Chapter 104 Sixth Grade Qingyun Fruit
"Brother Chen, why do I feel like you are different?"
Zhou Chen smiled and asked, "How did you find out?" Then Zhou Chen waved his hand casually, and a blade of air shot out from the wooden stick in his hand and directly broke a big tree.
"Yiyao, I have made a breakthrough. Now I have reached the sixth level." Leng Yiyao was not particularly familiar with the realm, but anyway, a breakthrough meant that Zhou Chen was becoming more and more powerful.
The two then returned to the city and found the largest restaurant. The food in this restaurant was not cheap, but Zhou Chen and the other man still had nearly two thousand taels of silver in their hands, so they could still afford it.
The two then ordered a table full of food, including both meat and vegetables. The meat was all from seventh-grade monster meat, and Zhou Chen also spent a lot of money on a dish. The portion was not large, with only about one pound of meat, but it was priced at one hundred taels.
However, Zhou Chen did not feel it was worthless, because this was the meat of a sixth-grade monster. When the dish was served, Zhou Chen could not help but pick up a piece of meat with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and swallowed it without even biting it.
What surprised Zhou Chen was that he did not get any strengthening points. After that, Zhou Chen tried it a few more times and the result was still the same. Not only that, even eating seventh-grade beast meat had the same result, which surprised Zhou Chen very much.
Zhou Chen thought about it and thought that maybe it was because his system panel was being updated, so he could not obtain strengthening points temporarily. "Brother Chen, what's wrong with you? You seem to be worried about something?"
"It's okay," Zhou Chen said as he picked up a piece of meat for Leng Yiyao. While eating, Zhou Chen saw Wang Wu and the other two walking in wearing official uniforms. The three of them should have come to eat as well, but when they noticed that Zhou Chen was also here, they actually walked over directly.
Zhou Chen narrowed his eyes slightly but did not show too much hostility. After all, although the other party also had the surname Wang, Zhou Chen was not sure that the other party was from the Wang family.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Zhou?" Leng Yiyao didn't know what was going on with the three people. She just thought they were Zhou Chen's colleagues and quickly asked them to sit down.
The three of them did not show any hostility in front of Leng Yiyao, but chatted with Zhou Chen very friendly. Zhou Chen also acted as if what happened in the morning had not happened, and talked and laughed with the three of them. Although he did not believe them in his heart, he could not show it on his face.
The meal was quite pleasant and nothing unpleasant happened. In the end, Wang Wu paid the bill and Zhou Chen did not refuse.
Zhou Chen arrived at the Demon Suppression Division early the next morning. Team 19 had completed their mission for this month, so there was no need to go to the Mission Hall early in the morning to choose missions. After the four of them met, they went directly to the Hall Master to sign in.
Different from the past, this time the hall master had a task to assign to three people. The task was that a sixth-grade herb, Qingyun Fruit, had appeared in the depths of Wuhua Mountain in recent days, and the hall master asked them to bring it back.
According to the news, not only the hall master, but other forces in Wuan County have also been eyeing this pearl herb, so this mission is not easy.
The teams of Qinglong Hall had either gone out on missions or were too weak to retrieve the herbs. Now there was only Team 19 left, so it was natural that the matter fell into their hands.
Of course, the hall master would not let them work in vain. If the task was completed, each of them would get ten merit points.
After hearing this, everyone excitedly bowed and said, "Don't worry, sir, we will definitely bring the things back."
Afterwards, Qin Hong led the three of them out of the Demon Suppression Division and headed straight for Wuhua Mountain. Although there was no specific location, according to the information, the Qingyun Fruit was on the third peak of Wuhua Mountain.
The three of them walked very fast and soon arrived at the third peak of Wuhua Mountain. Although Wuhua Mountain was very close to Wu'an County, the third peak was very large and it was not easy to find a fruit tree here.
After reaching the mountain, the four of them started to search separately. Qingyun Fruit was not a particularly rare fruit tree. There were pictures of it in the books in the library. Before leaving, the four of them had seen pictures of it and knew what it looked like. Zhou Chen chose a direction and started to search. Along the way, Zhou Chen found many traces of human footsteps on the mountain, which meant that many people had been up the mountain recently.
However, Zhou Chen was not careless. Although some places had been searched by others, Zhou Chen still checked them personally.
Just one hour after Zhou Chen and his team went up the mountain, a team of four also went up the mountain. Not only that, there was an animal similar to a puppy leading the way in front of them.
Although it is a dog, it is an eighth-grade monster with a very sensitive nose, especially for spiritual herbs and medicines. With this monster, they are sure to get the Qingyun Fruit in Jiucheng.
They didn't need to search slowly like the others when they went up the mountain. With the monster leading the way, they just had to follow it. Although they hadn't found the Qingyun Fruit along the way, they did come across quite a few ninth and eighth grade herbs.
However, they were all still young and they did not pick them. At this time, Zhou Chen was secretly following behind them.
Zhou Chen wrapped himself with true Qi to prevent his breath from leaking out. Even if the other party had a special tracking monster, it would not be able to detect Zhou Chen's presence.
Originally, Zhou Chen was still searching on his own, but he became a little impatient after searching for a while. Just then he saw a team of four, and Zhou Chen quickly hid. He just didn't want to have a conflict with the other party.
But when he accidentally saw that the monster actually found a herb, Zhou Chen had an idea, which was to follow them. Zhou Chen was sure that the four people were also looking for Qingyun Fruit.
After tracking all the way, Zhou Chen became more certain of his idea, because the four of them encountered quite a few herbs along the way, but because they were too small and still in their infancy, they did not pick them.
They would only pick mature herbs. Zhou Chen followed them up the mountain. The monster took them around the mountain until it was dark five hours later.
At this time, the monster brought them to the edge of a cliff. Zhou Chen behind him thought that they were going to spend the night there, but suddenly he found that several people were actually cutting branches, and then they used the branches and ropes to make a simple rope ladder.
Zhou Chen wondered, "Did they find it?"
Afterwards, Zhou Chen gave up the idea of going far away to rest, and instead sneaked around from the side. Because Zhou Chen only wrapped an extremely weak layer of true qi on his body, so after five hours, he still had most of the true qi in his body. If they really found something, Zhou Chen was confident enough to snatch it away.
Zhou Chen came directly to a big tree on the edge of a distant cliff. With the help of moonlight, Zhou Chen saw that there was a fruit tree on the cliff. The fruit tree did not look big, and there were more than a dozen green fruits on it.
Although it was far away, Zhou Chen could still be sure that this was the Qingyun Fruit. The thing was halfway up the cliff. Zhou Chen had already synthesized the wind-controlling demon pattern before. Now he was unable to control the wind for a short period of time, so it was not a wise move to take action at this time.
Zhou Chen waited patiently. The man in charge of picking the fruits soon came to the vicinity of the fruit trees. Just as he was about to pick the fruits excitedly, suddenly a small green snake rushed out from the side and bit the guy on the neck.
With a scream, the man fell directly from the rope ladder.
(End of this chapter)