Pursuit

Alex ran across the tall grasses that were filled with sand. He held the sword in his right hand, ready to fight any beasts that came his way. 

The Forbidden Fields had so much sand now that it wouldn't have been a mistake to stop calling it a field now. 

Alex walked over dried grass near the river and easily ran through the river with how shallow the water was.

The sands were a little harder to run through. There wasn't enough solid land under his feet to run, so he decided to use his boat artifact to fly through the desert.

This wouldn't have been possible previously, but now that the Qi had somehow returned to the desert as well, Alex thought it was possible. 

His cultivation base was still heavily suppressed at around Muscle Tempering realm, so he wasn't really sure if the boat would fly, but he had to try it. 

He couldn't keep running through the entire desert when he knew how far away the ocean was.