Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 66 — Two Debaran Hearts
The night was getting late, Zhou Yuan told Linxia to rest considering the condition of his body while he was about to stand guard. Although a little reluctant but in the end the girl relented and then lay down by the bonfire.
Shortly after Linxia fell asleep, Zhou Yuan shook his head as he looked at his future fiance. According to him Linxia was too imposing himself in this competition.
Zhou Yuan spent his night training, swallowing the resource pills for his breakthrough to the next level.
"This body..."
Zhou Yuan held his breath after purifying one of the pills, no effect felt on his body but only a little, very little to the point of feeling that there was no change whatsoever.
Zhou Yuan couldn't imagine how many pills it would take for him to break through to the next stage, but that must be a lot.
"I still don't understand about this body, on the other hand it can make me stronger quickly but on the other hand the different resources it needs are really terrible..."
In his first life, Zhou Yuan did not spend this much resources in training. Zhou Yuan knew this was due to his special Sky King body.
The Sky King's body in fact requires a very large portion of resources in each of its breakthroughs.
Zhou Yuan sighed, either to be grateful or not to the condition of his body. Zhou Yuan again swallowed another pill before purifying it.
As the sky began to light up slightly, Zhou Yuan rose from his practice before searching for something edible for the two.
Linxia woke up as the sunlight washed his face gently, the girl felt more refreshed, not looking as exhausted as before.
"Apples?"
Zhou Yuan threw an apple at the girl, which he quickly caught easily.
"Thank you."
Zhou Yuan nodded slowly. "How's the next destination, still down the border?"
"For the second day I was thinking of entering the depths of the forest, it seems that there are no Moon Orchids around here."
Zhou Yuan nodded slowly, he agreed with the girl because during the trip the two were tracing the border, there had been no signs of light as the Patriarch of the Sect had said.
Linxia finished his apples before putting out the campfire, "Yesterday I found the river flow while looking for twigs, while in the morning we have to refresh ourselves first."
Zhou Yuan did not refuse, he let the girl lead his way.
There were two things that made Zhou Yuan act like that, first because Linxia had the experience of living in the forest and the two girls knew the forest of Bamboo Mountain better than anyone.
Not long after the two arrived at the river in question, the river was large and wide but had a shallow depth.
"This river really has fresh water, where did these waters come from?"
"On the bamboo mountain, of course, the water feels fresh because it comes from the original mountain source."
Linxia then said that he would clean up here for a while, Zhou Yuan went upstream of the river afraid that the girl was mistaken again as well as he also bathed there.
After thirty minutes, Zhou Yuan returned and found the girl had finished her bath. She now looks even sweeter and more graceful.
"It's the first time a man hasn't looked at me with a sense of attraction..." Linxia smiled faintly looking at Zhou Yuan who was like he was not drugged by his face.
Linxia did not mean to arrogantly say so, in reality she was indeed a girl who had above average beauty.
"There are many reasons..." Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly. "As you said, you're too young to attract my attention..."
Linxia's forehead shriveled, not understanding Zhou Yuan looking at him as to what "Your age is only a year or two away from me, you've looked at me that way, or perhaps you're older than you look."
"No, I'm 12 now, a little younger than you."
Linxia did not hide the shock on his face, he observed Zhou Yuan's expression to discover the lie from the man's words, but in fact Zhou Yuan said an honest thing.
Linxia coughed softly, confused as to what to answer him now. Zhou Yuan looks like a 15-year-old because of his height and posture.
Zhou Yuan's height reached 165 centimeters, his body also looked gallant. It was hard to believe that the person in front of him was below his age.
Given Zhou Yuan's age of 12, he remembered his fiancee of the same age. Of course Linxia did not think that the person in front of him was his own potential fiancee.
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Zhou Yuan and Linxia again continued their journey towards the forest of the Bamboo Mountain deeper, in contrast to the previous one who was moving in a running manner. This time they both walked normally and did not rush too much.
According to Linxia, the deeper the forest that was in the Bamboo Mountain ate the more demons or beasts there were.
Although there may be nothing to harm the two but it never hurts for them to avoid something troublesome.
"This bamboo forest turned out to have many valuable magic plants..."
Zhou Yuan looked at the Blood Grass plant that was useful in his training of purifying blood, he plucked it as well as Linxia.
"In addition to looking for Moon Orchids, participants can still benefit from this competition even though they will lose, one of which is that they are free to take magical plants that grow around Mount Bamboo..."
Linxia explained that there was a wide variety of magical plants or fruits that were good for the swordsman's progress on the Bamboo Mountain. If someone is lucky maybe they will get a rare plant.
"The reason for Mount Bamboo is opened every five years because it is related to the resources in this mountain, there were so many warriors who took it up to the number of magical plants to thin out. For this reason, Mount Bamboo is closed by the public and opened for five years, namely when the competition is looking for Orchids of the Moon."
Zhou Yuan nodded slowly, the more both of them entered into the forest the more magical plants grew.
Although the quality is mediocre and needs processing but with that much amount they still have great value if sold or consumed.
Both Zhou Yuan and Yue Linxia's steps came to a halt when they saw that there were huge footprints on the ground.
Zhou Yuan frowned looking at the trail as he felt familiar to him while Linxia was a little surprised because he had only first seen such a large footprint.
Before the two of them reacted any further, the ground they were on shook violently, Zhou Yuan glared when he saw a giant boar already appearing nearby with a position about to butcher.
There was no time, Zhou Yuan pulled Linxia's body into his arms before he leaped high onto one of the tree branches, avoiding the ramming of the boar.
"You okay?"
Zhou Yuan was forced to hug the girl because of the impossible situation.
"I'm fine, thank you..." Linxia immediately distanced himself from Zhou Yuan.
Just a few seconds later Zhou Yuan saved Linxia might be different fate, the girl's heart was pounding much faster, not because she was afraid of the boar but for other reasons.