Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 171 — Big Battle
Zhou Yuan brought his three girls out of the tournament area, although there were some beast men who had blocked him but it was easy for Zhou Yuan to kill them in a single strike.
Zhou Yuan's first glance when he made it out was to look at the battle situation that was going on around the academy.
The fight between the beast man and the academy attendant was so fierce, the chaos outside was in fact worse than that inside the tournament area.
The academy attendants seemed to be struggling with the ever-growing number of beastmen as if there was no end to it, their attention was also split as they had to protect the academy disciples who were on the run.
Zhou Yuan could see the army of beastmen that were outside were only at the level of the golden realm downwards and only a few of them had reached the crystal realm.
It was just that Zhou Yuan's current attention was not on the army of the beast human race alone but on the troops who were wearing warrior uniforms.
The soldiers were armed complete with armor and sword, Zhou Yuan saw from the armor there was a symbol symbol symbolized by the sun.
Zhou Yuan found out that the soldiers were from the Sun Empire but that made him not understand why they were attacking the academy's officers.
It took a few seconds until Zhou Yuan finally understood what had happened.
"So the sun empire was being allied with the animal human race... And that's why they dared to attack here..." Zhou Yuan clenched his hands hard, now he understood why the previous beast man was so confident that he would conquer the academy.
Anger began to envelop Zhou Yuan's heart, he who thought peace would be lost when the organizations were exterminated now realized the situation was not simple.
Zhou Yuan was convinced that the great reason the Sun Empire was allied with the beast human race was because it wanted to rule over the entire northern mainland continent. They took the opportunity of this tournament to eliminate its leaders first.
"Brother Yuan, what should we do now?"
Linxia asked, their initial plan was to get out of the tournament area and save themselves but seeing the academy environment turned out to be covered in more battles, leaving the tournament alone was not enough, they seemed to have to exit the academy territory as well.
"I doubt coming out of the academy will be safe, we'd better have to find a safe hiding place..." Not done yet Zhou Yuan spoke, there was one of the beast men approaching him.
Zhou Yuan blotted, he pulled the sword kusanagi from its sheath then slashed the neck of the beast-man race.
In fact, Zhou Yuan's presence there could be quickly noticed by the other beast men. Soon they started moving towards him.
"He was that Yin-bodied man, catch him alive or dead."
"Don't let him hide and get out of here! His death was an advance for the beast man race!"
Zhou Yuan frowned with the exclamation, so he remembered earlier that their race was able to see the special body he had.
Zhou Yuan then turned to his three girls, "You guys better get out of here, I will have their attention focused on me."
"Brother Yuan, I can't do it..." Linxia objected, as did Yifei and Xiao Rou.
"We don't have time to negotiate, from the beginning they were looking for something I had. You won't be safe with me!"
Linxia, Yifei, and Xiao Rou felt heavy about the decision but they could not refute. If they continued to be with Zhou Yuan, their situation would again be in danger.
The three girls had no other choice as they also realized that if they were to fight alongside Zhou Yuan now, the three of them would only become a burden to the young man. Linxia, Yifei, and Xiao Rou reluctantly left Zhou Yuan and looked for a place to hide.
Zhou Yuan continued to turn his head on his three girls until their bodies were nowhere to be seen, Zhou Yuan then turned his head to the human beast race that was running up to him.
Zhou Yuan suddenly disappeared in his opponent's sight when their distance was already a few steps away.
"Where is he?"
"Damn! That young man must have left?"
"I don't see her movements, she must be hiding around here..."
The army of the human beast race became confused, they looked in all directions but did not find Zhou Yuan until suddenly a strong wind blew over their bodies, without knowing why their sight had suddenly darkened forever.
Zhou Yuan reappeared before long the beast man who came up to him fell down, he then swung his bloodstained sword kusanagi.
Zhou Yuan looked around, there were many academy disciples and tournament participants who were being blocked or chased by the army of beastmen or sun imperial warriors.
One of them was a familiar figure to Zhou Yuan, a young man who used water bubbles as his strength, Zuo Lang.
Zuo Lang was being surrounded by five Sun Empire warriors, the young man made bubbles that covered his body as a shield.
Zhou Yuan did not stay silent any longer and immediately headed there, he could see Zuo Lang being cornered facing his opponents.
"Element Sword Technique — Wave Sword!"
Zhou Yuan swung his sword at one of the soldiers besieging Zuo Lang.
The soldier belatedly noticed Zhou Yuan's arrival moving at high speed, before he reacted to Zhou Yuan's sword already slashing towards his neck.
The four warriors were surprised instead of playing, they wanted to take some distance with Zhou Yuan as quickly as possible but the young man did not let that happen.
With a single slash, Zhou Yuan's sword moved swiftly to finish off all four in a single strike.
"Brother Zuo, are you okay?"
Zhou Yuan's voice made Zuo Lang sober from his shock that he did not breathe with Zhou Yuan's action that he could defeat his opponents in quick time.
"I'm fine, thank you Brother Yuan." Zuo Lang flicked his finger, the instant the bubbles covering his body erupted and disappeared.
"You better find a place to hide, this academy is no longer safe!"
"What about you?"
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, "I have enough strength to save the others. You better hurry up and get out of here."
Without waiting for Zuo Lang to reply, Zhou Yuan had already dashed towards Chu Lingxi who was in a desperate state. The archer girl had already sustained some injuries on her body while fighting against the three eagle humans.
With a kusanagi sword in hand, Zhou Yuan appeared near the three eagle-men. Kusanagi's swords swung and finished them off one by one.
Slowly the warriors from the Sun Empire began to realize his actions, they did not allow Zhou Yuan to kill more, a dozen of them immediately ran towards Zhou Yuan and intended to kill him.
"With the power you have, you want to kill me. How funny!" Zhou Yuan had no time to speak to the newly rescued Chu Lingxi, he immediately released something in his body of a dense murderous aura.