Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

A village in the castle recounted, "More than 1000 years ago, a stunningly talented samurai appeared in the Kingdom of Iron. He created the legendary magic skill Ichi-no-tachi at the age of 16, and fought 370 times in his life without ever losing it. Once defeated, he was revered as the Sword Master by the world at the age of 19.”

"Tsukahara Ichi, the first swordsman of the Iron Kingdom, is also the founder of your Hanren Kenshin-ryu. I know all this, so what is your purpose in talking about it?" Kurosaki Ichigo took over the words, looking a little uncomfortable. Too polite.

"Listen to me." Jonouchi Kazumura said casually, "The Ichi no Tai Sword created by Tsukahara Kazu is not a move, but a set of martial arts that contains realms and moves."

Ichigo Kurosaki nodded. During the previous battle, Ichimura Jonouchi said that he was going to use the Ichi no Tachi, but ended up using a lot of moves. He had this guess at that time.

Jonouchi Ichimura continued, "After becoming a sword master, Tsukahara continued to enrich the Ichinotachi until he was 22 years old, and he finally set foot on a higher level of the realm of God based on the Ichintachi."

"The Realm of God" Kurosaki Ichigo repeated, unable to help but smack his lips at Tsukahara Kazu's terrifying talent.Now he already knows that the so-called divine realm in Ichi no Tachi is the sage mode mentioned by Senju Hashirama.

Even geniuses like Senju Hashirama only successfully learned the Sage Mode with external help in the secret forest of giant trees when he was in the ninja world in his 20s. This shows how terrifying Tsukawara's talent is when he realized the Sage Mode. .

"That's right, the realm of gods." A village in the city looked a little fascinated, as if they had seen the all-powerful ancestor Tsukahara Kazuo, "There is a rumor in the Iron Kingdom that as long as you can reach the realm of gods, you can surpass the world in skill and become a contemporary swordsman." statement.

"Actually, this statement is not wrong, because the realm of gods is so powerful that everyone who steps into that realm becomes a sword master.

"So for thousands of years, generations of Hanren Kanshin-ryu disciples have devoted themselves to practicing Ichintachi, hoping that they can realize the realm of God. However, over the years, there have been very few people who have succeeded in practicing Ichintachi. What’s more, it’s about understanding the realm of God.

"And the most important thing is that there are terrible risks in practicing the realm of gods. Once there is a slight mistake, the power of nature will rush into the body of the practitioner and turn him into an ice sculpture. For this reason, the fallen genius does not know how to be ordinary. Several."

"Perhaps their talent is not good enough. After all, the creator of Ichinotachi and the comprehender of the realm of God was Tsukahara Kazuo, the first sword master." Kurosaki Ichigo said.

"Talent" Ichimura in the city chuckled, "Yes, all the disciples of Hanren Kenshin Ryu thought so until another genius appeared."

another genius

Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly thought of a name that Mifune had mentioned to him many years ago, "Yamso Katori"

"Yes, Yan Zong Katori. You seem to know something about him."

Ichigo Kurosaki nodded, "I've heard of it. It's said that after he became a sword master, he led a large number of warriors into the arctic ice field, but only his disciples survived. This caused a great decline in the swordsmanship of the Iron Kingdom."

A village in the city nodded slightly, "This is known to many people in the Iron Kingdom, and it is not wrong to say it, but the more detailed secrets are not known to outsiders."

"Does this have anything to do with the origin of your Greyel Stone?" Kurosaki Ichigo still wanted to turn the topic to this instead of listening to some historical stories.

"It has a lot to do with it." Jonouchi Ichimura also saw Kurosaki Ichigo's thoughts, so he said to him, "As we all know, Genso Katori learned all the moves of Ichintachi at the age of 27, but in fact he had already mastered it when he was 19 years old. Made it this far.

"It's just that he hadn't touched the realm of God at that time. To be precise, even when he became a sword master more than ten years later, he was still squandering in the original realm.

"Finally, after another two years, with the desire to pursue a higher realm, he sat alone on the snowy peak for three months before successfully reaching the realm of God when he was about to die."

Kurosaki Ichigo didn't know what to say. In fact, he never understood why those guys who were obsessed with martial arts could be so crazy.

Of course Ichimura in the castle here didn’t know what Kurosaki Ichigo was thinking, so he continued, “Just after realizing the realm of God, great doubts arose in Yan Zong Katori’s heart.

"He believed that his talent was not inferior to Tsukahara's. It was impossible for Tsukahara, who was held up to the altar, to reach that level at such a young age without any external help, so he began to search crazily. All records about Tsukahara Kazu."

"He found something." Kurosaki Ichigo keenly felt something was wrong.

Ichimura in the castle replied, "One thing, an anecdote about Tsukahara who accidentally entered the Arctic ice field when he was a year old. This legend about Tsukahara was very popular at that time. Some of them are true and some are false. No one knows I can’t tell if this is true.”

Ichigo Kurosaki thought of the story he heard about Katori Katori, "But based on what happened later, Katori believed it, didn't he?"

"Yes, he believed it." A village in the city nodded and smiled, "Similar to later legends, Yan Zong Katori stubbornly believed that Tsukawaraichi found the Temple of Gaotian in the extreme northern ice field by chance and obtained Only with the guidance of the gods can such tricks be created.

