A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 224: Absorb!

Once Alex said that, like as if it was actually responding to him, a large, solid column of dark black fire descended from the fiery portion of the sky and struck Alex.

Bang!

Argh!

It struck him so hard that he screamed out in pain. And because of the force that the solid column of fire came with, it caused the earth that Alex stood upon to shatter in a ripple-like fashion, creating a crater in it.

Then if one looked into this crater, one would see Alex with a body that was badly burnt. And if one observed further, one would notice some pitch-black flames burning everywhere on his body. They were the remnants of the pitch-black fire that formed the solid, fiery column that struck Alex.

They could be seen burning brilliantly and ferociously on his body.

The wisps of jet-black flames were actually trying to burn him to ashes, to the point that he wouldn't have even a body left, as they possessed the Will to destroy totally.

Then apart from the great pain caused by the flames that burned interminably on his body, many of his bones which had broken or had shattered into pieces due to the impact could be seen sticking out of his skin.

Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Continually screeching in pain as the wisps of destruction intent-possessing flames wickedly burned his body, he tried hard to endure them. And as he rolled about on the ground with the numerous bones that stuck out of his skin due to the intense burning pain that he felt, he quickly produced healing pills which he swallowed.

But as soon as Alex swallowed the pills, another large, solid column of dark black fire descended from the sky at a tremendous speed and struck his body which wriggled like a worm in the crater.

Bang!

An explosive sound rang out as the jet-black fiery column which was many times larger in size than the crater in the earth, struck it with a powerful momentum and immense force that it caused the earth to shatter, resulting in the release of large amount of dust and a powerful seismic wave that swept outward with tyranny in all directions.

Any cultivator below the peak earth-rank stage and was caught in this tyrannical, earth-shattering wave, would be totally destroyed by exploding into bits, or they could become extremely injured if they weren't completely obliterated by the waves that stripped away a large layer of the earth and shoved it into the far distance. And it was this kind of devastating force that could eliminate cultivators who were below the peak earth-rank stage that struck Alex hard.

At this point in time, part of Alex's body had been reduced to pieces. His hands and limbs had shattered into bits, while many parts of his body were a frightening bloody mess. Only his heart and brain that weren't impacted, since they were protected by an invisible field that enveloped them and deflected the extreme damaging force that transmitted to his body from being struck by the destructive fiery pillar.

Therefore, because of the protective enveloping fields continuously generated by the treasures that had merged with his body, Alex was still alive, when he was supposed to be utterly destroyed by the second strike.

Olivia who had gotten to the location where Alex received the Beyonder tribulations but stayed far away, saw how vicious the strikes were and her heart began to race wildly in fear.

She then suddenly had a great time breathing as she wasn't sure if Alex's body still remained from the second strike that carried a tremendous damaging power.

Alex's body was still being burned by the numerous wisps of jet-black fire that had the absolute intent to reduce him to cinders.

The agonizing and insanity-immersing pain that he was subjected to, could almost make him give up and decide to be destroyed so that he would be free from the excruciating pain, but as someone with an unyielding resoluteness, he wouldn't give up here, even if the whole world turned into this jet-black fire and tried to burn him into nothing, he would try to endure the pain and come out with something out of it.

Thinking in this direction, he remembered when he said within himself that if the Beyonder tribulations came, he would absorb the energies that composed the quasi-sentient energy-attacks that would shoot down at him from the mystical tribulation clouds.

Since he had recalled this, his eyes which had supposed to shatter into smithereens but still remained in one piece because of the various god-eyes and eye-treasures that had merged with them, began to glitter.

Without thinking too far if what was in his mind would work, and having an utmost faith and unbreakable determination in his body's energy-devouring ability, he simply uttered "Absorb!".

As soon as he uttered that, the remaining part of his body which was being ferociously burned by the many wisps of jet-black flames, were strongly pulled into his body through his pores, and were forced to move down his energy channels to his energyhouse.

The tribulation-fiery energy which was simply pyroforce energy that possessed sentience and an overpowering intent to totally destroy everything that it targeted, couldn't actually do anything to Alex's energy veins which resisted it intention to burn them into nothing.

They simply couldn't be affected by the power of absolute destruction radiating from the black flames that moved down his energy veins like lavas to his energyhouse. Their grades had instantly and directly entered a tier that surpassed that of the divine overlord tier, just upon the appearances of the arcane runes that were condensed from the mystifying power of durability and imperviousness that were produced within his body which was now in it unmatched powerful form; the absolute energy and essence-devouring form.

When the wisps of tribulation-fiery energy got to his energyhouse, the energies which blazed brightly as they tried to destroy Alex's other energies because of the intents that they possessed, were suddenly acted upon by an unseen restrictive force that prevented them from causing damage to Alex's other energies.

Not long, the raging energy which possessed it own consciousness became exceedingly overwhelmed by the mysterious force that acted on it from deep within Alex's energyhouse.

As soon as it was totally dominated, and the false sentience that it possessed eliminated, it was made to fuse with the large, floating pool of pyroforce energy in Alex's energyhouse.

Then immediately after fusion, it changed the color of Alex's pyroforce energy from bright scarlet to dark scarlet. And since it had merged with Alex's pyroforce energy, the arcane Power of Absolute Nihility that the tribulation-fiery energy possessed, began to continuously emit from Alex's pyroforce energy. This gained attribute would increase it destructive capacity to a whole new level.

So within Alex's energyhouse, each wisp of his enhanced pyroforce energy began to rampantly emanate the power of utmost destruction, which then spread to far places in all directions as ripples and waves. If this mutated energy which was now dark scarlet in color was summoned to his palms as flames, they would unceasingly emit visible, rippling waves of destruction that would turn objects into vapor and burn the air into nothing.