Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 81: Study Retreat

After dinner, the group did not separate.

Instead, they went to the shopping street in the trading area.

"XiaoXu, there is a herb shop over there." Zhen Yuan pointed at the shop.

"Okay. Let’s go there." Shen Xu said.

"Didn’t you switch to weapon refining?" Song Wancheng asked.

"A genius like me can simultaneously learn ten arts." Shen Xu bragged, causing Song Wancheng to roll his eyes in contempt.

When they entered the shop, an attendant walked over to welcome them.

After the pleasantries, Shen Xu began to buy herbs and seeds.

First, he bought one hundred sets of the herbs needed for common pills like the healing pill, blood replenishing pill, qi replenishing pill, qi gathering pill and others.

After that, he began to buy herbs for other less common pills.

Unfortunately, the Canglan continent was resource-poor.

Although he searched from one shop to the next, Shen Xu did not find all the herbs needed for the recipes he had memorised.

’Let’ ’s hope manager Zhang will have better luck. I can also ask Song Wancheng.’ He thought.

"Shen Xu, aren’t you planning to practice weapon refining?" Song Wancheng asked with a solemn expression.

"I am planning to." The double said, pulling Zhen Yuan to enter a refining materials shop.

Seeing this, Song Wancheng sighed in relief and hurriedly followed.

"I also need to buy some materials." He said.

"How come you are also buying? Isn’t it easy to get materials from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion?"

"We don’t have a shop in the academy." Song Wancheng said.

After that, the pair walked around the shop, buying whatever caught their eye.

By the time they left, Shen Xu and Song Wancheng were both satisfied.

"Doesn’t Daoist friend Zhen need to buy Talisman materials?" Song Wanqing asked, but it was Shen Xu who answered.

"Brother Yuan usually refines his own Talisman paper and Talisman liquid. He just refined a batch a few days ago." The double said.

"Is that so?" Song Wanqing clenched her hands.

’Shen Xu, how can you be so stingy? You don’t even let me talk to Zhen Yuan?’ She silently complained.

However, neither Shen Xu nor Zhen Yuan cared about her mood.

At the moment, the two were heading into a food store.

" Why did you come here?" Song Wancheng asked.

"I want to buy cooking ingredients and spiritual fruits." Shen Xu said.

"Can Zhen Yuan cook?" The young master asked in an incredulous voice.

"Song Wancheng, what do you mean? Why did you immediately assume it’s brother Yuan who can cook?"

"Can you cook?" Song Wancheng didn’t believe it.

"XiaoXu is an excellent chef." Zhen Yuan praised, but this did not convince Song Wancheng.

Instead, it made him more disbelieving.

After all, Zhen Yuan was notoriously biased towards his wife.

"I will let you taste my food when there is an opportunity." Shen Xu said.

"Good."

After buying ingredients, the group finally left the trading area and returned to the dormitory area.

"I will be in retreat for the next several months. Don’t come to bother me." Shen Xu warned Song Wancheng.

"Who wants to bother you? I am also going to retreat." Song Wancheng said and quickly continued.

"You better practise your weapon refining. Otherwise, you will become a joke during the year-end assessment."

"Hmmmp. You will be the joke."

With that, everyone went their way.

After returning to their room, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan entered the space.

Soon after, the two sat together on the sofa in the sitting room.

"Brother Yuan, will you miss me?" Shen Xu suddenly asked.

"Everyday." Zhen Yuan smiled and leaned down to kiss the double’s forehead.

"When I am in retreat, you must protect yourself from those vixens." Shen Xu warned.

"Don’t worry. I won’t allow any vixens to get close to me."

"Brother Yuan can only be mine."

"Mmmmh."

The next day, Zhen Yuan went to the academy library while Shen Xu went into retreat.

First, Shen Xu practiced alchemy.

Initially, he thought he would struggle before he got the hang of refining pills.

After all, he only had the memories of the original owner but no experience in alchemy.

However, things went better than expected.

As soon as Shen Xu began to refine pills, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, and every move came naturally.

As a result, he only used one year to practice two hundred types of level-one pills.

Unfortunately, he didn’t have the spirit grasses for the rest of the recipes so he began to read weapon refining books.

Compared to the alchemy section in the space library, the weapon refining section had fewer books.

However, the available content was profound.

After another two years, Shen Xu upgraded from a level one weapon refiner to a level three master.

"I have been in retreat for three years, but only four months have passed outside the space." Shen Xu muttered with a thoughtful expression.

Now that he was a level three weapon refiner, he did not need to worry about the year-end assessment.

However, his current progress was short of his goals.

’No matter what, I must become a level three alchemist.’ He thought.

After that, Shen Xu redoubled his efforts.

Fortunately, his hard work was not in vain.

Three years later, he became a level three alchemist.

However, there were only a few days left before the assessment.

Considering everything, Shen Xu didn’t have enough time to study spiritual cooking and the poison art.

’It’ s a pity.’ He thought.

However, he didn’t regret how he allocated his time.

Because he was now a level three alchemist and weapon refiner, he could assist Zhen Yuan.

Not only could he refine pills for him, but he could even refine brushes and weapons.

"Speaking of refining..." Shen Xu muttered and removed the void stone from his storage bag.

"I wonder if Brother Yuan will be happy if I give him a storage ring." Shen Xu smiled and began to prepare the refining materials.

’What design should I use for couple rings?’ He wondered.