A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 281: Profound Soul-Beings; Arrival

Once Alex's soul pillars transformed into soul-beings and looked exactly like him, sixty extremely strong soul presence began to emanate from him, as well as multi-attributed, intense and overwhelming waves of soul-based power. But Alex quickly retracted the presence and power emitting from the unbounded soul-dwelling region in a space in his head. Then once he did so, he took back control of the flight-power of the treasure-wing and flew gently to the roof of his organization's building. And when he sat in the lotus position which was the cross-legged position, he sent his perception into his soul-inhabiting region to observe his soul-beings. The instant that he did so, he was shocked to the extreme by what he saw.

When Alex jumped towards the sky, all the principals from academies that were close to where Alex was having his soul tribulation saw him and couldn't help but be astonished.

'What a beast this child is' One said inwardly upon seeing Alex carry out that astonishing action.

Then when Alex smashed the energy-blades in his hand into the massive blood-red blade and causing it to shatter, the eyes of the principals brightly glowed with amazement.

"The hell" Whispered in shock the principal from the Immovable Mountain Academy. Then he flew to Olivia's room to see if she saw what he saw. And when he got there, he saw Olivia on the roof of her room, along with Nailah and some other girls who he believed were members of her faction.

Then before they could greet him, he asked "Do you have any idea what sort of tribulation your husband is going through?"

Once Olivia was asked the question, a smile surfaced in her face.

"Principal, I am also bewildered by the kind of tribulation that he just went through." Olivia responded.

"Hmm. That lover of yours is extremely amazing. He would surely grow up to become an expert that would shake worlds in future." The principal said. Then he continued "Alright, I am going now"

Olivia nodded her head at him.

While Nailah who couldn't see what happened but heard an explosive bang sound proceeded to ask Olivia "Is my brother okay?"

"You should know your brother, he would definitely be okay." Olivia said. Then she continued as she questioned "I am going to meet him, wanna come with me?"

Nailah's eyes shone with happiness. Then she quickly nodded her head. She wanted to meet Alex and show him that she had broken through.

Olivia saw how Nailah quickly nodded her head in happiness and gave a smile.

'She wants to impress him' She said inwardly.

"Alright. Climb on my back" Olivia said.

"Okay." Nailah said.

Then she hopped on Olivia's back who then took off into the air and shot towards where Alex was.

***

"Hmm. Truly a son of his father. This boy is going to become extremely powerful in future." Houston said with delight and gladness in his tone. Then he vanished from where he floated in the air and reappeared in his room to continue his comprehension that was disturbed by the phenomenon that suddenly occurred.

At the moment, Alex who was seated on the roof of his building had his mind continuously reel in amazement. What he saw within him caused his mind to spin in awe.

Within his vast and unbounded soul-dwelling region could be seen mighty figures that looked exactly like Alex. Without surprise, those were his soul-existences. But there were many things about them that would greatly shock anyone that could look into Alex's soul-dwelling region and see them.

The soul-figures which were enormous in size, causing them to look mighty, were different from the way the soul-beings of other soul cultivators usually appeared after their soul pillars have been infused with soulforce energy to bring about their transformation. Although they looked exactly like Alex, they were different from the normal or usual form that they were supposed to take.

The eyes of his massive soul-beings had thick, jet-black and violet-golden electricity arcs pulsate about within them. Same with the corporeal bodies of his soul-beings which had the dual-colored electricity that moved about in their eyes, snake about on the armors that were on each of them. The dark scarlet, tribulation-type soul-flame that Alex infused into his soul pillars had actually condensed into invincible-looking armors on them; just from the way that they looked and felt, it was like they were actual peerless-grade armors. Although the soul-incinerating ethereal flame had mysteriously turned into solid armors, dark scarlet fire could be seen burning ragingly around each of the armors. Anyone that saw this would simply marvel. Then when one observed further, one would see pairs of massive wings at the backs of these soul-beings. Some had a pair of wing, some had double pairs of wings, some three, while some four. And if one thought of were these wings came from, they had actually materialized from the soul-tribulation frost essence that Alex devoured during his soul-tribulation by ice and frost.

