A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Jennifer didn't respond, she only readied herself. Grasping her beautiful sword tightly in her hand, she slashed out as she shouted

"Nine Skies Immolation Lotus!"

The instant she slashed out, a shocking large mass of pyroforce energy erupted from the sword and shot towards Lady Poisonheart.

As it shot towards her, the energy condensed and shaped into a lotus that spanned hundreds of thousands of feet.

Since the lotus was composed from red-colored, fire-elemental energy which generates heat and flame, the lotus was red in colour. It emitted bright red light that dyed the sky red and heat that caused the solid brown earth, thousands of feet below it to melt and turn into magma.

And because it contained the following energies; swordforce energy and pressureforce energy which were infused into it by the arrays in the voidstones plugged into the primary sockets of the sword, the air folded and vibrated intensely from the tyrannical pressure emanating from the lotus and slashed in hundreds of places apart because of the unbridled, terrific power of sharpness emitting from it.

Lady Poisonheart was deeply shocked by the attack. From where she hovered in the air, she could feel the extreme, unbearable heat emitting from the glowing, red energy-lotus despite producing a large screen of energy in front of her to block the intense heat radiations discharging from it.

Besides, her energy screen showed numerous wide marks of slashes and a large web-like crack. These manifested because of the power of sharpness and terrifying pressure directly acting upon it. These effects were brought about by the attributed energy-lotus.

Horrified, she quickly backed away and reinforced her energy screen that had begun to thin out because of irradiation by the fearsome heat waves coming from the lotus.

Then when she felt she was far away from the range of the horrifying powers emitting from the lotus that shot speedily towards her, she quickly produced an armor that appeared on her and immediately slashed out at the lotus with a shout of a battle-method.

"Furious lightning trinity blades"

The instant she slashed out, lightniforce energy erupted from the sword in great quantity. It speedily condensed and shaped into three large blue blades that had electricity arcing out of it.

The second they formed, they shot towards the lotus at great speeds. The blades were enormous that they spanned thousands of feet each.

With loud, crackling sounds that rampantly rang out from them and emitting a bright blue light that dyed the earth and sky in this area blue, the blades rammed into the lotus hardly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three loud explosive sounds rang out when the blades impacted the lotus. Immediately they clashed with the lotus, huge waves of violent energies were released. These waves then traveled into the distance in all directions with shocking terrifying power.

They struck both Jennifer and Lady Poisonheart and sent them flying into the distance where they crashed heavily into the earth.

Despite the three massive blades that struck it, the lotus still moved forward towards Lady Poisonheart. Although, there was a slight crack in it structure and it had gotten dim, it still moved with a momentum that gave one the feeling it must obliterate every obstacle in it path.

Since Jennifer was linked to her energy-attack, she could control it. As it hadn't shattered, Jennifer could control it movement and maneuverability in the air. Then driven by her unbending will, the fiery lotus of energy shot towards Lady Poisonheart to destroy her.

Lady Poisonheart became terrified. This was getting difficult for her. She wondered what kind of treasure-weapon Jennifer was using this time.

With a thought, five small metallic balls appeared before her which she grabbed. If one looked closely, one would see crystals embedded in them. These were voidstones.

Then she activated the arrays in the voidstones. The instant she did that, the voidstones began to glow as the arrays in them started to operate. Then she hurled the metallic balls in her hand at the lotus moving towards her. When she carried out that action, she shot away extremely fast to a very far distance.

Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!!

Five deafening explosions occurred and massive waves of alarming energies were released. These waves traveled in all directions wreaking havoc.

When they exploded, they produced a brilliant light that illuminated tens of thousands of kilometers. People in regions illuminated by these lights were shocked before their heart could almost rend apart when they heard the multiple terrifying booms that caused the earth they stood upon to tremble intensely. It felt like the continent they were on was going to collapse.

The metallic balls Lady Poisonheart hurled at the lotus were weaponized treasures known as energy-bombs. They were one-use items. They can discharge all the energies in them as one terrific, earth-shaking blast.

The energy-lotus Jennifer discharged shattered. It couldn't withstand the multiple pulses of earth-shattering energies that erupted from the bombs when they exploded.

Lady Poisonheart could be seen lying on the ground bloodied. Pieces of metals sticked out of her skin. Those pieces were from her armor that shattered upon being struck by the devastating energy waves that surfaced from the powerful explosions. She was still conscious but her condition looked very pitiful.

