Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 245 — Old Memory
"really? Then I'd like to try it..." Yifei picked up Zhou Yuan's previous chopsticks, intending to eat the meat he cooked but Zhou Yuan had already taken the chopsticks before the girl's hand reached.
"You can't eat this?" Zhou Yuan reflexively distanced his flesh and chopsticks from Yifei.
"Hm? Why?"
Zhou Yuan coughed softly, "I want to eat this alone, your cooking is too good so I won't be full if it's split in half."
Yifei narrowed his eyes, looking at Zhou Yuan suspiciously, while the young man who was being stared at broke out in cold sweat for fear of being caught.
"Well, as long as you enjoy it I'm happy, make sure there's nothing left..." Yifei smiled sweetly.
Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and then stared at the meat dish in his hand, he gulped, taking a deep breath before eating the salted meat as quickly as possible.
Seeing Zhou Yuan eating it so voraciously made Yifei even more happy, not knowing that the young man was being tormented by it.
Zhou Yuan was probably a high-level Light Realm swordsman who had strong physical strength especially after he had perfected physical forging.
With the condition of his body right now, some kind of poison would not work on his body just that Zhou Yuan did not expect to find something as terrifying as the poison that was Yifei cuisine.
Zhou Yuan ate Yifei's cooking in seconds without chewing and was immediately swallowed, if he could choose, perhaps drinking poison was not too bad than eating the girl's cooking, at least the poison has no taste when on the tongue.
"If you're still lacking I can cook it again, I'll make a lot for you to chew on..."
"No need, I'm full of Fei'er, you don't need to cook anymore." Zhou Yuan immediately prevented the girl, she could die if she ate her cooking more than this.
Yifei smiled wryly but he could not do much if Zhou Yuan was already full.
To divert Zhou Yuan's conversation then start to replenish his inner strength back, Yifei did not want to disturb his lover so he let Zhou Yuan concentrate.
It took several hours for the power within Zhou Yuan to recover, with the demon gems the capacity of his inner power circle had increased by several circles.
"It will take a long time for me to extract this stealth gem..." Zhou Yuan stared at the Spider Demon jewel in his hand which was extremely large in size.
Despite having absorbed the gem for so long, the size of the gem has barely changed. This shows the quality of the spider demon gems that are already king or queen of stealth have a high quality.
Zhou Yuan stored the remaining demon gems back into his spatial ring, he then found Yifei asleep on his shoulder.
For too long without Zhou Yuan subconsciously absorbing the gem all night, Zhou Yuan let the girl sleep until Yifei finally woke up when the morning sunlight touched his face.
"You awake?" Zhou Yuan smiled gently, greeting the girl.
Yifei rubbed his eyes before nodding softly, Zhou Yuan said that he was going to his family residence now, he did not know where Yifei was headed after returning to his world.
"I'll come with you, as I said that when I'm strong, I'll be by your side."
Zhou Yuan smiled, slightly moved by the girl's words.
"Thank you, I'm glad you said that..." Zhou Yuan stroked Yifei's cheeks gently, making the girl's face slightly blush.
Zhou Yuan and Yifei then continued his journey back by flying.
Besides flying techniques are also not something that is difficult to learn just that in the martial world of the Northern Mainland Continent no one knows about the flying technique.
The two darted swiftly through the air, again continuing their delayed journey.
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"Are you kidding me?! How is it possible that with such a large number of troops you can lose!" Huang Zhang smacked the table in front of him violently making the person kneeling before him tremble even more in fear.
"From the reports I received, not only did the organization's army lose but Senior Yin also died there, even what's left of our army is only half of it!" Despite his fear, the reporter still finished all the information from his sentence.
"This is impossible, Brother Gubei attacked together with the three light realm warriors, should the strength of the Chu clan not be able to defeat let alone to kill him."
Huang Zhang knew Yin Gubei very well because he had known him for a long time, supposedly killing Yin Gubei was not an easy matter even for Huang Zhang who was a light realm swordsman with 7 meridians exposed.
"From the information we have that there is a high-ranking swordsman in the Chu clan, he is the perpetrator who killed Yin Gubei and the other three swordsmen of light, including the one that killed half of our organization..."
Huang Zhang was surprised, "That's beyond reason?! There was no way someone could kill thousands of people at a time so quickly."
Huang Zhang was clearly in disbelief because the information was as far-fetched as it was, even though one possessed the ability of the Light Realm swordsman, he could not take thousands of lives in one go.
Not to mention that the organizational troops brought into the Chu clan contained dozens of crystal realm warriors, killing them took time for even Huang Zhang.
"I don't know about it either, Chief, but almost the soldiers who survived the attack felt such intense fear. They all saw clearly how that Chu clan swordsman slaughtered their comrades so ferociously..."
Huang Zhang took a cold breath, "Who is the swordsman, if his strength is so high should his name be famous let alone he is from the Chu clan."
It was actually not Huang Zhang alone who thought similarly but the troops who were attacking the Chu clan also thought the same thing. If they found out there was such a strong swordsman, the organization army would probably think twice about attacking the Chu clan.
"Chairman how is this, we failed to obtain that jade, do we have to prepare an even larger army to attack the Chu clan back..."
To the rapporteur, of course the most important mission of the invading Chu clan was about jade being able to track down a Heavenly Fruit. They had failed to obtain it even though it was the thing that the Sky Cloud Temple needed.
"No need, the Chu clan must have known the reason we attacked them, it is likely that he has already diverted the jade to the other side." Huang Zhang shook his head slowly.
"Then what's next, Chief?"
Huang Zhang sighed, "Everything has happened, I will talk to Guo Zhengxa about the failure of this attack. More than that, we should focus on getting our newfound Heavenly Fruit."
The reporter nodded then explained that the Sky Cloud Temple troops with the alliance had already gone towards where the heavenly fruit had grown, at the moment they were likely still on their way.
"Good, tell Hong Sha to get the heavenly fruit and lest he fail, the heavenly fruit must not fall into the hands of others."
The complainant nodded before then he resigned himself, leaving Huang Zhang alone in the room.
"Heavenly fruit, yes..." Huang Zhang clenched his hands hard, suddenly he remembered someone who severed his left hand because of the fruit.
If not for that person, Huang Zhang might have now topped the martial world but unfortunately everything changed due to meeting that person who decided on one of his hands.
Although that person was dead but Huang Zhang's anger at him was still there, the memories were like yesterday and Huang Zhang couldn't possibly forget them.