Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 136 — Academy Four Empires
Because the special invitation by the academy itself made Zhou Yuan's entourage privileged compared to other participants.
A disciple of the academy then led their entourage in, he brought Zhou Yuan and the others to their lodging place while at the academy.
The residence was quite large compared to the other residences, as Zhou Yuan's entourage was a special guest of the academy making the inn he occupied a bit more spacious.
There are several rooms, kitchens, and a courtyard in front of the inn, there is also a wall barrier so that not just anyone can enter the courtyard.
The academy student after leaving after dropping off Zhou Yuan's entourage, the eagle demon they were riding in would be taken care of by the academy.
Zhou Yuan chose to rest in his room as well as Yifei and Jiang Long, probably due to exhaustion from traveling long distances Zhou Yuan slept for so long and woke up the next day.
Zhou Yuan's body felt fit again after waking up early especially after cleaning himself, he went to the outer courtyard but found Yifei was practicing a match with Jiang Long.
"Fei'er, you've improved quite a lot after the last few weeks of not meeting..." Jiang Long clucked in awe at Yifei's significantly improved abilities.
Yifei nodded, he realized all these developments were caused by Zhou Yuan.
Comparing with Zhou Yuan made him enlightened on the techniques he learned, especially the science of bare hands. In addition, Yifei's fighting experience also became more honed.
Yifei continued to attack Jiang Long with his bare-handed science without involving any inner power let alone unleashing blue flames, even though he could not defeat his opponent but it was enough to make Jiang Long a little troubled to receive his bare-handed knowledge especially the Yifei kick technique.
"Fei'er, since when did you learn the science of kicks as great as this?"
"Since a few weeks ago Uncle, someone has taught me that." Yifei increased his kick speed even more.
Jiang Long frowned, Yifei's kicks getting harder and harder to guess by him making him even more overwhelmed. Jiang Long's gaze then turned one way as he realized there was a pair of eyes looking at the training of the two.
"Yuan'er, you're awake." Jiang Long immediately stopped the exercise as well as Yifei. "I happen to have to leave, can you continue training Fei'er, I heard you've been her teacher for a few weeks."
Jiang Long must have heard a lot about Zhou Yuan from Jiang Qisha, although he did not know what Zhou Yuan was capable of, he was sure that he was no less talented than Yifei, considering that Jiang Qisha had his grandson taught by the young man.
Zhou Yuan nodded then Jiang Long said goodbye to the two, Jiang Long had to go to the Palace Chief to report that he was the representative of Jiang Qisha who could not attend.
Although tens of thousands of kilometers but the news of the palace attack has spread widely even outside the empire including the academy.
As the tournament progressed, the Four Emperors would attend the event and witness who the younger generation warriors of this era were the most talented.
Jiang Long was given the task in addition to accompanying Zhou Yuan and Yifei, he was also ordered to report all the events of the palace raid in order for the other three emperors to be wary of the organization of the Sky Cloud Temple.
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"Training hard is good but you have to keep your body in top shape..." Zhou Yuan stroked the top of Yifei's head after the two practiced.
"I understand..." Yifei nodded, his face flushed slightly as Zhou Yuan stroked his head this time with his own initiative.
Zhou Yuan requested that the girl rest first while she went to the kitchen to cook, currently neither Zhou Yuan nor Yifei had breakfast yet.
Not long after Zhou Yuan's cooking was finished, he met Yifei and gave him another one.
"Can you cook?" Yifei was surprised to learn that Zhou Yuan was an expert in cooking and the food he made was also quite tasty and could be enjoyed.
"Not really, I learned to cook from my mom..." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly.
Yifei forced a smile, she as a girl felt embarrassed for not being able to cook.
Yifei, who has a high status as the Moon Emperor's Princess, let alone cooking, has not even been to the palace kitchen except for a few times in his lifetime.
After the two had breakfast, Zhou Yuan planned to leave for some time.
"Where are you going?" Asked Yifei who saw Zhou Yuan about to exit the inn.
"I want to take a look at the academy, the scenery here is quite beautiful..."
Yifei who heard that so wanted to come with Zhou Yuan. "Don't get me wrong, instead of me wanting to be with you, I just want to see the other tournament participants..."
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly before taking the girl along, Yifei returned to his room for a while for a little rippling, before long he returned with his face that this time was prettier than before.
Zhou Yuan followed the path of the academy with Yifei, because he had only first come here Zhou Yuan did not want to get lost like before so follow the path that already existed.
"It seems that even though it is still a long time, the participants of the tournament choose to come early..." Zhou Yuan looked throughout the journey, other than the academy disciples, there were many tournament participants like him.
Arriving early actually has a good impact one example is to collect opponent information.
The same thing Zhou Yuan did now, other than the streets he also wanted to see the strength of the other participants.
No one had reached the Gold Realm warrior as far as he had met at the moment, Zhou Yuan sighed, I had expected this tournament to be very easy for him.
"What-what..." Zhou Yuan only regained his senses from his daydream when he realized that there were many pairs of eyes centered towards him, more precisely towards Jiang Yifei.
"Why are they looking at me like that, it's so annoying..." Yifei grumbled angrily at the sight of the people who saw him.
"No need to pay attention to them, we just focus on the streets." Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly, of course he understood that gaze because he saw Yifei's face that was so eye-catching.
Although she was only 15 years old, Yifei already had the beauty that young adult girls usually showed, she said, Zhou Yuan alone when he first met Yifei was fascinated by her beauty who was above average beautiful women.
"Sucks, look, it's like I want to take out their spies!" Yifei continued to grumble, of course his voice was not loud but was still heard by Zhou Yuan.
"That's because your face is so pretty Fei'er..." Zhou Yuan chuckled. "They are fascinated by your beauty."
Yifei suddenly felt pleased by the praise and his face immediately blushed in embarrassment, the girl did not expect Zhou Yuan to say so to her. It makes her cheeks and ears red.