Chapter 184 The decision of the empty mountain and one leaf [5000-word chapter]
In order to prevent Kazuyo Sorayama from pursuing him, the ninjas used all kinds of methods, including all kinds of caltrops, smoke bombs, and shurikens flying around. In addition, Kazuyo Sorayama did not dare to go all out and penetrate the wire array at full speed. The two gradually fell into a stalemate.
.This kind of stalemate is quite beneficial to Kazuyo Sorayama. First of all, the ninja's props cannot be unlimited, and they will always be thrown away. Secondly, the physical and energy consumption of the pursued is always much higher than that of the pursuer, not to mention
People like Kazuyo Sorayama who have trained their bodies to the extreme; and lastly, the sky. Once night passes, death awaits the ninja. And the ninja dare not leave the formation easily, otherwise with his speed, he will die in less than 2 seconds.
Will be killed by Ichiyo Sorayama.
Both sides know this very well.
The ninja who was gradually cornered glanced at his opponent with murderous intentions on his face, and for the first time he felt that he might really die in the deserted mountains of Kai and become one of the countless lonely ghosts. Damn it! If that woman hadn't leaked the information...
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Woman? The ninja's eyes lit up. However, it was rumored that Sorayama Kazuha was a guy who had no relatives. Even the Sorayama Kazuyo where he belonged was implicated by his actions. All of them, including the owner Fuji Ohno, were wanted by the shogunate. His disciples were also wanted by the shogunate.
Although Katsura Kogoro was protected and saved his life, he was deprived of his status as a hereditary samurai by the Choshu clan, and was ordered to be expelled from Edo. He was not allowed to leave Choshu for life. Not to mention two women who had never met each other, but now there is
Is there any other way? Ninja decided to take a gamble!
The ninja who was throwing hidden weapons at Sorayama Kazuha suddenly stopped and yelled: "Let's die together!" At the same time, he quickly shot two kunai, and two black lights came from the gaps in the woods with a sharp sound of breaking wind.
He flew out and headed straight towards the two unsuspecting women.
Kazuyo Sorayama, who was on alert, was shocked to find that the kunai was not coming towards him, but two women, one large and one small, on the river beach! At this speed... they couldn't avoid it!
Although the woman was once a ninja, she did not focus on fighting and was seriously ill; the little girl named Kiriko was even more numerous levels different from the leader of the Imperial family who issued the hidden weapon. Even though the retina could capture the trajectory of kunai,
It is absolutely too late for the muscle to react. This is Kazuyo Sorayama's intuitive judgment based on top warriors.
In the past, he would not have cared about the life or death of these two people who had only been together for a few hours, but after all, their families were ruined in the first place. The woman reminded herself that in the back, she could not just watch them die because of her involvement.
, the blood on the heads of Boss Shimada and Nagamoto Goro has not yet flowed out, how can we tolerate this happening again!
Without thinking, Ichiyo Sorayama directly threw the long-length light in his hand, like a comet dragging the light. It hit two kunai first, and the tachi, which had not lost its strength, sank into the trunk of the tree with a "chi" sound.
Half of the blade kept trembling, as if she was quite dissatisfied with what the master had done by throwing her away.
The mother and daughter who escaped the disaster didn't even understand what happened. One of them still looked anxiously into the darkness of the forest, while the other had an expressionless face and didn't know what he was thinking.
The ninja was stunned at first. According to his prediction, the best result was to lure Kuzan Kazuha to fly to stop Kunai. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he could escape calmly. He never expected that the opponent would throw away his weapon just to be safe.
.A swordsman without a sword loses at least half of his power. Even if Kazuyo Sorayama is a swordsman, can he still hammer himself to death with his fists?!
Overjoyed, the ninja immediately stopped and couldn't help but sneer: "Sure enough, you are indeed interested in them! I am very curious. With your martial arts appearance, at least half of the women in Edo are willing to recommend themselves to the pillow. We have obtained the information
, you seem to have categorically rejected the marriage to Sana, the youngest daughter of the Chiba family. You don’t like this kind of rich and noble girl who is famous in Edo, but you are attracted to this kind of person who can do everything you want. Hehe, you really have a unique taste! Could it be that
Is it that girl you have your eye on? Hahahahaha!" At the end of the sentence, the ninja laughed.
