A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 78: A Breakthrough

In a dark and gloomy place.

"What if Jennifer comes back without Alex? She could wreak havoc in the school. That wouldn't be too good for your plans" Micah said.

"She can't do a thing." An elderly man wearing a black, hooded cloak sitting on a small rock said.

"But you said she destroyed your clone that was at the grand saint emperor realm. She is now powerful. How wonder how she was able to gain that strength." Micah said.

"I don't understand too. Her strength is on par with that of a sage-general stage cultivator. I wonder how she was able to achieve that strength" The man said in a puzzled tone.

Then he looked at Micah with a frown, "You are so incompetent. You couldn't discover the whereabouts of a boy. Later you would say you are an expert at the saint emperor realm. Saint emperor realm my old ass. How was he able to evade your powerful senses despite me pointing to you in the direction he went in?"

Micah shook his head in disgust and anger which he concealed from the old man. "I scanned everywhere. But I couldn't find him. I don't know how he was able to to evade my sense. Perhaps it's that treasure that has merged with him that's blocking detection by my scanning sense."

"Hmm. That could be possible" The man nodded.

"So what do we do about Jennifer. She has this strength and could ruin your plans. How are we going to stop her?" Micah asked.

"You have the direction she went in?" The man asked.

"Yes."

"Good. Call the League of Shadows"

.....

At the moment, Alex was trying to up his cultivation level. He was giving it his all. Now, ten of the fifteen energies he cultivated had reached the same level of quality as that of one in the peak phase. He had only the five energies left.

He thought hard of what to do. There was no pill for this and his cultivation of the energies seemed slow.

He wondered how much time he had left to prepare for the next invasion as he had spent many months in the middle-phase entry stage.

Besides, a week later, he would turn fourteen. Meaning he had spent almost a year in this stage. But no one would know this. They would see him as a sixteen or seventeen year old boy because of his height except that he was facially younger.

"I must not disappoint my parent. All their effort over me wouldn't go fruitless. I promise."

Then with eyes that shone with determination, he closed them and spread out his perception far and wide. He forced himself to his limit.

He got to his limit, but he pushed it further trying to break through the constrainment on his perception.

He suddenly received a sharp pain in his head and his ears began to buzz and his eyes began to hurt. But he didn't stop. He continued to push further and further. And because of his iron determination, he continued to do so.

His perception continued to spread far, without stop. But at the moment, his face had turned ugly as it had contorted due to the great pain he was going through. His head ached badly. It was like an axe was used to split his head open. That was the kind of pain he was going through.

Although he was glad he was able to push his perception of energies to an higher degree, the pain inflicted upon him in trying to go beyond his perceptive limit made him not able to revel in his fortune.

Then he focused on the energies he wanted to cultivate. He deployed the techniques to cultivate them all at once.

That was a serious mental multi-tasking.

The instant Alex utilized their respective methods, five forms of energies appeared. They surfaced in different colors and began to swirl around him producing a beautiful scene. At the moment, he was like a divine god of color.

Then the masses and sizes of these energies began to build up, becoming a large energy tornado. It appeared as a massive, funnel-shaped mass of swirling colored energies around Alex.

These energies flowed into his body, strand by strand, through his pores and along his energy channels to his energyhouse. Then they infused into the energies which began to increase in density and quantity.

Because of the size of the energy cyclone, it emitted many colors of light that reached far. The resplendent lights emitting from the cyclone bathed everywhere in its brilliant colors.

If one looked at it from far, it was like a treasure had just revealed itself to the world. It was just too colorful and beautiful. That was the scene this vortex painted.

Because of the rate of flow of large quantities of energies into Alex's energyhouse, the density of the energies shot from middle-phase to late phase.

Many hours later..

Boom!

An explosion took place in his body. It was like a bomb went off. But only he could hear the sound. But the effect of his cultivation breakthrough could be seen around him.

It caused the ground he sat on to dent by an inch and the air to tremble.

Alex had now entered the peak-phase entry stage.

Haha!

He laughed excitedly.

"Finally!" he screamed out in intense joy.

His pains paid off at last.

He didn't bother to tend to the blood that was streaming down his nose and ears.

"Hmm, another soiled cloth"

He looked at himself and shook his head. He saw that he was bloodied and that he was coated in a smelly, dark brown filths. These were produced as a result of his breakthrough.

