Chapter 142: Demon Plants Forest 21

Zhen Yuan woke up five days later.

After he opened his eyes, he realised he wasn’t alone in bed and turned to look at Shen Xu.

’Xiaoxu, I didn’t lie to you. I only slept for five days.’ He thought, leaning down to kiss the person’s forehead.

As if feeling the kiss, Shen Xu smiled in his sleep but didn’t wake up until an hour later.

“Did you sleep well?” A voice resounded and Shen Xu immediately peppered up.”

“Brother Yuan.” The double excitedly called and unconsciously reached for the man’s arm.

After taking the person’s pulse, Shen Xu sighed in relief and smiled.

“When did you wake up?” He asked.

“An hour ago.”

“How are you feeling?”

“Didn’t you just take my pulse?” Zhen Yuan asked in a teasing voice.

“Your qi and soul power recovered and your injuries look better. However, I still want to hear it from you.”

“The injuries are still painful but I will recover in a few days.” Zhen Yuan said, rubbing the double’s hair before he continued.

“Shall we leave the space?” She asked but Shen Xu shook his head.

“Not yet.” He said,

“Why? Is there something?”

“I told Lin Xiang you will need a few days to recover. It’s been five days in space but only half a day outside.”

“What do you want to do as we wait?” Zhen Yuan asked and Shen Xu smiled.

“Didn’t we collect a few space rings and storage bags? Let’s check them now.”

“Okay.” Zhen Yuan agreed and Shen Xu removed things.

As usual, they started with storage bags before moving to the storage rings.

Because they had been in the Demon Plants Forest for eleven months, the two didn’t find many spirit stones.

Even Xiao Wan’er’s space ring only had seven million spirit stones.

Shen Xu sighed when he saw this.

“She should have attacked us in the early days of the secret realm.” The double complained.

“We would have gotten more spirit stones if she did that but maybe we wouldn’t have gotten this.” Zhen Yuan said, sliding a box towards Shen Xu.

“Jade Spirit fruit.” The double happily exclaimed but soon frowned.

“Unfortunately, it’s only level two.”

From his inheritance, Shen Xu knew the jade spirit fruit could instantaneously stabilise the cultivation level. With the fruit, one didn’t need to spend months or years stabilising their cultivation.

However, like most other spiritual fruit treasures, the jade spirit fruit wasn’t omnipotent.

Although it could be used multiple times, it was only effective once in each realm.

That is, if a level three jade spirit fruit was used to stabilise the early stage of the golden core realm, the fruit couldn’t be used again until the nascent soul realm.

“It doesn’t matter. You have enough resources to stabilise your cultivation at the four stages of the golden core realm. If we plant the core now, we may be able to get level five fruits by the time you advance to the spirit transformation realm.”

“You are right.” Shen Xu agreed, his eyes glistening with excitement.

“I will refine level two jade spirit pills to sell at the auction.”

“Do you have the auxiliary herbs?”

“Don’t underestimate our Chaos Flame Space.” Shen Xu said, proudly raising his chin.

Before entering the demon plants forest, the Chaos Flame Space had more than three hundred types of level one, level two, and level three spirit grasses.

After eleven months in the secret realm, the variety had exploded from three hundred types to more than two thousand.

“This is good.” Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

“You should be able to refine more kinds of pills with these spirit grasses.”

“My thoughts exactly.” Shen Xu nodded.

After that, the two talked while walking around the space.

They checked the spirit grasses, instructed Xiaoren, put spirit stones into the spiritual lake, and checked on the honey bees.

It was almost four months since the two abducted a colony of honey bees.

Four months outside but more than three years in the space.

During that time, many bees were hatched and many died.

However, there hadn’t appeared a queen with a particularly high bloodline.

“We still have a lot of work to do.” Shen Xu sighed.

“There will be more resources in the Tianqi continent. We should be able to find some things that can improve a monster’s bloodline.” Zhe Yuan said and nodded.

“Fortunately, Yang Shi doesn’t need such resources.” Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan lowered his eyes to hide his guilt.

Although Yang Shi didn’t need blood-purifying resources, the cultivation resources he needed were much more than the bees would ever need.

