The God of War
The Golden Peach Valley
It had been almost a month since Zhou and the soldiers were in the Fujiwara-Yamato capital region, but they still had not found any signs of Suzaku.
Even according to the locals they had met, they said that the last time Suzaku showed himself in this world was 500 years ago to a young swordsman he wanted at that time.
"If you can tell who the young swordsman is? Can you tell us a little bit?" zhou asked the citizens he had just met.
"A young genius in his period. And he didn't realize he had an artifact triggering a relic from his teacher. So Suzaku showed himself when the young genius swordsman came to the Fujiwara region" the middle-aged man explained.
"A trigger artifact?" Zhou muttered softly with a frown.
"really. But that item was a very rare item. In addition to using top-tier artifacts, those artifacts were usually thousands of years old. Or .." said the man hanging his words.
"Is there any other way?"
"Yes. Ada, Sir. Usually trigonal crystals possessed by high-level spiritual beasts could be used instead of angler artifacts. Although it actually only has a 10% success rate. Yet in our region, there has never been a high-level spiritual beast. What often existed in the forest and the dew valley were only elementary and low-level spiritual beasts." said the middle-aged man again explaining little he knew.
So that means it is absolutely impossible huh to obtain the trigonal crystal belonging to a high-level spiritual beast? Hhm ...
Inner Zhou concluded.
"There's actually a region 5 miles from here. Between the high cliffs to the west, there was a golden peach valley. I've heard that there once lived a fire lion that had a high level. But no one ever dared to enter his territory again after our villagers were killed by the fire lion. At that time there were only 1 survivor, but he was very badly injured. That fire lion aura would not be able to keep ordinary people like us breathing. And anyone who has entered that place, usually will not be able to return safely. If it can even come out, the chances are very small."
It was clearly the middle-aged man again.
Zhou was speechless with a frown, digesting all the old man's words.
"Alright, then I'll be right back. If you need help, you can come to my house. My house is right behind this lake." he added kindly and left Zhou's entourage.
"good. Thank you, Uncle." Zhou replied kindly.
A high-level spiritual beast? Actually Igrukingu has it, because I have given you a trigonal crystal that I got from that 9-tailed red fox demon. But there's no way I'm asking for it anymore! Hhm .. It looks like I have to find that fire lion to get his trigonal crystal. Although it is very unlikely to use it to provoke Suzaku's presence, it never hurts to try!
Inner Zhou.
"Everything! We're getting ready to go to the golden peach valley right now!" decreed Zhou.
"Okay, Commander Zhou!" answer the compact soldiers.
They traveled to reach the golden peach valley, and arrived there at dusk. Not resting, they immediately entered the place by walking down a narrow road squeezed by two high cliffs.
At the end of the narrow path they began to see a beautiful valley filled by a stretch of golden peach trees with a clear sky covering them. It was as if he had entered a different world after passing through a narrow path between those 2 cliffs. So beautiful!
"What's this?" the soldier was startled and immediately opened his hands until the beautiful little winged creature started flying.
Zhou plucked another golden peach and placed it over his open palm. She looked at him and looked at him what exactly was that thing? Like a golden peach, yet why could it turn into a little elf?
The same thing happened, the golden peach in Zhou hands suddenly melted with its golden dust and turned into a beautiful little winged creature.
"Ras fairy? It turned out that this golden peach was no ordinary peach." Zhou muttered softly.
No conversation had yet occurred, suddenly there were howls echoing throughout this golden peach valley surrounded by high cliffs on each side.
UUUMMM ...
ROEBIS ...
The soldiers began to stand guard around and take up their respective weapons. Zhou led them down the road before him to approach the source of the howling sound.
Until they finally saw a horde of standard-sized fire lions before them.
"Seeing from its aura, they were only basic to mid-level spiritual beasts only. Then ... where is the fire lion that uncle talked about?" mumbled Zhou still spread his gaze to look for another fire lion.
But suddenly the dozens of fire lions started to turn around, and it seemed like they had noticed the presence of Zhou and the soldiers. Eventually they began to roar and one by one they began to approach Zhou and the soldiers.
"So soon finish them quickly! I'll look for that high-level fire lion!" tell Zhou to prepare with his Azzael Shin Guto.
"Okay, Commander Zhou!" tell them simultaneously.
The dozens of basic to medium level fire lions jumped up to pounce on them. One of them jumped towards Yaoyao, but Yaoyao very easily ended it with her dragon fire spear to finish at one of her vital points.
While Nagamasa was using his arrows which had been flowed by his spiritual power to deal with those spiritual beasts of that basic level. While the other soldiers used their swords, spears and arrows to face them.
While Zhou was still walking down a road and hoped to soon find the high-level fire lion. Zhou eventually found a lake. And at the edge of the lake he saw a fire lion that was 3 times larger than the fire lion he had met before.
The fire lion was seen tearing apart human bodies. Although it is very messy in shape, but there are still some parts such as legs and hands that are still intact. And it's part of the human body.
Zhou squinted his pair of eyes and prepared with his Azzael Shin Guto. He prepared to attack the fire lion. Zhou darted very quickly to the fire lion, unwilling to waste this opportunity while the fire lion was caught off guard.
But who would have thought, the fire lion had apparently realized the arrival of Zhou. Just as Azzael Shin Guto left only 1 meter away from him, the fire lion darted quickly and leapt towards Zhou.