Chapter 454 - Storm (1/2)

Alex walked through a tunnel.

For the last 4 days, he had spent his entire time either making pills or learning to craft formations on formation rods.

He started off slow and only carved formations with a lower amount of strokes. He was slowly learning how to make the formations on the rod.

During the nighttime, he also went to the Southern Forest for a few hours of fighting. He had his boat with him, which would help him reach the Mind Tempering realm beasts a lot faster.

Thanks to that, he had managed to gather quite a lot of Mind Tempering realm cores. He also killed as many Meridian Tempering beasts as he could to get cores for Pearl as well.

Finally, the last thing he did was send close to 700,000 dollars to his account once more, which he immediately distributed amongst his retirement fund, different shares, and his current account.

Once that was all done and it was the morning of the Friday, he came here, the tunnel to the Forbidden Fields.

It took Alex a bit of explaining to make Ma Rong let him go to this place. However, he finally managed to when he said that he was close to something and only needed a few more Yang Jades.

He wasn't lying when he said that. He was indeed more than 70% done with his Yang Purity and would technically need about 3 Yang jades to reach 100%.

He finally walked out of the cave and looked at the vast grassland as well as the desert further away. There was something far away over there that he wanted, and he was going to get it.

The place was completely abandoned now as this was no longer a punishment place. Thus the elders guarding this place were removed as well.

Alex brought out a single thing before walking down the slope. The thing he got out was a common sword. He didn't bring out his Steel Sword but kept it at an accessible distance in his storage bags as he could take it out later.

He also made sure some foods and pills were at an accessible distance over the other storage bags too. Once he felt like he was ready, he ran.

He took massive steps as he quickly ran down the mountain slope. As he got lower and lower, he could start feeling the force of the outside pushing in his cultivation base and spiritual sense.

Alex tried his best to push it all back using his cultivation base and spiritual sense, but he couldn't.

His spiritual sense could barely push it away a little bit, but his cultivation base was completely useless. Not even True Realm cultivators could use their cultivation base here, so he had no chance.

Alex ran through the grassland and within 10 minutes, he reached the riverside. However, he didn't stop. After all, his destination lied beyond.

Alex jumped when he reached the bank of the river and flew through the air, guaranteed to reach the other side.

However, just as he was landing, he saw a scorpion shake itself out of the sand on the shore. The scorpion immediately targetted Alex who was midair with its tail ready to attack him.

However, Alex wasn't worried in the slightest. There were two things different about him from the last time he had come here.

The first thing was that he knew now that toxins, or at least, all poisons and venoms he had come across to at this point, including the scorpion's venom were useless against him.

The second thing was that he now had a body cultivation base at Meridian Tempering 1st realm, which was a lot different than what he had last time.

So, the scorpion was no threat to him.

He brought up his sword as he reached the other shore and slashed it down before him. The scorpion's tail was cut in a single slice.

With the next strike, he cut the scorpion's head off. Once the scorpion was head, he slashed his sword in midair to throw away any blood that was on it and started walking.

He had about 3 days to go somewhere and return, so he started searching for yang jades along the shore.

He decided to go around in a zigzag way so he could cover the most area while not missing a single yang jade along the way.

He walked for a few hours while constantly fighting the beasts. The beasts around here were mainly around Muscle Tempering, so he didn't have to worry at all.

Alex grabbed the giant snake's lower jaw and pierced his sword from the bottom before cutting open the snake's skull.

He didn't even get out of breath when he killed the snake. It was all too easy for him. At least, for now.

”Damn, why are there no yang jades around at all?” he wondered. He took out a piece of food from his storage bag and ate it.

He was till not getting any sense from his body at all about the yang jades, which was very weird. He walked on for a few more hours and there was still no sign.

Soon, night fell and chilly air started running through the desert, or at least he expected it too, but there wasn't any chill in the air.

”Why does it not get cold in here? Why does it not rain? Why do clouds never stay in the sky long enough?” Alex asked, but there was no answer.

So, he shook his head and walked further along. ”Damn this is slow. I wonder if the boat works here,” Alex thought and forcefully brought out the massive boat.

Alex could barely cover the entire boat with his spiritual sense, so it was to pull it out under the suppression. Even then, he did it and it fell with a thud.