I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

It was only after a while that he came back to his senses that he nodded happily:

"Of course I'm free! Please come with me!"

Sendai Domain, somewhere

One of the "Seven Spears of Xianzhou" who was lucky enough to survive the battle against the Red Moon Fortress more than half a year ago: Qiuyue was sharpening his marksmanship in his courtyard.

Next time if you meet Ogata Yidao Zhai again, you must defeat him!

Qiuyue, with fighting spirit burning in her eyes, raised the wooden spear in her hand again.

Ezodi, Red Moon Fortress

The leader of the Red Moon Fortress: Chanup and the young people in the fortress are pushing a huge log.

Their goal is to do their best to repair the outer city wall that was bombarded by artillery during the previous war before this winter comes.

When Chanup stood aside, wiping his sweat and resting his waist, he saw his only son, Otunpuyi, silently carrying the wood.

Looking at Otongpuyi, who no longer blindly believed in the "world of harmony" as before, but began to do something beneficial for the people down-to-earth, the corner of Chanup's mouth curled up in a gratified arc.

Ezo, somewhere

"Skulucci! Wake up! Wake up!"

Scruucci removed the scarf covering his face.

"Boss Alexander, what's the matter?"

During this time, Scruucci and his boss, Alexander, had such a good relationship that they wished they could wear the same pair of trousers.

There was no other reason. After Skulucci piled up the huge reward from the Red Moon Fortress in front of Alexander's eyes, Alexander's eyes narrowed with a smile.

Whether it was Skulucci who stole his treasured armor or led troops to take part in the battle of the Red Moon Fortress without authorization, all the blame is past.

"Nothing, just to let you know: the situation in Europe seems to be getting more and more tense, and the revolutionary movement in France is getting bigger and bigger. In order to strengthen the military and prepare for changes in Europe, we There is a possibility that he will be recalled to the country.”

"Recalling the country?" Skulucci covered his face with the scarf in his hand again, "It's a pity, I still want to explore this land for a while longer."

Ezodi, Matsumae Domain, in an inn

Lin Ziping, who had just finished his solo trip in Ezo, lay prone in front of the desk, writing something on a stack of thick paper with a pen.

A piece of paper like the cover of a book is placed in the corner of the table case, with four large characters written on it: Hai Guo Bing Tan.

Kei, somewhere

Sogen Hani has been very depressed recently.

As a doctor sent by Matsudaira Sadanobu to study the "ogre" of Butterfly Island, he has been working diligently on research.

He recently got good news and bad news.

The good news is: after his research, he found that although the "ogre ghosts" on Butterfly Island cannot be killed, their internal organs are rapidly aging and failing at a rate ten times that of ordinary people.

In this way, according to the theory: in just one or two years, these "ogre ghosts" on Butterfly Island will all die of organ failure.

The weakness of the "ogre" has been discovered. They are not immortal, which is of course great news.

Not long after getting the good news, a bad news came suddenly

A few months ago, they salvaged a female corpse in the upper reaches of the Linon River where the people of Butterfly Island depended for their survival.

This female corpse is quite weird, and the rate of decay is quite slow.

In his heart, he vaguely realized that this female corpse had a strange Hanjing Zonggen, so he temporarily deposited this female corpse in the city of Kii Fan, and planned to study it slowly when he freed up his hands later.

Unexpectedly, more than a month ago, a group of mysterious people suddenly appeared and attacked Ji Yifan's feudal city.

The gang of thieves took nothing but the female body.

Who on earth snatched such a precious research object?

No reason has been found until now.

Kii, Mount Koya

Perhaps this is the so-called luck in the misfortune.

More than 3 months ago, a large-scale mountain fire suddenly ignited, making all the monks in the mountain think that this thousand-year-old mountain fire was about to be destroyed by this big mountain fire.

Fortunately, not long after the mountain fire ignited, the heavy rain that seemed to fall from the entire sea fell and extinguished the mountain fire.

