A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 79: Battle

Alex looked at them and the male and female looked back intensely at him.

"So what? What can you do? It's not like you can compete with me in a race" Alex said in a loud, proud tone.

"How do you mean? That if you try to run, we won't be able to catch you?" The female asked in a puzzled tone.

Hahaha!

The male laughed raucously.

Alex looked at them and nodded.

"Yes. You can't catch me." He replied.

"But on a second thought, I actually want to duel it out with you guys. I just achieved a cultivation breakthrough and wanna see how far my strength has increased."

"What?" the male and female became shocked at what Alex said.

Alex wanted to see how far his strength has increased since he had broken through to the peak phase.

The earth adept-stage experts were still amazed at what Alex said. But became serious, slightly serious when Alex suddenly dashed towards them and unleashed an attack.

"Windball!"

Alex shouted and punched out. Then a mass of cyan energy shot out of his fist in a large quantity. This mass condensed and shaped into a ball that shot towards the male expert.

The male expert furrowed his brows in astonishment. He could detect the strength of Alex's energy-attack. It was an attack that could match that of an expert in the peak-phase condensation stage.

"A peak-phase entry-stage cultivator? How?"

But he wouldn't know Alex's energy-attack could have such power because of the strands of divineforce energy that had mixed in with the windforce energy that formed this offensive.

Then the male threw his palm out at the energy ball and a large mass of dark purple energy shot out. This mass of energy condensed and shaped into a fist that shot at great speed towards the energy-ball.

Bang!

The instant the attacks collided, a wave of energy was released. But Alex's attack couldn't withstand the dark purple energy-fist. An energy-attack by an initial-stage earth adept cultivator .

This fist, although now dim as it had lost a lot of it energy from the collision with the cyan energy-ball still shot towards Alex. But at a decreased momentum.

Alex long prepared for this did a front flip over the large fist and landed many feet farther in the front.

Once he landed, he quickly punched both fists out at the two of them. With fists that glowed intensely in black, two large masses of darkforce energy erupted from them.

Then these masses of energy abruptly condensed and shaped into fists which shot towards the male and female earth adept-stage cultivators.

Huh?!

Before they could even respond to the attack, the glowing, black energy-fists had appeared in front of them at a shocking speed.

But experienced in battle, they quickly produced shields of energy.

Bang! Bang!

Their energy shields shattered and the resulting powerful waves released from the impacts knocked them back for a few feet before they regained their balance.

They looked at Alex with marvel in their eyes. They wondered why his attacks suddenly became fearsomely fast.

Alex's attacks became insanely fast because he infused speedforce energy into them. This caused the velocity at which the attacks traveled at to increase by many folds.

With wonder in their eyes, they wondered how he was able to do it. Alex too was surprised, but a bit. He knew this feature would be added to his attacks when he imbued them with speedforce energy. Although he had done the calculations in his head about the speed his attacks would be able to move at, he was still pleasantly surprised.

Then he thought of how he could combine different energies together to achieve many effects. Thinking in this direction, he smiled.

His smile gave the earth adept-stage cultivators frights.

Then various forms of energy began to exude from his body. If one looked at him, it was like a multicolored smoke was emitting from his body. There were many energies of different hues discharging from the pores of his body.

Then these energies were pulled to his palms like a nail to a magnet. They quickly condensed, shaping into two large palms.

Since Alex was linked to his energies, he could make them take the shape of whatever he wants. So using his will, he was able to mold them into crystalline palms that had various colors and emitted shocking power.

These palms shot towards the experts and their faces turned solemn.

These attacks this time, since they had so many energies incorporated into them, pulsed with the power of someone in the half-earth adept stage.

Besides, the attacks had influence on them, om their minds. They started to see unreal things as the light emitting from the palms entered their eyes.

It was like they had suddenly appeared in a new region and that this region was a desolated one. So many dilapidated buildings could be seen and the sky was dark. There was no sun but stars that were purple and this brought upon them a gloomy and forlorn atmosphere. Also, to make it worst, they couldn't see the solid palms of fused energies shooting towards them

They knew they were in an illusion and tried to break out of it. But they couldn't quickly break out of it despite being in a higher cultivation stage.

This was because of strands of divineforce energy that had blended with the component energies of the attacks. It increased the power of illusion emitted by the phantasmforce energy to a higher degree that it had effect on them.

But the moment they broke out, the attacks moving at astonishing speeds struck them and they were sent flying before crashing into the earth at a far distance.

Alex laughed inwardly in an excited manner. He had just discovered a way to attack people using multiple energies mixed together.

But he didn't know he was able to do this because of his special body constitution. He had unique energy meridians that allowed him to release various energies at once. No one else would be able to do this.

He nodded his head at this new discovery of his abilities.

Then infusing his muscles with his mutated strengthforce energy, and his eyes emanating a bright cyan light which caused the air to move around him as he deployed his wind manipulation power, he shot off into the distance like a jet leaving numerous after-images behind and a large cloud of dust far behind him.

Few hours later, since he was moving on ground at a speed a heaven adept-stage cultivator could achieve in the air, he reached a new area. Then he stopped, returning the energies to his energyhouse.

He had chosen a random location and had arrived in a new city. This city was Ed'lok city. It was bustling as crowds of people moved up and down and shops could be seen on both sides of the streets in this city selling one thing or the other.

