How to become stronger without krypton gold

"Drink!" Kiyojuro Hiko held just an ordinary wooden knife in his hand, but he easily cut the huge stone in half in front of him. The palm of my hand, "It's still not right, what I want is a more powerful swordsmanship...especially the kind used when facing the enemy head-on..."

He pondered for a long time looking at the stone, and at this moment, a brown bear walked slowly behind him, holding a bamboo tube in its mouth.

Kiyojuro Bigu didn't hack the big bear with a wooden knife, but showed a familiar expression, "Hey, did you get called to work by that guy again today?"

The brown bear leaned over and threw the bamboo tube on the ground, swaying its body and walking away slowly.

Kiyojuro Hiko picked up the bamboo tube from the ground, shook it, and heard the sound of water coming from the bamboo tube. He looked at the jug he had put aside, and finally decided to accept the kindness of his magical disciple. He opened the lid on the bamboo tube and drank.

After drinking the water, he picked up his flagon and ran quickly to the place where Gu Hexuan practiced.

Gu Hexuan should be practicing yin and yang skills now. Although Qing Juro is less able to understand the purpose of that strange practice than Gu Qingjuro, after seeing the existence of King Ma Cangye, he no longer doubts Those things are gone.

Oh my god, the guy who relied on him was really an onmyoji, and he actually brought a ghost master with him, and that ghost master could even summon all kinds of incredible things.

For this fact, it took Bigu Qingjuro more than ten days to get used to it, and it took more than three months for him to really get used to it.

Time is like passing by like a fleeting horse, and in a blink of an eye, the spring of the ninth year of Qingchang has arrived.

"Furukawa?" When he came to the waterfall, Bigu Qingjuro didn't see anyone as usual, and he gave up looking for it, and shouted directly, "Furukawa, where are you?"

"Here." A human voice came from the waterfall on the side, Bigu Qingjuro looked sideways, and saw the place where he perceived to be a stone, Gu Hexuan was sitting there with his eyes closed, rumbling. The sound of the waterfall kept washing his body. It was the beginning of spring, and the river was icy cold, but Gu Hexuan didn't seem to be affected at all. He closed his eyes and crossed his legs with his hands on his knees, meditating under the waterfall.

"Why did you suddenly call me here today?" Kiyojuro Bigu asked curiously.

"The crow outside the mountain brought me that, I think you might like it." Sitting under the waterfall, Gu Hexuan did not open his eyes, his voice could be heard clearly even in the noisy water To Hiko Seijuro's ear.

"That?" Hiko Seijuro is now used to his unscientific behavior. He looked towards the place where Gu Hexuan put his coat and shoes, and there was a crow sitting on the stone over there. When he saw him coming, the crow quacked. and flew up.

Only then did Seijuro Hiko see the crow stepping on a piece of paper, which read, "To celebrate the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, His Highness Tokugawa Ieyasu specially invites martial arts practitioners from all over the country to participate in the imperial contest. Received a "No. [-] in the World" plaque written by His Highness Tokugawa Ieyasu himself. The martial arts competition will be held in Edo in early autumn of this year, and I hope all people with lofty ideals will come to participate."

Seeing this notice with the official seal, Seijuro Hiko couldn't help but frowned, "No. [-] in the world? Really, what is Tokugawa Ieyasu trying to do?"

"If you say it's a celebration, it's a bit too much." Ma Cangye Wang's voice came from the other side of the woods unhurriedly, "To be honest, it's not so much a celebration, I think he I want to catch those who want to assassinate me through this imperial contest."

"Wow, you're actually outside today." Bigu Qingjuro couldn't help but screamed, even though he had watched such a scene for almost half a year, he still wasn't used to it.

"Well, the weather is good today." The translucent figure of King Ma Cang Ye walked out of the woods, his hands were folded in his sleeves, and he looked calm and breezy.

Hiko Seijuro secretly told himself to be calm, and after a while he regained his composure and said: "If Tokugawa Ieyasu wants to catch the assassin, I think it is absolutely impossible to catch the assassin just by this time. There are too many people in the world who want him dead."

"But ordinary people can't break through Tokugawa Ieyasu's ninja army to assassinate, right? And the imperial martial arts competition is really a great opportunity." Asakura Ye Wang said very calmly, "No one who can win the world will It's simple. Tokugawa Ieyasu's martial arts competition this time is just to catch a few small fish, and then follow the vines to clean up some guys he doesn't like. Even if no fish jump out, he can still catch a powerful fighter. It's good to find out with their schools together, and catch them all when necessary. What's more, there is a number one brand in the world, and there should be a lot of idiots who will kill each other before they are caught. "

Bigu Qingjuro frowned, and felt a little powerless when he looked at King Makang Ye, "Do all of you onmyojis look at things like this?"

