Chapter 594: Task Complete

Ling Yue; the fifth princess opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings with a confused expression.

"Where am I?" She asked in a hoarse voice.

"Fifth sister, you are awake." A little girl shouted and ran to hug the fifth princess.

"Tenth sister..., what’s going on?" The fifth princess asked.

Hearing the question, the little girl burst into tears and someone reached to seperate her from the fifth princess.

"Yue’er, how are you feeling?" The partriach asked.

"Grandfather..." The fifth princess muttered, frowned and began talking.

"I feel a little weak." She said and the partriach turned to Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan.

"It’s expected." The double shrugged and quickly continued.

"The fifth princess lost a lot of Vitality during this time. She will recover after awhile." He said.

After that, the fifth princess was carried to her burrow and the surrounding people followed.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, the clan fussed over the fifth princess; giving her treasures and retelling everything that had happened since the accident.

At the same time, the partriach led Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan to harvest their task reward.

First, they received the one million years old golden jade radish, one hundred thousand years old sun-drop tomato, and ten thousand kilogrammes of common vegetables.

Second, the clan gave them an additional one thousand kilogrammes of less common vegetables as repayment for making them wait and finally, they bought more than five thousand types of common, rare, and precious seeds from the rabbit clan.

When everything was done, Shen Xu, Zhen Yuan, and Rong Qing’s group boarded a ship and headed to Nanping city.

At this time, Rong Qing was looking at Zhen Yuan with a solemn face.

"I would like to invite you to become an elder of the formation association." He said but Zhen Yuan shook his head.

"My partner and I are always travelling and rarely stay in one place for more than a few days. I am not suitable for an elder position." He said but Rong Qing was not not dissuaded.

"My formation association has branches all over the immortal realm. You can fulfill elder tasks at any branch." He started but Zhen Yuan still shook his head.

First, he and Shen Xu had a clear goal.

At the moment, their priority was the food festival and after that, they would retreat to improve their soul cultivation.

After coming out of seclusion, they would leave Suzhou city and head to Chaohu city.

Unless something unexpected happened, neither Shen Xu nor Zhen Yuan planned to get involved in association business or other politics in the lower heaven.

After failing to persuade him, Rong Qing asked to buy the formation map of the array that Zhen Yuan had used to break the life draining formation.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan still didn’t agree.

However, his refusal had nothing to do with his inheritance or because the map was self-created. Rather, it was because the core of the map was the runes that he had engraved on the materials.

Without those runes, the map was useless and would never be able to break the life draining formation.

Rong Qing and his disciples were disappointed when they heard Zhen Yuan’s refusal.

However, Zhen Yuan was a great immortal realm cultivator and a level thirteen formation master so they didn’t dare to force it.

That said, Zhen Yuan and the group sat together and happily discussed formations until they arrived in Nanping city.

Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan didn’t linger in Nanping city.

After reporting the task completion to the task hall, they boarded a teleportation array and went to another city.

In the following weeks, the two visited many cities but rarely stayed there for more than a few days.

Still, they managed to accumulate a lot of local ingredients including monster meat, sea beasts meat, vegetables, herbs, fruits, and others things.

On this day, the two had just finished a large meal and were planning to head to Hefei city when Shen Xu suddenly gasped.

"What’s the matter?" Zhen Yuan asked but the double didn’t answer.

Instead, he dragged Zhen Yuan to an inn, hastily booked a room, and almost ran to said room.

Once inside the room, Zhen Yuan activated the formations and turned to the double.

"What’s wrong?" He asked.

"The space is about to upgrade." Shen Xu answered in an urgent voice.

Zhen Yuan was surprised when he heard this.

Although he had unfettered access to the space, he was essentially not its contractor.

Because of this, Shen Xu was more in tune with the Chaos Flame Space and could sense some things more keenly than Zhen Yuan.

Hearing that the space was about to upgrade, the man turned to Shen Xu with a solemn look.

"We need to get some things out." He said and the double nodded.

After that, the two entered the space and began collecting things into their storage rings.

Vegetables, fruits, meats, fish, soul water, moon essence liquid, books,...

By the time that a white fog appeared and the two were thrown out of the chaos flame space, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan had collected everything that they needed.

"I didn’t expect the space to suddenly upgrade." Shen Xu said and frowned.

"Mmmh." Zhen Yuan agreed.

However, neither was too worried.

Although they were locked out of the space and their daily activities would be less convenient, they could still make do.

"Let’s go the teleportation array." Zhen Yua. Said and Shen Xu nodded.

Without the space, Shen Xu couldn’t hide so the two had to pay for two people to board the array.

’What a hassle!’ Shen Xu thought but what could they do?

Half an hour later, the two arrived in Hefei City and hurried to their rented courtyard.

"The second round is in two weeks. Do you want to practice some more?" Zhen Yuan asked but Shen Xu shook his head.

"I have practised enough." He said.

Eight days passed in the blink of an eye.