The Eastern Continent Swordsman
CH. 3 – Facts about Zhou Fu

Zhou Fu was annoyed, and yes, he was almost always upset because any attack he gave his grandfather almost never made his grandfather complain. Not changing the face. If so, Zhou Fu would punish himself by practicing three or four times longer and more heavily.

He did not care about the rigors of the world as his grandfather had told him. He trained hard for the sake of an achievement to make his grandfather feel the pain of his attack. Thus, he could proudly show off his strength to the grandfather.

If Zhou Fu lived in society in general, people might be afraid because he was too strong at his age. At least, Li Xian was aware of this but was reluctant to say so. In fact, throughout Li Xian's life who had touched the 155-year-old figure, Li Xian had only recently found a child capable of training so hard.

Back then, when Zhou Fu found his grandfather not reacting to his punch, Zhou Fu cursed repeatedly while clenching his hands furiously.

“Lain times, I will make grandfather scream in pain because of my punch!” Zhou Fu tried to clench his own hands into his small stomach, trying for himself whether his punch was indeed itchy on the skin. When his fist landed perfectly on his own stomach, Zhou Fu immediately complained while bowing to hold his stomach with both hands. It doesn't feel itchy at all.

Li Xian also took advantage of Zhou Fu's condition that did not pay attention to him to feel his sick stomach. He swallowed a small pill from under his cloak, a pill that dwindled as he escaped to the island of Konglong six years ago. Li Xian swallowed the pill every time he felt a sting in his stomach. Li Xian was indeed a great senior swordsman, but his age and several injuries in his last fight had managed to make his physique weaken by the day.

“It's been, don't pretend to be in pain like that. You think I'll feel sorry?” Li Xian pulled the arm of Zhou Fu who was still busy holding his stomach. In fact, Zhou Fu was not joking. He was in pain from his own punch. Although still in pain, he let his grandfather pull his hand to be invited out of nowhere.

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Li Xian took Zhou Fu to the slopes of Hua Shanpo mountain, more precisely approaching the only cyprus tree located on the stretch of the slopes of Hua Shanpo mountain. When viewed from afar, the tree is like lonely because it is standing alone without any other cyprus members.

From previous experiences, going to the cyprus tree is not a good thing according to Zhou Fu. Zhou Fu's recollection of the cyprus tree was that he would feel dizzy and would have to shake his head repeatedly. Sometimes, he hit his head with a fist to reduce the dizziness he experienced.

“You ready?” Li Xian stopped exactly ten feet from the cyprus tree, trying to look at his grandson's expression to confirm whether Zhou Fu was already in a ready state.

Li Xian again took a deep breath. According to him, Zhou Fu really disliked all the activities on the slopes of Hua Shanpo mountain.

“Grandfather, it's a sunny day to catch crocodiles. We can also hunt crocodile eggs, it seems like we have not eaten crocodile eggs for a long time,” Zhou Fu tugged at Li Xian's robe with his eyes clear. He hoped that the idea would be approved by Li Xian.

“No.”

“What if…

“I told you, no!”

The turn of Zhou Fu who was now sighing was quite long. He stepped very lazily under the cyprus tree, sat there and began to hope that the sun would quickly sink, although in fact, the sun had just risen to the surface.

“Alright, I hope you're better prepared today!” Li Xian took up a position.

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When Li Xian, led Zhou Fu to the cyprus tree in the middle of Hua Shanpo's mountain slope, it meant that Li Xian would babble about many things that Zhou Fu could not understand. At about the same time, Li Xian would ask Zhou Fu to repeat all the sentences he had uttered and ask Zhou Fu to translate them.

“I've told you thousands of times, we're on this Konglong island to escape! To be able to get out of this place, just being strong was not enough! You have to be smart too! Why were you born this stupid?” the veins in Li Xian's temple stood out because for the time being he failed to teach Zhou Fu about reading and writing.

“Please be quite first, grandfather. I'm dizzy, my eyes twitching. My stomach is nauseous, it looks like I…

Zhou Fu's left hand gripped the stomach while his right hand he used to beat his head that felt dizzy. His grandfather's words were like a deadly spell so piercing in the ear.

On the other hand, Li Xian's hands clenched tightly, the veins on his temples looking more prominent than usual. He tried his hardest to breathe regularly. Otherwise, his body would ferociously prosecute his bod*h grandson.

“Grandfather, why shut up? I'm ready to be hit. I've also been training to run faster than before, if indeed grandfather will chase after me. Come on, if grandfather was silent as soon as I was scared,” Zhou Fu observed Li Xian's reddened face and pulled out his veins. Zhou Fu inched backwards just in case his grandfather would give him a sudden attack.

Unexpectedly, Li Xian actually acted as if mimicking what Zhou Fu had done. Li Xian smacked his own head while raving furiously.

“I'm the bod*h or my grandson who did tol*l?”

“Indeed, why if I bod*h, cake?” Zhou asked innocently.

Li Xian looked at Zhou Fu desperately, “if you bod*h, of course grandfather will be very sad.”

“Sad?”

“Ya, sad!”

“What is sad?”

Li Xian looked up. He shook his head and again realized that his grandson was indeed very bod*h and innocent.

“Sad it... How ya say it.. Sad is, when you feel uncomfortable with news or something new you know.”.

“Is sad like fear?” Zhou Fu frowned.

“Ah, yes... Arguably similar so, smart boy!”

“So, grandpa is now sad and that means fear?”

Li Xian nodded slowly but was greeted with a glare from Zhou Fu.

“I know! I knew! If grandpa is sad, here's how to get rid of it!” Zhou Fu gestured Li Xian to follow his movements, Zhou Fu placed his palms against his face to cover the entirety of his face.

“In this way, sad grandpa will be gone. I used to do it first when I was uncomfortable looking at the dark sky.”

For a moment, Li Xian's lips smiled faintly. He appreciated his grandson's innocent thoughts even though he wanted to tell Zhou Fu that being sad and afraid were two flavors that had quite firm limits. When a person is afraid to see the night for example, he just needs to close his eyes to make the fear go away. However, when someone feels sad, closing their eyes a thousand times will not be able to make the sad disappear.

The update is a bit slow yes, still thinking about the power system that I will use in this novel. I hope that my stupidity in the VAT novel with regard to the preparation of shortness levels is not repeated in this novel. Thank you for helping to improve the performance of this novel by WAY of LIKE, COMMENTS, FAVORITES, and also VOTE. See you in the next chapter…