"Oh? You look so proud, you don't seem to be planning to run away." "Humph, you're no sword master without a sword. Now you don't have a sword in your hand, and I do." The ninja held a ninja straight sword in his left hand and a kodachi in his right hand, the two swords intersecting.
The friction produced a stream of sparks, illuminating his face covered with a black scarf in the dark night: "I have two swords!"
Kazuyo Sorayama stopped answering. There was no need to communicate sword skills with a ninja. He didn't understand! Just like many people didn't understand why Chiba Shusaku could cut off countless famous swords with an extremely inferior weapon.
He silently stretched out his right palm in front of his eyes, as if observing the texture of his palm, then turned his palm, put his four fingers together, clasped the palm with his thumb, drew straight to the right side of his body, leaned over and stared into the ninja's eyes, and shouted: "
Come!"
How, how is it possible!
When the ninja saw Kazuyo Sorayama, who had no sword in his hand, his whole body seemed to turn into a sharp sword, especially the fingertips where the sword intent was condensed, which made him feel that he could not look directly at it. It was clearly a peerless weapon.
"Ichiyo Sorayama, you may be bluffing, but the next blow will be your death!" the ninja shouted crazily, shouting with all his strength: "Flowing Water Sword Style, thirty-seven, the sword of sacrifice!"
Countless figures were flying up and down along the steel wire, and some were even as close as seven feet away from the empty mountain. The ninja didn't care about the loss of the steel wire and strength, and gambled everything on the next hit.
The empty mountain was unmoved, and in the end he even closed his eyes directly. The black and white world took shape again deep in his consciousness. In that world, there were no figures in the sky, only a blood-red bright spot that continued to gather momentum along different trajectories. Above?
No, it's straight ahead! Seeing that I can't block without a weapon, do you launch a fatal blow?
In the eyes of outsiders, several figures are attacking Kazuyo Sorayama from all directions with double swords. They are like a sky net composed of sharp blades. Kazuyo Sorayama who can resist the enemy with only one palm will turn into corpses in the next second.
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All the figures gathered into one, and the sharp point of the ninja's straight sword seemed to have touched the center of Sorayama Kazuyo's eyebrows. Sorayama Kazuyo suddenly opened his eyes, ignoring the blades that were about to attack him on the left and right sides, and his body directly crashed into it, and he was actually going to use it.
The body resisted hard, but Sorayama Kazuyo clearly sensed that this was just an illusion that deceived the eyes, and the real fatal attack was only a little ahead!
All the illusions passed through him and disappeared immediately. In the horrified eyes of the ninjas, Sorayama Kazuyo's palm slowly grew larger and slashed towards his neck. The majestic sword intent radiated from the palm of the sword made the ninja suspect that even the hardest
The pine wood will never be able to withstand this blow.
The habit of being an elite Jonin saved his life. When the palm of his hand was about to cut the skin on the side of his neck, the ninja launched the ninjutsu as fast as he could in his life. After a burst of smoke, two pieces of broken wood with smooth cuts fell on the ground.
, was actually cut off by a pair of fleshy palms.
The ninja touched his bleeding neck. The biting coldness made his body tremble slightly. At that moment, he felt that he had seen the open door of hell. It was dark and cold, bottomless, waiting for him to plunge in...
Looking at the wood on the ground, Sorayama Kazuyo couldn't help but frown. Last time, the Yuting Banzhu named Hannya seemed to have escaped his fatal blow with this hand. Ninjas are a tough group of guys. "Substitute technique?"
I can understand the ninja who used his clothes to escape last time. Is this piece of wood also something you have been hiding on your body?"
Kazuyo Sorayama carefully looked at the thin ninja. Where could such a large log be hidden so that he could move without being discovered? He couldn't find it, so he couldn't help but look at the ninja's hands.
After the buttocks between the thighs...
The ninja was frightened by Kazuyo Sorayama's gaze and was filled with shame and anger. However, he was so frightened that he dared to continue provoking words. He distanced himself again and hid behind the tree canopy. Kazuyo Sorayama moved forward slowly and continued to pursue, walking as he did.
He said calmly: "The swordsman's sword is not what you can imagine. You'd better kill yourself and leave a whole body. How many times can you escape with your wood?"
The ninja said nothing, then took out the last two kunai and put them in his arms, and said decisively: "The sword master is indeed invincible, but if I try my best to kill those two women, how many times can you stop me?
, no matter how powerful your palms are, can you still fly out?"
