Swordsman Dog Stick

Ep 1 - Meeting the Ancestors

There are five great continents lying on this earth. The middle continent was the most vast continent ruled by the Qin empire. Not only the area, but the Qin empire also has the most power among the five continents.

The British Empire, ruled the western continent, the Taijun Empire controlled the northern continent, the Dai Nippon empire controlled the eastern Continent, and the Nusantara Empire controlled the southern Continent.

The five empires each had their own language, but the five empires had agreed that Indonesian would be the unifying language of the five continents. It is not known who first used this language.

Far away at the southern tip of the Nusantara empire, separated by a vast ocean, was a small island called Java Island. Not many people inhabit the island because in addition to its location far from the continent of Nusantara, also its size is much smaller than other islands. The island is only inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people who are divided into four population groups, according to the direction of the wind.

Mahisa Agni, a 12-year-old child born to a family planning in the eastern group of Java Island. She has a younger sister named Rara Kencana, her father named Mahisa Pukat, and her mother named Puspandari.

Mahisa Agni family is just a family of ordinary farmers, its degree below the family of martial practitioners. So not infrequently the family of farmers is considered one eye only by the family of practitioners. In fact, often someone who comes from a family of farmers, became the subject of insults from family practitioners.

"Stop...!!!"

Shouted Mahisa Agni was no longer able to hold back anger when Dirjo, his fellow farmer children were played by three children as Agni from a family of practitioners.

"Haha.... What do you have to dare to interfere in our affairs huhh?" Saut Ming Yu while directing one punch to Mahisa Agni's stomach.

"Bugh"

Mahisa Agni fell down holding her stomach like a stir.

"Only the lowly peasant's son behaves presumably covetously" said Ming Tan

"Let's feel this" Ming Hautse added one kick to Mahisa Agni's face.

"Cambagh"

Mahisa Agni was thrown closer to Dirjo who had collapsed first with a battered face. While no one else in the middle of the market dared to interfere considering that the Ming family was one of the distinguished practitioner families of the eastern group.

"Let's go, only the ants dare to act..." Ming Tan spat on Mahisa Agni's face and passed away.

The treatment of Ming Tan who spat in his face, made Agni forget about the pain in her stomach, her anger was completely ignited to smoldering. If his stomach was like a stirring, now suddenly he felt an energy swirling in his stomach and centered in the navel. Without a second thought, Agni leaped towards Ming Tan who was behind her.

"Hiiiaaaatttt" cried Agni loudly shaking.

"BABAGGHHH"

One punch landed on Ming Tan's left shoulder making him float around in circles and be thrown dozens of steps.

"What...????? The insolent....!!!"

The surprised Ming Hautse could not believe seeing Ming Tan get a blow from Agni to be thrown. Ming Tan became very angry, spontaneously jumping and giving his kick to Agni. While Agni herself was also surprised by his actions, still panting as if out of steam. Inevitably, Ming Hautse's feet landed on his chest and made a collapse. Ming Yu did not stay silent, he beat Agni who had collapsed.

Furthermore, Agni who had collapsed, got a lot of kicks from Ming Hautse and Ming Yu, her entire body was showered with kicks, when a kick landed on her neck, Agni fainted unconscious.

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Slowly Agni opened her eyes. Still in a lying position, Agni circulated her gaze. Only the sky was bright blue but not dazzling. It was blue without a cloud. Even the sun that was supposed to be a source of light was also invisible in the blue sky back then.

As she realized that she was lying on the grass, Agni felt an incredible comfort that she had never felt before. The grass that became the base to lie down, felt so soft that it made Agni not want to rise from the collapse.

But after a while enjoying the softness of the grass, Agni realized her condition and rose to her feet. As far as the eye can see, only on the grass without limits to form a horizon line at the end of his vision.

"Where am I? This place is so comfortable, how can I be here"

Agni closed her eyes in the breeze crib that blew against her body. His memory works retracing what happened before he was in his current place.

He still clearly remembered that he was surviving the Ming brothers' kicks.

Agni opened her eyes again, she stared at a small ray point that was slightly above the horizon line. The longer the point of light is getting bigger to the size of the sun. It was quite dazzling but it did not make his eyes closed. The light grew even bigger several times bigger than the sun. Now the light seemed like a passageway of light in the middle of the sky.

From inside the hallway of light, something seemed to move as if it was about to come out of the hallway of light. And sure enough, a person who was not yet clearly visible, floated out of the hallway of light then slowly descended downwards towards Agni.

Now it was clear in Agni's sight, an old man wearing a white green shirt floated down approaching her by standing on a golden lotus flower. His right hand held a dark green bamboo-patterned cane and his left hand crossed behind his back.

At each end of the cloth, decorated with golden stripes. His entire hair had turned white, as well as his eyebrows dangling beside his cheeks. His beard was long to the front of his chest.

