Sword Raiders II

The scenery of Koyasan is as usual, and it is midsummer, and everything in the mountain is full of vitality.

"It's the same as when I went back to the temple and was invited to paint murals. The scenery along the way is still the same." Sitting in the car, Yu Li commented.

That was several years ago. Not long after she was awarded the title of Master Cooking Master, she hadn't completed the commission of a painter, so she just finished adjusting her main job and part-time job.

"Hmm... was it the time when you killed the giant spider?" Hearing Yuli's emotion, Mustache on the side turned his head to think and found out the details, "Oh! That day, the Patriarch happened to know about my younger brother from Ye Fighting God. ...'s? Fall, right?"

When mentioning the younger brother, there was a subtle pause in the middle, Yu Li knew that this guy couldn't remember the name of Xiwan, so he just went straight to it.

"Kenmaru was sent directly to the mansion by Lord Ebisu later, and I took back Aizen in the temple." Ikuri, who is "forgetful" with Hikiri, has long since given up treatment, her heart has no fluctuations and she is already remembering the past. "Speaking of... I was really scared by that giant spider at the time."

At the age of 14, because of the leakage of her spiritual power and physique, she was almost eaten by a group of monsters and ghosts, which made Yu Li always fear and reject the creatures on the other side.Even if he was rescued by Yato again later, and the problem of leakage of spiritual power was solved, and there was no danger of his life, Yuli's fear of the demon was still imprinted in his heart and remained unchanged.

When the giant spider, which was half the size of a temple, shrouded her head, she was so frightened that her legs went limp and she sat directly on the ground.It's kind of embarrassing to think about it now...

"But at that time, I was also forcibly awakened by Yato, so I can't continue like this anymore."

She was forcibly taken out of the hiding house by the Valkyrie enshrined by her family, and she was forced to stand on the roof and look directly at the behemoth above her head, telling her not to be so afraid, because she already had the ability to fight back, and there was no need to maintain the mentality of ordinary people in the past. When you encounter a demon, you will only wait for someone to save you, but you should learn to save yourself.

I don't know when since then, when she started to kill the intruders Yaohe Xu, her face has not changed. Yu Li can't remember how excessive it was in the middle, only the calmness when she wields Zanpakuto now.

"Oh, oh, what about the growth history of the immature period." The soft male voice beside him smiled and congratulated, "The head of the family has now become an outstanding lord, whether it is Honmaru or the present world, he has done a good job."

Yu Li saw him clapping and clapping at her with a smile on his face, just like coaxing a child, he just rolled his eyes, these thousand-year-old knives really inadvertently exude the breath of "Don't look at me as young, but I am actually very old" ah.

While talking, the car has arrived at today's destination, and the ancient Japanese-style courtyard is gradually approaching.

Because of the holding of the Antiquity Meeting, this courtyard, which was supposed to be peaceful and quiet in the mountains, was bustling inside and out.

After handing over the car keys to the special waiter at the door, Yu Li took Mustache and followed the receptionist's guidance through the door all the way to the main hall of the venue. At this time, there were already many guests present, and they were forming a circle. Chat with interested antiques.

Yu Li entered the arena not too early or too late, which was considered a middle-of-the-road, but she was still taken aback by so many people at the scene. It was agreed that antiques are a niche market. Do everyone like playing with antiques so much?

Mustache behind him smiled softly: "Where are there so many antique lovers? It's true that there are many people who are interested in what they like. The master of the house has always heard the phrase "Upgrade? Effect?"

Antiques have never been a business that ordinary people can afford. Who can deserve the title of "collector" is not powerful or wealthy. It is not enough for a group of people who are either powerful or rich to gather together. Did other people sharpen their heads and forcefully come over?

He did not know how many times he had seen this kind of thing when he was the saber of the suzerain of Genji, and he was no stranger to it.

When he said this, Yu Li understood immediately, and it was because she was occasionally invited to participate in some authoritative gatherings in the food industry that could not be rejected, and there would always be faces that she didn't know at all. Well.

