Cultivating Through The Game

Whoosh~ The violent wind howled past his ears. Xue Ming looked at Lu Yu approaching closer behind him, his heart incessantly trembling. He didn't dare to stop to forcibly log out.

Just stopping for one second would allow Lu Yu to catch up, making it impossible to log out.

Forced logout also has a process. Although the process is very short, Xue Ming would be immobilized, and within that short time, Lu Yu could kill him more than ten times.

Rustle~ The earth-shattering howl arose, a yellow curtain connecting heaven and earth moved towards the direction of the tavern, causing the world to lose its color.

Xue Ming saw the sandstorm reaching to the sky and his face looked extremely grim. He glanced back at Lu Yu, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the sandstorm with all his might. As long as he could break into the sandstorm, he could break away from Lu Yu's pursuit.

Lu Yu saw the boundless sandstorm sweeping towards him and without any hesitation, followed Xue Ming towards the sandstorm. He had no concept of the sandstorms in the Western desert.

The merchants outside the tavern saw the sandstorm and hastily tethered their Western desert alpacas, tying their reins to the columns of the tavern. The shade roofing to block the scorching sun on the tavern was dismantled by the tavern owner and stored in storage bags.

All the food and drink inside the tavern were also stored in storage bags, even the tables and chairs, leaving only a dozen or so empty columns on the ground.

Everyone took out their ropes, tied themselves to the columns, and covered their faces with burlap while turning their backs to the direction of the sandstorm.

By the time everyone finished, the sandstorm had arrived. The sand particles swept by the wind were like bullets, constantly hitting everyone's bodies and the columns, making a crackling sound.

Opening their eyes, they could only see a field of yellow. Reaching their hands out, they couldn't even see their fingers. All around them was the howling wind and the impact sound of sand particles.

The majority silently activated protective spiritual armor to resist the sandstorm's impact, while tightly holding onto the columns and the ropes tied around them.

Whoosh~ Rustle~ Crackle~

A purple-black figure walked amidst the vast yellow sand. Lu Yu had descended from above and was walking on the ground. He had left a spiritual mark on Xue Ming, enabling him to sense Xue Ming's position.

The sandstorm of the Western desert was a bit beyond Lu Yu's imagination. This was no normal sandstorm; it surged with violent Spiritual Qi, forcing Lu Yu to constantly fend off these violent Spiritual Qi intrusions.

Moreover, within the sandstorm, one couldn't extend their senses. The sandstorm would destroy any extended perception.

He was still able to follow Xue Ming up to now, thanks to the special nature of the spiritual mark, which wouldn't be destroyed by the violent Spiritual Qi within the sandstorm.

"Hmm?" Lu Yu sensed the spiritual mark on Xue Ming flicker and vanish in place.

"Forced logout," the four words appeared in Lu Yu's mind.

Lu Yu felt a bit helpless and hurried to the place where Xue Ming disappeared. He watched as the yellow sand on the ground was quickly leveled down by more than ten centimeters and then rapidly filled in again.

As the yellow sand kept moving in the direction of the sandstorm's sweep, if Xue Ming logged out here, his body would have long been swept away to unknown places by the sandstorm.

Not being online, Lu Yu couldn't feel the spiritual mark left on him either.

Helpless, Lu Yu unleashed a furious barrage on the spot where he disappeared, blasting a big pit about three or four meters deep into the ground.

No kill notification was received, indicating Xue Ming was no longer there.

The three or four-meter-deep pit under the sandstorm remained for less than a few minutes before being filled up. Lu Yu, looking at this storm that he didn't know how much longer it would continue, silently performed an earth escape technique to sink into the ground to evade the sandstorm.

In the sandstorm, he dared not fly up. The sandstorm in the air was the most fierce, even he could be blown away.

Lu Yu saw Xue Ming fall before entering the sandstorm, and keenly sensed the danger. He immediately landed on the ground, thus avoiding being carried away to somewhere strange by the sandstorm.

...

Puff~ A mound of sand spewed out gas, a human head emerged from inside the sand pile, and shouted: "Is anyone still alive?"

Puff puff puff~~~ One head after another poked out from inside the sand piles. At the center of each of these sand piles was an enormously thick stone pillar. This was once a small tavern, a resting place for Western desert merchants, now buried by wind and sand.

Bang~ The sand pile exploded from the inside, a large amount of yellow sand splattered, causing many people to get sand in their mouths, and those who accidentally tasted sand cursed loudly.

The people emerging from the sand pile ignored the cursing and looked for the Western desert alpacas and the traces of their team members. Surviving the sandstorm was already a fortunate thing.

As for the other people's curses, he had become accustomed to them. The hot weather and high ambient temperature made the people of the Western desert usually have irritable tempers, just like the scorching sand of the desert, a slight carelessness could cause burns.

Although they could be injured, it wasn't serious. After being injured many times, they get used to it.

Everyone emerged from the sand piles, and the tavern owner began organizing people to clean the yellow sand, putting the roof back up, otherwise it wouldn't be long before everyone would be "dying" under the scorching sun.

Huang Litian looked at the distant yellow sand, mourning for a few seconds for the kind person who offered him a drink before leaving the tavern when the sandstorm appeared.

If it weren't for coincidentally encountering the sandstorm at the tavern, Huang Litian would have thought himself doomed.

"Leader, all the alpacas have been found, not one is missing, and the goods are all fine."