Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 215: Probing

Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu noticed a lot of people watching them as they walked towards their Shenzhen pills and formations shop.

However, none of this people came forward and the two didn’t plan to initiate trouble.

After arriving in their shop, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu first checked the rooms.

Unexpectedly, they discovered all sorts of strange things including image stones and transmission talismans.

Seeing this, Shen Xu sneered but didn’t say anything.

He instead, he accompanied Zhen Yuan to check the courtyard several times.

It wasn’t until after the third sweep that the two were convinced that there was nothing else in their house.

"They worked hard." Shen Xu said in an amused voice.

"Mmh." Zhen Yuan agreed.

At the same time, he began arranging formations to protect the courtyard.

Defensive formation, trapping formation, illusion formation, killing formation, isolation formation, ...

When he was done, the two entered the space and sat in their sitting room.

"The next decade won’t be easy." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu shrugged.

"When do you think the Tan family will come to find us?" The double asked.

"In a few days."

"Openly or secretly?"

"Openly at first."

"Brother Yuan, how should we handle them?" Shen Xu couldn’t help but worry.

In fact, stealing two secret realm quotas from the Tan family wasn’t foolproof.

After all, everything depended on whether the Tan family loved Tan Xiaoqing enough to make such a sacrifice for her.

If the Tan family abandoned Tan Xiaoqing, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan could kiss the quotas goodbye.

Most importantly, Tan Xiaoqing currently served as a restraint.

If the Tan family lost this restraint, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan would bear the full force of the city lord’s residence.

"Xiaoxu, there is actually another way..."

"Another way?"

"I previously told you that I am able to enter any secret realm even without a token. I am still confident about this. The only thing I am worried about is whether I can bring you in."

Shen Xu nodded when he heard this.

Some secret realms were very sensitive.

If Shen Xu suddenly appeared in the secret realm, the spirit of the realm may try its best to eliminate him or throw him out.

Considering that, Zhen Yuan didn’t immediately fall back to this option.

If possible, he wanted Shen Xu to enter the secret realm using a token instead of relying on something they didn’t fully understand.

"There is still ten years. We may yet get a token within that time." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Do you want to open the shop?"

"We must open." Shen Xu was unambiguous about this.

Although he wanted to retreat to continue refining the medicinal power of the immortality peach, he knew now was not the time.

On one hand, he and Zhen Yuan had to prepare for the secret realm and on the other, they had to deal with the people who were eyeing them.

"Alright."

"I want to refine some pills during this time. What about you? Have you prepared enough formation disks?"

"Although I engraved a lot of formation disks when practising in the space, most are not suitable for sale. I will also take this time to engrave some common array disks but before that..."

Zhen Yuan smiled and before Shen Xu could react, he was lifted up and taken to the bedroom.

Soon after, a harmonious melody filled the bamboo hut and the mountain was covered in spring.

Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu didn’t reopen their shop until three months later.

On this day, Zhen Yuan was checking the formation disks when two people walked into the shop.

These two were Tan Cheng and Zhao Fei.

"Formation master Xu." Zhao Fei called and Zhen Yuan turned to look.

"Formation master Zhao, formation master Tan." Zhen Yuan nodded at the two.

"We haven’t seen each other for one hundred years and your cultivation has improved a lot." Zhao Fei said.

When they first arrived in the Formation Tower City, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu disguised their cultivation as the middle stage of the nascent soul realm.

After one hundred years, their cultivation was now at the peak stage of the nascent soul realm.

"I was lucky." Zhen Yuan stated but didn’t go into details.

"Has formation master Xu become a level six formation master?" Tan Cheng asked, looking at the array disks on display.

"Just barely." Zhen Yuan said but Tan Cheng didn’t believe him.

Of the city lord’s nine children, only he and his sister were talented in formations.

Tan Xiaoqing was a level five master and he was a level six master.

From the formation disks at the Shenzhen pills and formations shop, Tan Cheng could tell that formation master Xu was more than a little talented.

This brought Tan Cheng an unprecedented sense of crisis.

He felt like a ferocious beast had suddenly wandered into his territory.

At this time, his thoughts were to either get rid of the beast or tame it for his own use.

Thinking of this, his fists clenched and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

’Xu Zhen is younger than me and even more talented. However, I don’t cherish talents. It’s better for Xu Zhen to die if he can’t be used by me.’ He decided.

"I don’t see alchemist Yuan. Where is he?" Zhao Fei asked.

"Xiaoshen is refining pills. Do you want something from him?"

"No. I just wanted to greet him."

"Formation master Xu, have you been to the Formation Tower?" Tan Cheng asked.

"Not yet. I will go there when I have time."

Before he became a level seven formation master, Zhen Yuan would not dare to enter the formation tower at this time.

After all, the Yunshan secret realm was about to open.

However, Zhen Yuan was not worried.

Not only had he mastered the level one to level seven formations inheritance in his memory but he also used the simulation room.

Although the simulation room wasn’t as comprehensive as his inheritance, it was useful when practising since Zhen Yuan didn’t have enough materials to arrange physical formations.

At this time, he was confident he could clear the formations tower in less than five years.

This way, he and Shen Xu wouldn’t have to linger around Formation Tower city after leaving the Yunshan secret realm.

"It’s not a good idea to enter the tower at this time." Tan Cheng said.

"Why not?" Zhen Yuan asked with a confused expression.

"As a level six formation master, there is a chance you will be able to clear the first five or six floors in one go. If you enter the tower now, you may be forced to exit even before clearing the first floor."

"What do you mean?" Zhen Yuan continued to feign ignorance and Tan Cheng gritted his teeth in anger.

"Most formation masters require ten to twenty years to clear the first floor of the Formation tower. If you want to clear the first five or six floors, you will need two hundred years at the very least. However, the Yunshan secret realm will open in ten years. If you enter the tower now, your progress will be interrupted when you come out to enter the Yunshan secret realm."

"Yunshan secret realm..." Zhen Yuan muttered and subconsciously frowned.

"My partner and I don’t have a token to enter the secret realm so it doesn’t matter if I enter the Formation Tower."

The scene fell silent when Zhen Yuan said this.

After all, none of the three was stupid.

’Is he hinting at something? Wanting my Tan family to take the initiative to offer the secret realm quotas?’ Tan Cheng was going mad from anger.

In fact, the Tan family had already discussed the matter and came up with a solution.

However, Tan Cheng was not convinced.

How could his powerful Tan family be blackmailed like this?

At the back of his mind, he felt it was more cost effective to let Tan Xiaoqing die than to let her implicate the family.

That said, Tan Cheng was not stupid.

No matter what, he would never reveal such thoughts during the family meeting.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t know how he died!

’Xu Zhen and Yuan Shen are going too far but my Tan family is not a vegetarian. I will let them know what it means to break their teeth while trying to bite a pie that they are not qualified to eat.’ He thought and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Thinking of this, Tan Cheng’s mood got a little better and his lips curled in a beautiful smile.

’Don’t Xu Zhen and Yuan Shen want to enter the Yunshan secret realm? What’s the big deal? My Tan family currently has five tokens and we may have more before the secret realm opens. Could it be that my Tan family won’t be able to eliminate two brats after entering the secret realm? Xu Zhen, Yuan Shen, you never should have tried to blackmail my city lord’s residence.’