I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Walking is okay, but running is a bit difficult for this old man.

Fortunately, Mu Cun is a person who does things informally.

Seeing that the old man was weak, he simply carried the old man on his back, regardless of the dirt and bad smell on the old man.

"We can tell you our situation." Yuanyi ran to the front and led the way, and said quickly to the old man lying on Mucun's back beside him, "But on the other hand, I hope you can finish our self-introduction." Finally, if you can tell everything without saying anything, at least let us know who you are."

"We are here to find our companions"

Yuan told the old man succinctly and concisely about their identities, where they came from, and how to find this place.

After carefully listening to Yuan Yi's words, the old man murmured:

"It was so"

"Ha, Mr. Toyotomi Genichi, you are really just like what Nobuhide said, you are a person who never lacks courage. How dare you take Koyasan directly with such a small number of people."

"Hahaha, what a joy!"

The old man laughed loudly.

"If there is a chance, I really want to see what expression Nobusu will have when he learns that Koyasan was attacked."

"Well, but I guess he shouldn't show any facial expressions."

"After all, he is the kind of person who can keep his expression unchanged even if he is extremely unhappy."

"Hey, can you tell us: who are you?" Mucun, who had been carrying the old man on his back, turned his head and glanced impatiently at the old man on his back, "We are just as you asked, We introduced ourselves. It's your turn to introduce yourself."

"Me?" On the face of the old man, a faint look of reminiscence slowly emerged, "I am, I used to be a doctor under the Toyotomi family who was responsible for doing some shady research."

As soon as the old man said this, A-Ming on the side seemed to remember something, twitched his pretty eyebrows, then raised his eyes, and carefully looked at the old man from head to toe.

The old man, who didn't notice Ah Ding's scrutinizing gaze, continued to speak slowly:

"I worked very hard for Xinxiu and made some achievements smoothly, so I was personally interviewed by Xinxiu many times."

"After going back and forth, I became acquainted with Xinxiu."

"Oh, it's a pity, no matter how close the relationship is, once it encounters a conflict of dreams, it will be extremely fragile."

The old man slowly clenched his hands around Mucun's neck.

The look of reminiscence on his face slowly changed to resentment and a touch of remorse.

"I gave everything I could to Shin Soo."

"But in the end, it's all about jail time."

"Oh, unexpectedly, I also felt that it was a wise move for Xuan Zhi to choose to leave directly."

Hearing what the old man said just now, or hearing the name "Genzhi" mentioned by the old man just now, Ah-cho, who had been staring at the old man with scrutiny just now, suddenly shrank his pupils.

"Wait a moment!"

A Dingjiao shouted.

"Could you be Xuanzhi's master Xuanzheng?"

"Oh?" The old man turned his head and looked at Ah Ding suspiciously, "Little girl, do you know me?"

"It's really you." A-Ming clenched his teeth, and his expression became strange because of various emotions such as joy, resentment, relief, and doubt.

As for the name "Xuanzheng", Ah-Ming felt that even after decades, he could still remember this name.

In order to find this man and his apprentice Xuan Zhi, she and Ogata traveled all over Japan.

For the character named Xuanzheng, who Ogata and A-Ming have spent countless efforts to find, they have naturally heard of the name Minamoto for a long time.

"You are that Xuanzheng." Yuan Yi stared closely at Xuanzheng's eyes and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Hey" Xuanzheng looked at Machi, and then at Genichi, "Do you guys even know me? This surprised me."

During the conversation, everyone had already turned a 90-degree corner.

As soon as he turned the corner, Hasegawa saw a small hole in front of him that was only big enough for two adults to get in and out side by side.

The light emanating from the entrance of the cave made Hasegawa, who had been in the ground for a long time, couldn't help lowering his eyelids, and filtered out the dazzling white light with his eyelashes.

Looking at the entrance of the cave, which was already close at hand, joy slowly climbed up Hasegawa's cheeks and pupils.

