Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]-Chapter 82: Out of Seclusion

A few days later, Shen Xu came out of seclusion.

After six years of hard work, he was tired and hungry but most of all, he missed Zhen Yuan.

’I haven’t seen him for so long.’ He sighed and ran out of his training room.

Ten breaths later, he entered the space library.

"Brother Yuan." He called.

"Xiaoxu." Zhen Yuan smiled, stood up, and opened his arms.

A moment later, a soft double fell into his arms.

"I missed you." Zhen Yuan said.

"I also missed you." Shen Xu rubbed his head against his husband’s chest.

"I hate retreating."

"I will always be waiting when you come out of retreat."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

When he heard that, Shen Xu smiled, withdrew from the person’s arms, and kissed Zhen Yuan.

’Delicious.’ He thought, a smile playing in his bright eyes.

"Brother Yuan, what did you do when I was retreating?" Shen Xu asked as they sat down.

"I went to the academy library and read all the books on the third and fourth floors. After that, I retreated in my training room."

"Don’t tell me you have advanced to the nascent soul realm?" Shen Xu asked in a horrified voice.

However, Zhen Yuan burst into laughter and rubbed the person’s hair.

"It wasn’t that kind of retreat." He explained.

"I have an immature idea about something. I retreated to think about it."

"Did you figure it out?"

"Fifty-fifty. I need more time to think about it."

"Can you tell me what it is?"

"I will tell you when I have figured it out." Zhen Yuan smiled and looked at his wife.

"What about you? How was your retreat?"

"Guess..." Shen Xu happily invited.

"Level three weapon refiner."

"...and?"

"Level three alchemist."

"Correct." Shen Xu smiled but soon frowned.

"Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough time to study the poison inheritance and spiritual cooking."

"You did well enough." Zhen Yuan praised.

"It’s thanks to you." Shen Xu said.

"Because you prepared the level two and level three herbs and refining materials, I could practice without any worries."

"It’s what I should do." Zhen Yuan smiled.

After Shen Xu retreated, Zhen Yuan messaged Manager Zhang.

Over the next few weeks, he bought many herbs and refining materials.

Later, he put these things in a storage bag and left it outside Shen Xu’s training room.

This way, Shen Xu could find the materials as soon as he stepped out of his training room.

"I refined a lot of pills and weapons. Brother Yuan, we are going to be rich." Shen Xu exclaimed.

At the same time, he removed a dozen porcelain bottles from his storage bag.

"Brother Yuan, have a look." He said.

"Okay." Zhen Yuan nodded and took the pill bottles.

A moment later, he opened a bottle and looked inside.

"Soul replenishing pills?" He asked with a happy smile.

"Unfortunately, I destroyed two stalks of soul-replenishing grass." Shen Xu said with a guilty expression.

Through manager Zhang, Zhen Yuan bought four stalks of soul-replenishing grass.

However, it was the first time for Shen Xu to refine soul-replenishing pills.

As a result, he destroyed two stalks of grass before he managed to refine a furnace.

Even then, he didn’t refine a single peak-grade soul-replenishing pill.

From the remaining two stalks, Shen Xu refined six high-grade pills, eight mid-grade pills, and two low-grade pills.

"I will practice more when the space grass matures. When the time comes, I will refine perfect-grade pills for you." Shen Xu promised.

"I am looking forward to that." Zhen Yuan said and put away three bottles of soul-replenishing pills.

"What are in these other bottles?" He asked, looking at the remaining nine bottles. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

"Healing pills, blood replenishing pills, qi gathering pills, qi replenishing pills, and bone mending pills. They are all level three."

"Thank you."

"Don’t mention it." Shen Xu said with a happy smile.

"You can count on me in the future."

"Okay. I will rely on you from now on."

"Brother Yuan, do we have time to meet Manager Zhang before the assessment?"

"There are only four days before the assessment. Let’s meet him after."

"Okay." Shen Xu smiled.

Although they were not short of spirit stones, Shen Xu was looking forward to selling the excess pills and weapons.

That way, he and Zhen Yuan would have more spirit stones to do whatever they wanted.

"Brother Yuan, have you checked the assessment timetable?" Shen Xu asked but Zhen Yuan didn’t answer.

Instead, he removed an image stone from his storage bag.

"Have a look." He said.

A moment later, Shen Xu activated the image stone.

"The assessment will last ten days." He started.

"The first to fifth days are for the martial arts assessment. The alchemy assessment is on the sixth day, weapon refining on the seventh, inscriptions on the eighth, talismans on the ninth, and formations on the last day."

"Look at the assessment arrangement." Zhen Yuan reminded and Shen Xu nodded.

"The assessment does not distinguish between classes?" Shen Xu couldn’t help but be surprised.

"Doesn’t this mean that first-year and third-year students will be assessed together?"

"That’s what it means." Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Does this make sense? Shen Xu frowned.

"To some extent." Zhen Yuan said and soon explained.

"Although the assessment topic is the same, the grading is different. For example, level one pills earn fewer points than level three pills. Students who want a good ranking won’t settle for the lowest scoring assessment."

"If you put it like that..." Shen Xu nodded and excitedly continued.

"I wonder what kind of weapon we will be asked to refine."

"Are you confident?"

"I am not the Shen Xu I used to be." The double proudly declared.

"Is that so?" Zhen Yuan chuckled.

"I am looking forward to your assessment."

"What about you? Are you nervous?" Shen Xu asked.

"Not at all."

After that, Zhen Yuan closed his book and the two left the space.

Over the next few days, Shen Xu, Zhen Yuan, and Song Wancheng spent most of their time buying materials in the trading area.

After all, they didn’t know what they would need for the assessment.