Chapter 136: Battle I

Many moments later, they saw statues run towards them from far. These had bulky sizes. But one shocking thing about them was that their large sizes didn't inhibit them one bit from moving at shocking speeds.

Alex's eyes widened in awe when he saw the statues. He was astonished by their sizes. The statues had towering figures that the one with the least size was twelve feet tall. Then the arrays operating in them, which gave them energy to move, produced an aura of power that matched that of someone in the half-step earth adept stage.

When everyone figured out the strength of the puppets using their cultivation percipience ability, they moved back with horror in their eyes.

There were many of these statues that they seemed to number in the thousand. As they dashed towards Alex and his team members, they radiated with the power of an half-step earth adept stage cultivator. Also, they produced light from parts of their colossal, rock-like brown bodies. This light released from radiance-arrays compressed into them gave intense illumination to the partially darkened subsurface land.

The other students including Jake and Draco didn't know the reason why these statues appeared.

But Alex and Elena knew the reason. These rocky statues had come out to recollect the treasures from the both of them.

While everyone shot backwards at high speed like they had just seen what would slaughter them mercilessly, Alex, Elena, Jake and Draco stood where they were.

Draco and Jake remained because they felt it was Alex's discovery of the treasure-artifacts that had provoked the appearances of the statues. Since they were team members, they would definitely assist him in the battle about to ensue.

It also didn't take long for the other students to arrive at the fact that Jake and Draco arrived at.

"Elena, I think you should move too. The battle that's about to happen might be lethal for you" Alex said.

"Well, remember I fought top-grade battle puppets back at the academy. I can do this. I don't want you impressing me every time. It's my turn to do so" Elena said with a smile.

Alex nodded with a smile.

"Okay." He replied. Then he continued "Let's battle"

Not that there weren't geniuses in other academies. It was just that it wasn't their cup of tea since it was Alex that got the treasures for himself. Now that he got a problem, he should deal with it himself.

They all smiled at his misfortune.

Peerless battle genius right? They shall see to the degree how peerless his genius is.

As they thought bad for him in their minds, Alex could suddenly perceive the negative emotional energies that began to emanate from them as they wished him evil in their heads.

These negative emotional energies were invisible ripples of emotion-energies or heart-energies which he detected when his heart-sense abruptly came up.

Then through the emotion perception ability that manifested all of a sudden, he was able to realize that all the students in the distance were gloating and rejoicing at his misfortune.

"The damned ability has come up again" Alex said inwardly in an unhappy tone.

It was an ability that came on and off by itself. He wished he had figured out how to use his emotion-sense just like how he used his powerful physical senses anytime he liked.

Alex then turned to look at the crowd of students far in the distance and smiled at them. The smile he showed them gave them the absolute feeling that Alex knew they were rejoicing delightedly in his misfortune.

They were surprised when Alex looked at them with that I-know-what-you-are-thinking gaze.

Alex then turned his head to face the gigantic statues dashing over.

Then he suddenly shot towards them.

Seeing that Alex had dashed towards them, Draco, Jake and Elena also rushed forward to support Alex. It was a team battle now. Not an individual battle.

Alex was the fastest of the four.

When he got to a distance of fifteen feet in front of them, he brought his hands which had begun to emit golden light and hit them hard together.

"Sky-clearing Thunderclap" Alex said at the same time he brought his hands together to produce a deafening thunderous clap.

Boom!!!

Ringing out like the unified strike of hundreds of frightening thunderbolts, a powerful, tyrannical wave of destructive sound energy was unleashed the instant he clapped.

The tyrannous sound energy wave caused the air for hundreds of feet to suddenly gain a shocking devastating power as it stripped away a vast, thick layer of earth and in the process, impacting some of the gigantic statues and shoving them dozens of meters into the distance with a destructive force that gave one the feeling that it would splinter all to smithereens.

They smashed hard into the earth and left craters in it. Gigantic web-like cracks could be seen around the craters they made in the part of the earth they crashed into under the influence of the shoving force that acted on them.

It was at this moment that Elena, Draco and Jake got to Alex's side.

"Alex, throw me!" Draco whose eyes were glowing with astonishment at the amount of destructive power Alex generated shouted.

He jumped towards Alex who grabbed his left arm and launched him like a spear towards some statues dashing over from the distance.

Whoosh!

His body shot through the air at a great speed towards the targeted statues.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!...

