Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 209: Shen Xu Advances

"You are finally out." A voice resounded and Shen Xu fell into someone’s arms.

"Brother Yuan." The double called; his voice laced with a trace of grievance.

He had seen Zhen Yuan for more than seven hundred years.

Now that he saw the person, he couldn’t help but feel aggrieved and sad.

"I am sorry. I didn’t think I would retreat for so long." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu shook his head.

"I don’t blame you. I just missed you."

"I have missed you too." Zhen Yuan said, leaning down to kiss his wife’s forehead.

After that, the two hugged each other and enjoyed the feeling of seeing each other after hundreds of years apart.

However, the tranquillity didn’t last long.

Without notice, Shen Xu suddenly tightened his arms around Zhen Yuan.

"What’s wrong?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"Brother Yuan, I am about to advance. We need to leave as soon as possible." The double said.

"Okay." Zhen Yuan didn’t hesitate.

A moment later, he left the space and appeared in their rented cave.

Instantaneously, he spread his spiritual sense and checked every nook and cranny in the cave.

Fortunately, nothing had changed in the one hundred years they were away.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuan nodded, arranged a teleportation formation and then removed a formation disk from his storage ring.

This formation disk corresponded to a teleportation formation he had previously arranged.

Although the location was a little far from Formation Tower City, Zhen Yuan didn’t mind.

After all, when it was time to come back, they would just need to activate the formation disk corresponding to the teleportation formation he had just arranged.

Soon after, Zhen Yuan disappeared from the cave and reappeared at another cave.

Compared to the rented cave, this cave had rock walls and a rough floor.

It had no vegetation, water or rich qi.

However, these were precisely the reasons he chose the cave as an escape point.

After all, few cultivators would choose to live in such a desolate place.

As long as cultivators didn’t stay in the cave, the teleportation formation would not be discovered and his and Shen Xu’s escape path would be preserved.

Unexpectedly, before the cave could be used for escape, it was used to secretly cross the tribulation.

’There is no time to waste.’ Zhen Yuan thought and hurriedly left the cave.

Outside the cave was a desert-like environment.

There were few trees here and there but not much else.

Confirming that everything was as he remembered, Zhen Yuan began to make arrangements.

Hidden formation...

Isolation formation...

Illusion formation...

Lightning guiding formation...

After that, he prepared spirit stones, spiritual water, and various talismans before allowing Shen Xu to leave the space.

"Everything is ready. You can advance at any time."

"Thank you, brother Yuan." The double said and hastily sat cross-legged.

At the same time, he released Xiaomu and Yang Shi who were also about to advance to level five.

"Aren’t you leaving?" Shen Xu asked, looking at Zhen Yuan with a confused face.

"Don’t worry. My presence won’t affect the tribulation." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

After that, the double stopped suppressing his cultivation and dark clouds began to gather.

Generally, the spirit transformation realm tribulation was twenty-seven lightning strikes.

However, Shen Xu crossed his first tribulation when advancing to the foundation establishment realm.

As a result, he had an extra wave of lightning strikes compared to ordinary cultivators.

Fortunately, Shen Xu had never slacked on body cultivation.

Although he faced thirty-six lightning strikes, he preserved and easily crossed the tribulation.

"Xiaoxu, how are you?" Zhen Yuan asked, looking at his wife with a worried face.

"I am fine." Shen Xu smiled, his eyes glistening from excitement.

"Brother Yuan, I have finally advance to the spirit transformation realm." He said.

"Congratulations." Zhen Yuan chuckled but didn’t dare to rub the person’s hair for fear of aggravating his injuries. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

"Hurry up and sit down. The blessing is about to fall."

"Good."

Because he had never crossed a tribulation, Zhen Yuan had never received a blessing.

This time, he just followed his wife’s instruction but didn’t expect he would discover a good thing.

Looking at the laws in the falling blessing, he couldn’t help but be surprised.

’Was the blessing always so powerful?’ He wondered.

