The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episodes 13. Bamboo Jade Core

Gofan and Xionan hurried to go west, to where Yanse's entourage was.

As he continued to step towards the group, Gofan flipped through the Book of Martial Compilation, learning more about martial arts in the Continent.

Although Gofan was a person from the forbidden land and his knowledge was quite a lot about the swordsman world, but it was still not profound, and thanks to that Book of Martial Compilation, he became more knowledgeable.

'It turns out that this book does not only cover martial arts in the Continent of the Penda, there are some things about the other five continents' Gofan thought.

Xionan who floated far in front of Gofan, looked back, towards Gofan who was still busy flipping through the books.

" Fanfan, can you stop reading first, look there...! " Xionan.

Gofan stopped reading it, and put the book in a pocket of space, "Hmm... Whatisit? "

Gofan turned his head towards the direction Xionan pointed at, in their north direction, there was a bamboo tree trunk that was glowing among the many clumps of bamboo stalks, which were,

" that.... Bamboo Jade Core... ! " Said Gofan, remembering.

In the recollection obtained from the Bamboo Bear, Gofan learned that the glowing bamboo stalk was a step phenomenon once every thousand years.

" Nannan, it's a bamboo jade core, let's grab it before the Bamboo Bear realizes it "Gofan said and pointed directly at the bamboo stem grass in their north.

" Fanfan's. Why are you so excited? " Xionan has quickly caught up with Gofan.

" Nannan, that Bamboo Jade Core, contains the mental energy of heaven and earth, it can definitely prolong your age in this realm, go first... Take the jade inside that glowing bamboo rod...! " Gofan's voice is full of spirit.

The core of the Bamboo Jade was the mental essence jade of heaven and earth, only appearing in the Drought Bamboo Forest.

The mental energy accumulated over a thousand years, was certainly very powerful, moreover it was naturally created by the power of the earth and sky, naturally it was extremely beneficial for a spirit like Xionan.

" Hihihi, Nice... All right, I'll wait there... Hihihihi "

*zyuut*

Xionan instantly disappeared just like that and suddenly appeared far in front of Gofan.

Seeing that, Gofan shook his head as he continued to run, he was a little envious of Xionan's speed.

Four breaths later, Xionan was already in front of the glowing bamboo stalks. Xionan instantly did a hand seal, a white light emanating from his index finger and pulling out a green-colored jade from the bamboo stick.

*zyuut*

The jade came out and floated in front of Xionan, it was that jade that was referred to as the bamboo jade core, a bright green light started to illuminate around the clump of bamboo stems, the,

'Dangerous... If this continues, it will attract the attention of the Bamboo Bear...' Think Xionan.

Without a second thought Xionan decided, 'Alright, then... I'll just absorb it...'

Then Xionan formed a hand seal and began to emit a bright white light from his body and enveloped the green light from the bamboo jade core.

The bamboo jade core trembled and swirled around Xionan, the white light of Xionan absorbing the green light of the bamboo jade core that revolved around him.

After several tens of breaths, "Woe!?... I'm not strong, this energy is too big... "

Xionan was now like a possessed spirit, he could not stop himself from continuing to absorb the mental energy of the bamboo jade core even though his absorption capacity was already almost full, if Xionan continued to absorb this energy he could explode and vanish.

Gofan had just arrived when Xionan could no longer endure the round of the bamboo jade core.

'Dangerous... Why is Xionan so rash?... Xionan won't be able to absorb it just like that, I must help him' Inner Gofan.

Gofan lunged into the vortex of round bamboo jade core, he made a movement of absorbing the mental energy of the bamboo jade core, now the bamboo jade core revolved around Xionan and Gofan.

'Fanfan what are you doing, why come in? ' Xionan said through his mind, Xionan was worried that what he was going through would endanger Gofan.

'Just calm down, we can definitely, just align our mental energy to absorb this jade ' Gofan said.

The longer the round of the bamboo jade core grew firmer, and formed a tornado. Gofan and Xionan were bobbing around in the whirlwind of the tornado. The tornado continued to grow until it could finally be seen from where Yanse and his entourage were.

[At the place where Yanse's entourage is]

After Gofan left, Yubing and ten others heard a voice warning them to be quiet and not to make a fuss as well as remove traces of Jangbi's blood as far away from the protective formation as possible.

The group immediately followed the advice of the voice without a source, without asking again about the identity of the source of the voice. That's because Yubing has told us that a voice without a source is trustworthy.

" Swordsman Yanse, I will treat brother Jangbi, please remove the traces of his blood splattered ! " Pinta Yubing to Yanse.

Yubing instantly moves in to treat Jangbi after the sourceless voice disappears. Jangbi had already arrived inside the formation before that sourceless voice could be heard.

" good... " Yanse Sahut.

" Strademan Hanbo, Come on...! " Yanse looked at Hanbo and invited him to clear the blood trail as far as possible. Hanbo nodded and they immediately went to do the cleaning.

" What are you really doing? Why are you being chased by that creature? " Task Yubing to Jangbi while bandaging his wounds.

Jangbi did not say, she just groaned in pain, she was already very pale, like almost fainted. Yubing did not force her to answer and let her rest.

Even if Jangbi answers Yubing's question, of course he will lie. Previously, Jangbi who felt safe by using bamboo protection, used the excuse to urinate to be able to go take the map scroll.

Although, upon arriving at the map's place, Jangbi found that there was a baby Bamboo Bear sleeping, Jangbi did not care, she felt safe from using bamboo protectors.

