At this moment, the fight to the death between the two masters was about to break out.
But whether it was the assassination team ninjas guarding the imperial palace, or the Nobunaga family generals who followed Sun Yixie in the banquet hall to watch the show through the hole in the wall... no one thought about intervening in this duel.
of.
After all, the atmosphere was here, and everyone wanted to see who gave Huang Donglai the courage to challenge this mysterious swordsman who single-handedly suppressed nearly 80% of the security forces in the imperial palace.
Of course, "mysterious" is only for those who don't know his identity. Others in the assassination team still know his identity.
This man wearing a golden giraku mask is named Ji Zong. He is a descendant of the "Ma Wu Zhen Shadow Style" swordsmanship.
Ma Wu Zhen Shadow Style is an anomaly in the Japanese martial arts world: no one knows who its founder is, how many years it has been passed down, and how many descendants it has; people have only heard that this school has never opened a dojo, and has been passed down for a long time.
It doesn't matter what class or family background...
This was undoubtedly a puzzling practice in Japan at the time.
As we have said before, the ultimate goal of most Japanese warriors in this era is actually to achieve class leaps through martial arts, so they open dojos, challenge everywhere, earn fame, recruit children of nobles, or directly become "kendo masters" for famous families.
"Normal School" and so on are all normal operations; and only in this way can they rely on the appreciation of the ruling class to spread their martial arts and become famous... Even Miyamoto Musashi is not immune to these things.
But the founder of Ma Wu Zhen's shadow style obviously doesn't care whether his name will be remembered, nor does he care about the background of his descendants. He seems to just want his kendo to be better and more completely passed down.
Nothing else matters.
Therefore, in this sect, there are often successors like Ji Zong who are extremely qualified but do not even have a surname, and many of them have the attributes of a murderer.
But precisely because this school exudes this "no taboo" atmosphere of seeking the truth everywhere, it also possesses something that other Japanese martial arts lack - purity.
Mawu Zhen Shadow Style is the purest killing sword. It does not consider functions such as dojo competitions or tempering one's character at all. Everything it contains is just for killing.
It is estimated that in order to achieve this goal, Ma Wu Zhenyingliu is also rare. He has learned the concepts of Central Plains martial arts and created a set of Japanese swordsmanship that is not inferior to the internal strength of Central Plains.
In other words, the successors of this set of swordsmanship are much more advanced in internal skills than other Japanese warriors who have only practiced "breathing techniques combined with moves".
The fact that Yoshimune can attack with slashes from a distance is a good proof.
However, his slashing attack is essentially a special attack produced by combining specific internal power with external power. It is similar in nature to Zhao Yuandao's "Shadowless Sword". It is not the same as a real internal power master who directly releases his general internal power to the outside.
Something happened.
When facing an opponent with no internal strength, there seems to be no difference in the attack effect between the two, but when Ji Zong encounters an opponent like Huang Donglai who has practiced the superior internal strength "Wu Qigong", the situation is different...
scold--
Let's talk about this moment, the sword edge suddenly moved, and the slash appeared again.
This move that Ji Zong performed seriously in an "attack posture" was certainly more urgent and dangerous than the casual blow before.
Huang Dong is here... Because when he was walking around the street with Sun Yixie this morning, he didn't bring any luggage or weapons at all, so the village sword was definitely not at hand at this moment, so he could only pick up the sword on the ground again.
Weapons to defend against enemies.
Fortunately, the courtyard was full of corpses and weapons at this time, and Huang Donglai could find them at his fingertips.
This time, Huang Donglai picked up an ordinary samurai sword, and instead of "throwing his hands away" to resist the attack like when he used the ninja sword just now, he directly held the sword and swung it towards the slash.
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Buzz——
There was another strange sound, and this time, Huang Donglai seemed to "disperse" the opponent's slash.
"Ha...it's really just a paper tiger." Seeing the result, Huang Donglai showed a smile that didn't deserve a beating and sneered.
