Chapter 276: Soul Tribtion III


    However, now that they possessed this perplexing and astounding attribute, they would be able to affect the soul of anything that is impacted, rapidly turning them into ice. But this would also depend on the soul-cultivation level of the soul cultivator. However, one mustn''t forget about the numerous slivers of protoforce energy in each of his soul pirs, which would cause Alex to be greatly astonished with his soul-beings in future. And since he was done with this, he awaited the second phase of his soul-tribtion.


    Not long, the color of the sky changed again. It changed from it previous color to scarlet red. Resembling a gigantic stretch of fire in the sky, the mortals who were hidden in their homes and were observing what was going on became scared.


    ''What''s really going on?''


    ''Is it a god or a devil that''s descending from the higher heavens?''


    A few moment after the vast stretch of scarlet-red me appeared in the sky, arge, solid column of dark scarlet fire descended from it towards the building where Alex was cultivating his soul.


    However, no one saw this beam of fire, as it was something rted to the soul. Only soul cultivators would be able to perceive it.


    Bang!!


    Argh!!


    The beam directly struck Alex''s soul pirs and caused him to scream out in pain. And because of the force that the dense column of soul-burning fire came with, it caused the massive soul pirs to shake and suddenly develop numerous cracks, giving the feeling that it was going to shatter onto smithereens the next moment.


    Although Alex was incredibly hurt, he still tried to endure the agonizing pain that had begun to rack his soul when the huge column of fire descended upon his developing soul pirs. And as he endured that which he did by gritting his teeth, he started to pull in massive amount of soulforce energy from the realmverse into his soul-dwelling region. When this energy got into his body, he quickly directed it into his soul-dwelling region and infused slivers of it into each of the sixty soul pirs in his soul-dwelling region. His aim was to reinforce his soul pirs which gave him the feeling that they were going to shatter into tiny fragments the next moment. Therefore, as Alex did this, the hundreds of cracks that had appeared on each of his soul pirs sealed up, looking new again. But apart from looking new, it had grown stronger.


    However, if one looked into Alex''s soul, one would see dark scarlet mes burning around each of his soul pirs. These were remnants of the dark scarlet, soul-burning fire that formed the solid fiery column that struck Alex''s pir-shaped cores.


    These wisps of mes could be seen burning brilliantly and ferociously on his body. It was like they had the intent to devour the entirety of Alex''s soul pirs; the wisps of dark scarlet mes were actually trying to burn his soul pirs to nothingness, to the point that he wouldn''t have a soul left, as they possessed the will of the realmverse to totally destroy souls of myriads of things.


    Then apart from the great pain caused by the mes that burned interminably around his soul, his body began to burn like it was on fire. His blood began to heat up and burn. Same with his organs which felt like they were on fire.


    Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!


    Therefore, Alex continually screeched in pain as the wisps of destruction intent-possessing mes wickedly burned his soul pirs and body. And as the me burned his body and pir-shaped soul cores, Alex began to roll about on the ground.


    As Alex rolled about on the ground because of the pain that he was being inflicted with, he quickly released a power of his soul which possessed freezing attribute. And once this power was released by his soul pirs, the intense heat that he felt which was being emanated by the dark scarlet mes greatly reduced in intensity. So, this made the pain that Alex felt decrease a lot.


    Then with a light of resoluteness in his eyes, he uttered inwardly ''Devour!''


    Once he mentioned that, abstruse characters suddenly appeared all over all his body, and also on the surfaces of his soul pirs that were partly white in color. Then a rippling wave of devouring power instantly discharged from all of them and acted on the wisps of dark scarlet, soul-burning me burning fiercely around them.


    Immediately this wave of power acted on them, the numerous wisps of me burning his soul pirs were pulled into them. And like that, his soul pirs which was partly white in color gradually grew a dark scarlet hue. And despite the intense cold emanating from each of them, the strong heat emanating from the soul-tribtion fire essence that had been infused into each of Alex''s soul pirs wasn''t affected. The opposite temperatures didn''t actually cancel out each other.


