmm. But who are you? I remember one dashing young man, after many dangerous trials inherited my god-eyes. Where is he and how did you get these eyes?" the old man asked in a perplexed tone.

"That young man was my father. He didn't have the intention of using your god-eyes. He came for it and gave it to me." Alex replied.

"Hmm. So where is that young man now?" the old man asked. "He is dead. He, my mother and everyone he ever knew or related with sacrificed themselves in the battle against the beings from the Sae-uhl race." he replied.

The old man's eyes shone. "Those bastards again. They came and took everything from me. I wish I can come back to life again, I would destroy them all." he said in anger.

Then Alex seeing this as a golden opportunity to know more about the dreadful and fiendish alien race that he was going to battle with in future, quickly asked in a curious tone "Senior, why exactly do they raid other realmverses?"

He wanted to understand why they did this, and how they were able to succeed at it.

"This is because unlike other realmverses out there, their's is only a single world. But it is extremely large. See it as an equivalent of ten thousand grand worlds. But despite it hugeness, it couldn't support the rate at which they multiplied. Every female Sae-uhlian produced at least ten offsprings. One could imagine the number if trillions of them gave birth at that figure. Besides, there was no family control or anything like that, they just gave birth to increase the size of their population. They saw it as an overwhelming advantage in anything, but they were wrong. It's true that it was a great advantage, probably in battle, but it caused them to use up all their resources. Their world couldn't support their existences any more as all their resources were fully exhausted. Then so that they won't go extinct, they reached out to other realmverses and once they conquered it, part of them settled there and multiplied. Ten billion years ago before I died in a clash with the beings from this race when they invaded our realmverse, I discovered to my terror and amazement that this race had seized more than thirty-nine realmverses, and that every realmverse that was seized by the Sae-uhlians would set up their own government and would compete with other Sae-uhlians that had established hegemonic power in other realmverses for a particular realmverse. The one that is able to successfully invade and take over a realmverse makes it their territory. So it became like a competition to them. I found this out from a bastard I caught and tortured to tell me what they had been up to. I fear this supreme proliferating race would drive every other race to extinction.

Alex's soul trembled.

Now, he just got to know that the Sae-uhlians had long settled in the realmverses they conquered, multiplied at an exponential rate and are competing with others that had established dominance in other realmverses for a realmverse that had not been acquired.

It was like battle trophies to them. It brought them glory, fear and reverence.

He just hoped that they hadn't set their devouring gaze here.

"But that many!" he complained bitterly in his heart.

"Even if I am the one to protect my realmverse, I can't possibly deal with so many. What if armies of Sae-uhlians from ten realmverses come at me at once? I would be overwhelmed. Damn, I have a lot of work to do. I can't disappoint my parent, they put all their hope in me that I would be one to protect every race in the realmverse". Alex thought in his mind and then his eyes shone with determination and vengeance.

Still wondering how he was going to go about that, a realization hit him.

Marvel-weapons.

Only they can help him. When he gets stronger, he would go for them. He believed because of his body and the vast gifts he possesses, he wouldn't be harmed when he operated the marvel-weapons.

Then he thought of realm-weapons. Weapons that have arrays that are nearly the same number and size of worlds in the realmverse. He wished realm-weapons existed. They might make things easier for him.

All these surfaced in his mind in a second. Then he looked at the old man and asked. "Senior, how many realmverses do we have out there?" he asked.

He wanted to know how close they were to his realmverse and see if he had more time to grow.

"So many than you can imagine. But many of them have worlds that aren't as large or numerous as ours. We are blessed here, like tremendously blessed." the old man said.

Alex nodded elatedly. Seems he still had more time to grow. "Senior, are you still alive? Did you find a way to live? And where is this place?" he asked. "No, I am already dead. This is only a body of information, formed from soul energy and this place is an eye-dimension." the old man replied.

"Body of information?" he asked curiously. "Yes, a soul body of information. It is my soul energy condensed into a corporeal body and infused with all my lifetime memories." the old man replied.

