A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 169: Olivia's battle prowess I

Olivia heard the bone-chilling screeches and her brows furrowed. She knew that those were the sounds of beasts. She began to wonder why those beasts screeches stopped before the village's gate. Then a realization dawned on her.

"Those bastards are here again"

The villagers who had gone to their huts to continue eating and talking had worry and fear set into the hearts again. And this time, because of the screeches, their bodies shivered unceasingly and were sheet-white from fright.

Olivia exhaled heavily. Then she stood up and walked towards the village's entrance gate.

After getting there, she saw three sinister-looking, expensively robed men and asked.

"The hell are you guys doing here again?" She asked.

"You know why we are here. Give her to us now" One of the three men said.

Olivia ignored the man that spoke and asked "How were you guys able to arrive here so quickly?"

"Well, we have been around. Seeing that you refused to do our bidding, we came here to force you to surrender the girl." Another of the men spoke.

"And how would you force me to do so?" Olivia asked.

"Well, when we slaughter a few of the villagers, you would be forced to do our bidding" One of the men said in a sinister tone.

Olivia's eyes turned cold.

"I see that you guys won't give up on the girl. If that's the case, it can only be a battle. You come here in three and make the aura of a sky lord burst out from you. Do you think that will frighten me?" She asked.

"Well, it won't as you are a genius and would have studied some tyrannical battle methodologies. But you are just one person and we are many dozens. Only you by yourself can't handle the three of us, talk more of everyone of us here" Another man spoke evilly.

Olivia's eyes began to radiate battle intents. Then she asked and said in a proud tone "Why won't I be able to handle all of you? I am one of the grand geniuses of the immovable mountain academy and a daughter of Firecloud Family."

When she finished speaking, with the aura of battle now exuding from her body, she said "Come force me you frogs."

Then her eyes turned intense orange and her hair orange. She had activated her family's bloodline power; the Great Infernobringer Firecloud Physique.

The three men smiled.

Of course. A bloodline power.

They thought inwardly.

Now in her physique form, a red octahedral crystal, the shape of a diamond could be seen at the centre of her forehead. It glowed, emitting pulses of power.

Then a pair of large, flaming orange-colored wings sprouted from her back. The wings that had sprouted from her back were actually condensed from pure orange flame.

The men's minions backed away very quickly or the strong heat that had begun to emit from Olivia's body would harm them. Same with the villagers. They backed away as far as possible.

The three men then flew towards Olivia to quickly subdue her.

Seeing them fly towards her, Olivia quickly unleashed large, compacted streams of orange flames at the three men from her palms.

As the large flame columns shot towards them, the three men quickly produced their own energy attacks which they fired at the columns.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three loud explosive sounds rang out as the attacks impacted the massive flame columns. Then spheres of energies surfaced before devastating floods of energies rushed out in the next instant.

Noticing the waves of energies raging towards her, a massive orange flame erupted from her body and like it was sentient, it wrapped around her body several times to protect it from the tyrannical energy waves.

The energy waves engulfed her figure, but because of the enveloping orange flame, they couldn't do anything to her. The flame which had now condensed and emitted strong heat withstood the energy waves and burnt away the energies that composed the rampaging energy waves.

It was good that the huts were far behind or they would have blown to pieces. But the village's wooden fence and gate couldn't withstand the waves' destructive power. They shattered into bits.

Olivia then decided to unleash another battle technique.

"Inferno Swirl" She said.

Aiming her palms at the three men who were now floating high in the air, pyroforce energy gushed out from them and transformed into a gigantic, orange fire whirlpool. It was hundreds of feet tall and surprisingly swirled in the air, not on the ground. It was a profound, fire-element battle technique.

The instant this colossal, swirling funnel of orange fire appeared, it exerted a strong pull at everything and radiated terrifying heat. Then Olivia who was still in her powerful form had one of her eyes change from orange to violet. Also, half of her orange hair turned violet. Then a powerful fiery aura shot out from her body. It was great in size and emanated terrible heat. She became like the sun at the moment because of the vast-degree temperature emanating from her aura.

Then a pool of light appeared in front of her and transformed into a large sword. It was violet in colour and erupted powerful violet flames. Golden abstruse characters which glowed could be seen on the body of the sword.

This was a weapon called Nine Skies Burning sword. It had shot out from her spatial ring. The moment it appeared, she grabbed it, ready for a great battle. Then she flew into the air using the large, flaming wings that had sprouted from her back. Her objective was to move far away from the village so that the men's attacks and hers wouldn't spell doom and destruction for the villagers.

To achieve levitation, Olivia was using the 'Winged Flight' ability of her fire-form physique. And even as she was high in the air, wasting away a lot of energy to achieve her high-altitude floatation, she still tried to observe the acolytes of the men for any movement. Once she notices any movement from them, she would rain attacks at them.

The acolytes of the three deputy masters left them to handle her. There was nothing they could do in a battle between such powerful cultivators except enter into it and die. They would surely be killed off by the destructive waves that would erupt from the collision of their attacks. So instead, they focused on the villagers who looked pale from dread and worry, and then at a larger hut where they felt the person they were after might be at.

The men who were facing Olivia slashed out at her. They had also produced treasure-weapons when they saw that she did so.

The instant they slashed out, massive beams of energies shot out towards her at great speeds. These beams carried tremendous devastating power. Therefore, as they moved, the solid earth directly beneath them cracked due to the immense pressure emitting from them.

Seeing the three powerful, killing energy beams shooting towards her, Olivia aimed her two palms at the beams and fired off massive, straight-line, focused streams of violet-orange flame at them. As the streams of fire moved through the air, they caused the air to heat up to great levels.

Boom!!

The attacks collided producing an earth-trembling sound. But surprisingly, Olivia's's attack, although now faint, still moved towards the three men like they were a stream of unstoppable divine flame.

It took two other beams from the men to cancel out the attacks. Then their minds were sent reeling in awe. What kind of bloodline power is this?

They wouldn't know that this young lady was the last and most talented of the Firecloud family and had the blood of a mystical, ancient race that produced flames that devoured other forms of realm-energies. Only a stronger type of energy can surmount the overwhelming, devouring 'will' in the flame. That was why Olivia's attack could disintegrate their offensives as it absorbed the energies that composed their attacks.

Not giving them time to rest, pyroforce energy erupted from her body and condensed into a large number of dense, violet-orange blades.

"Blazing Blades of Divinity Doomsday" She uttered inwardly. Then the blades of dual-colored, fire elemental energy which orbited her figure shot towards the three Sky Lord stage cultivators.

Swoosh!!!

They were like a stream of arrows as they whistled, cutting through the air at great speeds towards the three men. There were more than six hundred of the blades that shot at the men.

When the men saw the attacks shooting towards them, they quickly produced screens of energy.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Continuous explosive sounds rang out as the blades rammed into the energy shield.

Due to the momentum the dense energy blades came with, although the shields generated didn't shatter, the Sky Lord stage cultivators got knocked back multiple times when the rain of solid, energy blades impacted their shields.

But numerous cracks could be seen on the shields of energy that they generated. Just before they could reinforce their shields, to make it harder and seal up the cracks, the blades which had mysteriously grown larger smashed into them with tyrannical force.

Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! 

The shields finally shattered and the blades smashed into the men. But before the blades could hit them, an armor quickly appeared on them.

Bang! Bang!

They were sent flying for dozens of feet when they got struck by the blades. But luckily, they didn't sustain much injury. They only coughed out blood due to the shock they received from the collision of the blades with their armor.

Their eyes then shone with fury and unbridled murdering intent.

What an insult from someone who is far younger to them and lower in cultivation too.