CHAPTER 356: PLAN

Although cultivators of their realm didn’t need to sleep, Shen Xu liked sleeping, so Zhen Yuan also formed a habit.

After several hours of sleep, both woke up feeling refreshed and calmer.

"I will never take another teleportation formation." Shen Xu grumbled, and Zhen Yuan chuckled with a doting expression.

"How will you get around?"

"We have a ship, don’t we? Teleportation formations are not a thing for human beings."

"What about me? Am I not human?"

"Are you human?" The double asked, staring at Zhen Yuan with inquisitive eyes.

The man looked human.

However, Shen Xu always felt that Zhen Yuan was not human.

Unfortunately, his conviction was never firm because, using the process of elimination, Zhen Yuan could only be human since he was not a monster clan, ghost clan, or demon clan.

’What a dilemma.’ He thought and sighed.

"My identity aside, how are you feeling?"

"A lot better." Shen Xu said and smiled.

Simultaneously, he took out five memory jades – two jades were what the Dongfang couple recorded for them, one jade was from Feng Xue, and the last was what they bought from the information broker.

"Ayuan, let’s make sure we didn’t miss anything." He said, took one jade, and began reading.

Seeing this, Zhen Yuan also took a jade and read the contents.

"Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi didn’t mention anything about the Xuanyuan triplets." Shen Xu said and subconsciously frowned.

"The Dongfang couple are only a few hundred years older than us. They weren’t born when the Xuanyuan triplets were a hot topic."

"Now that you mention it... "

After saying that, Shen Xu sighed and changed the topic.

"Xuanyuan Xing will marry Ancestor Song in fourteen months. We have until then to think of a solution." He said.

"Xiaoxu, let’s join the Tianxuan sect." Zhen Yuan suddenly said.

"What do you mean?"

"The Tianxuan sect recruits disciples every one hundred years. The next recruitment is in six months."

"Isn’t our cultivation a bit too high to be disciples?"

"We agreed to live as ourselves. However, temporarily suppressing our cultivation only serves to deceive the enemy and does not count as denying our identity."

"You mean..."

"Suppress our cultivation and enter the sect as disciples." Zhen Yuan said and continued.

"Inner sect disciples are allowed to choose a peak. We can enter the ninety-seventh peak."

"The ninety-seventh peak belongs to the triplets." The double exclaimed with a thoughtful expression.

Before the accident, the triplets were Mahayana realm cultivators.

Xuanyuan Yang followed his father and was a swordsman, Xuanyuan Yue was an alchemist, and Xuanyuan Xing was a martial artist.

In those capacities, Xuanyuan Yang was the peak master of the thirty-third peak, Xuanyuan Yue was the elder of the twelfth peak, and Xuanyuan Xing was the elder of the forty-ninth peak.

After the accident, none of the three had the strength to be peak masters and were exiled to the ninety-seventh peak.

The ninety-seventh peak was a barren mountain that barely had any spiritual aura.

After moving there, the three’s disciples abandoned them, and no one had chosen to enter that mountain for thousands of years.

"Xuanyuan Han is too despicable!" Shen Xu cursed with a ferocious expression.

He couldn’t understand why Xuanyuan Han so thoroughly abandoned his children.

Even if he had a new wife and other children, was it necessary to be so ruthless to his ex-wife’s children?

"His actions are beyond comprehension." The double continued with a helpless expression.

"Xiaoxu, there are many things we don’t understand. Let’s focus on the most urgent things for the time being. We will deal with everything else when our hands are freer." Zhen Yuan said.

"You are right." The double nodded and continued.

"Won’t we be suspected if we enter the ninety-seventh peak?"

"Does it matter?" Zhen Yuan asked, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Xiaoxu, we may not be loose immortals or tribulation transcending realm cultivators, but we can certainly protect our people."

"Suppressing our cultivation is not because we are afraid. We are only doing it because it’s the easiest and fastest way to approach the triplets."

"I understand what you mean." Shen Xu nodded.

From the information they bought, they knew Xuanyuan Yang and Xuanyuan Yue were almost at the end of their life.

Unfortunately, the information didn’t mention when ’almost’ was.