When the boom occurred in his body, it was an indication that Alex had broken through into another cultivation layer. Sub-layer actually.

So as he broke through, his body was made to release many of the filths he was exposed to and had absorbed over the years in this world.

But if one looked closely, the intensity of the colour of the filth wasn't like when he first started cultivation. Then it was dark black. Now it's dark brown. The colors were changing from a darker shade to a lighter shade meaning the filth in his body were reducing.

Alex then went to the river again to wash himself.

He submersed himself into it and let the river undercurrents hit him. These washed away the filths and blood on his body. Also, he was trying to know if he could hold his breath for long in water and without surprise to him, he could hold his breath far more than normal.

Thirty minutes later, he shot up out of the river.

The instant he landed on land in his complete nakedness, he saw a group of people in front of him or more precisely, a group of men. They looked twenty plus and thirty plus.

Once Alex saw them, he screamed in shock.

Argh!!

With a thought, the pattern on his chest flashed a prismatic light. Then a cloth appeared on Alex's body.

Alex felt incredibly bad. His nakedness had been seen. With anger in his heart, he shouted "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE?"

This was the first time Alex ever used the fuck word. This showed the degree of his anger. No boy or man would like his private property revealed to the world, especially to a group of burly, ugly men.

The men in front of him were big and ugly.

They looked at him with furrowed brows. That flash of light from his chest caught their attention.

Then one of them stepped out. He was probably the leader. He asked with seriousness "Boy, did you see any treasure in here? There was this huge vortex of multicolored energies. It was likely produced by a treasure. Did you see it?"

Alex looked at him and said "What treasure? I saw nothing. I achieved a cultivation breakthrough and came here to wash myself but you guys followed me here and saw my dangle. It's really annoying"

'Damn. I should have focused on my hearing. When did this team of adventurous bastards arrive? Maybe it was when I was cultivating. I was so engrossed in it I detected nothing. Gosh! I fucked up'

The man before Alex looked at him and asked "Are you sure? Think carefully"

Alex looked at him. He could understand the underlying meaning of what the man just said.

"Yea, I have thought carefully. So nope, I didn't see any treasure. Please go. I want to be on my way." Alex said, feeling disgusted.

"Shut up! Am not done with you. Where do you think you are going? What gave out that light from your chest?" The man asked.

Once this question was asked, Alex's eyes turned sinister. "Are you trying to bully a boy because of your high cultivation levels?" He asked.

"Haha. Yes we are. Now tell us what flashed the light from your chest" The man said.

'That must be a treasure. Haha'

The man was smiling within.

Alex shook his head. "It's not in my nature to bully. Since you asked for it, I would give it to you"

"I don't think I heard clearly. What can a peak-phase entry stager do to a peak-phase condensation stager? Huh?" Someone in the group asked in a mocking tone.

Haha!

Alex gave an unbridled, fake evil laughter.

"Many things!"

Then he dashed towards them at lightning-quick speed. He was so fast they weren't able to respond to the punches he hurled out when he got to their front. He was like a ghost that was throwing punches.

Bang!

Bam!

Pow!

So many sounds rang out as Alex's fist connected to their heads and chests, sending them flying into the distance. Their faces were pressed in and blood streamed down their noses.

They landed to the ground with a heavy thud in an unconscious state. The heavy and hard punches Alex threw at them had driven them to this state.

Besides, because they were underestimating Alex, they weren't able to quickly produce protective screens of energy before his powerful fists met them.

This was what Alex capitalized on to quickly beat them and be on his way. Also, because he was fast with his moves and delivering attacks in places that could knock them unconscious, he was able to quickly beat them.

Then he decided to run away because he knew adventurer teams like this may have two or three earth adept-stage cultivators.

But he burnt that thought. He must do to them what they did unto him.

Shrrr!

He stripped the unconscious men naked.

"Wow! Such large dangles. Perverts"

Then he tried to take his leave. But before he could, he suddenly heard a shout.

"Bastard!! I dare you to take another step!"

Alex's brows wrinkled when he heard this. Then he turned to see the person who spoke and saw two people, a male and a female. They were in the middle-phase earth adept stage.

'Ugh. Shit!'