Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 75 — Deep Energy Boost
Zhou Yuan was given a tent by Xi Jinxue for her place of silence in this campground, the girl thought Zhou Yuan was currently exhausted considering that he had walked far and fought with the two wolves before.
Zhou Yuan himself did not reject the offer, after Jinxue left his tent Zhou Yuan chose to sit cross-legged and take out the stealth gems he had collected over the past few days.
"I'll look at the situation first, there may be some clues regarding the moon orchid in this place..." Zhou Yuan muttered softly.
While waiting for Zhou Yuan to make use of his time to practice. Zhou Yuan then took out the demon gems then clasped each one in both hands, the size of the gems was quite large, he then absorbed its essence into his body.
Stealth gems are often used by warriors as helpers in increasing the capacity of a person's inner circle of energy.
In addition, it also has a function that can restore power in but such a way is rarely done by a swordsman because stealth gems have side effects if used regularly especially continuously.
Those who use excessively will experience physical mutations such as growing horns, tails, or the like.
Therefore, stealth gems are only used for three to five times a year by warriors so as not to experience the effects of these side effects.
However, there are exceptions for some other warriors where they can consume more stealth gems than ordinary warriors.
The swordsman is usually someone who is deep in the mastery of internal energy science.
One example is Jiang Qisha, who is a swordsman who focuses his strength on mastery of internal energy. With the techniques he had learned from the Jiang Family for generations, he was able to consume ten to fifteen stealth gems each year.
It made the power capacity within Jiang Qisha very large, reaching around four thousand to five thousand inner power circles. In the martial world, it would be difficult to find the power capacity in that much.
The two demon gems Zhou Yuan grasped suddenly broke apart after he absorbed all of his essence. Zhou Yuan could feel ten new inner power circles had formed in his dantian.
"It will take a long time to reach the amount of energy in me like in my previous life..." Zhou Yuan sighed.
Zhou Yuan was among the other exceptions, with the special technique that his teacher taught him he could consume as many stealth gems as he wanted without experiencing the supposed side effects.
In the first life, other than himself being a high-level swordsman, Zhou Yuan was a swordsman who had a large amount of inner strength not inferior to Jiang Qisha.
When feeling the inner energy he formed now was still very minimal Zhou Yuan was powerless to complain. Though with that much inner power at the level of the Golden Realm almost no one could match it.
Zhou Yuan went back to take the other gems, he intended to spend all of his stockpile of stealth gems here.
Zhou Yuan was originally going to consume the stealth gems he collected when he returned to his home but after he found the Kusanagi Sword which required a great deal of inner power in its use, Zhou Yuan changed his training plan.
It took nearly three days to absorb the entire gem that Zhou Yuan gathered. Now the energy within Zhou Yuan had reached 160 circles.
"I've guessed, stealth gems are indeed the fastest resource to increase the amount of energy in a swordsman..."
Zhou Yuan's current development was arguably very terrifying for a swordsman. Perhaps no one will believe someone is able to form 60 circles in just a few days.
When Zhou Yuan opened his eyes, he saw that the sky was already bright. Zhou Yuan sighed softly feeling his slightly stiff body. He then walked out of the tent to breathe in a fresher breath.
"Hm, looks like everything's gone?" When outside Zhou Yuan found the camp settlement of Xi Yan's group was already quite quiet.
Zhou Yuan had already heard some information during his practice, Xi Yan's group was currently going somewhere to look for the Moon Orchid's clues.
Jinxue also participated in the search so that now in the camp there are only a few participants who live to guard these tents.
Zhou Yuan actually wanted to say goodbye to Jinxue and Xi Yan today as he was about to leave their camp. When he realized they were not there Zhou Yuan could not just leave, he would wait for the two brothers to return.
Time continued to move until the day had already stepped on the night, Zhou Yuan frowned when he found no signs the group of Xi Yan and Jinxue were going back to the camp.
"Do they intend to move in the dark, it will be dangerous to act so..."
Just as Zhou Yuan thought Xi Yan's entourage would return tomorrow morning, suddenly from a distance there was the sound of someone shouting to say his name.
"Miss Xi, what happened?!"
Zhou Yuan was surprised that the shouting was Xi Jinxue, what made him surprised was the condition regarding the girl.
Jinxue looked exhausted with a hunting breath like he had run quite a distance. Jinxue's body also had some injuries on his body so Zhou Yuan realized something had happened to the girl.
"Brother Zhou, please help my brother, he is currently in danger..." With a disjointed breath, Xi Jinxue explained what happened to him.
Briefly, Xi Yan's entourage was currently heading towards a large cave that was supposedly where the Moon Orchid was located.
There it turns out there is a giant snake demon that guards it. Initially Xi Yan's entourage thought it would fight the snake but after seeing its power let alone to kill the snake, they couldn't even run away from it.
The snake was currently in an all-out fight with Xi Yan and his group. They deliberately took the opportunity for Xi Jinxue to go and escape in order to ask the sect elders for help.
"Aren't there fireworks, why don't you use them?" Zhou Yuan recalled the fireworks that were distributed to each participant for use during emergencies.
Xi Jinxue shook his head softly, almost all of Xi Yan's group had no one to bring such emergency fireworks with them because it didn't think they would experience such a situation.
Even if they do, no change will happen. The sect elders would come late if helping them now considering the distance of the sect and the location of the snake was quite far away.
Xi Jinxue therefore ran towards his tent, thinking the only way to save his older brother was Zhou Yuan.