Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 25 — Tribute
Ling Yun's death had a great impact on the remaining members of the Night Bat Group.
They no longer intended to fight and chose to save themselves, the members of the Night Bats immediately left the Zhou Family residence believing that staying longer would put their lives in danger.
The officers attempted to restrain the Night Bats members including Zhou Yuan and his father, as a result of the three hundred Night Bats attacking the Zhou Family only a few members managed to escape.
Zhou Yuan was confident that such a member of the Killing Group would disperse especially after their higher-ups had been killed.
After all those who escaped were mostly assassins at the level of the Bronze Realm, they would not dare to act criminally if they lost their group.
That night the unexpected attack was finally completed, the Zhou Family officers immediately cleaned up the corpses of the assassins in the Zhou residence.
The cleaning took a long time until the morning sunlight was visible at the end of the sky horizon.
Zhou Yuan did not expect that the night would be the longest night for him in this second life, he stared at his palm that had done so much.
Killing dozens of assassins did not make Zhou Yuan feel anything in his heart, if it was in his first life maybe now he was already covered in fear and guilt but in this life, he was still in the first place, Zhou Yuan felt nothing at all.
Zhou Yuan was certainly confused by this phenomenon but at least, it was not something that had a negative impact on him.
Zhou Yuan and his father then returned to where his mother and Xiao Rou were hiding.
When he realized his only son was fine, Lin Ruyue immediately hugged Zhou Yuan tightly, peeping her cheeks and forehead repeatedly, her eyes moist and watery.
"Mother, Yuan is fine..." Zhou Yuan smiled after being required thus, a warm squeeze enveloped his heart.
For the first time Zhou Yuan felt that there was someone who cared deeply about him, worried about him, something he had never felt in his past life.
Zhou Yuan promised for his life, he would protect his family from these kinds of dangers.
"Thank you, my husband, you saved Yuan'er from harm..." Lin Ruyue wiped her tears, looking at her husband.
Zhou Yao actually wanted to explain about Zhou Yuan's strength to his wife who had killed many enemies but upon thinking back, the current situation was not right. Zhou Yao simply smiled and stroked Lin Ruyue's head.
Xiao Rou looked silent from earlier, he was just watching the Zhou Yuan Family who looked warm and affectionate.
Not long after, Zhou Bing and Xiao Fan came, Xiao Rou who did not know her grandfather was here immediately hugged her.
"Rou'er, thank God you're okay..." Xiao Fan returned the embrace of his grandson. The anxiety he felt immediately evaporated seeing his grandson was okay.
Feeling that everything was fine, at the same time Zhou Bing gathered all the members of the Zhou Family into the main hall of his room.
Zhou Bing wanted to ascertain the huge impact of the Night Bats attack, starting from the number of casualties and damage experienced at his Family residence.
Even because the attack was carried out at night, most residents of the city of Riva were not aware of the attack on the Zhou Family.
Zhou Bing was silent for quite a while while listening to the explanation after explanation from his family members, until one explanation arrived at the section about his grandson.
There were so many who had seen Zhou Yuan's actions in the attack, Zhou Yao as his father also did not refute their words about his son because that was the case.
Zhou Yuan who was beside his mother could only faintly smile, he saw there were some of them who were shocked at his actions even his mother expressed disbelief but many witnesses made the story irrefutable.
Zhou Yuan realized sooner or later his abilities would be known to his family so he did not refute their story or interrupt it.
Hearing the explanation, Zhou Bing was silent for a moment then looked at his grandson before he summoned Zhou Yuan to the center of the room.
"Yuan'er, Grandfather thanks you as the Chairman of the Family, you have saved the Zhou Family from destruction..."
Unmitigated as the leader of his Family, Zhou Bing paid tribute to his grandson as well as the other Elders, they realized, Zhou Yuan was the hero in this attack.
It was because of Zhou Yuan's shout that all the officers of the Zhou Family were aware that there was an attack that night and because of Zhou Yuan's arrow attack as well, the Zhou Family side could win against the group of assassins.
Xiao Fan also did not remain silent, the swordsman who had red hair also directly paid his respects to Zhou Yuan.
"Young Master Yuan, thank you for saving my grandson..." Xiao Fan expressed his gratitude as deeply as possible.
Originally Xiao Fan did not glance at Zhou Yuan's talent despite being said to be a genius by Zhou Bing though, he thought his genius would not be comparable to Xiao Rou's talent but after this attack, Xiao Fan came to his senses, zhou Yuan's genius might be fine compared to his grandson's talent.
Indeed, before Xiao Rou had already explained about Zhou Yuan's services to him, the outline of the story was because that young man Xiao Rou was able to escape and survive the attack.
"Grandfather, Senior Xiao, as well as the other Elders, it is fitting that I, as a member of the Zhou Family, help others in need..." Zhou Yuan knelt down, he felt unworthy of respect to such an extent.
Zhou Yuan's humility was actually an admirable trait but in his condition, it was difficult for admiration to appear in the hearts that heard him.
However, Zhou Yuan was now only 10 years old, most people at that age preferred to hide or escape when the attack occurred rather than fight let alone be a hero.
Xiao Fan though, if not hearing it directly from the witness who saw it maybe he would not believe a boy could do that.
In the martial world, no child of that age dared to fight life and death as a warrior but Zhou Yuan, not only fought, he killed many of his enemies.
Xiao Fan could see no influence after Zhou Yuan killed so many people, the look on his eyes still looked so clear and shady.
Xiao Fan as a warrior who has been old even if sometimes killing some criminals alone has made his mental disturbed and there is little regret in his heart.