Although some buildings and cultural relics were still destroyed by the fire, most of Koyasan's collections survived the timely heavy rain.

Many monks believe that this is the manifestation of the Buddha and defended the holy place.

The monks of Koyasan recently felt that Master Qingyan, the abbot of their Kongobu Temple, was a little strange.

Almost everyone believed that Ogata was responsible for the fire that almost destroyed the entire Koyasan, but Master Qingyan insisted: there is not enough evidence to prove that Ogata Yidaosai set the fire!It is too arbitrary to claim that Ogata Ittosai deliberately destroyed Koyasan!

This is not the strangest.

The strangest thing is that when the shogunate sent people to Koyasan to investigate the cause of the fire, they also believed that there was "insufficient evidence" to prove that there was an inevitable connection between the occurrence of the mountain fire and Ogata Ittosai.

Therefore, the "Koya Mountain Fire" was determined by the shogunate to be "deliberately done by other people and has nothing to do with Ogata Yidao Zhai".

According to some monks who are close to Master Qingyan: Master Qingyan has recently made strange remarks that "Ogata Yidao Zhai may not be an ordinary person".

While making strange remarks, he often went in and out of the treasury where the books were collected, and consulted the classics related to "The Appearance of the Buddha Spirit" and "Tianlei"

Omi, somewhere

"Hey, where are my stupid disciples?"

The owner of the Ishikawa Sword Gym: Ishikawa Bingma looked at the seemingly endless mountain road in front of him, and let out a long sigh.

Osaka, Isshiki Sword Gym

Unfortunately, the Isshiki Sword Hall was burned to a pile of ruins during the night when Toyotomi’s army attacked Osaka. However, after more than three months of reconstruction, the Isshiki Sword Hall has returned to its original appearance and started teaching swordsmanship again.

Compared with the past, there is only one difference. In a certain room on the second floor of Yise Sword Gym, a beautiful figure can often be seen sitting by the window, looking at the sky.

It seems to be thinking about something.

The final chapter of Shura's legend—the curtain ends!

Izumo, Hirose Domain

Got it!Got it!Got it!

The sound of cicadas chirping and bird chirping mixed together, as if they were far away, but also seemed to be nearby, blurred and clear.

A winding path circles a spacious plain.

At a certain intersection of the path, there is a simple tea house.

I saw Makimura, Asai, and Shimada sitting neatly on a bench outside the teahouse, each holding a glass of cold water.

"Is this the hometown of Yidaosai?" Asai looked around, "It feels like the Satsuma clan. It's summer, and it's so hot that you can't wait to peel off your skin."

After all, Asai drank the cold water in the bowl in one go.

"This is the first time I've come to Izumo." Shimada fanned himself with a hand-made fan. "I heard that Izumo buckwheat is very famous. I wonder if I have a chance to taste it."

"Izumo buckwheat is just so-so." Makimura on the side said, "I tasted it once, and the taste is nothing special. But Izumo wine can be tasted."

"Ah, I'm out of money." Asai took out an empty money bag from his bosom, "Makimura, treat me to a string of glutinous rice dumplings."

"Why can you be so righteous and confident that someone invites you to eat?" Although Mu Cun complained so much, he silently took out his money bag.

"Shimada, do you want to eat?"

"Yeah."

"Mamiya! Master Yuan!" Mucun asked loudly to the two who were standing together under a big tree not far away to enjoy the shade, "Do you want glutinous rice balls?"

Mamiya and Yuan shook their heads.

Seeing the two shaking their heads, Mucun took out the money for three glutinous rice dumplings and bought a glutinous rice dumpling for himself, Asai, and Shimada each.

While the three people in the pastoral village were gnawing dumplings, Mamiya, who was standing under a tree not far away to enjoy the shade, continued to chat with Yuan Yi beside him.

"How is it, Master Yuan?" Mamiya asked with a smile, "Have you managed to re-enter the state of harmony with heaven and earth recently?"