Kazuyo Sorayama stopped when he heard this. The ninja was right. If the ninja shoots kunai again, no matter how fast he is, he will not be able to fly over and intercept him. His tone turned cold: "You can kill him, but I promise not to do it on the spot."
If I kill you, I will stuff the two pieces of wood into your vagina completely."
The ninja shook his head, trying hard to shake this horrible scene out of his mind, and organized his words a little: "Kazuyo Sorayama, I admit that I underestimated you, so why don't we just let it go. Next time you don't have this burden around you, I will
I will bring all the masters of Yutingfan to surround you, and then we will have a showdown with swordsmanship and ninjutsu. Do you dare to respond?"
"Haha, are you scared? I dare you to know it in your heart." The ninja was overjoyed, but Sorayama Kazuha's next words completely plunged him into a cold state. "Leave the one who killed Boss Shimada and Goro Nagamoto behind."
Use your hand and get out."
"You! Ichiyo Kuyama, don't push too hard, otherwise I will let the mother and daughter be buried with them!"
"You can give it a try. Only the two of them will die at the hands of the shogunate, and not more than you will die at the hands of me."
He is not kidding! The ninja clearly senses this. Even if he kills those two women, he will definitely die of torture. Although the ninja is not afraid of death, when he thinks of the kind of death described by Sorayama Kazuyo
, he couldn't help but tremble a little, not to mention how could the lives of two untouchables compare to his own body with a salary of thousands of stones?!
Faced with Sorayama Kazuyo's pressing step by step, the ninja gritted his teeth, stretched out a hand from behind the tree crown and held the Kodachi sword in his mouth, then flicked his head, the light of the sword flashed, and his bloody hand was immediately sliced off.
It was broken and scattered all over the ground with a shower of blood.
The ninja spit out the Kodachi in his mouth, and said lightly as if the severed hand was not his own: "I did it, what else do you have to say." At the same time, he showed the kunai he had been holding in his arms, and said in a threatening tone: "
I promise I can kill that mother and daughter with just one breath left!"
Kazuyo Sorayama looked at all this, and he didn't know whether he was regretful or lucky. He looked at the ninja with a complicated expression, "Although I want to kill you now, as a ninja, you are stronger than your predecessor. Go away, remember,
The next time we meet you will be your death."
"Are you talking about that loser in Lan Yi? Not only did he fail to fulfill his duty to protect the general, so that Jiaqing Palace was coerced by you, but he even watched you break the general's neck in the subsequent missions. Qingxi Palace misses him.
Having served the shogunate for many years, it is a great gift to allow him to have a disembowelment as a samurai. The shogunate appointed me to take over as the leader of the imperial court, Sorayama Kazuha, you win this time, but you can never continue to be free."
Seeing the ninja who was still quite tough even after losing one hand, Kazuyo Sorayama couldn't help but have a headache. Being thought about by such a person day and night, even if he was not afraid, he still felt extremely disgusting. He couldn't help but doubt that he had given up his life for those two women.
Is it a wrong decision to defeat this formidable enemy? But in an instant, he threw away this weak thought and sighed: "As a dog of the shogunate, you are really qualified!"
"Hmph, don't compare me to a national traitor like you! No matter how incompetent the Tokugawa Shogunate is, they are still the masters who have sheltered Japan for two hundred and fifty years, but what about you? You are just a devil who came out of nowhere and has never done anything.
A thing that is beneficial to all the people in the world, but instead plotted to assassinate the general, and Edo became a river of blood! You are angry that I killed the two sinners who protected you, but the orphans of Hatamoto who were killed by you cried bitterly all night, and everyone looked at them
If you are an enemy, what do they deserve? I will never allow scum like you, who are lawless and have committed heinous crimes, to live in the world!"
Kazuyo Sorayama's words seemed to have touched the belief that the ninja had always maintained, and his tone was unprecedentedly firm, completely different from the ghostly and wretched person he had just fought.
Since Kazuyo Sorayama debuted, everyone has called him a scumbag, but no one has called him a scumbag. However, judging from the standpoint of the shogunate, calling him a scumbag seems to be a lot more euphemistic.
Hearing the words of the ninja, he became a little silent. He would not consider many things when killing people. Whoever dared to draw a sword on him would be the enemy he wanted to kill. It has always been his style to show no mercy to the enemy, but just like
The ninja said that he killed too many people this time, and countless happy families were cut off by him.