"No, it's just me." King Ma Cang Ye smiled at him, he had seen this kind of low-level tricks a lot in Ping'an capital back then.

"Forget it." Hiko Seijuro rubbed his head, "Although I think what you said is right, but such a grand event, I always feel that I can't go to see it."

"That's true. After all, pursuing how to become stronger is a common problem of swordsmen." Ma Cang Yewang smiled slightly, and he raised his head as he said, "Me too."

After he finished speaking, he said to Gu Hexuan over there: "Today's condition is good, you can come out. Aren't you going to practice swordsmanship in the afternoon, so don't miss calligraphy later."

"Yes, yes." Gu Hexuan jumped out of the water a little helplessly, and couldn't help shaking his neck when he landed on the shore, and water droplets splashed out.

I have been with these two "persons" for five months. At the beginning, Bigu Qingjuro was not used to living with a person and a ghost, but under the kind eyes of the ghost, he had to choose to compromise. .

Fortunately, the ghost—afterwards, Bigu Qingjuro knew that the ghost of the onmyoji was called Ma Cangyewang—due to various reasons, he couldn't appear often, and Gu Hexuan usually had only one person with him.

This gave Bigu Qingjuro some confidence.

He took Gu Hexuan on a tour and taught him how to practice, and it was not until the Chinese New Year that he returned to the dojo of the Feitian Yujian school.It's not quite right to say it's a dojo, it's just a shelter.

Feitian Yujian style originated from Samopan, so it is also rooted here.This entire mountain is the land of Feitian Yujianliu, and there are many farmers who rent land at the foot of the mountain to live here, so strictly speaking, Bigu Qingjuro is actually a very rich man.

After stopping the tour, Seijuro Hiko had no choice but to start pointing out the cultural knowledge of Kohexuan.

He originally thought that the way of speaking was very elegant, the words used were elegant, and Gu Hexuan, who could even pop out a line or two of waka and haiku from time to time, unexpectedly knew nothing about the history of the Warring States Period.He thought it was a bit weird at the time, but under the excuse that the other party focused on studying Yin-Yang Art, he still reluctantly believed the other party's words.

But as he slowly taught the other party's cultural knowledge, he found that not only Gu Hexuan was not clear about the history of the Warring States period, but even a large period of history before it, and when he contacted them at the beginning, it was like singing a song The same wording made him wonder whether these two people were old antiques who came out of the long river of history.

But than Gu Qingjuro knew very well that there were some things that shouldn't be asked, so don't ask, not to mention that Gu Hexuan was nothing more than that, his teacher was as scary as if he could easily see through himself.

Fortunately, when they got along with each other, both Gu Hexuan and Ma Cang Ye Wang were very considerate and gentle people in nature, which made him give up the idea of ​​getting to the bottom of it.

Bigu Qingjuro's culture is quite good. After all, Bigu Qingjuro of all dynasties were big landlords and had a lot of money in their hands, not to mention the one who founded Feitian Sanjianliu more than 200 years ago. Even a philosopher.

It is very important to know what kind of path is righteous for a swordsman who walks the path of justice.The earliest Kiyojuro Hiko asked a question. Justice that meets most people's expectations is not necessarily true justice, but justice that meets one's own wishes must be justice?

No one has been able to give a definite answer to this question until now.

It is based on this point that the cultural inheritance of Feitian Yujianliu has been done quite well.

The first generation of Feitian Yujianliu was born during the Mingying Change, and the world was chaotic. He was abandoned at the foot of a certain mountain as an orphan, and was brought back to the mountain by the inheritor of the Feitian Three Swords in that area to learn.

Because of the fierce swordsmanship of Feitian Sanjianliu, most of the disciples were recruited to join the army. Only he was secretly hidden by the master at that time because of his young age, and finally inherited the name of Bigu Qingjuro.

Hiko Seijuro, who grew up in the chaos of war, has a natural hatred for the chaos of war. He also thought of calming down the troubled world with the sword in his hand, but the reality gave him a very tragic blow.Since the beginning of the Onin Rebellion, the influence of the Shogunate has been greatly lost, and after the Meiying Change, the Muromachi Shogunate existed in name only, and there was a wave of subjugation all over the country, and there were endless battles between daimyo and daimyo.

