Chapter 744 As expected of someone who can provoke thunder! 【5400】
Boundless darkness...
Nothing can be seen.
Can't hear anything.
The body seems to have lost its sense of time.
It feels like only 1 second has passed.
It feels as if I have been in this boundless darkness for hundreds of years...
It was not until an unknown amount of time passed that, in this darkness filled with deathly silence, something new finally appeared.
"..."
Ogata heard the voice, but it felt so far away that he couldn't hear the sound at all.
After the words fell, Ogata felt his body shaking.
It seemed like someone was gently shaking his body.
"……how?"
Another voice came.
The sound coming this time was much closer and clearer.
"...amazing...recovery...fast..."
Another person's voice rang out.
The man's words were intermittent, and Ogata could barely hear a few words in them.
"...I know...you...go out..."
The sound gradually approached.
It's an old male voice that always feels...very familiar...
Where did you hear this sound?
My mind is so confused...I can't remember...
The dark world suddenly burst into white light at this moment.
This beam of white light destroyed all the boundless darkness.
The darkness was like broken glass, breaking into thousands of pieces, falling and disappearing.
As the darkness ended, Ogata finally felt that he was gradually regaining control of his body.
"Well..." Ogata slowly raised his eyelids as his consciousness regained consciousness.
The first thing that pierced Ogata's eyes... was the flickering candlelight. The candlelight dimmed Ogata's vision with a hazy yellow.
When Ogata's eyes subconsciously lowered his eyelids because they were not used to the light,
"Huh? Are you awake?"
The familiar male voice that he heard in the darkness just now reached Ogata's ears again at this moment.
This voice...?
Ogata's eyelids that had just sunk opened them again regardless of the bright light around them that he was not used to yet.
He widened his eyes and looked in the direction from which the old male voice came.
I saw...an old man standing next to him.
When his eyes turned to the old man, Ogata's eyes had barely gotten used to the bright light around him, and he was able to see the old man's face and clothes clearly.
The skin becomes wrinkled with age, like a piece of dried orange peel.
There is a conspicuous goatee on his chin.
He was wearing a simple monk's robe.
It was the old monk with a goatee that Ogata had met when he was attacking Mount Koya before, and he had come over to criticize Ogata, angrily scolding him as to why he wanted to attack Mount Koya!
If Ogata remembers this person's name correctly... the name of this old monk with a goatee seems to be "Qingyan".
Why is this person here? Where is this place?
With all these questions in his mind, Ogata moved his eyes away from Qingyan and looked at the rest of the place around him.
I seem to be in a small tent now...
The top of the head is a white tent.
Underneath him is a simple bed.
Apart from the bed under him and the candlestick placed at the head of the bed, there was no other furniture around him.
The items placed beside the bedside included a candlestick, Ogata's two swords, and... the beautiful brocade box containing the heads of eight hundred bhikkhunis.
After seeing that his sword and the brocade box were not lost, Ogata couldn't help but feel a little reassured.
The memory before falling into the boundless darkness slowly revived in Ogata's mind.
He only remembered... After defeating Itagaki, he exhausted the last bit of strength in his body and fell to the ground. He could only let his consciousness fade away little by little, let the waves rise little by little, and let the sea water gradually swallow him up.
drowned...
"That...sir." Ogata, who couldn't hide his astonishment, turned his attention back to Qingyan and subconsciously wanted to get up, "This is...um!"
As soon as he tried to lift his upper body up from the bed, the soreness in his thighs immediately rushed out of every muscle in his upper body like a fierce snake, biting Ogata's brain, causing Ogata to cry out in pain.
At this moment, Ogata suddenly realized that every part of his body was in severe pain, and it was difficult to even lift his arms.
His body was covered with a thin blanket. After struggling to lift the thin blanket, Ogata immediately saw that he was wearing clean clothes. There were no external injuries on his body under the clothes, but he was sore.
sharp.
"Don't move around, lie down obediently." Qingyan stepped forward, rushed to Ogata's bed, raised his hand to cover Ogata's thin blanket again, "The doctor said that your body is overworked, at least in the future
During the seven days, you must rest peacefully in bed and not move rashly."
