Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 42 — Eternal Snow Organization
"Yuan'er, the organization you speak of is a large organization, should their movement be realized in this City especially we also have no problem with them." The middle-aged man rebutted Zhou Yuan's thoughts.
"That's why I'm not sure either, I think Grandpa's grandson was poisoned by accident."
"Inadvertently?"
Zhou Yuan nodded before explaining that there was a small puncture wound on one of the grandfather's grandchildren's fingers like a needle puncture wound, it was likely that the needle wound was the cause of him being exposed to poison.
Hearing that made the middle-aged man remember that before he and his granddaughter lined up to enter Hana City, he walked with a strange merchant entourage.
His grandson accidentally touched a sharp object from the merchant group that made his index finger injured. Come to think of it, the grandson was instantly sleepy when his finger was pierced.
'Could it be the merchant entourage that poisoned my granddaughter...' The middle-aged man thought on all possibilities.
While the middle-aged man was pondering, Zhou Yuan was busy with his own thoughts.
The reason Zhou Yuan knew all that was because in his first life he had once faced off against the members of the Eternal Snow Organization.
The Eternal Snow Organization was a dangerous large organization in the martial world, they were one of the organizations that survived after the great battle in the fight for the heavenly fruit a hundred years ago.
The Eternal Snow Organization experienced a decline in strength as many of its members died in the war so they had to shut themselves down, Zhou Yuan got this from the book he had read in his Family library and this was public information.
No Zhou Yuan thought, after a long time they were not heard from again even thought the Eternal Snow Organization had disappeared they actually appeared to surface again. Given that a hundred years had passed it was no wonder that the organization could recover completely or even become stronger.
'I hope this is just my guess, it's just too coincidental there's an ice snake poison in this town...' Zhou Yuan sighed, he was sure that his guess was correct that behind the poisoning of the granddaughter of the grandfather in front of him was due to the Eternal Snow Organization.
The middle-aged man suddenly stood up when Zhou Yuan was still thinking. "Young man, thank you for this conversation, sorry I had to go accompany my granddaughter..."
Zhou Yuan nodded, without waiting any longer the middle-aged man directly walked out of the restaurant leaving himself at the table.
Zhou Yuan certainly realized that the reason Grandfather left was not because he wanted to see his granddaughter but because of hearing the news of the Eternal Snow Organization, the grandfather clearly had his own concerns regarding the organization.
"He could recognize an organization as level as Eternal Snow showed himself to be from the martial world, what Grandpa was really..." Zhou Yuan scratched his head, regardless that he was hiding his identity, Zhou Yuan was also actually curious about Grandfather's identity as well.
On the other hand Zhou Yuan was also a little helped when Grandfather surnamed Jiang said goodbye first, he was worried that Grandfather would look for his identity further.
'I hope he doesn't tell anyone my powers...' Zhou Yuan sighed softly before starting to walk away from the restaurant, but before he passed through the door a servant prevented him.
"Hm, what's wrong?" Zhou Yuan asked the servant, raising an eyebrow.
"Sir, you haven't paid for your order food?"
Zhou Yuan frowned "Don't Grandpa already pay for it?"
The waiter shook his head, explaining that Grandfather would pay after the meal but he left without paying first so he charged Zhou Yuan.
Hearing that Zhou Yuan could only curse in his heart, unable to hide his regret, whereas previously the cost of eating would be borne by the Grandfather.
***
After Zhou Yuan left the restaurant, he returned to the inn that Zhou Bing had ordered earlier.
While there Zhou Yuan thought his grandfather was waiting for him but his guess was wrong, Zhou Bing was not at the inn at the time.
According to the innkeeper, Zhou Bing was going somewhere, he gave a message that Zhou Yuan had returned to not leave the inn first.
The sky was still bright at that time, Zhou Yuan chose to go inside his room. Zhou Yuan had business with the resources he had already discovered.
"These materials should be enough for my breakthrough to the level of the Golden Realm..."
Previously when he obtained pills from his Grandfather every month, there were some pills that were not eaten by him because they were not in accordance with his training but now when Zhou Yuan chose himself, there was not one of those pills that he was going to throw away.
Indeed, the one who could understand Zhou Yuan's training needs was himself, so he bought the resource pills without Zhou Bing's company.
Zhou Yuan then sat down cross-legged, without waiting for any more time he started taking his source pills one by one. Afterward Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and began to purify the pill in his body.
***
"It's faster than I thought..." Zhou Yuan smiled broadly feeling the new strength flowing in every inch of his body.
Drinking the potion from the middle-aged man made Zhou Yuan's breakthrough time go faster, requiring around four hours until he could finally break through.
Zhou Yuan then checked his strength level and it made him startled and held his breath.
"My strength jumps again..." Zhou Yuan could not hide the shock on his face.
If Zhou Yuan's strength was originally at the level of the Silver Realm swordsman Stage 9 but after he broke through, his level surged significantly and directly to the Gold Realm swordsman Stage 5.
Despite having experienced it several times Zhou Yuan was not used to witnessing the privilege of his body. After all in the martial world, there was no warrior like Zhou Yuan who could jump over the power tiers unsystematically.
Zhou Yuan initially thought he could reach the level of the Golden Realm in his 20s, but because his Sky King body made him stronger faster than he expected.
With his current level and ability, Zhou Yuan was able to fight against those at the peak of the Golden Realm swordsmen if he put all his abilities into action.
Time was already night when Zhou Yuan finished his training, moments later the sound of knocking on the door sounded. Zhou Yuan then walked out and saw Zhou Bing already standing in front of the door.
"Grandfather..."
Zhou Yuan had just remembered that his grandfather was going somewhere while he was training.
"Yuan'er, sorry to keep you waiting. Grandpa had some business... Yuan'er your strength is getting stronger again..." Not finished his sentence, Zhou Bing's attention had already been diverted to another thing that was Zhou Yuan's increasingly domineering aura.
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly before nodding softly, indeed even though one could not feel his strength yet Zhou Yuan's bodily aura could still be felt by others, Zhou Bing who had been with him for the past few times would be aware of the difference.