A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

The earth shook mightily causing buildings hundreds of kilometers away to collapse. The instant the colossal attack struck the earth where Gerald's stiffened body lied, a towering, devastating, tsunami-like wave surfaced and swept out in all directions with a tyrannical force that could probably injure gods. That was the might of the destructive wave.

...

Alex heard the cloud-dispersing boom sound and felt the intense trembling of the earth. Then he prayed in his heart that nothing should happen to Jennifer.

After the earth shook terribly for a long time, it stopped and no intense loud sound could be heard again. It was like an enraged, super-sized primordial beast attacking the earth had gone back to slumber. Everything suddenly calmed.

"Is the battle over? Did instructor Jennifer kill the principal?"

He couldn't be sure.

Jake looked at Alex and asked "It seems the battle is over. Should we return?"

Alex thought for sometime with furrowed brows.

"Yea, we should. Let's head back to the academy. But we have to be careful so things wouldn't take a wrong turn for us. It would be disastrous if we deliver ourselves to the principal. But I believe in Instructor Jennifer. She would come out victorious" he said confidently.

Jake looked at him and shook his head.

"Why is he so confident?" he asked inwardly.

He didn't think more about it.

Earlier, Jake had demanded for an explanation from Alex and Alex had fabricated an explanation for him. So that was how he knew what was causing the intense battle between Jennifer and Gerald. Another version anyways.

They both walked out of where they hid and headed for the academy.

After Jennifer saw that she had crushed Gerald's body to pieces, she flew back to the academy. When she arrived, she could see that the academy was a far cry to it former self. All the buildings lied in ruins while the instructors, non-academical staff and student could be seen on the ground unconscious. They bled from several places in their bodies.

Jennifer believed that the wave that surfaced from her last overpowered attack upon striking the earth was what brought ruins to the academy's blocks while also causing severe injuries to the bodies of everyone here.

Feeling guilty, she looked into her spatial ring and deduced that the amount of healing pills stored in it should be enough to go round for everyone.

Then she lowered herself to the ground to start putting the recovery pills into their mouth. Just immediately she landed, a purple portal appeared in the sky and an elderly man stepped out of it.

He saw his academy lying in ruins and his employees and students looking bloodied as blood trickled and oozed down from numerous wounds in different places of their bodies. Then unbridled fury shone in his eyes.

He looked at Jennifer and recognizing who she was. He calmly asked "What happened?"

Jennifer respectfully greeted with a bow. When she straightened herself, she said "Sir, uhm.. a battle occurred between me and the principal"

Once she said this, the man's eyes that gave one the feeling that it would release all the beasts from hell suddenly shone with amazement and bewilderment.

"What? A battle between you and Gerald? Where's he?" The man asked with deep shock in his voice.

"He's dead. I killed him" Jennifer respectfully replied.

The man became quiet. After a long time, he asked "Why?"

"Sir, believe me. It's a long story. Maybe after we put everything back to the way they were, then I would tell you about it" Jennifer said with respect in her voice.

The man looked at her and nodded his head.

He didn't want to press further. After they put everything in order, he would know what caused the fight between her and Gerald.

Then he put out a hand and a vast formless force emanated from it, enwrapping everyone. This force wrapped around the bodies of the numerous thousands of workers and students lying unconsciously on the ground.

He raised that hand into the air and all the bodies enveloped by this invisible, shapeless power were lifted high above the ground. He chose a place where there was no fragments of building and gently lowered their bodies there.

After he did this, the same hand emanating the formless force began to emit a turquoise light. Then luminous strands of healforce energy began to discharge from it.

These torquoise strands of regenerateforce energy penetrated into the bodies of the instructors, staff and students and began to heal up every wound.

With bodies that glowed as the regeneration energy circulated in them, their eyes slowly opened.

Then they tiredly stood to their feet. When they saw the founder of the academy before them with a smile in his face, they quickly greeted with a deep bow.

The elderly man nodded his head at them.

Then the turquoise light emitting from that hand changed to another light. This light was a deep carnation light and was produced by a type of cultivation energy channeled to it from his energyhouse.

Immediately that energy was moved to his hand, the type of power emanating from it enwrapped the rubbles on the ground. Surprisingly, the rubbles began to move towards one another. Then they attached to themselves and began to form the academy's previous structures.

The academy's founder was using the power of manipulation of earthly materials; an ability gained from cultivating aethaforce energy to form the previous structures out of the rubbles on the ground.

Jennifer and the others saw this and shook their heads in awe.