"Ah, thank you..."
Ogata subconsciously said "thank you" and couldn't help but look at the old monk who was helping him put the blanket back up and down several times with surprised eyes.
Ogata didn't know if it was his imagination...
He always felt that Qingyan was a lot more polite when he spoke to him.
No, I can't say that to be polite.
To describe it as "pleasant"... seems a bit inappropriate.
It should be said that when talking to him, there seemed to be a little more... awe in his tone?
"The doctor who treated you has just been here once." Ogata heard Qingyan chatting in a casual tone and continued to him, "He said that your injuries are basically healed and you only need to rest for a while.
Recover as before.”
Having said this, Qingyan paused for a while, and then changed into an emotional tone:
"It's really amazing... This is the first time I've seen someone with such amazing resilience like you... Even the doctor who treated you called him a strange person."
Listening to Qingyan's emotion, Ogata couldn't help but change his expression slightly.
He was a little worried that Qingyan would ask him "Why is his body so special?"
If he were asked this question, it would be really inconvenient for Ogata to answer such a question.
But fortunately, Qingyan doesn't seem to be delving into the issue of "Ogata's recovery ability."
He raised his hand and patted Ogata's chest a few times, then continued to sigh:
"In less than two days, all the injuries on the body were healed, and there are no more external injuries..."
At the end, Qingyan murmured in awe in a tone that only he could hear clearly: "As expected of someone who can even trigger thunder..."
Ogata didn't hear Qingyan's murmur clearly.
He only heard Qingyan's words just now, "it takes less than two days."
"On the 2nd? Sir, how long have I been unconscious?"
"Huh? It's probably...five days."
"On the 5th?" Ogata, who almost screamed, quickly asked, "Sir! What exactly is this place? Why am I here?"
"Hmm..." Qingyan raised his hand and stroked the beard on his chin, "This is somewhere in the wilderness of Kii. I can't tell where it is specifically."
"As for why you are here..."
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5 days ago
Mount Koya, Koya Town
"Ahhhh! Where did this fire come from?!" an old monk shouted sadly.
Wails and cries similar to this were heard one after another at the foot of Mount Koya.
After a fire broke out on Mount Koya, the monks from the temples on the mountain quickly ran down the mountain to escape to Koya Town, which is located at the foot of Mount Koya.
In the past, Koya Town, which had always been extremely peaceful, has now become extremely crowded and noisy because of the monks who came to escape.
Mount Koya is a sacred place for Buddhism.
This holy land is now being devastated and raging by fire... How can this not make the monks of Koyasan extremely sad?
Some monks howled loudly.
Some monks fell to the ground and cried bitterly.
Some monks recited Buddhist scriptures silently and prayed for the disaster-stricken Mount Koya.
There are also some monks...with angry expressions on their faces.
"It is said that Ogata Ittosai started the mountain fire. Is this true?!"
"That seems to be the case! Before the mountain fire broke out, many people witnessed Ogata Ittosai suddenly appearing and attacking Sengenji Temple, killing many people!"
"We have never provoked Ogata Ittosai. Why would Ogata Ittosai do such a cruel thing! Kill my monks and burn down my mountain gate!"
…
More and more people joined the ranks of roaring and cursing Ogata.
When Ogata attacked Sengenji Temple, many people witnessed this "brutal" scene.
Although Sengenji Temple has long been infiltrated like a sieve by the Toyotomi clan, there are still many normal monks in the temple.
These normal monks in Xianyuan Temple basically witnessed the scene when Ogata invaded their Xianyuan Temple.
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The testimonies of these survivors of Sengenji strongly prove that "Ogata attacked Sengenji" was indeed the case.
As soon as Ogata entered Sengenji Temple, a fire broke out in Mount Koya. It was difficult to prevent the monks from suspecting that Ogata was responsible for the fire.
Although some people also made calm voices, such as: "It is too arbitrary to doubt Ogata Ittousai so much", "I saw many brothers who were killed by Ogata Ittousai in Sengenji Temple holding strange
Weapons, I think we need to investigate this matter carefully"...
