Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 257 — Golden Tree
Zhou Yuan signaled for Yifei to rest and let the dozens of Crystal Realm warriors become his opponents. After that, he went ahead and fought them.
With his agile swordplay, Zhou Yuan quickly cornered the dozen Crystal Realm warriors, in a relatively short time he had already injured them with serious injuries.
Zhou Yuan poured his profound energy into Kusanagi's sword, making his sword sharpness increase by several folds.
It didn't take long until one of them was finally killed, the sharp kusanagi sword was not something their heirlooms could withstand so easily that Zhou Yuan's sword finished off one of them.
Following the first one, another Crystal Realm warrior followed along and breathed his last.
The remaining Crystal Realm warriors were now deeply sorry for not running away when they had the chance, seeing their comrades being killed one by one made the others aware only of the time it was their turn to be killed.
They wanted to give up and kneel on the ground but urung saw Zhou Yuan exuding a strong killing appetite in each of his attacks.
It took three minutes for Zhou Yuan to finish off the dozens of Crystal Realm warriors, they tried to put up a resistance to the end but were in vain with Zhou Yuan's current strength.
"You're great Yuan Gege..." Yifei smiled cheerfully watching Zhou Yuan's victory.
Zhou Yuan replied with a warm smile as he swung his sword to cleanse from the blood sticking up.
"Are you hurt?" Ask Zhou Yuan.
"No, I'm fine, only my inner strength is drained."
Zhou Yuan smiled and stroked the girl's head gently.
"Yuan Gege, have you defeated the others, where is that Heavenly Fruit?"
"I've made sure they're buried here, and as for the Celestial Fruit, he's inside my ring of bones."
Yifei nodded slowly then his gaze turned towards the Mu Family building that was still burning.
Following the direction his girl Zhou Yuan immediately smiled faintly, he realized that he had burned the Mu Family residence into a sea of fire.
Zhou Yuan had no choice but to make sure the criminals did not escape he had to do various things to finish them off.
Buildings may be repaired again but not if the criminals manage to escape, they will cause a lot of damage if they continue to be left alive.
Zhou Yuan walked a few steps forward, he gathered a deep energy in his mouth before spitting out a sizable amount of water.
The water Zhou Yuan released was as great as the fire he had burst before, quickly extinguishing the fire that had broken out in the Mu Family residence, on the same side making the residence flooded.
Although it had already suffered some damage, the Mu Family residence could still be repaired.
"So, what's our next plan?" Ask Yifei.
"I want to find Chairman Mu first, there's something I want to ask him..." After saying so, Zhou Yuan floated in the air.
Yifei followed suit and the two flew high enough to search for the whereabouts of Mu Liang and his displaced family, looking up at the sky, it didn't take long for them to find what they were looking for.
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Mu Liang quickly told his family to hurry to leave his residence, with their bodyguards and aides coming out of the Mu Residence on time.
The fire was obvious because it was dark, Mu Liang was pale-faced because he realized that all this was his work.
Mu Liang only realized his mistake of spreading the Heavenly Fruit information to the martial world and instead sold it, which he now considered a suicide that could not only harm him but his family.
Maybe because he was too focused on selling Heavenly Fruit, making him forget that criminals also want to get the legendary fruit .
Mu Liang could only be grateful for Zhou Yuan's existence, if the young swordsman was not there he might not be able to fight against the Ghost Sword and others.
"My husband, what exactly is going on?" Mu Liang's wife did not know anything when suddenly her husband told her and her family to go out for no apparent reason.
"I've made a mistake, but the point is it's because of criminals." Mu Liang let out a long sigh, not discussing further.
Mu Liang continued to stare at his burning residence, thinking the flames would devour the house he had lived in for decades when suddenly in a short time, the fire was suddenly extinguished.
"Hm, what's-..." Mu Liang was surprised by what he saw but before reacting any further, the voice of someone calling his name sounded on it.
"Chairman Mu, I think you're far away it turns out you're still around here." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly.
Mu Liang's breathing was stifled, surprised by Zhou Yuan and Yifei coming at him while floating in the air.
Your family and other bodyguards also followed in surprise, their whole lives, only the first time they saw someone could fly like this.
"P-swordsman, are you okay?" Being too shocked, Mu Liang said nervously.
Zhou Yuan nodded. "Now that the criminals are gone, you can bring your family back to your residence as usual just maybe there was some damage to the building from the previous fire. It's all my fault, I'll replace him..."
Zhou Yuan wanted to take the money bag under his cloak but Mu Liang quickly prevented it.
"No need for Mr. Swordsman, I should thank you for saving my family. This repair issue let me endure it all." Mu Liang hurriedly forbade.
Zhou Yuan did not discuss it further, he then said his intention was to come here, Zhou Yuan wanted to see the Heavenly Fruit tree and how Mu Liang could obtain the fruit.
"Hm, actually the fruit did not grow in my residence but was in one of the houses of the inhabitants of this city, they reported about a strange golden tree to me a few weeks ago..." Mu Liang slightly explained how could that Heavenly Fruit be in his hands.
"Can you show me where the tree is?"
Mu Liang did not mind it, he would escort Zhou Yuan and Yifei there.
Before Mu Liang departed, he told his family to return to his residence while he was with Zhou Yuan and Yifei going to the point where the Heavenly Fruit tree was growing.
It took them a minute with their speed to get to the location Mu Liang was referring to.
"After the Heavenly Fruit tree bears fruit, this tree loses its leaves and light golden color. Looks like this tree will die soon..." Mu Liang explained that he was worried that Zhou Yuan could not believe that the tree before him was a Heavenly Fruit tree.
Zhou Yuan looked at the tree, it did look like a dead tree, its golden color had faded but Zhou Yuan could still see the peculiarity of the tree.
"Chairman Mu need not worry, I can see this tree is indeed unusual especially the aura it emits." Zhou Yuan nodded slowly.
Mu Liang breathed a sigh of relief, he then explained about the peculiarity of the Heavenly Fruit tree, besides its golden-colored radiant appearance before fruiting, it had a rapid growth period compared to ordinary trees, it had a fast growth period, it takes at least five weeks for it to bear fruit.