Chapter 434 - Huang And Xing (1/2)

Alex didn't have a compass, nor did he have the night sky to help him know exactly which direction he was going towards.

'How do I tell the direction exactly?' he thought. He had been flying for an hour towards where he assumed was the caravan, but he saw nothing.

”Hmm… what should I do?” he wondered. ”Compass… something that can tell me the direction… Ah, maybe I can find those,” he thought and immediately lowered his boat down towards the ground.

He then spread out his spiritual sense on the forest below, looking for something.

At first, it didn't seem like he would find it any time soon, but then after a dozen or so minutes, he found one and quickly released his Qi from the boat and stopped it.

”Well, I wanted a sunflower, but that helps too I guess,” he thought and jumped down from the boat.

Alex landed next to a small patch of grass where he saw a few yellow flowers blooming.

These flowers were yellow in color and were called Yinful Daisy. These plants contained trace amounts of Yin Qi in them, and always looked towards the Sun for their Yang.

Even at the night, they followed the path of the sun and looked at them. As long as one knew the time of the night, one could infer the direction from these flowers.

”Since it's facing towards me, and it's 2 am in the morning, then west must be—”

Alex stopped. Something was weird here. ”Wait, why is it facing towards me? The sun should be below us right now?” he said.

He quickly thought about the flower once more. ”Ah, well… I didn't expect to see it attracted towards my Yang Qi. That's… problematic,” he thought.

Alex immediately stood up and went far away from the flower. Until a certain distance, the flower looked towards him, but once he was away, it dropped down towards the ground and looked in a certain direction.

”That… should be east, right?” Alex thought. He quickly sent out his spiritual sense around the flower to see if there were any other plants or minerals with yang energy.

Only when he couldn't find it at all did he accept that west was behind the flower.

”Nice. I should go left to the left from West so that I can catch up with Sister and others right? I should at least reach the Southern forest so that I can reach Rubyroad just in case,” Alex thought and flew away.

In the next 3 hours, he finally reached the Southern Forest, but he couldn't find any signs of the Caravan. Even if there were any, it was impossible with the beasts destroying almost everything outside of the forest.

Thankfully, there were no villages there, or it would have been disastrous for them.

'I guess beast attacks happen from time to time. Any villages that still stood would have disappeared by now,' Alex thought solemnly.

He then moved again, looking for the Caravan. 'Do I go diagonally too? Or have to change their course back to their original route?' Alex wondered.

He regretted not making plans on how to meet once they were separated. But to be fair to Alex, the only thing on his mind at that time was survival.

Now that he had survived, he would certainly do something about finding the caravan.

”Let's just go through what route I assume they would go through. Even if I don't find them, I can just go to Rubyroad city directly.”

So, he changed courses towards the path the caravan might be moving towards.

Time passed and the sun came up, but Alex didn't find the caravan still. He saw a few other types of carriages and caravans, but not belonging to the Heavens Path merchant group.

At some point, he needed to log out so that he could eat, so he flew into a small patch of trees and sat down on a branch.

After making sure he wouldn't fall at all, he used his concealing and invisibility techniques. He didn't know why, but he knew these clones would continue to use these techniques even when he was logged out.

At least, that was what it did back inside the alchemy garden inside the Southern Forest.

He logged out and went to have his breakfast.

”Hey, what happened yesterday. You didn't come out,” Emily asked.

”Oh, I'm sorry. I had to go out on a Caravan journey in the game, so I couldn't log out in time. But I did come out later around noon and ate the food. As always, it was delicious,” Alex said.

”Thank you,” Emily said while blushing a little.

”Urghh! It's too early in the morning for us to hear you being lovey-dovey. Just sit down and have your breakfast,” Sarah cried from the dinner table.

Alex chuckled and said, ”Maybe you should get a boyfriend too, Sarah.”

Sarah then looked at him and said, ”Who said I liked boys?”

Alex was a little surprised. Emily chuckled from the side and so did Hannah. ”You guys knew?” he asked.

”Of course I knew. She's my friend,” Emily said.

”It was quite obvious actually,” Hannah said.

”Uhh, alright, I will just eat and go. I'm in a hurry anyway,” Alex said and quickly finished his breakfast.

Then, he went back to his room and logged in.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself upon the tree, still fully concealed.

”Haha! It still works,” he thought and flew up. He then took out his boat and checked the True spirit stones in the front compartment.

”Wow, this thing is expensive to run. Just half a day and I've already wasted nearly 5 True Spirit stones. Makes me wonder how expensive the sect's ship is to run,” Alex thought.