Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 80 — Abilities Behind Sword II
Zhou Yuan calmed his breathing that was starting to get irregular, killing the four warriors in one swing so draining his profound strength.
On the other hand the eight warriors who had previously attacked Zhou Yuan did not dare to advance anymore. Those who understood were aware of Zhou Yuan's actions were extremely difficult to do.
Cutting the swordsman's body was the other side while destroying the heirloom was a different story.
Heirlooms are generally very sturdy even for third-rate heirlooms, the weakest heirlooms can at least be destroyed by cloud-class heirlooms up to four to five collisions. It must also be accompanied by a great inner energy.
Seeing Zhou Yuan being able to destroy their heirlooms in a single swing clearly gave a horrifying thought in the hooded member's mind.
On the other hand, their leader was silent to see his four subordinates die in a horrible manner, before anger arose in his heart.
The anger was clearly directed at Zhou Yuan, seeing his men die giving a hard blow to him, he would have trouble explaining this incident to the higher-ups of the White Peacock Organization.
"You-you! I'll take you down into a thousand parts!"
The gaze of the Hooded Group Leader was filled with a strong killing appetite, he took out two twin swords behind his robe which was a first-class heirloom.
The five members beside him also did the same. Without further ado they immediately moved to attack Zhou Yuan simultaneously.
Zhou Yuan grasped his sword even tighter before fending off any of their attacks.
Although one against six people but their level of strength was now different, their Leader along with the other two were at the peak level of the Golden Realm while the rest were at the Intermediate Stage Gold Realm.
His six opponents attacked Zhou Yuan repeatedly, not allowing Zhou Yuan to take a breath for a moment.
After exchanging dozens of moves neither side injured, Zhou Yuan chose to take a defensive position while the six hooded groups did not manage to injure him.
The leader of the Hooded Group clenched his teeth furiously, he had already used his sword ability but almost all of them had been successfully repelled and that made him a little annoyed.
The leader of the Hooded Group then turned towards the eight members who had been silently watching.
"What are you waiting for, quickly help me finish him off!"
The eight members looked at each other, they already felt the sharpness of Zhou Yuan's heirloom that made their heirloom now filled with fine cracks.
If they continue to fight then it is only a matter of their inheritance time being destroyed, even so they are not brave enough to ignore the orders of their Chairman.
The eight men rejoined the fight so that there were now 14 warriors attacking Zhou Yuan.
Linxia who was observing it from afar could only grip his sword tightly. From his smallest heart he wished he could help Zhou Yuan but his present ability was not enough to do so.
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Zhou Yuan held his breath, fighting 14 people at once plus three of them were above his strength overwhelmed him.
In just a dozen moves they managed to corner him, a fortune at the moment Zhou Yuan could still defend against them.
Zhou Yuan's breathing was already irregular, his inner strength had drained more than half of it and he still found no signs of being able to win from them.
Let alone to strike back using his sword technique Zhou Yuan did not even have time to take a breath.
The cooperation of the Hooded Group was so good and filled each other with the void that they attacked Zhou Yuan without having a second pause.
Zhou Yuan could only rely on his fighting experience as well as his sword skills in the first life to survive facing them.
As time went on the energy in Zhou Yuan was getting thinner, it ended up his defense that began to cause a gap so that some of his opponent's next slashes were hit by his body.
"Dam-ch!" Zhou Yuan clucked in annoyance.
"How can he do it, I can't believe this young man can still survive..."
"His sword ability is so high that it can become a protector for his body, if not seeing it straight away maybe I won't believe he's from the younger generation..."
When Zhou Yuan managed to be cornered on the different side of the Hooded Group it was precisely a shock when Zhou Yuan was still able to hold on until this second.
They were quite certain that even the Early Crystal Realm would have been defeated by them if they fought 14 Gold Realm warriors at once.
"You're so talented then what, won't make yourself safe today!" The leader of the Hooded Group snorted before swinging his sword forcefully.
Zhou Yuan immediately hurriedly held back the swing of the sword but his body was instantly dragged far back.
At that moment the Headed Group Leader did not attack Zhou Yuan anymore as well as his subordinates, this time they let Zhou Yuan take a breath.
Zhou Yuan held onto Kusanagi's sword even tighter, his breath hunting a bit but he tried to keep calm.
The Headed Group Leader sneered, "You seem to have reached the limit, then your turn is now over..."
After saying so the Headed Group Leader released sword energy from both of his houses which formed the letter X.
The sword energy was blackish in color and moved swiftly towards Zhou Yuan.
Just as Zhou Yuan was intending to hold him back suddenly Linxia appeared before him then blocked that X sword energy.
The girl exerted all of the profound energy she had on her sword in order to hold back the sword energy, even if it worked but her efforts did not go perfectly, the sword energy that Linxia slightly failed to withstand instantly injured his body.
Zhou Yuan immediately grabbed the girl's body before falling to the ground. "You okay?"
Linxia nodded as he tried to stand back up. "It's just a small wound, won't harm me..."
Zhou Yuan was actually surprised by the girl's sudden actions, everything happened so quickly that Zhou Yuan was late in reacting.
"The braid of romance." The leader of the Hooded Group snorted in annoyance. "Then I'll kill that woman before you."
Zhou Yuan this time responded to the words of the Headed Group Leader, his gaze turned cold and filled with a strong killing appetite.
"You want to kill me? I'll show you my true strength..."
Zhou Yuan exerted a deep force on his fingers before striking the area of his heart.
The leader of the Hooded Group frowned as well as his subordinates.
When they still did not understand what was happening suddenly Zhou Yuan's body released a powerful aura of power followed by his eyes that became radiant.
The eyes of the Headed Group Leader widened while taking a cold breath, he did not understand but he could feel Zhou Yuan's strength now rising much stronger than before.
"I don't actually want to use this forbidden technique but you guys are forcing me to." Zhou Yuan patted his shoulder with a kusanagi sword then stared intently at the hooded group. "Then we end it all here..."
Zhou Yuan suddenly disappeared from their sight before appearing near the Hooded Group Leader while swinging his sword.
The hooded Leader had no time to dodge so he raised his two navels. He managed to survive in that way but his two navels were instantly cut in half when Kusanagi Sword passed through.
The leader of the Hooded Group immediately took some distance from Zhou Yuan, his breathing felt tight as the heirloom that had accompanied his life all along was shattered easily by his opponent but now was not the time he thought about that.
The leader of the Hooded Group thought more about his safety, his instincts saying that the current Zhou Yuan was an extraordinarily dangerous figure.