"No." Yuan Yi chuckled a few times and shook his head, "No matter how hard I try, I can't return to the state at that time. It's a pity that that state should be the so-called rare encounter. "

During this time, Ogata and Genichi often got together to discuss the miraculous state of "merging with the heaven and the earth".

Thanks to Ogata's discussion, Mamiya and the others were able to know that this strange state still exists in this world.

"But it's a good thing that I haven't been able to enter that miraculous state again." Yuan Yi grinned happily, "This shows that I'm still far behind, and there are still many things I haven't seen on the way of swordsmanship." landscape."

"I still need to practice more."

Genichi, with his hands on his hips, was obviously an old man with white beard and hair, but his eyes still shone with a high-spirited fighting spirit that would not be lost to any young man.

"I don't know how long this old man can live."

Yuan Yi let out a hearty smile.

"If only I could live to be more than 100 years old."

"In this way, I can practice swordsmanship for a while, hahahahaha."

"When I was 64 years old, I met Ogata-kun, a swordsman who surpassed me."

"If I can really live to the end of my life, maybe I will have a chance to see some interesting people or things again."

"For example, a swordsman who has reached a level that neither I nor Ogata-kun have reached."

"I don't think it's possible." Mamiya smiled, "It's unlikely that a swordsman who can surpass you and Ogata-kun will appear, right?"

"Mamiya, this world is huge." Genichi laughed heartily again, "Maybe in a few years, or decades, there will be a sword that can surpass me and Ogata-kun Scholars were born into the world."

"At that time, I only hope that I can still be alive and be lucky enough to meet that person. Hahahaha!"

"Okay, are you almost resting?"

At this time, Lin's cold voice stabbed at everyone.

Following the prestige, Lin led Azhu, Chuguang, Shibata, and walked slowly towards Jiangong and others.

"It's time to go." Lin said, "Get up quickly."

"Master." Shimada patted his butt and stood up from the bench, "How long are we going to stay here with Izumo?"

"It won't be long." Lin replied, "After all, we are just at Ogata-kun's request. Before going to Nagasaki to take a boat to Ryukyu, we just stopped by Izumo to see his hometown that he hasn't returned for a long time."

"Ogata-kun and Ms. Atachi should already be waiting for us, don't dawdle, hurry up and start."

Mamiya, Yuanyi and the others stood up one after another, and gathered behind Lin.

A group of Huluwu, Azhu, Chuguang and others walked together in the midsummer noon sun, farther and farther away.

Genichi stopped suddenly, as if he was saying something to Lin.

I saw him pointing to the tea house just now, as if he was begging Lin to let him make a pot of wine before leaving.

Lin Li also ignored Yuan Yi.

After only waving to Lin, he continued to walk forward along the path under his feet with great strides.

Yuan quickly followed up with a bitter face.

Laughter lingered around everyone.

Everyone headed straight for the far side, and their figures sank little by little into the blurred horizon under the scorching sun.

Izumo, Hirose Domain, Ruya

"Ah Fu! Help me put away the dishes from that table!"

"Okay!" Ah Fu casually wiped the sweat off his forehead, then took small steps and rushed to the dining table where the guest had just left, and took away the bowls and chopsticks on it.

The business of Liuwu is very good today.

Before noon, many guests came.

Because of this, the hands and feet of Ah Saki and Ah Fu, the mother and daughter, have not stopped since just now, and they are so busy that they often don't even bother to wipe the sweat on their heads.

When Ah Fu was meticulously putting away the bowls and chopsticks on the dining table, and took out a rag to wipe the table, out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a very familiar figure outside Liuwu.

"Huh?" Ah Fu, whose eyes were rounded in astonishment, quickly stopped his hands wiping the table, and turned his head to look outside the shop.

There is nothing but wind and sunshine outside the store.

"Did I read it wrong?" Ah Fu blinked vigorously a few times and murmured.