Battling beasts III

Only the winged python forced itself through the gales but it was greatly slowed down by the mighty gales that came over.

Seeing the stubbornness of the winged python.

Alex shouted;

"Mountains Devouring Herculean Punch!"

Then he punched out a fist that was glowing brilliantly in golden light.

A massive golden fist, shaped out of condensed strengthforce energy, shot out of his fist towards the beasts at extreme speed.

This enormous golden fist had dozens of illusory mountains orbiting around it and within it was something like a blackhole with claw-like teeth or fangs. Iit was like the maw of a primordial beast. But this was illusionary too. Because of these peculiarities, the battle-technique was named so.

Once the fist appeared, shooting out towards the winged python flying over in the distance, the air churned and the earth trembled.

This was an effect caused by the tremendous might irradiated by the fist.

It generated a great pressure that caused the earth it traversed over at great speed to sunder and emitted a restraining force that could seemingly suppress all things.

Boom!

The beast was knocked flying for hundreds of feet into the distance by the fist before it crashed into the earth as splinters.

Bits of its flesh and drops of it blood littered and stained the entire ground at that distance.

While the fist continued to move on like it was an unstoppable fist from a God. It smashed into mountains and cracked them.

This carried more power than the one before because Alex had used a stronger technique.

The ape, serpent and rhino saw how Alex instantly annihilated the winged python and became slightly fearful.

The ape growled and dashed towards Alex.

Quickly, Alex pulled cyan energy out of his clenched fist. This condensed and shaped into a large cyan fist that encased his normal fist.

Once this fist of energy formed around his fist encasing it, a large mass of air was pulled towards the cyan energy fist. It abruptly compacted and also shaped into a fist.

This was a close-combat battle-technique.

Alex punched out the same moment the ape punched towards him.

Boom!

Their fist connected and a sphere of vacuum surfaced from the point of collision which was instantly accompanied by a wave of energy.

Both of them were sent flying for dozens of feet the instant their fist connected.

Alex crashed into the ground at a distance. He tried pushing himself back to his feet but sensation of intense pain flooded his nerves.

Then he realized the arm he used to send a punch at the ape had dislocated and the bone there possibly cracked.

His arm was tough to withstand the impact from the beast. Any other person would have their arm explode into mists of blood.

Pain racked his arm but he endured it as he gnashed his teeth.

Then he prepared for the next attack. The two other beasts had shot forward to attack him.

The violet blizzardblade serpent began to glow in intense snow-white light. Then it shot off a great deal of frost at Alex.

The frost was great in quantity that it was as tall as a tsunami.

The frost wave raged towards Alex with the power to turn all to ice.

From where he stood in the distance, he could feel very cold air. He felt he was slowly turning to ice. The temperature of the atmosphere surrounding them had greatly plummeted.

"What a formidable attack" he said.

Then he thought of his next method of attacking. He quickly deployed a battle-technique from the 'Great Conflagration methodology'.

Large amount of pyroforce energy gushed out from him, enveloping his entire figure.

It helped to repel the extreme cold he was feeling which was irradiated by the tsunami-size wave of frost.

"Fiery Dragon Punch"

He shouted and punched out with his other hand.

The instant he punched out, the energy erupting from his body rapidly condensed and shaped into a large dragon which shot out at the incoming gigantic frost wave.

Sssssss!

There was no explosion, only one of the attacks canceling.

Then the huge dragon condensed from flame shot forward and smashed into the serpent exploding on impact.

Boom!

Terrifying flames erupted and the force produced from the blast knocked the violet blizzardblade serpent into the distance.

The rhino's horn began to glow, then a massive horn shot out of it towards Alex.

This enormous horn radiated with pressure and emitted power that could seemingly sunder mountains.

The moment Alex knocked away the serpent with a blast. He quickly readied himself to battle the rhino coming his way.

Radiantforce energy erupted from Alex's palm in great amount. It abruptly condensed and shaped into a large sword that radiated all colors. It was beautiful as it looked like a rainbow, but it was deadly as an aura of tyrannical sharpness exuded from it. It irradiated with a feeling that seemed it could slash through all.

This was a technique called 'Radiant sword', a sword condensed from radiantforce energy (also called luminiforce energy).

Then, Alex from mastering energy-weapons quickly inscribed abstruse symbols (weapon amplification inscriptions) into the sword.

Once the symbols were made unto the surface of the sword, the density of the sword increased and the luminosity given off by the weapon increased by several folds.

Everywhere was bathed in it great resplendence.

Then he channeled in great amounts radiantforce energy into the energy-weapon.

"Sky-lacerating luminous slash!"

Alex shouted and slashed out with the radiant sword at the incoming horn-shaped energy-attack.

An enormous prismatic beam of energy bearing terrifying sharpness shot out from the radiant sword toward the horn.

Boom!!

Both attacks collided and a large sphere of vacuum instantly surfaced before a wave of energy, destructive in might, was released and moved in all directions, wreaking havoc.

The energy horn shattered while the beam which had thinned a bit continued on towards the rhino.

Puchi!

The gigantic, luminous beam of energy pierced through the tough hide of the huge rhino and out through the back, then off into the distance.

