A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 217: That's how a good wife should behave

Olivia who was watching everything that was happening through the projection screen, suddenly had her heart tighten when she saw Alex dash towards Liam. She couldn't believe what Alex set out to do. 

Then it could almost burst out of her chest when Alex was invisibly grabbed by the telekinetic power that Liam released from his palm. And just when the palace-spirit that was also watching everything from the screen would do something, they suddenly saw Alex drive the sword that he tightly wielded directly into the chest of Liam. 

Then shock appeared in their faces. They couldn't understand how Alex was able to pull that off.

They couldn't comprehend what really happened, since the stubborn and persistent power of illusion that emanated from the phantasmforce energy wasn't acting on them, only on Liam. 

They only saw the massive dreadful image that surfaced behind Alex, but it was only in Liam's vision that the image seemed to suddenly gain life and then tried to strike him with the massive scythe that it wielded.

From the screen, they saw fear suddenly surface in the face of Liam who then quickly shot a palm-shaped attack into the air. Then they wondered why he would abruptly produce an attack and direct it into the air. He basically fired his attack at nothing. As this kept them wondering, the palace-spirit eyes glowed.

It felt that it had understood the reason why Liam suddenly shot an attack into the air.

Then when the multiple loud explosions took place, which were the abrupt, violent releases of compressed realm-energies, their eyes both glittered in astonishment.

What alarming amount of energies! 

"Is he dead now?" Olivia asked into the air. 

She was directing her question into the air since she couldn't see the palace-spirit. 

"He should be dead" The palace-spirit replied. Then it continued "I don't think he would be able to withstand such multiple blasts of tremendous energies from within his body. He would certainly be killed by that"

"Hmm" Olivia nodded.

...........

Before the explosions could take place, Alex who had endured the pain to his limit quickly reverted to his normal form.

Then losing the flight-power that he initially possessed because of the Saint cultivation stage that he was temporarily in, he made a free fall to the earth. And as he plummeted to the earth, the forces that were produced by the powerful blasts of energies that were unleashed from the sword, struck him hard where he had reached as he fell freely, and then increased his plummeting speed to the cratered and fissured earth.

Argh!! 

He screamed out in pain when he became struck by the force-waves that were produced from the terrifying blasts. 

However, still retaining a bit of consciousness, but coughing out blood because of the rupturing shockwaves of the blasts that transmitted to his body as he wasn't wearing a protective armor, he quickly produced another sky-rank treasure-wing which he tried to use to land slowly and safely to the earth because of his accelerated free-fall. 

But in the end, he lost the shred of consciousness that he clung on to and fainted.

....... 

Once the destructive blasts took place, The Purifier's sword fell to a large crater in the earth and stabbed deep into it.

Then in another crater in this region could be seen Jared's gruesomely wounded body. It was like the skin that covered his delicate organs were ripped away just to reveal them. It was really a greatly disturbing thing to see. But at the moment, one wouldn't be able to tell if he was still alive or already dead.

When Alex shot the massive, orb-shaped condensate of the Power of Wood into the earth, which then caused the mysterious, accelerated growths of thousands of gigantic vines, many of the thick branches of some vines that didn't possess tall, spiny projections wrapped around Jared to protect his body from the various rampaging waves that might erupt from their attacks' point of collisions. Also, when the swaths of earth were torn away from the land and pulled into the sky to float around Alex, the one that Jared was on wasn't stripped away. Alex had left that portion alone so that Jared's already badly damaged body wouldn't sustain further damages that could result in his death. 

If Alex didn't do these, Jared could have actually died, and he wouldn't be able to get what he wanted from Jared, which was the location of the cave that moved Liam through space to a region that couldn't be found anywhere in this planeverse that he was in.

At this point in time, Alex was already unconscious, but he floated in the air by the Power of Flight that the treasure-wing produced. 

