A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 277: Soul Tribulation IV

Although Alex was suffering greatly from the soul-tribulation that attacked him. However, if he could overcome them, many astonishing benefits of the soul would await him. Like now, his many soul pillars were looking flawless in appearance, which wasn't supposed to be so until he got to a particular cultivation stage. Then this would mean that they were been tempered by the tribulation that struck him, making the tribulation that he faced a good thing. But if one was conquered by it, what would result to that person was the Absolute destruction of his or her soul; meaning that person's total oblivion.

A few seconds later, the pillars were back to normal and even radiated a powerful soul-presence that was many times stronger than before.

Now that his soul pillars had been refined and tempered by the soul-tribulation flame, his soul radiated an overwhelming presence. But apart from the overpowering presence that it continuously emanated, his soul pillars which were partly white in color now possessed a new hue. And that was dark scarlet; the color of the soul-tribulation flame that descended upon his soul pillars with unparalleled destructive intent. Therefore, now that they possessed heat emission-attribute, a strongly intense heat that could burn the soul of myriad creatures into nothingness began to emanate from each of them. If this heat appeared in the real world, it would definitely melt many tons steel or truckload of rocks in a flash. That was how powerful the heat coming from them was.

Since the peculiar soul-destruction flame didn't succeed in destroying Alex's soul pillars, that colored portion of the sky turned green.

The instant that it turned green, thousands of arrows which were unseen to the naked eyes since they were composed from ethereal energy and had ancient inscriptions on their surfaces suddenly fired forth from it. Then moving at an unparalleled speed, they emitted a type of soul-crushing pressure that if the force acted on physical objects, they would simply be reduced into smithereens.

The tyrannical pressure that exuded from the fast-moving arrows acted on Alex's soul pillars with the intention to shatter them into pieces.

The moment the great pressure acted on them, Alex coughed out a large mouthful blood, while his body greatly spasmed due to the pressure directly acting on only his tempered soul pillars with the intent to crush them to pieces. Not long, despite their tempering, they suddenly cracked in many places with slivers of soulforce energy beginning to leak out from them. And due to the pressure acting on his soul, Alex was pressed to the floor of the crater by the suppressive splintering pressure that acted on them. Then when the green-colored arrows which moved at many times the speed of lightning arrived where Alex was, they instantly pierced into his body and into his soul region where they went on to terribly impact the soul pillars.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!...

Rampant booming sounds rang out when the many dense arrows composed from soulforce energy viciously struck the towering soul pillars in Alex's soul-dwelling region, which because of refinement and tempering had reduced from a thousand feet in height to about eight hundred feet.

Once they were struck, more cracks began to appear on them. And because of the rapid and unceasing bombardment of the seemingly infinite green-colored solid arrows that impaled them with great force, they shattered once again into pieces. And the unlimited barraging arrows which possessed the attributes of poison and corrosion caused the fragments of his soul pillars to begin to corrode.

However, since the soul fragments had surprisingly gained pseudo-immortality, they couldn't be destroyed by the extremely corrosive power emitting from the green arrows that had the absolute intent to corrode them.

However, although they were near-indestructible, Alex was inflicted with great unbearable pain once again. Now screaming loudly in pain that caused members of his organization to be alerted and overly worried, Alex tried to endure the intense pain racking his soul by gritting his teeth and then hurriedly unleashed a devastating blast of soul-tribulation flame from the millions of huge fragments of his soul floating within his soul-dwelling region.

BOOOOM!!

The explosive blast that was produced by Alex's soul fragments traveled many meters into the distance within Alex's soul-dwelling region. While the spacious room that Alex was in surprisingly shook from the remainder of the rippling soul wave that emitted from Alex's head.

When the explosion first took place within his soul-dwelling region, numerous gigantic, sphere-shaped clouds of dark scarlet flame abruptly appeared. Then they were instantly accompanied by many strongly devastating soul waves that swept horizontally into the far distance within his soul-dwelling region.

Many of the unseen, soul-slaying arrows that were formed from soul-corroding energy which continually penetrated into Alex's soul-dwelling region and wickedly struck the many huge fragments of his soul pillars with the aim to further reduce them into smithereens were caught in the innumerable massive explosions of tribulation-fire and instantly shattered into pieces, while the few that weren't, went on to impale the fragments of Alex's soul pillars and caused him to shriek loud in pain.

Puchi!

Puchi!

Puchi!...

Loud piercing sounds rang out as the arrows stabbed deep into some of the fragments of Alex's soul pillars and then caused him pain. Then he could almost faint from having his soul fragments decay because of the arrows that impaled his soul fragments all over and unendingly emitted the mystical power of corrosion.

However, they couldn't be destroyed by the uncanny corrosive power emitting from the arrows which had pierced deep into them.

Groaning in pain, Alex hurriedly released fire-attributed soul power from his floating huge soul fragments. His intention was to burn away the poison that had permeated his soul pillars and was causing them to quickly corrode.

His effort was fruitful as the soul-corroding power that had saturated his soul pillars burned away. And once this happened, the intense pain that Alex felt quickly abated. Same with his body which had started to decay. When the corroding power that had filled the entirety of his numerous soul pillars' fragments and caused his body to decay disappeared, Alex's body which had turned from pale green to deep green quickly restored back to his usual skin color.

Apart from the corroding power that was burned away, the arrows that had pierced into his soul fragments also melted. Then they turned into mists and left his soul-dwelling region and finally out of his body through his head into the realmverse. Once they melted, the pressure that exuded from them and acted on Alex's soul vanished. Then when they turned into mist which then floated out of his head and into the air, they returned back to a space in the realmverse.

When the tribulation discovered that Alex had conquered the soul-corroding attacks that it sent at his soul, it prepared to release a stronger attack that should annihilate Alex's soul.

But before the tribulation would release a stronger overwhelming soul attack, Alex quickly exercised the power of his will over his soul fragments.

'Recompose'

He uttered within.

Once he mentioned that with a steely resolve, the numerous huge fragments of his soul pillars began to rearrange over each other to form his soul pillars back.

Very quickly, they had formed back into his soul pillars. Except that they were rough.

Alex then pushed his devouring power to the extreme and pulled a tremendous amount of soulforce energy from many miles away towards his body. Then raging towards him like a towering tsunami from the distance, they struck his body and rushed like furious hungry dragons into his soul-dwelling region where they impacted his rough soul pillars and caused the cracks and rough marks in them to rapidly disappear as the pillar-shaped soul pillars quickly absorbed the soul-energy.

Not long, the pillars were as good as new. Now looking flawless in appearance, they began to radiate a stronger presence.

It didn't take too long for Alex's soul pillars to form back into pillars. Therefore, as soon as they formed back into pillars, another tribulation descended from the sky.

This time, hundreds of thousands of arrows which were invisible as they were composed from soulforce energy and had strange indecipherable characters on their surfaces suddenly fired towards Alex. Moving at an amazing speed, they emitted a tyrannical soul-crushing pressure that if it were to act on physical objects, they would simply instantly explode into smithereens.

The moment the great pressure which emitted from the seemingly innumerable arrows acted on his towering soul pillars, Alex coughed out a small amount blood from his mouth, while his body shook greatly due to the pressure that directly acted on his soul pillars with the malicious intent to crush them into thousands of bits.

However, due to their tempering, they could not crack despite the great pressure that was exerted on them by the corroding, green-colored arrows. They simply resisted the suppressive pressure acting on each of them. And due to his soul pillars resisting the great pressure that acted on them, Alex's body couldn't be affected by the pressure.

Then when with his eyes now glowing with a light of resoluteness, he prepared to devour the soul-corrosion tribulation energy and make it his.