A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 272: Shocking news, Schemes

After the effects disappeared and his body was back to normal, Jared immediately shouted in great horror and dread "I will tell you. I will tell you. I will tell you all that you need to know. Please"

"Okay. Then give me the location of the cave. I am waiting" Alex said with a smile hung on his lips.

"It's not in this city, nor in this state. You would first have to get to Crowell state, and then Gronoma city." Jared said with great sadness radiating off his tone. Now, he was sharing what was meant to be secret only to him to another person.

However he continued as he couldn't tell if those unbearable pains that he felt would act up again.

"When you get to this city, you would have to go to the valley called Hot Sand valley. It's in this valley that you would search in the hundreds of mountains found there for the interspatial membrane that would transport you through the void to another world." Jared said.

"Hmm." Alex said.

And after waiting for sometime and seeing that Jared was fine; that the truth-compelling power of the truthforce energy which had permeated his body didn't re-manifest to force Jared to speak the truth, he believed, totally.

"Thank you. I shall reward you for this" Alex said with a smile.

"Palace-spirit, take him away" Alex said.

Then Jared who before he could talk was rapidly teleported back to the cage that he was brought out from.

However, the pressure that acted on him in there had vanished. It was only an ordinary cage now. But one he definitely wouldn't be able to break out from. And even if he eventually did, he would instantly be eliminated by the palace-spirit who had total control over the palace's offensive energy weapons.

Alex then sent a sliver of his perception into the danger-signaling treasure and said "Ashbolt, thank you very much. The serum that you gave to me worked perfectly. Do you have an idea of what was used to make the serum?"

"Yes, the revelation lotus. The liquid extracted from it would instantly turn into truthforce energy once it get into the body of anything and then force them to speak nothing the truth when asked a question." Ashbolt replied.

"Oh. Truthforce energy. I get it. Thanks once again." Alex said.

Then he pulled out that sliver of his mind from the treasure.

"Palace-spirit, I am ready to leave." Alex said into the air.

"Alright" The voice of the palace-spirit rang out.

Space distorted around Alex's body which then vanished and re-appeared in the building that he bought.

Immediately he appeared in a large room in this building, he stood from his cross-legged sitting position on the ground and went out of the room.

***

"Here he comes. Just look at him, so dashing and powerful" One said with a praising tone in his voice. While the others agreed to what this person said by nodding their heads. And just like that, praises began to ring out.

When Alex got to their front, he told them to cease the praises that they were showering upon him. He wasn't a kind of person that liked being praised. In fact, if possible, he wouldn't let anyone know who he was, as he was the type that didn't like being in the spotlight. But his stunning look and then his abilities were attention-stealers. They would simply pull the attention of everyone towards him.

Immediately their praises died down, Alex began his speech.

"So, um, I want to start an organization. And the name that I plan to give my organization is the Punisher's Society. Why I named it so is because one of my numerous objectives is to punish every fiendish cultivator. We would seek out and destroy every nefarious or sinister cultivation expert in our lands. Therefore, to achieve this aim that could result in our complete obliteration if our enemies become angered and ally against us, I would want only the experts who I would deem very strong to be by my side and support me in my quest to punish every evil cultivator" Alex said.

Once the people who had gathered heard this, their bodies and souls shook. They couldn't believe what Alex just said.

He was going to seek out and eliminate every evil cultivator and wants only the strongest to be by his sides?

The hell!

They said in their minds.

These could result in their destruction.

Although they know that there would be many benefits to be obtained, there was simply only death and destruction in the end.

Even if his uncle was extremely powerful, he wouldn't bother about them if problems arose. Although he would appear to protect them if troubles may arise, but if it becomes too much for him to handle as they didn't know his degree of power, he would take Alex only with him and probably leave them behind or just take a handful of them with him.

However, Alex intentionally said this to chase back the ones that just wanted to join because of the benefits that they might obtain and because of his uncle.

Alex saw the shocked expressions in their faces and smiled inwardly. Then he continued "And don't forget that I only want fifty condensation stage experts and hundred Earth Adept stage experts. However, I would accept anyone from the initial phase to the peak phase, as long you as you can satisfy my requirements. So, if you think that you are strong enough, and would love to help me achieve my objective of slaying evil cultivators, please step forward to take a simple test that would qualify you to be part of my organization. And if you can't do so, please leave."

When Alex said this, people began to leave one after the other with sadness written all over their previously delighted faces. They would love to join and do whatever Alex would order them to do without questioning, even if was something completely weird or strange. But they were scared of endangering their lives and that of their families. Alex's uncle would definitely protect him when troubles that he couldn't handle arose. But what about them? Even if they were lucky to escape from the vengeful attacks of their enemies, what about their families? All of them would be tortured beyond the extreme and then wickedly slain. They couldn't imagine their mothers, wives, sons and daughters having their brains, hearts, stomachs, bladder and what else removed from them.

Not long, out of the hundreds of people that had gathered, only fifty remained.

Alex smiled at the small number that remained.

He himself didn't know what test to give them to know if they were qualified to be members of his Punishers Society. But since they could remain despite the frightening thing that he mentioned, then they were fit to be a part of his society. With them remaining simply proved that they were valiant cultivation experts, ones who were ready to risk it all in search of resources that would take their cultivation level to the next, as they knew that Alex would definitely reward them for achieving his objectives.

"Welcome to my society" Alex said to the people in front of him who then nodded their heads with smiles hung in it.

"Follow me" Alex said.

Then they walked behind him into the organization, where Alex went to give them positions.

So like that, Alex started his organization with only fifty members, in which forty were in the Earth Adept stage, and ten in the Condensation stage.

***

Many days later, news of The Punishers society spread throughout the entire city in which all the academies and every other organization got a hang of.

When they heard that Alex had established an organization he named Punishers Society. They became shocked.

Was he even qualified to establish his own organization? So they thought, as Alex was just too young to be the founder of an organization. However, they felt that Alex could do so because of his uncle whose power they couldn't fathom.

When the news got to the Immovable Mountain Academy, they were surprised and joyful. This boy who was the lover of their Great Holy Daughter was starting to do amazing and shocking things. Also, they felt that this marked the start of the marveling things that he was going to do.

While they were happy at these news, the students of the Ancient Heavenly cauldron academy were angry. Especially Drille's brother, sister and uncle. They were very furious at Alex and were busy making schemes of how to kill him without his uncle who they believed to be very powerful knowing about it. They wanted their plans and machinations to be fail-proof.

"That bastard. Let him keep enjoying himself. He's definitely going to die soon. I would have loved to see the shock and sorrow in his face when he finds himself in hell" Lenna said with anger in her tone.