CH 348

Chapter 348: 348

Chapter 348: Fraud

In the darkness, Chen Chen slowly opened his eyes while a wave of soreness spread throughout the body.

He looked around to see that there was sand everywhere, and the sun couldn’t be seen either. It was as if he was in a sandstorm.

He looked around with his divine senses, only to realize that it was the same scene within 50 kilometers.

“Why are my divine senses so badly suppressed?”

Chen Chen sat up straight and rubbed his forehead. At this moment, he realized that the spiritual energy in his body had long been depleted. The desert was likewise devoid of spiritual energy. Even though he had an innate spiritual body, his spiritual energy couldn’t be replenished.

Besides, there seemed to be a strange power that suppressed his divine senses.

“I’m not going to ascend to the lower realm, am I?”

Chen Chen stood up and sighed in his heart.

He imagined that there would definitely be a few fairies to guide him and give him an official position or something after he ascended to the upper realm. However, he ended up in this shitty place where there weren’t any lives at all.

He subconsciously touched his inner pocket, only to realize that there were no storage rings but a bunch of sand.

Chen Chen took a deep breath and got a whiff of a scent that he hadn’t smelled in a long time.

The scent was that of poverty. Although it was bitter, one will never be able to understand the preciousness of wealth unless they have had a taste of poverty before.

Fortunately, his personal treasure, the Omni Divine Blade was still in his body.

“Since I’m here, I’ll make do. I can’t possibly fly up to a withered world where there is no one, right?”

Chen Chen comforted himself, shook off the sand on his body, and then chose a random direction to run in.

There was no aura, Spirit Stones, or any spiritual objects. Even he, as a peak Void Refinement realm cultivator, would have to travel on his feet.

However, at the Essence Soul realm, he would be able to run quickly. Each step he took would allow him to travel a few thousand meters, so it wasn’t a problem for him to travel 5,000 kilometers a day.

…

After running wildly for most of the day, the surrounding scenery did not change the slightest. Chen Chen closed his eyes and restrained his divine senses.

Otherwise, he would easily go insane while watching the unchanging desert.

As soon as Chen Chen closed his eyes, he began to miss his friends and family in the mortal world.

The moment of distraction made the feeling of uneasiness in the mind vanish gradually while time passed faster and faster.

Some time passed and Chen Chen’s heart gradually turned numb.

At this moment, a slight breezy sound rang in his ears.

Hearing the sound of the wind, Chen Chen suddenly opened his eyes, and a look of exhilaration appeared on his face.

He never thought there would be birds in this kind of place!

Without hesitation, he stepped hard into the sandy ground under his feet.

A large pile of sand and stones rose in the air. Like an eagle, Chen Chen focused his eyes on the largest piece of sandstone and kicked it.

Boom!

With a muffled thud, the sandstone was kicked into pieces that started flying towards the sky at an amazing speed.

“Ah!”

A miserable scream came from the sky, and a huge shadow fell straight down.

Chen Chen smiled. Even though he couldn’t use his spiritual power now, a demonic beast that had just stepped into the Nascent Soul realm was no match for him.

That was the strength of powerhouses!

Of course, he was even happier that the realm he had ascended to was not some deserted and uninhabited place.

Since there were demonic beasts that could fly, it meant that there were habitable environments in other parts of this realm that would allow demonic beasts to cultivate.

Seeing the shadow in the sky falling straight towards him, Chen Chen subconsciously wanted to dodge, but in the next moment, his expression suddenly changed as he sensed that something was wrong…

The demonic beast seemed to be carrying someone on his back!

With a flash of inspiration, he didn’t dodge, and the massive demonic beast landed on his head.

“Ah!”

There were two muffled grunts. One was real, but the other from Chen Chen was even more real.

“Who is it!?!”

Amidst the flying sand, a crisp voice filled the air. Next, a young girl dressed in a yellow shirt who seemed to have blended in with the desert appeared in front of Chen Chen.

Chen Chen had a look of misery on his face when he saw the young girl. He seemed to have been smashed hard against the ground.

The young girl in yellow covered her mouth in shock and subconsciously tried to escape on the big bird-type demonic beast beside her. However, it was already unconscious, and its eyes were out of focus.

“Ash, what’s wrong with you?”

The young girl in yellow was in a great hurry and ran over to shake the demonic beast a few times, but it didn’t react.

In desperation, she took out a bottle of elixirs and poured out two of them to feed the demonic beast.

She had been sleeping on the demonic beast’s back just now, so she had no idea what happened at all. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have fallen from the sky too.

Looking at the young man whose clothes were all messy, she was a little terrified because her demonic beast, Ash had suddenly passed out and even hit someone.

‘What if the other party wants me to compensate? I can’t afford to pay, would I have to sell my body?’

…

Looking at the expression of the young girl in yellow, Chen Chen fell silent.

She was obviously still young and inexperienced. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been unable to cope after such an accident.

After pondering for a while, he extended his hand and said with difficulty, “Girl… you give me an elixir, so I won’t hold it against you.”

“Okay… okay…”

The young lady in yellow answered softly before carefully tossing that elixir bottle to Chen Chen.

Chen Chen opened it and saw that there was an ordinary Qi Replenishment Elixir in it.

Such an elixir was suitable for Core Formation realm cultivators… Although he knew about such an elixir, he had never taken it in his life.

It was too low-end.

However, it wasn’t the time to be particular about this. After sighing softly, he swallowed the elixir again.

Right on the spot… he recovered 0.01% of his spiritual energy.

‘Well, it’s better than nothing.’

Chen Chen sat up helplessly. The person he tried to scam was a penniless person, so he decided that it wasn’t necessary to continue pretending.

“Ahem, girl, when flying in such places, it is better to pick a healthy demonic beast. A demonic beast like this is too dangerous. You have to remember that safety comes first. An unhealthy demonic beast will cause huge misery.”

The young girl in yellow lowered her head after hearing this. She said with some embarrassment, “Ash is the last Sand Eagle I have… It’s usually quite healthy.”

Chen Chen looked at the large gray-feathered, bird-like demonic beast and nodded.

‘This demonic beast is called a Sand Eagle… I see.’

“Girl, since your demonic beast is unconscious, what are you going to do next?”

With a look of bewilderment, the young girl muttered, “Of course I’m going to wait for Ash to regain his consciousness. What else can I do?”

Hearing this, the Core Formation realm sensed her cultivation level…It was at the late-stage of the Core Formation realm, which was even worse than the demonic beast on the ground.

It was indeed hard for cultivators of such a low cultivation level to be here. He reckoned that she was probably compelled by her circumstances.

Since the other party was a young girl who was not experienced enough, he decided to be straightforward with her.

“Girl, do you know how far it is from the exit of the desert?”

The young girl in yellow didn’t think much about it and merely calculated the time before answering, “Ash should be able to fly out on another day. There should be a distance of about 15,000 kilometers.”

Chen Chen secretly calculated and realized that he would need about two days to cover that distance by foot.

As for the spiritual energy that he had just replenished, it was completely negligible.

While thinking about it, Chen Chen looked at the sand sculpture on the ground and said somewhat embarrassingly, “Girl, this demonic beast has an ailing body, but at least it has a cultivation level of the Nascent Soul realm. Why don’t we roast it and eat it to replenish some spiritual energy? Maybe we’ll be able to fly out of this desert.”

Hearing this, the young girl in yellow hurriedly grabbed the Sand Eagle on the ground with horror in her eyes. She exclaimed anxiously, “No, the flesh of Sand Eagles doesn’t taste good!”