A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 162: Enjoyment self-reward

- Two months later -

Alex's eyes suddenly snapped open. When he saw himself in the Azure Beastsman palace hall, he calmed. Then after a while, he tried standing to his feet, but an intense aching pain suddenly manifested and racked his head.

He held his head with both hands and grunted in pain.

"Relax kid. You are safe here. You have done a great lot. So continue to relax" A gentle, masculine voice rang out from everywhere.

Alex nodded.

Then he lowered himself back to the ground. 

The pain that suddenly afflicted Alex was because his soul was still recovering. It was near the brink of disintegration and dispersal two months ago when he produced the sovereign-type physique to use overwhelming attacking power to evict all the other competitors.

"Palace spirit, can I get something more comfortable than the tiled ground?" Alex asked.

Once he mentioned that, space twisted around his body. Then it vanished and appeared in a large room on a huge bed.

"Haha!" Alex grinned.

"So comfy!" He spoke.

Then in a curious tone, he asked "Is this the Azure Beastsman bed?"

"..."

There was no reply as the palace spirit simply ignored him.

Alex didn't bother to push his question till he got an answer. He simply laid in the enormous bed and enjoyed the comfortability.

After a while, Alex spoke "Palace spirit, this place is kinda cold. Can you make it warm? Please"

The instant he mentioned this, the slight coldness of the atmosphere of the room instantly vanished and was replaced with warmth.

Some minutes later, Alex asked "Palace spirit, how many weeks was I on the ground for?"

"Two months" A voice rang out from everywhere.

"What? Two months? Damn! Palace spirit, I am hungry" Alex said rubbing his stomach.

"Hmm! So, what would you like to eat?" The palace spirit asked.

"I want a really good fruit wine and lots of well-roasted meats that would produce oil when bitten and chewed" Alex said with a smile.

"Alright"

Then a short while later, a table appeared before the bed. And on this table was a big bucket of oily, deep-roasted meat and several large bottles of supreme-quality fruity wines. And expectedly, a force acted on Alex as it raised him to sit upright on the bed so he could eat.

Since he was supported by this soft force, Alex only experienced a little aching pain in his head.

"There, wash your hand" The palace spirit said as a small bowl of a colored liquid appeared on the table.

Alex nodded and dipped his hand into it to wash away all the stains on his hands. Then he brought out his hands which instantly dried and sparkled as if they were polished gemstones.

Looking at how clean his hands were, he nodded his head. Then he took one of the many large meats and bit on it.

Chump!

He bit off a portion into his mouth and started to chew.

The meat which he held stained his hands and lips with oil. And the small portion that he bit into his mouth produced oil as it was being chewed on in Alex's mouth.

"Hmm!" Alex said inwardly.

He was enjoying the highly tasteful, seasoned meat in his mouth as he chewed and swallowed.

Chump!

He tore off another portion from the meat held in his hand with his teeth and began to chew at a calm pace. With oil-stained lips and hand, he gave a serious enjoying look in his face.

Then with his other free hand, he took a bottle that contained fruity wine and poured it into a small goblet.

Gulp!

He drank the wine in the goblet at a go.

The wine was really sweet.

"Nice!" Alex said inwardly.

Alex was enjoying himself at the moment. He knew that he had evicted the other challengers, so it was right for him to reward his hard work with a kingly enjoyment. 

With his tough struggles against the saint stage cultivators, he eventually beat them and would now have the legacy for himself. This brought him joy, delight and gladness. It was a great feat that he had performed and would definitely narrate to his kids.

With a broad smile in his face, he picked up the goblet which was now filled with a different fruit wine and raised it up into the air, possibly at the palace-spirit. 

"Cheers" He said.

Then he took the goblet to his mouth and downed it content at a go.

Many moments later, Alex consumed the whole bucket of meat and several bottles of wine.

What a voracious appetite he had.

After sitting for sometime to let the food digest as he knew he had a faster metabolism, he laid back in bed. He was supported by the soft force so he wouldn't experience pain in lying back on the bed.

With his back now pressing against the large, soft bed and his head rested against a pillow, Alex went back to sleep.

......... 

This continued for weeks. 

It was only after a month that Alex came out of the palace. Right now he had fully recovered. He didn't experience the intense aching pain he usually felt whenever he wanted to sit or stand. Also, he wasn't in a rush. The legacy was for him and wasn't going anywhere. 

Once he appeared, he saw the amount of destruction he caused in the earth. 

'What a powerful and deadly physique. I will never try to summon it again or it would kill me' He said inwardly as he remembered the ordeal that he went through when he produced the physique. 

A moment later, a voice rang out from everywhere. The voice this time spoke in a gentle manner. It no longer spoke in the harsh tone it used to talk to them during the competition. 

"Young one, you are the only competitor remaining. So since you are the last which signifies your unparalleled battle strength and amazing valiance, then you are the one the legacy would go to. Congratulations" 

Alex nodded his head with a smile. 

He was glad too. 

Extremely glad! 

"What's your name?" The legacy-bestowing spirit asked. 

"Alex" Alex responded respectfully. 

"Hmm. Alright, I think you can remove your mask now. No one is here to see your true face" 

Alex smiled and nodded. 

Then when he gave a command to the face-altering, concealing mask to return his usual facial look, he began to groan in pain as his skin stretched and twisted, and his bones snapped as they returned to their initial locations. 

A moment later, his usual but unparalleled handsome look returned. Then with a brilliant flash of blue light, the paper-thin, extreme-lightweight mask appeared on his face. It had re-emerged from within his face's skin since it sank into it to fuse with it a long time ago. 

Once it materialized on Alex's face, Alex removed the mask that almost felt like air in his hands from his face and stowed it away into his mom's spatial ring. The mask was a peerless-grade, concealment-purpose treasure crafted for him by his mom. If not that the legacy-bestowing spirit had seen Alex's face before he entered the legacy acquisition battle ground, it wouldn't know Alex's true, epic look. 

"Good!" The spirit said. Then it continued as it questioned Alex "Are you ready for the legacy now?" 

Alex nodded excitedly.

Then space warped around him and he appeared within the Silver-Violet Sword Banisher temple which floated in the air.

When Alex appeared in the temple, he couldn't help but be amazed by the interior of the temple. It was enormously spacious and simply beautiful. Alex then wondered the amounts of supreme-quality or peerless-quality sapphirstones that the Silver-Violet Banisher paid out to treasure-forging, god-grandmasters to forge the treasure-temple. Alex's eyes glowed interminably in deep marvel.

"Go on! Just don't stand there kid" A voice rang out.

Alex was knocked out of his marveling state and continued to walk till he appeared some feet before a massive, shiny statue formed from metal. 

The statue before Alex belonged to the Silver-Violet Sword Banisher. It radiated power, strength, fearlessness and the feeling that it would sever all in it path.

"The statue that's before you is in the image of my highly famed master. And what I mean by highly famed is that he was known in almost all the worlds. Right from the Planeverse, a mortal world to the Greatverse, a grand world. I know that a lot of cultivation experts would be deeply wondering why my master chose this world for his legacy to appear in. But there is no suspense or mystery behind this as he was from this particular Planeverse" The palace spirit said.

Alex's eyes widened in shock from what he just heard. His eyes basically screamed of intense astonishment. 

Then Alex shook his head after he came out of his deeply amazed state.

Now he understood why the legacy of such an expert would appear in this world.

Then Alex began to think. 

He thought of all the struggles the Silver-Violet Sword Banisher would have gone through to possess the fearsome power he had. Alex then shook his head again as he couldn't imagine what he could have gone through just before he could reach the high cultivation stage that he attained.