The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episode 01's. Three Bandits and Ten Prisoners

[Penua Penda - Black Scorpion Desert]

Under the scorching sun, the desert sands seemed to evaporate in the hot wind. It was seen a group of people marching in a row bound in a large iron chain.

There were ten people in the line, the faces pale and in pain, young and old, male and female, all in the chain.

Sweat and blood dripped from their bodies and evaporated from the heat of the desert. They were bandit prisoners who would be employed as slaves in the mine.

At the end of the chain was a black-robed man with an image of a golden wolf head on his chest, armed with a sword and riding on the horse pulling the iron chain, this man was one of the famous bandit captains.

To the right and left, two men each armed with swords and horsemen rode on either side of the chain. The two men were wearing black robes with black-blue wolf heads. They were the Blue Wolf Bandits.

These thirteen people had walked for 15 days in the Black Scorpion Desert. Initially their group consisted of 20 people, eight bandits and 12 prisoners, but due to the attack of desert creatures and obstacles on the way, there were now only three bandits and ten prisoners left.

The bandit on the left side of the chain looked irritated from the heat, repeatedly clearing the sweat that was pouring down his face.

So upset, when he saw the prisoners, he shouted at the slowest-looking person in the middle of the line, “Hey, boy! Don't spoil. Fast step, don't slow down the line!”

“Ii-yah. Ja. I'll be faster.” The boy was in pain as he tried to speed up his footsteps. The boy who was yelled at was terrified.

After trying to move faster the boy's vision turned blurry, the legs he forced to move a little faster were actually limp and eventually fell.

*Gedebug*

*Cring Cring*

This incident made the footsteps of the people who were chained stop. This boy was in the fifth row, in front of him was a middle-aged woman who also fell due to being attracted by the chain.

While behind the boy there was a young man who almost fell down but managed to resist the pull of the chain. Actually, the entire row can fall, but most are still able to withstand the pull of the iron chain.

Sensing the line stalling, Captain Bandit at the end of the chain stopped his horse pace and turned to the bandit on the left with an angry look, “Jango. Take care of him, if he can't survive, just kill him and get him out of line!”

From the top of his horse, the bandit on the left side named Jango, replied respectfully, “Good Captain.”

Sneering Jango got off the horse and instantly drew out her sword without making small talk.

Jango's sword slashed towards the boy, “Mati..!”.

*zyuut*

*Trang*

Not yet had Jango's sword touched the boy's body, it clashed with the iron chains of the young man behind the boy. The young man tried to hold back Jango's sword slash with an iron chain on his wrist.

Seeing that, Jango was stunned and angry, “You!? How dare you..”.

The young man interrupted Jango's words, “Didn't you hear your captain's words?. Kill if he can't survive, even you didn't check his circumstances first.”

Although the young man was right, Jango only wanted to kill the boy to vent his frustration from the heat.

Feeling himself underestimated, Jango is getting up. Jango kicked the young man, “Taste this..!”.

*Twaggh*

“Ukh...” The young man received Jango's kick, but he did not fall. The young man's face looked extremely angry, looking sharply at Jango.

“What the fuck, still dare glare? Die... !” Shouted Jango with emotion, then he pointed his sword trying to slash at the young man.

*zyuut*

*Trang*

Again Jango's slash did not hit the target. This time, a sword restrained Jango's sword slash.

“You!? Whoso ka..”

*zyuut*

Jango had not yet finished her words, blood spurted and her head had been removed from her body. A masked girl slashed his neck.

This masked girl moved so fast, that to the surprise of the bandits on the right side, the bandit was unaware of when and how the masked girl could be there.

“Who are you? Dare to attack us!, Blue Wolf Bandit!” Ask the bandits on the right side.

Then the bandit on the right side jumped off the horse and unsheathed his sword towards the masked girl.

“Who am I?... I took your life!” Sahut the masked girl while attacking back.

A blink of an eye then the bandit on the right side had been lying on the ground with a gaping bloody hole in his chest.

Seeing his two subordinates die just like that, the Bandit Captain at the end of the chain snapped loudly.

“Abless-!!”

The Bandit Captain growled and immediately jumped off his horse, he swung the sword towards the masked girl.

*zyuut*

*Trang*

Quickly the Bandit Captain attacked the masked girl, twice the swing of the sword and twice the slash was successfully fended off by the masked girl, and made the black-robed Bandit Captain take ten steps back.

“Heh... Is this the ability of Bulga the 13th Captain, the Blue Wolf Bandit?” The masked girl seems to have known the identity of the Bandit Captain.

With a disdainful tone The masked girl returned the attack, she swung her slender sword towards Bulga, the Bandit Captain.

Bulga was astonished at how the little girl could have such great power, every slash of the masked girl's sword, making Bulga's hand tremble while fending off the sword attack.

' She's definitely not an ordinary girl ' Bulga thought.

Curious, in the middle of the fight, Bulga looked closer and found a frangipani flower on the girl's shoulder.

