A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

"I have some with me. I have.. Uhm.. Frost and ice cultivation manual, would you like that?"

Deborah thought for sometime, then she said "That would be fine".

Alex immediately produced it and gave it to her.

She accepted with a smile and said "when you left the estate to go gather experiences outside there. Did you meet any beautiful girl that you liked?"

Alex's mind spun. "Ye.. Yes, I did." he said with slight difficulty.

Deborah nodded.

Then she asked "Did you tell her your feelings?"

"I couldn't. She was gone before I could see her again after we parted due to an unanticipated incident. But it was not like I was going to tell her my feelings. I just wanted to see her beautiful face again." Alex said recalling that beautiful genius from the Immovable Mountain Academy.

"Uhmm... She must be really beautiful then. Do you think you would see her again?" Deborah asked.

Alex thought about what she asked for sometime, then he replied "She studies at the immovable Mountain academy. So we could probably meet again"

"What if she was taken before you get to meet her?" Deborah asked.

"Well, I would be unhappy" Alex replied. 

"Aww. That's why an opportunity presented shouldn't be missed. They must be grabbed at the first instant. The gods brought such a girl your way and you just rejected it. Yea, that's what I feel you did. Anyways, in case of another time, if you wouldn't able to recover that girl that tugged your heartstrings and you see someone else you like, go for that person. Ignore any ugly incident you think might come up. Just say what's in your mind to the person" She lectured Alex.

Alex nodded as he listened.

He now felt that he should have just told her what was in his mind.

But he couldn't be blamed. That was his first time interacting with a stranger of the opposite sex. He was already used to the female workers in his uncle's mansion so he could easily interact with them.

"Debbie. Thanks for the lectures. I really appreciate it." he said. 

"Aww. Sweet little guy, there's no need for thanks between us." Then she brought her head closer to Alex's face and gave him a kiss on his left cheek.

The lipstick she wore stained that cheek. She only smiled and wiped it away with her thumb.

Then she carried the book Alex gave her and left.

Alex was left there in a daze.

The kiss on his cheek had first made him forgot who he was and where he was.

It took a long time before his memories returned. He touched that part of his cheek and smiled.

It was slightly wet there, from the stain by the lipstick as she didn't wipe it away totally.

Not interested in reading the weapon's book again. He sent a sliver of his perception into the necklace that had sank into his body.

In there, when his perception roamed for many hours, he saw hundreds of rows of towering, gigantic bookshelves that were joined to one another.

He came over to observe and saw so many A-grade (supernal battle entity-grade) duality and trinity methodology manual.

He was greatly impressed. He believed there would be thousands of tons of these books in his dad's palace-treasure and mom's interspatial ring. And there were still a great, numbing amount of interspatial rings that belonged to his parent's friends, relatives and followers. He just couldn't imagine the wealth he had on him.

He vowed he wouldn't touch them unless absolutely necessary. Right now, he felt he was a living treasure vault. He smiled and then he began cultivating.

....

Alex cultivated dedicatedly for more than eight months but he still remained in the mid-phase.

This infuriated him greatly. The girls he gave cultivation manuals to, Kate and Debbie, had surpassed him and there was possibility they would reach the peak-phase entry stage very soon.

Out of shame and embarrassment, he went to meet his uncle that he wanted to go out and hone himself, and this was after many pleas from Houston that he should be out there gaining battle experiences.

"Alex. Here is my ring. Take it. I have no need for it again." Houston said.

"Uh? Nah.. That's where your entire wealth is uncle. I can't accept that. How would you pay this people, your workers?" Alex asked.

"One thing nobody ever knew, even your parent, was that I was more wealthy than them. Not speaking generally now, but in terms of sapphirstones. I discovered a great quantity of them, golden sapphirstones, in a region I went to for the legacy of an ancient expert. They were like a mountain and there were hundred dozens of them in that place. That's one of the many places they haven't mined out sapphirstones. I was just lucky to get one and now I want to bestow them to you. Their blessed memories, every one of them, that fought alongside your father gave their entire lifetime accruals to you, why should I hold back mine?" Houston said with a smile and then threw the ring at Alex who caught it.

Alex shook his head and stowed it into his necklace.

"Uncle, how would pay these people?" Alex asked, he wasn't happy with his Uncle's decision.

Houston smiled. So this boy was this considerate.

"Don't worry about me boy. My wealth at the moment surpasses your imagination. To give you a hint. My wealth currently, at the minimum, surpasses that of ten statesmaster. So your worries are not necessary" Houston said.