Some people made calm voices but the number was far too few.
Like small drops of water falling into the sea, those calm voices were all covered up by the angry roars and sad whines of others.
But at this moment, an exclamation shouted with a trembling voice suddenly exploded:
"Ah! Has anyone seen Master Qingyan?"
This exclamation seemed to have some magic power, causing all the sounds around him to quiet down a little.
"Master Qingyan?"
"Yes! Has anyone seen Master Qingyan?"
"Master! Master Qingyan! Where are you?!"
More and more people are joining in the search for "Master Qingyan".
Another exclamation erupted:
"I remembered! Before the mountain fire ignited, Master Qingyan seemed to have gone to Xianyuan Temple to find Master Xianyuan to explore Buddhism!"
This person's words made the air around him... seem to freeze.
"What?! Master Qingyan went to Xianyuan Temple before the mountain fire?!"
"That's not bad!"
"Master Qingyan, wouldn't he just happen to meet Ogata Ittosai who attacked Sengenji Temple..."
"Shh! Stop talking nonsense!"
Everyone was shouting.
Worried about the safety of Master Qingyan, the monks spontaneously searched for Master Qingyan throughout Koya Town, making the already chaotic Koya Town even more chaotic.
Finally, a certain monk's shouts calmed the hearts of the monks who were worried about Master Qingyan's safety.
"Ah! I found Master Qingyan! Master Qingyan! I finally found you!"
People who heard this shout followed the shout and squeezed past the old monk with a goatee. With a straight face, he ignored the concerned greetings of the people around him and strode forward surrounded by everyone.
While asking around loudly:
"Where is Tianhai? Has anyone seen where Tianhai is?!"
Just when Ogata and the others were riding a carriage to pursue Toyotomi and others who were about to leave by boat, Aoiwa's hind legs, who were refused by Ogata and others to go with them, quietly broke away from Hasegawa and others and ran alone.
Back here in Koya Town.
He knew that after a mountain fire broke out in Mount Koya, the monks on the mountain would definitely gather in Koya Town, which was located at the foot of the mountain and was relatively safe.
The reason why he came to Koya Town alone, not because of others, was just to find the monk Tenkai who was familiar with him and borrow something from him.
"Master! The sky and the sea are here! The sky and the sea are here!" A thin monk squeezed through the crowd and ran to Master Qingyan.
After glancing at the thin monk in front of him, Qingyan said quickly:
"Tianhai, I remember you have a donkey, right? Where is your donkey now?"
"Ah, my donkey happens to be at hand right now. When the wildfire occurred, I used my donkey to transport a batch of important classics..."
"Take me to see your donkey quickly!" Qingyan quickly interrupted before Tianhai finished speaking.
"ah?"
"Don't be stunned, take me to see it quickly."
"Oh...Okay..." Tianhai came back to his senses from his daze. Although he didn't understand why Qingyan wanted to see his donkey for no reason, out of respect for Qingyan, he didn't want to say "no" and kept busy.
He led Qingyan to his donkey which was tied to a tree nearby.
"Master, why do you suddenly want to see my donkey..."
"Tianhai, can you lend me your donkey?"
"Huh?" Tianhai looked stunned again, "This... Master, if you want to borrow my donkey, I will naturally not refuse, but you..."
"Thank you. I will replace you later." After Qing Yan interrupted Tianhai several times, he turned over on the donkey with a slightly clumsy movement, then raised his hand and slapped the donkey's butt hard.
Uh-huh-huh...!
This rather skinny little donkey raised its two front hooves, blew its horn a few times, and ran forward carrying Qingyan.
The monks, including Tianhai, who had been surrounding the returning Qingyan just now, stared blankly at Qingyan who suddenly left on a donkey...
The sounds of people around him all fell silent for a moment, leaving only the sound of donkey hooves tapping the ground...
until a moment later
"Master! Where are you going?!"
"Master! Master!"
"Master!"
…
Qingyan didn't care at all about the exclamations coming and going behind him.
With a solemn expression, he drove the little donkey under him and headed straight towards a certain coast.
