Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 216 — Skull Mountain VI
"You!" Lian Zhenghua belatedly realized the wind blades Zhou Yuan had released from the start were indeed eyeing the Elders of his last organization.
Anger enveloped Lian Zhenghua's feelings, he looked at Zhou Yuan with a look of hatred. The four Elders he had been training for so long now died before his eyes was indeed making Zhenghua's heart hurt.
"I won't let you live, you must die in my hands!"
Lian Zhenghua then flowed a deep force on his two swords then crossed the two swords. Before long the sword shone brightly and Lian Zhenghua's body slowly began to split into twelve bodies.
Zhou Yuan squinted, knowing that the eleven of them were just illusions, but Zhou Yuan could not tell which one was the real one.
Noticing Zhou Yuan's reaction, Lian Zhenghua smiled. "Why shut up, are you scared?"
"Fearful?" Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows. "Explain why I should be afraid, if they're real even if you can't necessarily beat me."
Zhou Yuan was actually slightly amazed in his heart, should he admit the illusion technique Lian Zhenghua used was a high-level illusion that he had encountered because of either his sense of sight, smell, or hearing, unable to distinguish them.
Lian Zhenghua clasped his sword even tighter, without saying much he and his eleven bodies began to move towards Zhou Yuan and attack him simultaneously.
Zhou Yuan dodged every attack that came without the slightest difficulty, even though Lian Zhenghua's Shadow surrounded him from various directions but with his agility Zhou Yuan was able to dodge all of his attacks.
Lian Zhenghua clenched her teeth, not only strong but Zhou Yuan also had a high reflex speed, not even a shadow of his body managed to injure Zhou Yuan even though the young man was surrounded though.
Zhou Yuan continued to dodge for some time before he finally moved and slashed his sword towards one of them.
The shadow of Lian Zhenghua who was hit by the sword attack could not dodge so the shadow turned to dust.
Zhou Yuan continued to reduce their numbers, it did not take long until Lian Zhenghua's 11 shadows were exhausted and now there was only one remaining: the real Lian Zhenghua's body.
Lian Zhenghua clucked in annoyance, he did not expect Zhou Yuan to have a higher-than-expected ability.
When Lian Zhenghua wanted to use the other styles, Zhou Yuan had already done so first.
"Element Sword Technique — Thunderbolt Shadow!"
Zhou Yuan used the same technique as Lian Zhenghua: his body was split into 12 bodies.
"Didn't your technique go stale, using the same means as your enemies, this kind of illusion won't work on me!"
"Illusions? You can try it..." Zhou Yuan smiled sinisterly before attacking Lian Zhenghua with his 12 bodies.
At first Lian Zhenghua smiled and was ready to shatter Zhou Yuan's shadow but after seeing the shadow cut through the air around him, she realized something was wrong.
It took a while for the old man to realize, Zhenghua Heart paused for a moment when he realized that Zhou Yuan's 12 bodies were real and that none of them were illusions.
Lian Zhenghua had a hard time regulating his composure especially when he started being attacked from various directions by Zhou Yuan's 12 bodies.
Zhou Yuan's twelve bodies fused again after five seconds of using his technique, giving Lian Zhenghua time to take some distance from him.
Lian Zhenghua adjusted her breathing before stopping the bleeding on her body which was now covered in sword slash wounds, although not a serious wound but it was quite deep and this would have an effect on her future fight.
"How, how can you do that?" Lian Zhenghua did not hold back her curiosity.
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, not directly answering him, his gaze fixed in one direction, "It seems like you have a guest?"
After Zhou Yuan said so then dozens of needles moved quickly towards him. Zhou Yuan immediately swung his sword to fend off each needle and then turned to look at the needle-thrower.
The one who threw the needle was a girl who was a dozen years old and had a sweet face. Zhou Yuan would think so only that he knew the girl who was older than his grandmother.
"Handsome young man, it seems that your strength is not bad as well to be able to realize my existence?" The girl smiled broadly.
"Miss Lin it turns out you've come, shouldn't you be here in a day or two, why so soon from the schedule that should be?" Zhou Yuan asked, tilting his head.
The girl who threw the needle at Zhou Yuan was Lin Ran who was the leader of the Eternal Snow Organization. Lin Ran's strength was in the Light Realm with 6 meridians exposed.
"Young man, you turned out to know me, I must admit I was quite flattered to hear it for not expecting my beauty to be famous until the next empire..." Lin Ran chuckled little which looked like a sweet girl.
"Of course Miss Lin, the reason I attacked Skull Mountain was because it was related to your arrival, you could say you were a candidate that I should kill as well."
Lian Zhenghua frowned, not expecting Zhou Yuan to know about the arrival of a guest from the Moon Empire, the old man only learned that the Night Shadow Organization had expertise in gathering Information.
Lin Ran's smile slowly faded and his gaze turned cold after Zhou Yuan said so.
He jumped to the side of Lian Zhenghua and gave her some pills. "Chairman Lian, you'd better heal the wounds first, this young man's problem let me try to fight him, I hope he's comforting me enough..."
"His sword strength is higher than mine, you'd better be careful on close-range attacks." Lian Zhenghua reminded.
"I know, I want to see how strong he is against my poisonous needles!"
Lin Ran then took out a needle interspersed with his fingers before firing towards Zhou Yuan from a distance.
Zhou Yuan fended off the needle with the minimum possible movement while some of him dodged. Zhou Yuan was quite careful with Lin Ran's needles, other than because of their sharpness that could pierce one's body, those needles contained a deadly poison.
Zhou Yuan continued to dodge before he moved and tried to run towards Lin Ran. Zhou Yuan was aware, Lin Ran was extremely weak if he fought at close range.
Realizing Zhou Yuan was moving towards him, Lin Ran did not stay still, he took out another needle but this time the needle was different.
The needle is smaller than the previous needle, especially its size like a hair. One would have difficulty seeing it clearly if one did not pay close attention to it. Lin Ran then threw the thin needle, his shooting speed was twice that of the previous needle.