Chapter 26: Indulging in the Desert

  Desert of the Sea, located in the northern part of the Dragon Empire, bordering the Wood Empire. Although it serves as a barrier separating the Dragon and Wood Empires, for experts, it poses no obstacle.

  However, for the newly born Qi Dan practitioners, the desert of thousands of miles is a disaster. Even high-level Qi Dan practitioners have not reached the point where they can survive without eating, only those above the Qi Condensation stage can do so, so the new births should face the situation of having nothing to eat.

  There were 987 newborns in total, so they were randomly grouped together, with some groups having as many as twenty and others only one.

  After these freshmen were scattered into the desert by the airship of Imperial College, the airship flew away, and the freshmen did not see anyone around to protect them.

  "Abandon us in the desert and leave! What protection is this?"

  "How am I going to survive these six months?"

  "But this kind of environment is just right for me!"

  "If you can't endure the hardships of these six months, then you don't even have the qualifications to challenge the Imperial College's seniors!"

  Every newborn has a different view, but now no one cares about them, they have to live in such a cold environment, whether anyone wants to or not, there is no chance to quit.

  Long Song, Long Di, Jin Zi and Jin Mei they formed a group of four, this group was quite powerful because they had food, clothes, shelter and enough elixirs, they could handle any situation that arose in the desert.

  Long Song They were abandoned by the airship in the desert, and there was no other team in sight, so they could only rely on themselves!

  "This sun is really big!" Rose looked up at the scorching hot sun like a fireball, then looked down at her pale skin "My poor skin!"

  "It can be repaired with wood attribute energy, don't worry!" Long Ge comforted from the side.

  "You're so into beauty? Even someone as handsome as your brother doesn't care about it!" Jin Zi brushed her hair.

  "Haha!!" Long Ge and Long Di burst out laughing. They didn't care about their appearance, because a man is more charming with darker skin!

  "Let's set up a tent first and then check for any hidden dangers around," Longdi said.

  "Yes! Only by adapting to our environment can we survive better!" Long Ge said.

  "If we find a danger that can't be solved, we'll change our nest, haha!" Jin Zi added.

  "If I could find an oasis, a bath would be wonderful!" Rose said wistfully.

  The other three people were suddenly speechless.

  The tent was secured by Jin Zhi and Mei Gui, while the stronger Long Ge and Long Di went to scout out any dangers within a ten-mile radius.

  Long Song and others left their line of sight, then unfolded the water droplet step method, investigating the surrounding situation.

  "How strange! I've been searching for so long, but I haven't found a single magical beast. Although the desert environment is harsh, there should be at least one or two magical beasts!" Long Ge thought to himself as he searched, gazing out at the endless dunes of sand that scorched his body. However, this search was completely ineffective! Because he couldn't see any animals at all, Long Ge walked another two circles before returning to the tent base.

  "Long Ge, what did you find?" Long Di asked as he also returned to the base.

  "Not one! Not a single monster can be found, how strange!" Long Ge said.

  "What's so strange about that?" Jin Zhen said in confusion. "No demons means no danger, we'll just stay here honestly for six months and wait for others to come pick us up."

  "If there are no demons, it means that there are even more advanced demons, and the strength of this demon can at least dominate an area of 10 miles around." Rose said after thinking.

  "Shouldn't we change places? It's really too dangerous here." Jin Zi hastily said.

  "Not a swap!" Long Ge and Mei Gui said in unison, then Long Ge gestured for Mei Gui to speak first.

  "This powerful demon might have already been killed by the teachers in our academy, that's why they let us come here, it's giving us some space to survive," Rose continued thinking "and even if we get rid of it, we'll inevitably encounter an even more powerful demon, so it's better to seize this time to cultivate diligently."

  "There's another reason, I'm going to pass the calamity in three days!" Long Di said.

  "Ah! Longdi, you're going to cross the tribulation!" Jin Zi said excitedly, "Then we can't stay here."

  "I'm sorry to have dragged you all down." Long Di apologized.

  "It's nothing, after you've passed the tribulation, our team's strength has increased by a large margin, we're not even happy enough yet!" Rose turned to look at Jin Zhen "We're not as timid as my brother, hehe!"

  "I'm not being cowardly, I'm saying we need to take defensive measures around us, or else the monster attacks won't be a joke," Jin Zi explained.

  "That's right, Longdi. You focus on your cultivation and leave the defense to us." Longge said, with his skills, a high-ranking expert at the Qi Xing level was nothing to him, so protecting them was more than enough, it was just that he didn't want to show off and save his strength.

  "Hmm, thank you!" After saying that, Long Di swallowed a Zhong Fu Dan and sat down to meditate, after all, he had used up quite a bit of Dou Qi when checking the surroundings within ten miles.

  And Long Ge, after eating the delicious food inside the space ring, began to set up traps, such as quicksand arrays and mirage arrays, and they made a big pile of them. After finishing, they returned to their tent to meditate and rest.

  The desert at night is cool as water, a round cold moon hangs in the sky, and under the sky are roses that cannot sleep.