"Welcome my grandson"

Agni was surprised that the white-robed man called her grandson, but now Agni realized that she was in another world that was different from the world she had lived in before. Either where he was at the moment, in the dream world, or perhaps he had died and was now in nirvana, considering the last time he was receiving Ming brothers kicks.

"The grandson saluted Eyang, but earlier the grandson apologized, is it okay for the grandson to ask?"

"Hmmm.... Eyang...? Maybe too"

"Where is this Eyang, and who is this Eyang?" Ask Agni.

The old man puffed his chest while still stroking his beard then answered Agni's question.

"Haha... You are not everywhere My grandchild, and I am your first generation ancestor, you are my ninth thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine"

Again Agni was surprised to hear the explanation of the green-clothed old man. He did not expect to see his ancestors. Indeed the news he heard, that martial practitioners used to do energy processing called cultivation, be it external energy, internal energy, or mental energy. And a cultivator could go to another realm, or meet his long-dead ancestor.

However, Agni did not understand this at all, during this time he lived as a farmer's son, the stories from his father and grandfather say that the ancestors of Mahisa Agni did live as farmers, as well as the, never once did his father or grandfather mention that there were martial practitioners or cultivators in his ancestral line.

So there was never a story that his father or grandfather could meet his dead ancestors again. Agni thought, the most likely condition for her to meet an ancestor is only when in a dream or when people have died.

In addition, Agni was also astonished, he was a Javanese with the physical characteristics of the archipelago who had tanned brown skin. But the man who claimed to be his ancestor, although only visible from the face and back of the hand because he was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, but clearly has white skin. And the old man also had narrowed eyes, similar to the physical features of the Chinese.

"Even though Ancestor, granddaughter is truly sorry. Is this just a dream, or is the grandchild dead until they can meet their ancestors?" Ask Agni to Eyang Mahisa.

"Ompan pardon moaf sorry, just set saggy napa Cu.... Did I see I was gonna eat you?"

"Ampun Eyang's... Grandchild Meaning..."

"Bluugh" not yet finished Agni spoke, the stick the old man was holding floated up and smacked Agni's butt.

"Aadduuuhh.... Pain Eyaaaang...." Agni complained while stroking her painful butt.

"Haha... I told you not to ogre-forget mulu" said the old man.

"Yes ..iya Eyang... But Eyang, are you really my ancestor, it seems that you are of Chinese descent, while I am a Javanese" Agni asked next.

"Haha.... Do you think that's impossible?" The old man asked back.

"What if his great-grandfather your great-grandfather marries a Javanese girl, trus his great-grandfather you marry a Javanese girl, and his father your great-grandfather marries a Javanese girl, trus, your great-grandfather marries a Javanese girl, and his father your great-grandfather marries a Javanese girl, keep your grandfather marrying a Javanese girl, trus...."

"Eyang, yes I understand, don't continue" cut Agni who then again screamed in pain and jumped holding her butt because the man's cane hit her ass again.

"Based on the bad boy, the old man was just talking about being cut into pieces" said the old man.

"Dwearing... Pain Kek, his ashes are very long anyway" complained Agni, now he has understood it is not impossible that his ancestors were Chinese.

"Then Eyang, where exactly is this?" Ask Agni later.

"Haha... You are in the realm of your soul Cu" replied the old man.

"What is Eyang, the realm of the soul???" Agni surprised.

"Yes... Why would... Shocked?"

"It's not so Eyang, I think only cultivators can enter nature, others, whereas I'm just a peasant boy" Agni continued.

"Hahaha, want a peasant child, want a noble child, want a king and emperor though, everything is the same as my granddaughter. Having the same body, the same capital"

"Is it really Eyang?"

"I asked you Cu, what are you eating? Rice right? Do you think they eat iron? Haha...."

"But can't they eat Eyang's iron" asked Agni.

"Haha... You're right, but after raising his knowledge, and you can too if you want to practice"

"Practice, can Eyang, I want Eyang... I wanna..." Shouted Agni excitedly.

"Haha... Prepare yourself, you will find the strongest and best martial book of all time. Haha....."

"The martial book?"

"Haha... Never mind, I want to go first, you study diligently with the book you will find, I will accompany you. Hahaha.." concluded the old man as he continued to laugh and began to move hovering above his golden lotus flower.

"Wait for Eyang, you haven't mentioned your name yet" Agni said.

"My name is Chua Pek Dong"

"Who is Eyang, tired of dong? Do you want me to massage?" Agni said while holding back a laugh that made both of her cheeks bulge.

But only for a moment, because of the old man's stick named Chua Pek Dong, had floated up and beat Agni's butt, and, while Chua Pek Dong continued to float back into the Light aisle that was still in the sky.