A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 99: In a dark hall...

Alex stood there dumbfounded for some time before he regained his state of awareness and returned to Jennifer's residence.

When he entered his room, he immediately went to lie in his bed. But in his head, the scene where he and Elena kissed continually replayed.

A smile surfaced on his lips, and slowly, his mind drifted away to the dream world.

.......

In a slightly dark hall as only a few lanterns hung on the wall provided light to it, many people could be seen sitting round a large circular table. They all wore black hooded cloaks and their faces were partially concealed as the hoods worn over their heads were large.

These people were looking at a caped man that seated on a shiny blue throne floating in the air. The throne he sat on was actually condensed from a type of blue-colored metalforce energy.

This man looked very tall despite being seated. It gave one the feeling that if he stood, he would be dozens of feet tall.

His eyes were of two colors. The left was grey while the right was white. Then glowing metal-like scales could be seen on his hands and feet. But one would be able to surmise that these scales covered his entire body.

Then hung on his back was a large and thick blue-black blade that was dotted with voidstones. If one took a guess at the number of sockets the blade should have, one can say that the number of voidstone sockets the blade would have should be in the dozens.

"Someone actually dared to kill a member of my organization." He said.

"Lord Shadowslayer, assign someone to eliminate this person." One of the many people seated said.

"Yes, I will definitely do that. No one harms a member of mine and lives. Have these people forgotten about me and about this organization? It seems it has been a long time we brought havoc to the society. I would rain chaos again soon. Anyways, about Lady Poisonheart's killer. Her name's Jennifer Winterburn. She is an expert at the saint emperor stage but has the physical strength of an expert in the sage general stage. But she's not a body cultivator. I don't understand how she is able to possess that degree of strength. Anyways, I want her brought to me dead or alive. But I prefer that she is brought to me alive. Who is up for the task?" Lord Shadowslayer asked looking at his henchmen.

"My Lord, killing her is easy. But I heard she has powerful treasures that would augment her battle power. Besides, the founder of the academy is now around and wouldn't go back anytime soon. So, we have to plan well or it could backfi" One of his men was talking but he was abruptly cut off in his speech by Lord Shadowslayer.

"Shut your trap Darklight. He is in the mid-phase sage lord stage while I am at the peak-phase sage lord stage. There is a great difference in our abilities" He said.

Lord Shadowslayer then turned his head to look at one of his men and said "Bring that man out"

"Yes My Lord" This person replied.

Then an horizontal azure portal manifested in the hall and someone dropped out of it to the ground.

The person that dropped out of the portal was a man. He was wrapped up in chains and wounds could be seen all over his face and even on his head.

Lord Shadowslayer looked at this man with a sinister smile. Then he pointed a finger at this person and an unseen force emitted from it.

This force engulfed this man and was pulled towards Lord Shadowslayer.

"You once said that you wanted to join my organization. But you are a member of the organization my enemy is part of. So that makes you my enemy too. And I don't forgive my enemies. I torture them to my satisfaction and swallow their souls and devour their energies." Lord Shadowslayer said..

Then he grabbed this person's head with one of his large hand and abruptly, mystifying symbols appeared in his eyes as he began to look into this person's memories. But with disinterest. Nothing in the man's memory excited him.

While looking at the man's memories, he absorbed them at the same time.

Very soon, shock appeared in his eyes. This was because he came across the memories of everything that the man in his grasp had about Alex.

In those memories, he saw where a heaven adept-stage cultivator was reporting to the man how Alex, someone in the mid-phase entry stage was able to easily resist his constraining power and how Alex was able to shatter a message transmission link formed by this man who was at the saint emperor stage through some form of energy possessing saint-level power that his body exuded when it transformed, causing the man injury.

'What a tyrannical physique!'

His eyes glowed brightly for sometime before receding. Then a smile appeared in his face. He nodded his head. He knew what he was going to do.

He looked at this person and said "You had such vital information in your head. Thank you for that. I will compensate you with death"

Snap!

He crushed the man's neck. Then he placed his other hand on the surface of the man's body, directly on the area of the body where the energyhouse was.

Then abruptly, various forms of colored energies began to emanate from the pores of the man's body. These energies condensed and shaped into spheres that floated in the air around Lord Shadowslayer.

Immediately these energies formed into spheres, they crystallized, turning into solid crystalline orbs of energies.

"Haha. A new collection of energy orbs. Good"

Then he kept them away.

As he was done with this person, he flung the person's cold, lifeless body away to a side of the hall.

He then looked at an incredibly beautiful young woman and pointed at her. Then a ray of energy shot out of it into the woman's head.

Once this ray of entered into her head, it turned into a large amount of information. The information was all about Alex

"Coldmoon, bring that boy to me." Lord Shadowslayer said.

Then he looked at two people beside her.

"Bloodeyes and Skyblade. I have chosen you both to bring me that Jennifer"

"Yes, My Lord"

They responded in unison with a deep bow. When they straightened themselves, the beautiful young woman began to absorb morphforce energy; a purple-colored energy of shape-shifting from the world and enveloped herself with it like a cocoon while absorbing it into her body.

Argh!!

She screamed in agony as the energy shifted her body from this form to another. After sometime, her screaming stopped.

When her body was absorbing the energy, it glowed brilliantly in it color. Then after she fully transformed, the intense purple glow of the energy emitting from her body receded and a perfectly shaped, phenomenally beautiful young girl could be seen. She looked like one of those rare beauty one wouldn't come across for the next several thousand years.