Mysterious Figures

But then Fu's face abruptly displayed a cunning but venomous grin, as Dara looked closely at the knife only to realize that there was a yellow kind of paper wrapped around its handle with several ink black scribblings on it.

He looked back at Fu only to see him placing two fingers in front of his face as he muttered;

"Katsu!"

A deep sense of foreboding gripped every fibre of Dara's being as his face blanched in fear. But all was already too late.

Kaboom!

A loud explosion wrecked the entire area as a body abruptly flew out of the explosion leaving a trail of blood in the air before slamming into a nearby tree trunk with abandon, smashing the tree trunk into bits as the tree fell to the side;

Cough! Cough! Blergh!

The explosion woke Ji Long and the First Elder just in time to see Dara flying out of the point of detonation as his body slammed into a tree which cracked and then fall to the side.