Chapter 527: New Plan
Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan stayed at the pool’s edge for seven days and nights.
At this time, Shen Xu trembled and looked at Zhen Yuan.
"Ayuan, how are you?" He asked and Zhen Yuan shook his head, his eyes red from suppressed pain.
Shen Xu clenched his hands when he saw this.
"I will carry you inside." He said but Zhen Yuan shook his head and pointed at the nearby medicinal hot spring.
The medicinal hot spring was a harvest from the demon plants forest secret realm on the Canglan continent.
After countless spirit stones and space upgrades, the hot spring had evolved and its soothing effect was countless times better.
At this time, Zhen Yuan subconsciously wanted to rely on the medicinal hot spring to relieve the pain that was still coursing through him in unrelenting waves.
"Okay." Shen Xu said and carried Zhen Yuan into the hot spring.
One space month passed and Zhen Yuan finally heaved a sigh of relief.
"Are you okay?" Shen Xu asked with a worried expression.
"I am fine." Zhen Yuan answered in a hoarse voice.
"We really overestimated ourselves." Shen Xu said and quickly continued.
"The pool has a God’s blood and has been boiling for more than one million years. I don’t know what made us think that we could bathe in it with our current strength." He said ina self-deprecating voice.
"We can’t use the pool for the time being but we can try the divine monster blood wine." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.
"That’s the only way." He said but soon sighed, looking at Zhen Yuan’s toes with a forlorn expression.
"Your arm skin has just grown back but now you are missing your toes’ flesh. I wonder how long it will take to grow back." He wondered.
Although Zhen Yuan couldn’t use pills to replenish himself or heal injuries, they had long discovered that his body could heal itself.
Even without pills, Zhen Yuan would heal but the process would be longer and more painful than for ordinary cultivators.
"It may take ten or so years" Zhen Yuan said.
"What a mess." Shen Xu complained but what could they do?
"The pain was not for nothing." Zhen Yuan said, pointing at his toes.
"My toe bones have specks of gold." He said and Shen Xu gasped.
"You are right." He said and hurriedly examined himself.
A moment later, he smiled and finally felt that he hadn’t suffered for nothing.
"My boned have also strengthened." He said.
"Let’s cultivate using the divine monster blood wine and when our body cultivation advances, we will try the pool again." Zhen Yuan said and the double nodded.
After resting for another month, the two left the space and continued walking while exploring the monster forest.
However, the forest seemed endless. Not only couldn’t they see the end but they also couldn’t kill enough monsters and demon plants.
No matter how many they killed, more appeared and the two were caught in a desperate struggle for their life.
When they occasionally entered the space, they would recover, double cultivate and read but they didn’t try the divine monster blood wine until one year after the boiling blood pool incident.
On this day, the two sat together in their training room and exchanged a glance.
"Only a small sip." Zhen Yuan reminded and Shen Xu nodded.
"I know. Don’t worry." The double said and sipped from a wine gourd.
Barely a breath later, his body flushed red, making him resemble a cooked lobster.
Zhen Yuan clenched his hands when he saw this.
However, he didn’t interfere but watched closely, planning to step in the moment that something went wrong.
Time passed and Shen Xu didn’t give Zhen Yuan a chance to step in.
Although he felt uncomfortable when he first swallowed the wine, he stayed calm and methodically absorbed the wine’s effect.
Soon after, his body temperature and colour returned to normal and he opened his eyes.
"This will is a treasure." He said, his eyes glistening from excitement.
"Are you okay?" Zhen Yuan asked and the double nodded.
"This divine monster blood wine is perfect for body cultivation. Our body cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds if we refine the wine and then go out to fight monsters and demon plants." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.
"That’s good." He said.
After that, the two changed their usual routine and were no longer in a hurry to leave the monster forest.
Instead, they stayed in the space to refine divine monster blood wine during the day, and at night, they went to the forest to fight monsters.
Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
During that time, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan advanced their body cultivation to the early-stage of level fourteen.
Unfortunately, there were no level fourteen monsters or demon plants in the monster forest so their body cultivation slowed to almost no progress.
Seeing this, the two stopped refining the divine monster blood wine and tried the boiling blood pool.
Unfortunately, the result was only slightly better than the previous attempt so the two stopped cultivating their bodies and focused on leaving the monster forest.
One hundred years passed and the two finally saw other people.
The people were a ground of one female cultivator and five male cultivators.
Seeing the group, Shen Xu gasped and subconsciously narrowed his eyes.
"What’s wrong?" Zhen Yuan asked.
[I recognise them.] The double answered and Zhen Yuan couldn’t help but be shocked.
After all, he and Shen Xu had been trapped in the monster forest since they ascended to the immortal realm almost thirteen thousand years ago.
However, he soon regained his composure and a thought crossed his mind.
[From the book?] He asked and Shen Xu nodded.
[She always wears white, has a golden line mark between her eyebrows and carries a unicorn-patterned jade pendant on her waist. Also, she always travels with five male cultivators.] The double said and Zhen Yuan narrowed his eyes.
Although he hadn’t read the book, Shen Xu had relayed everything he remembered.
Because of this, he was able to connect things and circumstances especially when Shen Xu pointed them out.
[Could she be...] He started and Shen Xu nodded without waiting for Zhen Yuan to finish his sentence.
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