Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 233 — Roadblock
Xi Jinxue leaned his back against the tree behind him, stroking his stomach which was now full from eating too much rabbit meat.
"Brother Yuan, since when can you cook so well, the chefs in my family are not as good as your cooking..."
Zhou Yuan chuckled, almost a portion more of the rabbit meat that he could end up in the belly of the girl. Zhou Yuan was happy because his cooking made Xi Jinxue's originally sad feelings so filled with happiness.
"I learned from someone, Miss Xi, it just so happens that she is also an expert in cooking." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly.
During his three years with Yun Feiyu, Zhou Yuan learned many things there one of which was cooking. According to Zhou Yuan cooking is a necessary skill in his life.
Linxia taught her a lot of cooking, especially about cooking meat.
"Miss Xi, you're resting here for a while, don't worry about no beasts or demons in this area." Zhou Yuan turned around and was about to leave.
"Where are you going, it's late?"
"I'm going to hunt forest rabbits again, there just happened to be a lot around here."
"Ah, must have eaten me too much until you weren't full, right?"
Zhou Yuan chuckled softly before shaking his head slowly, it was indeed before Xi Jinxue ate a lot but the purpose of Zhou Yuan leaving was not because of that.
"I want to hunt down a rabbit for breakfast, you stay here!"
Without waiting for Xi Jinxue's reply, Zhou Yuan immediately left to quickly jump over the tree branches.
After a good distance away from Xi Jinxue he then continued his steps by flying through the air, Zhou Yuan could now see all the areas of the forest clearly when he saw them in the sky.
"Hm, I didn't expect them to bring more members like this?" Zhou Yuan stroked his chin, his attention fixed on a group that was moving in the middle of the forest.
The group was quite large and numbered around six hundred people, the same group as the group that attacked Xi Jinxue a few days ago, they were the Red Scorpion Organization.
Zhou Yuan had already guessed that some of the Red Scorpion Organization members who had previously escaped would bring other comrades to chase after Xi Jinxue.
Especially when Zhou Yuan and Xi Jinxue began a journey into this forest he realized that he was being followed by someone, even though the person had the ability to hide but Zhou Yuan could still realize the air of his existence.
Zhou Yuan saw the Red Scorpion group continuously moving in the direction where Xi Jinxue was resting, Zhou Yuan then went down, planning to head off all of them.
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"Is the report true that the Xi Family's daughter is heading to this forest?" The leader of the Red Scorpion frowned when he heard the report from his subordinates.
"Right Chairman, from the information of the person who was watching the two of them they were passing through this forest."
"But why must it pass through the forest, there are more routes to get to the Chu clan than this path."
"That's... We don't know, maybe they feel unsafe if they pass through the settlement because it is being hunted by us so prefer the forest path."
The leader of the Red Scorpion sighed, he himself could not believe that he would have to intervene like this to catch a girl.
The Red Scorpion Organization was a medium-sized organization with the leader of their organization that possessed the strength of the Crystal Realm swordsman.
The average strength of its members may only be a silver swordsman but the point of strength of the Red Scorpion lies in its large number of members.
The Red Scorpion Organization was part of the Sky Cloud Temple alliance assigned to capture Xi Jinxue, if they failed not only would the reputation of the Red Scorpion go down but they would also be slaughtered by the Temple of the Sky Clouds as it would be felt incompetent to carry out this simple mission.
For that reason the Red Scorpion Leader today moved and used the full strength of his organization to capture Xi Jinxue.
The Red Scorpion Leader continued to move along with his six hundred troops when suddenly his gaze was fixed on a shadow that appeared in front of them.
The shadow moved slowly until the moonlight finally shone on it, then a young man from the shadow appeared.
"Who are you?"
The Red Scorpion Leader stopped his steps when he saw Zhou Yuan's appearance, he became wary of not feeling the young man's presence before Zhou Yuan showed himself.
The rest of the Red Scorpion members stopped when their leader stopped, only then did they realize Zhou Yuan's whereabouts.
"I? Aren't you guys after me right now?" Zhou Yuan smiled widely.
One of the members then whispered to the Red Scorpion Leader that Zhou Yuan was the swordsman who helped Xi Jinxue earlier.
"So then, you're the one who killed dozens of my men before..." The leader of the Red Scorpion snorted in annoyance before glancing at his men. "Stop him, make sure his head is separated from his body!"
After obtaining the order, a dozen of them split up in the group ranks and moved towards Zhou Yuan to attack him with their cleaver.
"Oh, no pleasantries first..." Zhou Yuan shook his head slowly before then moving quickly closer to the dozen people.
The speed Zhou Yuan showed could not be seen by the swordsmen eyes who were in the silver realm so they saw Zhou Yuan as disappearing for a moment and appearing suddenly in front of them.
Zhou Yuan swung his finger at one of the Red Scorpion members which made the member's neck cut off, before his body collapsed onto the ground Zhou Yuan took the machete in his hand and then slashed it at the other Red Scorpion members.
The speed of Zhou Yuan's blade swing was too fast to catch their eyes, before the dozens of people reacted Zhou Yuan had already separated their heads one by one, in a matter of seconds several heads had already rolled on the ground.
Zhou Yuan's action made the one who saw him shocked let alone Zhou Yuan killing his comrades within seconds.
Zhou Yuan swung his machete to clear the blood, "Why stop, tell your men to attack me again, don't you want to separate my head."
The leader of the Red Scorpion tightened his teeth in annoyance. "One half of the members came with me to fight him, the other half brought the girl back!"
After saying so, three hundred Red Scorpion members moved to attack Zhou Yuan together.
Zhou Yuan did not stay silent and began swinging his machete to finish off the Red Scorpion members that surrounded him, within a short period of time dozens of them had already lost their lives.
Realizing Zhou Yuan continued to kill his men with a shocking number the Red Scorpion leader immediately came forward and attacked him with his machete.
"You think you can act as you please!" The leader of the Red Scorpion snorted in annoyance.
Zhou Yuan resisted the Red Scorpion Leader's attack with his machete.
"I thought you were letting me finish off your men!" Zhou Yuan smiled mockingly.
The leader of the Red Scorpion was getting more and more emotional, along with hundreds of his men he then attacked Zhou Yuan together.
Zhou Yuan smiled cynically before pouring a deep energy on his machete that made the machete so much sharper. Zhou Yuan then swung it, in a single strike the bodies of the five Red Scorpion members near him instantly split into two.