Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 221 — Heavy Rain
In addition to sleeping at night and stopping while eating, Zhou Yuan continued to fly without stopping. The power within Zhou Yuan was quickly drained when flying for too long so he had to stop when recovering his inner power first using the stealth gems.
Zhou Yuan did not know how many days he had left the headquarters of the Night Shadow Organization but it must have been more than two weeks.
By following the direction that Huang Li's map had drawn, Zhou Yuan could arrive in his empire for 6 months on foot but because he was flying, Zhou Yuan cut the time so much shorter.
One day on his way Zhou Yuan had to land first, not because his inner power was exhausted but the weather was not supportive.
Cloudy clouds dotted the daytime sky and dropped billions of drops of rain, Zhou Yuan could not sustain his flight as his visibility began to diminish.
Zhou Yuan looked around, currently he was flying over a vast expanse of forest, Zhou Yuan was hoping to find a building or cave to shelter for a while.
When Zhou Yuan looked at the forest, he found a fight in the middle of the forest.
Zhou Yuan initially thought the fight was a commotion between demons who usually fought over capturing territory but as the distance was getting close, Zhou Yuan realized the situation was not like that.
Zhou Yuan discovered that two people were fighting with a silver snake demon. The snake was quite large and was an eighty-year-old demon.
Zhou Yuan's gaze turned towards the two people who were fighting the snake, both of them were men, one of them looked young in his teens while the other looked aged.
A dozen-year-old man is a stage one silver swordsman while a man who has reached the golden realm swordsman.
Actually with the ability of both especially for the aged, he could defeat the snake but because it was raining, making their situation unprofitable.
"Dad, he's too strong, we can't fight him in this weather?!" Said the young man a dozen years old anxiously as he still could not succeed in injuring the snake.
"Lun'er, you go first, Dad's gonna be blocking the snake for a while."
"Dad, I can't do it, you can get hurt fighting the snake by yourself."
Zhou Yuan could hear their conversation from a long distance away, watching their position grow increasingly desperate Zhou Yuan then decided to help them.
Zhou Yuan descended behind the pair of children and the father without them noticing, when the snake was about to pounce on the child, Zhou Yuan swung his kick violently, making the snake push a few meters.
It was then that the father and son realized Zhou Yuan's arrival, they were confused as to where Zhou Yuan had come from but the situation was not right to ask him.
Zhou Yuan then moved back towards the snake but this time he swung his fist.
BOOM!
Zhou Yuan's punch had the snake pushed back and this time the snake lost its balance.
The father and son were surprised by Zhou Yuan's strength, seeing that there was an opportunity, the Father moved quickly towards the snake and stabbed the sword into its head, the snake hissed loudly before finally exhaling its last breath.
The father then tore the silver snake's skin to remove the jewel ring inside. He then walked towards Zhou Yuan and gave the jewel.
Zhou Yuan shook his head. "No need, from the very beginning the demon was yours, I came here because I wanted to help."
The father was grateful, in fact he fought the silver snake was indeed because he wanted a stealth gem to be given to his son.
The father then introduced his name as Wang Xin while his teenage son was named Wang Lun.
"My name is Zhou Yuan, I'm an ordinary traveling swordsman and happened to find you guys fighting. If I may know why you're in the woods when it rains like this."
"Ah, we are just hunting this snake to complete the mission of the hero guild, the snake scales are sold expensively to be used as a protective suit."
Zhou nodded in understanding, indeed the silver snake had a hard skin, if Zhou Yuan's physical strength had not been increased by now he might have trouble injuring the snake.
Zhou Yuan then asked the two of them a shelter or a cave around here.
"If you want you can come with us, not far from here we will meet the city. We can take shelter there..." Wang Xin said.
Zhou Yuan actually wanted to resist because it slowed down his movements but seeing the condition of the two father and son who had been injured from fighting with the snake before, he ended up coming with them.
He was worried that while on their way to the city, the two of them met with other demons, besides the energy in Zhou Yuan was still a thousand inner power circles again, he had to recover it immediately when it was raining like this.
Finally Zhou Yuan continued his journey on foot with Wang Xin and Wang Lun. They move in a hurry because the rain is actually getting heavier to make their clothes soaked.
It took ten minutes for Zhou Yuan to arrive at the city in question, the city belonged to a medium-sized city and was located next to the forest.
The three entered the city, Zhou Yuan immediately looked for lodging there because besides the rain, the day was actually already dark.
"Then our Swordsman Yuan split up here. We have to go to the hero guild to report on our mission." Wang Xin realized the purpose of the two was different so had to split up.
Zhou Yuan nodded then the two then split directions. According to the recommendation from Wang Xin, he had to go to the middle of the city to find an inn.
Zhou Yuan finally found the inn that Wang Xin was referring to, an inn with three floors but a spacious building. Without thinking anymore Zhou Yuan then entered the inn.
While inside, in fact there were many visitors at the inn, some of them took shelter there while the rest were in line to get a room.
Zhou Yuan was initially seen hesitating whether he would get a room, fortunately despite the large number of visitors but many rooms were still empty.
Zhou Yuan was given a dry towel by one of the maids due to Zhou Yuan's wet clothes, Zhou Yuan changed his clothes while in the room and dried his body with some inner strength.
A waiter soon entered the room and offered some food.
Zhou Yuan had not eaten for a long time when he started the journey, finally he ordered some of the menus in the inn.
Zhou Yuan looked out the window before looking up at the densely overcast sky, he had a feeling that the rain would last for a long time even all day. Zhou Yuan seemed to be spending a long time in this city until the rain finally subsided.