Chapter 205: The Forbidden Fields (2/2)

”It's alright, Elders. I requested this despite knowing the problems,” Alex said.

”Alright then. Since you are going in on your and are not being punished, you can come back here whenever you want,” the elder said.

”Thank you, Elders,” he then turned to Lang Shun and said, ”Alright, Martial Uncle, I will leave now.”

Alex thanked Lang Shun and left the cliff. The road downhill was steeper than he realized. Thankfully the rough terrain had plenty for his sole to grip. Now that he was coming down, he looked at the side of the cliffs.

Numerous trees were growing on it horizontally. 'Is that where the fruit grows?' he wondered. Below the cliffs were tiny, nearly dust-sized specs of something moving. 'Are those the disciples being punished?' he thought.

Judging by the number, there were a lot. 'I wonder what they did to deserve their punishment and how long they've been here. From the Elder's explanation, any time over a week would be a torture,' he thought.

Finally, after a few minutes, he reached the bottom of the path and was in the grassland.

Suddenly, a force surrounded his body, forcing his Qi to stop showing out. He tried to fight it back, but the force was too strong. Slowly, all of his Qi was pushed to inside his meridians and his body was now a mortal.

At least, it was mortal from the perspective of Qi cultivation. 'Is my body cultivation fine?' he wondered. He tried jumping high and was happy to find that his body wasn't changed at all.

However, he realized that his Spiritual sense was suppressed as well.

'Welp, at least that is there. Still, this force… feels so familiar, and yet so distant. What is this?' he wondered. Either way, he needed to look for Yang jades now, so he moved along.

The grassland was truly vast. It was only from the top of the cliff that it looked like he could see it all. From the bottom, it looked like it was endless. He didn't know where he should start looking for the jades, so he starts with wherever was closest and moved out.

The problem he had now was that he would soon have to log out to go to his classes and due to the lack of Qi, he couldn't hide his body. 'That is going to be a problem,' he thought.

Still, there were around 2 hours before he had to leave, so he was fine for now. Searching for the Yang jade should have been easy for him. All he had to do was be in the vicinity and his body would locate the yang jade itself.

And yet, no matter where he went, he couldn't find a single one. 'Damn, can I even roam it all in 3 days?' he started to worry. The flat plain was so vast that Alex couldn't even see a single disciple.

After 2 hours, he got unnaturally hungry. 'Is this because I haven't eaten in ages?' he thought as he brought out the food his martial uncle had given him and ate some of it.

Finally, once his stomach was full, he found a batch of tall grass and laid down on it. He didn't know if this was the correct thing to do or not, but given that both his master and martial uncle said there was no danger in the grassland itself, he logged out.