Draco smashed through several of them with his iron-like, diamond-hard fist. And when the momentum he came with ended, he grabbed the leg of a statue before him with both hands and flung it towards the other statues running towards him.

Bang!

They were struck by it and were blown many feet into the distance.

Alex shot from where he was towards the statues like he was catapulted. When he got to one, he raised his two fists above his head and smashed down hard at the head of that statue.

Bang!

The statue shattered apart and Alex landed to the ground.

All while they were fighting, the students from other academies were shocked.

"Who the hell are these guys? What cultivation academy are they from?" Those were the questions that rocked their minds. They found it hard it to believe what they were witnessing.

They couldn't help but be shocked by the attack power of these guys. Especially Alex and Draco. They were like invincible body cultivators. They smashed everything in their path using only their fist.

"But body cultivators are exceedingly rare because of the great pains they always go through anytime they want to level up. How come this academy has two of them? And terrific ones at that?"

This particular thought pervaded and rocked their minds.

Then they continued to watch the battle with amazement filling the abyss of their eyes.

A statue punched with immense force towards Elena. But it earth-sundering punch was blocked by a large, solidified column of earth that suddenly shot up from the earth surface.

Elena utilized the earth element-manipulation power that she gained through cultivation of terraforce energy to generate a massive, extremely compact, column-shaped barrier of earth.

Boom!

The barrier shattered apart with a loud blast. But it successfully terminated the momentum of the fist and eliminated the force it came with.

Then before it could unleash another punch, Elena punched out towards it and discharged earth elemental energy from her fist after she uttered "Sky-rupturing Earth Fist"

The energy she released transformed into a massive, deep yellow fist that shot at great speed towards the statue she targeted.

Bang!

It struck the statue with a tyrannical force and shoved it away into the far distance.

Although her energy-attack didn't possess much destructive power, the statue was sent flying for dozens of meters by the immense force the enormous yellow fist of energy impacted it with.

Alex looked at where Elena and the others were and felt that they would soon be overpowered by the statues if the battle continued. Then he decided to end it quickly. He didn't want them to get injured or sustain life-threatening wounds.

Where he stood, he began to release great amounts of numerous energies from the energy pools in his energyhouse.

These energies exuded from the pores in his skin like colored smokes and began to spread out into the distance. As they extended into the distance, they radiated fierce pulses of power and dyed the earth below them in the colors of light they emanated.

Despite not using the wind elixir technique, a rapid accumulation-technique he always utilized to gather near-boundless quantities of wind elemental energy in his body, he still had much more energy in his energyhouse to use.

Alex wasn't surprised that he could still produce such amounts of energies. He had always known it was a passive ability of cultivation-deviants which he was one of right from birth.

Cultivation-deviants, also called cultivation-aberrants were cultivators who could simply accumulate much more energies than others.

If Alex couldn't release more energies, then he would feel that something was definitely wrong with his body as he had consumed hundreds of peerless-grade, earth-rank pills in which just one would produce nearly a thousand times the energy that would be obtained from the consumption of many condensation-rank pills. So it was right for him to continually unleash more amount of energies than everyone here.

This time in this ongoing battle, he didn't use the wind elixir technique. He only liked to use it whenever he wanted to intimidate his opponents as he could produce raging, torrential floods of windforce energy with it.

As the energies continuously erupted from his body at a quick rate, he flash-recalled when he said that it was a curse because he couldn't break through very quickly like the others since he first had to gather enormous amounts of energies before he could achieve a minor breakthrough. That is, from one cultivation phase to the next.

He looked at himself and smiled deprecatingly.

Now he looked awesome and formidable to everyone because of the seemingly endless eruption of energies from his body. But to him, no matter how amazing and terrifying he might look, the inborn ability that made him a cultivation-deviant was still a curse.

The peculiar ability of vast and immense energy possessions by cultivation-deviants was a blessing to them. It was an ability of unmatched energy storage which would make them domineering and dreadful in battle since they could continue to release energies like they had inexhaustible amounts of them.

Just like Alex for an example. Despite releasing alarming quantities of various energies from his body, he still had much more to produce. He hadn't even used three-tenth of any of the energies stored in his energyhouse. So he could still release much more and not worry over the amount of energy discharging from his body. He was like an energy crystal in treasure-weapons.

But in the end, it was a curse because of exceedingly difficult breakthroughs. So Alex felt.