After all, he had accompanied Shen Xu through various tribulations and hadn’t discovered so many laws in the blessing.

’Didn’t I notice because I wasn’t in it before or has the power increased because of the realm?’

"Brother Yuan, you are so powerful." Shen Xu excitedly exclaimed.

"What do you mean?"

"Today’s blessing is more powerful than before. It’s because you are here."

"It could be because of the realm."

"I don’t think so." Shen Xu shook his head.

There was no doubt that the power of the spiritual rain blessing increased with cultivation realm.

Otherwise, the restoration power of the blessing would not be able to keep up with the power of the lightning.

However, the blessing was not omnipotent.

Although it could heal all injuries, it could not replenish blood and Shen Xu always had a lethargic feeling after every tribulation.

Unexpectedly, after this blessing, Shen Xu was not only healed but his cultivation was directly stabilised and he felt no lethargy.

If it was just the healing, the blood replenishing, and the elimination of lethargy, Shen Xu could convince himself that the increase in the power of the blessing was due to realm.

However, it was absolutely impossible for a spiritual rain blessing to stabilise his cultivation realm.

After thinking about it, Shen Xu felt the additional benefit was because Zhen Yuan was there.

After all, even though Zhen Yuan was within the tribulation range, the lightning completely ignored.

Didn’t this reveal heaven’s bias for Zhen Yuan?

When Shen Xu thought of this, his eyes narrowed and a thought crossed his mind.

"Brother Yuan, you have to cross the tribulation with me from now on." He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Good."

"Is the blessing useful to you?"

"It can nourish my body." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu suddenly felt happier.

At that moment, he was willing to undergo a tribulation every day so that Zhen Yuan could nourish his body.

After that, the two, Yang Shi, and Xiaomu entered the space.

In the bamboo hut, Zhen Yuan looked at Shen Xu with a questioning look.

"Xiaoxu, there is still some months before our lease ends. Do you want to walk around before we teleport to the cave?"

"I do." Shen Xu immediately nodded.

Although it had only been one hundred years in the outside world, the two had been in retreat for close to one thousand years.

When Shen Xu thought he had been indoors for so many years, he couldn’t help but feel a little repulsive to going back.

"Alright but before that..."

Four months later, two men appeared on the outskirts of Taoshu village.

Taoshu village was a remote place in the Formations Tower territory.

However, it was renowned for its beautiful peach trees, delicious peaches, peach blossom wine, and most importantly, the lovers legend.

According to legend, there were countless peach trees in Taohua village.

Some had mutated and could produce precious peaches but the most special was the lovers’ peach.

This peach was indistinguishable from other peaches.

However, it had three extraordinary effects.

The first effect was protection against love poisons.

As long as a couple shared this peach, they would never be affected by things like love fragrance, love potion, love gu, and other such things.

Second, the couple would gain a unique fragrance after eating the peach.

This fragrance could neither be covered up or smelled by other people.

Because of this, the couple would be able to recognise each other even if their contract was somehow blocked or if someone was trying to impersonate their lover.

Most importantly, the fragrance had a calming effect on the partners and could ease the lover’s mind during inner demon tribulations.

Finally, the third effect was a blessing.

After eating the peach, the couple would be able to love each other for an eternity.

This blessing was not a kind of mind control that forced people to be together.

Rather, it was a blessing derived from the couple’s heart desire.

It was especially because of this last effect that the love peach tree was extremely hard to find.

From what Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu learned, no couple had eaten the love peach in the last ten thousand years.

However, neither Zhen Yuan nor Shen Xu was discouraged.

Although they didn’t need the love peach, there was no reason to give up on it since they already knew about it.

"It’s so beautiful." Shen Xu exclaimed; his lips curled in a happy smile.

Even at the entrance of the village, peach trees bloomed and a refreshing fragrance travelled with the wind.

"I have heard the peaches in this village are especially delicious. Brother Yuan, I should be able to brew some good wine using them."