CHAPTER 250: ILLUSION

"Master, we found phoenix blood grass. Can you help Xue’er refine it into phoenix blood pills?" Yang Shi asked.

"Phoenix blood grass..., that’s a good thing." Shen Xu nodded.

Phoenix blood grass was a rare treasure.

With it, they wouldn’t need to worry about Feng Xue’s cultivation resources until she advanced to level six.

"Yang Shi, did you collect the monster blood I asked for?" Zhen Yuan suddenly asked and Yang Shi immediately nodded.

"I have it here." He said.

At the same time, he waved his hand and more than one thousand porcelain bottles flew out of his storage space.

"One thousand bottles of level four and two hundred bottles of level five monster blood."

"Ayuan, why do you need so much blood?" Shen Xu asked in a curious voice.

"I want to prepare a monster blood bath." Zhen Yuan answered.

Hearing this, Shen Xu shuddered but still nodded in agreement.

Although soaking in monster blood was painful, it helped refine and temper the body.

"Ayuan and I will retreat to refine pills and prepare the blood bath. We will leave this place after we come out." Shen Xu informed.

"Good." Yang Shi nodded.

Soon after, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu entered the space while Yang Shi and Feng Xue waited outside.

"What do you think? I told you my master and lord Zhen are very good." Yang Shi teased but Feng Xue didn’t argue.

"They are very good." She agreed but soon frowned.

"I am afraid lord Zhen’s identity is not something our master can handle."

"Don’t underestimate our master." Yang Shi said in a proud voice.

In fact, he originally had the same worries.

However, after spending a lot of time with Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu, his worries were relieved.

No matter Zhen Yuan’s identity, Yang Shi believed his two masters would overcome all obstacles.

Also, the two were soul-bound Taoist partners and had refined the love peach king.

Even if heaven and earth collapsed, their bond and relationship would never be broken.

Thinking of this, Yang Shi smiled and turned to Feng Xue.

"How old are your children?" He asked and Feng Xue couldn’t help but chuckle in amusement.

"Older than you." She said, causing Yang Shi to shake his head.

"They can’t be older than me." He argued.

"You are only a few hundred years old." Feng Xue refuted.

"I have all the memories of my race since the beginning of time."

"But your bones are only a few hundred years old."

Yang Shi could no longer argue when he heard this and promptly changed the subject.

Three hours later, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan came out of seclusion.

"Here are the pills. Do you want to retreat right away?" Shen Xu asked but Feng Xue shook her head.

"My cultivation is not stable. I will retreat after I stabilise my realm." She said and Shen Xu nodded in approval.

"Let’s sit and talk."

A moment later, four people sat together with a map spread between them.

"We are here and our next goal is here." Shen Xu said, pointing at two places on the map.

"The gravity valley..., good choice." Yang Shi said and Feng Xue nodded but soon frowned.

"Master, what’s between the green-feathered Luan Forest and the gravity valley?" She asked.

Hearing this, Shen Xu shook his head.

"We don’t know." He said and quickly continued.

"Our map is incomplete and only shows a few places."

After discussing for a while, the four left the green-feathered Luan Forest and headed south.

At first, all they saw was an empty grassland.

It had no spirit grasses, no monsters, or anything of value.

However, they remained vigilant and didn’t dare to underestimate the secret realm.

One month later, they finally exited the grassland.

Unfortunately, they didn’t arrive in the gravity valley like they expected but stumbled into an herb garden.

"Ayuan, look at this..." Shen Xu excitedly grabbed Zhen Yuan’s arm while using his other hand to point at a spirit grass.

"It’s the six-pattern pearl grass." He exclaimed.

The spirit grass was thirty centimetres tall and six branches stemmed from its body.

At the end of each branch was a white pearl but the pearls had different patterns.

"It’s the main material for the void refining pill." The double continued.

The void refining pill was a pill that could aid spirit transformation realm cultivators in advancing to the void refining realm.

With such a pill, a cultivator’s chance of advancing to the void refining realm increased by thirty percent.

Knowing this, Shen Xu couldn’t calm down and wanted to immediately collect the spirit grass.

However, before he could rush to the spirit grass, Zhen Yuan grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"Calm down." He said while rubbing his lover’s arm.

"Is something wrong?" Shen Xu asked with a confused expression.

"It’s an illusion."

"Illusion?" The double couldn’t help but be surprised.

After all, he didn’t detect any abnormalities when he and the others entered the herb garden.

"It’s indeed an illusion but...." Feng Xue frowned, looking around to examine the surroundings.

"When did we fall into an illusion? Is it a formation or have we encountered an illusion monster or plant?" Yang Shi wondered.

"I suspect we have entered a natural formation." Zhen Yuan informed.

With his current formation skills, he would have noticed if they encountered a man-made formation.

However, he didn’t notice anything until they were already within the formation.

"The spirit grasses are illusions?" Shen Xu asked in a defeated voice.

Most importantly, he felt disappointed that only he didn’t notice they had fallen into an illusion.

"Not necessarily." Zhen Yuan said.

"What do you mean?" Shen Xu questioned in a hopeful voice.

"I am not sure. Let’s look around for the time being." Zhen Yuan said with a thoughtful expression.

The herb garden was not large and only measured less than five hundred square metres.

At a glance, it was divided into ten plots and each plot had dozens of precious spirit grasses.