The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episode 14's. Rasuki Me, We'll Join

Nian along with Yubing finally reached a grove of bamboo trees, located a fair distance away from the Bamboo Jade Core tornado, after they galloped for hundreds of steps.

Nian hesitated to get into the tornado, after he saw one after another the Bamboo Bears crashing into the tornado vortex, which was the first place,

"Senior are you sure you want to enter? Now there's a lot of Bamboo Bears in there"

Nian also saw many bamboo stalks, and nearby objects, sucked into the wind, fortunately their distance was still quite far from the tornado, so they were not sucked into the wind rotation.

"Of course I'm sure, as long as we're on our way here, even the Bamboo Bear kid doesn't care about us, I think it'll be the same inside"

Yubing said firmly, he was already steady with his desire to save Gofan.

"But Senior...."

Nian was still hesitant to barge into the tornado,

"I won't force you, you just wait here, if I don't manage to save Gofan. At least you can tell the Yanse group... I'm leaving!! "

Finished telling Nian, Yubing instantly drew out his sword and leaped inwards towards the tornado.

'I don't understand why seniors care so much about these ordinary people'

Nian shook his head and moved back slightly away.

While Nian was away, Yubing had just barged into the tornado. The moment Yubing managed to get into the tornado whirlwind, Yubing was instantly met with chaos.

Yubing was bobbing around in the vortex, many times he clashed with the rubble and the Bamboo Bears, so the sword in his hand came loose before he could use it.

Instead of saving Gofan, Yubing was busy surviving in the whirlwind of tornadoes.

After drifting for more than dozens of breaths.

'What should I do? My inner strength is running out to survive...'

Yubing used all his strength to survive the mental energy attacks of the Bamboo Bears that clashed with him.

The Bears attacked him only to avoid him being tossed about, just as they attacked the debris approaching them.

Yubing had never expected that in a tornado there would be such a dense mental energy, only now did he clearly know the reason the Bamboo Bears got into the whirlwind of the tornado.

If Yubing had a way to cultivate his mental energy, of course this would be very good, unfortunately currently Yubing does not have it.

The longer Yubing circled within the tornado stream the more cuts and bruises on his body. Surprisingly although the blood adorning his body, the pink robe he was wearing was only slightly damaged, it still seemed to be intact covering his body.

Dragged in dozens of wind currents, the power in Yubing was completely drained, without his inner strength he now began to feel dizzy.

'My eyesight, why in...'

Yubing fainted, as he realized his vision had started to blur and he eventually lost consciousness.

Now Yubing is like a kite that broke, many times his body hit here and there, until the mask he was wearing had been removed without him noticing.

***

[Inside the Bamboo Jade Core tornado]

A short while before Yubing barged into the Bamboo Jade Core tornado. Gofan and Xionan were being tossed around inside the whirlpool of bamboo jade core tornadoes

'Alright... Fanfan let's harmonize our mental energy, to be able to balance the energy of this heaven and earth'

Xionan sent words to Gofan's mind.

Gofan nodded, after which a golden-red light emanated from his body, as well as Xionan who continued to emit white light.

Xionan's white light met with Gofan's golden red light they revolved against the green light round current belonging to the bamboo jade core while continuously absorbing the energy of the bamboo jade core.

Although it had already aligned its second mental energy, it was also still not enough to absorb the energy from the jade slip.

"Aarrggh...."

Shouted Gofan and Xionan, groaning in pain, as the mental energy from the body both leaked out and spread around the tornado's rounds.

The mental energy they absorbed already exceeded their current body capacity, so even though they continued to absorb, it was continuously leaking.

As the leaked mental energy spread, it attracted the Bamboo Bears to come to the tornado and absorb the mental energy.

One by one the Bamboo Bears came and entered the round of tornadoes, the more that entered, the larger the tornado, the tornado was continuously enlarged.

The Bamboo Bear children who had previously failed to target Jangbi, Yanse and his group, also entered the round.

*Wuuzz... Zyout*

*Wuuzz... Zyout*

Clumps of bamboo stems were torn apart and dragged into the tornado, dried bamboo leaves, rocks, and dry sand were dragged into the growing tornado.

