CHAPTER 368: ONE MONTH LATER

After opening the wine shop, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu immediately entered the space.

First, they fused their cultivation and Shen Xu refined five pills – the soul weaving pill, the soul healing pill, the soul condensing pill, the soul cleansing pill, and the soul condensing pill.

After that, the double began researching a way to modify the worm-dissolving pill while Zhen Yuan started reviewing talismans.

Zhen Yuan was an early-stage, level eight talisman master.

However, most of his level six, seven, and eight knowledge was theoretical because the Tianqi continent lacked the necessary talisman drawing materials.

This time, Zhen Yuan bought a lot of level six, level seven, and level eight monster blood, in preparation for refining rune liquid.

After refining a batch of talisman papers and rune liquid, he began drawing talismans.

One real month passed in the blink of an eye.

During that time, Zhen Yuan reviewed his level six and a half of his level seven talisman knowledge.

Similarly, Shen Xu worked on the worm dissolving pill and had some promising ideas.

Unfortunately, none had panned out so far, and he would need to continue researching.

On this day, the two sat at the Peach Garden, drinking cloud-seeking fruit wine and eating beauty peaches.

"Xiaoxu, do you have enough wine to restock the shop?" Zhen Yuan asked, and Shen Xu nodded before speaking.

"Don’t worry." He said and tilted his head with a thoughtful expression.

"Do you think we will need to restock?" He asked.

"Most definitely,"

"How can you be so sure?"

Zhen Yuan chuckled when he heard this.

At the same time, he rubbed the double’s hair with a doting expression.

"My Xiaoxu makes the best spiritual wine." The man said.

Zhen Yuan was not lying or exaggerating.

Before getting the qi gourd, Shen Xu was an excellent spiritual wine brewer.

However, after getting the gourd, his skill level improved by leaps and bounds. Now, Zhen Yuan felt that the wine Shen Xu brewed was incomparably better than anything on the market.

"There are still three space days until we have to go out." The double suddenly said, and Zhen Yuan raised an eyebrow in question.

"What’s the matter?" He asked.

"I have just realised that I forgot to brew the wood element, one hundred flowers spiritual wine." Shen Xu said with a sheepish expression.

"Is three days enough?" Zhen Yuan asked, and the double nodded.

"It’s more than enough." He said.

After that, the two walked around the space as Shen Xu picked one hundred types of wood element flowers.

"What kind of one hundred flowers spiritual wine do you intend to brew?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"The task issuer didn’t specify the desired effect, so I will go with a qi replenishing wine. It’s a safe bet."

"It’s indeed a safe bet." Zhen Yuan nodded.

Ordinary qi replenishing pills allowed a cultivator to quickly gather and replenish their qi.

However, natural spiritual aura contained ten types of elemental qi, and a cultivator still needed to filter and refine the replenished qi.

An elemental qi replenishing pill or an elemental qi replenishing spiritual wine were different. When gathering and replenishing qi, they only targeted the desired element.

In this case, the wood element, one hundred flowers spiritual wine, would only gather and replenish the wood element. Because of this, a wood element drinker would get twice the result with half the effort.

That said, on the negative, the wine was only useful to wood spiritual root cultivators. If other cultivators drank it, they would enjoy the taste but not the replenishing effect.

"Xiaoxu, you don’t need to bother adding an effect. You can just brew an ordinary spiritual wine." Zhen Yuan said, and the double nodded before speaking.

"I know." He said and quickly continued.

"Adding an effect is only a matter of refining a few more qi replenishing spirit grasses. It’s not a big deal. Also..."

At this, Shen Xu smiled with a mischievous expression.

"Also?"

"The task issuer is likely a Mahayana realm cultivator. Won’t we make a lot of profit if we attract such a customer?" The double asked, and Zhen Yuan smiled.

"You are right." He said.

After picking the flowers, the two collected some wood element honey from the honey bees’ hives and spiritual water from the lake.