However, these were not all.

So looking further at Alex's soul-beings, one would see luminous haloes of dark scarlet fire on their heads. While in one of the hands of his numerous soul-beings were huge, blood-red blades that had illusory ghosts, wraiths and horned demonical creatures shoot out from within them at intervals. Then in their other hands were spears that were green in color and produced illusory green-colored mists. Then apart from these, massive illusory cyclones of white-colored wind could be seen revolving around their huge figures. While at the backs of the soul-beings within the gigantic wind maelstrom could be seen towering, unreal figures which looked majestic and had illusionary, blood-red mists twirl unendingly around them. And as the mists unstoppably whirled around them like they were conscious, they emanated the will of the world to agonize, despair, suppress, butcher and sever the souls of myriads of creatures.

Alex wondered why his soul-beings produced all that he was seeing. And when he thought hard of the reason why, he couldn't come up with anything that made even little sense.

What Alex didn't know was that his souls had appeared like this because of the protoforce energy within them, making them to exhibit terrific and unusual powers. As an energy that bestowed one with the power to summon extra-dimensional divinely physiques, it caused his soul beings to look like physiques and behave like one. If one isn't able to recall, physiques were illusory bodies that manifested from billions of arcane symbols in an unknown realm and generated marveling illusionary powers. So by the physique-evocation power of the protoforce energy, his souls were made to copy or simulate how physiques behaved in that unseen and inaccessible, boundlessly vast plane in the realmverse. 

Alex pulled his perception out of his soul-dwelling region to the world around him.

Then he stood from his cross-legged position on the roof and jumped into the hole that he made in it.

When he landed to the floor of his room, he went out of it to go meet the people who had decided to join his organization.

Immediately he opened the door to go out of his room, he saw few of the members of his organization standing before his door with fear and worry in their eyes. However, upon seeing him, their gazes which erupted the emotions of worry turned into one that emanated gladness. Radiant smiles also appeared in their faces when they saw that the young founder of the organization that they had decided to join and which they believed they would definitely benefit tremendously from was fine, and even radiated a type of power that they couldn't quite describe or explain.

These people were earlier worried when Alex was screaming loudly in misery. Then they couldn't help but think that something bad was happening to him, causing him to unendingly shriek terrifyingly. And when they heard no more noise which was the time that Alex punched through the roof of his room to go face the last tribulation that was visible to all eyes as it was corporeal, they thought that he had died. Therefore, because of the fear that something terrible might have happened to him, a few of the higher-ups of his organization rushed to where his room was and assembled there. Then they waited for sometime to detect any movement. But if they weren't able to, they would break down the door and quickly tend to Alex if they saw that he had sustained any wound or injury.

However, upon seeing that Alex was fine and even gave off a power that they couldn't explain what it was, they smiled and greeted him with genuine and sincere smiles. And when they looked into his room as his door was still open, they saw a large hole in the ceiling which sunlight passed through and further illuminated the room. Then they became surprised by that.

Alex saw the puzzled looks in their faces and smiled.

Then he closed the door behind him and said to them "I am fine everyone. You can return to your departments and continue with what you were doing."

Once he said this, the few number of people that had gathered before his door nodded their heads and left. Then when they had gone a bit far away from his room, they began to discuss among themselves.

"Did you see a hole in the ceiling in Master's room?" One of them asked in a curious tone.

"I did. I don't know how that got there" Another replied perplexedly.

"Maybe he was practicing a battle method that shot off in the upward direction a wide beam of condensed power from his body which then punched a large hole through his ceiling and out of the roof." One said.

"Probably." Another responded.

As they discussed Alex and the state of his room amongst themselves, they didn't know that Alex who had a powerful hearing was listening to their conversations. While Alex upon hearing what they were saying simply gave a smile. Then he shook his head.

***

Several minutes later, Olivia who flew at a leisurely pace arrived at the building where Alex underwent his Soul Tribulation.

Then when she landed before the building, she gently dropped Nailah to the ground and then walked into the building through the gate which was opened for her without questioning.