Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 278 — Underground Tomb
Lan Nara was laid on the bed, her breathing was weak yet a smile was etched from her lips.
"Thank you, my condition is much better now." Lan Nara said slowly.
Zhou Yuan nodded then said that in order to recover Lan Nara's body condition again he would have to eat more in order to suffice his nutritional aspects. That advice was listened to by Han Xiang and Lan Nara well.
Han Lilis suddenly ran over and hugged Zhou Yuan. "I don't know what to say but really, I'm very grateful to you."
Zhou Yuan smiled then nodded, after the situation improved Zhou Yuan returned to his room to absorb the stealth gems back.
***
There was one thing that disturbed Zhou Yuan's mind why he did not immediately leave the Human Beast Race settlement the next day, which was that he was worried that the bandits who attacked this settlement would return here.
The same was also worried by Han Xiang and the others, although not saying it directly Han Xiang wished for Zhou Yuan to stay here longer.
Zhou Yuan had thought about staying in their settlement for the next three days to make sure the thieves did not return but he did not have time to do so, the reason was simple enough that he had to go on his way back.
While he was still in a dilemma, a black crow entered his room through a window and landed in front of Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan frowned looking at the crow, there was a small paper scroll on his crow's foot.
When Zhou Yuan reached out, the crow immediately perched in his hand, clearly the purpose of the crow.
'Someone sent me a letter, but who...' Zhou Yuan did not remember he had any acquaintances, let alone that the letter was sent by a crow instead of a pigeon.
Zhou Yuan immediately opened the scroll, there was a message written for him that turned out to be from Xu Miao, the Leader of the Night Shadow Organization.
Zhou Yuan was very surprised after reading the letter, Xu Miao reported that the Night Shadow Organization was currently heading to the settlement of the beast human race that he was visiting, which he was in, it's likely that in two to three days they will arrive.
"They moved from the Star Empire to the Moon Empire just to meet me..." Zhou Yuan shook his head slowly, between surprise and disbelief.
In his letter Xu Miao brought all the members of his organization here, their journey was obviously very far, Zhou Yuan alone who flew took several months let alone those who used land lines.
Zhou Yuan wanted to read the letter until it was finished but there was a loud noise from the courtyard of Han Xiang's house. The voice came from some of the inhabitants of the beast human race who came to Han Xiang.
"Reporteur, the tomb we dug over the past week has been waiting for him!" One of them reported with intermittent breathing.
"Right Chairman, there was a loud roar. It was likely that the roar came from a savage or demon beast..." The other residents added, his tone a little frightened.
Han Xiang calmed them down first then asked to explain slowly.
Zhou Yuan and Han Lilis appeared to see what happened, apparently during this time in the settlement of the human race of animals found an underground tomb accidentally.
Zhou Yuan was the most reacting because this was enough to interest him considering he had been to the underground tomb a few months ago with Jian Chen.
"Evote the other residents not to enter or close to the tomb, we must close it again!" Order Han Xiang who was directly followed by some of the residents.
"A tomb?" Zhou Yuan asked after the resident left.
"Ah, swordsman." Han Xiang had only realized Zhou Yuan's existence. "Ehm, as you heard from them, we found tombs around this settlement. Earlier I had told some residents to browse through the tomb but did not expect there to be dangerous creatures."
Han Xiang began to explain in more detail about the tomb, which was located underground and in it was very dark and creepy.
Zhou Yuan stroked his chin slowly. "Can I go there?"
"I'd like to explore the tomb, if I don't mind maybe I'll go inside."
Han Xiang coughed softly, he reminded about the information of some previous residents who said there was a roar of ferocious beasts inside the tomb, obviously very dangerous just that Zhou Yuan still wanted to go there.
Han Xiang scratched his head, unable to prevent Zhou Yuan further let alone considering that the young man's abilities were higher than his.
"Are you going there?" On the other hand Han Lilis was actually worried about hearing Zhou Yuan's decision.
Zhou Yuan nodded, smiling. "No need to worry, if it's really dangerous inside I'll just get out of there." Zhou Yuan realized the girl's concern.
Han Xiang then drove Zhou Yuan to the location of the tomb in question, there were already some residents who wanted to make a fence around the tomb.
Looking at Zhou Yuan, the citizens of the beast human race looked scared and did not dare to whistle a gaze with him. The news of Zhou Yuan eliminating the thieves mercilessly spread throughout the settlement.
Zhou Yuan did not bother with their reactions while Han Xiang felt unwell towards Zhou Yuan.
"Do you think you want to enter it?" Han Xiang asked once more, distracting Zhou Yuan from his citizens.
"I'll keep going inside." Zhou Yuan nodded, his gaze focused towards the tomb.
As Zhou Yuan expected, the tomb was almost exactly the same as the tomb he had visited a while ago. In addition to the dark inner room, the structure of the tomb building seems to have been built for a very long time. This tomb is like an ancient tomb.
Zhou Yuan finally stepped into the tomb after Han Xian allowed it, the surrounding residents made no comment before his body was lost in the darkness of the tomb.
"Chairman doesn't matter if he goes inside?" One of them whispered, asking Han Xiang after Zhou Yuan left.
"I doubt it but I hope he's okay." Han Xiang sighed.
"But the roar... I'm sure there's something dangerous in it." The people were horrified.
Han Xiang sighed again, he was also actually worried but Zhou Yuan seemed to have already roundly wanted to enter the tomb. Han Xiang simply did not want Zhou Yuan to remember his services that had helped his settlement.
***
Zhou Yuan made some fireballs floating around him to make lighting. When dozens of steps entered the tomb Zhou Yuan was treated to a staircase leading to the depths of the underground.
The stairs were quite deep like the tomb he had traced with Jian Chen, Zhou Yuan had already pulled out a Kusanagi sword at his waist, preparing against any kind of danger.
When he arrived at the bottom of the stairs, Zhou Yuan realized that none of the citizens had set foot here because he had just arrived there was already the loud roar that Han Xiang had meant earlier.
The roar made his feather stand, his fighting instincts saying that he would soon fight with the source of the roar.
Sure enough, when Zhou Yuan arrived at one of the rooms in the tomb, he heard a roar again but this time closer and behind him.
"Dam-ch!"
Zhou Yuan turned his head and was very surprised when a 5 meter tall large bear suddenly was already behind him while swinging its big hand firmly.
Feeling unable to dodge, Zhou Yuan used his golden scales to protect his body but the swing of the bear's hand was beyond his estimation.
The swing of the bear claw hit Zhou Yuan firmly making the young man slam a dozen meters away until it stopped hitting the wall of the room.
Zhou Yuan coughed, blood appearing at the corner of his lips. Zhou Yuan was surprised, slightly not expecting the bear power to be greater than he expected. If there were no golden dragon scales protecting his body from being hit perhaps some of his ribs would have been cracked by now.