Chapter 1

ok here is the first chapter of "The King Of Sword" (i separate this chapter myself since there is no chapter in the original book) enjoy

ps : if i make any mistake please comment

CHAPTER 1

"five colors can blind our eye ..."  a heavy and hoarse sound can be heard reciting a prayer.

" five colors can blind our eye ..." Following the high shrill voice, the voice of a child who tries hard

imitating the voice can be heard.

"Five sound can make us deaf...!"the first  voice was heard again.

"Five sound can  make us deaf...!" the child's repeating the words.

The sentence uttered by the  hoarse voice and then imitated by a small child is a verse

from To-tek-keng book which reads as follows:

Five colors can blind our eye

Five sound can make us deaf

Five flavors can spoil our mouth

Pursuing pleasure destroying our  thoughts,

Valuables made us into fraudulent

This is why the wise

Prioritize stomach affairs

Do not care about the affairs of the eye

He's good at choosing this and discard that.

if these voices came from within a religious To temple, it does not need to be considered

because it is common that a tosu¹ giving  lessons from the To-tek-keng book  to his students. Or a teacher of literature teaching the book to their students.

But oddly enough, one after another two mutually voice was heard from within a dense forest, this forest rarely visited by humans and become a den of tigers, large snakes and

Other wild animals. If there is any human, they certainly some kind of bandits.

When we look into the woods to find out who it is teaching verses of

To-tek-keng Book  to the child's, then we would be surprised. It turns out that the

recited verses of the book is a tosu with yellow dress, and in his back we can see a normal looking sword.

This Tosu is tall, thin and have thin mustache, his age less than fifty years. His hair was piled-up

and he is riding a thin horse and appears to have been exhausted.

On the back of this horse walk a boy of ten years old. His clothes were patched,

His hair tied back, somewhat pale with white face and large eyes. This child wear a very poor clothes

to the extent that he doesnt wear a shoes. Near the left ankle u can spot some wound which made him somewhat limping.

However, although his situation is so poor, the boy seem happy

 His eyes shine and mischievous.

The verses recited by the Tosu is the twelfth verse. If we heard from the beginning the tosu read

the first verse aloud but slowly, and the boy had long imitate it.

In the  twelfth  verse where there are words of the wise person prioritizes stomach affairs, after

finished mimicked this paragraph until finish, the boy immediately said. His voice is loud, shrill and

high.

"Mr. Tosu, the wiseman though really make sense. I also want to be a wiseman, prioritizing my very hungry stomach affairs  . So please Mr. Tosu gave me crusty bread or money, I do not

want to care about the affairs of another. "

As he said this, the boy was no longer running in the back of the horse, but ran beside him while

Tugging the tosu right leg. However the tosu was like never realize  the boy existence, as well as not

Realize if the boy keep tugging at his leg. He opened his mouth again and shouted in a loud voice.

" thirteenth verse reads ..."

"I do not care what the sound of the verse thirteen or three thousand!" The child was screaming. "My stomach is hungry and you had promised to give me dry bread and money to me! "

The Tosu seemed stunned, as if only now he knew that the voice which had been imitated him issued another sounds. He put off reading his book and looked up at him with his shining eyes.

Earlier he met with the boy outside a village near the forest. At that time he was resting and eating dry bread. Then the strange child came forward, seems to want all that bread but didnt make any sound and only watching him eat.

"You want dry bread?"

The boy nodded.

"Heh-heh-heh, is my dry bread already depleted in those shop[?" He asked again.

The nodded again. The Tosu becomes exasperated as well.

"are you mute?"

"No, Mr. Tosu , just dosent feel like talking."

This answer makes the tosu be amazed. Only once he met a little boy who speak as he wish like this.

"You want dry bread and money?" Again he asked, while hop into his horse.

The boy was nodded again.

"Good, but you have to imitate me reading the contents of the To-tek-keng book  while walking behind my horse."