Thinking that this kind of person might be encountered again in this antique exchange meeting, Yu Li was suddenly bored.

Just as he was depressed, a warm greeting came from not far ahead: "Master Xinggong, I didn't expect you to be in the Ancient Art Society!"

The old voice was full of surprises, and Yu Li heard it familiar. When he looked up consciously, he saw the old Patriarch Maeda in a traditional kimono walking towards him with a smile.

"Patriarch Maeda, have you been invited?" Seeing an acquaintance with a good relationship, Yu Li was also a little happy.

"It's just to have fun, just take a look." The old patriarch came back casually. He is the suzerain of the Maeda clan. He has a rich family background, and it's not like he doesn't have a museum. The invitations that are not easy to get for outsiders are only those who want to come. "Did you find out what news, which Tibetan knife did you like? Tell me, and I will help you talk about it and let the other party transfer it to you!"

While speaking, the old man patted his chest confidently.

"No, no, no." Yu Li immediately shook his head in denial, "Just like you, I came here on a whim just out of curiosity. I really didn't think I'd have to give up my love again, really!"

In the past few years, it was too crazy to collect all the sword accounts in the present world, and it seemed to have given everyone an inherent impression that "that Xinggong Yuli came to collect the sword again", so now when she appears on such occasions, everyone thinks that she is falling in love with her again. Someone's hidden knife.

...Although she will appear here today to collect knives.

Yu Li, who was sad and didn't know how to wash away this impression, couldn't help shaking his head even more urgently, and even the fringed flower hairpin on his head was shaking vigorously along with it. The rattan flower chip polished by purple crystal was very dazzling and attracted Quite a few eyes wandered unconsciously in the venue.

Yu Li is wearing a furisode kimono with a navy blue base today. The deep and rich navy blue color is close to black, but also lighter than black. At first glance, it looks like a formal black furisode.With such a deep satin base, the hand-embroidered patterns are brilliant and lively.

The embroidered patterns mainly of golden rays and flowers cover the skirt and long sleeves of the kimono, and the belt that is tied with the Wufu is even more golden and gorgeous. A round of fiery red sun above and thick or straight lines radiate from the clothes. The lines of light respond to each other, atmospheric and beautiful.

But the splendor of the clothes is not comparable to the owner himself. The girl's bright and picturesque facial features and indescribable high-ranking temperament? All of them have become decorations and embellishments.

Yaoyang? The gorgeous kimono with hundreds of flowers, and the beauties in kimono who wear it as a foil, actually attracted a lot of attention as soon as they entered the venue.

"Who is this? I don't think I've seen it before in the antique world. Who did you come in with?"

Someone who didn't know him quietly asked, and then received some contemptuous looks.

"Junior? How dare you say it! That's Master Xinggong, the culinary master who brought down Gu Chuan's family a while ago, and is also recognized as the uncrowned master chef in the food industry."

Xinggong Yuli has not been famous for a long time. In just a few years, some people in the antique industry who don't pay attention to the food industry are a little confused, but when the time-honored Gu Chuan Yimen is mentioned, many people instantly have an impression - can it not be, the food industry The earthquake caused many companies to follow suit, causing a lot of turbulent aftermath that has not stopped until now.

But after knowing who it was, those lovers who only had antiques in their minds only thought of other news incidentally.

"Xinggong Yuli! I remembered, it was the collector who donated ten meters of "Hell Map" to the government in exchange for a bunch of national treasure knives! It looks like this, I really didn't see it."

"When I saw that painting, I always thought it was an old painter. Is it so young?"

"It's no wonder you were taken aback. After all, this one only loves to collect ancient knives, and has never officially appeared in the antique circle."

"Could it be that when you come to the Antiquity Appreciation Meeting this time, you are looking at Zhengu Dao again?"

The public's thinking is always so consistent, and the whispers are all about discussing who brought the collection of ancient knives at the Antiquity Meeting today.

