Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 6 — See Talent
"Mother, Father, Yuan saluted..."
Zhou Yuan knelt down as he had already reached his home, his parents had been waiting for him ever since.
"Yuan'er you don't need to be formal like that, there's no one else here." Said Lin Ruyue softly.
Although their relationship was family, Zhou Yuan was educated to always pay respect to his father and mother with their status in the Zhou family.
Zhou Yuan nodded then got up from his kneeling position, he then asked his parents the reason he was called here.
"Yuan'er, you are now seven years old, no, it is time you saw your talent in martial arts. Tomorrow we will go to the Zhou family hall together, the Chairman and the other Elders of the Zhou family are already preparing to witness your talent there..."
Although the Zhou family was a family that was concerned with the system of government, their family also remained part of the martial world.
Zhao Yao and Lin Ruyue were also actually warriors, arguably almost all members of the Zhou family were martial arts experts.
The reason the Zhou family became a noble family and the leader of a city was because there were so many members of the Zhou family who became strong warriors.
Zhou Yuan had already heard from others regarding the talent of Zhou Yao his father who was a martial genius swordsman in the current generation. Zhao Yao seemed to be hoping that Zhou Yuan was as talented as she was.
The next day Zhou Yuan went to the family hall with Zhao Yao and Lin Ruyue. Zhou Yuan could see the impatience of his parents in seeing his talent.
"In my life, my talent was pretty good at testing it, but in my second life I didn't expect it much..."
According to Zhou Yuan the talent testing tool is not entirely always correct.
In reality in the martial world, even if someone has high talent but as long as they are lazy to practice and learn, their strength will not achieve something they want.
A few steps later, Zhou Yuan finally arrived at the main hall of the Zhou family.
There were already countless Zhou Family Elders who wanted to watch to see his talent.
Zhou Yuan's adult intelligence and attitude, which was touted as a genius child in the Zhou Family, was enough to make these people curious about his martial talent, they were confident that Zhou Yuan would become a powerful swordsman in the future.
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly as he looked at the audience, if they had known that in the body of this little boy was a man of forty years they might have drawn judgments upon him as a child of genius.
In the middle of the hall was an old man waiting for his arrival, the old man had grayed hair, mustache, and beard, although his appearance was like someone who was fifty years old but his original age was over a hundred years old.
The old man was the current Chairman of the Zhou family, he was also Zhou Yuan's grandfather Zhou Bing.
"Yuan'er, you go ahead..." Zhou Yao stroked the head of his son.
Zhao Yuan nodded before stepping his feet into the center of the hall, instantly almost all pairs of eyes were immediately directed towards him.
"Hey see, he is the grandson of the House Chief who is often talked about because of his intelligence, I believe his talent is very high in martial arts." Said one of the elders.
"That's not necessarily..." Another replied, "although he is very intelligent there is no certainty that he will be great in martial arts, as long as he is not destined to be a swordsman, still his intelligence is meaningless."
Zhou Yuan heard those whispers while smiling faintly. Zhou Yuan had long since opened his dantian gate then it was certain that his life had become a swordsman, only that he did not reveal it to the others.
"Chairman, Yuan came to salute..." Zhou Yuan knelt before Zhou Bing after he was nearby.
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly then nodded slowly, in contrast to his parents' attitude towards him, his grandfather's attitude was likely to pamper Zhou Yuan for the past seven years.
As his only grandson, Zhou Bing had always wanted to spend his time with Zhou Yuan, if it were not for the benefit of the Zhou Family perhaps Zhou Bing had long retired and spent his time with his beloved grandson.
Zhou Yuan's gaze was then fixed on the glass ball not far from the two standing.
"Yuan'er, you seem to understand what you have to do here, don't you?" Zhou Bing looked in which direction his grandson was looking.
Zhou Yuan nodded, the glass ball placed on the table was not an ordinary glass ball but a special tool that could test one's talents.
When someone touches the glass ball, he will react by shining gold. The brighter the light, the higher the talent of the person who touches the ball.
But on the contrary, if the glass ball did not react then he was not destined to become a swordsman, in another sense the person would not be able to open the dantian gates on his body.
Zhou Yuan in his first life also did so by his teacher, so he memorized the way the glass ball performed.
Zhou Yuan was then invited by Zhou Bing to place his hand on the glass ball. Zhou Yuan took a slow breath before putting his hand on the glass ball.
Instantly the hall room was silent for a moment, they seemed to focus on seeing the reaction of the glass ball.
One second, two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds, no reaction from the glass ball.
"It... Why not shine..."
"Surprisingly, shouldn't the glass ball react immediately when someone touches it?"
"Surely she should be shining now, what is going on exactly?"
The audience began to whisper to see the oddity, after half a minute passed the glass ball did not bring up any ray of light.
Zhou Yao and Lin Ruyue even started to worry that her son turned out to have no martial talent.
Unlike the others, Zhou Yuan on the other hand was closing his eyes quietly, he looked like he was focusing something inside of him.
It took a minute for the glass ball to react, first it shook violently followed by a golden light that began to shine bit by bit.
"Well, it's started, it's already started!" An elder was watching.
Zhou Yao and Lin Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief as the glass ball shone, at least her son could indeed become a swordsman.
The glass ball held by Zhou Yuan continued to shine, at first it was only as bright as a candle but over time the light dazzled the people around it.
"It's..."
Zhou Bing who was near the glass ball held his breath, he had only first seen a glass ball shining this bright in his entire life.
The problem is that the glass ball continues to shine so that people who see it close their eyes, not gradually later the glass ball suffered a crack until in the next second the glass ball exploded violently.