"So eager to reach a higher realm, he summoned a large number of warriors and led them into the arctic ice field, hoping to win the favor of the gods."

"Obviously he didn't have that luck, didn't he? There is no so-called residence of the gods, the Temple of Heaven." Kurosaki Ichigo shrugged.

"No they found it."

Kurosaki Ichigo's expression was dull on his face: "How is this possible?" As a former acting Shinigami, he did not believe in the existence of gods in this world. Perhaps it was precisely because he was a Shinigami that he did not believe in the existence of gods.

"Listen to me." A village in the city told him to be calm. "In the first three months, Yan Zong Katori and the samurai achieved nothing, so those warriors had the intention to retreat. However, Yan Zong Katori was already obsessed with this. I'm so obsessed that I can't even listen to anyone's advice.

"The resentful warriors certainly had the idea of ​​​​rebellion, but before they could put it into practice, a heavy fog enveloped them. Everyone was lost in the fog that lasted for several days. When the fog cleared, , what caught their eyes was an extremely magnificent but very dilapidated palace.

"The Temple of Gaotian," Kurosaki Ichigo said in disbelief. Although he knew that the words of a village in the city must have concealed many dangers on the road, Yan Zongxuan and the others were able to find the Temple of Gaotian so easily, which was beyond him. Anticipate.

A village in the city continued, "That's right. The overjoyed Yanzong Katori and the warriors howled with excitement and rushed into the Temple of Heaven that they had been looking for for a long time. But to their disappointment, there was nothing inside.

"Nothing at all"

Jonouchi Ichimura took a deep breath. In fact, he was even more miserable than Kurosaki Ichigo when he heard his teacher Ariga Tomoyuki's narration. "I know this may be unbelievable, but it is indeed a fact. There is real truth in it." Nothing at all.

“It looks like it has been abandoned for many years, but the strong winds and blizzards on the ice sheet have never raged there, so it will not be buried by ice and snow.

"Then what?" Kurosaki Ichigo could already imagine how disappointed Yan Zong Katori was.

"Then the disappointed warriors temporarily stationed there and wanted to leave the next day. Yanzong Katori, who was not determined to give up, still led his disciples to search frantically in the Temple of Heaven."

Kurosaki Ichigo saw a strange expression on Jonouchi Ichimura's face, so he couldn't help but ask, "Did he find anything?" He was shocked when he saw Jonouchi Ichimura taking out his Greel Stone from his clothes, "You mean? He found the Grayl Stone"

A village in the city took a look at the Greer Stone and said, "The emperor has paid off his hard work. Yan Zongxangtori discovered the traces left by Tsukawaraichi in an extremely secret place, and followed those traces and finally found the place where he was enshrined in a room. The natural stone in the secret room.

"Yan Zongxiang took it off, and then disaster happened."

"What a disaster"

Ichimura in the castle shook his head, "The surviving Yagyu Kawakawa once left some writings, in which there were only a few words mentioning the disaster, something like this.

"First, the red moon broke through the clouds in the sky, looking like a cold look from the eyes of a god. Then, fire fell from the sky, accompanied by the falling of meteorites. There were giant beasts roaring and roaring all around. The earth trembled as if it was about to overturn. Everyone was frightened. Suddenly, someone seemed to be in a dream. , not knowing his companions and subordinates, he raised his blade and swung it. Suddenly, it was like an infectious disease, and except for a few people, they all killed each other, and blood flowed everywhere."

Kurosaki Ichigo was confused by these words, "Is this really a punishment from God?"

"No one knows this." A village in the city said with a frown, "At that time, people were killing each other, and the scene was extremely chaotic. Yan Zongxiangtori was also seriously injured trying to protect his disciples.

"He knew that he was not going to die soon, so he gave the natural stone to Yagyu Kawahisa, protected him and took out the High Heaven Palace, and told him never to come back, and not to let others enter here again and die in vain. life."

"After Yagyukawa escaped with his life, he was as afraid of the Arctic ice fields as snakes and scorpions, but he still remembered his master's instructions, so he moved the Cold Blade Kanshin-ryu Dojo here and guarded this important route to the Arctic ice fields for the rest of his life. .

"And he discovered something else."

"What's up"

Ichimura in the city showed the Gray Stone in his hand to Ichigo Kurosaki, "He discovered that there are a few gaps in the natural stone, which can allow the unknown substance inside to escape. As long as he holds the natural stone in his hand during practice, stone, you can feel the realm of God under the influence of that material

"Although it is just a feeling and cannot truly reach the realm of God, it will undoubtedly greatly speed up the speed of practice. Perhaps Tsukahara Kazuya was inadvertently exposed to nature and could practice so fast after experiencing the realm of God. , and created Ichintachi.

"Yagyu Kawahisa successfully stepped into the realm of God with the help of the power of the Natural Stone. Before he died, he passed the Natural Stone and its secrets to his disciples, and asked that there can only be one successor in each generation of Hanren Kanshin-ryu. Stay here forever.

"It is also the power of the natural stone that allows each generation of people to master the Ichintachi sword at a young age and reach the realm of God."

A village in the city looked at the Gray Stone in their hands and fell silent. They seemed to be thinking whether it was worth the sacrifice of so many names for this stone. After a long time, they raised their heads and said, "These are all the secrets about the natural stone." .”