A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 257: Tremendous surprise, Towering anger...

Then as if Alex uttered an enchantment, the students of the Ancient Heavenly Cauldron academy instantly took to their heels, with great fear and dread now engulfing every inch of their hearts.

Alex saw how they quickly scurried away like frightened rats and gave a smile. Then he turned around and began to walk towards the inn in the distance.

He surprisingly didn't run after them to do unto them, what they intended to do to him.

Why he didn't do so was because he now felt that he was too powerful and tough to care about cultivators at his cultivation level. Whether they were in the mid phase, late phase or peak phase, they were all insignificant in his eyes.

Not that he was underrating their battle prowesses, it was just that he was confident of his abilities which would a hundred-percent match that of Sky Lord stage cultivators.

This simply meant that cultivators at his level weren't his opponents in any way, except powerful challengers who were at the Sky Lord cultivation stage.

Also, he let them go unscathed because he wasn't in the mood to create another terrifying gory scene. So, he let what they did today slip. But such might not happen next time if he is provoked, or if his mood to behead and slash body into halves returns.

- Moon Wine Inn -

Alex was getting used to drinking alcoholic wine since he enjoyed it very much. Although he couldn't be intoxicated by wines because of his body's reactive adaptation ability, he just enjoyed it because of the taste and the heat that would appear, which would then disappear in the next moment. So like water, he drank them. And many bottles at that which caused cultivators in the inn to be shocked by his powerful, wine-consuming prowess.

The moon wine inn was a wine inn for cultivators, not for mortals, as they wouldn't be able to withstand the powerful heat that would generated within their bodies, only upon taking a sip of the lowest quality wine that they made here.

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When Alex first entered the expensive wine inn, everyone couldn't help but look at him.

He had successfully attracted attention to himself because of the outfit that he wore. And because of the way he hung a blade and a sword on his back. He simply looked frightening.

Then the other cultivators in the inn surmised that he must be a blade and sword cultivator.

Not long, a male who looked twenty-three came to sit on the same table that Alex chose to sat on.

"Friend, I am totally impressed by the way that you dressed. You simply look amazing and terrific. I could copy your style you know" This person said with a smile.

Alex looked at him and smiled.

"Oh! This style is nothing. You can go right ahead and copy it" He said.

"Haha. Thank you!" The male said.

Then he looked at Alex with deep scrutinizing eyes and asked "I don't think you are from around here?"

"Nope, I am from this territory. But I haven't been around as I went to hone my battle prowess in a far away state. So, immediately after I was done, I came back" Alex replied.

"Hmm. You must be a terrifying cultivator of the way of blade and sword?" The male asked.

Alex only smiled, he didn't give a response to the question. While the male seeing that Alex only smiled, took it as a yes to the question that he asked him.

"So, what about you? You are a cultivator of what energy?" Alex asked.

"Soul energy! I am a pure soul cultivator." The male said. Then he continued with a smile in his face "Unlike those dual or tri-cultivators that cultivate two or three energies at once, I focus only on the soul. The soul is still the strongest you know. Once I get to a stage with it, I would become a Quasi-Eternal. I would be able to live forever by inhabiting a body. Then once it becomes useless, I leave and move to dwell in another. Haha!"

Once the male mentioned that he was a cultivator of soulforce energy, Alex's eyes shone. That was an energy he had great difficulty comprehending.

Then on a second and third scanning look at the male in front of him, Alex suddenly felt that he must be a powerful genius.

This was because the male in front of him was the first soul cultivator that he would ever see or hear about since he had set out on his journey to hone himself in battle.

Alex who understood the amazing, frightening powers that soul cultivators possessed, nodded his head in agreement.

"So, what's the name?" The male in front of him asked

"Alex. You?" Alex replied and asked.

"Just call me Soulstorm" The male replied.

Alex smiled.

"That's a tyrannical name" He said.

"Yea. So, are you preparing for the event that's coming up in two day's time?" The male who referred to himself as Soulstorm asked.

Alex became perplexed.

