Chapter 225: Final Preparations

While Shen Xu was resting, Zhen Yuan examined the room’s formations.

Normally, he wouldn’t worry too much and would just activate a teleportation formation disk when the time came.

However, they were in the city lord’s residence.

Most importantly, the city lord was a level seven formation master.

Considering that, Zhen Yuan had to check the formations to ensure that he and Shen Xu would be able to get out when the time came.

An hour later, Zhen Yuan smiled in relief.

“The formations are nothing I can’t handle.” He muttered, then walked to Shen Xu’s side.

Looking at the sleeping double, a trace of distress flashed in his eyes and he bent to touch Shen Xu’s hair.

’He must be very tired.’ He thought, soothingly rubbing the double’s hair.

Time passed in this way and before he knew it, it was three hours later.

At this time, Zhen Yuan felt a tap on the room’s isolation formation and immediately stood.

“Is there something?” He asked.

“The banquet will start in half an hour. I will return to escort formation master Xu and alchemist Yuan when the time comes.” An old voice reached Zhen Yuan’s ear.

“Thank you.” He answered.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Xu opened his eyes and lazily stretched his limbs.

“How are you feeling? Are you still tired?” Zhen Yuan asked in a concerned voice.

“Don’t worry, I am fine.” Shen Xu said and quickly continued.

“Brother Yuan, I successfully refined the purple light pill.”

When Shen Xu first met the Tan family, he gave them a list of spirit grasses needed to treat Tan Xiaoqing.

However, most of those spirit grasses were decoys or ones he couldn’t get with his ability at them.

The purple light grass was simultaneously a decoy and something he personally needed.

After getting it from the Tan family, he immediately collected the seeds and planted them in the space.

As for the grass, he refined it into a purple light pill.

“If I am not mistaken, the purple light pill is a blood purifying elixir, right?” Zhen Yuan asked.

“Mmh.” Shen Xu nodded and began explaining.

“With this pill, we can finally cultivate a few top-grade bees.”

Although many years had passed, Shen Xu had never forgotten about the ten element bees.

Unfortunately, blood purifying treasures were harder to find than they originally expected.

“You’ve worked hard.” Zhen Yuan said, lowering his hand to rub Shen Xu’s hair.

“It’s nothing.” The double chuckled.

After refining Tan Xiaoqing’s pill, Shen Xu didn’t rest and immediately began refining the purple light pill.

As a result, he recklessly consumed his soul power which led to his previous exhaustion.

“Ayuan, we can begin working as soon as we leave here.”

“Good.” Zhen Yuan nodded.

Soon after, the two heard a knock and looked at each other.

“It’s the housekeeper.” Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

“Let’s get the reward and then find an opportunity to slip out.”

After saying that, Shen Xu opened the door and walked out with Zhen Yuan.

“Did alchemist Yuan have a good rest? Was everything in place?” The housekeeper asked.

“Everything was fine, thank you.” Shen Xu said, smiling at the housekeeper.

“In that case, please follow me to the banquet.”

The banquet was in the main hall.

However, only the Tan family, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan were invited.

When the two arrived, the Tan family was already there and more than a dozen plates of food were on the table.

“Alchemist Yuan, Formation master Xu, welcome.” Madam city lord called in a polite voice.

“Thank you, madam.” Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan said.

The feast was superficially pleasant.

However, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan were not stupid.

Although the Tan family were polite, they were also interrogative.

In between politeness, they subtly asked about the two people’s background.

Their family, their masters, their plans…

Fortunately, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan were a soul bound Taoist couple.

Because of this, they could use their Taoist contract to unify their answers without alerting the city lord.

In the end, the Tan family readily gave the reward and the two returned to the guest room.

“How shameless!” Shen Xu snorted when they returned to the guest room.

“These bastards want to rob us as soon as we leave the residence.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Zhen Yuan said in a soothing voice.

Before they came to the city lord’s residence, they already expected the Tan family would be reluctant to part with one hundred million spirit stones and one kilogram of soul water.