Just now, when he received Ji Zongna's first slash, Huang Donglai threw the Ninja sword out of caution, so that if there was any accident, he would still have room to dodge.
But after receiving the blow, Brother Huang roughly understood that the opponent's slash was not a "sword energy"...
Sword Qi is an internal force that changes form through the sword under the premise of "the unity of man and sword", and then leaves the user's body and can attack distant places; it was originally released by Xiao Zhun in Wujian Villa
That's called "sword energy".
The long-range slash released by Yoshimune in front of him is more similar to a "blade-shaped air cannon" that combines internal strength and moves to act on the blade itself, and then uses the blade to shoot out in mid-air.
This kind of slashing attack will be dissipated by the latter when it comes into contact with the real "external release of internal force", or in other words, the "pure internal force wrapped around the weapon" that does not need to be released externally.
Of course, Huang Donglai understood the secrets involved, but Ji Zong did not.
It's not that Ji Zong has never seen someone block his slash. Those Japanese martial arts masters of the same level as him can also use their weapons to block such attacks as long as they are accurate; but like Huang Donglai's swipe,
, it was the first time that Yoshitsune had seen someone whose slashes were like "evaporating", leaving no forward force at all.
"Who is your Excellency? Can you tell me your name..." Ji Zong, who realized the opponent's amazing strength, finally paid attention to Huang Donglai and wanted to ask his name.
"I'll repay your mother!" But Huang Donglai had no intention of accepting this.
He came with a mission, and he also knew very well that there were still many enemy remnants around the imperial palace watching from high places. Wasn't it full of food just to show off his name at this time?
Dangdangdang——
Before Huang Donglai could finish his scolding, he had already used Qing Kung Fu to fly forward. In the blink of an eye, he launched a set of consecutive slashes at Ji Zong, intending to finish the battle quickly.
At this time, while Ji Zong was hastily blocking, he was surprised again: "This guy's movements are so fast! But... why are his moves so bad?"
Yes, to this day, Huang Donglai still doesn’t know any weapon moves...
So even though his internal strength and light strength were higher than Ji Zong's, in the weapon duel, he still... cut his head vertically in the upper section, and cut his head horizontally in the middle section. After these two hands were easily blocked, he changed the angle slightly and beheaded again,
Cut off the waist again...
If he were to fight like this with the village sword, coupled with his internal strength advantage, it would be reasonable, because after repeating this a few times, the enemy's weapon would probably break or accumulate a certain amount of internal injuries, but at this moment he
I used an ordinary samurai sword...
So, after several such back and forths, although Ji Zong was indeed shocked to the point where his blood surged in his chest, it was not difficult to block this attack. In the end, the weapon in Huang Donglai's hand broke first.
"Now!" The moment the samurai sword in Huang Donglai's hand was disconnected, Ji Zong couldn't help but let out a soft drink when he saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of.
As soon as the move was sounded, Ji Zong's lower body bent his knees to gather his strength, and his energy sank to his Dantian. However, the posture of his upper body remained erect and unchanged. His sword moves first returned and then came out. Between the return and return, it was like a waning moon re-circulating, creating an arc of light.
Huang Donglai was also startled by this sudden attack. With only a broken blade in his hand, he had to close his feet on the spot, jump up high, and dodge.
Although this panic reaction allowed him to successfully avoid the crisis of having his knees chopped off, it also exposed a big flaw in him.
Ji Zong would not miss this opportunity. He then used the squatting position to summon up a lot of physical strength, stepped forward with all his strength, turned the blade with his backhand, and slashed forward with all his strength.
Huang Donglai was in mid-air, and he didn't have much backhand. When forced by this sharp sword style, he could only hold up the broken half of the blade to block it.
Hiss - Dang!
However, Huang Donglai caused the broken blade to block the upward slash of the opponent's long blade, barely able to release the force, and finally managed to withstand the blow with his sword.
