Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]
Chapter 93: Eighth Day

Chapter 93: Eighth Day

The next day, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan arrived at the academy square just in time for the assessment.

Fortunately, Song Wancheng saved seats for them so they didn’t need to stand.

"Why are you always late?" Song Wancheng complained.

"We are not late." Shen Xu stated and Song Wancheng sneered but didn’t say more.

Instead, he looked at their clothes and nodded.

"Nice clothes." He said.

At the same time, he couldn’t help but notice the differences.

From what he remembered, one of the robes was a pure red and the other was silver-grey.

However, one night later, patterns had appeared on the robes.

The silver-grey robe had a line of dark red flames on the lower part of the sleeves while the red robe had a line of silver-grey runes.

Seeing this, Song Wancheng rolled his eyes.

’How corny.’ He thought but couldn’t stop looking at the patterns.

For some reason, he felt the beautiful patterns were not simple but he couldn’t tell what was special about them.

"What beautiful patterns." Lin Xiang exclaimed.

"Right?" Shen Xu smiled and soon explained.

"The red flames represent me and the silver-grey runes represent brother Yuan."

"We can tell even without your explanation. You..." Song Wancheng started but soon stopped.

"The rings on your fingers?" He asked.

"Space rings. I refined them." Shen Xu revealed, proudly raising his chin.

In the Canglan continent, space rings were plain and unimpressive.

However, Shen Xu liked beautiful things and didn’t want to settle for plain.

After thinking about it, he decided to refine space rings with the Celtic eternity knot design.

Although it was difficult to shape the void stone into the design he wanted, Shen Xu was pleased with the outcome.

Most importantly, Zhen Yuan liked the rings, especially when he heard the meaning of the Celtic eternity knot.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu chuckled but his eyes soon narrowed.

"Song Wancheng..." He called and waited for the person to look at him.

"How is your ranking?" He asked.

Hearing this, Song Wancheng almost groaned.

At first, he accepted the bet because he knew Shen Xu was new at weapon refining.

Unexpectedly, the person was a weapon refining genius.

In just one year, he became a level three master and reached the peak of the Canglan continent.

Recalling his previous confidence, Song Wancheng sighed.

’Blame everything on my greed.’ He thought.

’I was greedy for a jade pendant but ended up losing a lot.’

"Don’t worry. I have asked someone to prepare the herbs you want." He said.

When he heard this, Shen Xu smiled and felt Song Wancheng wasn’t his usual eyesore.

"What about the ranking?" He still insisted.

"You ranked first." Song Wancheng started.

"The second place is Zhao Chen, dean Qi Chengfeng’s disciple. He refined a level three earth attribute shield."

"Third place is Qi Shuang, dean Qi Chengfeng’s granddaughter. She refined a level three spear."

"Fourth place is Qi Yang, dean Qi Chengfeng’s grandson. He refined a level three flying sword."

"I was fifth place." Song Wancheng said.

"What did you refine?" Shen Xu asked.

"Level three fan." The man revealed and Shen Xu nodded.

At the same time, he recalled the level two fire attribute hammer he refined when he was in retreat.

’I can’t wait to use it.’ He thought, hoping an enemy would soon appear to challenge him.

While they were chatting, the inscription school’s students went to the stage.

"Who do you think will rank first?" Shen Xu asked.

"Lin Mengmeng." Song Wancheng answered.

"She has no rival in the school of inscriptions." Song Wanqing agreed.

’As expected of the first heroine.’ Shen Xu thought, looking at the stage.

’But my brother Yuan is better.’ The double chuckled causing the surrounding people to look at him with curious eyes.

As speculated, Lin Mengmeng easily ranked first in the school of inscriptions.

After the assessment, Shen Xu and his group prepared to leave the academy square.

However, before they could, a masked double suddenly walked to them.

"Student Shen, it’s been a long time." Bai Guo greeted and Shen Xu nodded before he spoke.

"It’s really been a long time. Is student Bai doing well?"

"I am okay. Thank you for asking."

Hearing this, Shen Xu sighed.

While he was in retreat, Bai Guo became Xiao Weimin’s concubine.

After finding out, Shen Xu couldn’t help but feel a little depressed.

After all, Bai Guo was his biological twin.

Although they were strangers, Shen Xu still hoped for the person’s well-being.

Unfortunately, the person got involved with Xiao Weimin.

In all likelihood, Bai Guo would not have a happy life especially after Xiao Weimin married more wives and concubines.

"Student Shen, you haven’t kept your promise." Bai Guo said.

"Promise? What..." Shen Xu started but soon remembered.

With a wave of his hand, a pill bottle appeared in hand.

"I didn’t forget. I just didn’t have a chance to give them to you." Shen Xu said, extending his right hand towards Bai Guo.

"Is it..." Bai Guo said and Shen Xu nodded.

"It’s the promised pills."

When he heard that, Bai Guo took the pill bottle and hastily opened it.

After checking the contents, he looked at Shen Xu with a confused expression.

"There are eight mid-grade pills. What about you?" He said.

"Don’t worry about me." Shen Xu said, pointing at Song Wancheng.

"Song Wancheng helped me buy more fire gathering grass."

"Is that so?" Bai Guo asked and Shen Xu nodded.

However, that wasn’t actually the case.

In fact, there were thousands of fire gathering grass in the Chaos Flame Space.

During his retreat, Shen Xu refined many fire gathering grass into fire gathering pills.

However, as his alchemy skills improved, he was able to refine high grade and peak grade level two pills.

Since he didn’t want to take the low-grade and mid-grade pills, he didn’t mind selling some to Bai Guo.

"In that case, I will gladly accept. Thank you."

After that, Bai Guo transferred the spirit stones and left.

Seeing this, Shen Xu turned to Song Wancheng, Song Wanqing, and Lin Xiang.

"Brother Yuan and I will retreat you to dinner. Do you want to go?" He asked.

But before he could get an answer, a voice transmitted to his mind and Shen Xu narrowed his eyes.

A moment later, he looked into the distance, smiled, and finally nodded.