Six days later, Shen Xu received a message from Yang Shi.

“Lin Xiang is out of retreat.” The double said while looking at Zhen Yuan.

“Shall we head out?”

“Mmh.” Shen Xu nodded, and the two left the space.

They appeared in the tent bedroom soon after and directly went to the sitting room.

“Shen Xu, Zhen Yu.” Lin Xiang immediately stood up.

“Zhen Yuan, have you recovered?”

“I am fine. How about you?”

“My injuries are healed.” Lin Xiang smiled.

The three had tea after that before Lin Xiang and Shen Xu left the tent.

[Why did Zhen Yuan stay in the tent?” Lin Xiang asked, but Shen Xu chuckled without answering.

However, he didn’t need to answer because Lin Xiang soon found out.

When the two walked out of the tent, hundreds of eyes turned to them.

A moment later, the spectators began to whisper, and Lin Xiang strained her ears to eavesdrop.

“Zhen Yuan did not come out.”

“Were his injuries so serious? He didn’t look badly injured when he entered the tent.”

“Maybe he was hiding it to prevent his enemies from attacking him while he was weak.”

“You may be right…”

“After all, he is a golden core realm cultivator. He can’t escape unscathed after blocking three nascent soul realm attacks.”

“It’s already good that he is alive.”

“Anyway, this is a good thing for us. His absence means one less competitor.”

“What’s the use of one less competitor? There are forty-nine golden core realm cultivators and two hundred and sixty foundation establishment realm cultivators, but only twelve longevity fruits. One less competitor means nothing.”

“It’s going to be a bloodbath.”

“Why do you care? Foundation establishment realm cultivators have no place in the coming fight.”

“You are right. Any foundation establishment realm cultivator who dares to grab the longevity fruits will die without leaving an intact body.”

“Well…”

At this time, Lin Xiang looked around and couldn’t help but be surprised.

Compared to before, there were more people in the clearing.

Fortunately, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan had the good sense to pitch their tent close to the longevity tree.

Although many people had come, their ’residence’ was still closest to the treasure.

Unfortunately, she was a foundation establishment realm cultivator.

Although she was closest to the treasure, she couldn’t take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiang sighed and wanted to say something to Shen Xu.

However, before she could say anything, she saw a man walking towards her.

Seeing the man, a complicated mix of emotions flashed in her eyes.

On one hand, she was relieved.

After all, she didn’t want Li Wenqiang to miss the treasure because of her.

But on the other hand, Lin Xiang couldn’t help but feel stressed.

“Miss Lin.” Li Wenqiang called, and Li Xiang sighed in resignation before turning around.

[Good luck.] Shen Xu transmitted.

[Thank you.] Lin Xiang said.

“Eighth prince.” Lin Xiang greeted.

“Shall we talk?” The man asked, and Lin Xiang nodded.

After that, the two left the clearing and went to a secluded place several kilometres away.

“I want to marry you when we leave the secret realm.” Li Wenqiang didn’t beat around the bush.

However, Lin Xiang was not prepared.

When she heard the words, her eyes widened in shock and subconsciously thought of escaping.

However, she soon regained her composure and shook her head.

“Isn’t the eighth prince a ruthless cultivator?” She asked.

“I have yet to remove my emotion root so it’s not too late to pursue the way of love.” The man said with an impassive expression.

“Eighth prince, we don’t know each other and were only together out of necessity. Why make such a life-changing decision because of that incident?” Lin Xiang asked in a confused voice.

From the way Li Wenqiang looked at her, Lin Xiang didn’t think the man loved her.

However, if not because of love, why was he intent on marrying her?

Since Li Wenqiang claimed to be her husband, Lin Xiang had been thinking about the matter.

However, she couldn’t figure out his reasoning.

“Eighth prince, I don’t need you to take responsibility.” Lin Xiang said.

After all, Li Wenqiang was also a pure boy when the incident happened.

From that perspective, they were both wronged, and neither was responsible for the other.

“I no longer wish to pursue the ruthless way.” Li Wenqiang said, looking at Lin Xiang with meaningful eyes.

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