He can't wait to go to bathe in the long-lost sunshine and breathe the long-lost fresh air.

Thinking that he was finally going to leave this damn underground prison, Hasegawa felt that the pain in the wound on his leg had eased a lot, and his pace became faster.

However, the cruel fact that was coming soon froze the joy that had originally hung on Hasegawa's cheeks and pupils.

After rushing out of the cave following Yuanyi and the others impatiently, it wasn't fresh air that fell on Hasegawa's face.

It's a nasty burnt smell.

Along with this burnt smell, Hasegawa suspected that his eyelashes might be ignited by scalding hot air.

"This is..." Hasegawa stared blankly at the sea of ​​flames in front of him.

Not far in front of them, Zhu Rong was raging.

It seemed that the boundless sea of ​​fire devoured the grass and trees, spewing out a large amount of sparks, the fallen trees, the "groaning" of broken wood, and the scorching hot wind constantly blowing on Hasegawa's face.

"Tsk..." Mamiya's face darkened, "Even if the current season is the season when fires are most likely to get out of control, it is impossible for the wildfire to spread to this extent in such a short period of time."

"How much kerosene did the person who made the mountain fire burn like this Toyotomi in such a short period of time!"

Ah-Ming didn't say anything.

But she still uncontrollably cast a worried look at the sea of ​​fire in front of her.

On the other side of this seemingly endless sea of ​​flames is Xianyuan Temple.

It is the direction that Ogata attacked in order to attract Toyotomi's attack.

"Don't worry." Mucun, who has a thick and delicate personality, noticed the worry in A-Machi's eyes, and only heard him comfort A-Machi in a soft voice, "It's impossible for a mere mountain fire to end up with Brother Ogata."

"He should be joining us soon."

Makimura just finished speaking

"Machi! Minamoto-sama!"

Mucun, who had just finished comforting Ah Ding, was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled.

"Look, Macho, am I right?"

Mucun raised his gaze following the sound.

After raising their eyes, everyone saw a familiar figure on the hillside in front of them.

Looking at this figure, the worry in A-Ming's eyes quickly turned into a sense of relief.

"Speaking of which, I don't know your name yet." Ogata asked the old monk behind him, "Can you tell me your name? I don't know your name, it's rude."

"The name of the poor monk is Qingyan."

"Qingyan? It's a very artistic name."

Compared with wandering around the unfamiliar mountains alone, it is obviously more convenient to bring someone who is very familiar with this place.

The Toyotomi family who set fire to the mountain obviously did not want to have any entanglement with Ogata at all.

Attracting the main force of the Toyotomi Clan to attack, the "Woodpecker Warfare" that helped Genichi and others find the Toyotomi Clan's stronghold in the back mountain went bankrupt. Faced with this situation, the most urgent task for Ogata at the moment is to go to the back mountain and find Genichi and his party. people, join them.

Therefore, after the "old monk with goatee" proposed to act with him, Ogata, who was eager to join Genichi and the others, agreed to the proposal after only thinking for a while.

Because the "goatee old monk" had poor legs and feet, Ogata directly carried him behind his back and asked him to lie behind him to show him the way.

Bringing such a person who is familiar with the topography and terrain of Koyasan is really convenient, as Ogata expected.

Under the guidance of the "old monk with goatee", Ogata bypassed those places with many trees that were easily affected by wildfires. Although there were a lot of detours, the speed of progress increased.

"The fire seems to be overheating"

At the back of Koyasan, a large-scale mountain fire also appeared at this time, and the speed of the fire spread was so fast that the "old monk with goatee" who was lying on Ogata's back also discovered that the fire was spreading at an unusual speed .

"It's probably because the thugs lurking on Koyasan spilled fire oil everywhere." Ogata said with a sullen face, "It's crazy to set fire to the mountain. Once the fire gets out of control, it's not just Koyasan that suffers." Simple, even Osaka and Nara, which are close to Koyasan, will be implicated by it.”

