A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 77: Search

In a cave...

Alex's eyes suddenly snapped open. Then he stood from where he lied. He looked around and remembered he fainted here when he produced a physique.

He took a deep breath.

"So I escaped from the clutch of that evil bastard. What insane luck"

Then he sat back on the ground and began to think hardly of what to do next.

But he didn't know it was because Jennifer overpoweringly destroyed a weaker clone of that person that he was released from the person's clasp. This person was ready to pursue him to the ends of the earth for the treasure he believed merged with his body if he hadn't suffer a great soul injury.

"I can't go back to the academy. Those two instructors are going to tell the others about me. What kind of life is this? I feel cursed."

This was the first time Alex felt his tremendous unique abilities were a curse. He felt it would only bring him nothing but pain and fear. He would always live in terror until he got strong enough to repel every expert that come his way. So he thought.

"Is this how I am going to be living my life? Being chased about like a rat?" he asked out loud.

He looked at his clothes and saw they were soiled.

"Another ruined cloth"

Then he stood from where he sat and approached the cave's entrance cautiously. He waited for sometime trying to perceive any form of sound using his amplified hearing ability.

Feeling nothing looked out of the usual, he came out of the cave. Then he looked into his mom's spatial ring and saw the dragon egg. It had a beautiful blue shell. When he saw this, he smiled.

"I finally have a beast companion. What do I call you? If you are a female, I would name you after your mom, Nadja. And if you are a male, I would call you Nojraagon. Hmm. Is that a nice name for a male?" He asked inwardly.

"I think" Alex replied with certainty to his own question after being thoughtful for some time.

Then he looked at himself again.

"Gosh! So dirty. How many days I did I spend lying on the floor? Anytime I am chased about, my cloth always end up ruined. I need to grow up very quickly to change my strength-status. I am tired of being chased about like a deer by a cheetah."

"But my cultivation layers are very far from each other. In all honesty, being a cultivation aberrant is really a curse. Not a blessing. I wouldn't be able to live life like every normal cultivator. I am sick and tired of all these. I think I am done in this state. I would return to my uncle's mansion. I am very safe there. I would be able to use cultivation pills to boost my cultivation speed safely and quickly in there. Then when I have achieved a high cultivation stage, I will set out again" Alex said making up his mind.

Then he recalled the female instructor he was very close with in the Black Dragon academy.

"Instructor Jennifer" he subconsciously muttered.

"If I leave without saying goodbye, she is going to be devastated when she returns from her trip. I know she would hear about the attacks on the instructors and about my disappearance. Then she would think something bad happened to me and feel very guilty for leaving me to protect myself. This would definitely affect her cultivation heart."

"No, I can't leave. I have to go back. Besides, she is now strong enough to protect me. Other than Elena's grandfather who is the strongest in the state as he is in the sage general cultivation level, no one should be able to face instructor Jennifer. Even if they can, she has powerful defensive and attacking treasures." Alex said. Then he nodded his head. He agreed with this line of thought more.

"But I need to grow stronger quickly. Like very quickly. That condensation pill works but it's slow at raising my cultivation level. I think I should opt for the consumption of earth-rank pills. My body is strong enough to withstand the energies that they would produce when they dissolve"

He nodded his head and searched for where to get water to clean himself.

....

After deploying his powerful physical senses, he traced the sound of flow of water, that's water current, to a small river.

When he got there, he focused on his energyhouse and discharged pyroforce energy from his entire body. This appeared as a bright hot flame around him. But this time, since it was his will. It burnt away the clothes he wore to cinders.

Then the flame that engulfed his body vanished, revealing his flawless, ripped naked body. He had ceased the discharge of pyroforce energy from his energyhouse.

Why Alex had an impressive, ripped muscular physique was because of his strengthforce energy. Anytime it saturated any of his muscles, it caused them to spontaneously, rapidly grow.

This made him possess increased muscle mass and muscle denseness. Now, without the energy, on a basis of pure physical strength, he is many times stronger than five mortal men combined.

So because of his muscle size and density accelerated growths, he looked ripped. But not too excessive in a way that was irritating. It was a physique every girl and woman would wow to. It was a physique they craved ultimately in a guy; that would make him look as hot as fire to any woman who sees him topless and turn them on.

When Alex was done, he then stepped into the river, submerging himself into it. Then he began to wash himself.

.....

Many minutes later.

Swoosh!

Jennifer appeared in the area where the water dragon egg was reported to be found.

Then using her saint emperor-power which she infused into her voice. She shouted "Alex!"

Her shout terribly shook all the trees in the forest that they could almost crack and even the mountains seemed to be trembling.

