Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 153 — Main Round III

The audience hoped that Zuo Lang's performance this time more interested them, when the match in the preliminary round, Zuo Lang did not use his bubble ability too much.

"I hope this time Brother Zuo shows off the power of his bubble."

"Right, not only as an art tool but he also had to show off the power of his explosive bubbles to the audience."

"That he could create an animal with bubbles that was like a real living animal, I wanted to see it in person rather than hear from other people's words..."

Zhou Yuan could hear all the chatter sounds of the audience with his keen sense of hearing. He smiled faintly as almost no one supported him except for a few people.

Jiang Long watched Zhou Yuan excitedly and curiously, he wanted to see the young man's ability when fighting a genius who was said to be a champion candidate.

Yifei, Linxia and Xiao Rou supported Zhou Yuan in silence, although they knew that Zhou Yuan was most likely the winner.

Shortly thereafter Xiong Bian gave a cue with the sound of his whistle signaling the match began.

Zhou Yuan initially thought Zuo Lang would take some distance with him when the match started or at least directly blow bubbles but beyond his estimation, the man advanced quickly and attacked Zhou Yuan with a tread attack.

Zhou Yuan remained calm and directly followed the attack of the site until the two sites clashed, Zhou Yuan and Zuo Lang were both pushed two steps.

"Not bad, Brother Yuan..." Zuo Lang did not stop there and went back to attack Zhou Yuan, this time the man used his inner strength.

Zhou Yuan followed the young man's attack calmly, each attack of the site the two clashed creating a shockwave that rattled the surrounding air.

Zhou Yuan could feel every attack of Zuo Lang's tread continued to grow stronger as time went on.

Zuo Lang put on a triumphant smile, he was sure Zhou Yuan had already suffered a deep cut or pain in his wrist after exchanging a tread attack of this strength but beyond his expectation, he saw Zhou Yuan seem mediocre and there was no sign of the young man being injured.

'Hm, he is also a melee combat expert like this, he actually reduced the amount of his weakness.' on the other hand Zhou Yuan clucked in awe while assessing Zuo Lang's strength.

If one were to go against Zuo Lang, they would consider facing at close range as a strategy against that bubble maker, but the reality was that Zuo Lang was also very skilled in bare-handed science.

The two exchanged attacks until dozens of moves until Zuo Lang finally chose to take some distance.

"It looks like you do have a strong physique, it's only fitting that Wu Liang can lose to you..." Zuo Lang had already used all his physical strength yet there was no sign of Zhou Yuan feeling any pain or about to give up.

Zuo Lang then took out his bubble blower under his cloak.

Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, "I don't think Saura Zuo will use it against me..."

Zuo Lang did not reply, he began to create bubbles that came out of his tool, bubbles that came out instead of round shape but resemble a butterfly.

The eyes of all the spectators were stunned moreover Zuo Lang did not create one butterfly alone but tens in one blow

The bubble butterfly began to flap its wings in the air and when Zuo Lang pointed at Zhou Yuan, instantly a colony of butterflies started flying towards him.

Zhou Yuan frowned, he had a premonition not to come into contact with the bubble butterfly

The bubble butterfly was moving faster than any living butterfly in general, seeing their colony getting closer and closer Zhou Yuan pulled out his navel and slashed at the butterfly.

An explosion was immediately created, Zhou Yuan immediately retreated before the explosion hit his body.

"Look, that is the explosive bubble ability of Zuo Lang?!" Called one of the spectators.

The thing that pleased the audience the most was when the bubble burst, in contrast to Zhou Yuan being made to bother with it.

Only Zhou Yuan wanted to keep his distance but the bubble butterfly had already spelled it back. Zhou Yuan sighed, he was not afraid of the burst of bubbles but worried that his clothes were destroyed.

Zhou Yuan had no other choice at the moment, than to retreat he first approached the butterflies and smashed them with his sword.

Although the butterfly created an explosion, the resulting explosion force was so small and harmless that Zhou Yuan would always avoid it when he killed them.

Zuo Lang had not expected Zhou Yuan to choose such a reckless manner, Zuo Lan again blew another bubble, this time a bird started to form on Zuo Lang's tool.

The bubble bird was again chasing Zhou Yuan this time around, its movement speed was more nimble than the previous butterfly.

Zhou Yuan tried to dodge but the butterfly was unwilling to let go.

Zhou Yuan sighed, he had to admit that Zuo Lang's bubble stance was indeed troublesome.

Zhou Yuan sheathed his sword, he did not intend to dodge anymore but to crush the birds with his fist.

If one were to see it clearly, Zhou Yuan's skin now displayed golden scales enveloping his body, Zhou Yuan was indeed using his Golden Dragon Scales technique to boost the immunity from the burst of the bubble.

"How did he do it, I clearly saw him being hit by the bubble burst of Zuo Lang..."

"No way, Zuo Lang's bubble should be enough to make the Golden Realm hurt, whether he has a strong protective suit or a technique that makes him invulnerable."

"It seems so, he must have had the technique to have his skin become strong and hard."

Now that the attention of the audience had also started to turn towards Zhou Yuan as well, they could see Zhou Yuan was still in a calm state despite having fought so far.

Zuo Lang snorted, he drained a huge amount of energy within, making the next bubble that much larger.

Zuo Lang created a giant bubble ball and then himself entered it. At the same time, he also made another giant bubble quickly so that in a short time, a huge bubble had already covered the tournament arena.

