The Eastern Continent Swordsman

CH. 1 - A Child on Konglong Island

Prologues

What would happen if the earth was only used as a battleground for a group of immoral divine humans? This happened on the Eastern Continent for thousands of years. The earth is no longer a comfortable place to live. Mountains, land and oceans are only crowded with human bodies that fail to save themselves. Plants and animals became creatures that almost extinct existence. The chaos had at least managed to take over half of the human population in the Eastern Continent. The cause of all these events is the battle of seven magical humans who both want to be number one.

The seven great men were the seven greatest warriors of his time. The warriors who had been able to surpass the limits of human strength. Their strength was even higher than the strength of a thousand great warriors in his time. They were no longer called warriors, nor were they called gods, people called them earth demons.

When the Eastern Continent was already on the verge of collapse, the Gods sent seven knights to punish the earth demons. The greatest battle in history took place. The seven celestial knights were in fact unable to defeat the seven earth demons. Legend has it that the seven celestial knights finally brought out the style most feared by themselves. This is a catastrophe-destroying technique. Not only could it destroy the enemy, it destroyed the heavenly knights that God had sent.

The awesomeness of the destruction of disaster turned out to be unable to be accommodated by the earth. The earth was turbulent, mountains became cotton-like and oceans spewed out their contents. Instantly, the Eastern Continent split into three large landmasses and a thousand nameless small islands. The three newly formed landmasses are named respectively, Caihong Land, Bingdao Land, and the last is Shamo land.

It took decades to make the three lands recover as they should. The remaining humans, slowly rose again to build a life. A new civilization was created. Peace became a friend of man for hundreds of years until one day, a farmer in the mainland Caihong made a stir everyone because it became a master swordsman in just a very short time.

The devotion was, according to word of mouth, triggered by a holy spirit gem that he found somewhere. The Holy Spirit jewel is believed to be the form of the Celestial Knight who has sacrificed to exterminate the earth demon. The hunt for the holy spirit gem began.

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Three hundred years counted from the first time the Holy Spirit Gem was found, there lived an old grandfather with his grandson in the depths of the forest on the island of Konglong. Konglong Island is one of a thousand small islands that are part of the Eastern Continent after experiencing a major disaster. Humans in this era do not know the Eastern Continent, the legend of the division of the continent is only a fairy tale from mouth to mouth that is doubtful truth.

“Kak…. Grandpa...” A six-year-old little boy was screaming from inside the cave. He screamed for almost an hour, but his grandfather did not come to him. The little boy repeatedly rubbed the sweat on his forehead, he had almost given up on the task that the grandfather had given him that day.

If the previous days the grandfather asked him to hunt deer, or sometimes also a lion, that time the grandfather burdened him with the task of hunting elephants. Not only just any elephant, the grandfather also requires for his grandson to choose the elephant with the longest trunk in the forest. The little boy had already started hunting elephants when the sun had not yet risen perfectly. The moment where he was clamoring for his grandfather, the sun was already preparing to immerse himself. That means, the day will change at night, and the little boy has not even had time to eat breakfast.

The little boy named Zhou Fu, he shouted not out of desperation for failing to catch a long trunk elephant. He had at least succeeded in herding his hunting elephant into the trap he set in the cave when it was still day. Zhou Fu began to shout for his grandfather because he did not know how to bring such a large quarry to the hut he lived with.

The distance from the cave to the hut is about three miles, not far if the prey is a tiger, or maybe a crocodile. When he was about to set out to hunt the elephant, Zhou Fu forgot to ask the grandfather about how to lift such a large quarry.

“What I'm saying, you're not even strong enough to be called a child,” an old man walks into the lips of a cave with a pretty relaxed pace. He watched his grandson's hunt without the slightest admiration, “ when I was your age, I could even throw a mother elephant dozens of miles away!”

Zhou Fu started to cover his ears with both hands. He is always upset if the grandfather tells his greatness in childhood.

“If grandfather was that great as a child, why should we hide in this forest all the time,” Zhou Fu snorted in annoyance, he always wanted to adventure other places than on the island of Konglong, he said, but his grandfather always said that the world was too cruel and they were both not strong enough to step outside.

“Yes, if I go alone, I guess I'll be free to enjoy the harsh world. But damn, I have to take care of a little boy who can't even bring home his game,” the grandfather replied as his hand rubbed the stone from inside the cave. It seemed that he intended to spend the night in the cave with Zhou Fu while enjoying the head of the long trunk elephant.

Deep down, the grandfather was actually quite amazed by Zhou Fu's ability to exceed that of children at his age. Unfortunately, although he repeatedly wished he could praise his grandson, he recalled that Zhou Fu had to be educated to become stronger and stronger. Praise will only hinder development. Therefore, no matter how great an achievement little Zhou Fu could achieve, the grandfather never once considered it as something meaningful.

The bitter past became the main reason for the grandfather raising Zhou Fu with a harsh and cruel upbringing. The bad memories that befell little Zhou Fu must be redeemed with maximum struggle. Zhou Fu had to be the strongest, otherwise the disasters of the past would reoccur and everything would be in vain.

 

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***Hai-hai, I say hello back.. This Btw is my next novel yes, this novel appeared in Noveltoon/Mangatoon with the title “Decent of the Eastern Continent”. I hope it will be a novel that, yes, is not bad…

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