Chapter 1299: Lost in the Temple, Sandalwood Brocade Box
Holding the manuscript, Liu Shiba smiled slightly and said:
"How did we get here? That's how this paper got here."
"oh?"
The old driver was thoughtful.
"Among them, this person especially describes how one of Xu Fu's descendants was defeated in a battle for territory.
After a long journey, he fled on foot to the former site of Noda Castle and laid the foundation stone of Noda Castle here."
"Huh? It's a very official record. What's the problem?"
The old driver raised his eyebrows and didn't feel anything strange.
Liu Shiba smiled, touched the tip of his nose and chuckled:
“How poor must a daimyo be before he needs to escape on foot, traveling thousands of miles across mountains and rivers?
And, going to this land where birds don’t lay eggs, setting up camp, clearing wasteland and building cities?
Moreover, this ruthless man who trekked on foot built five surrounding cities in less than a few decades, surrounding Noda Castle in the middle? So..."
After hearing this, the old driver thought about it and muttered:
"That's right! If a daimyo was so poor that he didn't even have a horse when he was running for his life, then he wouldn't be able to get here alive.
Finally, there are people who help him expand his family and even build a city."
Liu Shiba smiled sinisterly and said:
"From this! I specially observed the distribution of the five surrounding cities and found that this is a super five-element array created by humans.
Use the yang energy of many connections in the city to infuse the city built with the five elements chess pieces with infinite vitality!
As for the person who laid the foundation, his walking behavior seems to be more like another profession based on my experience and perspective!
For example - looking for dragons and tapping acupoints to read Feng Shui is very suitable..."
The old driver shook his head and said doubtfully:
"Searching for dragons? Injecting vitality? Is there any necessary relationship with the search at Noda Castle last night?"
Liu Shiba grinned and analyzed:
"One of the chess pieces in the Five Elements is replaced by the city.
So it is conceivable that Noda, as the eye of the Five Elements main city formation, must strongly absorb the luck of the surrounding five cities.
Based on this calculation, doesn't it mean that a larger and larger city with greater reserve capacity is needed to be the formation eye?
And on the surface, I see that Noda Castle, which was destroyed by the Takeda family, is not as big as any of the five surrounding cities."
The old driver rolled his eyes and asked:
"From this, what do you think?"
Liu Shiba nodded affirmatively and said solemnly:
“There must be another city under this city!”
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In the blink of an eye, three days have passed since Mori Katsunaga led his army into battle, and there has been no battle report on the five-city strategy.
The six-pronged army led by Mouri Katsunaga seemed to have disappeared out of thin air!
Everything is weird!
During this period, Liu Shiba personally took Meng Tianfang and his forty dead soldiers to search back and forth among the ruins of Noda City.
If there is even the slightest doubt, the ground will be dug three feet and the earth will be turned upside down.
Unfortunately, nothing has been discovered yet!
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Liu Shiba looked solemn and sat on the dilapidated steps of an abandoned city temple in Noda City.
He held the manuscript in his hand and looked through it carefully, hoping to find some other clues.
"Crack!"
But after looking through it for a long time, he still couldn't see any mystery. Liu Shiba was so angry that he threw the manuscript to the ground.
The main reason is that Liu Shiba's level of ancient Japanese writing is too poor.
"Boss! Our people found a secret compartment under a burnt incense table in the ruined temple behind you, and inside it was a dark sandalwood brocade box."
Liu Shiba, who was deep in thought and sulking, was interrupted by Meng Tianfang's report. Hearing this, his heart was shocked. He raised his head and said in surprise:
"Oh, come and take a look?"
Meng Tianfang nodded and said:
"There are three brothers! We are cleaning up the debris around the secret compartment. Because it is buried very deep, we will probably be able to take out the brocade box in a while."
Liu Shiba immediately added
"After searching day and night for several days, the brothers are also tired. You ask the other brothers to rest here for a while."
Meng Tianfang nodded, then turned around and shouted:
"Big guy! If you have nothing to do, come over and take a rest."
As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of dead soldiers and bodyguards who were looking for him in all directions quickly gathered around him!
The guards who walked to the entrance of the ruined temple dispersed and sat down on the spot in a well-trained manner, surrounding Liu Shiba and Meng Tianfang in a protective manner.
After everyone rested for about half an hour, they heard a guard's report coming from inside the ruined temple:
"Lord! General! The sandalwood brocade box was taken out from the bottom of the secret compartment, but the surface is corrupt and looks very old..."
Mengtian said with great joy:
"good!"
Liu Shiba climbed up and said with a smile:
"Okay! Maybe we can break the situation. It's on this broken brocade box. It's hidden so deep. It's not easy when I think about it..."