"Are there really a large number of thugs lurking on Mount Koya? The old monk with a goatee" asked Ogata this question that he had asked countless times.

But this time, the tone of the "old monk with goatee" was obviously much softer than the previous few times, not as aggressive as before.

"Yes." Ogata answered patiently, "I can't possibly be the one who started the fire, right? If I wanted to set fire to the mountain, I didn't need to show up at Xianyuan Temple from the beginning."

"Who are these thugs? The old monk with a goatee" asked.

"If I tell you, you won't believe me."

"Just say it. Whether you want to believe it or not, I will judge slowly later."

"The thugs lurking in Koyasan are the descendants of Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his henchmen. They have been dormant until now in order to rebuild the world of Toyotomi."

"I have some problems with them, so I came here to settle accounts with them."

"Are you kidding me? The goatee old monk" opened his mouth wide.

"I've told you all, and you won't believe me when I tell you."

"Old monk with goatee" pursed his lips with a complicated expression: "I, Koyasan, have been infiltrated by mobs all the time, but I never knew it?"

After muttering like this, the "old monk with goatee" stopped talking at all except to show Ogata the way.

And Ogata is happy to use this to concentrate on finding Yuanichi and others.

After being strengthened by the "power of immortality", Ogata's five senses such as vision and hearing have been greatly enhanced.

I can clearly see the flight trajectory of a fly tens of meters away, and A-Machi, who has excellent eyesight, once told Ogata that.

The former Ogata had never been able to understand what level of vision this was.

And now, he understood.

What could only be seen with a telescope before, Ogata can now see with the naked eye.

The raging wildfires, to some extent, make it easier for Ogata to find someone because Yuanichi and others can only appear in places where there are no wildfires.

Ogata originally thought that it would take some time for him to find Yuanyi and his party. After all, the back mountain is very big, who knows where Yuanyi and the others are currently.

Unexpectedly, maybe it was due to luck. When he was descending a steep hill, out of the corner of Ogata's eyes, he suddenly caught a glimpse of familiar figures coming out of a certain cave not far away.

"Machi! Minamoto-sama!"

Ogata accelerated the speed of going downhill, and when he reached the bottom of the slope smoothly, Ogata quickly walked towards Yuanyi and his party with the "old monk with goatee" on his back.

"Ayi!" A-Ming was the first to run up to Ogata, and carefully looked Ogata from head to toe, "Are you all right? Who is this?"

A-Machi looked suspiciously at the "old monk with goatee" on Ogata's back.

"I'm fine, it's just a few spots on my face and clothes that were blackened by the fire." Ogata replied, "The one on my back is a monk from Mount Koya. Thanks to his help, I managed to get around Where there are more wildfires."

After all, Ogata looked at Hasegawa and the others standing behind Genichi and the others, as well as Isshiki Naoshu's family, with complicated eyes mainly of surprise.

Just now, when he was going down the hillside, Ogata had already discovered Zhiyi's family and this official who had always had a wonderful relationship with him.

Ogata did not speak to Hasegawa.

After taking a deep look at Hasegawa, he immediately looked away as if he didn't know Hasegawa.

All this was because he saw the official servants behind Hasegawa who were wearing the uniforms modified by Huofu thieves.

If Hasegawa's subordinates know that their leader seems to have a close relationship with the notorious Ogata Ittosai, it will definitely bring Hasegawa a lot of trouble.

So, even though he was extremely puzzled about why Hasegawa was here, Ogata still pretended not to know Hasegawa and didn't say hello to Hasegawa.

And Hasegawa is not a fool.

Ogata ignored him.

And he ignored Ogata.

The two tacitly regard each other as strangers.

However, although Hasegawa wanted to pretend that he did not know Ogata, and took the initiative to move his eyes away from the direction where Ogata was, his eyes could not be restrained from staring at the "goatee old monk" behind Ogata .

Ok?

Hasegawa stared closely at the face of the "goatee old monk".

Have I seen this old monk before?

He seems to be the one from Koyasan?