Chapter 224: Return (1/2)

The feeling had returned. Alex had barely walked 10 minutes north in this treacherous desert, and he was already finding a new yang jade.

He got happy and sped up the pace. A new monster came towards him, with the intention of killing him, but he didn't care. Monsters were very normal for him now and he could kill them easily.

However, that did not mean that it was a swift process. Due to the increased pressure on his body, fighting the monster was more taxing than usual.

”At some point, I won't be able to fight at all,” he thought. He was already second thinking about his decision to walk directly up north as more monsters were showing up.

Still, the feeling of being near a yang jade was too enticing, so he didn't go back.

He finally arrived at the place that contained the yang jade. It was a simple land, filled with sand everywhere like any other place in the desert. His body was telling him it was right there, but he couldn't see any.

”Sh*t, is it buried?” he thought. He started moving away from the sand from the place he sensed the yang jade from. However, the sand would slide down from the pile he made, filling the hole again. It was slowing down his progress a lot.

He hadn't interacted with sand before and was really annoyed by what was happening. In the end, he started using more force to throw the sand further away such that it didn't go back into the hole he made.

After 10 minutes, he finally made a meter deep hole and jammed his arm through the rest. When he pulled his hands back out, he was holding a yang jade.

It was the second yang jade he had found after coming to the Forbidden Fields. He looked at the stone in his hands and sighed in relief.

”It's not a waste of time if I got at least 2 right?” he thought. He was breathing heavily now as the pressure from the surrounding was making him feel as though he really was nothing but a mortal.

His super-human abilities from being a body cultivator were questionable at best right now.

He took out his sword and looked at it. The metal sword no longer had the same edge as it did when he first got it and was full of dents and chips on it.

”Even my sword is almost as destroyed as I feel,” he said. He used his spiritual sense and barely managed to send the yang jade into his storage bag. The pressure was starting to catch up to his spiritual sense too.

”Damn, should I even go on anymore?” he thought. However, a familiar feeling arose inside of him. There was another yang jade nearby.

After a while of deliberation, he went to find that one as well. He fought another few monsters and managed to defeat them. However, the sword was getting more and more tattered and he didn't know how much longer it could hold on. He didn't know how much longer he himself could hold on.