The Fragrant Wood Swordsman
pkh 04 part 3

He understood that Kiu-bwe Toanio could not be easily knocked down with his needles, so the needle attack was just to mess with the opponent, and now as his opponent turned the whip away from the threat of the needles, he had lunged with his sword whose movements were very fast and powerful.

Keng Hong who saw the movements of this girl secretly felt awe and shock. Judging from her movements, the swordswoman of the girl was completely shrewd instead of playing and was presumably not below the level of the nine magicians who had once invaded her temperature.

"Tar-tar-tar.. wuuutttt... trang-trangg...!"

The nine ends of the whip played in Kiu-bwe Toanio's hands were as if they had become nine live-moving snakes, some fended off the opponent's sword and some retaliated with lightning shots followed by a hooking motion!

No matter how great the sword moves in Cui Im's hands, but faced by the nine ends of the whip that deflected and attacked back he was shocked. His sword rotated as he let out a loud cry, followed by Kiu-bwe Toanio's startled scream. For a moment these two people vanished into a twirling shadow between the red light and the black beam of the whip, then the two cheated backwards preceded by Cui Im who was forced to jump far to avoid the attack of six links.

He went down and stretched his sword with a slightly changed face because he now understood how shrewd the grandmother was and who turned out to be a heavy opponent as well. On the other hand, the grandmother let out a furious bellow because three links and three ends of her whip had been muffled by a very shrewd sword in Cui Im's hand.

At that moment, Sin-to Gi-hiap who saw a good opportunity, had already jumped up to Keng Hong and said, "Young man, you should come with me as your temperature representative!"

With a naked machete in his right hand, the grandfather grabbed Keng Hong with his left hand, about to grab the young man's shoulder. Before Keng Hong could dodge, a red light flashed and the grandfather quickly retracted his hand because if it continued, it would certainly be blown away by the sword Cu Im had drawn.

"Bangka old man, don't touch this young man!"

Sin-to Gi-hiap took a deep breath. "Miss, considering your teacher, let us parents give in. Let's negotiate well. The relics of Sin-jiu Kiam-ong are numerous, and if the three of us divide equally, there are still very many parts of each of us. I guess Kiu-bwe Toanio doesn't mind either."

Kiu-bwe Toanio moves his whip. He knew that the swordsmanship of the girl was very clever, what else if he remembered the girl's teacher, absolutely could not be made an opponent and was much better made a friend. So he nodded and muttered, "Originally young people are not rude to old people, nor am I a greedy person who wants to have all heirlooms."

Cu Im stepped forward to approach Keng Hong then held the young man's hand with his right hand which hid the sword behind the arm.

"Uhh, you just want to be good! Who got Sin-jiu Kiam-ong's student first? Me! If you all run away from being chased away by tosu-tosu Kun-lun-pai, I let myself be made a prisoner! After I manage to get this young man, each of you will want a share! Absolutely shameless!"

Suddenly the girl moved her left hand, slammed something in front of the two opponents and there was a loud explosion followed by black smoke rising. The two old men were experienced men. Quickly they jumped back and forth, knowing how dangerous the black smoke arising from the explosion was.

And it is exactly their guess because if the two do not distance themselves and suck the black smoke, their lives are threatened by death spread by the black smoke that is very toxic! When they jumped around the smoke, it turned out that Cui Im and Keng Hong were no longer visible shadow.

"Bad! Let's go after it!" Kiu-bwe Toanio exclaimed and moved his six-tailed whip.

These two shrewd figures immediately shot up and did a chase. But because they both did not look at which direction Cui Im ran, they chased after him and turned out they were headed to the opposite direction. What if Cui Im who constricted Keng Hong's body ran south, they instead chased west.

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"Keng Hong, we rest and spend the night here!" Cui Im said as he threw Keng Hong's body on the green grass in a forest.

Dusk had passed and the weather conditions within the forest were already dim. Cui Im then lit a fire and made a bonfire so that in addition to being warm and not disturbed by mosquitoes, the place also became somewhat bright. Then the beautiful girl sat down to approach Keng Hong who was leaning against the tree trunk.

"Keng Hong, your time has passed by a day, just stay tonight. If I don't give you the antidote, you're dead tomorrow morning."

Keng Hong took a deep breath revealing a face of grief when in his heart he became amused. "Campus yes let it be, even do not bother to be a scramble like now!"

"Eh, uh, uhh! you're a young teenager, only seventeen years old, not yet enjoying the pleasures of life, why would you want to die?"

"Want to die anyway, but if you poison me to death, what can I do?"

"You're not horrified? Not afraid of death?"

"Why afraid? Are you afraid to die, Cui Im?"

The girl nodded, looking at the handsome face in wonder and awe.

"Hemmm, how strange it would be if someone was afraid of death. What the hell is dead? Who has experienced it? Who knows what if he's dead? Is scary? If you don't know, what should you be afraid of? I'm not afraid to die because I don't know what's going to happen there, as I wasn't afraid to be born because I didn't know how it's called life!"

"Well, you are besides stupid and wayward, strange too!"

"You're even stranger. When you were in Kun-lun-san, you let yourself be a prisoner, pretending to be someone who has no intelligence, when you faced Kiu-bwe Toanio, you were very shrewd."

Cui Im laughed, his teeth glittering to the touch of the light of the bonfire. "If the smelly tosu-tosu of the Kun-lun-pai knew that I was me, they would not be easy to let me go, even if you asked for it."