Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 109 — Emperor's Palace
"Greet Your Majesty!"
Zhou Yuan, Xi Jinxue as well as his bodyguards instantly kneeled upon seeing Jiang Qisha, they had not expected the Moon Emperor to directly welcome them in the palace.
"It doesn't need to be formal like that, let's go in. Leave your horses and vehicles here and the bodyguards will take care of it."
Zhou Yuan and Xi Jinxue did not need to question anymore, they directly followed Jiang Qisha's steps into the imperial palace residence.
The first time they suguhi when entering is an immeasurable beauty to see the spacious courtyard and the grandeur of the palace building is large and towering.
Zhou Yuan's eyes widened, the palace in front of him was larger than the palace he had encountered in the underground city, at least double the extent.
In addition there is a garden, there is also a water pond containing small fish to beautify the palace courtyard. Gardens and trees were allowed to grow to add to the impression of beauty in the palace courtyard.
Jiang Qisha smiled at Zhou Yuan's reaction, this was not the first time his guests had reacted similarly when they had just entered the palace. "If you want to know Yuan'er, this palace courtyard is inspired by your city. Zhou Bing was so good at not only beautifying his residence even the entire City at once."
Zhou Yuan nodded, he did not argue that Riva City was indeed very beautiful, the nickname as the prettiest city was not mere nonsense from the Emperor.
"Yuan'er, I thought you'd come sooner, I've been waiting since a few days ago but it turns out you've come longer than I thought."
Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, he could not say that there were many problems while on his journey, killing the rogues, destroying an organization to the point of eliminating the pirates when it was in water.
"My horse was a little sick, Your Majesty, when he was on his way, he could not run fast and needed a lot of rest..."
Jiang Qisha nodded his head, understanding. They began to enter the palace.
Xi Jinxue noticed since Zhou Yuan and Jiang Qisha chatter, the girl was amazed at the familiarity of the young man who seemed to have a good relationship with the Moon Emperor.
"There's actually a lot I want to talk to you about Yuan'er but my situation right now is not right. Seeing you come with someone from the Xi Family, means you know the outline of the meeting to be held here?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, but even so he came here with a different purpose. Zhou Yuan gave a letter from his Grandfather to Jiang Qisha.
Jiang Qisha read the letter for a moment, his face instantly filled with excitement. "Thank you Yuan'er, I'm glad you agreed to my choice."
Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows, puzzled, 'Options, I never decided on a choice from Grandfather?'
Zhou Yuan wanted to ask about it but suddenly one of the servants came and whispered something into Jiang Qisha's ear.
"Well, I'll be there in five minutes..." Jiang Qisha nodded at the servant then turned his head towards Zhou Yuan, Xi Jinxue as well as his guards. "Yuan'er, we can talk again another time, there are important things that I have to do now, for the place where he lives, the waiter will show you where you live here."
Without waiting for Zhou Yuan and the others to answer, Jiang Qisha instantly left them.
The two maids then brought Zhou Yuan's entourage to their respective rooms. Despite being guests, Zhou Yuan and Xi Jinxue were placed in different rooms.
The room Xi Jinxue occupied was reserved for guests for a large meeting later while Zhou Yuan's room was a special room of the direct Emperor.
This showed, Zhou Yuan was highly reckoned with by Jiang Qisha.
"Brother Yuan, then we'll meet another day." Xi Jinxue said goodbye when she realized their room was different directions.
"Young master, if you have other needs, you can call them..." Said the servant accompanying him while pointing at the two eunuchs standing at the door of his room, ready to serve Zhou Yuan at any time.
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly then thanked him. The waiter who accompanied him then left.
There were hundreds of servants in the Imperial Palace, more in number than the Zhou Family who were double-potted.
Zhou Yuan entered his room, slightly amazed that the room he occupied was extremely luxurious.
"This cup is made of gold, there will be many people who are helped if they sell it and it is given to the poor..." Zhou Yuan shook his head slowly when he saw that there was a cup in his room, since he was reborn he was still unfamiliar with the habits of nobles who had excessive luxurious life patterns.
For the next three days, apart from resting Zhou Yuan spent his time in his room to train the Golden Dragon Scales technique even deeper. Zhou Yuan had indeed mastered the technique but he wanted to refine it.
When the Golden Dragon Scales Technique had been perfectly trained, Zhou Yuan could harden his body to become strong again. Zhou Yuan hoped that the technique could withstand an attack from an heirloom.
On the fourth day, Zhou Yuan chose to leave the room, when it had entered the night.
"Can I walk around here?" Zhou Yuan asked the two eunuchs guarding his room.
"Your Majesty allows him to go to a certain room, we are also required to come if the Young Master wants to go around the palace to minimize misunderstandings."
The palace was heavily guarded, almost every point there were warriors on guard. If any guest wanted to tour the palace then they would be supervised by two eunuchs.
Zhou Yuan did not mind it, he let the two eunuchs tail him behind him as he began to stroll around the palace which was almost the size of a village.
That night the sky was bright moon, Zhou Yuan could enjoy around the palace which was indeed besides luxurious, he was also very beautiful let alone there was a fountain in one corner of the palace.
"Too weak, is your strength only this much?!"
Zhou Yuan's steps came to a halt when he arrived at a place that seemed to be the training ground of the Palace's soldiers. Zhou Yuan's attention was immediately drawn to a fight in the arena at the training ground.
A young girl was fighting twelve soldiers, eight of whom were lying on the ground unconscious, leaving four more who were now frightened against the girl.
The girl looked furious that she felt her opponent was too easily defeated, resentment etched on the girl's face and snapped at the four remaining warriors.
Without waiting any longer for the girl to attack the last four soldiers, every attack she unleashed created a hot blue flame. It did not wait long until the four soldiers caught up and were unconscious.
Zhou Yuan's heart pounded as the girl turned her head towards him and the two's gaze met. Zhou Yuan could see the girl's beautiful face that was so dazzling.
The girl's hair was pink as well as the color of the dress she wore, her skin was white like a bright moonlight, had a slender body and golden irises.
The beauty of the girl Zhou Yuan had never met, her beauty was slightly above Xiao Rou and Yue Linxia, her face was sweet even though the girl's expression was still being annoyed at this moment.
The eunuch near Zhou Yuan chuckled as he had guessed that Zhou Yuan's reaction would be so, no one was not blown away when he saw the girl's face, he then whispered something to Zhou Yuan that the girl was the current Moon Emperor's Princess.
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*Until this Chapter, from the reader's point of view, is it getting bored already?