Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 62 — Candidates Fiance
Zhou Yuan occasionally looked back to make sure the girl was chasing after him or not, after feeling that it was quite a distance away from the waterfall and then Zhou Yuan stopped his steps.
"I hope I don't see him again..." Zhou Yuan let out a long sigh, not expecting for a while that he had been staying here he had already made unnecessary trouble.
Despite saying so, Zhou Yuan was actually curious about the identity of the girl. Seeing him being able to use one of the elemental sword techniques showed the girl was no ordinary person.
"Sound Sword Technique, was it possible that the teacher's story was wrong..." Zhou Yuan was still thinking about how the young girl was able to perform the sword technique that was already lost in the martial world.
Zhou Yuan thought to master it to such a degree meant that the girl he was fighting against had already learned the sword sound technique since he was a child.
Which means someone taught it to the girl.
The Yue Clan did not sound familiar in the Moon Empire as the clan was already buried by history hundreds of years ago but for Zhou Yuan who had already lived two lives, he certainly knew him a little.
From his teacher, Zhou Yuan learned that the clan was destroyed by a conflict in its heyday. Not only were their clan places flattened by their enemies but the Yue clan members were also massacred almost nothing left.
Zhou Yuan shook his head thinking that further. "Thinking that this is now producing nothing, I'd better investigate about it later."
Zhou Yuan again focused on finding a way out, even though he had already escaped the girl but Zhou Yuan was still lost in the sect.
Fortunately after following the existing path Zhou Yuan finally found a building, not only was there a sect disciple there. Zhou Yuan became enthusiastic then walked up to the disciple and asked him the direction of his path.
***
To meet the Patriarch of the Sect, Zhou Bing had a little trouble meeting him because their Patriarch was very busy preparing a lot of things in this competition.
Zhou Bing was taken to one of the rooms to wait for the Patriarch, it would take him at least an hour to wait until he met their sect leader.
"Sorry Senior Bing, there are many things that I have to do before, please understand my negligence..."
"Patriark doesn't need to apologize, I should have done so because it has troubled you."
The one who was talking to Zhou Bing right now was the Green Bamboo Sect Patriarch, Yue Luo.
Yue Luo was a golden realm pinnacle swordsman who was about the same age as Zhou Yao, The shady-looking man had already become a Sect Patriarch at a young age after his father had given him the post.
Yue Luo herself was the father of Yue Linxia, as it was he that this competition was held back after ten years of their sect not carrying it out.
"Bing, long time no see..."
Not the two of them made further pleasantries, someone suddenly patted Zhou Bing's shoulder from behind, making the heart of the Zhou Family Leader nearly dislodged from its place.
"Would there be no other welcome other than that you should surprise me, what if my heart stops." Zhou Bing snorted loudly.
The one who surprised Zhou Bing was a middle-aged man who was dappled Yue Jian, at least his age was impressed like that but Zhou Bing who was a long-time friend of him knew his real age.
Although almost the same age, the strength of Zhou Bing and Yue Jian was very different, his strength was slightly below Jiang Qisha and he was the number 2 hero in the Moon Empire.
Zhou Bing was not close friends with Yue Luo due to his extremely distant age difference but he was very familiar with the middle-aged man who had surprised him.
"Your face is getting younger because of the level of your strength that is very far away from me, Jian.. I really can't feel your power right now." Zhou Bing smiled faintly.
Yue Jian chuckled softly, not discussing further. He knew of himself and Zhou Bing a generation yet the talents of the two were vastly different.
Yue Jian at the same age had been at the level of the Light Realm, in contrast to Zhou Bing who had still been in the Crystal Realm for decades.
Indeed, the higher the level of strength of a warrior in the martial world, the younger he looks. Actually it is due to the internal energy in the body of the person, because the increase in the stages of swordsmanship means increasing the number of inner power circles.
Deep energy has some passive side effects for the swordsman, such as being able to hold hunger and thirst longer or look younger.
The more the number of circles, the more visible he is.
There was also another way to look young that was to use a special technique like the one Xian Li used back then that looked like a teenage girl, even though Xian Li's true age had ranged over a hundred years.
Yue Jian's gaze then combed around Zhou Bing to find someone yet he found no one.
"Hm? Where's your granddaughter, I thought you'd bring her here?"
Yue Jian was the father of Yue Luo as well as the Grandfather of Yue Linxia, arguably due to his closeness it was Yue Jian who betrothed his granddaughter to Zhou Bing's granddaughter.
Zhou Bing smiled faintly, "Yuan'er is still resting, his first trip this time making him so exhausted. He also had to prepare his energy for the competition later."
Yue Jian nodded, otherwise Zhou Bing's granddaughter was slightly younger than Yue Linxia, her age between about 12 years old.
"Actually I also wanted to bring Xia'er here to meet you but he said he wanted to go somewhere. He hasn't come back yet..." Clearly Yue Jian sighed. "From that, this engagement is not yet the time to be more serious. Aren't you here for the reason of our cooperation?"
Zhou Bing nodded, the engagement affair with Zhou Yuan was not the reason Zhou Bing went to the Green Bamboo Sect. It has to do with the collaboration between the two.
Zhou Bing then began his serious talk, discussing the economic and political situation.
The nobles were the main providers of pill resources for every sect, for some reason some pills sold in the Zhou Family had to be expensive or poured out depending on whether or not they were rare.
Zhou Bing and the Patriarch of the Green Bamboo Sect discussed the matter for several hours.
***
It was getting dark when the meeting of Zhou Bing, Yue Luo, and Yue Jian was finished, feeling the discussion went well and perfectly Zhou Bing after immediately bailed away.
Just a few minutes after Zhou Bing disappeared, Yue Linxia walked over to his father and grandfather.
"Xia'er, where have you been?" Yue Jian the first to rebuke his grandson. "There was a family of your future fiancee, you should have attended and welcomed her."
Linxia smiled faintly, the real reason he went to the waterfall place was because he did not want to meet his future fiancee. He reasoned and lied to avoid discussing this engagement.
Linxia actually wanted to talk about his rejection of the engagement but he chose the right time to deliver.
After all he had actually come home late for fighting with Zhou Yuan earlier.