The real name of the monk who guarded the Sedan Cave was Eight Hundred Bhikshunis. She was supposed to be a figure in Japanese myths and legends.
It is said that this woman, whose real name was Takahashi, accidentally ate the meat of a mermaid caught by her father, and thus gained a long life of up to a thousand years.
It is said that she used immortal magic to transfer two hundred years of her life to the emperor. In her later years, she returned to her hometown of Wakasa and died on a hunger strike next to a mountain spring. She was 800 years old, and the world called her the Eight Hundred Bhikshuni.
Lu Xiao didn't know much about Japanese mythology, so she didn't know how much of this legend was made up by successive emperors in order to boost their own status.
The Emperor's Human Proclamation Warning.
The experience of the Eight Hundred Bhikshunis in the world of Sekiro is different from the myths and legends. She has lived for a long time as an insect possessor and exists as the gatekeeper of the Palace of Origin.
Arriving at the deepest part of Shuisheng Village, Lu Xiao could see a closed stone gate in the distance. In front of the stone gate was an open square.
Just from the terrain of the square here, you can guess that there will be a battle. When Lu Xiao entered the square, he took off the Immortal Sword from his back and put it around his waist. He took the Iai Sword posture and moved forward cautiously.
As they approached the center of the square, a translucent figure dressed as a nun suddenly appeared, holding a long naginata in her hand.
"Ahahaha~"
A weird laugh came from her mouth, and the phantom nun wearing a smiley mask swung her naginata to attack Lu Xiao.
"boom!"
The powerful and heavy naginata hit Lu Xiao head-on. This long weapon commonly used by samurai women was as light as a stick in the hands of the phantom broken monk, and his sword techniques were extremely flexible and changeable.
Lu Xiao retreated to the right to avoid the direct blow of the naginata, and when he was about to swing a cross slash, his sixth sense suddenly alerted him.
"Hahahahaha!"
Welcoming the monk with a strange smile, the broken monk suddenly spun his huge body and rushed towards Lu Xiao. The naginata that fell to the ground also spun along with her movements.
"clang!"
He used his scabbard to block the Phantom Monk's large-scale rotating knife attack. Before Lu Xiao could counterattack, the enemy suddenly jumped back lightly, widening the distance between him and Lu Xiao again.
'With this flexible body and extremely proficient naginata swordsmanship... I'm afraid I would be very passive in dealing with it with the Iai Slash.'
Thinking of this, Lu Xiao pulled out the Immortal Slash from the scabbard with a "clang" sound and assumed an active attack posture.
Most of Wei Mingliu's moves are simple and unpretentious, and they can often exert great power in close combat. With powerful and heavy attacks, they can suppress the enemy and defeat the opponent's defense.
But facing such an agile opponent, it would be inappropriate to use Wei Mingliu's basic moves.
"Breathe~blow~"
After taking a deep breath, Lu Xiao changed his attack routine and used a rather fancy combo move.
"Fly across the floating boat!"
Using fast and fast moves, the phantom ringbreaker monk spends most of his energy on blocking, and can no longer maintain the same ethereal movement skills as before.
"Giant Ninja Lunge!"
After using up a set of moves, Lu Xiao immediately changed his moves and used his feet to stab the phantom monk with an explosive force.
After all, Lu Xiao is not a monster with a huge physique and amazing body mass.
When he used the giant ninja thrust, he rotated in mid-air to enhance the lethality of the breakthrough.
Although the out-of-hand phantom monk escaped from Lu Xiao's frontal thrust, the purpose of this move was not just an attack.
After completing the rapid movement, Lu Xiao appeared behind the phantom monk, and the combination of mysteries produced a surging sword energy.
"Fly through the swirling clouds!"
The most gorgeous and fancy sword skills in the Sekiro world were unleashed, and the super-speed combos filled with crimson sword energy completely suppressed the phantom monk who had not had time to turn around. A whole set of sword skills was completely slashed on her back.
