Alex placed all of his items inside his cauldron and flew down towards the forest with fear in his heart.
There were so many beasts down there. Was he going to be fine at all?
He only had 3 healing pills, so until he made some more by finding ingredients in the forest, he would have to be extremely careful of everything.
Fortunately, he had brought a fire-making formation plate with him that could work for a while, but he wasn't sure how long it could sustain him.
Just as he was thinking that a voice drifted into Alex's ears. "You don't have to stay in one place. You can move around if you want to," Shen Jing's voice said.
Alex sent his senses towards the sky, but he couldn't see Shen Jing at all. He was more than the 100 meters distance Alex could view at the moment.
Alex thought of flaring his spiritual sense to see, but destroying your only sense of sight seemed an idiot to him.
'He took Pearl away. Is Pearl going to be okay?' he wondered. He trusted Shen Jing with everything he was about to do, and yet he didn't trust him with Pearl.
'Do I care about Pearl more than myself?' he wondered. 'I can't afford to do that. I need to care for myself right now."
Suddenly, something flew up to him from his right side. It entered his senses way too quickly, and Alex could barely react in time.
He instantly used his teleportation skill, but in mid-air, there was only 2 place he could teleport to.
That was either his shadow on the ground or the shadow on the underside of the beast that entered.
Since he couldn't see the ground at the moment, he felt better just teleporting underneath the beast.
With a flicker, he disappeared from where he was and appeared under the bird. Then, his sword lit up with golden light that was surrounded by a prominent white outline.
With a slash, Alex put a long gash underneath the unsuspecting beasts, but the damage wasn't deep enough.
He then heard the beast smash onto something as it disappeared out of his view.
'No!' Alex thought as he realized what had just happened. The beast had struck his flying cauldron, and now it was gone out of his senses.
"Where did it go?" Alex cried out, but he couldn't see the exact direction it went.
Just then, the beast entered his senses once more and Alex finally cared managed to see what it was.
It was a giant flying bat of green color. If Alex remembered correctly, this was an Emerald Wildbat.
'True Lord 3rd Realm?' Alex thought as he sensed its cultivation base. This fight was going to be tough for him. Especially without the amazing sword, but hopefully, the mixture of his cultivation and body helped him a bit.
'It should,' he thought. 'The bat is already bleeding.'
SCREEEECH!!
Suddenly, the bat let out a loud screeching sound that made Alex's head hurt, however, since he was looking through his senses, to begin with, he did not have any problem keeping track of what the bird was doing.
As the bird flew towards him, Alex once again flickered behind the bat's shadow and made another cut.
The bat was truly furious this time around. It was used to its prey not fighting back after they heard its voice, but Alex didn't falter at all. Instead, he fought back and hurt him.
'Dammit! The bat is acting cautiously,' Alex thought. The bat was no longer charging without thought. Instead, he was constantly spinning in mid-air, trying to look out for Alex who was somehow appearing behind him each time.
Alex gripped his sword tighter and poured his Qi into it, turning it golden again. With all the metal Qi in it, he was sure that one good attack would kill the bat.
So, once he was fully prepared, he burst into speed towards the bat. All of his concentration was on the bat, while the bat was concentrating both on Alex, and the position behind him where Alex might appear.
Suddenly, Alex disappeared from the bat's view. So, the bat turned around, expecting Alex to appear there, but he didn't.
Instead, it felt Alex's aura arrive behind it. It had fallen for Alex's trap.
Alex swung his sword, as hard as he could with a single hand and cut the bat's right-wing in half.
Then, while the bat was flustered, he swiftly teleported behind it and hit the bat on the neck.
The sword only went in half as deep, not managing to cut the bat's head off entirely, but that alone was enough.
The bat's eyes went wide as it died and started falling to the ground.
Alex huffed in mid-air, taking a small break while checking on himself. 'I can fight up to True Lord 3rd realm if I combine my body cultivation, Qi cultivation, and Sword intent,' he thought.
He hadn't realized this last time around when he fought the bandits. He felt his meridians hurt quite a bit, and also felt his Qi deplete a lot.
He needed to cultivate to replenish this, but where was he to go. He flared his spiritual sense for a bit, but he couldn't see a single thing around him as he was still in mid-air.
'Dammit! Where the hell did my cauldron fall off to?' he wondered. During the battle, he had lost track of which direction it had fallen in as all directions looked the same to him.
He also felt something weird about the battle just now. As if something was missing. Something that woul—
'Ah! The system notifications. It's missing,' he thought. 'Does that mean I won't get the cores and ingredients automatically now?'
He hadn't fought a beast since then to realize that this was how things happened. Now that he did, he frowned.
'So I have to carve the things out myself, huh?' he thought. That meant he needed to fly down right now and find that bat's corpse.
Since the bat had fallen through the sky, to fall along the same trajectory, he decided to free fall as well.
As he let gravity take control of him, Alex fell through the sky, the wind whipping past him as he put all of his focus into seeing anything enter his spiritual sense.
When he saw a tree enter his vision, he slowed down and slowly descended to the ground. Just as he saw the ground, he found the bat's corpse as well.
And alongside it, many hungry beasts with a cultivation base in the True realms.
'Shit!' Alex thought and immediately flew away from there before any of the beasts could see him as a threat.
Some of the beasts there were just as, if not stronger than Alex himself. This was truly a terrifying place and Alex was running low on Qi.
'I need to find a place to cultivate very fast,' he thought and expanded his spiritual sense to the furthest reaches he could.
After a while, he sensed a giant tree with a snake living on it. Thankfully, the snake wasn't very strong. It was likely guarding the fruit on the tree from what Alex could see.
'Fivefold pear, huh? I can make a healing pill with it. Although, I will need a lot of the other materials.'
Alex fought the snake, but it wasn't even a fight. He wanted to simply fight off the beast and send it away as he was invading its home, but the snake seemed to want to fight to the death.
So, Alex fulfilled its dream and cut it in two. He then cut the snake, along its lower section and pulled out a core from inside of it.
He looked at the rest of the snake and sighed. While the snake could be used as an ingredient in some pills, he currently had no place to keep it, so he threw the corpse away.
He hoped that would attract other beasts away from this location.
Then, he jumped into the crown of the tree and finally relaxed. He could see a few beasts inside his senses, but they weren't focusing on him at all.
Once he realized that he was relatively safe, he turned invisible for the extra safety and started cultivating the Five Yang Divine Path.
