BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 13)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 13 – Coda Three months after Cao Ning was seized, dusty and travel-worn messengers banged urgently on the great gates of Jinling. They thundered through the city’s streets on horseback, charging at full tilt towards the royal palace. Pedestrians hastily parted before them, and curious onlookers craned their necks

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 12)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 12 – City of Frost Xie Yun let out an inaudible sigh, as he exchanged a look of resignation with Zhao Yuan from afar – while they might plot and plan, things remained entirely in the hands of fate. The Zhao royal family was well and truly out of

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 11)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 11 – Before The Storm Tonight, Zhao Yuan was not the only one who had trouble sleeping. But no matter how restlessly mere mortals tossed and turned, the sun would still rise at its appointed time the next day, as it always did. In the early hours of the

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 10)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 10 – Jinling Everyone was well on their way now, all heading for the same place – the southern capital of Jinling. But things were still as peaceful as ever in the city of Jinling, where it was just another golden autumn day. It was evening time, the last

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 9)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 9 – The Secret Li Sheng and the rest had finally reached the Shu region. But because they arrived at dusk and were still too far away from any towns or villages, they decided to spend the night in the wild again, as they’d done for most of their

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 8)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 8 – A Dog Without A Home With war having raged on for the past few years, even the villages at the foot of the 48 Zhai‘s mountains had not been spared, and many had abandoned their lands and homes. Since these refugees had no homes to return to,

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 7)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 7 – Tale of Bones Xie Yun snuffed out the smoldering incense stick. Glancing towards the door, he saw that the Venerable Master Tong Ming was here, and tried to rise to receive him. But one side of his body had gone stiff, and he collapsed heavily back onto

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 6)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 6 – Hope In Despair The valley above was in ruins, the main tent that Lu Yaoguang had occupied now thrust several metres above the ground. While this skirmish had not dealt a heavy blow to the tens of thousands of Northern soldiers here, this suddenly mercurial and deeply

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 5)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 5 – The Qimen Base Zhou Fei felt like she could probably lie here sleeping till the end of time. She wished she could just sink right down into the cool earth forever, to spare her the tedium of getting up and dying again a second time round. Unfortunately,

BANDITS: LEGEND OF FEI (Book 4, Chapter 4)

Book 4: End of Empires / Chapter 4 – ‘Miss’ Ying Who on earth had decided to join this party? At first, Li Sheng thought that he’d misheard due to the ringing in his ears. While he was still standing there in a slight daze, he saw Chief Yang come scampering hastily back towards him, in