CHAPTER 285: OUTSIDERS

Later, everyone went to the Tianqi continent and lost touch.

However, disciples of the three sects, Snow Mountain sect, Hanging Garden sect, and the Myriad Tools sect, often went to the eight towers.

As fate would have it, Lin Xiang accompanied some fellow disciples to the Sword Tower city and encountered Li Wenqiang.

Originally, they had decided to give each other a chance if they ever met.

However, both had changed after being in the Tianqi continent for several decades.

In the end, they severed their fate and decided to forget the previous incident.

When Li Wenqiang revealed everything to Shen Xu, the double only sighed and said nothing.

After all, fate could not be forced.

Since Li Wenqiang and Lin Xiang were not fated, it was better to part on good terms rather than force matters, only to end up with a bad result.

Hearing everything, Zhen Yuan nodded.

"It’s better this way." He said.

"What do you mean?"

"Li Wenqiang is now your weapon spirit. A Taoist contract would only complicate matters."

Shen Xu nodded when he heard this but soon frowned.

"He is my weapon spirit but I can’t condemn him to an eternity of loneliness. Maybe he will meet someone else in the future."

"It’s possible." Zhen Yuan agreed with a thoughtful expression.

"Have you thought of how to handle matters if one of your contracts wants to form a bond with an outsider?"

"I hadn’t thought of it but now that you bring it up..." Shen Xu narrowed his eyes.

At the moment, Yang Shi and Feng Xue seemed to be in love, so he didn’t need to worry about them.

However, Li Wenqiang was another matter.

Unless he remained single or fell in love with Xiaoren or one of the fires, the eventual partner would be an outsider.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu couldn’t help but worry.

After all, he and Zhen Yuan had many secrets.

Without a strict contract, he wouldn’t dare reveal the space and other secrets to outsiders; even when those outsiders were his contractors’ Taoist partners.

"There is also Feng Xue’s family." Zhen Yuan added and Shen Xu frowned.

"Feng Xue’s family..., what do ..." Shen Xu started but soon stopped.

Feng Xue was originally from the uppermost level of the immortal realm.

However, because of her cultivation technique, she was flung to the cultivation world.

As a result, she was injured and lost her memory, causing her to marry a human cultivator and give birth to triplets.

Although Feng Xue hadn’t mentioned her plans for the three children, she was after all a monster clan.

Unless something unexpected happened, she wouldn’t abandon those children and would likely bring them to the immortal realm when they ascended.

"This is getting complicated." Shen Xu said.

Hearing this, Zhen Yuan rubbed his partner’s hair and sighed.

"Feng Xue has an unbreakable contract with you and won’t betray us but her children are another matter."

"I know." Shen Xu nodded.

After all, the children had a sect master as a father and a supreme elder as a grandfather.

If they were particularly loyal to the Tianxuan sect, revealing secrets to them could only lead to danger.

"Ayuan, how do you think we should handle this matter?"

"Unless they have a contract with us, cultivators can’t enter the Chaos Flame Space. In that case, outsiders, including Taoist partners and Feng Xue’s children, should never know about the space." Zhen Yuan started and Shen Xu nodded in agreement.

As long as outsiders didn’t know about the space, they wouldn’t be greedy for what they couldn’t have.

This way, their group wouldn’t face unnecessary threats.

"Back then, we put Lin Xiang in a formation disk and sent the disk into the space. However, Lin Xiang couldn’t break the disk and enter the space. We can use this method in the future."

"When necessary, we can put people in formation disks or portable caves before sending them to the space."

"It’s a good idea." Shen Xu agreed and wanted to continue.

However, they felt a tap on the isolation formation and turned to look.

"What’s the matter?" Shen Xu asked after deactivating the isolation formation.

"Shen Xu, let’s talk for a moment." Dongfang Jing said and Shen Xu nodded.

"Sit down."

After Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi sat, Shen Xu poured them a cup of wine and waited for them to speak.

"Ayi and I want to sell the fire resources we collected in the underwater volcano." Dongfang Jing said and Shen Xu raised his eyebrow before speaking.

"How to sell?" He asked.

"Gold element treasures and other resources suitable for my and Ayi’s cultivation."

Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan exchanged a glance when they heard this.

They had long expected this trade and had consequently prepared for it.

At this time, Shen Xu handed over a storage ring.

"Have a look." He said, pushing the ring towards Dongfang Jing.

After receiving the ring, Dongfang Jing checked the contents before giving it to Chen Yi.

Similarly, Chen Yi checked the content and nodded.

"These things are acceptable." He said and a trace of happiness flashed in his eyes.

Inside the ring were ten gold element spirit stones, ten cloud seeking fruits, ten blue crystal fishes, ten marrow cleansing peaches, ten blood replenishing peaches, ten beauty peaches, a bottle of enlightenment pills, and a bottle of barrier breaking pills.

With just the spirit stones, barrier breaking pills and the previous void refining pills, Dongfang Jing would be able to break through to the void refining realm in less than eighty years.

"Zhen Yuan, Shen Xu, we will never forget this favour." Chen Yi said and Dongfang Jing nodded.

They had collected many fire treasures in the past thirty years.

However, the value of these treasures was significantly less than what Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu gave them.

That said, Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi didn’t insist on returning the extra because they understood the implications.

By accepting these things, they were accepting a favour that would eventually need to be repaid.