Then in the next second, space suddenly warped around his body, which then vanished from where it was and appeared in a hall in the palace. And as soon as it appeared in that particular hall, it began to float in the towering hall that it was teleported to. 

A telekinetic power then acted on him, pulling his floating unconscious body from the air to the floor of the hall.

Olivia who had a slightly worried expression in her face quickly came over to his side and helped him removed the treasure-wing that tried to lift Alex back into the air.

Once it was removed, the treasure-wing took back into the air and continued to float. While Olivia tended to Alex's wounds by giving him pills that would heal the excessive tears and strains that he had sustained upon using the three powerful physiques that he summoned. 

Then when a large bed suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the hall, Olivia carried him in her dainty but strong arms, and placed him on the bed that had surfaced in the hall. And when she gently placed him on the bed, she looked at him lovingly for sometime. Then she requested for a bucket filled with water from the palace-spirit.

"Oh! Do you think that this palace would actually have that?" The palace-spirit asked.

"Palace-spirit, please! I want to use it for the sole successor of your Master's legacy" Olivia said.

Olivia couldn't see the palace-spirit, or she would have seen the smirk expression in it face.

Then in the next second, a bucket containing water appeared before Alex.

As soon as it appeared, Olivia stripped off a small piece of the shirt that she wore. Then she immersed it into the water in the bucket. And after the small piece of cloth became soaked, she pulled it out, squeezed it, and then began to use it to wipe away the blood on his face and on his body.

She then tore away Alex's shirt too and used the wet piece of her cloth in her hand to clean his bloodied chest.

It was here that she clearly saw the impressive muscular build of Alex's upper body. When they were in the water in the stream back at Nailah's village and were having a romantic session, she didn't really pay attention to this. But now that she saw his chest muscles which gave the feeling that they were sculpted, and his ripped abs which would make one think that they were carved, she couldn't help but marvel at their sights.

"What well-defined chest and abdominal muscles" Olivia said, with eyes glittering astonishingly and brightly at what she was seeing.

She couldn't help but touch his chest and press it like she was pressing boobs. And if not that the palace-spirit would be watching her, she would definitely slip her hand into his trousers and touch the organ at his groin region which bulged from his trousers. 

Then a wide smile appeared on her lips, and pinkness on her face as she blushed because of what she thought.

As she continued to wipe his face and body, Alex's eyelids trembled for sometime before it snapped fully open.

Once his eyes opened wide, Olivia looked at him and grinned.

"You are finally awake. I thought that you wouldn't wake in a very long time" She said.

Alex only smiled.

Then when he looked at himself, he became surprised. 

"You were cleaning me up?" He asked.

Olivia grinned again.

"Of course I should. That's how a good wife would behave" She replied.

Alex's eyes widened in surprise.

"So, you have accepted to be mine now?" He asked.

"Come off that, Alex. I have long accepted to be yours. I was only angry at you then for what you did to me. But I have forgiven you and would accept any punishment that I am given by my family, and by the institution that I study at, if it was later discovered that I am no longer holy" Olivia said with a smile. But a sense of sadness could be perceived from her smile. 

Alex heard what she said and saw her smile, and then became unhappy. He too wasn't happy with what really happened back then. He still felt guilty in his heart for what he did to her. But he couldn't be faulted. 

Then he asked "Must you return? Why don't you leave together with me and journey the world with me? Together, we are powerful and would surmount every obstacle that we would come across."

It was Olivia's eyes that widened in shock this time around.

"No. I can't do that" She hurriedly said. Then she spoke further "I certainly can't leave my family. They would be heartbroken"

Alex shook his head with a wide smile hung on his face.

"I am not saying that you should leave your family totally. What I meant is that you should leave them for a very long time. And then later, when you are very strong, you can return." He said.

Olivia shook her head.

"I will think about that" She said.

Then she gazed at the projection screen. In it could be seen Jared's terribly wounded body.

"So, what are you going to do about that one?"