Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 67 — Sword Technique

Zhou Yuan observed the giant boar, the beast had already turned into a demon that was two hundred years old.

Defeating him should be someone who was in the Intermediate Golden Realm and above, depending on the situation as well as the conditions.

The boar was much larger than when Zhou Yuan met in the village last time, besides there was something different about it: the color of its ivory horns was reddish.

One thing that puzzled Zhou Yuan was how a demon of this level existed in the forest of the Bamboo Mountain whereas previously the Patriarch Sect said there were no extremely dangerous demons.

With its size and age, the boar was enough to kill the swordsman who was in the Silver Realm.

Now the boar looked at Zhou Yuan and Yue Linxia from under the tree, looking annoyed that its prey had escaped.

Zhou Yuan turned to Linxia whose face currently looked slightly flushed for no apparent reason. It took a few seconds for the girl to normalize her emotions and feelings back.

"Isn't a demon of this level too dangerous in this competition?" Zhou Yuan glanced at the girl, asking for an explanation.

"Actually I don't know either," Linxia tried to answer without seeing Zhou Yuan's face. "There shouldn't be a hundred-year-old demon on this mountain, I just first saw it here..."

Linxia said that the demon who was over a hundred years old was already killed by the Panatua Sect before the competition started.

Because of this the girl was confused but certainly this situation is very dangerous.

Linxia wanted to explain further but the boar below him did not let him. He took a swing before moving to ram the tree that was inhabited by Zhou Yuan and Linxia, making the tree sway.

Fortunately the tree is quite strong, but will not last long if it is kept continuously.

"Hey! You're..."

Linxia was startled when suddenly Zhou Yuan jumped down then pulled the sword at his waist.

"Water Sword Technique — Wave!"

Zhou Yuan poured a huge amount of profound energy into his sword before slashing the body of the boar.

The boar was in pain, he took a few steps back when he realized the strength of his opponent. On the other hand Zhou Yuan frowned when his technique did not directly cripple the demon.

"Her skin is harder than I thought..." Zhou Yuan smiled faintly seeing that the injured part had not suffered a significant impact on the boar.

Linxia then descended from the tree and landed beside Zhou Yuan, "His skin is hard because he is not an ordinary wild boar that you know, this wild boar is a type of iron boar."

"Iron forest pig?" Zhou Yuan had only known there were wild boars of this type.

"The explanation is long but for sure he has a very hard skin. You have to hurt him with all your strength."

Iron wild boar is very rare to be found in the martial world because of their lives are always in the interior of the forest. I don't know for what reason until he came here that must be a very abnormal reason.

The iron boar then took a swing and butchered towards Zhou Yuan and Linxia again, this time both of them were ready and dodged the ram.

Linxia and Zhou Yuan did not allow the boar to butcher back, both of them moved quickly to attack the boar from two different directions, in a short period of time, both of them managed to incise many wounds on the demon's body.

Despite incision wounds all over his body, there were no serious injuries. The boar still looks strong and ready to attack again.

"His skin is too hard, my sword can't penetrate it too deeply..." Zhou Yuan sighed then glanced towards the sword Linxia was holding. "But I don't think you are?"

Linxia nodded, obviously Zhou Yuan was already aware of the quality of his sword which was at the level of a high grade heirloom, the Named Grade Heirloom.

"How percent can you kill him with your sword technique?" Ask Zhou Yuan.

"Hm, what do you mean? If I'm alone, obviously I can't win against him, maybe only about 20%."

Zhou Yuan nodded slowly. "That's more than enough, then I'll give you a way so you can kill him in one strike."

Before Linxia replied to Zhou Yuan's words, the man had already sheathed his sword and disappeared and appeared before the boar.

Zhou Yuan exerted a deep energy on his fist before delivering a powerful blow to the boar's nose, sending it bouncing a few meters into the tree.

