Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL] Chapter 256: Refining the Nine Colour Lotus

"What’s your plan?"

"I will cultivate under the soul-nourishing tree until I condense my soul body." Li Wenqiang said and Shen Xu nodded in approval.

"You can travel with us after you condense a body." He encouraged.

After that, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu left the area and walked to Yang Shi’s cave.

"Master, lord Zhen." Yang Shi greeted as soon as he saw the two.

"Did you refine your nine-colour lotus?" Shen Xu asked and Yang Shi imdiately nodded.

"My ridians and dantian are nine tis wider. However, I consud eight million high-grade spirit stones." Yang Shi said, looking at Shen Xu with a sheepish expression.

Hearing this, Shen Xu sighed.

"It doesn’t matter." He said.

Although he often complained about spirit stones, his heart was never in it.

After all, cultivation was the foundation for revolution.

As long as spirit stones could improve their cultivation, Shen Xu didn’t mind becoming a pauper.

"How is Feng Xue?"

"She advanced again." Yang Shi said with a helpless expression.

Feng Xue originally wanted to refine her body before advancing her qi cultivation.

However, her cultivation had no bottlenecks.

Even when she was not practising, her body absorbed the surrounding qi and naturally advanced.

"It can’t be helped." Shen Xu muttered.

From what he knew, Feng Xue’s cultivation would be like a rocket until she advanced to the immortal realm.

After becoming an immortal, her cultivation speed would still be fast but incomparable to the current speed.

"Remind her to stabilise her foundation properly." Shen Xu said and Yang Shi nodded.

"Master, are we leaving the space?"

"Ayuan and I need to refine our nine-colour lotus but you can leave if you want."

"Good."

After Yang Shi and Feng Xue left the space, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu went to their bamboo hut.

"Ayuan, let’s retreat in the sa room." Shen Xu suggested and Zhen Yuan imdiately agreed.

Soon after, they entered Shen Xu’s training room and sat across from each other.

"Good luck." The double said and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.

"You too." He said.

After that, Shen Xu waved his hand and millions of high-grade spirit stones appeared between them.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuan removed a wooden box from his storage space and opened it to reveal a nine-colour lotus.

As soon as the lotus appeared, Zhen Yuan felt a craving from the depths of his soul.

However, he didn’t rush to consu the lotus.

Instead, he carefully adjusted his condition before beginning to refine the lotus.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the lotus turned into nine streams of coloured light.

Soon after, the light flowed into Zhen Yuan’s body and promptly entered his ridians.

Barely a breath later, Zhen Yuan clenched his teeth and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Before refining the lotus, he expected he would experience discomfort and pain.

However, nothing prepared him for the pain of breaking and reforging his ridians.

’I need to circulate the dicinal properties. Otherwise, my ridians will be uneven after reforging.’ He thought, gritted his teeth and began running his cultivation technique.

Simultaneously, the piled spirit stones began crumbling and streams of qi rushed into Zhen Yuan’s body.

Ti passed and the blink of an eye, it was six years later.

On this day, Zhen Yuan opened his eyes and saw a pair of beautiful eyes staring at him.

"What’s wrong?" He asked.

"Nothing is wrong." Shen Xu said, throwing himself into his lover’s arms.

"Congratulations." He said.

"What about you?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"I also succeeded."

"That’s good to hear."

A mont later, Zhen Yuan lowered his head and kissed his wife.

"I have missed you." He whispered.

"I have missed you too." Shen Xu said, pushing Zhen Yuan on his back before sitting on top of him.

Soon after, the two people entangled in a heated passion and didn’t extricate themselves until eight days later.

’I feel refreshed.’ Shen Xu thought and subconsciously chuckled.

Hearing his lover’s contented laugh, Zhen Yuan smiled and rubbed the double’s hair.

"It’s ti to leave." He finally said.

"Okay."

Less than a breath later, the two appeared in their portable cave but Yang Shi and Feng Xue were not there.

"We are still in the Cloud Seeking Trees Forest." Shen Xu observed after using his spiritual sense to check the surroundings.

"You absorbed nine million spirit stones and I absorbed fourteen million. Although they were high-grade spirit stones, even high-grade spirit stones have impurities. We need to refine more cloud-seeking fruits and sap to remove the vainness in our qi." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu imdiately agreed.

Although cleansing the qi and removing the vainness would take ti, they both felt it was the right path.

After all, vain qi would lead to a shaky foundation and long-term consequences.

"We were in the space for seventeen years but only seven months have passed. There should still be many fruits, sap, and foxes in the forest." Shen Xu said.

"You are right."

After that, the couple reunited with Yang Shi and Feng Xue before continuing to search the forest.

Five years passed in the blink of an eye.

During that ti, the four collected more than four hundred cloud-seeking fruits, one kilogram of sap and fifty-six foxes.

As a result, Feng Xue beca a late-stage level four monster while Shen Xu and Yang Shi were half a step into the peak stage of the spirit transformation realm.

Additionally, their qi was more than ten tis purer and the vainness had completely been eliminated.

"We have transplanted so trees and foxes to the space. It’s ti for us to leave this area." Shen Xu said and the others didn’t argue.

Since they had already decided, the group didn’t waste ti and soon left the area.

A few days later, they exited the forest but still didn’t arrive at the gravity valley.

"Just how far from here is the gravity valley?" Shen Xu couldn’t help but complain.

Unfortunately, his companions didn’t know the answer so the group was forced into another journey.

Over the next five months, they crossed a range of exhausted mines before arriving at another area.