Swordsman Dog Stick

Ep 4 - The Ming Family Secrets

Agni has arrived at the village banjar. He now rested by sitting on a bamboo lacquer in the foyer of the banjar.

Agni took a book from under her clothes. The bamboo stick he was leaning next to shook and then fell to the floor as Agni took out the book.

Agni was quite surprised by this, as she picked it up, the stick had stopped shaking. Then Agni looked at the book that had been in his hands, looked very shabby, the paper had been yellowish and even tended to brown. I don't know how many years the age of a thin book that only contains a few pages.

No one realized that the book was not written on ordinary paper. The paper material of the book was made from the skin of a god-level magical beast that had been purified. Not just an ordinary person, even a high-level cultivator would not notice it. Because in addition to special materials, someone has also protected the book with his knowledge, so as not to emit an aura of power. Just like Agni's dog-beating stick.

Almost everything related to cultivation, is divided into several levels. The first thing that became the yardstick of whether one was able to cultivate well could be seen from the spirit root, and its physical supply.

The spirit root is divided into 5 elements, namely wood element, metal element, earth element, water element, and fire element. While the physical supply consists of two parts, namely bones and muscles.

Bones are divided into 5 levels, starting from the lowest, namely chicken bones, then buffalo bones, horse bones, tiger bones, and the most powerful is elephant bones. As for the muscle consists of only 3 levels, the lowest rattan muscle, then iron muscle and the highest gold muscle.

For the cultivation base, it was divided into 8 realms. Each realm consists of 3 stages, except the highest realm which has only one stage. Early stage, intermediate stage, peak stage.

That realm is,

Satria,

officers

General

Kings

Emperors

Demigods

Soulgods.

Immortal

However Agni did not know all those things about cultivation yet.

It wasn't just that Agni didn't realize. Agni has an innate stock that only appears once every 10-20 thousand years. Agni has only one spirit root, the element of fire, according to the meaning of her name. A person who has a little bit of spirit root, will more easily cultivate his Qi energy to cultivate, than a person who has more spirit roots.

Agni has a fairly good supply of bone quality, namely buffalo bones. The average human is born with chicken bones. In the future if you continue to practice, Agni can improve the quality of his bones to the bones of even elephants.

While Agni started to open the dog-beating stick book one by one. Agni was confused after seeing the contents of the book, he became doubtful whether the book was really a book of comparative science. Each page of the book contains only one image of a person with each position.

The first page contains pictures of a person sitting in a meditative manner, with a ray mark on the bottom of his stomach. The second page with the same image but the light mark is on the chest. The third page is still with the same image, but the light is on the head. While the other 9 pages contain images of a person holding a stick with different positions on each page.

"Is this book really what it means? Just a picture like this, I can also make it" Agni thought in her heart, if not for the vibration of her wand, maybe Agni had thrown the book away, Agni also kept the book back in the folds of her clothes.

After a while in the banjar, Agni began to feel bored. He wanted to go around but was worried that Ki Jarpa had come. If you do semedi also worry will invite the attention of people. Finally Agni just sat on the bamboo's nimble, sometimes standing and sometimes also he lay down to expel his boredom.

When the sun had shifted west towards the afternoon, Ki Jarpa appeared to step foot closer to the banjar.

"Sorry Ngger, you must be tired of waiting for me" said Ki Jarpa.

"It doesn't matter Uncle, I'm the one who bothers uncle" Agni said.

"Well, let's go to my house, uh, did you buy some food?"

"Hehe... I just bought sweets uncle, this is the rest of the money" said Agni while thrusting the remaining bronze coins given by ki Jarpa.

"Haha... Never mind, keep it, you can buy some more sweets later"

The two hurried to step foot into the house ki Jarpa. It turns out that ki jarpa only lives alone with his wife. His son had long abandoned them at Agni's age. That was why when he saw Agni who was lost, he remembered his own son and sympathized with him.

"Sri, this boy named Agni, he came from Lowok village in Ngalam. He told me he was lost yesterday" said Ki Jarpa introducing Agni to his wife Sri.

"Oh, really? How did you get lost, Ngger?" Tanya Sri who spontaneously held both shoulders Agni.

"I don't know Auntie either, I just walk with my friend to a market, I'm separated from my friend, then I walk home, but I get to this place" lang Agni made up the story.

"So, seeing you I remember my son Ngger, you really look like Sardipa" Sri said but then cut by ki Jarpa

"Here you go, later the story Sri, you just prepare food, this child I have given coins to buy food instead of just buy sweets" pinta ki Jarpa. While Sri only smiled at the testimony of her husband.

"How Ngalam is currently Ngger, you know, I have lived in that city for several years" said Ki Jarpa.

"In fact Uncle, means uncle has also understood how the city is" Agni asked back.

"Haha... It's been a few years Ngger, it could be that things have changed"

"Maybe it's still the same Uncle, since I was born, yes that's the state of the city of Ngalam, what uncle did when in Ngalam"

"I used to work as a waitress with my wife in one of the practitioner's family homes there Ngger"

"Certainly uncle? Whose family? Maybe I know" asked Agni.

