23 Call me Bai Long (1/2)

Bai Yun woke up from his sleep a little after midnight. His headache had gone down a little, but was still very distracting. Bai Yun once again left the burrow and decided to wander about to find the supreme weed fruit.

After he left the area controlled by Bai Shan, Bai Yun started to run into others. The number of people here was indeed much higher than the first day. He ran into a few groups on his journey. Not only where there more people, he even ran into stronger and stronger people too. He even found a person in the seventh stage of qi condensation in the valley. Other than the supreme weed fruit, there was no other fruit that could entice a person in the seventh stage of qi condensation in the weed valley.

And along with the increase of the people, the demonic beasts in the valley seemed to be increasing as well as getting stronger too. Demonic beasts could sense things like the supreme weed fruit. This only increased his assurance that the supreme weed fruit was real. Bai Yun came across two second circle demonic beasts on the way. Thankfully they were not as troublesome as the grey rock python, and he was able to deal with them with some effort.

Bai Yun spend the next few days searching for the supreme weed fruit. But he had no luck so far. Today was the full moon and the supreme fruit would mature. Once it matured, then the fragrance of the fruit would quickly spread until it was plucked and then people would be able to find it soon enough. If one was unable to pluck the fruit a few minutes within the time it became ripe then every one would be able to find out about the fruit and then a great fight would occur. Bai Yun had a much lower reserve of qi than all the other people here and he wanted to avoid a prolonged battle as much as possible.

In the last few days Bai Yun had come across many instances of people fighting beasts or each other. When it happened, if it seemed as if someone was about to die, Bai Yun would lend a hand. Thanks to all of this Bai Yun had gained a lot of fame. Last night he had heard someone call him a guardian angel. The fact that he was wearing a bandage mask to hide his identity only added to his fame.

It seemed as if people had noticed the disappearance of Bai Shan's group, but no one had been alarmed by it yet. They all seemed to think that he had found the supreme weed fruit and was preparing to take it, or attack the people that had them. Basically no one was suspicious that he had died. Which was a good thing for Bai Yun.

Bai Yun moved through the weeds. His perception was much stronger than that of anyone else as he had walked in all there paths of cultivation. So even with the suppression brought about by the weeds he could cover a larger area and thus had run across almost the entire weed valley. Right now he was nearing the edge of the weed valley.

The weed valley was surrounded by mountains on three sides and a large river was flowing behind it. The river was very treacherous with numerous under currents that made crossing the river very dangerous. And beyond the river was the region belonging to foundation establishment cultivators.

As Bai Yun moved through the weeds he sensed two people in his perception. He quickly moved towards them. He had been doing this for the last two days. By sneaking up on people after hiding his presence by using both the Assassin God's techniques as well as his god sense, it would be incredibly difficult for anyone to notice him. He had started doing this in order to see if any of them had found the supreme weed fruit, but he had had no luck so far. But he did hear an awful lot of gossip as well some general information about the the clan and the surrounding areas which ended up being very useful for him. Bai Yun did not expect to hear anything important this time too but he did it out of habit anyway. He had finally found out that his greatest weakness was the lack of information. Even though the rumors about the supreme weed fruit had been going on for a few days when he entered the weed valley, he had no idea of it. If it wasn't for a series of lucky and unlucky events he would have missed it for sure.

”What should we do about the supreme weed fruit. Bai Hao had already blabbed to everyone about us finding it.” Bai Yun heard a female voice speak.

Bai Yun was surprised by the development. He did not expect to hear anything good. He could not believe his luck. He quite quickly inched closer to the couple. He saw two people sitting in a small clearing, eating something. It was a man and a woman. Both of them were sitting facing each other, and Bai Yun was standing at a right angle to them. He simply peered out from the weeds, not taking a step into the clearing.

”What can we do now. Considering that there were three supreme weed fruits, we decide to share them between ourselves and not let anyone else know of them. Their location is so secluded that other than luck there is no chance in funding them. Who would have thought that Bai Hao would start bragging about finding them.”

”By now a lot of people had found out about them. But as long as we don't let anyone know that we know about the supreme weed fruit's location, we can go to the cave and collect them when it nears midnight.”

'A cave!' Bai Yun thought in wonder. The only was there could be a cave in the weed valley would be near it's edges on the cliffs, and even then there were weed in the way to hide them. It would take supreme luck to find such a cave.

Bai Yun decided to follow the duo in order to find the location of the supreme weed fruits. And when they were ripe, he could sneak in and steal them. Since there were three supreme fruits, and a person could only eat one of them, as the second one onward would not be of much effect, he could take one and leave two for them.

”It definitely wont be easy for him. If Bai Hao were to go to the cave now, I suppose he would be surprised by the three third circle lava spiders. I know that their group hasn't been to the cave in order not to tip anyone off.”