Life Drain System

"... Just remember, although there are no more daily ones it is only because they will all be combined into this trial. So have fun, and enjoy the ride." He says as the light in the room flashes, and Yueliang awakens in a strange desert like place no longer feeling pain.

Opening his eyes, Yueliang looks around, and seeing only sand dune hills and the sun about to set. However he thinks to himself. 'What is that rustling sound, and why is the sand moving?'

Feeling a growing sense of worry, he looks around once more. Nearby there is a big boulder stabbing up out of the ground. Noticing this, he immediately jumps up, and using his chi he falls.

'What is going on? Why can I not use chi? The system said he could stop the pain temporarily, he never said he would take it away. .... OH SHOOT! I gave away my memories on how to cultivate!!!' Yue thinks to himself as he gets up and makes a run for the rock.

Regardless, behind him, while running he can hear whatever is causing the sound getting closer with each passing second. Then behind him, he hears *Booosh as something explodes out of the sand. Knowing he does not have the time to look behind himself, he focuses on making it to the rock before him now more than ever.

While running, he thinks to himself. 'What even is my trial this time? He said it would combine them all.... Then does that mean that I have to keep on running and try to escape? If that is the case, if I fail, I die right?'

Not having any way to confirm nor deny his hypothesis, he finally makes it to the sharp boulder sticking out of the ground, and starts climbing up it.

Not even a second later, something crashes into the boulder, breaking it to pieces. Yueliang falling back to the ground, gets up and starts running again.

In front of him, he watches closely while running and sees an archway with sand blowing away from it as well. However it disappears a second later, and all that remains is one of the sharp boulders sticking out of the ground far off in the distance.

Seeing this, he wonders. 'Either I just found the gateways out of here, or I just saw a giant serpent like creature jump out of the sand and leave a boulder behind. No that does not seem right, could it be excrement? They are large creatures after all. If so that is disgusting, I just climbed up a pillar of poop!' He thought to himself and feels disgusted at the thought, yet is not stopping running anytime soon with some massive creature behind him.

Many minutes later, Yueliang sees one of the creatures exploding out of the ground about 10 meters in front of him. Seeing the creature, he realizes they are not serpents like his original thoughts, but instead they are giant worms.

Feeling horrified by the giant creepy worms, Yue finds the strength and energy to run even faster trying to find some way out of here. Even going so far as to run underneath the giant worm that is currently going making an archway with its body right now.

Then in front of him, another pops up but this time, out of its mouth that has countless teeth, he sees a spear like tongue that has other pieces around it going in and out to hold its prey in place. Not that there was any prey this time, but seeing this certainly added a degree of fear to what Yueliang is already feeling.

Either way, he quickly runs around it and keeps moving thinking. 'Please let this trial end soon. Please, I worry I will not make it out alive if this is to continue for long.'

---- A Little Over 9 Hours Later ----

Panting heavily and gasping for air, Yueliang is standing still on top of a big boulder that looks as if it is actually rock this time. Looking down he sees two worms wrapping around each other. Thus he wonders. 'Are they mating or something?'

Although before he could continues such thoughts a third worm comes over and stabs one of them with its barbed spear like tongue before it starts pulling it underground while biting into it.

'Wow, cannibalistic giant worms it seems.' He thinks as he watches all the worms, and stays standing so as to not let his heart give out, as it is pounding super hard to keep him alive. For if he does not cool down first, the hear may give out due to over working, and he would be at risk of dying of sudden cardiac arrest. However due to not having any heart problems it would be less likely for him than others.

Wanting to rest he begins thinking. 'I cannot continue to rest here, those worms will find me soon enough. There must be something I can do. Sadly they keep going underground or I would just try to ride one, which seems like fun. Plus if it dies, I can just hop over to another. But come to think of it there is something I remember learning about them, what was it?'

Yueliang ponders this for a few moments before he realizes. 'Right, worms make burrows, eating the dirt in front of them, and pooping it out to make their tunnels. That means I should be able to survive. But the question is, will I fit in the hole with them or be ground to mush inside?'

'Well I guess there is only one way to find out.' Yueliang thinks to himself before running and jumping off of the edge of the cliff like boulder.

Falling through the air he would either be living or dying, due to one of a few choices. He falls into the mouth of a giant worm, he falls on the sand and either lives or dies, or third he sticks the landing and rides the worm like a bull.

With each second of the fall feeling more and more extended he eventually barely misses the worms mouth and starts sliding down its bump back. Sliding and sliding, he finally manages to grab one of the ridges on its body. Then pulling himself up, he positions himself between two of the ridges thinking. 'I made it phew. Now here comes the hard part.'

A few seconds later the same worm that Yue landed on is now digging its way underground, as are all the others. However before Yue is pulled under, he sees a massive black bird like creature. But seeing as he recognized the shape of it, he could tell it was a bat. The only thing surprising is the fact that he has seen no other living beings on this planet so far except for these giant worms.

Of course, seeing this gives Yueliang a whole new set of worries, thinking about what else could be out there. For if there are bats, and there are worms, that means that likely there are a whole slew of other creatures out there, and this is just the beginning. Especially given the fact that bats tend to stay in cold dark places.

Seeing that time on this world seems to pass much slower, as it took 9 hours just for the world to go from sun set to dark enough for bats to come out, Yue can see that this is likely to be far more troublesome than he initially expected.

Either way, he decides to make the most of the situation, and asks in his head. 'What is the mission, what is it you want me to do on this insane backward planet?'

"...."

Getting no reply, he continues. 'I know you are listening, but you said this is a trial, meaning that there is a purpose. If I do not know it, this will never end. Therefore your purpose would be null and void as well. Am I right? Of course I am, so either give me my task so I can complete this and maintain you, or send me back and I win anyways because you will have forfeit the deal!'

"...."

'Fine you want to play silent, good for you. I hope you enjoy getting punished when grandpa finds my corpse. You of all people should know that since grandpa put in his chi, and what not, he can trace it to find me. So good luck, I will just take a nap for now. Wake me up when you choose.' Yueliang threatens the system, not knowing if it will work.

Bluffing his way through, he even closes his eyes and gets ready to sleep to seal the deal, figuring it is all or nothing at this point.. Feeling that, at least even if he has to die, it would be better than aimlessly wandering this battleground of a world, where everything is a thousand or more times larger than back on earth.