Considering that, neither Shen Xu nor Zhen Yuan was comfortable playing the long game for fear that the children would die before they had a chance to save them.

"We really can’t afford to delay." Shen Xu said in a determined voice.

"Xiaoxu, let’s use the next six months to look for solutions." Zhen Yuan said with a thoughtful expression.

"The eldest has a broken dantian, the second child has broken meridians, and the third has a broken soul. We can assume that the meridian and soul injuries aren’t just straightforward damage. Otherwise, the two youngest would have recovered a long time ago." Shen Xu started.

"As for the eldest, a broken dantian is almost as bad as an injury to the spiritual root. I don’t even know where to start healing him."

"Forget about healing for the time being." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"Our first priority is to increase their lifespan. Increasing their lifespan will buy us time to think of solutions."

"Good." The double nodded but suddenly frowned.

"What about Ancestor Song?"

"Ancestor Song is the only level nine inscription master in the Tianxuan continent. Because of this, he is often a guest elder at different sects and families. He will be a guest elder in the Tianxuan sect for the next one thousand years."

"Do you want to deal with him when he is in the sect?"

"It depends on his motives. We will kill him if his motives are more than lust for Xuanyuan Xing."

"Ayuan, Ancestor Song is a late-stage tribulation transcending realm cultivator. We can’t deal with him."

"Can’t we?" Zhen Yuan said with a mischievous smile.

A moment later, he pinched Shen Xu’s palm and began explaining.

"One, we have five level nine puppets. Two, we have my heavenly domain." He said

"Trap the person within the domain and use the puppets to deal with him?" The double asked, and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"We can also use a soul fusion technique to attack his soul. Do you still think our advantages aren’t enough to deal with a tribulation transcending realm cultivator?"

"I stand corrected." Shen Xu said and chuckled.

After that, the two stayed in the space to research and occasionally refine this and that.

When they were tired, they would leave the space to explore Tianxuan City.

It was during one of those explorations that the two realised that their identity cards were not up to date.

In the spirit of preparing for any situation, they began taking the association tests and soon enough, all of Shen Xu’s identities were upgraded to level seven, while Zhen Yuan’s were upgraded to level eight.

"It’s too bad I have become a level eight soul refiner, but I haven’t had time to study level eight pills, weapons, and food." Shen Xu sighed after returning to the space.

"There will be time." Zhen Yuan said, rubbing the double’s hair.

"Ayuan, I still haven’t found a pill that can heal a broken dantian. However, I have found a vitality wine that is better than the longevity pill." Shen Xu suddenly said.

"Vitality wine?"

"It’s part of the qi gourd’s inheritance." The double said and quickly continued.

"The wine requires one dozen longevity fruits, three dozen longevity grasses, three round-pattern red nightshade, eleven purple-leaf moringa, seven rhodiola flowers, one sprig of three-veins rosemary, one vitality leaf, ten litres of peak grade spiritual water, and the demon core of a cloud-seeking fox."

Zhen Yuan gasped when he heard the list.

"We are lucky." He said, and Shen Xu nodded.

The materials required to refine the wine were rare.

Even if a cultivator was determined, it was unbelievable luck to find one of each, let alone dozens.

Fortunately, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu had always been lucky and practically had all the ingredients in their space.

That said, they only had a vitality leaf because they had previously discovered a vitality seed in the bamboo hut storage.

Without this, the recipe would have been useless since the vitality tree had long been extinct, not only in the cultivation world but also in the immortal realm.

"What’s so good about the vitality wine?"

"One cup is enough to increase the lifespan by one thousand years, but this is not the best part." Shen Xu said in a mysterious voice.

"What is?" Zhen Yuan asked, raising his eyebrow in question.

"The wine can rejuvenate a cultivator’s life core."

Zhen Yuan was surprised when he heard this and finally felt that the final product was worth the precious ingredients.

A natural death occurred when a person’s life core dried up.

Even longevity pills could only add vitality to the body, but couldn’t rejuvenate the life core, allowing it to begin producing new vitality.

Unexpectedly, the vitality wine could achieve this feat.