Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 71 — Underground City
The flames that Zhou Yuan released shocked the hooded group, those who were about to move towards him hurriedly retreated and took some distance to avoid the flames.
Not only was it huge and forming like a sea of flames but the change of the type of Zhou Yuan fire element type had a high heat temperature.
The grass, the leaves to the trees touched by it instantly burned violently, making a puff of black smoke that scattered everywhere.
The hooded group had no other choice but to continue moving backwards as flames and smoke continued to approach them.
"How can the teenager use this level of change..." The leader of the group hooded to his surprise.
The science of type change in the martial world is very rare, mastering it is also not easy because it must be smart in controlling internal energy.
Seeing a 15-year-old looking child able to perform fire element techniques with such greatness was unheard of in the martial world. This made the group very surprised when they saw it.
When the head of the hooded group had to be continuously made to retreat, that was when he realized Zhou Yuan had already disappeared from his place.
"Damn, he ran away..." The leader of the group clucked in annoyance. "Pursue the boy, don't let him get away!"
The head of the hooded group cursed when he realized Zhou Yuan's plan, he and his subordinates immediately moved around the flames before running after Zhou Yuan.
When the hooded group realized he was running away, Zhou Yuan had run quite far away from them.
Zhou Yuan used all his strength to run with all his might, moving over tree branches. Zhou Yuan's current breathing was already unstable, not because he was running fast but rather his inner strength which was only a few more.
The fire element technique he used before was indeed very powerful but on the other hand Zhou Yuan ran out of a lot of his profound strength.
At least Zhou Yuan spent 90% of his inner energy to spew such a huge amount of fire. His inner energy was only 10 circles away, and now he uses it to run.
"I have to find a place to hide, my inner strength is just a little more..."
If the power in Zhou Yuan was depleted then his running speed would decrease significantly, even if it was still fast but it was not enough to escape from the hooded group it could even be overtaken.
Zhou Yuan took turns at times for the hooded group to be confused or lose track of him.
Zhou Yuan continued to run without knowing the direction until he finally found a waterfall in his escape. Zhou Yuan instantly stopped his steps when he was near there and felt an unusual aura from the waterfall.
The waterfall was not very high like the one found in the green bamboo sect just that the amount of water falling from the cliff was quite swift and thick.
Zhou Yuan frowned looking at the waterfall. His eyes narrowed slightly when he realized there was something strange behind it.
Zhou Yuan found a place behind the waterfall faintly, at least as it was seen and when he checked it by breaking through the waterfall Zhou Yuan found a cave.
The cave was not very large, medium-sized with stalactites and stalagmites on the cave walls.
"This is a suitable place for me to hide, no one would have thought this waterfall had a cave in it..."
Zhou Yuan decided to rest there, he fell down while calming his still-hunting breath. For a long time he had not been chased like this and remembered the time he remembered it at the end of his first life.
The first thing Zhou Yuan did was to calm himself down before taking a cross-legged sitting position, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and began to charge his deep energy which had already disappeared completely.
Zhou Yuan was long enough to gather all his inner power back, yet surely the sky looked dark from the outside when he was done.
Zhou Yuan slowly got up, he looked around the cave he occupied and only realized it was so deep that he did not see the end.
The most interesting thing was that there was an unusual aura appearing in the depths of that cave. The same reason why Zhou Yuan was able to find this cave.
"What kind of cave is this, if I hadn't noticed it maybe I wouldn't have seen it..." Zhou Yuan looked into the dark cave, for some reason he was curious about the depths of the cave.
After considering many things Zhou Yuan thought it would be fine if he went down the cave first. He also could not rush out immediately as there was still the possibility of meeting the hooded group.
After checking that there were no living creatures or things in it Zhou Yuan started to enter the cave, not forgetting that he made a torch as a light of his vision.
The deeper the size of the cave, the greater the number of stalactites and stalagmites on the contrary even decreases.
Almost 15 minutes Zhou Yuan walked but still did not find the end of the cave. As Zhou Yuan was thinking of canceling his search he found a building debris.
"Poing? It means someone's been here before..." Zhou Yuan frowned.
A few steps passed by the debris of the building that was discovered more and more until Zhou Yuan finally arrived at the end of the cave hall.
Zhou Yuan held his breath followed by his widened eyes. He took two steps back when he saw a scene in front of him.
The cave took Zhou Yuan to an underground city, complete with architecture and buildings usually found in the city.
What distinguishes the city is the roof of the cave. It's hard to believe there's an underground settlement.
Zhou Yuan looked around the city, silent, almost no sound was heard. Although a little hesitant but in the end Zhou Yuan chose to enter there because of his growing curiosity.
At the door of the city there were no butchers, but Zhou Yuan discovered that it used to have its own officers.
"If you think about why they need guards, isn't this city covered by the outside world..." Zhou Yuan did not understand about it but he could not stop there, Zhou Yuan entered the city deeper.
The city in the land was currently almost no activity in progress, Zhou Yuan initially thought the people here were sleeping because it was night time but it turned out the assumption was wrong.
"This city... Is the city dead?" Zhou Yuan only realized there was a peculiarity in the city other than the silence that surrounded him.
Zhou Yuan tried to break into one of the buildings believed to be a restaurant in the city. Apparently there was no one there even the place looked dirty and dusty.
Zhou Yuan's conjecture was increasingly evident when exploring other buildings, there was almost no one here but him.
In retrospect, Zhou Yuan realized that he had just discovered a hidden city by accident. Otherwise, perhaps the Patriarch of the Sect had previously already announced about this underground city.
The city was indeed empty like abandoned residents just like that, seen from some home tools that are still lying in place.
Zhou Yuan's view was centered on one of the city's largest buildings which had palace-like buildings.
Located in the middle of the city, Zhou Yuan guessed that the Mayor's residence in this city was there.
Zhou Yuan thought for a moment before walking towards the palace, hoping to find some information regarding this dead city.