The first Hiko Seijuro, who fought blindly for most of his life, finally gave up his dream of pacifying the world by himself. While raising the second Hiko Seijuro, he seriously thought about his half life.It wasn't until he was about to die that he suddenly understood why his predecessors left such doubts. When he recalled his life, did he really manage not to kill the unjust and have a clear conscience?

He didn't think so, so his last words to Seijuro Nidai Hiko before he died, was to hope that he would not practice the way of justice, and not regret it until he was dying like him.

After the second Daiko Kiyojuro killed his master, he was also very sad in his heart, and he felt that it was wrong to let the master use his life to guide the birth of his sword moves. He chose to pacify the world just like the master.But after hearing his master tell about his failure, he decided to join a worthy name and choose to help him realize his dream of peace in the world.

However, his luck does not seem to be very good.

At the earliest, he chose to join Takeda Shingen, the Tiger of Kai, but he was not reused. Not to mention, Takeda Shingen died of illness not long after.So he chose to join Takeda Shingen's old enemy, Uesugi Kenshin, the Dragon of Echigo.Because of his bravery, he received much more attention from Uesugi Kenshin than from Takeda. Unfortunately, Uesugi Kenshin also died within two years.

Hiko Seijuro felt that he was probably born unlucky. Just when he was a little dazed, Katsuie Shibata of the Oda Army met him by chance and recruited him to the Oda Army.

At that time, Oda Nobunaga's reputation was not very good, because he burned Buddhist temples and claimed to be the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven. His reputation was once demonized among the daimyo. Tian Jun's, but after he talked with Shibata Katsuie, he found that Shibata Katsuie, one of the rumored four kings of the Oda Army, was a very good person, and Oda Nobunaga, who was so respected by Shibata Katsuya, It shouldn't be possible to be a cruel person as rumored.

He first followed the other party to Owari, the place where Oda Nobunaga made his fortune, and saw a completely different Owari from many years ago, and then went to Omi Azuchi Castle to meet Oda Nobunaga, and he joined from the bottom of his heart. The Oda Army also got the nickname of one of the Twelve Demon God Generals in the Oda Army.

However, he probably really has an aura of being unlucky with someone. Ten years after Tensho, he followed Niwa Nagahide to pacify Shikoku, but when he turned around, he heard that Akechi Mitsuhide had rebelled, and burned Oda Nobunaga to death in Honnoji Temple.

Therefore, even in the face of Hashiba Hideyoshi's sincere request, the second generation Hiko Seijuro chose to resign from all positions and return to Owari to find a disciple who can inherit the Feitian Yujian style.

Only then did the third generation of Bigu Qingjuro come into being.

When the current Hiko Seijuro traveled down the mountain for the first time, the first news he heard was that Hashiba Hideyoshi had changed his name to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule the world, but he was defeated by the Ming army when he attacked North Korea.

After Hiko Seijuro returned to the mountain and defeated his master, and officially inherited the name of Hiko Seijuro, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died.In the second year, the Sekigahara War broke out between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari to determine the domination of the world.

Kiyojuro Hiko didn't want to join this war at first, but because of his master's request before he died, he joined Ishida Mitsunari's army. He fought well with the Tokugawa army. Who knew the battle of Sekigahara Inexplicably, a ghost-eyed mad swordsman who was neither of the two parties came out. That inexplicable swordsman led four equally terrifying swordsmen all the way to kill a bloody path in the army formation. It can be said that there is no reason Popping up all over the place, killing people for no reason, and finally disappearing for no reason.

This made Kiyojuro Hiko admire the strength of Ghost Eye Maniac, but also disdain him for his character.Feitian Yujian has always been on the path of justice, and he has always dismissed the kind of swordsman who only likes to kill.

But having said so much, the three generations of Bigu Qingjuro since the establishment of Feitian Yujianliu lived almost the entire Warring States period, and it is precisely because of this that today's Bigu Qingjuro is very familiar to the famous generals of this era.

Both Guhexuan and Asakura Yewang paid respect to this dignified history, and Asakura Yewang even wrote a waka for Feitian Yujianliu and sent it to Hiko Seijuro.

It's just that after Hiko Kiyojuro knew that this waka was actually written by King Asakura Leaf, he didn't dare to accept it.

After stopping his traveling trip, Bigu Qingjuro simply stayed in his hometown of Samopan, and lived a life of teaching Gu Hexuan while honing his sword skills.

It's just that Gu Hexuan not only needs to practice swordsmanship, but also Yinyang technique, and learn all kinds of strange knowledge at night, so the daily schedule is basically to practice Yinyang technique in the morning, sword practice in the afternoon, and study herbal knowledge and calligraphy in the evening , Waka Haiku and the like.