The boar was startled as well as becoming alert, not expecting the little human it was fighting to possess such an unbelievably terrifying power. Linxia who saw her to the point of having trouble speaking but he realized it was not the time to react and keep silent.

The Forest Boar then moved to butcher Zhou Yuan but this time the man did not dodge instead ran towards him.

Zhou Yuan struck the boar's spine hard and repeatedly, making it neigh in pain to the point of spewing blood.

With the quality of his bones that have been perfect, it did not take long until the backbone of the boar was cracked.

At that time Linxia took the opportunity to attack him, he took the horses and used the moves from the Sound Sword Technique.

"Sound Sword Technique — Twang Tone Twilight."

Linxia moved quickly like an arrow that slipped from his bow as he unsheathed his sword towards the boar.

A sword thrust with a high power of destruction pierced through the boar's head, making it neigh in pain. Linxia's stab did not stop there, he pressed his sword back until it finally hit the boar's brain and made him stop breathing.

'The sword technique he learned has reached this level at the age of 14, he has the same extraordinary talent as Rou'er...' Zhou Yuan who saw Linxia's sword technique earlier and clucked in awe because of it.

After making sure the boar died, Zhou Yuan then took the stealth gem in it and gave it to Linxia, but the girl refused to reason Zhou Yuan who played a big role here.

"You killed him so you're the one who had it, take it, you need this gem for your break through..."

Hearing that Linxia became doubtful because indeed he desperately needed his stealth gem in his training, after being urged Zhou Yuan finally the girl was willing to accept it.

"I don't want to accept this stuff for free, when this competition is over I'll pay for it with money." Linxia was unwilling to return the favor to someone in his life so he would repay it in any form.

Zhou Yuan smiled faintly, he was unwilling to argue any further with Linxia so he nodded in response.

"Damn! Damnit damnit! What are you doing killing my demons! I've been having a hard time bringing him here and you killed him!"

Shouts of ridicule mixed with annoyance rang out from one direction, making Zhou Yuan and Linxia become wary and turn to the source of the voice.

The two found three people standing on top of a tree, one of them was the one who shouted earlier.

Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes, the three people were competition participants wearing black robes that covered his face while on the field last time.

This time the three men opened their hoods so that they could see that they were not from the younger generation, two of them were in their 40s while one looked older.

The concern of the two was that the three people were the Gold Realm warriors. Supposedly other than Zhou Yuan and Xi Yan, there were no warriors in this competition who were already in those realms.

'Did they use special techniques so that their age could not be detected by the sect elders?' Zhou Yuan thought of all possibilities.

"Damn, because these two people our plans are disrupted!" The one person who was just now was still cursing was annoyed at Zhou Yuan and Linxia.

The remaining two only sighed, obviously the plan they had prepared was a complete failure. "We bury them both here, they can't report any wild boar in this competition."

Hearing that, the man who was annoyed earlier immediately smiled widely and drew his sword, without waiting for it to instantly move towards Zhou Yuan and Linxia with killing intent.

Linxia turned pale, he who was the Silver Realm was obviously going to lose to the man but there was a momentary pat on his shoulder.

"Miss Yue, back off, let me fight her..."

Looking at Zhou Yuan's eyes, Linxia immediately nodded according, for some reason he still felt safe and calm when he was with the man.

"Wish to be a hero in front of a girl, I have to admit the younger generation now is indeed impressive..." The annoyed man earlier smiled sinisterly towards Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan shook his head slowly, pulling his sword. "You haven't seen anything from me..."

"Oh, I want to see if you can say that after I cut your body."

Zhou Yuan did not answer the irritated man's words but rather became the first party to attack.

With his agile swordplay, Zhou Yuan managed to urge his opponent to make the man stop smiling replaced with a threatened squeeze.

"You!"

The man was surprised to learn Zhou Yuan had strength on it and his sword ability was much higher than his.

In just an instant, Zhou Yuan managed to urge the man until his body was covered in sword wounds. Feeling that he was not going to win, the man shouted for help at his two comrades.