Among these mainstream chat content, there are naturally a small group of other related content.

"Woman? A recognized chef god in the gourmet world? Nakiri Senemon and those old guys are really useless enough to let a junior or a woman ride on their heads."

"I used to think that old guy Gu Chuan could compete with Nakiri for the position of God of Cooking, but who knew that he was so useless, and he was even taken over by the pot."

"It must have been some secret method, otherwise what can a woman do?"

Haughty and contemptuous gazes were hidden in the eyes of many curious projections, scrutinizing them from afar, and some of them didn't even bother to hide them.

"But it's good to marry back and put it at home."

"Isn't it for this that you have gone to great lengths to market your reputation like this?"

"Looking at the familiarity of her conversation with Maeda Sect Master, the rumor that she used the hobby of collecting knives as a cover to secretly curry favor with the various aristocratic families and win over a lot of contacts should be true."

"Not to mention, just looking at this face and figure, I really have capital..."

The suppressed whispers can't hide the ignorant prejudice and malice. By hiding in the crowd, some eyes become more unscrupulous.

——Until being stunned by a pair of cold golden vertical pupils, seeing the battlefield full of corpses and the cold killing intent that seemed to be cut to pieces at any time from those eyes, each of them came back to their senses full of cold sweat Bow your head, no one dares to look over there again.

But the heart is terrified, who is the owner of these eyes?A guy with such terrifying eyes is definitely a devil who has lost countless lives in his hands!

Mustache, who withdrew his warning gaze, turned his head back in disdain, and followed behind Yu Li with a look of wandering in the sky regardless of everything.

The world has really changed. When Genji was still there, whoever dared to look at his master with that look would have been beheaded on the spot and thrown out.

His patriarch, these idiots also deserve Xiao Xiang?

Just as he continued to be the bodyguard of the background board, some people took the initiative to find him.

"Oh, Master Hoshigong and Hikiri-sama, the last time I saw the two together was at the Kosui Banquet in Kagoshima, it's been a long time! Oh, Maeda, are you there too?"

"It's really strange. It's rare that Master Xinggong, who doesn't like to go out, is also interested in participating in activities outside the gourmet circle. This time, he also brought Mr. Hikakiri. Are you looking at another ancient sword from the Heian period?"

Seeing the two people who were talking walking towards them, Mustacheki even greeted him specifically, his face was slightly startled, and he tilted his head for a while after thinking about it. Finally, he realized: "Ah...it's the Shimadzu family and the Mori family. Is your supervisor? Long time no see." At the end of his speech, he greeted with a smile.

So everyone saw the blond young man who thought he was the bodyguard of Master Xinggong talking to the heads of the two old families with a smile on his face at the moment, without any sign of embarrassment or intentional flattery.And the two Patriarchs were not displeased at all, just like meeting acquaintances of the same level, they had no airs at all. Soon, including Yu Li and Maeda's old Patriarch, a new big boss and small group formed.

Those people who had maliciously speculated before did not dare to speak at all, not only because the three aristocratic patriarchs treated Xinggong Yuli and her attendants as friends, but also because they found that the three even treated Xinggong Yuli faintly. The flattering gesture, especially the old Patriarch Maeda, is actually quite obvious.If you still cling to the idea that "Xinggong Yuli took the initiative to curry favor with the family", then you are simply deceiving yourself.

Even the attendants are treated politely by the suzerains of the three great families. Is Xinggong Yuli really just the daughter of an orphan?Will there be another secret behind it?

The guests who didn't care much about the food industry at the scene, whose cognition has been impacted, pondered secretly, but on the bright side, it was as usual. After the host of the Antiquity Association announced the official start of the exchange meeting, the atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic.

Yu Li doesn't like to socialize, but today, because the three patriarchs are entangled with a lot of people who don't have much weight or winks, a group of people look through the collections of each family together, and listen to the history and interesting stories behind the ancient objects with great interest.