"Ahahahaha~"
The phantom monk who was attacked was still laughing eerily. Her phantom body gradually dissipated under the excessive blows, and the stone door leading to the sedan chair cave also opened.
What was defeated here was just a phantom of the eight hundred bhikshuni's true identity. Compared with her true body, there would definitely be a certain gap in strength.
Even so, Lu Xiao can roughly guess the attack pattern of the eight hundred bhikshuni through the actions of the phantom monk, which will be of great help when he actually faces her in the Palace of Origin in the future.
After passing through the stone gate and entering the cave, the first thing that caught Lu Xiao's eyes was a rope knot hanging from the ceiling of the cave. There were several small waterfalls around the rope knot.
Under the knot was placed a seemingly ornately decorated but rather old and tattered sedan. In front of the sedan was an altar. A large number of stones of unknown origin were piled on top of the altar. Among them, a shimmering sea urchin-shaped stone was particularly conspicuous.
"This is the stone of knotting."
When Lu Xiao picked up the Stone of Ending, he also discovered a few rows of small words on the wooden table of the altar.
"It is a good sign to stay together."
"The fragrance is overflowing, please come to the sedan chair respectfully."
"Put it in the mikoshi and they will come to greet you."
"Is the fragrance overflowing?" Lu Xiao tossed the stone of knotting up and down: "I have the last material, go back and refine the fragrance of the source."
…
When Lu Xiao returned to the mountain col where Shui Sheng Rin was originally located, Kumano Jinzaemon had already bandaged his wounds, and his mental state seemed to have improved a lot.
Due to the lingering power of the aura of water, the villagers of the water village still dare not approach this area at will. Kumano Jinzaemon is still safe when he rests here.
Just as Lu Xiao guessed, Kumano Jinzaemon knew a convenient passage directly to the outside world.
The mission was completed, and he still had an oil bottle behind him, making it difficult to sneak past. This time, Lu Xiao chose to fight his way through the center of the aquatic village.
The villagers of Aquatic Village themselves are not very strong in fighting ability. After all, they were just ordinary farmers originally, but their inability to be killed gave them a headache.
Immortal beheading all living beings are equal, all the villagers who were killed by Lu Xiao could not be resurrected. Lu Xiao killed a bloody path in the middle of Shuisheng Village. Kumano Jinzaemon looked at Lu Xiao as if he was watching someone beheaded.
Killer.
"Don't look at me like that."
Lu Xiao rolled his eyes at Kumano Jinzaemon angrily: "These villagers can no longer be considered alive. Let them be liberated as soon as possible so that they can die in bliss."
Follow the stream that flows through the water village all the way downstream. The shortcut guided by Kumano Jinzaemon is in a rock in the middle of the stream.
While looking for a shortcut, Lu Xiao and Jinzaemon accidentally discovered a solitary figure here, who probably slipped in with Kumano Jinzaemon.
Lu Xiao gestured to Jinzaemon to hide aside and keep quiet, then quietly slipped behind the Lone Shadows who seemed to be looking for something, and stabbed his hidden sword into his heart from his back.
"Well!"
Gu Yingzhong did not expect that one day he would be stabbed in the back, so he knelt down in the stream and died unwillingly.
Jinzaemon looked at the corpse of Gu Yingzhong with lingering fear: "I was actually followed. Sure enough, I was in a trance during the temptation of the shamisen and was unprepared. Fortunately, he didn't take action in the middle, otherwise..."
Lu Xiao shook off the blood stained on the Hidden Blade: "This guy should have acted alone. If we deal with him, we won't worry about the news leaking out. But we still have to speed up our actions. The internal government is pressing harder and harder."
Following Kumano Jinzaemon through a hidden mountain crack, Lu Xiao discovered through experience that the exit on the other side of the secret passage was actually in the valley where the Lion Ape's drinking water was.
"Is it so connected? No wonder the lion apes moved here to settle down after losing their partners."