Thus, the tosu began reading the book from the first verse to twelfth verse. This child at first very interested 's because actually this kid is an exceptional child who read ancient books and almost memorized many books on Buddhism, at which point he worked as a servant of the Thian-Hok-tong temple. But after hearing about the 'prioritize stomach', then that child remember his hungry belly and claim the promise.

Who is the child who was acting strange and in poor condition? His name Beng San, according

his own admission. Regarding of his family name, he himself does not know.

This child is the victim of a natural disaster, the great flood of the Huang-ho river  who had destroy his village. Almost the entire village wash away by floods, the houses disappeared, rice fields were damaged, even humans and animals almost all dead and washed away as well.

This child too get carried away, but it seems God still protect him so he got caught by

rubble and carried to the edge while fainted. This happened when he was five or six year old.

At the moment he regain consciousness, this child was at the edge of a forest on the banks of the Huang-ho river. he only remember that his name Beng San, both his father and  mother's washed away in a flood, but do not remember his family name or where he used to live and where it is located.

Beng San stranded and fate brought him to the front of the Thian-Hok-tong temple in the city of Shan-si. He very interested in seeing the temple, it is very nice to look at the paintings and sculptures that were carved beautifully.

Then the head of the temple, a virtuous monk, feel pity and love him and

That's when Beng San accepted as a lackey or a waiter.

The monk at the temple on average have high morale and almost all diligently study the holy verses

. The monk got the fact that the child is a minister in the temple, besides diligent

is also very smart. They then gave him a lesson to read and write.

And thus for three years Beng San  'stuffed' with philosophies and sacred verses. Of course he only memorize all the essence. Let alone a kid like him, when learn about  religion, even adults rarely truly capture the essence of it so that they can practice their actions according to the holy verses.

After he became nine years old, Beng San start to feel not right to stay in the temple. Several times he asked to stop, but all the monks forbid it and they want to pull Beng San into becoming a

prospective monk. Beng San doent like it and on one night this boy ran away and fled the temple.

He lived stranded, abandoned. Could only eat if anyone take pity and give food

or give just a simple job then given food or money for wages.

Which is very strange in these boy, he never wants to issue a word of begging! Perhaps he was

influenced by the lessons of the monk who expect Donation from philanthropists, but not from begging. So thats why Beng San did not want to ask when he saw the tosu ate dry bread, even if his stomach feel very hungry.

And who is this tosu? He Not just any man, but a man named Siok Tin Cu. He is

leaders of religious associations Ngo-lian To-kauw (Five Lotus of To Religion), based in Ki-lok. As

level three tosu  of course his knowledge  already very high. And as a leader of Ngo-lian Tokauw

that emphasizes the mystical lesson (hoatsut), of course he is famous as a very dangerous character.

Siok Tin Cu invite or provoke Beng San into the woods was not without a purpose. When he saw the boy, he could tell that this child is an orphanand and have good bone,

Thats why he will be a perfect candidat for the experiment of his new martial arts move. Even if this kid died no one will look for him, no one is harmed, then he would not have to bear the sin,

This is the tosu perverted way of thinking.

Let's go back into the woods to see what would happen next. A while back we

recounted how Beng San no longer mimicked Siok Tin Cu reading To-Tek-keng verse,

but instead shouted to the tosu about his promises to give crusty bread or money to buy bread.

They had reached the middle of the forest. Siok Tin Cu smiled and jumped down from his horse. His movements were so light as if his body light as a feather.

"Boy, since when you have not eaten?" This question is pronounced with a very smooth, as if the

This man felt sorry and wanted to help.

"Since two days ago," said Beng San briefly, without inviting voice for pity.

Tosu raised his eyebrows, then laughed and appeared really thrilled! "Good, good, then your stomach completely empty. This means cleaning up in your body and strengthen you resistance

like a man who has already practice siulian². Good, good boy, well, now you eat it, i want to see its efficacy " theTosu take a yellow pill and smell rotten, "Open your mouth."

Of course Beng San unwilling to obey this command. He took a step back looking angry and said,

"Mr. Tosu, you promised to give me a dry bread or money, why now ordered me to eat medicine?

I'm not sick and do not need drugs! ".