A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 219: More wealth

"What? You are going to whip me with that?" Jared asked loudly and with anger strongly blazing in his eyes.

Aii!

Alex gave a sigh.

"I was indeed right. You have muscles for brain." He said. Then he continued as he asked "Am I going to whip you with this? Of course, I am gonna whip you with it. I am going to whip you so hard that the memories you have of your mother will leap out of you, you damned musclebrain"

Then suddenly,

Pa!

A lash sound rang out as Alex whipped Jared on his bare chest.

But surprisingly, Jared didn't scream out in pain. It was like the whip had no pain-inflicting effect on him. However, one would know that he was suffering as his eyes became red and veins could be seen bulging from his temples.

He was actually trying to endure the intense pain that racked his body which was as a result of being lashed.

"Hmm" Alex muttered with a smile upon noticing this.

"I can see that you have an astounding threshold for pain. Let us see if I can overcome that threshold by whipping you without stop." He said with a grin.

"Don't you dar..."

Pa!

Pa!

Pa!

Arghh!

Pa!

Pa!

"How does it feel? Feels exceedingly good right? Should I continue?" Alex questioned with a smile in his face.

At this moment, Jared's body had begun to bleed badly. One would see many long and bone-deep wounds on his body. They had been caused by the whip that emitted an aura of sharpness and had electricity arc and crackle around it surface.

Hearing no response from Jared for the question that he asked, Alex gave a wicked smile.

Pa!

Pa!

Pa!

Whipping sounds continued to ring out as Alex started to lash out at Jared again. While Jared who felt terribly humiliated started to scream in pain as he was lashed hard with the electrocuting sharp whip.

After several minutes of tyrannous whipping, Jared's body became a far cry to what it usually was.

Many pieces of flesh could be seen hanging about on his body. Then long, frightening wounds would be noticed on every area of his chest and abdomen. While the wounds that Alex had made into his body using the sharpness-emitting whip began to ooze blood or spurt blood like a fountain. Then a few seconds later, Jared became covered in his own blood.

Intense pain and anguish could be seen in his eyes, but he continued to endure the lashing.

Few hours later, Alex stopped whipping him.

"So, ready to tell me what I want to know?" He asked calmly.

"You can go to hel..."

Before Jared could complete his speech, Alex unexpectedly dashed towards him and smacked him hard in the face. And before Jared could gaze spitefully at Alex for hitting him in the face, Alex smacked him again with his other hand.

Then he deeply dipped his fingers into one of his many severe, lash wounds, and applying force, he tore away a large piece of Jared's flesh.

Arghhhhh!!!!

Jared screamed horribly.

Ignoring his bloodcurdling screech of pain, Alex swung his leg hard towards Jared's groin region.

Argh!!

Jared shrieked in pain again as the leg that came with a lot of force struck his reproductive organ very hard. And after Jared opened his mouth to screech in agony, Alex spat into it and elbowed him hard in the face.

After he did this, he stopped and left Jared's front.

"This is how you would continue to be beaten and humiliated if you don't give me what I want" Alex said coldly. Then he spoke into the air "Palace-spirit, take him away. Put him in a cage that a pressure that he had never felt in his life should act on him. I want him to suffer till he's ready to tell me what I want."

"Alright" The palace-spirit said.

Then space warped around Jared's body.

Once space distorted around his figure, he vanished from the hall and appeared in a gigantic cage.

As soon as he appeared, a great suppressive pressure that was equal to that which would be fully released by a peak-phase, Saint Emperor-stage cultivator suddenly appeared and acted on him.

The pressure which possessed an exceeding crushing power, pressed Jared hard to the floor of the cage that in the next instant, many cracks began to appear on his bones, and numerous vicious tears on his skin.

Jared wanted to open his mouth to scream out in pain, but he couldn't, as the pressure acting on him was too overwhelming and tyrannical.

Olivia who was watching everything from the side shook her head in dread and veneration.

Alex was simply really ruthless to his enemies and to people that he didn't like. So she felt.

She then replayed again in her mind all that Alex did to Jared and couldn't help but shake her head.