He asked for the direction to a ultivehicle garage. When he got there, he was about to enter when he suddenly decided against it.

There would be lot of crazy experts in here and would be amazed at the amount of sapphirstones he was able to produce at such an age. They might see him as a son of a billionaire in sapphirstones or perhaps, he got lucky coming in contact with an unsealed spatial ring of a fallen incredible expert.

He didn't want to be chased about again as he had just escaped from one. And he didn't know if his uncle was watching him and would come to protect him if he sees that his life is in great danger. But he believed his uncle's power of perception may not be able to reach this area as it was very far away from Smith city.

"Ugh"

He grunted in unhappiness and left there. To avoid problems, he was going to use the carriages which were very slow.

"Well, it's not too bad. It's far better than being chased around. Besides, I could use that time to well, comprehend new techniques and cultivate. I still want to breakthrough into the condensation stage. This peak phase entry stage comes with nothing. Maybe if I enter the condensation stage, an ability would be opened to me. I hope so"

...

After paying the fee for transportation service, the beast-drawn carriage set out.

Alex shook his head in unhappiness. It was incredibly slow.

Many hours later, they were still in the city. Despite the beasts drawing the carriage moving at high speeds.

There were grades of beast-drawn carriages but Alex chose the lowest grade as he didn't want to draw unnecessary attention to himself.

He complained bitterly in his heart that he should have chosen a higher grade. Those had faster wild beasts and would have left the city by now.

Also, he wasn't the only one in the carriage. There were many others in it. This increased the load the beasts had to pull. Besides, being a low-grade beast-drawn carriage, it came with no protection.

People using it are left to protect themselves. But what would mortals or entry-level cultivators be able to do against bandits if their carriage was attacked?

In the wilderness, as they moved at a slow speed to the Sky Trident city. They suddenly stopped when the beasts became greatly tired from the journey. They had used a lot of energy and were exhausted.

Everyone too were weary. It was a slow journey full of internal complaints. Now, they had stopped in the middle of nowhere where they could be attacked by nefarious people or sinister cultivators.

Alex at the moment was focusing on his hearing. He knew too how the wilderness could be. It was where outlaws resided in. They would attack people leaving the city and people coming into the city. They could kill, rob and rape.

Right now, his range of hearing has increased and he could hear very far.

At the moment, after deploying his amplified hearing ability, he could hear very light footsteps in the distances covered by his power of augmented auditory perception.

Then he closed his eyes and entered his ultra perception state. Abruptly, his hearing intensified, increasing to a great degree and by closing his eyes, he could pick the sounds and vibrations around him and use it to paint a detailed image of the surrounding in his mind.

In his mental vision, he saw many men hiding and gathering in numbers. It was like they were in the hive of outlaws. They could probably be.

He was able to detect their cultivation stage as his hearing could pick up the frequency at which their energies vibrated in. These frequencies matched that of experts in the late-phase condensation stage to the middle-phase earth adept stage. And he could detect at least sixty men.

Then he looked at everyone around him. Although they were twenty in the group, they were mostly mortals. Only he and six others were cultivators at the entry-level stage.

He could run away if he wanted to but these mortals. He couldn't leave them to themselves.

He thought hard to what to do next.

There was no way than to tell them there was a large number of dangerous cultivating outlaws lurking in secretive, concealed places and were ready to pounce on them.

He looked into his mom's spatial ring and produced the Azure Beastsman ring.

"You are a great expert of beasts that know how to jumpstart their evolutions and cause their mutations. Please, have something in your ring that would enhance the carriage-pulling beasts. Only I cannot protect the number of people in here against these many dangerous higher level cultivators." He said, praying in his heart.

Then he looked into the spatial ring and searched for something. Just anything. A treasure, pill or anything.

After searching for a while at a frantic speed. He came across a large number of bottles containing pills meant for augmenting beasts' power and strength.

Then he saw a large bottle. In it were many red pills that gave out light like a star. On the bottle's body could be seen a label carrying a name for the pill and the description of what it could do.

[Animal Enhancement Pill]

[Thousand Horse Pill]

[Description: Increases strength, agility and stamina of wild beasts]

"Very nice. I knew he would have many such pills. Now I can help these mortals."

With two pills in his hand, he went to were the two beasts were resting at. He looked around and stealthily put the pills into their mouth.

Once it was swallowed, many minutes later. Their eyes which were dark brown began to glow in a bright purple light. And their veins bulge. They weren't furry wild beasts but skinny wild beasts. Their veins brown in color were now blue.

He could see the transformation but he knew this would only last for a while. So they needed to get out of here.

"Everybody!"

Alex shouted pulling everyone's gazes at him.

"What?"

Murmurs rang out among the people in here.

"Please let's get out of here. There are a large number of evil cultivators hiding in the distance. They are ready to attack us. Let's get out here"

Alex said, hoping they would listen to him. But what he heard caused him to have his face turn ugly. They didn't listen and instead began to argue with him. Especially the older men at the entry level stage.

"Will you shut up! Who the fucking fuck is this kid? Where the fuck you come from? Fine, we maybe at the same cultivation phase, but you think we wouldn't be able to detect what you can detect? Eh? Are you trying to play a fast one on us?"

"No. Please listen. I... I...."

Haha!

A loud wicked laugh suddenly sounded from far. Then many men appeared in far distances. They had come out from where they were hiding and began to dash towards Alex's group.

"Oh shit!"