Chapter 447: Red Jade Fruits
Twenty-three years later, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue arrived in front of a tree.
The tree was three metres tall and more than ten metres wide.
However, its size was the least interesting thing about it.
[There are seventy-two fruits.] Jiang Yue transmitted.
[The fruits have already turned yellow and should ripen in three days.]
Hearing this, Jiang Yue sighed.
The tree in front of them was a red jade fruit tree.
When the fruits ripened, they would emit an intoxicating fragrance before turning red.
[The fruits are useless to reincarnation realm cultivators but some demonic beasts like to eat them. It will be a hard fight.] Jiang Yue reminded.
[No matter what, we have to get a few.]
Although the red jade fruits were useless to reincarnation realm cultivators, they were useful to nascent soul realm cultivators.
If a peak stage nascent soul realm cultivator refined a red jade fruit when breaking through, their chance of advancing to the reincarnation realm would increase by thirty per cent.
Thinking of the situation of the Cangxing mountain, Yu Nianzhen naturally wanted to grab a few.
With the fruits, the Cangxing Mountain could add a few reincarnation realm cultivators before the challenge event.
[I know but our enemies aren’t just demonic beasts.]
At that, the two secretly looked around.
Other than them, there were about fifty cultivators near the red jade fruit tree.
Fortunately, all of them were in the first level of the reincarnation realm and didn’t pose a threat to Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
[Where is XiaoLan?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[She is still in the depths of the mountain.]
[Can she come back?]
Hearing the question, Jiang Yue closed his eyes and activated his and XiaoLan’s beast contract.
A moment later, he opened his eyes and shook his head.
[It’s a waste to call her back.] Jiang Yue said and then explained.
From the beast contract, he knew XiaoLan was fighting a difficult opponent.
The fight had been going on for four days and was unlikely to be over without half a month.
If Jiang Yue called XiaoLan back, her efforts for the past four days would be wasted.
[In that case, leave her be.] Yu Nianzhen said.
[How many fruits do you want to grab?]
[Half.] Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be shocked.
In fact, Yu Nianzhen wanted to grab all seventy-two but he restrained himself and decided to be satisfied with half.
[Grabbing thirty-six fruits won’t be easy.] Jiang Yue said after thinking about it.
[No matter how difficult it is, we still have to do it.] Yu Nianzhen said with a determined look in his eyes.
[Okay, let’s think of a way.]
As they waited for the fruits to ripen, more people arrived in the surroundings.
Some came alone, others came in groups, and others joined their fellows who had arrived earlier.
When the third day came, more than two hundred cultivators and one hundred demonic beasts were gathered around the red jade fruit tree.
At this time, a group of people broke away from the crowd and walked towards the red jade fruit.
"Our Raging Flame Mountain has taken a liking to the red jade fruits." One of the group’s male cultivators spoke in a domineering voice.
"We will give you ten breaths to leave this place." Another said.
Hearing this, the gathered cultivators secretly looked at each other but none had the thought of resisting.
After all, the Raging Flame Mountain was not something they could deal with.
’Raging Flame Mountain...’ Jiang Yue thought and his brows furrowed.
From what he knew, the Raging Flame World was a top-grade world and its world mountain was in the second zone of the Reincarnation World.
[Top-grade worlds are more domineering than stated in He Fan’s information.] Jiang Yue said and sighed.
[This is good for us.]
[Good?] Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be confused.
[Look around.]
When Jiang Yue looked around, he immediately understood Yu Nianzhen’s reasoning.
Although everyone was reluctant, most of the other cultivators had already retreated.
The only ones who had yet to retreat were their group of two, the demonic beasts, and a yellow-robed group of five.
Seeing that some people were still lingering around, the cultivator from the Raging Flame world narrowed his eyes.
"Aren’t you leaving?" He asked but his tone was more issuing a demand than questioning.
"Why should we leave?" A yellow-robed female cultivator asked with a hint of mockery in her voice.