Alex's eyes widened in shock. "Wow. Uncle, you are really wealthy." he said in utter astonishment.

Houston laughed. "Alright, be on your way now. Go forge your own path" he said.

Alex ran towards him and gave him a tight hug for sometime before he left him alone.

"Uncle. Can I get one of those ultivehicles, the small size. Please." He said In a begging tone.

Houston's eyes widened in shock. "Never! That would put you in great trouble. I can't take that chance. Forget it" Houston said strictly.

Alex pouted. "Uncle, come on, you have about ten small ultivehicles. Just spare me one." he said.

"Boy. There is no discussion on this topic." Houston strictly said.

Before Alex could utter anything, Houston suddenly snapped his fingers.

Then Alex rapidly turned blurry where he stood before he faded away, materializing in a wilderness in a very distant state.

Houston sent Alex very far away. He made it extremely difficult for him to come back.

It would be difficult for Alex to come back because he was about twenty states away from the state his uncle's house was based in.

"You are your own now kid. Train and develop yourself. I will only come to help you when you are in great trouble" Houston said inwardly in a lonely tone.

He would miss Alex. Especially for his childish behavior and rants.

Houston knew that he was still a naive, innocent and inexperienced kid. But he believed he would grow up and develop into a fine young man in the outside world. 

"All the best kid." Houston said after recovering from the feeling of loneliness he felt a moment ago. 

Alex appeared in a valley. It was mountainous and lush green. Once he appeared, he looked around and his mind shook "The hell?" then he roared in anger, "Uncle, if you are listening, I hate you!"

The instant he roared, powerful waves of energy projected out of his mouth. These waves swept forth with great destructiveness.

Every mountain in their path shattered into small fragments. Not long, the entire chains of mountains here were leveled.

Alex became deeply awed. Then he quickly looked at himself and saw that his body was emitting sounds at the moment. All kind of sounds projected from his body and they made for beautiful musical tunes. It was like he was in an orchestra, except his body was the orchestra.

These musical sound waves, as gentle, beautiful and thrilling as they were caused the ground to rive.

Every path they took, the ground was rent apart and deeply at that. It was like the sound waves were swords wielded by gods, they possessed great sharpness.

Musical signs and symbols surfaced around Alex, they caused the air to vibrate as they pulsed with power and released sounds that could put one into a trance.

These symbols felt like they could shatter mountains and split seas. Then an information surfaced in his mind with the title, "Grand Music Mayhem Titan Physique"

He was awed. This was another physique. He then remembered his uncle never told him anything about his memory and about the physiques and how they came to be.

He gave a mtcheew in a vexed manner. Then he tried to quickly leave here before someone extremely powerful came over because of the havoc he had accidentally wreaked here.

He willed his body to return back to normal and it did. The symbols around him vanished and the sounds halted.

This took him aback. It seemed he controlled the reverse transformation this time around.

The instant he became normal again, someone appeared through teleportation. "Kid, you know who did this?!" the voice of this person boomed out in fury.

Alex's mind shook but he hid this from showing on his face. "Senior. I don't know who did this. I just arrived here to develop myself then I saw everything in ruins." he said, concealing the fear in his tone.

"Alright." This person in the air then deployed a scanning ability and scanned the entire place but he saw no one.

He furrowed his brows, then he looked at Alex for some time before he snorted and teleported away.

Alex exhaled out deeply. He was scared shit. "See what my crazy uncle caused me to do. Does he want me to taken away be these experts?" he asked inwardly in an unhappy tone.

The ultivehicle his uncle refused to give him made him feel bitter resentment for Houston.

He knew it was for his own good but he still resented him for that.

He turned around and left this place.

After walking for a long time, he came across a beast-drawn carriage which he entered to convey him to a place called 'Adventurers guild'.

His uncle had told him many things he needed to know about the outside world and had offered him priceless advices.

The adventurers guild is a place owned by a person or a group of people.

They usually give out manuals, pills and treasures as prizes to people who successfully bring back what they were assigned to as in the mission they were given or requested.

This was to develop rogue cultivators as many weren't that wealthy to study at an academy.

Even students from academies come here to take missions and receive prizes.

These adventurers guild can be found in almost every city in every states and there could be many in one city.

Many hours later, he got there but it was already night. The carriage was very slow and this pissed him off greatly.

If he wanted it, he would have gotten down, paid the owner of the carriage to go on his way and then use his leg to walk the thing.

He got down from the carriage, paid and went to rent a room in an inn beside the adventurers guild to stay for the night.

Next morning....

Alex's eyes snapped open from cultivation, he then left the room and out the inn to the guild.