Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 36 — Demon
The village head then began to tell about the problem of his village, broadly speaking, it was related to the attack of the demons.
"In recent months, our residents have been shocked by the many demons in the forest around our village. The demon disturbed the citizens in the activity, not a few more were killed by him..."
The village chief explained that his village depends on forest life, most of its citizens live farming and gardening, their village was a big food producer before the demons existed.
Not only disturb the demons that take a death toll. This problem continues to grow to a more serious level where the demons are now starting to attack the village settlement.
The same reason why there is a wooden fort surrounding the village, it prevents the demons from disturbing the citizens.
The wooden fort does function well to protect the village but on the other hand the residents feel imprisoned because they cannot go anywhere.
The residents have long wanted to move places but they can not do it, the demons will hunt them first if they get out of the fortress.
The Village Chief sighed softly, telling this matter made his head ache again.
"How about hiring a swordsman, can't you do it?"
The village chief shook his head. "Chairman Zhou, before we had asked the warriors for help to overcome the demon, they initially agreed but on their way here, when they came, the warriors were attacked by a demon that made them abort this village because they could not fight it."
Therefore, the Village Chief and the border officer were surprised by the arrival of Zhou Yuan and Zhou Bing, this meant that they were not attacked by demons or both were able to fight the demon.
Currently the Village Chief could only ask his citizens to save their supplies before help came, even though so many of them had started running out of food.
Zhou Bing stroked his beard while closing his eyes, seemingly thinking for a moment. "Alright, this stealth problem let me overcome, I will try my best. You can focus on helping the villagers..."
Hearing this Zhou Yuan got up and immediately asked to come with his grandfather. This time Zhou Bing did not refuse as he needed others not to mention this was also for learning for his grandson.
The Village Chief offered his officers to join but Zhou Bing declined the offer.
"Gilumans are different from wild animals, they are very dangerous for even warriors. It would be enough for me and Yuan'er to do this job."
In this village no one became a swordsman including his officers. Instead of helping, they become a burden.
While Zhou Bing was quite confident in Zhou Yuan's abilities after seeing a little of his, at least his grandson was already able to protect himself.
No longer waiting, they immediately went out of the village and walked through the forest. Zhou Yuan and Zhou Bing moved over the branches of the tree.
Just a few minutes into the forest, both of them had found the demon in question, a boar who was now looking for food, the boar had turned into a demon.
Zhou Bing glanced at Zhou Yuan to see the reaction on his face but it turned out that his grandson had a casual expression. Zhou Bing raised an eyebrow, it should be the first time that Zhou Yuan saw a demon.
"Yuan'er, have you seen a demon before?" Zhou Bing asked in surprise, should Zhou Yuan be surprised to see the demon first time.
Demons and animals are actually two different things even though they come from one type. The demon itself is an evolution of the animal itself.
When an animal has a long enough age and is able to absorb the essence of nature then he will turn into a demon.
A demon has a physical body that is different from other normal animals, whether it is different in size or shape. Besides that demons are very strong and have great stamina, their lives are also very long-lived, the longer they live the greater the strength.
The boar in front of Zhou Yuan for example, because he had become a demon whose body size was larger than a wild boar in general. The wild boar is a calf with sharp tusks.
Judging from his physique, the boar demon was a dozen years old, matching the strength of a swordsman who was at the peak level of the Bronze Realm.
Zhou Bing then jumped down and swung his sword, The Forest Pig was completely unaware of Zhou Bing's presence as his gaze suddenly darkened instantly, the boar demon being killed instantly.
Zhou Bing did have to kill him in one attack so as not to make a sound, wild boars generally live in groups, he did not want the wild boar not far from him to run away and escape.
After Zhou Yuan descended beside Zhou Bing, he saw that his grandfather was doing something to the boar's body. Soon Zhou Bing took out a red gem on the back.
"Yuan'er, do you know what this thing is?"
Zhou Yuan nodded slowly. Of course he knows it. "Isn't that a stealth gem, Grandpa?"
Zhou Bing smiled faintly before nodding softly, he thought Zhou Yuan would react looking at the gemstone in front of him but it seemed like his conjecture was wrong. Not only was the martial genius but his grandson also possessed vast insights.
Zhou Bing's conjecture is not wrong, because without having to live twice even though Zhou Yuan was a visionary swordsman.
Inside the demon body there is indeed a gemstone that is often referred to as a stealth gem.
Stealth gems have uses for a swordsman in the martial world, either used as heirloom manufacture or training.
For warriors, stealth gems have the benefit of replenishing the lost inner power while increasing the capacity of the circle with significant time.
Even though it has high benefits but in its use stealth gems are not recommended to be used as training. This is because stealth gems have side effects if used in excessive amounts.
Demon gems will change the physical for people who absorb it, such as growing horns, scales, and the appearance of their faces that will no longer be the same as humans in general.
The reason that makes many warriors do not want to use stealth gems, they better consume resource pills or certain plants to increase energy capacity in.
At least for the swordsmen, they can use stealth gems three to five times a year for training, the amount is the normal limit so as not to feel the side effects of the gem.
Zhou Bing then kept the jewel under his cloak, he did not plan to use it but would be sold if he met a city later.
Stealth gems have a decent price on the market, the larger the stealth gems, the more expensive they will be. A hundred-year-old demon was even rewarded with thousands of gold pieces.