Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 155: That Incident

The two left the space after that.

After returning to the cabin, Shen Xu retrieved the pendant necklace and wore it around his neck.

One day later, they heard a knock on their cabin door.

"I didn’t expect them to be so patient." Shen Xu chuckled and Zhen Yuan nodded.

At first, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan thought Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi would approach them soon after they left the entrance of the Demon Plants Forest.

Unexpectedly, Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi waited half a month before they came to see them.

"I will open the door." Shen Xu said.

A moment later, he opened the door and welcomed Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi into their room.

"What can we do for dean Dongfang and elder Chen?" Shen Xu asked after everyone settled down.

"Isn’t it time for you to fulfil your end of the deal?" Chen Yi asked, his eyes narrowed into slits.

Hearing this, Shen Xu smiled and looked at Dongfang Jing.

"Dean Dongfang, can I take your pulse?" He asked and Dongfang Jing extended his arm.

Without delay, Shen Xu placed three fingers on Dongfang Jing’s wrist and carefully checked the pulse.

Half an hour later, he removed the fingers and nodded with a solemn expression.

"The situation is as expected." He muttered.

"What level?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"Level four." Shen Xu said in a helpless voice.

"What’s going on?" Chen Yi asked.

"Dean Dongfang has a qi devouring gu in his body." Shen Xu didn’t hide the matter.

"Qi devouring gu?" Dongfang Jing couldn’t help but be shocked.

"Are you certain?" Chen Yi asked, his face blacker than the bottom of a pot.

"I am sure." Shen Xu nodded and quickly continued.

"Although gu worms are rare, they are not extinct. Have you offended a gu master before?"

Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi subtly looked at each other when they heard the question.

The incident happened more than one hundred years ago.

Back then, Dongfang Jing was less than three hundred years old but his cultivation was at the peak of the nascent soul realm.

According to the original agreement, he and his fiancée were to be married when he advanced to the spirit transformation realm.

However, strange things began happening just when Dongfang Jing was about to go into seclusion.

First, his cultivation began to suddenly regress.

Seeing this, the Dongfang family issued rewards and invited famous alchemists and healers to treat Dongfang Jing.

Unfortunately, none of the alchemists and healers knew what was going on and Dongfang Jing could only helplessly watch as his cultivation regressed.

As this was going on, Dongfang Jing was poisoned.

The was a poison was a rare type of ecstasy drug that had no cure.

Coincidentally or conveniently, his fiancée was out for practice and no one could reach him.

Faced with this situation, Dongfang Jing gritted his teeth and tried to hold on.

This endurance lasted ten years.

However, no amount of willpower was enough to withstand mental erosion and qi regression. He eventually had no choice but to let someone else detoxify him.

That someone else was Chen Yi.

Unexpectedly, just after Chen Yi helped him, the fiancée reappeared.

What happened after that was a disaster.

The fiancée accused him and refused to have anything to do with him but Dongfang Jing didn’t blame him.

After all, Dongfang Jing was a sincere person and felt he had wronged his fiancée. Because of this guilt, he readily agreed to break the engagement.

However, the fiancée and his family didn’t stop there.

They fell out with the Dongfang family and demanded a hefty compensation.

As a result, the Dongfang family blamed Dongfang Jing and ostracised him.

Originally, they could have sided with Dongfang Jing.

However, Dongfang Jing was slowly losing his cultivation and his genius halo was broken.

After thinking about it, the family didn’t see any value in supporting Dongfang Jing and instead chose to negotiate with the fiancee’s family.

Eventually, the fiancée married his younger brother and Dongfang Jing became an outcast.

During that time, his cultivation fell from the peak of the nascent soul realm to the mid stage of the nascent soul realm.

However, Dongfang Jing only lamented his bad luck but didn’t blame anyone.

Fortunately, although the Dongfang family gave up on him, Chen Yi didn’t abandon him.

Chen Yi ran around the continent, looking for solutions and resources.

