Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]
Chapter 268: Demon Cave 1

Chapter 268: Demon Cave 1

After going into seclusion, Shen Xu consolidated his level and pushed his cultivation to the extreme peak of the spirit transformation realm.

When that was done, he took a void refining pill and began absorbing the rootless colourful water lily petal.

This took one thousand space years.

After refining the petal, his cultivation began to fluctuate and he could advance to the void refining realm.

However, Shen Xu chose not to.

Instead, he suppressed his cultivation and began comprehending the rune on his spiritual root.

Unfortunately, he thought well but reality was cruel.

After studying the rune for five hundred years, Shen Xu only found the door but couldn’t walk through it.

Hearing that Zhen Yuan also struggled for thirteen hundred years, Shen Xu felt a little better but soon woke up.

After all, Zhen Yuan did eventually comprehend the laws!

’As expected, his comprehension ability is on another level.’ He thought and turned to Zhen Yuan.

"What’s your cultivation level?" He asked.

"Well..." Zhen Yuan started with an uncertain expression.

"Xiaoxu, my situation is different from yours." He said.

"What do you mean?"

"For you, the rootless colourful water lily can advance your cultivation, improve your spiritual root, and give you extraordinary power. However, for me, absorbing the rootless colourful water lily is useless. Only the laws on it are useful and all the effect goes towards advancing my cultivation."

When Shen Xu heard this, his lips twitched and he had a vague idea of what Zhen Yuan was trying to say.

"Did your cultivation advance by leaps and bounds?" He asked.

"Peak of the early stage of the fusion realm." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu almost spat blood.

"Are you on a bloody rocket?" He exclaimed but soon calmed down.

"It’s alright." He said and quickly continued.

"Protect me well in the future."

"Always." Zhen Yuan promised with a doting look.

"Excluding the rootless colourful water lily petals, I have exhausted all the resources I had." Shen Xu said.

"We still have more than two hundred and sixty years in the Yunshan secret realm. We can slowly look for more resources." Zhen Yuan said and the double nodded.

"I think Feng Xue advanced when I was in seclusion."

"A while ago." Zhen Yuan confirmed.

"That’s good." Shen Xu said with a thoughtful expression.

"If I am not mistaken, Yang Shi will advance in two to three months and Li Wenqiang won’t be long after."

"Do you want to leave the space and walk around or wait for them to advance?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"Let’s go out." Shen Xu said.

After that, the two and Feng Xue left the space and began walking around.

"Our map is missing this part of the Yunshan secret realm." Feng Xue said, looking at the map.

"It doesn’t matter. Let’s just walk. Maybe we will encounter good opportunities while walking around." Shen Xu said.

Time passed and both Yang Shi and Li Wenqiang advanced.

Unfortunately, Shen Xu’s optimism came to nought.

After walking around for two years, they only found some common spirit grasses and ordinary level five monsters.

On this day, the five walked out of a forest and arrived at the foot of a mountain.

The mountain was only ten kilometres tall but more than one thousand kilometres wide.

At the foot were two dozen cultivators who seemed to be looking at something at the entrance of a cave.

"Xiaoxu, do you want to go and take a look?" Zhen Yuan asked and Shen Xu nodded.

After two years of not finding anything, he was eager to try his luck.

Maybe the mountain and cave hid the great opportunity he had been looking for.

Soon after, the five arrived near the gathered cultivators.

"Daoist friends, what’s going on?" Shen Xu asked.

"See for yourself." One of the cultivators said, stepping aside to make way for Shen Xu.

Seeing this, Shen Xu and the others moved forward and saw writing on the mountain wall.

"Demon cave." He read and subconsciously frowned.

After all, demons were extinct in the cultivation world.

"Has anyone tried to enter?" He asked.

"None of those who entered have returned." Someone answered.

"I see." Shen Xu nodded and turned to Zhen Yuan.

"Ayuan, what do you think? Should we go in?"

"You decide." Zhen Yuan said with a thoughtful expression.

Demons were dangerous but the main issue was demon qi.

However, excluding Shen Xu and Li Wenqiang, their group was immune to demon qi.

Considering this, Zhen Yuan felt it was more appropriate to leave the decision to Shen Xu.

"Let’s go back first." The double said, pulling Zhen Yuan to leave the cave entrance.

After walking a distance, Shen Xu released the portable cave and the group went inside.

"Ayuan, I want to enter the demon cave." The double stated in a determined voice.

"Yang Shi has a dark head and we may find appropriate resources inside the cave. I think it’s worth trying."

"In that case, we will use the isolation talismans we used in the endless sun desert but you must enter the space right away if the talismans fail." Zhen Yuan instructed and Shen Xu immediately nodded.

"Got it." He said.

The next day, each of the five activated an isolation talisman and entered the demon cave.

After entering, the five immediately realised that something was wrong.

First, the inside and outside were separated by a thin barrier but the environment was completely different.

Where the outside was light and sunny, the inside was unrelentingly dark and gloomy.

Most importantly, there was not a single trace of demon qi or demons at the entrance.

"I think we misunderstood the meaning of the cave’s name." Zhen Yuan said but his voice didn’t carry.

At the same time, he realised Shen Xu and the others were no longer beside him.

Fortunately, his Taoist contract with Shen Xu was still active, so Zhen Yuan knew the double was alive and well.

With a thoughtful expression, Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Since it’s like this, let’s go with the flow and reunite at the exit." He said.