The other three actually thought the same way. Others didn't know the inside story. They knew the true identity of Master Xinggong's attendant. It was a genuine ancestral item. Therefore, when they came across some ancient relics from the Heian and Kamakura periods, They knew a lot of anecdotes and secrets that were unknown in the history books, and they also greatly increased their knowledge.

It wasn't that there were no gangsters in the middle, who refuted the historical details of Tokiri's statement, but the Genji treasures that only the patriarchs could hold in the past could not be refuted by them, and they refuted them clearly and rationally.

Seeing this scene, Yu Li next to her was blushing. She didn't know what she had seen and heard when she came to this ancient meeting with Onimaru Kunizun in the original track, but I can guarantee that it is absolutely not as cool as letting the Genji boss fly now. It is simply impossible. More face!

First, she used the national treasure Tian? Five Swords to appear in the audience, and then Genji Zhongbao helped her identify the ancient objects in the audience!

happy!

The annoying stares I felt faintly before the exchange meeting started are completely gone now, and the exchange meeting, which was already a joyful stroll, is now even happier.

Not long after Higakiri won the MVP of the audience from the appreciation session, Yuli's goal this time - Jizo Yukihei also appeared, and she followed the "history" told her by Kojin Taidao towards the burning sword I looked at it curiously for a while, and it really wasn't long after the link, the burner knife holder Baba took the initiative to send the knife.

"I have to say, the damage is quite severe. Poor Jizo-kun..." Looking at the black body of the sword in the box, even the imprint of Jizo engraved was blurred a lot, Yu Li said with emotion, " Speaking of which, there are quite a lot of cultural relics burned in the fire.”

"It's not just these." Higakiri said casually, "There were also many natural and man-made disasters in the Heian era, the Anyuan Great Fire, the Lugu Conspiracy, the Taiping Rebellion, the Tianqing Rebellion... There are many unlucky things in it. "

While the two were standing in a corner of the venue and talking, a voice suddenly intervened.

"So in the Heian era, monsters were rampant."

Yu Li, who was closing the lid of Jizo, looked up consciously, and saw a black-haired man with a paper talisman on his right eye walking towards this side.

He was dressed in a plain black kimono, with his hands folded in his sleeves, his long black hair loosely tied around his shoulders, and his left eye, not covered by the talisman paper and bangs, looked at Yuli with a smile.

"You...Mr. Chang." Looking at this face, Yu Li was a little dazed, but quickly pulled out this person from his memory.

The leader of the demon extermination group, the head of the Chang clan of the demon extermination family, Dechang Jingsi.

Back then, she was entangled by monsters and dared not engage in the cooking industry anymore. It was the professional demon exorcist hired by the Nakiri family who paid a lot of money to escort her, and she successfully completed the cooking work under the prying eyes of many monsters.And it was none other than Zhang Jingsi who invited him.

Later, he took a fancy to her ability to attract creatures from the other side with cooking, and sold her an old house in Kamakura at a low price to show her favor, and offered to cooperate by the way.But after being rejected by Yu Li, they didn't get entangled, and the two sides never met again.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, they would meet again at the Antiquity Meeting.

"I'm a frequent visitor. There are some things here that are also useful for exorcising demons, and it's also a good place to strengthen contacts and broaden contacts, isn't it?" The owner of the Chang family smiled and said frankly, "For example Meeting Master Xinggong again after such a long time, it is also a fate."

Yu Li laughed dryly: "It's true, it's been a long time, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come here without any problems." Overly offensive.

At this time, Chang Jingsi turned his head to look at the mustache next to him, his eyes were appreciative, and he admired: "This is really a perfect manifestation. It is a miracle that Fu Sangshen can transform into this step."

As the head of the demon family, like Natsume and Yuli, who are born to see creatures from the other side, Jingji Chang has actually seen many little demons who can have self-awareness after 99 years. They are called by humans. Fu Sangshen said that gods are actually extremely low-level existences in the sequence, and stronger monsters can destroy them in one go.

