A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 214: Alex's Hope

Five gigantic, crystal-like orbs that emanated different colors of light suddenly appeared, then they began to rotate around him, just like how planets rotated around the sun. 

The colorful luminous orbs that had appeared and began to orbit around his figure, were objects that were actually condensed from five different types of elemental power, and these were the Power of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Wood. 

They were actually solid condensates of arcane elemental power in the form of an orb. 

Alex had mimicked the ability of the exotic 'Beast of Five Elements' that was in his possession. 

Since he was sure that nearly everything was possible in that realm where the limitless physiques were, he decided to produce a physique that would imitate the ability of the beast that he called Elementaria. 

As soon as the orbs appeared, they began to radiate their respective powers. 

A massive orb with a cyan color caused air to swirl at a furious speed, becoming an astonishingly massive cyclone of wind. Then apart from the enormous cyclone of wind that had sprung up, it also caused the manifestation of rampaging violent gales that swept about with immense destructive force. If they impacted a large rock at the speed and momentum that they moved at, they would simply shatter it. 

One of the five colossal orbs, which was olive-green and leaf-green in colour, plummeted to the earth from the attitude that Alex floated at, using the flight power that was now available to him since he was now temporarily at the Saint-stage cultivation realm. 

Plunging speedily to the earth from that height, it unceasingly radiated the saint-level Power of Boundless Wood Growth. Then when it shot into the earth, a vast transformation took place in the next instant as the entire earth surface glowed with the olive-green and leaf-green color that the luminescent, pulse-emanating, orb-shaped condensate of power that shot into it had. And as soon it cannoned into the earth, thousands of immense, exceedingly tall, green-colored vines that possessed near-innumerable, extremely thick branches sprouted out from deep within the earth. These had suddenly appeared from deep within the earth, in a land that had been probably ruined beyond recovery. 

A large orb with a scarlet-gold color radiated immense heat that could cause the sands on the earth to catch on fire and heat so greatly that it would become glass. The heat emitting from it was simply intense that it tried to expel the air around it to create a vacuum. However, since they were elemental powers produced by the same physique, they didn't try to antagonize each other. The air which had formed into a massive cyclone still remained, while the extremely tall vines which possessed near-uncountable branches, didn't catch fire and begin to combust. They were actually immune to the effects of the elemental power that was generated by the other. 

The fourth orb which was brown in color and radiated the Power of Earth Movement, caused large swath of land to be torn away from the earth and shoot at tremendous speed towards it. Anyone that saw these would have a strong feeling that these were not large pieces of land, but fast-shooting massive meteors. Although these enormous pieces of earth were stripped away from the vast land in this region, they didn't affect the numerous towering vines whose root reached tens of thousands of meters deep into the earth. 

So in a few seconds, Large pieces of earth could be seen floating in the air, casting their shadows upon the land. However, because of the intense and brilliant scarlet-gold light emitting from the orb with the Power of Fire, which basically resembled a small sun, the land which was supposed to be darkened by the overcasted shadows of the floating, massive fragments of earth upon it, was greatly illuminated.

Then the last orb which was deep blue in color and emanated the Power of Water Gravitation, began to pull water molecules from the extremely heated surrounding atmosphere, and then the ones at a shocking distance of about ten thousand feet away. It also affected the water bodies in the zone covered by it gravitational power as it drew them towards it. These water bodies which were small streams and ponds that could be found around in the area covered by the vast, arcane water-elemental power emitting from it, were rapidly pulled towards it. Then they merged and formed into a massive pool that floated in the air, with the orb emitting the power of Water Pull at the center of it. 

All these actually happened simultaneously. They only took a few seconds to form. 

The physique responsible for this was the 'Five-Element Ultimate Destruction Apocalypse Bringer God-Physique'. 

If one could see beyond the tricolored armor of energy on Alex's body, one would notice the image of a ball of fire which looked like the sun, then the image of the ocean, the earth and the mountains, the forest and a cyclone on Alex's body. Upon seeing these, one would have a feeling that these images were branded into his skin. They looked like tattoos. However, they were engravings that appeared when the five element control-physique surfaced. Then it would be more marveling to know that it was actually these symbolic images that generated the five orbs of elemental power that circled Alex's figure. 