"Didn’t you hear what I said? My Raging Flame Mountain wants these red jade fruits."
Although red jade fruits were useful to all peak-level nascent soul realm cultivators, they were more effective for flame origin cultivators.
If refined by a flame cultivator, the chance of advancing was forty per cent compared to thirty per cent for other cultivators.
Since most cultivators in the Raging Flame World had a flame-related origin, the world’s cultivators naturally wanted to grab all the red jade fruits.
In this way, they could exchange them for a lot of points when they returned to the Raging Flame Mountain.
"If you want us to leave, it’s impossible." The yellow-clothed female cultivator snorted and looked at the people from the Raging Flame Mountain with disgust in her eyes.
"The five of you seem to be from the Three-Coloured Desert World." A cultivator from the Raging Flame World suddenly said.
"So what?"
[The Three-Coloured Desert World is a high-grade world.] Yu Nianzhen reminded and Jiang Yue nodded.
According to their information, the cultivators of some of the high-grade worlds were not inferior to those from the top-grade worlds.
Looking at it this way, the Three-Coloured Desert Mountain had the capital to oppose the Raging Flaming Mountain.
"Forget the Three-Coloured Desert Mountain, who are these two?" A Raging Flame Mountain cultivator asked while pointing at Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
Instantaneously, all attention shifted from the yellow-robed cultivators to Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
"Leave before I get angry." A Raging Flame Mountain cultivator roared.
After failing to deal with the Three Coloured Desert Mountain cultivators, he was extremely irritated.
When he saw Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen, he became angrier and wanted to teach them a lesson.
However, the red jade fruits were about to ripen.
At this time, he didn’t want to be entangled in a fight and make the fruits cheaper for others.
"If you have the ability, you can make us leave." Yu Nianzhen said in an extremely arrogant voice.
Hearing this, everyone was shocked.
From the quality of Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue’s clothes, it was easy to tell they were from a low-grade world.
Most importantly, the clothes were not even profound rank artefacts which showed their world was not powerful even among low-grade worlds.
For cultivators from such a world to oppose cultivators from a top-grade world, this was a first!
"Is there something wrong with his brain?" Someone asked.
"Isn’t he just a bumpkin? He has never seen the world and thinks he can grab treasures with us." Another sneered.
"They are both good-looking, it’s a pity to kill them here."
"It’s not that we want to kill them. It’s them who have a way to heaven but insist on breaking into hell. Such ignorant people don’t deserve to live."
At this time, the leader of the group of people from the Raging Flame Mountain clenched his hands and spoke through gritted teeth.
"I will give you another chance. Leave right away." He said.
"Don’t waste my time." Yu Nianzhen said with an extremely cold look in his eyes.
For him, the current situation was quite favourable.
Now that most of the competitors had retreated, he and Jiang Yue could grab as many red jade fruits as they wanted.
Also, fighting the other cultivators was a chance to test their strength.
In the past twenty years, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had trained in the mountain and never went out.
Although they fought many sixth-level demonic beasts, they hadn’t fought other cultivators.
Because of this, they were a little ignorant about the strength of foreign cultivators; especially foreign cultivators from high-grade and top-grade worlds.
[When we fight later, don’t use all your strength.] Yu Nianzhen transmitted.
[I know.] Jiang Yue nodded.
At the moment, the others didn’t know their identity as the mountain master and deputy mountain master of the Cangxing mountain.
However, this ignorance was only temporary.
Later, their identity would be discovered and Yu Nianzhen wanted the foreign cultivators to have a false impression of his strength.
In this way, he and the Cangxing world would reap more benefits during the upcoming challenge.
[The Raging Flame World is a top-grade world while the Three Coloured Desert World is a high-grade world. It’s best to aggravate them so that they will be more motivated to take part in the challenge.] Yu Nianzhen said.
[If they bear a grudge, they will be more likely to trouble us during the challenge. As long as we defeat them then, our Cangxing world will have fewer mine challenges in the following one thousand years.] Jiang Yue nodded and said.