Aethaforce energy is different from terraforce energy which can only be used for an energy-attack. This energy gave the power over earthly materials not earth, while terraforce energy, a yellow-colored energy, also called earth-elemental energy is an energy of the earth and emanates the power of heaviness.

...

As Alex and Jake went on their way back to the academy, they came across homes of people that had collapsed to the ground. There were many of these buildings lying in ruins.

Then he could see lot of people on the floor crying. Though they were injured as blood spurted from the wounds in their bodies. But they weren't crying because of these injuries but because of their properties that had been destroyed by the shockwaves. To many of them, these were their many years of hardwork and labor gone down the drain.

When Alex looked at the number of collapsed buildings, there were so many for as far as he could see.

Hearing the sorrowful wails of these mortals, he took pity on them. Then he began to wonder what he could do to help them in this situation. But there was nothing he could come up with.

One thing he knew for sure was that he couldn't start giving heaps of sapphirstones to them to build new shelters or notorious cultivators would surely come for him.

But he still thought hardly. He couldn't leave these mortals in their distresses. Then after sometime, he came up with an idea. That was the only way.

Many minutes later, after secretly doing what came to his mind, he went to meet Jake. Then they set again for the academy.

Alex smiled because he felt he was able to render some help to them. He just hoped in his heart that the person who would carry out the task wouldn't disobey the instructions he gave.

...

Knock!

A knock was heard on the door.

"Come in"

A deep male's voice sounded from within.

Then the door opened and a young man stepped in.

"Sir, there is something you would like to see" The young man said hurriedly.

The man on the seat looked at the young man in surprise.

"Alright. Take me there" He said.

When they left the office together, they arrived in a place. In this place could be seen many people. They were looking at a few objects dozens of feet in front of them and wondered what cultivation expert put them there.

When the man saw the objects, he was greatly shocked. What he saw was a golden spatial ring that floated in the air by itself. And directly behind it were two large, twin blue swords stabbed deep into the ground. These swords, without no one controlling them emitted waves of sharpness-power as they slashed the air around them apart, creating a vacuum zone.

Then on the ground were words boldly written in it. It looked like a sovereign expert of the sword wrote that into the earth as the words emanated a visible rippling power of fearsome sharpness.

"This is to the Public Affair Officer. Take the spatial ring and share the wealth in it to the people. To the mortals who have lost their properties. If you dare take the wealth for yourself, I would come for your head because am somewhere watching. For your obedience and diligence, I gift you the swords."

That was the message written in the ground.

The man's eyes glittered. He was happy and at the same time sad. The swords were wonderful treasure-weapons but he knew he couldn't keep them with him as powerful experts would come for them. Therefore, he was sad as he would have to sell them off in the auction for wealth. But anyways, he was happy.

Using his cultivation power to withstand the frightening pulses of energy emanating from the swords, he approached them. Then he took the ring and stowed away the swords.

After doing this, he looked up at the sky like he was looking for the expert that made those words into the earth. Then he immediately left the place to carry out what he was instructed to do.

...

When Alex got to the academy, he was shocked to see the structures still standing. But when he looked at it attentively, he saw that the structures seemed to be made from heaps of rubbles.

They didn't scatter apart and fall back to the ground. It was like a power was holding them together. He was amazed.

"Who put up these structures from pieces of broken walls?"

He only shook his head in awe and entered into the academy to look for Jennifer. He knew he would find out about the structure thing from Jennifer.

Immediately Alex entered into the school compound, he saw many people picking up one thing or the other from the ground and carrying them to a different place. These were students picking up their stuffs.

Immediately they saw Alex, they became surprised. So this boy was not in the academy.

Alex only nodded at them and made way for Jennifer's residence.

Jennifer would have gone to search for Alex but immediately the man put back the structures, he called her and the other instructors to a particular place he turned into an office for a meeting.

"Now, I want to know what really happened" He said.

Then Jennifer began to explain. While the other instructors put one thing or the other into what Jennifer was saying.

The man listened very well to know who was wrong and who was right as he was ready to mete out severe punishment.

This man was the founder of the Black Dragon Academy. His name was Damon and he was at the Sage Lord stage. When he achieved a breakthrough to this cultivation realm, he left this mortal world (planeverse) to a minor world (underverse) to get more resources that would support him in his cultivation.

After listening to all they said, Damon couldn't help but applaud Jennifer. But he still couldn't understand how Jennifer, who was at the saint emperor stage would beat and kill a cultivator at the sage general stage.

There was a difference between beating and killing. Even if she could beat him in battle, he should at least be able to run away. But she actually eliminated him.

After thinking hardly for sometime while looking intently at the instructors, he appointed Jennifer as the new principal.