But at this point, Huang Donglai was weak against the strong after all. After blocking the sword, cracks appeared in his wrist bones, and the force of the upward slash increased his time in the air by a few minutes. He still could not escape completely.
Danger.
"Humph... just accept death!" At this time, Ji Zong was also excited.
Originally, he was a little timid from Huang Donglai's fight, but the changes between the two styles made him regain his confidence. After all, a master like him has a first-rate ability to interpret the battle situation. He understood it almost without thinking.
Huang Donglai's strength is his internal strength, but his weakness lies in his "moves". As long as he has a weakness... he is not invincible.
"The Secret of Ma Wu Zhen's Shadow Stream - the Full Moon Killing Sword!"
At this moment, the shouts suddenly started, Ji Zong's figure grew taller, and the blade in his hand turned into a long light.
In the blink of an eye, the figure and the sword light merged into a blurry straight line at the sudden increase in speed, and struck towards Huang Donglai, who was on his toes and was not yet firmly on his feet.
Even Huang Donglai himself did not expect that this duel would develop into such a vicious fight...
He thought that by defeating his opponent's long-range slashes, he would have the upper hand, but he didn't expect that Ji Zong's melee combat ability was actually more sophisticated and powerful than his long-range slashes.
Now it seems that the death state of these corpses on the ground has become a stumbling block to confuse Huang Donglai, because these people can't force Ji Zong to use any melee moves, so Huang Donglai, who saw these corpses, also misjudged Ji Zong's fighting style.
"It's over! This time A is high, and he's going to suffer a lot!" At this moment, Huang Donglai said in his heart, facing Ji Zong's sure-kill move, he could only think of one way to deal with it.
呲——
The next second, a bloody mist filled the sky.
For a brief moment, Ji Zong felt that he had won, because his sword had successfully cut through the muscles of Huang Donglai's shoulder and neck, and then he was about to slash diagonally into the opponent's chest.
But at this moment, Huang Donglai, who did not retreat but advanced, succeeded in taking half a step forward, reaching the deepest point of Ji Zong's attack, and grabbed Ji Zong with the arm that was not cut.
The hands holding the sword.
The position Huang Donglai is standing at this moment can be described as the position closest to the index finger of the hand holding the knife when you cut a potato with a kitchen knife, and he is the potato.
At the moment, Huang Donglai used his internal strength to use one palm to contain the source of the opponent's strength, which was where he held the knife, and continued to lean forward... In this weird posture, his collarbone became the last line to protect his chest.
The barrier... caused Ji Zong's slashing to get stuck on this line.
But the wound is undoubtedly very deep.
At this time, Huang Dong did not dare to make any more excuses, nor would he give the opponent any chance. He seized the short second when Ji Zong was surprised because his attack was blocked, and used his drooping arm on the injured side.
, took out a concealed weapon from his belt and shot it with a snap of his fingers.
A real hidden weapon, driven by internal energy, is more powerful than a random stone picked up on the ground. In addition, the attack was extremely close, and Ji Zong felt as if someone had shot him through the heart with a pistol at close range.
Same, killed immediately.
And almost at the same time that he lost strength and fell, Sun Yixie also appeared behind Huang Donglai.
Obviously, Brother Sun saw that the situation in the battle was not right, and regardless of whether it was fair or unfair, he wanted to come up to help with the two-on-one situation. However, when he came closer, Huang Donglai happened to take care of his opponent.
"Damn it! What the hell are you doing?" Two seconds later, Sun Yixie supported Huang Donglai, who was staggering and about to fall. After looking at the wound and confirming that Brother Huang could not die, he opened his mouth and cursed, "The car is about to overturn.
You should just scream."
"Mao!" Unexpectedly, when Huang Donglai heard this, he actually pushed Sun Yixie away; while forcing himself to stand, Huang Ge clicked on the acupuncture point on the side of his neck with two clicks, slightly stopping the bleeding from his wound.
, and then retorted loudly, "You just say you won or not?"