Chapter 457: Awake
[There was no other way.] He started and quickly continued
[I noticed that swordsman Luo and the other grand elders could barely deal with Du Lang. How could I still count on them to kill the remaining enemies?]
[In the end, I used the heavenly law of gravity to suppress them and then used a swords attack rune to injure them. While they were weakened, I controlled the level-nine pink hair jellyfish to pull them together and explode its demon core.]
After saying that, Zhen Yuan tilted his head and a trace of exhaustion flashed in his eyes.
[The plan worked but I am drained.] He said and Shen Xu narrowed his eyes.
At the same time, he nudged their Taoist contract and sensed Zhen Yuan’s condition.
[I will transfer some soul power and qi.] The double said but Zhen Yuan grabbed his wrist to stop him.
[It’s useless to give me your qi and soul power.] He said and Shen Xu raised an eyebrow.
[What do you mean?] He asked.
[I am completely drained. Giving me some qi and soul power will only ease my discomfort but it won’t restore my combat ability.] He said and Shen Xu frowned.
He knew that Zhen Yuan wanted him to preserve his energy so that he could react quickly if something else happened.
However, Shen Xu didn’t want his lover to be so uncomfortable.
[You have already used half of your qi and soul power to refine pills. You must preserve the remaining half.] Zhen Yuan insisted and the double sighed.
However, he still transferred a little bit of soul power and qi to ease Zhen Yuan’s discomfort.
[You...] Zhen Yuan called but Shen Xu shook his head.
[I only transferred a little.] The double said and Zhen Yuan sighed with a helpless expression.
After that, Zhen Yuan sat cross-legged and closed his eyes while Shen Xu settled beside him and continued to refine pills.
Half an hour later, Luo Jianfeng and the others finally killed Du Lang and returned to the ship.
"Let’s leave this area." Luo Jianfeng ordered and the responsible elders started the ship.
Soon after, the ship left the area and continued towards Golden Rock Island.
Seeing this, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan returned to their cabin and promptly entered the space.
"Ayuan, have a good rest. I will take care of everything else." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded.
After Zhen Yuan fell into a deep sleep, Shen Xu stayed in the space and researched poisons.
Ten real days passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Shen Xu had just finished refining a furnace of antidotes when he sensed that Zhen Yuan had woken up.
With a happy face, he quickly collected the pills and ran out of his alchemy room.
"How are you feeling?" He asked as soon as he saw Zhen Yuan.
"I am fully recovered." The main said, rubbing the double’s hair with a doting expression.
"You slept for more than three hundred days." Shen Xu complained, his eyes filled with grievances.
"Sorry to worry you." Zhen Yuan said and the double sighed.
"I know." He said.
"What about the disciples and elders? Have they been detoxified?" Zhen Yuan asked and Shen Xu pulled him to sit before he began speaking.
"I have just refined the last batch of antidotes." He said and quickly continued.
"We lost ninety-six disciples, and twelve elders."
"Ninety-six..." Zhen Yuan muttered with a thoughtful expression.
"The Tianxuan sect has a quota of one hundred and fifty competitors. Our current numbers fall short." He said and Shen Xu nodded.
"We are at a disadvantage even before the competition begins."
Zhen Yuan nodded when he heard this.
However, he soon narrowed his eyes with a thoughtful expression.
"The elders may be forced to compete." He said.
"The only rule is that the participants cannot be tribulation transcending realm cultivators or loose immortals. However, letting the elders participate will lose face for the Tianxuan sect."
"That said, even with the elders, we will still be sixteen short." Shen Xu said and quickly continued.
"Ayuan, do you think other factions were also ambushed?" He asked.
"Maybe." Zhen Yuan said.
After that, the two left the space and Zhen Yuan accompanied Shen Xu to sell the antidotes.
When that was done, they sat on the ship deck and began drinking wine.
"Our group can’t withstand another ambush. I hope that nothing else will happen." Shen Xu muttered.
"We probably won’t." A voice said and the two turned to see the Sima siblings.
"Why do you think so?" Shen Xu asked, looking at Sima Chen.
"How can our luck be so bad?" Sima Chen said and quickly continued.
"Pink-hair Jelly fishes and the Ten Evils sect..., I think we have already exhausted our bad luck and will only encounter good things from now on." The person said and Shen Xu nodded.
"Let’s borrow your words." He said.
Unexpectedly, Sima Chen was right.
After the pink-hair jelly fishes and the Ten Evils sect ambush, the ship sailed smoothly and didn’t encounter bad weather, let alone enemies.
However, this was not because the Tianxuan sect had run out of enemies but because the events of that day had shocked everyone and the would-be enemies were temporarily paralysed.
On this day, Luo Jianfeng and the grand elders sat in a meeting room, each lost in their own thoughts.
"Did disciple Zhen really kill three tribulation transcending realm fellow Daoists, one level nine pink-hair jelly fish, five Mahayana realm cultivators, and two level eight pink-hair jellyfishes?" A grand elder asked, his brows creased in confusion.
The person was Chu Huan; the grand elder that Zhen Yuan saved at the start of the ambush.
"Old Chu, you were unconscious and didn’t see it but the rest of us did. That Zhen Yuan..." Zhao Yufeng started but couldn’t find the words to express his feelings.
"We actually didn’t see what happened but we sensed it. Only Zhen Yuan was around when the fellow Daoists and others died." Su Bingbing clarified.