The Fragrant Wood Swordsman
pkh 14 part 3
Can his teacher jump over this wide chasm? May it not be possible. And what about Thai Kek Couwsu? Was the grandfather who was said to be god-like in appearance able to jump over this abyss? If you can not jump his name, but fly! It doesn't make sense!
He kept looking for a way, continued to use his wits. Man is intelligent, not like a naked animal. Man dressed.. ahhh, clothes..! Keng Hong looked at the clothes covering his body.
The white clothes from the silk he took from inside the chest. Presumably the relics of the Thai Kek Couwsu. The white clothes of silk were smooth and extremely strong, again tenacious and strong! Aye! Those silk clothes, that tenacious silk!
Quickly Keng Hong dashed into the room, opened the crate and took out all the white silk clothes. He then measured, then tore all the clothes into long little rips, then twisted them, splicing them together into a long silk rope, only as big as a pinky but very tenacious and strong!
It continued until all the white silk clothes were worn out, which now turned into very long ropes. This silk rope with mine is still half the distance of the ravine. Then, with a pounding heart and a praying heart to Thian, after tying the end of the silk rope to the rock, he threw the hooked end of the mine across.
The ejection force was very strong and the hooked steel floated across, precisely clinging to the rock across. The silk rope was quite long! Now unfolds ‘bridge’ made of mine jointed silk rope!
Keng Hong almost cried out in his heart. But he suppressed his joy. He's not winning drunk. Danger still needs to be taken. Before getting to the other side, he must first cross through this ‘bridge' and it is not as easy as crossing the mine as it was a year ago. The silk rope was very small again slippery and he still had to risk his life because if the rope was less strong and broken...!
But there is no other way and the stakes live forever in that place, until death as an old and skinny old grandfather dry, then dead silence. What if he crossed over, even if he failed, he would only meet death. But if it works...!
Keng Hong tucked Dayang-bhok-kiam in his belt, hiding the sword behind his oversized clothes, white silk clothes, the only clothes he did not tear to make a crossing rope. The Thai-kek book Sin-kun he put in his pocket.
After standing in silence on the brink, look up and in the heart beg Thian's protection and ask for the help of the spirits of Thai Kek Couwsu and Sin-jiu Kiam-ong, Keng Hong then mobilized his ginkang and began to step on the silk rope that crossed over the ravine in front of him. After both of his feet stepped on the silk rope and felt confident that it was strong enough, not swaying and his body could stand up straight, he then began to step forward slowly.
It was as if the distance that a year ago every day was occupied was now five times longer than usual! It was as if he would never get across. But his foot did not step on the silk rope anymore, but stepped on the mine, a sign that half the distance had been passed.
Now he hastened his pace and soon he jumps to the edge of the abyss where Cui Im once stood laughing at him! Keng Hong dropped to his knees toward the spot where he had started crossing, as if he was about to thank the Thai spirits of Kek Couwsu and Sin-jiu Kiam-ong.
It is true that he received the help of the two great men, namely by studying the sciences of the two great men. If he does not have a great sinkang, and if his knowledge is not deepened another year according to the instructions of the Thai Kek Couwsu relics, especially if he did not receive the white silk clothing relic from the founder of Kun-lun-pai, it was rather not that fast that he would be able to cross the abyss!
From Keng Hong's experience it turns out that valuable or not a wider legacy, valuable or not an object depends on the application of its use. Sometimes, objects that are usually considered worthless, once at the right time are needed and can turn into very valuable objects. On the contrary, an ordinary thing is considered very valuable, if it is not needed it will be a thing that has no price at all!
What does it mean that a mountain of gold in a dry desert has no water? The man who almost died of thirst there would willingly and happily exchange every lump of gold for a mouthful of water! In the case of Keng Hong, that pile of old clothes turned out to be far more valuable than all sorts of heirlooms contested by kang-ouw figures all over the world!
Keng Hong immediately ran into the hallway and inspected all the rooms. Exactly as he had expected, Cui Im vanished and so did all of his temperature relics and three heirloom swords and most of the most beautiful jewels. The woman really did not want to waste the opportunity to satisfy her greedy lust!
Even though the heirloom weapons there are still many, and also these valuable items than silver gold and jewels, and, yet there was not the slightest intention in Keng Hong's heart to carry even a single one of those heirlooms. He only carried the sword of Siang-bhok-kiam and the Thai-kek book of Sin-kun, then he kept coming out of the place through a small passage or tunnel while crawling, just like when he came first.
He still remembered how Cui Im who crawled behind him felt frightened, sometimes holding his arm, also sometimes pushing his hip. Keng Hong smiled. However angry and hateful to Cui Im, sometimes his heart was amused also when he remembered the behavior of the girl.
At the end of the passageway, he saw stones piled up and he could surmise that the door that closed the tunnel was shattered by the onslaught of stones from above.
