Chapter 228: Lightning cultivation II

As he waited with his energy-swords in his hands, the black thundercloud changed from black to blood-red. Just it new appearance was extremely frightening.

Alex saw the change from it dark color to blood-red color and shook. However, he didn't let it frighten him.

With a deafening boom, a large bolt of blood-red lightning fired from the thundercloud towards him.

When the thundercloud suddenly changed in color, Alex quickly moved his upgraded speedforce energy from his energyhouse to his eyes so he could perceive everything around him in slow motion. Then he infused numerous slivers of his strengthforce energy into the similar-looking, curved energy-swords that he now wielded which he formed out of his swordforce energy. This he did to increase their tensile strengths, levels of toughness and their degrees of resistance to breaking or shattering upon heavy collisions.

Then the moment that the bolt shot down with extreme fierceness, Alex who was already looking up to observe the attacks of the cloud, saw the incoming fired bolt of lightning shoot towards him in a bit of slow motion as his eyes were already saturated with speed-perception energy, and possessing inborn, incredibly sharp reflexes, instantly made a powered, long-range back flip away from where he stood.

As soon as he did so, the massive, blood-red lightning bolt struck the ground where he initially was with tyrannical hardness.

Bang!!!

Impacting the earth with a lot of force, a tremor surfaced and a deep and wide crater appeared in the earth. Also, when the bolt struck the earth and produced a tremor, a powerful wave of decent destructive power erupted from the point of collision and swept into the distance in all direction with a great degree of ferociousness.

Alex when he landed from the flip immediately pointed at the crater that was about ten feet in front of him.

"Absorb!"

He uttered.

Then a powerful force erupted from his body in all directions.

As soon as this force appeared, acting on all things around him, the large remnants of blood-red lightning that were crackling loudly in the crater and trying to cause wanton destruction, were immediately strongly pulled towards his body.

Then they entered into his body through his pores as ribbon-shaped wisps of blood-red electriforce energy. Immediately they pierced through the millions of pores in his skin, they moved down at a great speed in his energy veins to his energyhouse.

As soon as this got to his energyhouse, it infused into the fingernail-sized, cubic crystal of black lightning. Then after infusion, the crystal gained a little hue of blood-red and a little increase in size.

"The growth of the crystal is too tiny. I won't be able to absorb a lot of electriforce energy if I don't face the lightning bolts head on" He said within.

Immediately he uttered this in his mind, his eyes began to blaze for battle.

Looking at the thundercloud that continuously produced terrifying peals of thunder which then suddenly fired an enormous, fork-shaped, blood-red lightning at him, Alex who was calmly waiting for it next attack, unexpectedly power-leaped towards the massive, fork-like bolt that was shooting towards him with tremendous speed and unfathomable viciousness.

Alex actually had the aim to intercept it and absorb it so that the solid crystal of lightniforce energy in his energyhouse could grow.

Seeing the bolt in a bit of slow motion, he powerfully swung the two curved swords in his hands at the bolt.

Bang!!

A loud, explosive sound rang out as the swords connected with the solid bolt of blood-red lightning.

Then the solid, fork-shaped bolt of lightning whose density couldn't match that of the swords in Alex's hand because of the presence of strengthforce energy in their structures, directly shattered into thousands of pieces. And as Alex plummeted back to the earth since he couldn't fly yet, and had gravitational force act on him, he quickly uttered "Absorb!"

Then the thousands of tiny, solid fragments of blood-red lightning that had scattered apart in every direction because of Alex's heavy and sharp swords that had insanely and powerfully struck the dense bolts of lightning, were instantly pulled towards his body by a powerful encompassing force. And immediately the pieces of lightning arrived an inch before his body, surrounding it like they wanted to impale him all over, they abruptly penetrated into it from his pores and went down his energy veins as thick wisps of electriforce energy to his energyhouse.

Once they got to his energyhouse, they infused into the cubic crystal of black lightning and made the dim hue of blood-red that it possessed become bright, while the crystal itself experienced a significant increase in size. It quickly grew from the size of a fingernail to that of a pear.

Quickly falling back to the earth, a louder, deafening boom rang out as another large bolt of blood-red lightning shot out from the sky towards Alex.

With eyes that glowed with courage and determination, a large amount of tribulation flame-enhanced pyroforce energy abruptly discharged from his feet in a jet-like fashion; dark scarlet fiery energy rapidly and excessively erupted from his feet in the form of an enormous stream of flame that it produced a boom sound and a great propulsive force that caused Alex to be shot back into the air at a terrifying speed.

Then before he could be impacted by the incoming, huge, solid bolt of blood-red lightning, Alex whose arms were already glowing in a soft golden color, which was as a result of them being permeated with strengthforce energy, heavily swung the large, thick swords of golden swordforce energy that his glowing hands wielded at the bolt.

BOOOM!!

The instant the heavy swords met the immense lightning bolt, a tremendous boom sound rang out which was instantly accompanied by a devastating wave of violent kinetic energy that surfaced from the point at which they collided.

However, hitting the bolt with great power using the swords, the solid bolt of lightning surprisingly shattered into thousands of pieces again like glass.

Alex who had stopped expelling a thrusting stream of flames from his feet immediately uttered inwardly.

'Absorb!'

Then the thousand fragments of blood-red lightning that had scattered in every direction, were instantly pulled towards Alex which then quickly entered into his body as wisps of lightniforce energy to his energyhouse. And as soon as they got to his energyhouse, they infused into the crystal and increased it size once again.

The tribulation thundercloud which possessed some degree of awareness changed from it blood-red color to a dark blue color. And as soon as it changed to this color, it suddenly grew greatly in size that it now spanned two thousand feet from it several hundred feet that it initially was. Also, more extremely large clouds began to appear on top of it that they stacked and formed a nine-layered cloud. And the instant the single massive cloud became a multi-layered cloud, a tyrannical suppressive pressure emanated from it. The pressure was so much that it gave the feeling that it had exuded from the body of a god. Then alarming thunderous booms rampantly rang out from within it. These frightening booming sounds of thunder unendingly pealed out from the thundercloud. While blinding flashes of blue light that emitted from bolts of blue-colored lightning that streaked across the vast thundercloud dyed everywhere in their blue color anytime that they manifested.

Alex saw this and his heart greatly shook. Yet, it didn't waiver his resolution.