Anyone who was Alex's enemy and was unfortunately caught, such person was in it.

Alex looked at her and she gave a smile. Although she tried to hide the fear and respect in her eyes, Alex could still sense it.

Noticing from Alex's gaze that he had discovered the expression in her eyes which she tried to conceal, she said "What? Why the look?"

"Nothing. I was just admiring your beauty and perfection. You are simply just one of the many beautiful things that has happened to me." Alex said with an affectionate smile.

Then he walked towards Olivia who blushed from what he said, and before she could say anything, Alex suddenly embraced her and abruptly took her succulent, bright pink lips into his.

Her eyes widened in shock.

'Not in front of the palace-spirit, you asshole' She complained bitterly in her mind.

Then she tried hard to pull out from his embrace so that she could terminate the sudden kissing session that Alex had unexpectedly started.

However, she couldn't do so as Alex's powerful arms were tightly wrapped around her waist, preventing her from pulling out of his embrace.

After struggling for sometime and seeing that she wouldn't be able to pull out of his embrace to stop the kiss, she surrendered to him.

After a while, Alex released her.

Once he released her from his tight hug, Olivia hit him on the chest.

"Alex, you are too bad for my liking. I don't love you anymore. I would rather find a man that wouldn't be so forceful around me" Olivia said with an angry expression in her face, but deep down in her heart, she enjoyed how Alex tightly embraced her and gave her a delighting kiss.

"Well, you should have understood me by now. I am bad, naughty, and I love forcing my way through things" Alex said calmly and with a cute smile in his face.

When Alex intentionally said the last part of his sentence which was 'I love forcing my way through things', Olivia's eyes narrowed.

She understood what he meant by that.

Gazing at him with an eye expression that gave the feeling that she really wanted to beat him up, she said out loud "Bastard!".

Then she left his side.

Alex only grinned.

Then looking into the air, he said "Palace-spirit, please use your spatial power to bring me the silver sword and Jared's uncle spatial ring"

"Alright" The palace-spirit said.

Then the palace which had been hidden in a layer of void for a very long time resurfaced. And as soon as it appeared, a vast Power of Space erupted from it. This power of space encompassed the entire region. And once it did so, all the spatial rings of the destroyed Earth Adept, Heaven Adept, and Saint stage cultivators which were at the bottoms of the many huge and extremely deep craters, were rapidly teleported into the palace. Same with the Purifier's sword and Jared's spatial ring.

As soon as they were all teleported away from the gigantic craters that they were in, they appeared in the palace hall, forming a really large heap of spatial rings.

Alex saw the tremendous numbers of spatial rings and gave a brilliant smile.

He knew what caused the rings to be way more than what he expected.

The numerous buildings that he levelled with the destruction-imbued, powered clap-attack, actually had their own vaults of treasures in which spatial rings that contained numbers of resources from places that were raided were kept in them.

He had only stolen the ones from just a building, and that was the main one that Jared and Liam resided in. But there were other large buildings here and they also had storage rooms where treasures and resources gotten from raids were kept in.

Another reason why the spatial rings in front of Alex were enormous in quantities, was because of Jared and Liam both had their own rooms were they kept spatial rings that contained many of their wealth which were acquired from their thousands of marauding and pillaging operations. One must not forget that they were experts at the Great Saint stage and Saint Emperor stage. And as experts at these cultivation stages, they would have raided many places in their lifetime which were a thousand and ten thousand years respectively. Therefore, since the personal spatial rings that they would have on them were good-quality ones, which wouldn't have much storage space or size to accommodate other treasures because of their grades, their immense accumulations would be divided amongst the other spatial rings that they kept in their personal storage rooms.

When Alex finished thinking about that, he realized that he was more richer. However, he knew that the accumulations that he had just obtained were either average-quality or good-quality treasures and resources. Nothing to be too excited about. But he believed that some rare or exotic resources, and marveling treasure-artifacts would be found in a few of the rings, especially in those that belonged to Jared and Liam.

After looking at them with blazing delight in his eyes, he swept them into his dad's spatial necklace.

Then he said in the air once more.

"Palace-spirit, let's return. We are done here"