Chapter 521: Ascension
Shen Xu looked at everyone and nodded.
’It seems everyone had a good harvest.’ He thought.
"Let’s have a feast." He said and the others agreed.
After that, Yang Shi, Li Wenqiang, Mo Ling, and the Dongfang couple went to the sea to hunt sea beasts.
As for the others, they either helped to prepare ingredients or followed Zhen Yuan to check the island’s formations.
Three hours passed and the feast was finally ready.
At the centre of the island, Shen Xu laid out a spread of sea beasts meat, monster meat, soups, purple rice, a dozen types of spiritual vegetable dishes, spiritual fruits, spiritual wine, and even spiritual juices and tea.
"I don’t when will be the next time we can have such a feast." Yang Shi said, looking at the food with a nostalgic expression.
"Don’t worry. I have prepared rations for everyone. You can have a few bites when you crave my cooking." Shen Xu said while ladling a bowl of soup for Zhen Yuan.
The feast lasted three days and three nights.
During that time, the group ate and drank but didn’t mention the impending separation.
After the feast, everyone cleaned up and gathered in the main courtyard of the portable mountain.
"Everyone’s cultivation is fluctuating and can’t be suppressed for much longer." Shen Xu started with a solemn expression.
"We expected this." Feng Xue said and suddenly narrowed his eyes.
"The kids and Mo Ling met Xuanyuan Han at their sacred place in the Xuanwu secret realm." She said and Shen Xu raised an eyebrow.
"Was everything settled?" He asked.
"Father asked for a reunion in the immortal realm." Xuanyuan Yue said.
Shen Xu nodded when he heard this.
However, he and Zhen Yuan had long agreed not to interfere in the relationship between Feng Xue, Xuanyuan Han, and the triplets.
As long as Xuanyuan Han didn’t provoke them, they planned to let Feng Xue handle the mess whichever way she saw fit.
"Protect yourselves." He said, looking at Feng Xue, the triplets, and Mo Ling with serious eyes.
"Don’t worry." Feng Xue said and Shen Xu nodded before speaking.
"We are about to ascend but none of us has immortal stones. Ayuan and I talked about it and have long prepared a care package for everyone. You can sell the talismans, inscriptions, formation disks, and weapons to earn your first pot of immortal stones." Shen Xu said and handed out the already prepared storage rings.
This time, the care package was more comprehensive than ever before.
At a glance, each ring had twenty billion spirit stones to be used when crossing the ascension tribulation.
In addition, they also had healing pills, talismans, weapons, inscriptions, formation disks, food, and wine amongst other daily necessities.
However, the most important contents were the cultivation resources.
Since they would be separated for many years, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan prepared one thousand drops of clarity, ten thousand drops of soul nourishing dew, ten primordial qi fruits, twenty soul nourishing fruits, one hundred litres of divine monster blood wine, one hundred litres of soul water, one rootless colourful water lily petal, and one vitality fruit for each person.
Finally, each person had one hundred puppets: one level sixteen puppet, equivalent to an immortal king, while the rest were either level five, six, seven, or eight.
Although only the immortal king level puppet could save their life in a time of need, the rest weren’t useless and could be used to explore dangerous areas.
’Ayuan and I have done our best to arrange everything for you. Anything else will be up to yourselves.’ Shen Xu thought but didn’t say the words because everyone understood.
"Where and when will we meet?" Xuanyuan Xing asked.
"There is no need to be particular." Zhen Yuan said with a thoughtful expression.
"Everyone has their path and meeting is fate. We just need to keep moving forward and we will eventually reunite." He said and Shen Xu nodded.
Although it was tempting to specify a time and place, Shen Xu felt it was best to leave everything to fate.
After all, they couldn’t predict what they would encounter when they ascended to the immortal realm.
Three months passed in the blink of an eye.
During that time, Zhen Yuan arranged lightning guiding formations and other arrays on several islands. That way, everyone could cross their tribulation smoothly, even after he and Shen Xu ascended.
At this time, he and Shen Xu sat cross-legged at the centre of one of the islands.
[Ayuan, will this work? Don’t you need to ascend first to open the channels?] The double asked and Zhen Yuan smiled.
[I have already comprehended three heavenly laws.] He said and quickly continued.
[I just need to inject my understanding into the laws fabric of the cultivation world and the channels will open. Don’t worry, I will do it while you are crossing the tribulation so that we can ascend together.] He said and Shen Xu nodded.
Soon after, the double stopped suppressing his cultivation and dark clouds began gathering in the sky.
At the same time, Zhen Yuan closed his eyes and sensed the laws woven into the very fabric of the cultivation world.
When that was done, he began injecting the laws in his twenty seven silver pillars and three golden pillars into the law fabric of the cultivation world.
In the blink of an eye, the world’s law fabric shimmered, and greedily accepted the new laws, as if filling a gap that was previously unseen.
Zhen Yuan smiled when he saw this.
[It’s working.] He transmitted to Shen Xu.
[Good.] The double smiled and steeled himself to welcome the first lightning bolt.
"Ayuan, don’t forget to use the lightning to temper your body and cultivation." Shen Xu reminded and Zhen Yuan nodded.
A breath later, a one-metre wide, purple lightning bolt fell from the sky and struck Shen Xu.
On impact, the double gritted his teeth and hurriedly absorbed some of the lightning to temper himself.
Similarly, Zhen Yuan absorbed the excess and let it circulate in his meridians; destroying impurities and tempering his body.
The ascension lightning was eighty one bolts and Shen Xu’s tribulation was considerably fiercer than ordinary tribulation.
However, the double gritted his teeth and endured.
Three days passed and Zhen Yuan integrated all his laws into the world’s fabric.
At the same, all the tribulation transcending realm cultivators in the Tianxuan continent sensed that a shackle was removed and their cultivation no longer felt stagnant.
Similarly, Shen Xu sensed the change and crossed the rest of his tribulation more smoothly.
When the tribulation ended, a colourful rain fell from the sky and the double’s injuries healed in the blink of an eye.
This was however not the end.
After the injuries healed, an ascension channel appeared and the two were pulled into it, completely ignorant of the fact that their ascension caused a one hundred-year spiritual rain in the entire cultivation world.
Most importantly, this rain was extraordinary and because of it, rare, precious, and even previously extinct spirit grasses and treasures began appearing all over the cultivation world.
However, all this no longer had anything to do with them because their path had now transcended the mortal plane.
"Don’t let go of my hand." Zhen Yuan said as the two flew through the ascension channel.
"I know." The double said and smiled.
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