While Jennifer's armor, which was of the peerless grade didn't shatter from the destructive impacts. But the shock transmitted to her upon being struck by the waves caused her to cough out blood. Her organs at the moment felt like they had turned to mush. Also, she felt dizzy and her vision was blurry. Still, her condition was far better than Lady Poisonheart.

Why the waves seemed powerful as they could cause Jennifer to cough out blood despite the peerless-grade armor that she wore which would be able to withstand attacks from a sage lord-stage expert was because the destructive capacity of the energy waves were far higher than the destructive power of an attack that can be unleashed by a sage lord-level expert.

The instant, absolute release of all the energies in them made the blast energy waves they produced to have that degree of astonishing damaging power.

Inside a deep hole in the earth formed by Jennifer when the tyrannical waves struck her, hurling her forcefully to it, she stood up with a ferocious expression in her face. Grasping her sword tightly, she jumped out of it.

When she came out and landed on the ground many feet after the hole she made when she crashed into the earth, she saw lady Poisonheart far in the distance looking at her with a venomous gaze.

"You seem tougher to kill now. Aren't you?" Lady Poisonheart asked with an evil expression in her face.

The defensive and offensive treasures on Jennifer made her incredibly tough to beat this time around. She wondered again where Jennifer got the treasures from.

At the moment, Jennifer's heart was beating wildly. She wanted to get back to Alex but Lady Poisonheart stood in her way. She simply obstructed her from moving forward. She was frantic as she needed to get to Alex before Gerald did.

She felt she had reneged on her promise again as she left Alex to protect himself. She was so after what she wanted that she didn't consider Alex's safety. She was very furious at herself and at the woman that stopped her from advancing to the academy. She hoped in her heart that the instructors would be able to protect Alex.

"Worried about the boy? Eh?" Lady Poisonheart asked with an evil smile plastered in her face.

Once she mentioned this, Jennifer suddenly had a hard time breathing. The sentence Lady Poisonheart said made her feel like she was suffocating. Her breathing became haggard.

She quickly shot to the sky while Lady Poisonheart did the same. Seeing there was no leeway other than than battle, Jennifer then willed more arrays in the sword to produce energies.

As the arrays in the voidstones produced energies, Lady Poisonheart who understood what Jennifer was trying to do, that she was trying to accumulate tremendous amounts of energies for an instant killing attack, quickly took that brief moment of opportunity to attack.

She produced a violet crossbow from her spatial ring and then quickly fired three arrows all at once at Jennifer.

One of the arrowheads of the three arrows that shot out from the crossbow glowed. This was because a type of energy was infused into it.

As they shot toward Jennifer at an extreme speed, a voidstone plugged into a socket in the arrow that had a glowing arrowhead began to pull in shrinkforce energy from the realmverse. Then this arrow seemed to vanish from vision.

Jennifer who saw the arrows shoot towards her with the exception of the arrow with a glowing arrowhead quickly produced a large screen of energy in front of her.

Before the arrows could smash into the energy screen she put out, they instantly grew to a great size that they were many times larger than a mountain. They had rapidly pulled and absorbed expandforce energy from the realmverse which caused them to instantaneously increase greatly in size.

Bang!! Bang!!

The energy screen upon being impacted heavily by the two massive treasure-arrows shattered and dispersed, with the energy that constituted it returning to the realmverse.

A powerful force-wave was generated from the collision. This knocked Jennifer many feet into the distance.

Then before she could regain her balance, the arrow which had disappeared from vision suddenly reappeared and struck her.

Puchi!

It pierced through her armor and out through the back.

When the arrow pierced through her, she screamed in pain and she lost her balance in the air. Then she fell to the ground from that height.

Bang!

She landed heavily to the earth. Then her body began to incapacitate. She lost control of some part of her body.

The arrow that pierced through Jennifer drew shrinkforce energy from the realmverse. This energy also called miniaturization energy, can make objects grow smaller to the size of a grain of sand and to a billion times smaller than a grain of sand. But this depends on the level of comprehension of the cultivator.

Therefore, absorbing that energy caused the arrow to grow smaller to the point that it seemingly disappeared from sight. But it retained the speed or momentum it was moving with.

This energy can be used to make stealth or hidden attacks. It was very deadly as one wouldn't know what was coming at one.

