Chapter 74: Shen Xu’s Plan

“Brother Yuan, are you okay?” Shen Xu suddenly asked.

When he heard this, a trace of surprise flashed in the older boy’s eyes.

At a loss, a self-mocking smile appeared on his face.

“Did you notice?” Zhen Yuan asked.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“The move earlier exhausted my qi and soul power.” Zhen Yuan revealed.

When he felt the palm attack, Zhen Yuan instinctively reacted.

Before he knew it, he drew the rune brush he got in Two-Reeds town.

A moment later, he inscribed the rebound rune and put away the brush.

However, this move was more exhausting than expected.

Although the inscribing was successful, Zhen Yuan consumed more than nine points of his qi and soul power.

As a result, he had a splitting headache since then.

However, he couldn’t allow outsiders to notice.

Knowing this, he forcibly suppressed his discomfort and didn’t reveal a flaw until now.

“I am sorry.” Shen Xu lowered his head with a guilty expression.

“It’s not your fault.” Zhen Yuan rubbed the double’s hair.

“I felt something was wrong with you, but I didn’t know what. I should have noticed earlier. Also…”

“I hid it from you. This is not your fault.”

“I haven’t learned alchemy. If I had, I could have refined soul-replenishing pills for you. How could you be in this situation if you had soul-replenishing pills?”

Hearing this, Zhen Yuan smiled and pinched the double’s cheek.

“How could you refine soul-replenishing pills when we don’t have soul-replenishing grass?” Zhen Yuan admonished and soon continued.

“I just need some rest. I will be fine after a few days of rest.”

“Brother Yuan, don’t worry.” Shen Xu suddenly said.

“I will speak to Xiaoren and ask him to label the seeds in the storage room. If there are soul-replenishing grass seeds, we can directly plant them. If not, I will offer a reward in the academy’s mission hall. Later, I will learn how to refine the soul-replenishing pills.”

“Xiaoxu is the best to me.” Zhen Yuan smiled.

At the same time, a trace of warmth appeared in his eyes.

Since he was young, Zhen Yuan had never felt like he could or should depend on anyone.

However, Shen Xu made him feel he could and should rely on him.

’Xiaoxu, thank you.’ He thought.

“We still have to solve Shi Qiao’s matter.” Zhen Yuan frowned, but Shen Xu suddenly laughed.

“I have an idea about this matter. Go to rest and leave everything to me.” Shen Xu confidently thumped his chest.

After that, Zhen Yuan went to rest in the bedroom.

Seeing the person was asleep, Shen Xu left the bamboo house and summoned Xiaoren.

“What can Xiaoren do for master?” The little ginseng asked.

“Do you know how to write human characters?” Shen Xu asked, and the ginseng nodded.

“Take this.” Shen Xu gave it some writing materials.

“Label the seeds in the storage room. If there are soul-replenishing grass seeds, plant them right away. If there aren’t remember to tell me.”

“Xiaoren understands.”

After that, the ginseng spirit went to do as asked.

Seeing this, Shen Xu walked to the ice area of the Chaos Flame space.

“Master has come to see Yang Shi.” Yang Shi cried when he saw Shen Xu.

Since it didn’t have a cave, Yang Shi lived on a big rock in the ice area.

When he saw this, Shen Xu felt a little guilty.

However, he had a more urgent business, so he forcibly suppressed the guilt.

“Yang Shi, I have a mission for you.” Shen Xu said.

Hearing this, Yang Shi floated up and eagerly looked at Shen Xu.

Yang Shi had been living in the space since he hatched.

As a result, he yearned for the outside world and couldn’t wait to leave the space.

Now that a chance had come, Yang Shi was naturally excited.

“Master, Yang Shi will properly complete the task.” The little snake promised.

“You don’t even know what kind of task I am giving.” Shen Xu rolled his eyes, removing a storage bag from his own bag.

“This storage bag has one million spirit stones, food, wine, weapons, talismans, formation disks, and image stones.” He said, giving the bag to the snake.

“Your lord Zhen is in trouble.” Shen Xu sighed, but the snake looked at him in disgust.

’How can lord Zhen be in trouble? Only other people can be in trouble.’ It thought.

However, it didn’t say this.

Instead, it carefully listened to its master’s plan.

Shen Xu’s plan was simple.

First, he used a level three invisibility talisman to hide Yang Shi.

After that, he gave it a map of the academy and asked it to find the Shi brothers and sisters.

When it found them, it was to secretly place image stones in their rooms.

After doing that, it would begin following them to uncover what happened to Shi Qiao.

’It’s simple enough.’ The snake thought but soon frowned.

“Master, how do the prey look like?”

Hearing this, Shen Xu looked at the snake with a suspicious expression.

’Prey?’ He wondered.

However, he decided not to care about it.

Instead, he removed some papers, brush, and ink from his storage bag.

Half an hour later, he gave the snake a dozen papers.

“These are the portraits of the people I want you to investigate.”

“I understand.” Yang Shi solemnly nodded.

“You have to be careful. Don’t get discovered.”

“Don’t worry master.”

After that, Shen Xu left the space with Yang Shi.

Soon after, the snake left the academy room, but Shen Xu didn’t dare to return to the space.

After all, it was unknown when the disciplinary hall would send people to their dormitory.

Now that Zhen Yuan was asleep, Shen Xu could only stay in the room to wait for news.

However, he couldn’t just sit around doing nothing.

After thinking about it, he removed an alchemy book from the space library and began reading it.

Time passed, and before he knew it, it was four days later.

During the four days, Shen Xu read a dozen alchemy books.

However, half his mind was always on Zhen Yuan.

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