Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 199 — Farewell
For the umpteenth time Zhou Yuan thanked Yun Feiyu for the gift from him. Not only were the golden treasures abundant it turned out that Yun Feiyu also gave away hundreds of heirlooms that had high quality.
"Auntie there's one thing I want to ask, why is Aunt doing so well to me?" While coming out from underground, Zhou Yuan expressed his curiosity all along.
Zhou Yuan understood that Feiyu might be a good person but someone who gave anything to others with such a large sum, there was clearly an intention or purpose.
Zhou Yuan's question made Feiyu think for a moment, she held her chin while tilting her head.
"Maybe this is a way to make me feel better..." Yun Feiyu replied briefly after being silent for a moment.
Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows, seemingly not understanding the meaning of the woman's words.
"Yuan'er, maybe you think now is a good person for giving a lot to you but the truth is I'm not what you think even I'm far from good."
Yun Feiyu sighed, Zhou Yuan's question reminded him of the memories he was trying to forget.
"You know that I live in the middle of the forest and away from the settlements, all that there is a reason, all that there is a past."
"Did your aunt have problems with other people?" Ask Zhou Yuan.
"I'm..." Yun Feiyu smiled faintly. "You're right, I did have a problem with them, a problem big enough that I decided to leave everything and choose to be alone with my granddaughter."
Zhou Yuan could see Feiyu's normally cheerful face now turning a little sad even though he tried to hide it, Zhou Yuan felt guilty for asking so.
"Sorry, Auntie, I didn't mean it that way..." Zhou Yuan felt regret.
"Sorry for what? I don't mind at all." Yun Feiyu again smiled widely as he patted Zhou Yuan's shoulders hard. "Oh yeah, there's one more thing I want to give you besides money and heirlooms?"
"There again?"
"Yes, but I'm sure you can't turn it down this time." Yun Feiyu let out a small laugh before taking out the various types of resource plants. "You've read enough, I think you know all these plants?"
In addition to practicing, Zhou Yuan had also been reading books for the past three years, those books were a gift from Feiyu because he had seen Zhou Yuan reading the Book of the Heavenly Kings.
Because Feiyu was a physician, so most of the books he kept were about medicine. One branch of medical science is to know the name of plants that are efficacious for humans, be it resource plants or medicinal plants.
Zhou Yuan took a cold breath looking at the pile of plants that the woman had taken out was a type of high-efficiency plant.
Zhou Yuan didn't know what to say because Feiyu gave away many things beyond his imagination.
"Don't refuse someone else's gift, as usual you can take all these plants." Yun Feiyu patted Zhou Yuan's shoulder back while the young man could only reply with a faint smile.
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For the past two weeks Zhou Yuan spent his time training, it was just that the existence of his three girls who always stuck with him made his training often interrupted.
Perhaps Linxia, Yifei, as well as Xiao Rou realized Zhou Yuan would be leaving soon so they chose to spend a lot of time with him.
The three girls had always invited Zhou Yuan to practice the match but nevertheless no one could defeat Zhou Yuan moreover they always competed one-on-one.
Linxia, Yifei, and Xiao Rou had reached the swordsman of the Light Realm with one meridian open, they had become strong but still the strength of the three could not be juxtaposed with the strength of the current Zhou Yuan.
"Yuan gege, for today the three of us will be together against you like before. I'll make sure you lose today!" Yifei snorted in annoyance, as he had always lost the match with the young man finally planning to fight three on one.
"No problem, one-on-one or one-on-three, you're still no match for me." Zhou Yuan chuckled, provoking Yifei's emotions.
Yifei grew increasingly upset and invited Xiao Rou and Linxia to join, "We must defeat him, at least one wound is enough."
Zhou Yuan smiled at Yifei who looked furious at him, in the courtyard of Bailian's house, the three then started fighting to attack Zhou Yuan.
"Elemental ice..."
Zhou Yuan exerted a deep force on his hand before turning it into energy, from his palm then came ice powder that gathered and condensed before it began to form an ice sword.
The three girls immediately started the fight, cooperating with each other to injure Zhou Yuan while the young man calmly welcomed any attacks that came with his ice sword.
Despite using the combined strength, in fact the three girls were not enough to injure Zhou Yuan let alone defeat him.
"No need to be angry, you can practice more when I go later..." Zhou Yuan smiled warmly, stroking Yifei's pouting cheeks at him as a result of losing the match.
"I know!" Yifei turned his face away, although looking angry he was actually glad that Zhou Yuan treated him gently.
A few days later when Zhou Yuan's departure finally came, Zhou Yuan stood in the courtyard of Bailian's house, in addition to his three girls, Yun Feiyu and Bailian also accompanied the young man's departure.
"Auntie, if I can repay Auntie's kindness now then I will repay her with ten times what Aunt has given me." Zhou Yuan bowed his body. "Thank you for taking care of me and helping me train to achieve my current strength. Auntie's services I'll never forget."
"Ah, it's kind of annoying when a breakup happens, I'd rather leave than be left behind..." Feiyu smiled but he also felt sad when Zhou Yuan left.
Even though the three years the two met but there were many events that had happened, it did not rule out the possibility that the feeling of loss would be felt by Feiyu.
Zhou Yuan smiled, in addition to Feiyu, Zhou Yuan also thanked Bailian for taking care of him when he was unconscious for two months.
"There's no need to think about it Brother Yuan, I've forgotten about it as well. We should care about each other and help each other." Bailian nodded slowly, feeling that it was not something big for him.
Finally Zhou Yuan said farewell to Linxia, Yifei, and Xiao Rou. The three girls in unison directly hugged him tightly.
"Be careful there, when the time comes I'll come and go after you..." Linxia wiped his tears.
"You have to promise to wait for us, I don't want to when I get back you're doing anything." Yifei pointed at Zhou Yuan's face.
"I'm going to work hard here, even if it takes time but I hope I can get along with you quickly..." Xiao Rou smiled bitterly, feeling disappointed that he was not as fast developing as Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan stroked the heads of the three girls one by one while trying to calm him down. Of course Zhou Yuan also felt heavy when parting with them.
"To once again thank you, Auntie, Miss Yun, then I'll leave..."
After calming his three girls, Zhou Yuan then broke his portal mirror. Not long after that a portal began to form.
The portal looked different from the one Zhou Yuan had been looking at all this time, the portal of the mirror was bright red with flashes of lightning filling the surroundings.
Not waiting any longer for Zhou Yuan to enter the portal, he felt his body being pushed violently into his portal as if being sucked inside.
Zhou Yuan took a deep breath, he realized his journey in the portal passageway would end long.