A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 274: Soul Tribulation I

Once the thought came to his mind, he believed that he should be able to employ that power to swiftly absorb tremendous amounts of soulforce energy from the world which he was going to channel into his soul.

Then he thought of that peerless devouring power gotten from the racial gene of the Negaria race and said intently with unyielding resoluteness in his tone 'Devour'.

Immediately he said this, a vast attractive power instantly emanated from his body and spread out in all directions. Then it drew soulforce energy from a distance of about three hundred feet that it had reached towards Alex's body. And since it were soulforce energy, they penetrated through his body and into his soul-dwelling region where they infused into his sixty soul pools and caused them to rapidly grew in size.

Therefore, in just about twenty seconds, they had grown from a size of thirty feet wide to a size of hundred feet. But their growths didn't stop there. They continued to grow, reaching a size of two hundred feet, then to a size of five hundred feet and finally to a size of one thousand feet before Alex broke through again in his soul cultivation. Then he stopped using the boundless essence and energy-attraction power of the Negaria race bloodline power in his body.

Once the soul pools reached that size which was impossible to reach by anyone as every other person who was a soul cultivator would have their soul pools stop at about hundred feet to three hundred feet, Alex's soul pools which were sixty in number slowly crystallized. They gradually changed from their liquid form to the solid form.

Not long, sixty towering soul pillars that were cylindrical in shape could be seen in Alex's soul-dwelling region. They stood upright and looked fearsome because of their immense sizes. If any of these massive cylindrical pillars appeared in the real world, they would look exceedingly tall as they were one thousand feet high, and thirty feet wide.

Alex gazed at his fierce-looking, round soul pillars in joy. He was simply tremendously glad that he had done what no other soul cultivator had done. Although he was joyful, he was shocked by the thousands of abstruse or strange, indecipherable characters inscribed into every of his immensely tall soul pillars. He didn't know where these came from, but he hoped that it was a good thing for him. However, if Alex knew what these were, he wouldn't be alerted or alarmed. The thousands of symbols that had appeared on each of his gigantic, round-shaped soul pillars were from the protoforce energy that was present in his soul before it condensed from it mist form into a liquid and finally crystallized, forming shockingly huge pillars that began to radiate frightening soul power.

Not long, violent chilly breeze appeared in the outside world. But this chilly breeze didn't affect the physical body, but rather, the soul.

That was the Absolute Soul Annihilation Tribulation. It had finally appeared.

However, no one could see this Tribulation that had descended from a completely inaccessible region in the realmverse, as it was meant for the destruction or obliteration of the soul of law-defying soul cultivators. Anyways, only soul cultivators would be able to see or perceive it.

This frigid strong wind moved about in the area that Alex was in. However, it did not affect anyone, whether mortal or cultivator, as they were not target intended to be destroyed. It had manifested only for the soul of the target that they had the intent to ravage or destroy.

Not long, Alex perceived the intense coldness of the soul-inflicting tribulation wind, as it had gotten to where he was. The wind was simply like a sentient entity as it sought for Alex to destroy him.

Immediately Alex felt the extremely biting coldness upon his soul, he knew what had come for him. Without being scared and in fact, excited for it appearance as he now had plans for it which he was sure would work out hundred percent successfully, he uttered out loud "Come!"

And like that, as if it was being provoked, a large area of the sky suddenly changed into another color. It had changed from it sky blue color to purple. However, this was noticeable by everyone who then began to wonder why the sky had suddenly changed in color. Then fear set into their hearts as they quickly dashed into their homes. These mortals felt that a god was descending down from the sky. And so, they ran into their homes as they couldn't bring up the courage to look at him, as they believed that whoever did so would be instantly eliminated to look at a prideful, primordial god of ancient.

As soon as this color manifested, the extremely cold wind which had appeared gained in momentum, causing it destructiveness to increase to terrifying levels. Not that it now possessed a high degree of physical destructive power, the increase in it power of destruction because of the sudden great gain in momentum would only affect the soul.

Very soon, the ethereal frigid wind swept into Alex's room and shot into Alex's body with a beast-like roar. Then once it got into Alex's soul-inhabiting region, it struck with solidness at the massive round soul pillars.

However, this towering pillars withstood the strong blast of intensely cold, soul-affecting dense wind that struck them.

However, they rapidly froze because of the extreme-degree cold emitting from the furious and surprisingly dense, alarmingly icy wind that heavily impacted them. Now, at this point in time, they became thickly encrusted in ice. If one could look into his soul and see the thickness of the ice that had enveloped his soul pillars, one would think that Alex's soul pillar were trapped in enormously gigantic glaciers. And since they were deeply frozen because of the many feet-thick ice that had totally enwrapped everyone of them, despite their amazing hugeness, Alex's body began to stiffen as it instantly turned white and froze over, becoming like an ice statue. What he was actually experiencing within his soul-dwelling region was starting to have a direct physical effect on his body.

However, Alex's mind was still fully active as his strange soul pillars couldn't be turned into ice.

Alex then recalled an offensive soul technique that he studied. Then with an utter in a furious tone, he said inwardly with a great resolve 'Destroy'.