However, these Gods of Fusang, who were personally cultivated by the spiritual power of the God of Death, appeared from ancient knives that were hundreds of thousands of years old, but they were very different. It is an existence that can kill monsters in itself, the difference between these swords and swords Fusangshen and those of the same kind cannot be overstated.

If only the field sect could produce such a batch...

Seeing the way his eyes were shining more and more, Yu Li suddenly felt a sense of crisis, and hurried up to block the mustache behind him to block his sight, never thinking that his figure would not be able to hold the blade behind him. Cover it all.

Dechang Jingsi's thoughts were also interrupted by her action, and he couldn't help laughing when he saw her defensive posture of protecting the calf.

"Please rest assured, Master Xinggong, I won't lose my mind and grab something from you. I can't afford the price."

If Xinggong Yuli was still the ordinary person with no spiritual power but no background, Chang Jingsi might really intimidate and lure people with knives and snatch the Chang family, but as the leader of the demon extermination, from those After the big demon heard about the girl's real life experience, he no longer had this impulse.

To put it bluntly, the demon extermination is still a human being, and after death, he will also enter the soul world or hell.

Even those secular warrior families understand the truth, and the demon extermination people who have been dealing with the creatures on the other side will only know more about the practice.

Yu Li heaved a sigh of relief, it would be a big trouble if he really caught his eye, so it would be best to give up his thoughts.

#Thank you for being the master and not grabbing the grace#

It is inconvenient to talk in a crowded meeting place, so the two parties took advantage of the situation to shift positions and chose a lounge where there was no one to sit and chat casually.

In fact, Yu Li is also quite curious about the things about eliminating demons. People in this world are more depraved than those in the Heian era, and thus a more filthy breed of monsters has been born. Among humans, there are people who can psychic and can see monsters by nature. Fewer and fewer, and the power of demon extermination has to shrink accordingly.

It is actually not easy for Zhang Jingsi to carry the banner of the entire demon extermination, but he still persists and tries his best to keep this industry and family going.

"I don't know why, recently I always feel that the monsters living in various places are different. But when I sent someone to investigate, it turned out that everything was normal and nothing happened."

Sitting on the sofa, De Zhang Jingsi said with a calm face, his intuition was telling him that something was wrong, but he couldn't find anything.

"Master Xinggong, did your ... have any news about this?"

What Yuli knew was that she wanted to ask her father, Yetou, and those diners from the other side who ate her food if they had any specific news. No wonder she came over to say hello suddenly, because she wanted to ask for information.

but……

"I really don't have this." Yu Li shook her head, "I wrote to my father two days ago and asked about Yao and Xu, but he told me that there is nothing unusual." Later, she was asked to worry less about these things. Well, magicians and the like will be dealt with by them, she just needs to work hard for her career with peace of mind, she is still a little angry when she thinks about it.

However, there is no need to tell Dechang these words.

"Is that so..." Chang's eyes drooped, making his Danfeng eyes even more narrow and long.

Probably knowing that it would be a waste of time to talk later, the leader left with a smile after a while, and Yu Li naturally smiled back.

The two parties left the lounge one after the other, and stayed in the venue for a short time before the Antiquity Meeting ended.

When they walked out of the gate of the other courtyard, the sky was already filled with red clouds.

It was dusk again.

For some reason, she suddenly felt a thump in her heart. It was obvious that there were people coming and going around, and many guests were leaving in groups on the way to the mountain in a car. The popularity was very strong, but Yu Li felt flustered for no reason.

"Higiri, you said... there shouldn't be anything wrong, right?" On the way to pick up the car, she murmured to herself, and shook her head again when the attendant looked suspiciously at her, "It's okay, maybe it was influenced by the Patriarch of the field. Started to worry about it."

The young man with light blond hair fixed a glance at her, then turned his head: "Let's go, Patriarch, no matter what the situation is, we have to go."

The author has something to say:

The skills class will end on the 2nd of next month, and I will be able to update normally next month, so I don't have to be a coward anymore.