'Event?' He asked inwardly.

He had been in the forest cultivating, so he wouldn't know.

"Well, I am a person who's very serious with cultivation, so I might have possibly missed the announcement of an event coming up due to my cultivation" Alex replied.

Then he asked "Could you tell me what event that is? If it's making sense to me, I would surely participate in it"

"Good. The event is simply a battle that would take place between the lover of the Great Holy Daughter from the Immovable Mountain Academy, and all the geniuses from all the cultivation academies in the city, as well as other cultivators who think they are strong enough to match up to the battle-powers of the fearsome geniuses from cultivation academies" Soulstorm replied.

Immediately after Soulstorm mentioned that a battle would occur between the Immovable Mountain Great Holy Daughter's lover and every other genius in the city, Alex's shone with great surprise.

He simply wasn't expecting this at all!

Then he looked at Soulstorm with a curious gaze.

"Are you also participating in the event?" He asked.

"Definitely. I would participate because of the massive amounts of treasures and resources that would be given to the person who's able to knock off her lover from the battle stage. But I am participating mostly for a reward which I believe is the best of all the rewards that would be given on that day to the winner. Haha!" Soulstorm said and laughed.

Alex was taken aback.

Best of the rewards?

Then he proceeded to ask.

"And what's this great reward that is making you very excited?" Alex asked.

"Well, anyone who is capable of knocking off her lover from the large battle platform that they would fight on, would take the place of her lover, which is to be her legal husband in future." Soulstorm said and grinned.

Then he continued "So by knocking the bastard who was tremendously lucky to have a one night stand with her off the battle stage, one would automatically become the Great Holy Daughter's husband. What damned reward can actually compare to that? Absolutely none of course! Haha! By the way, have you seen this girl that I am talking about? Ugh, I guess you haven't. But I can describe her to you with just three words which are otherworldly, celestial and beautiful. She is simply a phenomenal beauty totally worth going against all the godlike cultivators for. Haha. Forgive me for the way I sound, I am simply a lover of astonishing beauties"

The moment after Soulstorm mentioned all that he spoke about, Alex's heart shook badly.

He was simply tremendously surprised.

He hadn't been shock to this degree before.

First, they wore going to hold a grand battle where he was going to battle geniuses from all the academies in the city. And it was something that he must totally win, or if he carelessly or accidentally got pushed away from the stage, Olivia would simply be betrothed to someone else. And that was something he totally couldn't afford.

Looking at Soulstorm who was very excited about the reward, he questioned in an angry tone "But why would they do that to her? Isn't the massive amount of rewards to be given to whoever knocks her lover of the stage enough to be a fucking prize?!"

Soulstorm was taken aback by Alex's new state of mind. He began to wonder what could have possibly annoyed him.

"Well, it was her family members that made that statement to the public. When they heard that their daughter had a sexual affair with some boy they didn't know, and haven't even come across in all their lives, they became very angry that they announced to the world that they would give out their daughter's hand in marriage to whoever would knock out the bastard who shared a forbidden fruit with their daughter. And then even offered lot of treasures as rewards too. I think they did that to greatly punish her for the shameful deed that she committed. You know, by her actions which was truly quite shameful, she dragged the name of the academy and that of her family deep into the mud." He replied.

Alex's brows furrowed.

"Oh! So it was as a punishment for her deed, right?" He asked calmly, concealing the intense wrath in his tone.

"Right." Soulstorm replied.

"Okay." Alex said and nodded.

"Now, because of the way that you described this beauty as a fairy-like celestial that is seemingly not from this world, I am surely going to participate in the upcoming battle that would determine who her legitimate husband would be. And if I have to kill every idiot that would climb up on that stage that day with the intention of getting her hand in marriage, I would kill and kill till none of them are left. Haha!" He said and then laughed in a manner that gave the feeling that he had been possessed by a demon.

Then in the next instant, due to his towering anger because of what he was told, a strong and thick aura of ferociousness burst out from within his body, badly affecting everyone in the inn.