' Why is this? Cambodian Flower Swordsman intervened on the issue... What business is it? '

In his mind, Bulga learns that the masked girl is one of the five elite disciples of the Cambodian Flower Valley. Only those who were elite disciples would wear frangipani floral dresses.

Bulga's guess was correct, the girl was Yubing, the second strongest of the five elite disciples of the Cambodian Flower Valley.

“For what Cambodian Flower Swordsman meddles in our problems? Who sent you?” Bulga asked as he continued to attack.

After ten sword strikes, while exerting a tread attack, Bulga managed to sheathe the attack on Yubing's shoulder and beat him back.

Yubing took eight steps back, he endured the pain in his shoulder. Yubing did not expect, Bulga was able to balance the tread and sword attacks.

“Nobody sent me. I just don't like you guys!” Yubing replied, then he charged back towards Bulga.

Yubing attacked using his flagship style, the,

“Freedom of Baja” Layered Branches

*zyuut*

Yubing's attack looked as fragile as branches of branches that could break at any time, but on the other hand it was also very hard, as hard as steel. What a beautiful sword technique, fusing fragile and hard, soft and rough together.

“Don't overstate yourself Miss!” Facing the attack, Bulga used her strongest attack to defeat Yubing.

“Tread Taring Wolf”

It was that move that had previously repulsed Yubing. The tread attack with a combination of sword slashes that were as sharp as the clutches of wolf fangs.

Meanwhile on the other hand, the young man who had been shocked by the sudden appearance of the masked girl, let out a sigh of relief.

' Fortunately I survived. There's still hope. I hope this masked girl will be able to defeat the 13th Captain, the Blue Wolf Bandit Thought the Young Man, remembering that he survived death thanks to the help of the masked Girl.

As far as the young man was concerned, even though Bulga was only at the bottom of the 13 Blue Wolf Bandit Captains, Bulga was still a capable swordsman, his strength was even equivalent to ten grown men.

The young man helped stand up the boy and the middle-aged woman who had fallen down earlier. The young man instructed them and the others to move slowly away from the fight.

“Sister, thank you in advance, brother has saved my life.” The boy thanked the young man.

“Yes young man thank you. I'm Biung, just call Bibi Biung, this is Goli, he's the boy I'm with from Amikara village.” Said the middle-aged woman chiming in on the boy's answer.

The prisoners of the Blue Wolf Bandit came from various places that were collected to be taken to the mine, so that some knew each other, some were still unfamiliar.

“It's okay Auntie, no need to thank you. I'm Lenfan, from the Forbidden Land.” The young man named Lenfan.

Hearing Lenfan's words, the two people among the other prisoners were shocked, they both seemed to whisper to each other. They are shocked to learn that Lenfan, from the Forbidden Land. But none of them questioned further.

As Lenfan and the others tried to stay away, the fight between Yubing and Bulga had gone on for hundreds of moves.

Yubing's attack succeeded in wounding Bulga, but it was also similar to Yubing's. Bulga's combined strike of the tread and the sword hinges, made Yubing's previously good robe now drenched in blood.

There was no damage to the robe, only its color was covered in blood. Five moves later Yubing felt he would lose if it dragged on like that.

' I can't go on like this, however he's one of the 13 Captain Bandits, if I run out of strength and lose this fight, those prisoners... I have to use that... ' Yubing finally decided to use a secret weapon.

Yubing flicked the sleeves of his robes as he was attacking Bulga, from behind the sleeves of the robes came flower powders.

Unknowingly Bulga had already inhaled the flower powder, she suddenly felt dizzy and her body weakened, her blood flow chaotic.

The flower powder coagulated Bulga's blood and made it difficult to breathe.

“Ii-this is you using Death Flower Powder?...Ukh..” Bulga said in pain.

*zyuut*

*Cruaat*

Seeing his opponent weaken, Yubing lunged quickly. Kill Bulga with a single swing of the sword. Thanks to the help of the Death Flower Powder, it was easy for Yubing to kill Bulga.

The effect of the powder was similar to poison, even if Yubing did not slash Bulga with the sword, Bulga would still die from the powder, just that the time of death would not be that fast.

Seeing Bulga dead, the prisoners were overjoyed, at last they were free, all thanks to the help of the masked girl.

When the fight was over, Lenfan who heard Bulga's words before dying, thought back to Bulga's words, Death Flower Powder? I think I've heard this one '

Lenfan finds out about the masked girl's secret attack, but Lenfan can't remember it for sure.

Lenfan stopped recalling that, currently he was grateful that the masked girl could kill one of the Blue Wolf Bandit Captains, saving his life and the other prisoners. Just saying thank you shouldn't be enough for that.

“Nona, thank you for saving me.” Lenfan clenched his two hands that were still chained and thanked Yubing.

“No problem, not nothing.” Sahut Yubing, did not respond further.

Yubing only answered briefly before sheathing the sword and setting a cross-legged position.

Yubing swallowed a pill and did some breathing, re-regulating his inner strength to heal his wounds. Seeing this, Lenfan simply smiled and let Yubing recuperate.

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