Unfortunately, when Jangbi took the map from the skeleton of the corpse, she was very happy and laughed out loud. The sound of his laughter made the Bamboo Bear child nearby move and attack him.

'Why this? Why can't I move? ' Thought Jangbi.

Jangbi suddenly felt a green light begin to envelop her body, and made her unable to move.

That green light was the mental energy emitted by the Bamboo Bear child, his mental strength had not been centered in the eyes but rather radiated from his entire body, but his eyes remained as a gate to devour the soul of his target, that's why it's so dangerous to look into those eyes.

" Thugs... ! Arggh... ! " Jangbi shouted loudly.

Blood spurted from his wrist, his left palm that was holding the map was severed by the Bamboo Bear child.

Fortunately, before Jangbi turned his head and looked at the eyes of the Bamboo Bear child, the bamboo that became a protector in Jangbi's body absorbed the green light until it ran out, so he was free and immediately ran fast.

Jangbi yelled for help as she continued to run to endure the pain, her blood pouring out along the way.

Two other Bamboo Bear cubs who heard Jangbi's screams, searched for the source of the sound and found a blood splash on Jangbi's path, licking Jangbi's blood and then chasing after her.

That was the end until Gofan lured the Bamboo Bear children to follow him.

Just clearing a trail of blood nearly 40 feet away, Yanse saw several other Bamboo Bear cubs emerge from behind the clump of bamboo trees.

" Darker Hanbo... Come back...! Look... !! " Yanse pointed towards the grass of bamboo trees that showed there were several Bears.

" God!?... Come on...! " Said Hanbo surprised.

Hanbo nodded and immediately returned into the formation with Yanse.

After returning into the protective formation, Yanse relayed what they saw.

" Before returning, I saw that there were about five Bamboo Bear cubs walking along the rest of the blood trail that we had not cleared yet" Yanse told the others.

" That's lucky there was that voice that warned us.... " Said Hanbo, but he suddenly stopped talking.

Hanbo then said more slowly, almost like a person whispering, "Sstt... We need to be quiet and not noisy, look... "

Hanbo pointed towards the 40 footstep in front of the protective formation.

Instantly, everyone in the silent formation did not dare to make a sound or make a movement.

Inside the protective formation, Yubing stared and kept silent while thinking, 'What happened?, Why hasn't Gofan returned yet? and why are even more Bamboo Bear cubs appearing?'

Previously there were only five Bamboo Bear cubs that appeared and moved around the dried Jangbi blood.

Now that there were seven more, some of them even circled the protective formation, so it looked like the Bamboo Bear children were encircling the formation.

'Jeez... Why is this so, now there are 12 Bamboo Bear children surrounded us?' Thought Nian.

Some people looked angry in silence and looked towards Jangbi, 'This is all because of him!!'

But they could do nothing to Jangbi, only to grumble in their minds.

Time passed, 20 breaths, 30 breaths, 40 breaths, some of them buried some of their bodies in the ground, some were seen rolling on the ground in Jangbi's blood.

Suddenly someone inside the formation unintentionally flushed the gas and it sounded quite loud,

*Preet*

*Rooaarr*

The Bamboo Bear children reacted instantly, but since the sound only lasted a short while and was in the protection of the formation, these Bamboo Bear children had a hard time finding the source of the sound.

'Almost....' Everyone within the formation was grateful that the incident did not harm them.

They glanced at the person who had made their heart almost dislodged, it turned out that the source of the voice was Jangbi. Jangbi lowered her head as everyone glanced at her.

'This person is like a plague, always inviting danger' Nian thought, annoyed with Jangbi.

A few breaths later, a Bamboo Bear cub that had buried part of his body in the ground, got up and came out of the ground, he was moving like he felt something, then one by one the other Bamboo Bear cubs did the same.

Now that all the Bamboo Bear children were doing the same thing, they were getting further away from the protective formation.

From within the Yubing formation, Yanse, and the others could see the group of Bamboo Bear children going towards a tornado that occurred quite far from the formation.

After not even a single child of the Bamboo Bear near the eleventh protective formation the person heaved a sigh of relief.

" What's going on? The tornado seemed to attract their attention "Tanya Canglini while stretching her stiff body due to long sculpting.

" Let's see, what's going on there... " Say Hanbo.

Hanbo stepped forward and took out his Eight-Tripper Mirror, he formed a hand seal.

" Hare of secrets, eight directions reflected, light shows, with blood in the covenant, show your strength... !! " Shouted Hanbo.

*Zplash*

A picture appeared before the eleven, showing the events surrounding the tornado.

" Dwarf Hanbo. Try enlarging the middle of the tornado "Pinta Nian.

Nian saw that there was someone inside the tornado, but because it was too small, Nian asked Hanbo to enlarge the image.

"Good..." Hanbo formed a hand seal and enlarged the middle of the tornado wind.

"Gofan!?" Almost everyone was shocked and mentioned the name Gofan.

The person Nian saw in the tornado turned out to be Gofan.

" Senior seems like he's in trouble "Nian said to Yubing.

Yubing nodded and said, "Come on... We have to save him... "

Yubing unhesitatingly wanted to go and help Gofan who was floating around in the tornado whirlwind.

" but... Senio's... " Nian stopped continuing his words, when he saw Yubing who had already left first.

With a heavy heart Nian caught up with Yubing, along with Yubing towards the tornado.

'Didn't he think about the horde of Bamboo Bear cubs before... How'this?' Thought Nian, as he continued to follow Yubing who was galloping towards the tornado.

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