    Not long, another dense column of soul-tribtion fire descended from the sky and directly struck Alex''s soul pirs.


    Bang!!


    A loud explosive sound rang out as the dark scarlet fiery column which was many timesrger in size than the one that previously fell, struck Alex''s soul with a powerful momentum and immense force that it seemingly caused his room to ripple. While the overly heavy impact of therge, soul-obliterating me column with his soul pirs caused the release ofrge numbers of tyrannical waves which then swept outward with viciousness in all directions within his soul-dwelling region.


    Any soul-cultivator that was at the stage that Alex had reached in the cultivation of his soul and was struck by this powerful soul-shattering wave would be instantly decimated by having their souls explode into bits, or they could be extremely injured if they weren''tpletely obliterated by the waves that would crack or shatter their corporeal soul-beings.


    At this point in time, Alex''s soul pirs had reduced to pieces by the immensely heavy force that the dense and huge soul-tribtion fire column struck it with. Also, they were being burned by the mes that caught on them.


    When this happened, Alex screamed out loud in pain that the people in the building who were now members of the organization that he had established heard his sorrowful cry and became exceedingly worried. They wondered why their master was screaming. They wanted to go upstairs to his room to see what exactly was happening. But in the end, they decided against it and believed that their boss was only trying out some cultivation techniques that were exceedingly harsh to his body. So with the thought that he would be fine when he came out of his cultivation, they stated back and resumed what they were all doing.


    At the moment, Alex''s eyes werepletely red, and numerous green veins could be seen all over his body. But this was due to the immense pain that was racking his soul. He was supposed to even die from having his developing soul pirs shatter into fragments. But because he had a special soul that had been merged with a type of originforce energy from a Beyonder-level expert, and which were also numerous in numbers, he actually defied death. And this had caused Alex''s pir-shaped Soul Core to upgrade. Then, it was a supreme-grade, mortal-level Soul Core. But now, it is a peerless-grade, quasi-immortal Soul Core. It couldn''t achieve immortality as Alex hadn''t reached the immortal stage yet. However, it had achieved pseudo-immortality; it was now a soul that couldn''t fully be destroyed. Alex of course didn''t know what had happened to his soul, but he would discover thister.


    While groaning in intense pain, Alex tried to mold back his shattered soul fragments into pirs once again.


    When his soul pirs explosively shattered into bits, Alex was overly horrified. He thought that he hade to the end of his life by trying out heaven-defying cultivation practices. However, seeing that he was still alive, he felt that there was till something that he could do to bring back his soul fragments into soul pirs once again.


    Then exercising his powerful will on his soul fragments, hemanded them to rearrange back into pirs.


    Although they formed back into pirs, it was very rough and would scatter back into fragments in his soul-dwelling region if it was hit by a slight opposing force.


    Seeing the dpidated state of his soul pirs, Alex pushed his devouring power to the extreme and drew soulforce energy from the realmverse.


    Once the matchless power of energy and essence absorption was released, soulforce energy from the realmverse began to rush towards him in form of tidal currents from hundreds of meters away. And once it got to where he was, it impacted him like a tsunami and rushed into his soul-dwelling region where it abruptly infused into the worn-out looking soul pirs floating in his soul-inhabiting region.


    The instant that the energy was infused into them, his numerous soul pirs glowed. While the thousands of cracks that could be seen on each of them rapidly vanished, causing the pir to look new again. At this point in time, the roughness that they had had smoothen out, looking wless again.


    Although Alex was suffering greatly from the soul-tribtion that attacked him. However, if he could ovee them, many astonishing benefits of the soul would await him. Like now, his many soul pirs were looking wless in appearance, which wasn''t supposed to be so until he got to a particr cultivation stage. Then this would mean that they were been tempered by the tribtion that struck him, making the tribtion that he faced a good thing. But if one was conquered by it, what would result to that person was the Absolute destruction of his or her soul; meaning that person''s total oblivion.


    A few secondster, the pirs were back to normal and even radiated a powerful soul-presence that was many times stronger than before.