In this way, Bigu Qingjuro's morning time was freed up, just for him to carefully ponder the tenth style of flying swordsmanship that he had always wanted to create.

Out of wanting to repay his kindness - Ma Cang Ye Wang's words - Ye Wang summoned Shikigami to accompany him to feed him.

At the beginning, when he encountered a big ghost that was invisible to the naked eye, Bigu Qingjuro was frightened to death. Later, King Asakang Ye couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to give him a spell so that he could see the big ghost. It changed my mood, from the original fear to the eagerness to defeat the opponent.

Because of the current limited spiritual power of King Asakura Ye, the big ghost shikigami he summoned are all very ordinary goods, and he quickly defeated his shikigami than Gu Qingjuro, just whether he wants to waste more spirits When he was struggling, Bigu Qingjuro offered to return the spell to him.

He offered to fight unseen beings.

After that, Kiyojuro's swordsmanship improved again. For this reason, Gu Hexuan, who was beaten by him on the other end, said that he was very busy.Kiyojuro Bigu's emotions after the fierce battle in the morning carried over to the afternoon, and Kohexuan was beaten up all over his head.

Until recently, after Gu Hexuan regained the feeling of blending into nature, it was not so easy for him to beat him up with bruises than Gu Qingjuro.

Just like this morning, Furukawa Xuan was obviously sitting in the waterfall, but Hiko Seijuro didn't see him, and didn't feel his breath, he was like a stone.

Bigu Qingjuro sighed with emotion about this, his ability is simply the material for an assassin, and then he was severely beaten by the big ghost commanded by King Asakang Ye.

"Integrating into nature is a key to practicing Yin Yang, but you compare it with an assassin...it's so insignificant!" Asakang Yewang looked down at Bigu Qingjuro, who was struggling to resist the attack, and left a sentence After very disdainful words, he just disappeared.

Seijuro Hiko never brought up similar topics since then.

"Mr. Hiko, are you sure you want to go to Edo?" Gu Hexuan wrote on the white paper beside him. His wrists were tightly wrapped by a few little ghosts, so it was very difficult to write.

"En." Although he couldn't see it, Bigu Qingjuro still had a keen sense, and he always felt that there should be something on Gu Hexuan that he was afraid of.

"After all, it is the most important event in the world for swordsmen, so why don't you go and see it." Bigu Qingjuro took a sip from the jug, "And hearing your master say that, I am even more worried."

"Are you worried?" Gu Hexuan looked back at him a little strangely.

"Of course, the one who wants that old guy Tokugawa Ieyasu to die the most right now is Nobushige Toyotomi." Seijuro Hiko looked inside from the spout of the jug, and it was completely empty.

"Isn't Toyotomi Nobushige imprisoned on Kishu Kudo Mountain?" Gu Hexuan heard him talk about Toyotomi Nobushige.

"That guy won't stay there obediently." Kiyojuro Hiko sighed, "I think, if Tokugawa Ieyasu really wants to fish, he with another name must be Tokugawa Ieyasu's target. "

"Another name?" Gu Hexuan asked while writing. In fact, he was so distracted that he couldn't practice calligraphy well, but the purpose of him and King Ma Cang Ye was not to practice calligraphy.

"Yes, Sanada Genjiro Yukimura." Kiyojuro Hiko sighed, "That guy can be regarded as devoted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As long as there is a chance, he will definitely come out and try to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu."

"I heard that the Sanada clan has ten powerful swordsmen who are willing to die for him. They are collectively called the Sanada Ten Warriors. I wonder if it's true or not?" Ma Cang Ye Wang asked curiously.

"It's true, but I haven't seen all of them." Kiyojuro Hiko admitted with a nod, "Although Sanada Yukimura is well-known, he is actually quite a handsome guy, so I can't tell he's a swordsman at all. "

"Does it mean that it is a completely different type from Mr. Bigu?" Gu Hexuan asked a little curiously.

"Shut up." For these two people who always disliked that they were not slender and handsome, Bigu Qingjuro was somewhat depressed. What's the use of a slender and handsome man?

Do people in this world only look at faces?

"Since it's your old acquaintance, Mr. Hiko, let's go to Edo to see it together, not to mention that it feels different when you go on the road alone and with a child." Gu Hexuan skipped this point with a smile The topic said.

"I'm afraid of you." Bigu Qingjuro sighed, took the wooden knife at the side and stood up, "I will continue to study new sword techniques, and I will come to you in the afternoon."

"En." Gu Hexuan nodded seriously.