Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 206: Preparing to Retreat

"I know." Shen Xu nodded.

Cultivation caves were among the most sacred places in every city.

No one dared to attack them for fear of offending people that shouldn’t be offended.

However, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan weren’t confident in the Tan family and other major families.

If something went wrong, those people would undoubtedly break into their cultivation caves.

At that time, things would turn bad when the intruders discovered that there was no one in their cave.

"Our only option is the cultivation caves of the Myriad Treasures Pavillion." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

"It’s decided then." The double said.

After that, the two went into double seclusion and didn’t come out until four months later.

On this day, the two suddenly appeared in their Shenzhen pills and talismans shop.

"I will arrange a teleportation formation." Zhen Yuan said.

"Good. It will be useful if we want to secretly leave the cultivation cave."

"My thoughts exactly."

Zhen Yuan only took an hour to arrange a teleportation formation.

After it was done, the two held hands and left their shop.

Their destination was the Myriad Treasures Pavillion.

"Welcome." An attendant greeted them as soon as they entered the shop.

"Is the manager available? We want to sell some things." Shen Xu said.

The attendant hesitated when she heard the words.

Normally, ordinary cultivators couldn’t the shop’s manager.

However, she knew formation master Xu and alchemist Yuan.

Knowing they had acquired many gambling stones in the hall of stones, she suspected they wanted to sell some of their gains.

Thinking this way, the attendant gritted her teeth and made a gamble.

"Formation master Xu, alchemist Yuan, please wait a moment. I will message the manager."

The manager arrived an incense stick later.

"Formation master Xu, Alchemist Yuan, please follow me." The man said and led them to another room.

The room was a typical office.

After entering, the three sat and the manager poured tea for the two people.

"How can I assist the two masters?" Manager Li asked while looking at the couple.

"First, we want to sell some things." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan handed over a storage bag.

Inside the storage bag were forty-one items.

These items included ores, herbs, talismans, and other kinds of treasures.

However, not all forty-one were obtained from the gambling stones.

"Alchemist Yuan and formation master Xu are very lucky." Manager Li praised after looking at the items.

"Not really." Shen Xu said, his brows creased in a frown.

"We bought fifty-two stones but only found five suitable treasures. The rest were empty and the treasures in the remaining forty-one stones are not suitable. Can manager Li help us dispose of these things?" The double asked.

After that, the two sides negotiated the prices and soon reached a deal.

’Seven hundred and thirty-three million spirit stones. Not bad.’ Shen Xu thought with a happy look.

Seeing the happy face, Zhen Yuan also smiled and rubbed his wife’s hair before speaking.

"Manager Li, we want to rent a cultivation case." He said and manager Li nodded.

This was expected.

After all, Xu Zhen and Yuan Shen didn’t have backers in the Formation Tower City.

If they didn’t retreat to transform their treasures into real strength, someone would soon find them.

At that, they may not be able to keep their lives, let alone their treasures.

"The Myriad Treasures Pavillion has three grades of caves – low, mid, and high." The manager said.

"What’s their difference?" Shen Xu asked.

If possible, he didn’t want to rent an expensive cave.

After all, he and Zhen Yuan would enter their space as soon as the cave door closed behind them.

That said, renting a bad cave would be too suspicious and would fail to achieve the effect they wanted.

"Low grade caves are suitable for golden core and lower realm cultivators. Mid-grade are suitable for nascent soul realm and spirit transformation realm cultivators while high-grade caves are best for void refining and fusion realm cultivators." Manager Li informed.

"Do the caves have an alchemy room?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"Not all the caves have an alchemy room. However, we can arrange a cave with an alchemy room if you require it."

"In that case, we will take a mid-grade cave with an alchemy room." Zhen Yuan said.

"How long will you be in seclusion?"

"One hundred years." Shen Xu said and Manager Li couldn’t help but be surprised.

However, he soon regained his composure and nodded.

