Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 252 — Kecapi Flow
As the government leading Hanma City, the Mu Family residence was established in the middle of the city with the largest building among other buildings.
The residence of the Mu Family was almost as large as the imperial palace which showed how rich the Noble Family was.
It was not difficult for Zhou Yuan and Yifei to find their family residence, after asking some people he could finally find it.
"The name of the Mu Family is not very famous but why do they have such a luxurious residence?" Yifei was stunned to see the vastness and magnitude of the Mu Family's residence.
"Even though referred to as a great noble family but the point of power of the Mu Family is not martial but rather doing business. They were so rich that it was no wonder they could have a residence this big." Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan then put on a mask like Yifei, his face that many people had already recognized due to the previous fight against the Ghost Sword made Zhou Yuan have to cover up his identity.
Another reason Zhou Yuan wore a mask was because he wanted to see the situation and circumstances at the auction later, Zhou Yuan was sure that there would be many criminals gathered there.
Zhou Yuan then invited Yifei into the noble family's residence because the auction would be held inside.
Actually the Mu Family residence is closed and not just anyone can enter it but because tonight they held a big auction making the Mu Family open the door wide for anyone who wants to enter.
"Price ten gold pieces if you want to go in and participate in the auction..." Said the Mu Family officer guarding the entrance, extending his hand.
"The price is so expensive, why ten pieces of gold?" Ask Yifei.
Ten pieces of gold equal to one thousand silver or one hundred thousand bronze, the nominal is quite large just because it wants to enter someone's residence.
Zhou Yuan also agreed with Yifei's question, despite having a lot of treasure he did not like his name wastage let alone wasting money on the actual trivial.
"This is the fare that the Mu Family higher-ups have already decided on, if you object, you can leave here."
Yifei snorted in annoyance and wanted to protest the officer but Zhou Yuan immediately interceded.
Zhou Yuan paid twenty gold pieces for himself and Yifei, he indeed had to join the auction to obtain the Heavenly Fruit, after being told the officer's gold coin allowed the two to enter the Mu Family residence.
'The Mu family obviously wants to take a lot of advantage from this auction...' Zhou Yuan shook his head, slightly surprised the already extremely wealthy Nobles Family turned out to still want quite a lot of money.
The fact that being rich does not make a person so do not need money, most of them just want a treasure that is more not even a little greed appears in their hearts.
Zhou Yuan could see that when the two entered the Mu Family there were already many visitors who had already entered here and the average of them were elites or warriors.
The Mu family did open their residence to the public but they also restricted the people who entered one of them by paying a high entrance rate.
The auction was in fact not held in a room but in an open field, there was a stage that seemed to be newly created and dozens of tables to fill the guests.
Zhou Yuan and Yifei then sat down at one of the empty tables, it seemed that several other tables had also been occupied by many guests.
Zhou Yuan looked around before the gaze behind his mask found the few people he was looking for. 'I thought they came here too?'
Zhou Yuan's eyes had indeed discovered the existence of Ghost Sword, Twin Demons and other high-level warriors, to his surprise was that Ghost Sword this time brought in the addition of several Light Realm warriors as well as dozens of Crystal Realm warriors.
"Did the swordsman you fought come, Ghost Sword?" Ask Hong Sha to make sure.
The Ghost Sword did inspect every guest who came to this auction to look for Zhou Yuan, the problem was that guests were coming too many not to mention some of them were wearing masks that made Ghost Sword difficult in searching.
"I didn't find him, maybe he didn't come here..." The Ghost Sword still clearly remembered Zhou Yuan's face and until now he had not seen him coming to this auction.
"It's better that way, that way we'll easily get this Heavenly Fruit." Hong Sha nodded slowly.
Zhou Yuan did not look at the Ghost Sword entourage for too long as his attention was immediately turned towards the stage where there was someone already standing there.
"Gentlemen, thank you for attending tonight's auction, I as the Head of the Mu Family will lead this event to the end, there are many items that we have prepared and of course the items that are awaited by all of you are Heavenly Fruits..."
The head of the Mu Family then introduced his identity named Mu Liang who led the current Mu Family.
Mu Liang was a Light Realm swordsman with 2 open meridians, a man who was already old and had many wrinkles on his face.
"Before the auction starts let us present a musical art performance first..." Mu Liang then called someone onto the stage, a woman who had a beautiful face and carried a lute in her hand. "Introducing his name is Mu Lingling, a talented musician in my family who has great musical skills."
Mu Liang then invited Mu Lingling to fill the stage, pairs of eyes immediately turned towards the woman including Zhou Yuan among them.
This woman named Mu Lingling does have a beautiful face but the main reason many people look at her is because of the appearance of the woman who is fairly open and looks seductive.
Zhou Yuan squinted, he realized the woman carrying the zither was not an ordinary person but a swordsman who had reached the peak of the Crystal Realm warrior.
As Zhou Yuan was still examining Mu Lingling's strength suddenly his waist was pinched by Yifei violently.
"aww... Awwww... Fei! What are you doing!"
"May look at another girl! Hmphh!" Yifei snorted in annoyance before releasing his pinch.
Zhou Yuan smiled wryly and only realized that the girl was jealous because she had seen Mu Lingling for too long.
"Everything's not what you think, Fei'er, I was checking on the girl's ability, it seems she's not an ordinary musician, she's-..."
"Hmmm!"
Zhou Yuan scratched his head seeing that Yifei was unwilling to hear his explanation, before he said further suddenly the lute that Mu Lingling was carrying began to be played on the stage.
Mu Lingling's harp game immediately muffled the sounds around her, the tones she played with were so beautiful and heartbreaking that one wanted to close her eyes for a while.
Zhou Yuan frowned, instead of enjoying the flow of the lute he found something strange behind the sound of the lute.
"It's not an ordinary lute game but a martial arts style..." Zhou Yuan realized something.
Zhou Yuan exerted a deep force on his ears to keep from being affected by the tones, he also told Yifei to act similarly.