Night Without End
Chapter 104 - 68: Returning to the World of Daylight

Chapter 104: Chapter 68: Returning to the World of Daylight

The desert was offended again, turning the entire sky and earth a different color, with flying sand and stones, and surging night fog, like tidal waves crashing against the towering mountains by the rugged path.

Qin Ming was astonished and speechless, what on earth was the Mountain Master doing? With such great abilities, why couldn’t they stick to the normal path? This stench of urine was too overpowering, too irritating!

At this moment, Meng Xinghai transmitted to him through a secret technique, "In a few days, you can come to Chixia City to learn more about the situation. A thousand-year-old family still needs to maintain its reputation. If the Cui Family decides not to suppress you to death in this remote area, then the problem is not so serious."

Qin Ming looked back in the sandstorm and expressed his gratitude to this new city lord.

Meng Xinghai, Li Qingyue, and Cui Hong quickly fled the desert, whose environment was extremely harsh.

On the distant rugged path, Xu Cheng’s face was troubled, "What happened again today? Even worse than yesterday!"

He really wanted to throw in the towel and quit. As a traveling merchant, he felt it was too dangerous. This business had no future, let alone for the group he was leading, even he himself wanted to scream.

"Everyone, don’t panic, this has nothing to do with us, we have always respected the desert..." Before Xu Cheng could finish, he felt a woman clinging to his back, sobbing, with her sharp nails continuously scraping his neck.

On the pitch-black path, nothing could be seen, and the woman’s crying was terrifying: "Woo... I saw so many shadows, I’m so scared."

Xu Cheng lost his composure, thinking, aren’t you an Alien Species, what are you afraid of? He was really scared now; those fluffy "slender hands" with long nails were like iron hooks, which he couldn’t pry off.

He made up his mind that if he could safely reach Chixia City this time, he would switch careers and no longer be a traveling merchant.

...

"You offend the desert so brazenly, aren’t you afraid of being resented?" Qin Ming said, his mouth full of sand as he quickly pulled out a grey robe to cover his face.

"It doesn’t matter, I am a member of Esoteric Buddhism. I have a ritual artifact used in ceremonies in the desert, which allows me to pass through smoothly." Old Boar wagged its tail, gracefully stepping through the yellow sand.

Qin Ming was startled, this was a member of Esoteric Buddhism?

"We really don’t need to be this intense, do we?" he couldn’t help asking.

Old Boar said, "We need to be cautious about the White Wolf secretly tracking us. Whoever has performed a blood sacrifice in the desert before is the one who should be afraid. If it dares to come, it won’t scare me to death."

Qin Ming understood the situation; the White Wolf was the new Mountain Master and had conducted some mysterious ritual among the mountains, worshipping the Beast God’s tomb, vastly increasing its power.

"The Beast God... is dead?" he showed a different color.

The mini Pig said, "Just a powerful creature, who knows if it’s dead. That might also be its fur tomb, found by the old White Wolf, otherwise, with its previous power, it could only eat my dust. Now the tables have turned, and I’m running for my life, alas, destiny really takes turns, my luck hasn’t been good these past two years."

"There’s something... nearby!" Qin Ming said, placing the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Blade in front of him.

Around them, yellow sand swirled, dense fog boiled, shadows loomed, and more than a dozen teams carrying dark green torches lit up the area near them with a ghostly green glow, eerily approaching their location.

Old Boar was calm: "No worries, it’s better to be familiar with the unusual, they defeat themselves. I have the ritual artifact for worshiping the desert, they can’t do anything to us."

Greenish torches danced, a giant beast towering meters high passed by them, carrying a rotting stench and even an acrid smell of burning corpses.

Qin Ming was on guard but eventually adapted, the ominous signs swayed nearby but did not attack them, so he tried to ignore them.

"You come from Esoteric Buddhism, isn’t it said that members should greatly respect the desert, considering it a realm connected to the divine?"

Old Boar said, "There isn’t just one type of Esoteric Buddhism. Some organizations revere the divine, worship it, and contemplate it in their hearts, seeking to use its power for themselves. Others are more ambitious, wanting to conquer those ’phenomena’ or ’realms’ and use them to become divine themselves."

Qin Ming was surprised and gained a new understanding of Esoteric Buddhism and the desert.

Clearly, Old Boar had joined the more ambitious Esoteric Buddhism; otherwise, his attitude wouldn’t be like this.

"I’m done walking, my mouth is full of sand. Pitch your tent, I’ll take a nap here. By the way, have you really met that one-armed Blade Master?"

Qin Ming responded, "I have met him. He transmitted Blade Technique to me through the thick fog, like a spiritual resonance and like a dream."

Old Boar showed a solemn expression, "Could it be that he has switched to walking the path of outsiders?"

"Have you also seen my master?" Qin Ming asked.

"My father has, and he once witnessed him split the Mountain Master of the time with a single strike, tearing apart the night sky and cutting through the torrential rain, terrifyingly powerful!"

Soon after, Qin Ming asked, "You mentioned repaying a debt, settling a karmic tie in the mountains, how come I don’t know when I saved you?"

Old Boar gritted his teeth, "That White Wolf is indeed vicious and ruthless, after severely injuring me, it didn’t kill me immediately, but scattered my spirit, forcing me to revert to a common mountain beast led by animal instincts, intended for me to tragically die as a Blood Meal for other fierce beasts in the mountains. At that time, I was Lost. I was conscious for only a short time each day, mostly behaving like an ordinary mountain beast. Truly, a pig fallen on flat ground is bullied by dogs. I remember you boy, even trying to shoot me with a bow and arrow then."

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