[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot":3,"chapter-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-256":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1461553,1910,"Chapter 256: Refining the Nine Colour Lotus","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-256",256,"\u003Cp>\"What’s your plan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will cultivate under the soul-nourishing tree until I condense my soul body.\" Li Wenqiang said and Shen Xu nodded in approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can travel with us after you condense a body.\" He encouraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu left the area and walked to Yang Shi’s cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master, lord Zhen.\" Yang Shi greeted as soon as he saw the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you refine your nine-colour lotus?\" Shen Xu asked and Yang Shi immediately nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My meridians and dantian are nine times wider. However, I consumed eight million high-grade spirit stones.\" Yang Shi said, looking at Shen Xu with a sheepish expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Shen Xu sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn’t matter.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he often complained about spirit stones, his heart was never in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, cultivation was the foundation for revolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as spirit stones could improve their cultivation, Shen Xu didn’t mind becoming a pauper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is Feng Xue?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She advanced again.\" Yang Shi said with a helpless expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue originally wanted to refine her body before advancing her qi cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her cultivation had no bottlenecks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when she was not practising, her body absorbed the surrounding qi and naturally advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It can’t be helped.\" Shen Xu muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From what he knew, Feng Xue’s cultivation would be like a rocket until she advanced to the immortal realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After becoming an immortal, her cultivation speed would still be fast but incomparable to the current speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remind her to stabilise her foundation properly.\" Shen Xu said and Yang Shi nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master, are we leaving the space?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ayuan and I need to refine our nine-colour lotus but you can leave if you want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Yang Shi and Feng Xue left the space, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu went to their bamboo hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ayuan, let’s retreat in the same room.\" Shen Xu suggested and Zhen Yuan immediately agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, they entered Shen Xu’s training room and sat across from each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good luck.\" The double said and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You too.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, Shen Xu waved his hand and millions of high-grade spirit stones appeared between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Zhen Yuan removed a wooden box from his storage space and opened it to reveal a nine-colour lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the lotus appeared, Zhen Yuan felt a craving from the depths of his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he didn’t rush to consume the lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he carefully adjusted his condition before beginning to refine the lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a speed visible to the naked eye, the lotus turned into nine streams of coloured light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, the light flowed into Zhen Yuan’s body and promptly entered his meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barely a breath later, Zhen Yuan clenched his teeth and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before refining the lotus, he expected he would experience discomfort and pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, nothing prepared him for the pain of breaking and reforging his meridians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I need to circulate the medicinal properties. Otherwise, my meridians will be uneven after reforging.’ He thought, gritted his teeth and began running his cultivation technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the piled spirit stones began crumbling and streams of qi rushed into Zhen Yuan’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed and the blink of an eye, it was six years later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this day, Zhen Yuan opened his eyes and saw a pair of beautiful eyes staring at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong?\" He asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing is wrong.\" Shen Xu said, throwing himself into his lover’s arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congratulations.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about you?\" Zhen Yuan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I also succeeded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good to hear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, Zhen Yuan lowered his head and kissed his wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have missed you.\" He whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have missed you too.\" Shen Xu said, pushing Zhen Yuan on his back before sitting on top of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, the two people entangled in a heated passion and didn’t extricate themselves until eight days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I feel refreshed.’ Shen Xu thought and subconsciously chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his lover’s contented laugh, Zhen Yuan smiled and rubbed the double’s hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s time to leave.\" He finally said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Less than a breath later, the two appeared in their portable cave but Yang Shi and Feng Xue were not there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are still in the Cloud Seeking Trees Forest.\" Shen Xu observed after using his spiritual sense to check the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You absorbed nine million spirit stones and I absorbed fourteen million. Although they were high-grade spirit stones, even high-grade spirit stones have impurities. We need to refine more cloud-seeking fruits and sap to remove the vainness in our qi.\" Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu immediately agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although cleansing the qi and removing the vainness would take time, they both felt it was the right path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, vain qi would lead to a shaky foundation and long-term consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We were in the space for seventeen years but only seven months have passed. There should still be many fruits, sap, and foxes in the forest.\" Shen Xu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, the couple reunited with Yang Shi and Feng Xue before continuing to search the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five years passed in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During that time, the four collected more than four hundred cloud-seeking fruits, one kilogram of sap and fifty-six foxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, Feng Xue became a late-stage level four monster while Shen Xu and Yang Shi were half a step into the peak stage of the spirit transformation realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, their qi was more than ten times purer and the vainness had completely been eliminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We have transplanted some trees and foxes to the space. It’s time for us to leave this area.\" Shen Xu said and the others didn’t argue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they had already decided, the group didn’t waste time and soon left the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few days later, they exited the forest but still didn’t arrive at the gravity valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just how far from here is the gravity valley?\" Shen Xu couldn’t help but complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, his companions didn’t know the answer so the group was forced into another journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the next five months, they crossed a range of exhausted mines before arriving at another area.\u003C\u002Fp>",1031,"2026-06-06T02:30:15.894Z",1,"novelbin.me","6c99bd729eebf9e892f40f8575f147b374ff0bb8dd5215589d5ae2cacb431f1a","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-257","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-169",498,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffalling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-cover.jpg"]