"Ming Family"

"Ming...???" Agni was surprised, then her facial features changed due to her stiffened facial muscles.

It was Ki Jarpa who saw Agni's reaction, so wondered.

"Why Ngger, do you know that?" Ask Ki Jarpa.

"I know Uncle, the children of that family, loved to bully my friend, a few days ago, I couldn't stand to see my friend who they were oppressing, but finally, I could not bear to see my friend, we were both knocked unconscious" Agni recalled.

"Satan Ming it..." Ki Jarpa said in a trembling voice while clenching his hands. Unasked Agni, Ki Jarpa tells his story while living in the city of Ngalam.

Starting from 7 years ago, is the worst step taken by ki Jarpa. Due to the necessities of life, he and his wife were willing to work as servants in the Ming family. Sardipa was 8 years old at the time.

Unbeknownst to ki Jarpa and his wife, the Ming family practiced a cult that required 99 boys as a result.

Ming Goman, the head of the Ming family. In order to get the top rank of the five strongest families in mainland East Java, he acted recklessly by studying the science of heresy.

Hiring an ordinary human family is only a cover to hide from the other four families. Because if Ming Goman did so blatantly before her knowledge matured, the other four families would definitely not allow it.

After retrieving the children from the ordinary human family who were servants in his residence, Ming Goman would erase the memories of the parents about their children, that way, by doing so, ming Goman's secret in studying false science is kept awake.

Ki Jarpa learns of Ming Goman's secret from Ming Jizhun and Ming Gao, Ming Goman's first and second children. Ki Jarpa heard the conversation when he was drunk in his room, that Sardipa was the 70th child who became a victim, and Ki Jarpa with his wife, who was a drunk, he will be erased when Ming Goman is finished with his ritual. But Ki Jarpa was late, because by then, his son was already in a closed training room with Ming Goman.

Although Ki Jarpa really wanted to hit them, but ki Jarpa

he realized he could do nothing. But it was not too late for him to escape with his wife. After persuading Sri in such a way as to immediately escape, finally that night they managed to sneak out of the Ming family residence to escape.

Hearing ki Jarpa's story, Agni became furious. Agni did not think the Ming family she knew was acting barbaric. Suddenly Agni also worried about Dirjo, Dirjo could be targeted by the Ming family to be used as a victim.

"There must be someone stopping him Uncle" Agni said.

"Can we stop him Ngger?" The Ki Jarpa.

"I promise Uncle, I will train to practice, I will avenge your son" said Agni in an aura that unknowingly came out of his body.

"Well.whether... Are you a practitioner too Ngger?" Ki Jarpa stuttered after feeling the aura emanating from Agni's body.

Agni confusedly answered Ki Jarpa's question, because she herself still did not understand much about the cultivation world. Having listened to the story of Ki Jarpa, so Agni believes in ki Jarpa. Then he told me the truth about what he had been doing in the last few days.

"So it's like that... You are lucky enough, Ngger...? Ask Ki Jarpa.

Agni thought of something before answering ki Jarpa's question. Currently he had obtained a path to enter the cultivation world. She did not know what her current ability was like, Agni also did not understand how the cultivation world went. Then Agni remembered about Chua Pek Dong.

"I don't know Uncle either" Agni said.

"I don't understand much Ngger, but I hear that cultivation life is full of competition, someone's life is so worthless in their eyes" explained Ki Jarpa.

"I suggest you stay a while in this village. In this remote place, there is no cultivator, at least, you can think about your next move more safely" continued Jarpa

Ki Jarpa's suggestion sounded good to Agni, but Agni also thought, surely her family is currently worrying about her.

"You take it easy, isn't your sister a girl, I think it'll be safe. If you're willing to stay here for a while, I'll figure out a way to let your family know" Ki Jarpa said.

Agni ponders back to ki Jarpa's advice, although she also worries about Dirjo, but finally Agni decides to accept ki Jarpa's advice.

A few moments later, a call from Sri was heard, the food was ready, the three of them immediately ate together. Sri is very happy to know that Agni will be staying with them for some time. Although it may only be some time, at least it can slightly treat the longing of Sri to Sardipa, especially Sri feel, the face and stature of Agni, very similar to Sardipa.

The next night, the three of them talked about various kinds. But there are not many stories about the village ki Jarpa. The small village is inhabited by less than 300 people. The average citizen was a farmer, and some were small traders. There was nothing interesting in ki Jarpa village, perhaps because it was rare for an outsider, either an ordinary person or a cultivator to come to the village. But it makes life in the village much more peaceful than in other places.

Ki Jarpa house is not big, but there are still empty rooms that are not occupied. In the evening, Agni was welcome to rest in the room. Before going to bed, Agni meditated in her room. In the midst of meditation, suddenly he was in a place that was not too foreign to him. A vast meadow with no borders that shaded the blue sky without a speck of clouds.