Chapter 122: A Tiresome Task (1/2)

”Has master never been to the alchemy gardens of Hong Wu Sect?” Alex wondered as he looked at the time on the clock. It had been 3 pm already. He had been working for the last hour and he wasn't even close to clearing a fourth of this garden.

This was after having continuously used his spiritual sense and Qi manipulation at Bone tempering the 8th realm. By now he had made enough pills and also worked at the alchemy garden long enough, where even diverting his attention into 10 different things at once was considerably easy for him.

”Can I log out here? I hope there is no problem with that.” Alex needed to log out to get some food but was worried at the consequences of leaving in such an open area.

He knew that his body didn't disappear when he logged out, so it was imperative he was in a safe spot when he logged out.

”Urghh… Whatever. Master and the elders are looking after me. All I can do now is hope that I don't end up losing my concealment techniques when I log out. If I can keep them active, that would be great.” Saying that he logged out.

After a few minutes, he logged back in. He looked at himself and was surprised.

”Oh, wow. It's still active. So, we can log out and still have our techniques running? Wait, what about normal cultivation? Can I do that too?” Alex got unusually excited when he found that out. Only for it to excruciatingly disappear when he realized.

”I fall asleep when I cultivate, So I can't log out.” He facepalmed when he remembered such a simple fact. ”I can't believe I forgot about that.”

After a few more seconds of self embarrassment, he got back to work. There were a lot more ingredients to gather and the time was short.

He walked around the place with his spiritual sense noticing all the ingredients and his Qi picking them all up.

”Man, there are so many ingredients here. It's like the alchemy gardens if it were left alone for a hundred years.” He thought. Although one thing was confusing him still.

”Where is all of this Qi coming from though. Is the valley special? Does it have something that makes it special?” this was all he could think of as he collected the different ingredients.

About 2 hours later, he finally found a big group of Spirit Cleansing lilies. There were at least 10 flower beds in there, ready to be picked. Alex was both nervous and overjoyed at the view.

He didn't dare let himself pick them up using Qi manipulation. He went where they were and hand-picked them. After he was done picking them, he kept them in his own storage bag.

Once he was done, he was about to continue when he noticed something.

”What is that?” the thing he noticed wasn't with his vision, but with his spiritual sense. And the place he noticed wasn't around him, but rather below him.

A few meters ahead of him, there was a giant hole in the underground. It was probably more appropriate to call it a tunnel. The tunnel was about 5 meters in width and went on as far as he could sense.