(Then I ask you, how do you explain that these ‘monks’ that I brought down were holding so many weapons that were not possessed by monks at all?)
Every word Ogata said to him on Mount Koya just now flew through his mind.
Every time he recalled what Ogata said to him, a trace of pain and annoyance would appear between Qingyan's brows.
Emotionally speaking, Qingyan didn't want to believe that there were any villains lurking in the sacred Mount Koya.
But after following Ogata's actions, what he saw and heard on the mountain behind Mount Koya... cruelly told him: what Ogata said to him... seemed to be all true.
No matter what, he wanted to see with his own eyes whether there were really thieves planning to leave this place in a battleship.
If this is true... then it can be confirmed that he wrongly blamed Ogata, and there is indeed a vicious villain lurking in the Holy Land!
He had previously asked Ogata to take him with him to pursue Toyotomi, but he was ruthlessly rejected. It doesn't matter. If you refuse, just refuse!
Anyway, Qingyan knows where the two battleships are docked. Even without the help of Ogata and the others, he can get there by himself!
After he and Ogata met up with Genichi, Genmasa and the others on Mount Koya, Genmasa once blurted out: The dock where the battleship is parked is adjacent to the Misaki Village of Kii.
Mount Koya is located in Kii, and Aoyan has been to many places in Kii, including Misaki Village.
Qingyan remembered very clearly that he had gone to Jiaocun several times to teach Buddhism, and he still remembered where Jiaocun was!
At this moment, Qingyan, who was riding a little donkey, was heading towards the village at full speed.
Not long after he set off, it rained heavily.
He ignored the heavy rain and continued to move forward.
Qingyan, who was anxious to witness the truth with his eyes, wished that the little donkey under his crotch could run as fast as a sweaty BMW.
But a donkey is just a donkey after all.
No matter how hard you try, you can't outrun the horse.
The little donkey Qingyan was riding was not strong at all.
Carrying a big living person like Qing Yan and running against such heavy rain... Anyone with a little common sense would know that this little donkey would definitely not be able to sustain it for long.
Sure enough, after the heavy rain fell, the little donkey began to move slower and slower.
No matter how hard Qingyan spanked the donkey's butt, the speed of the little donkey still dropped visibly to the naked eye.
Finally, the little donkey stopped completely and stopped moving.
"Hey! Hey!"
Qingyan shouted loudly.
"I see you usually eat a lot! Why can't you run away so quickly?"
No matter how Qingyan angrily urged the little donkey on his crotch to move, the little donkey remained unmoved. It drooped its head, panting heavily, with some foam overflowing from the corners of its mouth, and its four hooves trembling.
After all, the donkey was not his own, and Qingyan saw that the donkey could no longer run, so he had to sigh in frustration and climb off the donkey's back.
Tsk...it's troublesome...it's still far away from Cape Village...this donkey is too worn out...
Qingyan clenched his two fists anxiously.
At this moment, he happened to be in a very awkward place, on a mountain trail with no village in front and no store in the back.
I want to borrow some more horses or donkeys for use, but I don’t know where to borrow them.
When Qingyan was anxiously thinking about what to do now,
Hui Hui Hui Hui...
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
At the intersection to the west, the sound of cars and horses suddenly came.
Qingyan hurriedly turned around to see that it was a large group of people speeding toward him.
This is really a big queue.
The queue was centered on a slightly luxurious carriage, which was surrounded by more than 30 fully armed cavalry.
Being protected by such a large number of cavalry, there is no doubt that the people sitting in the carriage must be high-ranking officials.
This team is extremely fast.
In just a moment, they approached Qingyan from the depths of the distant rain curtain.
Then a scene appeared that made Qingyan look surprised.
After the convoy approached Qingyan, it slowly slowed down and finally stopped in front of Qingyan.
Immediately afterwards, Qingyan saw a slightly familiar middle-aged man sticking his head out of the carriage that was surrounded by people.
"Master Qingyan? Why are you here?"
"Matsuhira...sir?" Qingyan's mouth grew into an "O" shape in surprise.
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