"Although I am not your opponent, the two hundred members of the Yuting Fan will fight you to death. Even if they cannot kill you, you'd better hope that the people you cherish can escape our ninja methods, including the two women around you.
!I’m not afraid to tell you that the shogunate is in Osaka, and Harima has gathered tens of thousands of troops. As long as you leave the Kai Mountains, you will die! Enjoy your last time in the world, haha, hahahaha..."
After finishing speaking, the ninja raised his hands holding the kunai, signaling Kazuyo Kuyama not to act rashly. After a few dodgers, he disappeared from Kazuyo Kuyama's sight. After a while, he was completely out of Kazuyo Kuyama's range of perception.
He didn't pay attention to the threat of the ninja. This was what he expected, but the words about him being a murderous demon really touched him. He also doubted for the first time whether his actions of killing countless people because of his anger were actually true.
correct.
After a long time, seeing that there was no movement from Ichiyo Sora, the woman led her daughter to Ichiyo Sora carefully.
"What on earth did you do?" The woman had been coughing and had just recovered a little before she asked this question. After all, what is the status of Yu Tingban? As a ninja, she knew very well that she could make this group of Japan's most elite ninjas
There are not many people who will fight to the death, not to mention the tens of thousands of troops from the shogunate who are encircling and suppressing them, and the only opponent is this one person in front of them?!
Kazuyo Sorayama temporarily got rid of the thoughts that troubled him. Now is not the time to think about these issues, "I just killed Tokugawa Ieki. Alas, I also killed hundreds of Hatamoto and swordsmen in Edo."
The woman was stunned with shock! General! Can a person do such a thing?
Hundreds of people... The ninjas in their Fuma village had never killed so many people in hundreds of years, let alone the shogunate's elite Hatamoto and a highly skilled swordsman!
It is said that a swordsman's swordsmanship is determined by how many people he kills. All the famous swordsmen in ancient times have killed hundreds of enemies, but that is the number of enemies killed in a lifetime! The seemingly taciturn swordsman in front of me actually killed a hundred enemies in just a few days.
Having attracted so many people, he, he might really be a devil as the ninja just said...
The little girl Kiriko, who had been silent all this time, heard a strong look in her eyes when she heard Kazuyo Sorayama's words. When she looked at Kazuyo Sorayama again, she couldn't help but have an inexplicable expression in her eyes.
"It seems that you can't leave Kai in a short time. I can see that the ninja just now was not lying. When I was traveling alone in Japan before, I knew that there was a temple that had been abandoned for many years in the mountains nearby. The location was quite hidden. I originally planned to bring Kiri with me.
If you want to live there for a while, let's go together. The shogunate can't always maintain a military formation of tens of thousands just to kill you. It must be that there have been many rebellions recently and they sent troops to suppress it. If you can escape for a while, your martial arts should
No one can catch you." The woman was silent for a moment and then said slowly.
As early as when she saw the dead heads of the two people who had helped Souyama Kazuha, she knew that once the mother and daughter left Souyama Kazuha, they would be caught by the all-pervasive shogunate spies. Those people might directly kill the man.
It's over, but the cruel methods used to deal with women, especially former female ninjas, will definitely make people afraid to reincarnate as humans in the next life.
So now Kazuyo Sorayama is no longer his original enemy. If he wants to save his life, especially his daughter's life, he must take over the responsibility of taking care of her daughter no matter what...
Sorayama Kazuyo thought for a while and felt that this was also a way. Anyway, he had no hope of leaving this world in a short time. There was no clear purpose for his next plan. What if he arrived at Changshu Domain? He would not follow the instructions.
As Katsura Kogoro said, secretly contacting the rebels of the feudal clan, isn't it just wandering aimlessly? Maybe he should practice quietly in this inaccessible place. How long has he been since he was thrown into one world after another by the so-called system?
Have you never practiced swordsmanship systematically?
Kazuha Sorayama never imagined that this stay in a ruined temple in the mountains would lead to him gaining the world's biggest rival or friend? It was also an opportunity to leave the world of "Rurouni Kenshin". What kind of collision would happen between the two top swordsmen?
Brilliant sparks? How will the fate between mother and daughter continue with him? What decision will Chiba Sana, who is waiting in Edo, make? What is the plan of the shogunate's army?
Everything will unfold in this deep mountain that is completely different from Edo Castle...