"The kind of cave that you want requires ten thousand spirit stones every month. However, if you buy a one-hundred-years card, we will reduce the cost to one hundred thousand spirit stones every year which will total to ten million for one hundred years. What do you think?"

"We will take it." Zhen Yuan said and paid for the cave.

While manager Li was arranging the cave details, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu walked around the Myriad Treasures Pavillion.

In half an hour, Shen Xu bought some ores, herbs, and seeds while Zhen Yuan bought monster materials including blood, bones, skin, and demon cores.

Unfortunately, they didn’t find any leaks in the Myriad Treasures Pavillion and couldn’t take advantage of Zhen Yuan’s ability to identify treasures.

’Have we exhausted our luck?’ Shen Xu wondered but soon shook his head.

Even if he exhausted his luck, Zhen Yuan; the favoured child of heaven would never exhaust his.

Thinking this way, the double sneered.

’It’s not our luck that is bad. It’s the Myriad Treasures Pavillion that is poor.’ He thought.

Soon after, Manager Li personally led the two to their cultivation cave.

"I wish you good luck." The man said and the two watched him leave before closing the door.

"Brother Yuan..." Shen Xu called and Zhen Yuan nodded.

A moment later, both people extended the spiritual sense and began examining the cave.

Fortunately, the Myriad Treasures Pavillion was still ethical in this matter.

After carefully examining the cave, the two didn’t find any image stones or suspicious things.

"It’s not a bad cave." Shen Xu said and took a deep breath.

Compared to the cave, their space was a little inferior in terms of aura.

However, the time flow difference more than made up for that flow.

Most importantly, they had just transplanted a spirit stones vein and spiritual spring eye in the space

If nothing went wrong, the aura in the space would soon be three to five times denser than that in the cultivation cave.

"I will arrange some traps and formations before we enter the space." Zhen Yuan stated and Shen Xu didn’t argue.

After all, one hundred years was a long time and a lot could happen during that time.

If the Myriad Treasures Pavillion betrayed them, people could come to disturb their retreat within the one hundred years.

Thinking this way, Zhen Yuan arranged some defensive, attack and signalling formations.

That way, he and Shen Xu would know as soon as someone attacked or broke into their cave.

Depending on the situation, they would confront the intruders or teleport from the cave.

The couple entered the space after Zhen Yuan finished arranging the formations.

"Xiaoxu, let’s eat before we retreat." Zhen Yuan suggested with a hopeful look.

"Okay."

More than eat, Shen Xu wanted to spend a little more time with his husband.

If possible, he wanted to retreat together.

However, their cultivation was not at the same level and their cultivation time was naturally different.

Knowing that, they didn’t dare to retreat together for fear of affecting each other’s cultivation.

Soon after, a table of food appeared before the two.

"Where did this food come from?" Shen Xu asked in a surprised voice.

He thought Zhen Yuan wanted him to cook a few dishes.

Unexpectedly, the man had already prepared the food but Shen Xu didn’t know when he did it.

After all, there were rarely apart.

"I cooked it myself."

"You did?" Shen Xu couldn’t help but be shocked.

"I did." Zhen Yuan nodded with an uncertain face.

The idea came suddenly when Shen Xu fell asleep after double cultivation.

At that time, Zhen Yuan recalled some of the stories Shen Xu told him about Earth.

As a result, he was suddenly motivated and went to the kitchen to try his skills.

The outcome was the dishes in front of the two.

"They look delicious." Shen Xu said.

"Try them and see if you like them."

"Okay." The double nodded and directly tried the trice.

"The rice is perfectly cooked." He gave a thumbs up.

Although rice was the most basic of foods, few people could cook it properly.

Unexpectedly, Zhen Yuan did a perfect job on his first try.

’As expected, there is nothing my brother Yuan can’t do.’ He thought and happily served a few dishes.

A moment later, Shen Xu tasted a monster meat dish and suddenly froze.

’What..., what is this? What meat is this? How can...’ Shen Xu unconsciously swallowed, tears streaming down his cheeks.