Unfortunately, he only found resources but no solutions.

However, because of these cultivation resources, Dongfang Jing managed to maintain his cultivation at the mid stage of the nascent soul realm.

One day, Dongfang Jing was practising in his yard when he unexpectedly received a visitor.

The visitor was his younger brother.

Recalling that visit, Dongfang Jing gritted his teeth and a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes.

Beside him, Chen Yi sighed but didn’t know how to soothe Dongfang Jing.

Instead, he turned to Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan.

"Do you have a way to deal with the qi devouring gu?" He asked.

"There are two ways." Shen Xu readily answered and quickly continued.

"The first way is to supress the gu and let dean dongfang absorb its cultivation. However, I just checked and the gu is a level four gu worm. With dean Dongfang’s cultivation and the resources in the Canglan continent, it’s impossible to suppress the qi devouring gu worm. If we insist, the gu worm will resist and may even explode causing a disaster."

"What about the second method?" Chen Yi asked.

"The second method is to lure the gu worm out of the body. However, after it’s out, we still need someone to deal with it." Shen Xu said looking at Chen Yi.

"You just said it’s a level four gu. Is it possible to lure it out with your cultivation and the available resources?" Dongfang Jing asked in a worried voice.

"I could immediately lure it out if it was a level three gu worm. However, a level four gu is a little tricky but not impossible." Shen Xu said.

When the Chaos Flame Space upgraded, the spirit grasses, poisonous weeds, and spiritual fruits experienced a sudden growth spurt.

Because of this, the space had a few thousand-year spirit grasses.

If Shen Xu used these spirit grasses to refine a gu luring concoction, it may be possible to lure a level four gu worm using a level three concoction.

’It’s a loss to use our thousand-year spirit grasses in this way but what can I do?’ Shen Xu sighed.

Seeing this, Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi subtly looked at each other.

Even without Shen Xu saying anything, they knew the matter was not as simple as the double presented it.

However, they didn’t say anything.

Instead, they remembered the favour and secretly vowed to repay it.

"Xiaoxu and I will prepare the concoction after we return to the academy. In the meantime, the dean should prepare a qi-dense room. It’s best to arrange a qi gathering formation." Zhen Yuan instructed.

"Why?" Donfang Jing asked.

"Although brother Yuan and I will do your best to refine a potent gu luring concoction, the gu worm is level four after all. It’s more likely to be lured out if the surrounding environment is rich in qi."

"We understand." Dongfang Jing nodded and quickly continued.

"Is there anything else we need to prepare?" He asked.

"A container to hold the level four gu. Otherwise, the gu must be killed as soon as it leaves the body."

"Alright."

After that, Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi returned to their cabin.

Once inside, Dongfang Jing frowned.

"I didn’t expect my condition has something to do with a gu worm." He said and Chen Yi nodded in understanding.

While searching for a solution to Dongfang Jing’s condition, Chen Yi naturally encountered gu worms.

However, gu worms were fundamentally rare and most of what he encountered were love gu and puppet gu. Never once had he encountered or even heard mention of qi devouring gu.

If he had, Dongfang Jing wouldn’t have had to suffer for so many years.

"I wonder how Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan know about gu." Dongfang Jing muttered.

After all, there were no gu in the lower and mid continents.

"Zhen Yuan likes to read. It’s not surprising that he knows about gu." Chen Yi said but Dongafang Jing shook his head.

"The library books may mention gu worms but they shouldn’t describe the methods to deal with gu worms."

"Now that you mention it..." Chen Yi also frowned but soon shook his head.

"Let’s not focus on Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu. Jing, where did that person find a gu?"

Hearing this, Dongfang Jing gritted his teeth.

More than one hundred years ago, his younger brother confessed that all his misfortune was related to him.

However, he never said anything about a gu worm.

"Chen Yi..." Dongfang Jing started but lowered his eyes without finishing his words.

"Jing, you don’t have to say anything. I will accompany you to heaven or hell."