Alex's eyes shone in amazement. "Senior, how's that possible? Your soul body didn't disperse" he asked. The old man smiled, "Yes, it can't disperse because I am in this dimension. My reason for being in this dimension is to give my inheritor my complete legacy. Having the eye alone is just half of my legacy. Back to your question, if I was in the outside world, my soul body will shatter and disperse and the soul energy that formed this body would return to the Realmverse." he said.

Alex nodded in apprehension. "Senior, how do I activate these god-eyes?" he asked. If he knew how to awaken this particular god-eye's eye-power, that would be another powerful card for him.

He now needs to learn how to do so many things about the gifts he has, and understand and operate so much of the things that had fused with his body.

The old man smiled. "These eyes you have are half-true eyes. This is because they have arrays spatially compressed into them. See the eyes as treasure-weapons. Once you can understand the arrays, you would be able to unleash the full power of the eye. These eyes I named, 'God eyes of Grand destruction' is named so, because the arrays in them produce destructiforce energy, the energy of destruction." the old man said.

Alex was shocked.

So his parent were even wrong about the eyes. What his uncle told him then was that it was because the creator of the eyes shot beams of cultivation energies through them that they mutated and became god-eyes.

That wasn't what happened. They simply turned their eyes into weapons. But he needed to confirm this. He asked the old man "So, the eyes can't do anything without the arrays. They can't produce their own power?"

The old man laughed. "That's why I said they were half-true eyes. Without the arrays, they can still produce their own power which is at the level of power I can unleash. Through my comprehension of the basal energy of destruction, which is primordial destructiforce energy, I transformed my eyes into god-eyes. I did this by infusing the eyes with my total comprehension of the mysteries of primordial destructiforce energy and saturated them with the energy, fusing it with every constitutive components of the two eyes. So they mutated and became god-eyes." the old man replied.

Alex's eyes shone in great astonishment.

'Amazing!' 

So because the eyes contains the old man's full comprehension of the mysteries of primordial destructiforce energy (destruction originforce energy), they could erupt the same level of power as the old man.

"Haha! god-level eye-power." He laughed somewhat wickedly within him and said.

If Alex could see in his own eyes at this moment, he would see they have transformed and he would see abstruse characters on the white surface of his eyes.

These abstruse characters represented the man's comprehension of the mysteries of destruction originforce energy.

Alex was amazed. "So, where are these arrays?" he asked. "They are in this dimension." the old man replied.

Alex's eyes shone.

Then the old man looked at Alex, "Well, since you have inherited my god-eyes. You should inherit my entire legacy." the old man said.

Then he turned into thousands of motes of light that drifted towards Alex's soul, some of this motes were big while some were small.

They penetrated into Alex's soul and turned into tons of memories. Each motes of light were actually memories and their sizes depend on the sizes of the memories they contain.

These memories were organized memories of so many things he never knew about. It was on alchemy or pill making, array or formations, forging, inscriptions, cultivation methodologies, battle-methods, movement-methods and so on.

Alex's soul shook due to the massiveness and numerousness of the memories but he could handle it. Besides, his soul was made stronger by being infused with a lot of soulforce energy.

Then his soul was pulled out of this dimension into his body.

There was something Alex did not know.

If Alex knew this god-eye was a marvel-weapon, he would cough out mouthfuls of blood due to the shock that would rock his soul. But this he would discover later in the future.

Once his soul returned, time continued. But the link had been broken. Then due to the manifestation of the god-eyes, a sliver of the power of destruction discharged from it and it caused Jennifer's body to crack and her blood to seethe, so much that they could explode out into mist of blood.

But as a saint emperor, it only caused her great pain. That tiny sliver of power only dealt her intense, excruciating pain.

She bled from her eyes, nose, mouth and from the cracks on her body. She looked horrifying at the moment. Her cloth was dyed red with her blood and a tiny pool of blood could be seen on the ground.