Absolute Death Game-Chapter 478 - 51 Endless Desert

With a thunderous roar, in the vast and scorching desert, a bolt of lightning struck straight down upon the dunes. Amidst the explosion, the sand burst in all directions. When the lightning and dust settled, the figure of a man kneeling on the dunes gradually became visible.

Xiao Buli wasn't striking this pose to look cool; it was simply because the repeated cycles of flying and landing had left his muscles stiff and sore. At that moment, he knelt on the scorching sand, gasping for air, his sweat having been baked dry. It felt to him as if he were in the midst of a giant oven, not a drop of moisture left to him. After a while, Xiao Buli still could not muster the strength to stand up and had no choice but to sit cross-legged under the fierce sun, his legs trembling from dehydration and overexertion.

Xiao Buli forced himself to calm down, and as the Yi Wood Xuan Yang Scripture circulated, the True Origin Force within him began to slowly recover. This made him feel somewhat better, as he no longer had no physical strength at all. After a while of recovery, Xiao Buli got up, moved to the shade of a nearby dune, and sat down. At least here, he could escape the sun's scorching heat.

As he replenished his True Origin Points, Xiao Buli couldn't help but reflect on his journey over the past few days. It seemed that aside from flying and rushing through the vast, boundless desert, he'd done nothing else. The Immortal Crane had been somewhat useful for the first two days, but starting the third day, its recovery time for stamina became increasingly slow. Moreover, as soon as one entered the desert, both humans and the Immortal Crane alike were afflicted with a debuff called 'Endless Fatigue,' which meant shorter flight times and longer recovery periods. Out of necessity, Xiao Buli began using Cloud Thunder Leap, taking turns casting spells with the Immortal Crane, trying to keep himself airborne as much as possible to significantly shorten the time spent in the desert. However, after six days of flight, even in the sky, Xiao Buli had not seen even a hint of the boundary. Could this desert truly be as its name suggested—endless?

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Besides the lengthy journey, the most despairing and unbearable thing for Xiao Buli was the monotony of the scenery: sand, more sand, and nothing else. Not to speak of an oasis, he hadn't even come across a single large rock, sometimes causing him to suspect that he was simply circling the same dune, perhaps not making any progress at all. There's a condition called snow blindness, and Xiao Buli felt that if he continued to stare at this yellow sand, he might well develop sand blindness.

So sometimes, unable to suppress his doubts, Xiao Buli would descend and walk for a bit. Only by seeing his footprints in the sand did he start to believe that he was truly moving forward.

With a dry mouth, Xiao Buli didn't even have enough saliva to spit. Reluctantly, he took out his water flask and drank a few sips. The lukewarm water that entered his mouth did little to comfort him. Looking at the air in front of him, slightly distorted by the heat, Xiao Buli gave up on the meditative pose and lay down. The harsh heat tormented him like the fires of hell itself. Maybe it was time to give up, he thought.

A breeze arose, stirring up the dust into a vortex in the sky, settling onto Xiao Buli's head.

"Ptooey, ptooey," Xiao Buli spit fiercely trying to get rid of the sand in his mouth. "Damn it!" He couldn't help but curse out loud, grabbing a clump of sand and flinging it forward. However, the dry dust blew right back into his face, thanks to the north wind, blinding him again. Xiao Buli no longer had the energy to vent or curse, and he collapsed back down, powerless.

Ever since the "Endless Fatigue" debuff had been placed on him, the Stamina Points, Mana, Internal Energy, and Rage Value he consumed for all actions had increased by 10%. Even his True Origin Points were not spared, and with each passing day, this debuff stacked another layer. By today, he had accrued five layers, meaning that whatever he did, the consumption of True Origin Points was now 50% higher. If a few more days passed without leaving this place, it would become increasingly difficult.

Even more deadly was the fact that the recovery of True Origin Points from the Yi Wood Xuan Yang Scripture was getting slower and slower, probably due to the restriction of wood-attribute cultivation techniques in arid and scorching environments.

Finally, when his True Origin Points were fully restored, though the water wasn't palatable, Xiao Buli still drank a great deal, ate a few pieces of dried meat, and when he felt sufficiently recovered, he stepped out from behind the shadow of the dune and rose into the sky with a Cloud Thunder Leap.

This flight lasted for over an hour, covering a distance of two to three hundred kilometers before he descended once more.

Originally, one charge should have carried him over four hundred kilometers, but due to the hindrance of 'Endless Fatigue,' the distance he could cover in one flight was getting shorter and shorter.

And the time required for each recharge was getting longer, a trend that was anything but optimistic.

If this continued, Xiao Buli felt he might actually go mad. After some thought, he decided to summon the Lava Giant Python to see if he could use it as a mount for a while. As soon as the python emerged from the Sealed Space, it seemed to relish the desert heat, rolling and frolicking in the sand like a dog that had not been let out in a long time before finally stopping in front of Xiao Buli. To be honest, its playful tumbling in the sand was utterly incongruent with its majestic Black Dragon image.