Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 268 — Zhou Yuan's Destinations
It took some time for Yifei to calm his rapidly beating heart, he ventured to look Zhou Yuan in the eye before kissing the young man's cheek as well.
"Now we're the same..." Yifei let go of his embrace.
Zhou Yuan chuckled and stroked the girl's head, "Do you want to go for a walk around here, I'll accompany you."
Yifei answered her with a nod, the girl still blushed in embarrassment. Zhou Yuan then grabbed his hand and took him for a walk around the Zhou Family residence.
When the two were together, it seemed that many pairs of eyes were fixed on them like guards and servants.
They were all shocked when they saw that their young Master turned out to have a special relationship with the Moon Emperor's Lordship.
"Isn't this good, if Young Master Yuan marries the Princess then our Zhou Family status can rise strongly."
"I agree with what you said! If that were to happen then no one would dare to mess with our Family like the Ling Family used to..."
The guards who saw Zhou Yuan and Yifei walking together started whispering to each other and questioning the relationship between the two.
There was no need for an explanation for them to realize there was an emotional involvement between Zhou Yuan and Jiang Yifei, moreover the two walked while holding hands.
Zhou Yuan seemed unconcerned by the whispers and preferred to take Yifei around his family's residence. After being satisfied around Zhou Yuan then brought Yifei to his residence and reunited with his mother and sister.
"Greetings Mr. Princess, it's a pleasure to meet you..." Lin Ruyue knelt down, paying respect to Yifei.
Lin Ruyue had gotten information and found out that her son and Jiang Yifei already had a serious relationship. Should Lin Ruyue admit, as her mother she did not expect her son would succeed in luring the Moon Emperor's Princess.
"Auntie need not hesitate, just call me by name directly..." Yifei looked frantically to see Lin Ruyue directly kneeling before him, considering that she was Zhou Yuan's mother the girl hoped that Lin Ruyue had forgotten her great status. It was even Yifei who should have respected the woman.
Besides Lin Ruyue, Zhou Yuan also introduced Yifei to his younger brother Zhou Yuyin.
Yifei looked surprised to find out that his lover had a sister, especially his sister was a sweet and cute woman.
Zhou Yuan chuckled when he saw Yifei trying to get along with Yuyin as well as his mother, Zhou Yuan could see Yifei so awkwardly when he met them.
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During the three days that Zhou Yuan was still in his residence, he spent a lot of time with his family.
After some time Yifei was finally able to adapt and became familiar with the other Zhou Family, the girl often went to Zhou Yuan's residence to just meet her lover or accompany Yuyin to practice.
Compared to swordsmanship, what Yifei taught Yuyin was a type-change technique.
Although Yuyin still did not have the strength in his mind but he could understand Yifei's explanation, Yuyin was amazed to see Jiang Yifei's blue fire technique which he thought was very impressive.
One day Zhou Yuan met his Father and Grandfather in Zhou Yao's office.
Zhou Yuan then informed him of his current goal of intending to gather Heavenly Fruits throughout the entire Moon Empire, which was enough to shock Zhou Yao and Zhou Bing.
"I'm serious Dad, I've even got one of the seven..." Zhou Yuan brought out a golden-colored apple from his spatial ring.
Zhou Yao and Zhou Bing took a cold breath, very surprised to see a Heavenly Fruit appear before their eyes.
"Is this really a Heavenly Fruit?" Zhou Bing asked to confirm, he had only first seen the Heavenly Fruit directly.
"Yes Grandpa, I got it on my way here..."
Zhou Yuan then explained about visiting Hanma City, sooner or later his fight in the city would spread so Zhou Yuan told him everything without anything being covered.
Of course it made his Father and Grandfather surprised let alone hearing Zhou Yuan fight head-on against some Light Realm Swordsman back then
"So the Sky Cloud Temple organization was eyeing the Heavenly Fruit? I didn't expect at all with their intentions and plans..." Zhou Bing stroked his chin.
Zhou Bing still remembered the red moon phenomenon a few months ago, one thing that was beyond his expectations he had not expected the Heavenly Fruit to appear sooner than it should.
"Heavenly Fruit has great efficacy for warriors, it seems like the Sky Cloud Temple gathered strength by searching for Heavenly Fruits before ruling the martial world."
Zhou Bing nodded in agreement, these past few years the alliance that the Early Heaven Temple had formed had already destroyed many Nobles Families, clans, as well as sects and the most famous one was the destruction of the Xi Family.
The strong reason they had not fought directly or attacked the Imperial Family must not have had enough strength to defeat them all.
Zhou Yuan said there was a possibility that the Heavenly Fruit was their last plan, if they obtained those 7 legendary fruits then it did not rule out the possibility that the Sky Cloud Temple would wage a massive war back then.
"With my current strength, I plan on gathering the seven Heavenly Fruits before the Sky Cloud Temple picks them up, they must not fall into the wrong group..." Zhou Yuan said convincingly.
Zhou Yuan added that he would soon leave to complete his mission, hoping that his Father and Grandfather would agree to even support the decision.
"This is quite dangerous Yuan'er, you can be killed at any time..." Zhou Yao sighed, clearly feeling heavy with his son's decision.
"Dad, I'm pretty confident in my abilities, I don't have to worry. We also do not have time to get a solution to this problem..."
Zhou Yao smiled faintly at the confidence of his son, it seemed like the little boy he used to carry was already growing into a mature youth. Zhou Yao was a little forced to finally agree to his son's wishes on the condition that he had to be careful.
"I don't know what your intentions are, Yuan'er, but I'm sure you've prepared everything, have you?" Zhou Yao patted Zhou Yuan's shoulder.
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly. "Grandfather already knew how bad it was when the Heavenly Fruit appeared a hundred years ago, I intend it not to be repeated again."
Zhou Bing could not refute, he watched with his own eyes how chaos as the Heavenly Fruit grew. If his grandson could indeed obtain that Heavenly Fruit then Zhou Bing could not help it.
"Do what you think is good Yuan'er, you're an adult, you've got to account for all your actions."
Zhou Yuan nodded, of course he did not say all of his plans like wanting to destroy the Sky Cloud Temple all the way to its roots, if he said frankly there was a chance they would not allow him to leave.