Knowing that, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu naturally made plans to ensure they wouldn’t lose the reward they had finally gotten.

“We will leave in three hours.”

“Good.” Shen Xu nodded.

Three hours later, Zhen Yuan activated a teleportation formation disk and two people silently disappeared from the city lord’s residence.

Barely a moment later, they appeared in a bedroom.

This bedroom was inside a small house, in a small village, near Formation Tower City.

“We are finally free.” Shen Xu said, his lips curled in a smile.

“There is still five years before the Yunshan secret realm opens. We can use that time to make final preparations.”

After that, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu entered the space.

Since Zhen Yuan’s soul power was at the peak of level seven, he left the soul water for Shen Xu.

As a result, the double went into seclusion to advance his soul power while Zhen Yuan chose to improve his talismans and inscriptions mastery.

One hundred fifty space years passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu went out twice.

The first time was to secretly attend an auction hosted by the Myriad Treasures Pavillion.

In that auction, the two auctioned eight secret realm quotas, beauty pills, talismans, and formation disks, accumulating fifteen billion spirit stones.

The second time was to purchase materials for talismans, inscriptions, formations, weapons, pills, and food.

Excluding those two times, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu spent all their time in the Chaos Flame space.

As a result, Shen Xu advanced his soul power to level seven and became a level seven alchemist.

Similarly, Zhen Yuan became a level seven talisman master and inscription master.

In addition to studying, the two prepared thousands of pills, formation disks, talismans, inscriptions, and weapons to be used in the secret realm.

After researching in the space library and combining Shen Xu’s recollections, Zhen Yuan managed to formulate a rough map of the secret realm.

However, this map was extremely crude and only covered a small part of the secret realm.

That said, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan didn’t dislike since it gave them a rough idea of what to expect.

On this day, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan finally left the space.

“There is only three days left.” Shen Xu said in an excited voice.

“It’s almost the agreed time to meet the people who bought the quotas.”

“Do you think there will be problems?” The double asked in a concerned voice.

However, Zhen Yuan shrugged but wasn’t worried at all.

When they sold the quotas, they made blood contracts.

At the same time, Zhen Yuan provided each buyer with a transmission jade.

This transmission jade was a teleportation formation that would activate when the time came.

Most importantly, each buyer refined their transmission jade and only they could be teleported away.

Considering that, Zhen Yuan wasn’t too worried that the buyers would bring an army to rob their secret realm token.

“Even if the buyers have trackers on their body, the trackers will be rendered ineffective when the people enter this place. Don’t worry, I have made proper arrangements.” Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu sighed in relief.

“We have been waiting for the Yunshan secret realm for more than one hundred years. I can’t wait to go in.” The double said and a trace of anticipation flashed in his eyes.

“Ayuan, do you think we will meet our fellows from the Canglan continent?”

“Maybe. Was it mentioned in the book?”

“From what I recall, Xiao Weimin and his harem didn’t encounter any Canglan cultivators in the Yunshan secret realm. However, a lot has changed and there is no telling what the future holds.”

“Meeting is fate and parting is also fate.” Zhen Yuan said, looking at his wife with doting eyes.

“I know.”

After that, the two returned to the space and double cultivated for two months before coming out.

When they came out, there was only half a day to the opening of the Yunshan secret realm.

At the same time, there was half an hour to the agreed meeting time.

Half an hour later, the arranged teleportation formation glowed and eight people appeared.

The eight were three female cultivators and five male.

At a glance, all were spirit transformation realm cultivators but their ages varied from three thousand to almost ten thousand.

“According to the agreement, we will go our separate ways after entering the secret realm.” Zhen Yuan reminded; his eyes narrowed into slits.

Fortunately, no one wanted trouble before entering the secret realm so they nodded and moved to different corners to await the transmission.

Half a day later, the ten gathered around the token and were promptly teleported to the Yunshan secret realm.

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