It took more than a few seconds for Du Zhuhui to react at the words of his disciple. When everything was processed, he started circulating his Spiritual Qi in his arms and then carried Hou Siqing on his shoulder as if he was carrying one and a half sacks of 50kg rice.
For Du Zhuhui, it didn't matter to him if his disciple was comfortable or not. The only thing that mattered right now was their safety.
When the Monster was completely free of the Sand that hid him, Du Zhuhui was able to immediately know what it was.
It was a 8 Star Beach Sealion Monster. It was a Monster that could either manipulate Sand with its tail and water with its forelimb.
Each time its tail was flapped, there would be sand flowing at high speed in its surroundings making it an effective wide area attack.
Meanwhile, with a wave of its forelimb, water would come out at a very high pressure.
It's home was at the beach foot of the Alcarel Forbidden Mountain, if it was here it means it was kicked out of his own habitat...
"If only, the flying ability wasn't affected here..."
As they were still inside the range of the Alcarel Sea, the ability of flying was still affected. Hou Siqing tried it earlier after he got out inside the Rock Mountain in order to prevent delaying his Master, but it wasn't time to think about what is here. They need to focus on getting out of the reach of the Monster.
"Master, look out! Go right!"
With his head hanging behind Du Zhuhui, Hou Siqing was able to see what the Monster was doing.
The Sealion used its right arm and sent out a big water wave. With the reminder of his disciple, Du Zhuhui followed him and went to the right.
As soon as he moved, their initial position was swept by a huge wave of water. Looking at it, Hou Siqing trembled in fear.
"Master... Don't you have an artifact to help us here?"
"Right, let me check! But you need to guide me!"
Closing his eyes, Du Zhuhui went to look at his Spatial Ring.
When his Master was busy looking inside the Spatial Ring, Hou Siqing looked in front of his Master.
At first he found it uncomfortable looking towards it upside down, but because it was for their survival it didn't matter to him. After all, being carried like a rice bag was more uncomfortable than this one.
At the time when his Master opened his eyes again, he brought out something from his Spatial Ring and then started circulating his Spiritual Qi towards it.
A few seconds later, they were gone. Leaving the Sea Lion dumbfounded because its prey was nowhere to be seen.
***
"AHHH!"
As soon as he got inside the Portal, Wen Zhexi found himself falling down from the sky. It seemed like the exit of the portal he got was in the middle of the sky.
Unable to fly, Wen Zhexi could only scream at the top of his lungs as the gravity pulled him down.
Boom!
When his body hit the ground, there was a trembling and a small crater formed in the middle of the grassland. This was all due to how his body was greatly strengthened as a Nascent Realm Cultivator.
Unlike Core Realm, there was some sort of protective layer outside of their body that prevented them from easily getting injured. Although the pain of being hit was still there.
"F*ck! That hurts!"
Although he said so, he was in fact unharmed without any visible injuries.
Usually, Nascent Realm Cultivator had a high level of pain tolerance and only when there was an attack that could injure them would they be able to feel pain. In the case of Wen Zhexi, it seems like he was too sensitive to pain.
"At least I don't have any injuries. If Qingyin were to see me getting hurt, she wouldn't let me sleep beside her."
Standing up, the first thing he did was to shake off the dirt in his clothes. Even if he hadn't changed his morning cultivation clothes yet, being able to feel his uncleanliness was something he didn't want to feel.
After shaking off all the dirt, Wen Zhexi started to look around and found out where he was.
Looking at the vast desert beyond this small circular piece of greenland, it seems like he was in an oasis.
Having made his mind to get away from this desert and find his Master, Wen Zhexi started walking away from the Oasis. However...
Swush!
A giant bulge on the sand started appearing, and when the body of the Monster came out... It flapped its arm and made a giant wave of water.
"Ei-Eight Star Sealion!'
Due to fear, Wen Zhexi fell down on the ground and hoped that Sealion would let him go. As if his wishes came true, as soon as his foot was out of the sand, the Sea Lion returned down the desert.
Seeing this, Wen Zhexi heaved a sigh of relief.
"Phew! That was closed."
Waiting for a few hours, Wen Zhexi tried to walk away from the Oasis again. However, like earlier, the Sealion came again. This time, Wen Zhexi didn't fall down and just took a few steps behind.
"Ugh! How come this monster is still here? Is this where it lives?"
After a few hours again, Wen Zhexi tried to get out of the Oasis. And like last time, the Sealion came again.
However, this time Wen Zhexi realized something.
For some reason, when he took his foot away from the sand, the Sea Lion would return down the sand.
Knowing about this fact, Wen Zhexi didn't bother to come out anymore and just waited for his Master. After all, his Master got the Seeking Artifact. With that, he would be able to find him anywhere.
"It seems like I can only wait here hoping that Master would find me through his Seeking Artifact."
Pinning all his hope on the artifact that prevented him from escaping his traumatic training, Wen Zhexi could only lay down on the grass and sleep.