The rhino collapsed dead to the ground.

Alex had slain two beasts out of the four that came at him.

The moment Alex killed the rhino, the ape had already begun running towards him.

With a thunderous roar, it jumped high into the air, about forty feet, evading the killing beam of radiantforce energy.

Alex's eyes widened. He quickly threw the energy-weapon at the ape.

Surprisingly, the ape, despite it massive size, twisted in the air dodging the energy sword hurled at it.

Then with a movement technique, it left multiple after-images behind in the air as it shot towards Alex.

Then it sent a fist out at him

Alex became frozen. There was no time to defend himself. The sudden attack of the ape had left him incapacitated.

But before the massive fist could strike Alex, a pencil-thin beam of energy shot towards the ape from afar and it fist shattered into pieces with blood shooting out like a spray in every direction.

Alex's face turned pale from fear and terror.

As he stood there, extremely pale and extremely weak, the overwhelming thought of death revolved in his mind.

Then his vision slowly darkened before he collapsed to the ground.

** Many hours later. **

Alex's eyes snapped open, he looked around and quickly stood up when he saw he was in a cave.

Then he realized his dislocated arm had healed, he felt no pain there again.

Suddenly, he heard voices in the distance. He quickly put himself on guard.

Not very long, a group of seven people walked in, they consisted of four males and three females.

They all seemed to be in their thirties and looked good in appearances.

These people were all in the earth adept cultivation stage.

"He has awakened" One said to the others and they all beamed. Alex didn't know who these people were.

Still on guard, he greeted, then he asked "Seniors, were you people the one who brought me in here?"

They nodded. And the one who spoke earlier, presumably the leader, came forward with furrowed brows towards Alex and grabbed his arm.

He looked at it. "Damn! You healed so fast boy. Seems the pill I gave you worked super efficiently" he said then released Alex's arm.

"Oh. It was senior who helped me. I offer my thanks" Alex said appreciably.

"What are you doing here?" that same person asked. "Um... I am... actually on a mission I requested for from the adventurers guild..." Alex was interrupted in his speech by that person.

He asked in shock "You are on a mission? With a middle-phase cultivation stage? Are you sure your head wasn't banged against a wall?"

Alex smiled. "I didn't bang my head against anything senior. I was just out for experience, to advance my battle skills". He said.

"I see. But it seemed to me you were advancing to the afterlife?" this person said.

Alex was short of speech, he could only look on in shame.

"No need to feel embarrassed. That's why I helped you out there. My name's Ken and these are my colleagues. We are also on a mission we requested for from the adventurers guild." That person, named Ken, said.

This person, Ken by name, and his colleagues hadn't seen Alex at all when he was in action.

If they had, they would be slightly frightful of him even as they are in the earth adept cultivation rank.

"Cool. What's the mission?" Alex asked. "To hunt down a Rank-4 beast which is a sky-rank beast". Ken replied.

Alex shook. A rank-4 beast? When they are in the earth adept stage? How would killing that be possible?

Haha!..

They broke into laughter upon noting Alex's strange look.

"Come on, it's not like rank-4 beasts are anything special. We are much in number, there are seven of us and we wield a class-4 weapon. Our peak-phase earth adept cultivation stage gives us the capability to withstand the aura from a class-4 weapon. Killing it would be simple as butchering a fowl." Ken said.

Alex nodded.

He only hoped they were right or they would loose their lives.

When Alex cultivated at home for many months, his uncle had lectured him about a lot of things he didn't know before.

Such as cultivation ranks of super-powered beasts.

Although there were also normal, domestic beasts that can be found around and can be reared and killed for their meat.

While the supernormal ones, referred to as 'Cultivation Beasts', possess powerful abilities.

These super-powered beasts don't live around humans, they live in caves in mountains or in wildernesses.

It's these beasts that with time, develop intelligence and when they reach the celestial beast stage becomes divine beasts.

But this divine beasts stage is also ranked.

As cultivation beasts, they also have their own of system of cultivation.

Rank-1 beasts are entry-beasts

Rank-2 beasts are rare-beasts

Rank-3 beasts are earth-beasts/ core-beasts

Rank-4 beasts are sky-beasts

Rank-5 beasts are Firmament-beasts

Rank-6 beasts are Saint-beasts

Rank-7 beasts are profound-beasts

Rank-8 beasts are venerate-beasts

Rank-9 beasts are celestial beasts

Rank-10 beasts are godbeasts

These were the few ranks his uncle told him and asked him to find out the rest himself.

He advised Alex try to read more books about the cultivation world and the elements in it.

....

"So, seniors. When would you all be heading out? Alex asked.

"We just came back from a hunt, we would rest for this night and then continue tomorrow" Ken said.

Then he produced a mat from his interspatial ring which he laid on the ground to lay on.

His colleagues did the same.

Only Alex was left standing.

He came out of the cave for fresh air.

Then he remembered the methodology he wanted to study.

The 'Great Empyrean Seven-Hue Lightning Methodology',

It was a lightning-based A-grade duality methodology. The methodology was a very tyrannical one as it techniques were simply extremely powerful