She amplified her shout so Alex could hear this wherever he was.

Then she deployed her emperor-level scanning saint-sense. But she detected no movement. Then she shouted again. "Alex!!"

There was no response or any form of movement. This made her feel really bad.

Then she flew to an higher altitude, above the mountains and shouted.

"Alex!!!"

Another slight pause.

"Alex!!!"

She shouted again and again.

But there was no response neither could she detect any form of movement. Then her heart began to beat wildly from intense worry.

Her heart became overwhelmed with fright. She feared for Alex's wellbeing.

"Alex please be safe." She uttered in her mind.

She didn't know where else to go from here, what to do next. She became confused on how to search for him.

"Micah you evil, sinister thing and Gerald you stupid principal. I swear if I don't see Alex, two of you would pay for it. I would wreak havoc in the school" She said out loud in anger.

Then she flew away to a random place to search for Alex. She deployed her saint-sense to the maximum and scanned everywhere for Alex.

But as fate would have it, she went in the direction completely different from the one Alex took.

Alex at the moment had come back to the cave and in front of him could be seen the earth-rank pills for the cultivation methodologies he studied. He looked at the numerous large pills on a plate and took a deep breath.

He was about to swallow these and hoped he doesn't ruin his cultivation. He hoped he was right about his body's toughness and about the tenacity and endurance of his energy meridians, his force-arteries. Once they cut, ruining, then his cultivation could be said to be all over.

Although, he had already made ten of the energies he cultivated satisfy the condition of the realmverse. It was only five remaining and this was because he didn't have pills for them. He could only draw them from the world into his body and to a degree that they would now achieve the same quality as the others.

But now, he wanted to blaze through the late-phase and enter the peak-phase entry stage. He had been at this level for a long while and had become tired of been seen as weak because of his very low cultivation level.

Besides, he had a feeling that if he enters the peak phase, he could be surprised. Some new abilities could be open to him. He hoped so anyways.

He carried a pill with shaky hands and swallowed it. The instant he did and the pill melted, it was like a bomb went off in his body.

The amount of energy released from the dissolution of the pill produced an amount of energy that was more than a hundred times that of the amount that would be released by a condensation-rank pill.

He groaned in pain as his eyes turned red. His nose and ears began to bleed. Green veins bulge from his temple.

But a single break or cut couldn't be seen in his organs, especially his stomach where the melting of the pill occurred talk more of his durable skin. True it was stretched to a great extent causing Alex great pain, but it didn't burst.

Likewise his other organs, they were being pressed by the energy that escaped from his stomach as it was great in quantity but they could withstand the crushing force exerted upon them by the energy.

Although, Alex's bodily components seemed to withstand the large amount of energy roiling in it. He wallowed in great pain and agony.

But for a rapid increase in his cultivation level, he endured it, gnashing his teeth so hard they could shatter.

He channelled the energy wisp after wisp to his energyhouse where they infused into the respective energy mass.

Slowly, the energy mass began to change qualitatively and quantitatively. Then after a long time, it density and size became the same as that of someone in the peak phase. He had jumped phase. Right from the late phase to the peak phase.

Yet, he couldn't be said to have entered the peak phase as five of the fifteen energies he cultivated which were strengthforce energy, radiantforce energy, phantasmforce energy, darkforce energy and speedforce energy were still at the level of quality of someone in the mid-phase entry stage.

Seeing how the energy transformed, Alex became glad, then he swallowed a different pill meant for another energy.

...

Jennifer searched for Alex everywhere. She had scanned so many places and in the process put herself in trouble. But she quickly overcame this by virtue of her shocking physical strength.

She entered into trouble by deploying her saint-sense and scanning everyhere. Everything one person or the other did in secret were revealed to her and this annoyed many experts.

But they couldn't do a thing to her except scurry away in fear and terror as she was too powerful.

Besides, her strength was fuelled by her anger. She was ready to take it out on anyone who came her way to challenge her.

Right now, her heart was incredibly bitter. It was filled with sorrow. She felt she wouldn't see Alex no matter how hard and where she searched. He could have been taken away for some evil thing that bad people did.

But she didn't give up hope. Since he was the only son of incredibly powerful experts, it was right for him to possess a hundred ton if not a thousand of life-saving treasures.

She believed he would have many of these things with him and that she was checking the wrong places. But peradventure she was wrong and after searching for him for weeks, she couldn't get find him. She would return to the academy and unleash her unbridled anger.

"Micah. I know this is your doing. It's best you leave the school this moment because if I return without Alex or I don't hear any news about him in the school, you would face my wrath. That I promise you."

Then she flew away at supersonic speed to other places.