Alex who was observing his transformation was shocked beyond any word could possibly describe. He was deeply astonished by the phenomena that the physiques had caused. 

Anyways, that was the second physique that he produced. The last one which was the 'Nine Souls and Seven Lives Bloodharvesting Carnage God Lunar Physique', caused the appearance of the image of an incredibly massive, white-colored bone scythe that had a immense blood-colored blade. Then a hooded but massive, headless being that wore a dark grey robe which had three moons embroidered on it and was stained with blood all over, like it was showered or splashed with blood, could be seen wielding the enormous bone scythe. Although it was only an image which was exceedingly lifelike, anyone that looked at it would feel great fear. it was really an appalling and terrifying thing to gaze at. However, although it was only an image, it still produced some spine-chilling physical effects. 

At the same time that the image surfaced behind Alex, radiating a pervading and overpowering feeling of extreme gloominess and despair, and an aura of bloodiness, evil and slaughter, a type of incorporeal or illusion-like black wave, which carried a strange form of coldness that couldn't be described, burst out from within Alex's body and swept out into the far distance. It actually reached where Liam, who had a deeply puzzled expression in his face, floated at. 

As soon as the black wave struck him and engulfed his figure. He shivered. Not physically. It was his soul-being that shivered. 

The coldness-carrying black wave that discharged from Alex's body wouldn't actually affect physical objects, it would only affect the soul. And to give a hint on the intensity of the coldness that it possessed; if it were acting on a physical object, even if it were one of the strongest substances in the world, it would instantly turn into ice and easily shatter into fragments upon being struck. So if such coldness with a tremendous freezing power acted on the soul, there was no coming back from it. It simply was the instantaneous death of the soul. But Alex hasn't reached this stage at all as he didn't even know how to apply such which involved deep understanding of some profound intricacies. Besides, he was only borrowing the power which would leave his body very soon. 

Very quickly, Liam recovered from the freezing effect of the coldness-bearing wave on his soul. Then he brought back the mockery smile which had disappeared from his face earlier, and was replaced with extreme astonishment due to Alex's marveling transformation. 

But what he encountered was only the discharge of a sweeping wave of black-colored, soul-impacting lunarforce energy from Alex's body upon transforming. It wasn't a direct attack as he would come to know soon. 

Alex's mind at the moment had split into many. He had entered into his multi-tasking mode. 

Then with a thought, the sky-imitating offensive treasure-weapon called 'Thunderous Sky', suddenly shot thick bolts of lightning at Liam. 

Seeing the incoming, numerous lightning bolt-attacks, Liam smiled mockingly. Then he aimed a hand at them and sent out a telekinetic wave of devastating power at them.

Bang! 

Bang! 

Bang!... 

The numerous lightning bolts sent at him shattered into pieces upon being impacted by the invisible, solid telekinetic wave that Liam projected from his hand. 

As soon as the bolts shattered into millions of electrical sparks, the Thunderous Sky weapon began to glow. Then it shot massive bolts of lightning at Liam. 

Liam only shook his head at the sight of the incoming bolts. 

Then he waved his hand which resulted in the explosion of the lightning bolts attacks into thousands of fragments of lightning that crackled as they fell to the earth. 

Once he waved his hand and caused the lightning bolt attacks to be destroyed, shattering them into small bits, Liam said with sense of mockery in his tone "Kid, I believe you can do better than this. I am waiting for your ultimate attack. I hope it's strong or you would be torn apart by me into pieces using my hands only" 

Although he was very far away from Alex, Alex could actually hear what he said. Not because he used his astonishing hearing ability, but because Liam used his Saint Emperor-level power to amplify his voice so Alex could hear what he said.

Alex heard those and simply ignored him. And with bleeding, enlarged red eyes and bulging green veins as he tried to endure the agonizing pain that had begun to rack his body and soul, because of the triple saint-tier physiques that he had summoned, he got ready to unleash an attack that should injure Liam who was very overconfident in himself, and seemed to lower his guard. Then he hoped that he would succeed in what he was about to do very soon...