Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 76 — Snake Silver Scales
Zhou Yuan and Xi Jinxue immediately went to where Xi Yan's group was, from the camp it would take at least ten minutes for the two to arrive at their full speed.
Zhou Yuan finally found Xi Yan and his group who were fighting with the snake. Not far from their fight was a large cave that gaped wide.
Zhou Yuan's eyes widened slightly as he got to know the snake. "Silver Blade, how is he here?!"
Zhou Yuan couldn't have mistakenly known the demon in question because in the first life the demon almost killed him. If that time he did not meet his teacher who saved him perhaps Zhou Yuan would die sooner than he should.
The Silver Serpent Demon now seemed to dominate the fight, the arrival of the group of Xi Yan and the others to the cave seemed to stir up an immeasurable fury from the snake.
"Seeing from his physique this snake was already nearly three hundred years old, requiring a peak Golden Realm swordsman to defeat it..." Zhou Yuan clenched his hands hard.
Zhou Yuan could watch as Xi Yan and his group grew increasingly overwhelmed against the Silver-Scaled Snake, even some of its members were injured.
Zhou Yuan did not have time to observe the situation any further, he exerted a considerable amount of energy in his mouth before turning it into energy.
"Elemental Fire — Blowing Fireballs!"
With a single breath, Zhou Yuan let out a gigantic fireball in his mouth which then led to the fight of the Silver Snake and Xi Yan's group.
When the giant fireball was close enough, Xi Yan and his group noticed it, they were startled before hurriedly moving away from the fireball.
The Silver Snake also reacted similarly, he had even first noticed the fireball before Xi Yan's group.
When the fireball hit the ground it immediately exploded quite large, creating a great fire around it.
Jinxue's mouth was wide open, not expecting Zhou Yuan to be able to unleash such a powerful technique. The fireball that Zhou Yuan released managed to separate between the Silver Snake and Xi Yan's Group.
The Silver Snake could not get close to Xi Yan because there was a blaze separating between them but the fire could not last long because when the fire was extinguished then the Silver Snake would chase after Xi Yan's group back.
At that moment Zhou Yuan immediately descended and landed right in front of Xi Yan.
"Brother Zhou, you..." Xi Yan was surprised by the appearance of Zhou Yuan appearing so suddenly.
"Brother Xi, we don't have time to talk, I'll hold the snake to hold it for a while, you and your group can leave now."
"Brother Zhou, the Snake is too powerful, you can be killed by it in one strike..."
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly. "I believe I have my own way of getting away from it. Brother Xi, get out of here quickly."
Xi Yan clearly rejected the way, even though he always looked down on others because of their status and abilities but the man was a responsible figure. If there is someone who must be sacrificed then he is the right person as the leader of the group.
Xi Yan was about to retaliate but Xi Jinxue landed shortly afterwards.
"Our brother must go, let Brother Zhou face the snake!"
Xi Yan actually strongly rejected the idea but seeing his sister so confident in Zhou Yuan's ability, he had no choice but to comply.
"Brother Zhou I owe you one more time, if I'd like to see you again after this competition is over..."
This competition was clearly beyond the ability of the participants, they had to stop the competition after finding a demon for hundreds of years.
Zhou Yuan glanced back to make sure Xi Yan and the others had already moved away, Zhou Yuan pulled his sword then turned his head towards the Silver Snake.
The flames that Zhou Yuan created slowly thinned before finally extinguishing, at the same time the Silver Snake directly charged towards Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan dodged the lunge and swung his sword forcefully, Zhou Yuan's heirloom that had been coated in power in fact could only give a small scratch to his skin scales.
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, as if he felt his sword clashing against a hard iron. The power point of the Silver Snake did lie in its incredible thickness of skin, requiring continuous attacks to defeat it.
Although failing to injure Zhou Yuan did not just give up, he used another elemental sword technique suitable to fight against the Giant Snake that was the Lightning Sword Technique.
The Lightning Sword Technique was one of the Element Sword Techniques that existed in the martial world such as the Water, Fire, and Sound Sword Technique.
This sword technique focused on the speed of body movement, one must be able to run very fast to be able to learn this sword technique.
With a deep thrust on his sword, Zhou Yuan instantly moved swiftly slashing the snake's body from various sides.
Zhou Yuan's speed could not be followed by the snake's eyes so that Zhou Yuan could deliver a swift attack in a short time.
Zhou Yuan's attack was directed at the same wound so that the previously light wound was now gradually widening.
When Zhou Yuan wanted to give another slash, the snake tail suddenly swung at him.
Zhou Yuan clucked in annoyance before hurriedly dodging the tail, the Silver Snake had apparently read Zhou Yuan's movements as well as understood the purpose of his attack.
"You're more troublesome than I thought..." Zhou Yuan clasped his sword tighter, a little annoyed that the snake already had a fair amount of intelligence.
The Silver Snake hissed loudly, from his scales suddenly he released a thick white smoke.
Zhou Yuan's eyes widened, he just recalled the Silver Snake's ability. In addition to the skin is hard like iron, the skin of the Silver Snake has other uses that can emit a smoke.
The smoke is not toxic to inhale but will interfere with visibility. Usually this is used when the Silver Snake is looking for its prey.
In a short while the surroundings of Zhou Yuan were filled with smoke like mist, making his gaze extremely limited. Instead, the snake was able to tell Zhou Yuan's whereabouts through the body heat from him.
From the white smoke, the snake suddenly started crashing back at Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan jumped up to dodge it but while he was in the air, the snake gave a follow-up attack with its tail strike.
Zhou Yuan could not dodge while in the air, he raised his sword to hold the swing of the tail, as a result of which his body was thrown far enough to a halt when it hit the boulder behind him.
The stone cracked as Zhou Yuan struck it strongly, Zhou Yuan grimaced with the pain, He was sure that if he had not practiced the Diamond Bone Technique he might have broken his spine by now.
Zhou Yuan stared at the silver snake coldly, he actually did not plan to use it but the situation forced him so.
Zhou Yuan sheathed his father's heirloom before being replaced with the Kusanagi Sword. When Zhou Yuan drew his sword, it appeared that the black-colored sword eyes were more concentrated than the darkness of night.