Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 211 — Skull Mountain
"You said the leader of the Eternal Snow Organization was going to visit Skull Mountain right?" Zhou Yuan stroked his chin.
Xu Miao nodded, "Because Skull Mountain has great power in Artavium province as well as they are quite respected, it is quite well respected, it seemed like the Sky Cloud Temple was interested and invited them to join its alliance by sending the leader of the Eternal Snow over there."
Zhou Yuan paused for a moment, seeming to think of something. Zhou Yuan learned that the leader of the Eternal Snow was led by a female swordsman named Lin Ran.
Lin Ran was one of the high-level Light Realm warriors who had attacked the Moon Emperor's palace a few years ago, back then the woman had to fight Chu Guyu.
"Miss Miao, do you know where the headquarters of the Skull Mountain Organization is?"
"Yes, we do have spies there, Brother Yuan are you planning something?" Xu Miao frowned looking at Zhou Yuan's asked expression while thinking.
"You could say so..." Zhou Yuan nodded slowly. "Miss Miao can you prepare the full strength of the Night Shadow Organization in no time at all. I need your help..."
"Not difficult but for what?" Xu Miao was confused.
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly before conveying his intentions and plans, it made Xu Miao take a cold breath.
"Isn't that too rash?" Xu Miao looked at Zhou Yuan with a look of disbelief.
"Lust me have my own plan, now can you tell me about the Skull Mountain, their strength and the number of its members?"
Xu Miao scratched her head, she was still astonished by Zhou Yuan's previous plans. Xu Miao sighed, because Zhou Yuan was the leader of the Night Shadow Organization as well so she did not comment anything, the girl then relayed the information about the Skull Mountain Organization.
From Xu Miao's explanation, in short the Skull Mountain Organization was an organization that contained assassins in the martial world.
Their crime does not want money or power but only the satisfaction of killing, you could say the Skull Mountain Organization is a collection of crazy people who enjoy killing.
Many times Skull Mountain moved to finish off the nobles or the government, countless lives had already been taken by the organization.
"Their leader, Lian Zhenghua, is a high-ranking swordsman with a deadly killer skill, from his life, no one has ever escaped when this old man is after someone." Xu Miao.
Xu Miao also said about the four Elders in the Skull Mountain Organization who were no less dangerous than the chairman. When the four Elders joined forces and cooperated with each other, they could defeat the high-level warriors of the Light Realm.
Zhou Yuan listened to all of Xu Miao's information without interrupting, he stroked his chin, realizing his plan would not be too easy.
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Zhou Yuan left from the Night Shadow Organization Headquarters, he dashed past the branches of the tree and after no one saw him, he continued his journey by darting flying through the air.
After being informed of the location of the headquarters of the Skull Mountain Organization by Xu Miao, Zhou Yuan immediately headed to where the organization's headquarters were.
Following Xu Miao's lead, it wasn't long before Zhou Yuan found the intended headquarters, a headquarters built in the middle of the forest with roads that are difficult to access there because their headquarters is adjacent to the mountainside.
The headquarters was not much different from the headquarters of the Night Shadow Organization just that it was spacious and the size was much different, Skull Mountain had a much larger headquarters.
On the outskirts of the headquarters there is a tall fortress made of wood along with a wide gate. Zhou Yuan saw that there was a person on top of the wooden fortress who was guarding and watching the surroundings.
Zhou Yuan who was flying in the air could see the headquarters clearly even though the headquarters was trying to be covered with trees to avoid being seen.
Zhou Yuan landed not far from there and continued his journey on foot, after his distance from the base was near Zhou Yuan then took out Kusanagi's sword from the space ring before laying on his waist.
"It seems like there really is no good plan other than to go head-to-head with them..." Zhou Yuan scratched his head, he realized this plan was rash but there was no other way his head could think of it.
Actually without having to think of a plan, Zhou Yuan was also already confident enough with his current abilities and strength that he dared to attack the criminal headquarters by himself.
According to Xu Miao's story, Lian Zhenghua's strength reached the swordsman of the Light Realm with 6 meridians exposed. Such power has included great heroes in the martial world.
The number of their members was also quite a lot around 800 people, plus the 4 Elders that Xu Miao meant then it was enough for their strength to destroy a large city.
Zhou Yuan walked slowly closer to the gate of the headquarters, not waiting for a long time until the guards around the gate realized his arrival.
"Who are you? Name your name and purpose here?" One of the guards of Skull Mountain smashed his machete at Zhou Yuan, looking at him warily.
"Hm? So I should get acquainted before attacking this place?" Zhou Yuan chuckled. "You can call me Zhou Yuan, I'm just here to destroy your organization."
"You think I'm kidding!" The guard glared, without a second thought he swung his machete towards Zhou Yuan but before he did, he realized the hand he swung never touched the young man.
It took a while for the guard to realize the hand holding his machete had already slipped out of place and fell to the ground, instantly the pain assaulted him but before he shouted, Zhou Yuan had already swung the sword towards his neck, decapitating the guard's head to the ground.
Seeing the incident, the several guards around the gate gulped, they simply did not see the way Zhou Yuan pulled the sword and swung it when suddenly their friend was dead in a tragic way.
Zhou Yuan disappeared into the sight of those guards before appearing near them and swinging his sword. In several slashes, the guards around the gate were killed with a single strike by Zhou Yuan.
Realizing that there were no more guards from the outside, Zhou Yuan began to shift the large gate and opened it slowly.
Just as Zhou Yuan entered the area of the Skull Mountain headquarters, he was already greeted with hundreds of arrows that had already shot rapidly towards him.
"Hm, this is how you greet guests, a pretty good welcome..." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, not dodging those arrows and instead staying standing in place.
Zhou Yuan then hardened his skin with the Golden Dragon Scales technique, when the hundreds of arrows hit his body they did not pierce Zhou Yuan's skin but rather bounced off while the rest became broken.