Chapter 583: Wanted

The crowd speculated, and the judges silently assessed Shen Xu.

However, Chef Fang didn’t say much and soon moved on to the next soup.

Seeing this, Shen Xu smiled, took Zhen Yuan’s hand and both left hall five.

[Your performance was too outstanding.] Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.

[I know.] He said but didn’t care.

When it came to pills and weapons, Shen Xu could compromise quality to keep a low profile.

However, he was always reluctant to compromise quality when it came to food and drinks.

[We will handle whatever comes.] He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

Since the results wouldn’t be announced for another few days, the two planned to return to their courtyard to wait for the notice.

However, while walking, Zhen Yuan suddenly stopped and narrowed his eyes with a bewildered expression.

"What’s wrong?" Shen Xu asked.

[Check the wall near the city gate.] Zhen Yuan said and the double raised an eyebrow before doing as asked.

A moment later, he frowned and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

[The Murong family has issued a bounty on Chen Yi.] He muttered and Zhen Yuan nodded.

[This means that Chen Yi has successfuly escaped from the Murong family, but his situation is not optimistic.] He said.

The bounty was seventy million immortal stones.

From the provided information, Chen Yi was last seen in the Wuhu Unknown area and has been missing for three months.

[I hoped he and Dongfang Jing would reunite in the Wuhu unknown area but fate has played a trick on them.] Shen Xu sighed with a helpless expression.

[The path of a swordsman has never been easy. Maybe this is a calamity that Chen Yi has to survive.] Zhen Yuan speculated and the double nodded.

Although they were worried, the two didn’t dwell on it and returned to their rented courtyard.

Days passed and the results were announced.

As expected, Shen Xu qualified with the highest score, and learned the requirements for the second round.

"A body strengthening meat dish." The double muttered and smiled.

"This one will be a peace of cake." He said.

After all, he had many body strengthening materials including immortal grasses, blue crystal fish, moon essence liquid, and divine monster blood wine.

"We have one year until the second round. What do you want to do?" Zhen Yuan asked.

"Return to Tianchang." Shen Xu immediately said.

Although he wanted to hunt ingredients, his main priority was the sky stones.

After all, ingredients could be bought in many places, but sky stones were exclusive to Tianchang.

"I have already refined one hundred mining puppets. It won’t be a problem to excavate several thousand sky stones in the coming year." He said and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"Okay. Let’s go." He said.

As before, Zhen Yuan went to the teleportation area and teleported to Tianchang city.

However, he didn’t linger in Tianchang city and soon went to a nearby monster mountain.

After walking to a secluded place, he sensed around and released Shen Xu.

"Xiaoxu, let’s mine here." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"The puppets can mine while we look for ingredients." He suggested and the double readily agreed.

"We can prepare more monsters for the upcoming competitions." He said.

Life was leisurely!

In addition to supervising the puppets, the two collected immortal grasses, flowers, fruits, monsters, and other materials.

However, the monster mountain was relatively average and what they found were ordinary things.

That said, Shen Xu didn’t despise them and carefully collected them for future use.

.....

Dongfang Jing saw the wanted poster and his heart skipped a beat.

’Chen Yi.’ He silently muttered and a trace of longing flashed in his eyes.

He had been in the immortal realm for more than fifty thousand years.

Unfortunately, he had spent most of his time in the sect and hadn’t had a chance to search for Chen Yi.

Unexpectedly, he and Chen Yi were in the Wuhu unknown area at the same time but had missed each other!

Thinking this, Dongfang Jing couldn’t control the pang of sadness in his heart but he soon regained his composure.

’I atleast know that he is alive.’ He thought and subconciously glanced at his master.

’Should I ask my master to talk to the Murong family?’ He wondered.

After all, Dongfang Mu was not only a great immortal realm cultivator but he was also the ninth elder of the Eastern Immortal Palace.

Considering those two identities, the Murong family would surely give them face and stop hunting Chen Yi.

However, Dongfang Jing ultimately decided not to say anything.

First, he didn’t know enough about the situation so he didn’t dare to act rashly.

Second, Dongfang Mu was his respected master but Dongfang Jing didn’t want to owe him big favours.

After all, his loyalty was to Chen Yi, Shen Xu, and Zhen Yuan.

Knowing this, he didn’t want to incur too many causes that may affect his chosen relationships.

’Chen Yi will be okay.’ He thought and his mind shifted to two names; Law and Fire.

Dongfang Jing didn’t have proof.

However, he was relatively certain that Law and Fire were Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu.

"We missed each other." He subconciously muttered and Dongfang Mu raised an eyebrow.

"Who did you miss?" He asked and Dongfang Jing shrugged before answering with a nonchalant expression.

"Some old friends." He said and explained vaguely.

"We ascended around the same time and I hoped we would reunite in the Lower Heaven."

Dongfang Mu snorted when he heard this.

However, he didn’t say anything and only thought that his disciple was too sentimental.

"It’s time to go to Suzhou." He said and Dongfang Jing nodded.

"Yes, master."

Soon after, the two boarded a teleportation array and disappeared from Wuhu city.

.....

Thousands of kilometres away from Wuhu city, Chen Yi gritted his teeth and dashed into a cave.

"I have finally escaped." He muttered and sighed in relief.

However, he didn’t dare to be complacent.

Although he had escaped, he knew that the Murong family; especially Murong Fei, would not let him go so easily.