Zhou Yuan gulped he could not imagine the huge explosion of such a huge bubble.he chose to dodge and look for a way to win.

Zhou Yuan continued to move backwards until his position was now in the corner of the arena, Zhou Yuan sighed because there was no other way his brain could think of except the worst plan.

"Elemental Fire— Breath of fire!

Zhou Yuan released a sea of fire large enough on the bubbles in the arena, the flames Zhou Yuan released were so hot that they made the bubbles instantly evaporate when they came into contact with it.

Zuo Lang was surprised by the sudden burst of flames, he did not think twice and immediately jumped outside the arena.

Everyone who saw held their breath, now their memories returned clear with Zhou's ability in the preliminary round that could create such a huge fireball.

Zhou Yuan continued to spout fire but Xiao Bian appeared behind him and stopped the fight. "Enough, the match is won by you, you qualify for the next round..."

Zuo Lang felt unacceptable but he realized Zhou Yuan's abilities were indeed on top of him, the remaining participants also started to regard Zhou Yuan as an opponent to be reckoned with now.

The spectators were disappointed to not believe their hero had lost but they also could not blame Zuo Lang completely, Zhou Yuan's strength was indeed very beyond Zuo Lang's ability.

Zhou Yuan descended from the arena and saw Xiao Rou looking amazed at Zhou Yuan.

"May I not be your opponent in the next chapter..." Yifei expressed his intention. "I want to fight you in the final."

Zhou Yuan smiled gently as he stroked the head of the girl.

Xiong Bian then announced the next fight where Liu Yuwen would fight.

Zhou Yuan saw that Liu Yuwen's opponent this time was a spear swordsman with the name Zhang Xin.

Zhang Xin was famous for his agile and nimble spearmanship. Xiong Bian immediately started the match by blowing his whistle.

Zhang Xin jumped up and swung his spear towards Yuwen so quickly, Yuwen who could not dodge was finally forced to pull out his sword and grasp the swing of Zhan Xin's spear.

The two then exchanged moves, initially Zhang Xin was in the seeded position as he was the first to attack but not long after Yuwen used his best sword technique the position was instantly reversed.

Yuwen's sword was suddenly enveloped by flames as the young man swung his sword so quickly.

Zhou Yuan stood up from his seat, 'No way, how could he use the Fire Sword Technique!',

Zhou Yuan couldn't possibly be mistaken for such a technique because fire sword techniques were swordplay that focused his attacks on swing speed.

Which made Zhou Yuan not understand how Yuwen could master the Fire Sword Technique because according to him his teacher, the Element Sword Technique only existed in the Moon Empire.

"The Clan that deepened the Fire Sword Technique had been destroyed several tens of years ago, no one should be able to figure it out anymore..." Zhou Yuan thought of all possibilities.

Yuwen and Zhang Xin's match did not last long, after Yuwen used his fire sword technique, Zhang Xin did not last much longer in dealing with him.

The match was so fast, Yuwen was decided to qualify for the next round.

"No wonder he was nicknamed the number one genius disciple in the academy, it turned out that his sword ability was as great as this."

"I couldn't see the movement of the young man's swing, the movement was too agile and nimble."

"That's nothing compared to his sword that began to be enveloped by flames."

The audience began to praise Liu Yuwen for his swift and agile swordplay.

Zhou Yuan on the other hand became curious how Yuwen could master the Fire Sword Technique but on the other hand this was not the time he thought about it.

Xiong Bian again called the next participant, this time the one playing was Linxia against a girl wearing a disc as her weapon named Bing Xhu.

Linxia held his sword as well as Bing Xhu, when the match cue sounded the two instantly exchanged attacks.

Bing Xhu threw four discs at Linxia which the girl easily avoided. When Linxia was about to attack, he felt something move towards him from behind.

The disc that Bing Xhu held turned out to be able to move on its own like having a mind of its own, now the four discs surrounded Bing Xhu so that Linxia could not attack and approach him.

"How can there be such a weapon..."

"It's strange, the disc is like having a mind of its own, it's like thinking of the girl as its master."

Zhou Yuan also felt the strangeness of the four discs, he even saw the oddity, he said, when Linxia tried to attack the girl from her blind spot the disc immediately realized Linxia's whereabouts while the girl only found out after his disc clashed with Linxia's sword.

"It seems like a fraud..." Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes towards the spectator bench, he was sure the discs were not controlled by the girl but rather someone behind them.

Linxia exerted a deep force large enough to split the disc but he did not expect, it dodged and directly attacked Linxia.

Linxia was like fighting a ghost because he was fighting against four discs, Zhou Yuan was still focused towards the bench that was when his eyes found someone who was swinging his hands on the spectator bench.

Zhou Yuan suspected that the person was the one who controlled the four discs, before he acted suddenly Jiang Long had already jumped to the one who controlled the discs.

"Brother Xiong, stop the game!" Jiang Long then obtained evidence that it was the person who used the four discs instead of Bing Xhu.

Xiong Bian shook his head slowly, not expecting someone to cheat in this tournament. The one who controlled the four discs was a swordsman who had reached the crystal realm.

Without further ado, the girl who was Linxia's opponent was immediately disqualified by the tournament while Linxia continued on to the next round.

Actually the Main Round there are still many matches after Linxia but those matches can be considered boring.

Unlike the preliminary round which must be many days, the Main Round is completed in one day only. Xiong Bian then announced that the day after tomorrow was the semi-final round.