Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 222 — Ancient Tombs
The rain had only subsided after two days, Zhou Yuan had already recovered his inner strength back but there was one thing that made the young man unable to leave this city.
As Zhou Yuan was resting in his room, his keen sense of hearing could hear the chatter going on in the inn even though he had no intention of eavesdropping on it.
Zhou Yuan probably would not be interested in just any topic from the guest inn chats but this time there was one thing that made Zhou Yuan curious.
The visitors of the inn in this city are warmly discussing an ancient tomb that was only discovered a few days ago.
The tomb was accidentally discovered by the miners around this city, the tomb is dark and mysterious but emits a powerful murderous aura inside.
It should be enough to make people think twice about not entering his tomb but indeed human nature, sometimes curiosity is much more excruciating than fear.
"You've heard it, no, there's a roar in the tomb, I'm pretty sure there's a demon in there and guarding the tomb." One of the visitors who was talking to his friend.
"Keeping tombs? Why do demons have to guard the tomb, isn't it important for them to just eat and hunt."
"Are you stupid, of course, it means that the tomb has treasure in it. The one who made the tomb must have known there would be many who would search it if the tomb was found, so they put the demon there."
Zhou Yuan heard the conversation on the fourth floor, for the last two days his ears did not escape hearing the discussion about the tomb.
Zhou Yuan became curious so that when the rain had subsided he immediately went to the tomb intended by them. From the city it was actually not too far away so Zhou Yuan could get there quickly despite the walk.
"This tomb is too conspicuous, it deserves its place to attract the attention of many people..." Zhou Yuan shook his head after arriving at the ancient tomb.
The tomb in front of Zhou Yuan was indeed a former mine, the door of the tomb was shiny gold and slightly opened, in one look, just one look, someone actually wanted to go in there after seeing the door of the tomb.
Although Zhou Yuan was watching the tomb from afar but he could feel that a murderous aura was faintly felt within.
"This murderous aura is even more concentrated than the murderous aura of the Skull Mountain leader, how many lives have been taken by the creatures in the tomb..." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, aware that the ancient tomb was far more dangerous than he had expected.
Besides feeling the murderous aura Zhou Yuan also actually sensed there were signs of life inside there.
As many people have said, there is a possibility that a demon might already be living there and its strength might not be underestimated.
Zhou Yuan stared at the door of the tomb while analyzing it, if his guess was not wrong the age of the tomb might have been around for hundreds or even a thousand years.
For several days this tomb rumor was heard, no swordsman had dared to go inside yet. Those with weaker abilities prefer to wait for a strong swordsman to try to see the tomb first.
Zhou Yuan could not be rash to go straight to the tomb, he returned to the previous city to gather information first.
Congratulations the next three days Zhou Yuan was still in the city, originally the city that Zhou Yuan visited was fairly quiet but because the news of the ancient tomb was increasingly widespread, the news of the ancient tomb was very wide spread, finally, visitors from outside the city began to come here.
Soon Zhou Yuan also heard that someone was trying to open the ancient tomb.
Sure enough, when the entrance of the tomb opened a bear that had already turned into a demon appeared there, the animal that exuded a murderous aura earlier was from the bear.
The bear demon had a large body size with its fur filled with lightning sparks.
Zhou Yuan also heard there were some of the warriors who tried their luck to fight the bear demon but ended up tragically while doing so.
The bear possessed a strength that had at least reached the swordsman of the Light Realm, not only were the great, the same demon had also possessed intelligence to some degree.
Zhou Yuan also had time to observe the bear demon, at least from the power that the lightning bear released, he could compensate for the strength of a swordsman with four open meridians.
Zhou Yuan eventually returned to the city, still thinking of making plans to enter the tomb but unwittingly the other swordsman.
'Maybe I have to go to the hero guild, who knows there is information I still need...' Zhou Yuan scratched his head.
Zhou Yuan finally visited the hero guild that was on the west side of the city, the guild building in the city looked striking because it had a magnificent and large building compared to the surrounding buildings.
At the entrance were two men standing guard, perhaps for some reason they only allowed the guilds to enter.
Zhou Yuan finally came to the two guards and gave them a union badge that signified himself as a C-class hero.
"Young man, how old are you?" Ask one of the guards.
Zhou Yuan frowned, "Eighteen years old, is there a problem?"
"It's a pity that you're not old enough, get out of here, today the hero guild can't be entered by just anyone!" The guard expelled Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan sighed before taking out a leather pouch containing gold pieces and giving it to the two guards.
"Now, can I enter it?"
The two guards were surprised by the nominal Zhou Yuan gave them, they were actually ordered to not just allow others to enter the guild but after seeing the gold coins the young man had given them, it is hard for them to refuse.
The two looked at each other before nodding softly, they were sure their superiors would not realize that Zhou Yuan was coming in.
The two guards then allowed Zhou Yuan into the guild, they looked more respectful after being gagged by the money.
Upon entering the guild, Zhou Yuan found that there were already many warriors who had gathered. Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows, now he realized why the guard forbade anyone from entering.
Almost all of the warriors present here were warriors of the Golden Realm and above, Zhou Yuan also saw that there were three of them who had already reached the Crystal Realm and one in the Light Realm with one meridian open.
Zhou Yuan's arrival wasn't too realized by the others because they were too busy discussing about the ancient tomb's plans, most of them making groups and thinking of defeating the bear demon.
Zhou Yuan then sat at one of the empty tables while observing the situation, these hero guild warriors were in fact more interested in discussing the ancient tomb than carrying out missions.
As Zhou Yuan was still listening, there were suddenly two masked people sitting on Zhou Yuan's table.
"Sorry, can we sit here?" Said one of the masked men, his voice sounding like a man.
Zhou Yuan nodded, after all there was no empty table at the moment other than his desk.
"It looks like you're looking for information about the ancient tomb, right?" The masked man spoke again. "We, too, my wife and I are currently planning to explore the ancient tomb, just that it still needs a lot of information..."
The two people finally unmasked, now Zhou Yuan could see both of them, one a 20-year-old man, it has beautiful golden eyes and a handsome face while the other one is a woman who has an extraordinary beautiful face.
The golden-eyed man smiled amiably, "Include Swordsman Yuan, my name is Jian Chen, and this girl beside me is my wife, Niu Meily..."
The two masked men finally introduced his name.
Zhou Yuan was surprised, he was quite sure that he had only met them in his life but did not expect this person called Jian Chen to already know his name.