As Jennifer struggled to regain control of some parts of her body which had been paralyzed and showed signs of decay, she wondered what could possibly pierce through the armor.

The arrow which had a glowing arrowhead was one of the numerous special arrows that were produced by a weaponmaking grandmaster at the divine-level class. They were purchased in large quantities by Lady Poisonheart's organization. Then she took one to use in case things turned south in her battle against Jennifer.

Why the arrowhead emitted light was because it was infused with a type of energy. This energy wasn't created by an array in the voidstone inserted into the socket of the arrow. It was imbued with the energy by a cultivator that cultivated it.

This energy was thetaforce energy. Also called penetration amplification energy, it increased the piercing power of only sharp-pointed objects such as arrows, spears, spikes, pikes and needles to frightening degrees.

But the paralysis was caused by poisonforce energy that was released into Jennifer's body when the arrow pierced through it.

The arrow's body was coated with a poisonous substance that Lady Poisonheart synthesized herself.

When the arrow pierced through her body, the substance the arrow was coated with melted in her blood and turned into a corroding and poisoning energy that began to wreak havoc in her system.

As Jennifer struggled to regain her movement and endured the intense pain racking her entire body at the same time, she suddenly remembered the pill she swallowed the other time she was poisoned.

With a thought, two pills appeared above her head. One of the pill emitted intense resplendent light and waves of power that pushed the air and every particles of matter around her away. This was the pill containing the blood essence of a divine-class expert. While the other was a peerless-grade, sage lord-rank healing pill.

Then using her telekinetic power, the pills were brought into her mouth. She swallowed them and they melted producing energies that began to work to heal her.

The healforce energy was boosted by the divineforce energy that had mixed with it. Then the poisonforce energy began to eject very quickly from her body in form of a gas. Then she regained full control of her body.

Swoosh!

Lady Poisonheart appeared by Jennifer's side. An evil smile could be seen in her face.

She crouched and began to rub Jennifer's face and hair. Then she said "Poor kitty. Look at you. Dying again in my hands. You are not a wise person. When you saw me, you should have fled for your life. Any person I set out to kill, I always kill no matter what they do. But out of your obstinacy and foolishness, you fought me and now, see where it has led you. Your miserable soul has been delivered to me again. All that being said. It's time for your soul to disperse. Haha."

Then she looked at the sword in Jennifer's hands and her eyes glittered.

"My fucking goodness. Babe, where did you get this demonic treasure-sword? Wait, is it that boy that told you the location of this sword? Hmm! That bastard that calls himself Gerald thinks he is smart. If he gets the location of the treasures from the boy, he might forsake me. I might not get anything. I have to think of what to do to get some for myself."

As she was lost in her thoughts, Jennifer who patiently waited for an opportunity to present itself suddenly rose up from the ground and quickly hurled the sword which now had all of it arrays activated at Lady Poisonheart.

Puchi!

The sword pierced easily into her body, then it discharged alarming amounts of devastating energies and a shocking pulse of power that hurled Jennifer far into the distance.

When Jennifer regained her balance, she flew back to where she initially was. She could see bits of flesh scattered all over the place and drops of blood suspended in the air.

"Anybody you set out to kill will be killed. Who killed who now? Bitch!" Jennifer said.

Then she pulled out her sword that had stabbed deeply into the earth and took Lady Poisonheart's spatial ring on the ground.

She stomped the ground with a foot and was sent high into the air by the force she stomped the ground with.

Boom!!

The air boomed loudly as Jennifer suddenly shot to the academy's location at a speed many times faster than than the speed of sound.

......

At this point in time, Gerald was busy launching powerful energy-attacks at a massive shield that was produced by a defensive array network installed in the academy.

"You bastards!! When this shield collapses, I will kill all of you. Put away the energy shield and let me take Alex. Then I would be on my way." Gerald shouted.

The instructors heart were beating wildly. Their faces were painted with expressions of horror. They thought he had killed Jennifer and had come back to attack them with the excuse that he wanted Alex.

Their prayer now was that the shield would lasts till the time the founder of the academy would return from the underverse (minor world) he went to.

"Crack!"

A loud cracking sound rang out as a single crack appeared on the surface of the energy shield.

Hahaha!

Gerald laughed maniacally. Then he began to unleash more powerful attacks crazily.