Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 284 — Xiao Fan Condition
Zhou Yuan's countenance became tangled hearing the word war, let alone hearing that the two sides were currently gathering their respective forces.
"This means that the events of the past will repeat themselves..." Zhou Yuan clucked softly, not masking his sense of disappointment.
In his first life when the Celestial Fruit grew in the martial world, wars like Xu Miao said were commonplace thus leaving the Moon Empire engulfed in a great deal of chaos.
It has a huge impact especially for those who are not part of the martial world. Their living standards were low, there was a lot of hunger everywhere.
Zhou Yuan let Xu Miao tell him what she knew to the end, the more information came out of the girl's lips the more Zhou Yuan had to rush to go there.
"Hearing the Sky Cloud Temple challenged the warriors of the sect and government openly showed their already extremely strong strength... It can't be allowed to." Zhou Yuan clenched his hands hard.
Zhou Yuan thought after destroying some of their headquarters the strength of the Sky Cloud Temple would decrease but beyond his expectations, their strength even grew larger.
This was because the Sky Cloud Temple had already united most of the criminal organizations of the four empires. Their strength was already higher compared to three years ago during the raid on the Imperial palace.
"Brother Yuan, I know after hearing this you will go straight there so let this time the Night Shadow Organization come to your aid." Xu Miao expressed her intentions.
Zhou Yuan looked towards Xu Miao before glancing towards the other eight Night Shadow Elders, they nodded in unison at the girl's statement.
"Thank you for the offer but I don't need your help right now." Zhou Yuan smiled gently at Xu Miao.
"Brother Yuan, the members of the Night Shadow Organization had already grown to eight hundred members. If we move in unison, we can influence that war."
"I know, but right now you're exhausted after a long journey..." Zhou Yuan stroked Xu Miao's hair gently, he understood the feeling of the girl wanting to help him.
"The distance from here to the Xiao clan is very far, even if you use the eagle demon even though you will still be late to get there.." Zhou Yuan smiled, he also said that Xu Miao should consider the condition of her exhausted members.
Zhou Yuan appreciated Xu Miao's kindness and he thanked her for knowing the existence of the Heavenly Fruit and the important events that occurred in the martial world.
"Look at the others you look so tired Miss Miao. Are you lacking rest?" Zhou Yuan stroked Xu Miao's cheek.
Xu Miao's cheeks suddenly turned red with such gentle treatment, she reflexively covered her face with both hands in embarrassment.
"I'm just sleep deprived, Brother Yuan, you don't have to think about it..." Xu Miao blushed in embarrassment.
Zhou Yuan looked puzzled by Xu Miao's actions but the other eight Elders showed each other a meaningful smile.
Zhou Yuan might not be aware that the first time Xu Miao met him in the Star Empire the girl who became the leader of the organization fell in love at first sight.
Indeed despite his strength, Zhou Yuan had a good-looking face for a young man. It is not surprising that one day there is a girl who is captivated after seeing her face for the first time.
After seeing Zhou Yuan's ability and talent plus the young man's kindness to his organization, Xu Miao's feelings blossomed and grew uncontrollably.
"Then I leave," Zhou Yuan coughed softly, suddenly feeling awkward.
This time Xu Miao did not prevent, excluding her heart that was beating faster but Zhou Yuan's earlier words were correct, her current members were too exhausted to make a new journey.
Zhou Yuan came to Han Xiang to express his intentions and departure, which made Han Xiang feel anxious when he heard Zhou Yuan was about to leave their settlement.
Hearing this Han Xiang was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, indeed what Han Xiang was worried about when Zhou Yuan left here was that he was afraid that there was a stealth or bandit attack coming back here.
Han Xiang could see that the abilities of the group of girls were extremely strong, at least stronger than the strength of their settlement. Han Xiang did not mind if Zhou Yuan left now.
Zhou Yuan then bid farewell once more to Xu Miao and the others before then he darted flying towards the Xiao clan he was in.
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The Xiao Clan was one of the largest clans in the Moon Empire located to the west of the Empire. Geographically, the Xiao clan was located in a place that was quite unique because their clan was fused with a lake.
The Xiao Clan had a quite famous reputation in the martial world especially the Water Sword technique that was the hallmark of their martial arts.
Currently the Xiao clan was having many guests from all over, they were all warriors from various sects, noble families or from other clans.
Every day there were warriors coming to the clan, this made the Xiao clan more crowded than usual.
The arrival of many warriors there was not without cause but because they were sent by the imperial government for the important mission of war.
Jiang Qisha ordered for all sects, noble families, clans, to send most of their members to the Xiao clan in order to obstruct the plans of the criminal organization intending to seize the Heavenly Fruit.
War was inevitable let alone the Sky Cloud Temple declaring war openly into the martial world, Jiang Qisha realized that he could not allow the Heavenly Fruit to fall into their hands, so he gathered warriors from all over to fight against the criminal organization.
Unlike the other days, right now in the Xiao clan there was an important guest who came to the clan and that person was from a distinguished family.
It seemed that many people were immediately subject to seeing the arrival of the person, other than him being famous, that person was from the Jiang Family.
"Where is Senior Fan, I want to meet him." The Jiang Family member spoke to one of the Xiao clan Elders.
"Ah, Senior Jiang, Brother Fan is not here, he is..." The elder could not finish his words due to being awkward and feeling embarrassed.
"It's okay, I want to keep meeting him. Believe me when I talk to Senior Fan, he will be the Elder of the Xiao clan acting as usual."
The elder smiled faintly, he did not believe his words too much but he could not refuse the person's request given his background.
The one who wanted to meet Xiao Fan was Jiang Long, a swordsman who was the younger brother of Jiang Qisha. Jiang Long was also someone who used to deliver Zhou Yuan and Yifei to the tournament of the Four Imperial Academy.
The reason Jiang Long wanted to come to Xiao Fan was because he already knew the news of the red swordswoman.
Ever since hearing the news of his granddaughter dying in the academy after the assault of the Beast Man Race, the old man was so devastated to hear it.
Xiao Fan was so sad that he had confined his life in his room alone for the past three years. Xiao Rou was the only reason the grandfather lived, losing him was like losing half his soul.
Jiang Long had information regarding Xiao Rou's state, the old man would definitely be happy to hear that his grandson was still alive.
Jiang Long learned of this from Yifei who came to the palace a few weeks ago and told him that he was still alive.