  The moonlight flows like water over the rose's tender skin, highlighting the dynamic contours of her face. Her beautiful profile exudes a holy aura. She is so small yet so lovely, she will surely be a stunning beauty when she grows up!

  Long Ge couldn't sleep either and walked out of the tent to the rose bush.

  "Rose sister, why haven't you slept yet?" Long Ge asked.

  "Oh, I was just thinking of something," said Rose.

  "What were you thinking about?" Long Ge asked.

  "I wonder why people always have to fight and kill each other, can't they just be as calm as the moon in the sky?" Rose sighed.

  "I think I will fulfill your wish, if I rule the entire continent, I will not let people slaughter each other again." Long Song said firmly, but he also knew that on this road to ruling the entire continent, there would be even more bloody storms and rains. However, to become the strongest, one had to step on others' blood and corpses, and then walk up step by step.

  "Hehe! Then thank you first, I hope you can give me a peaceful continent." Rose said happily, "Then I'll go to sleep."

  "Uh-huh, okay, go to bed early!" Long Ge said "Otherwise you'll become an ugly panda."

  "What is a panda?" Rose asked in puzzlement.

  "Nothing! Go to sleep!" said Long Ge

  Three days have passed, and these three days have been very quiet. Not a single demon beast has come to disturb us. I guess it's just like Rose said, only the demon beasts with real strength are killed by the teachers of the Academy before they are released.

  After three days of calmness, Long Di also began to cross the tribulation. The tribulation clouds in the sky gathered densely and came over, with red and orange clouds carrying the power of heaven and earth concentrating on Long Di's head.

  Long Song They helped Long Di guard three directions 100 meters away, preventing any demons from disturbing his Heavenly Tribulation.

  The clouds gather and thicken until they reach their maximum density, then start pouring down the accumulated rain from the sky.

  Acid Rain: Amidst the torrential downpour, there is a small amount of corrosive rain that can corrode many things, such as Dou Qi, skin, tendons and bones, or even everything!

  For a rich young master like Longdi, with good equipment and sufficient elixirs, dealing with such a heavenly tribulation was easy. With his possession of gold, wood, and fire attributes, he was naturally unafraid. He simply used his body to resist the heavenly tribulation, allowing it to corrode his skin before using his wood attribute's fighting energy to repair himself.

  This practice is the same as Long Song's tribulation, because although it is painful, the gain is also the greatest. The repeated tempering of skin and bones will make the body strong and tough, just like after Long Song's tribulation, the toughness of his skin and bones has reached the level of inferior silverware, that is to say, even if others use inferior silverware weapons to attack, they won't hurt Long Song at all.

  Long Di is now the same, repeatedly tempering his body. Although his fighting spirit does not have the thick white energy of Long Ge's, as a rich young master he has no shortage of elixirs. So whenever his fighting spirit is insufficient, he always swallows a Zhong Fu Dan to continue tempering himself.

  But such suffering is unbearable for some people, and sometimes they don't even dare to look, like Jin Zhen and Jin Mei Gui, who now don't dare to watch Long Di's tribulation, but can only turn their bodies around and be vigilant.

  Long Song's performance towards Long Di is also very impressive, but what needs to be done now is to seriously protect Long Di, otherwise he will be disturbed by others.

  However, just as Long Di had barely escaped disaster for twenty minutes, a demonic beast came to harass him.

  "Huh? There's a demon beast!" Long Ge was the first to discover it, then said to Jin Zhen and Mei Gui "Be careful! There's a demon beast, you two be careful in dealing with it, if you can't beat it just call me!"

  "Alright!" Jin Zi and Mei Gui said.

  A large number of magical beasts began to gather around, including lizards, scorpions, centipedes, poisonous insects... Many unknown desert magical beasts swarmed over, their levels weren't very high, but there were just too many!

  Where did these magical beasts come from? It turned out that this place was originally inhabited by a gas-form level magical beast, which was killed by the teachers of the college. The other magical beasts nearby didn't know about it yet, but now they saw someone crossing the tribulation, and it was even a small rain tribulation. This means that the original gas-form level magical beast is no longer there (gas-form level magical beasts can't cross the tribulation!), so they thought of rushing over to seize the territory.

  These monsters originally had a chance, but their chances were ruined by Long Song.

  "Kill!" Long Ge drew out a large, inferior silver sword and charged into the demonic beast group, crazily killing as he went. Meanwhile, Jin Zhen and Mei Gui used their bows and arrows to hold down the enemy from behind (both of these siblings were skilled archers; Long Ge didn't use his bow in order to keep it a secret, and Long Di was also an all-around expert).

  The monsters that came rushing up were all just cannon fodder, they were simply being driven forward by the big shots behind them to be slaughtered.

  Long Ge was happily killing, he liked this kind of life, this kind of stimulation made sense; and Jin Zi and Mei Gui were also shooting from behind, holding low-grade golden bows, plus their own golden attribute Dou Qi, they were also killing very smoothly, but did they manage to repel the demonic beasts behind them?

  The next chapter challenges myself