The situation is more chaotic, now in the tornado there are many Bamboo Bears of various sizes, pieces of bamboo stems, bamboo leaves, stones, sand, and many other debris in the tornado.

'Oh..!! Why exactly this? If this continues, everything will be in vain, I have to think of something'

The Bamboo Bears were like fish swimming in a pond, they were bobbing while continuously absorbing the mental energy of the bamboo jade core.

After five breaths, the,

'Really, that's the way... '

Gofan found a way, he turned his head towards Xionan.

'Nannan, you hear me? I have a plan' Gofan said through his mind.

Xionan nodded while feeling a little dizzy within that round, but he tried his best to hold on.

'What are you planning?' Ask Xionan.

'Enter me, we will join!' Gofan said to Xionan.

Hearing the plan, Xionan nodded and instantly turned into a white light permeating Gofan's body, now a spirit and human aura seemed to appear around Gofan's body, which was, the aura emitted a black-and-white light around Gofan's body, making him no longer swayed by the power of the whirlwind.

Then, Gofan who had already possessed Xionan, broke through the chaos heading to the edge of the tornado, to catch the continuously rotating Bamboo Jade Core stone. As Gofan moved away from the debris in the chaos of the tornado whirlwind, Gofan also tried to avoid colliding with the Bears.

But still Gofan's body was eventually filled with wounds, as it rubbed against the wind and was hit several times by debris.

***

[Chairman - Blood Stone Mine]

The three captains of the Blue Wolf Bandit promised the manager of the mine, will come with the mine slaves, a minimum of ten slaves per bandit captain.

Now only two bandit captains, one other badit captain, never came.

Two days have passed from the promised deadline, the mine manager ran out of patience.

These two bandit captains had to accept the decision to return home empty-handed, as the number of promised slaves was less.

This is an agreement between the bandit group and the mine manager, if one person is less than the amount promised then the bandits will not get paid, he said, but when the number of slaves they brought exceeded the promised one, the excess would be counted per person.

In the guest roar of a hut, near the Blood Stone Mine, two captains of the Blue Wolf Bandit were sitting waiting for the results of the report, regarding one of the bandit captains who did not come as promised, as well,

One of the two bandit captains cursed, annoyed..

"Nonsolent!!!, where is Bulga? Because of him, I lost a lot"

The irritated bandit captain was named Zawugi, a 40-year-old man, his face oblong with a bald head and a bushy white beard, he was the 10th captain of the 13 Blue Wolf Bandit captains.

While next to him sat a short and stocky man, with cheeks puffing, and looked younger than a few years from Zawugi,

"Already Brother... Let's just wait for the report from my men, there should be a result soon"

The short man was the captain of the 11th bandit, his name was Mukene, he had already sent his men to look for traces of Bulga's whereabouts and his group.

"Heh... Your men are the same!! It's been more than a day, the cook hasn't even gotten word ?!"

Zawugi was really upset, after painstakingly gathering dozens of slaves, he hoped to make more profit, but now he got nothing,

Mukene could only shake her head, not knowing what to say, she was as much a loser as Zawugi, but she was more calm,

'That let it be, forced nothing will change'

Mukene thought, looking at Zawugi who was still upset.

Not long after Mukene's men came and gave a report, in the report it is known Bulga and his group have been killed on the way through the Black Scorpion Desert.

".....from one of the slaves that we managed to recapture, we also got a report, that this was the work of the Flower Swordsman of Cambodia."

Report Mukene's men, in a position of respect to her and Zawugi.

Zawugi's eyes widened, he was shocked, he did not expect Bulga to die. The same expression was on Mukene's face.

"Did you guys bring their bodies?"

Ask Mukene.

"Yes captain, now the corpse of the late Captain 13th and the others is outside and ready to be buried"

Said the man.

"Wait...! I want to see the body first, Come on... !"

Mukene suspects Bulga died unnaturally, for him there is no way Bulga could have died at the hands of a frangipani swordsman.

Mukene came out along with her men, while Zawugi, still in shock, sat speechless.

After a few breaths Zawugi's face turned angry and he came out following Mukene.

Seriate...