"I will also add some cloud seeking fruits." Shen Xu said with a thoughtful expression.

"It’s a good idea." Zhen Yuan agreed.

After adding the fruits, the drinker could simultaneously enjoy the wine while cleansing and replenishing their qi, killing three birds with one stone.

"Only such a wine is worthy of the night rainbow fruit." Shen Xu said.

Although the task issue was ignorant about the night rainbow fruit, the two weren’t.

Because of this, Shen Xu did his best to design a wine that was worthy of the fruit. After all, they had countless ingredients and could afford to be generous.

After preparing everything, the two entered Shen Xu’s alchemy room, adjusted their condition, and fused their cultivation before the double started brewing the wine.

"We have really become masters of fusing our cultivation." Shen Xu said after he finished brewing the wine.

"Mmh." Zhen Yuan nodded with a thoughtful expression.

"What’s on your mind?" The double asked.

"Like you said, we have really become masters of fusing our cultivation."

"So?"

"Wouldn’t it be a waste if we didn’t learn some fusion attacks?"

Ordinarily, after fusing either their qi or soul cultivation, one person would take charge of controlling the fused power.

However, Zhen Yuan felt that this was not the limit of their advantage.

"It’s a thought." Shen Xu agreed.

"I will research when I have time." The man said.

When the time came, the two exited the space and appeared in their portable cave.

The portable cave was set up in the backyard and within the shop’s formations.

Because of this, the two could rest assured that no one would discover that they weren’t actually in the cave when they weren’t in the shop.

"Ayuan, do you think we have made a lot of spirit stones?" Shen Xu asked in an eager voice.

"Most likely." Zhen Yuan nodded.

He believed that as long as one person bought and tasted the wine, more customers would soon follow.

After all, the wine was not only delicious but also carried other effects, including qi cleansing, qi replenishing, soul nourishing, marrow cleansing, and more.

"But our prices are not cheap." Shen Xu said with a conflicted expression.

"The wines are not cheap, but they are worth the price. It won’t take long for people to discover this." Zhen Yuan said in a confident voice.

"I hope so." Shen Xu said, but suddenly frowned.

"Ayuan, what about the second shop?" He asked.

"It will have to wait until after we can leave the sect." Zhen Yuan said.

First, even puppets couldn’t enter or leave the sect without a disciple token.

Considering that, the two had to personally take the puppets out of the sect, but that was not possible for the time being. After all, new disciples couldn’t leave within the first year of joining the sect.

Second, the two trusted the puppets, but puppets lacked a cultivator’s flexible mind and instincts.

Knowing this, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu wanted to lay the groundwork before opening the shop in Tianxuan City.

"One year is enough to accumulate a lot of goods." Shen Xu muttered.

During the coming year, they both planned to review their arts, and this studying would likely result in a lot of talismans, inscriptions, pills, formation disks, wine, food, and weapons.

Although the quality of these goods would vary based on their level of practice, Shen Xu didn’t doubt that they could be sold for good money.

"I don’t know when we will get the opportunity to upgrade the space." He sighed, feeling a little depressed.

After all, they had been delaying the matter for a while, but there was still no light at the end of the tunnel.

"Xiaoxu, we may not have an opportunity in the next one thousand years." Zhen Yuan said, also looking depressed.

"You think so too?" The double asked but didn’t wait for an answer.

"We might need to hide in the space in the near future, so we can’t afford to upgrade it now. After we get through this time, we need to retreat for at least one thousand years. Only after that can we confidently upgrade the space." He said.

"There is no hurry." Zhen Yuan said and subconsciously rubbed the double’s hair.

Soon after, the two left the portable cave and entered the shop through the back door.

The shop had three floors.

The first floor had level one to three spiritual wines, the second floor had level four to six spiritual wines, and the third floor was reserved for level seven to nine wines.

However, at this time, the shop had a few level eight wines but no level nine wines.

After entering the shop, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan appeared in a small back room that had a door on one side and a set of stairs on the other.