Kurosaki Ichigo in Konoha

"Is this... a samurai?"

Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the nearly twenty samurai in front of him curiously. They were all wearing iron armor that covered their whole bodies. Their faces were covered by masks. They held a tachi in their hands and one on their waist. Short sword.

"It turns out he is the messenger from Konoha." After seeing the iron token Sarutobi Hiruzen took out, the samurai led by him bowed slightly and said, "Excuse me, where is Lord Hokage?"

"I am Senju Hashirama." Senju Hashirama took a step forward and introduced himself.

The leading samurai glanced at Senju Hashirama and said respectfully: "Master Hashirama, I am Takayama Morigen, the general of the Iron Kingdom, Musashi, sent to receive you."

The warriors behind Takayama Morigen looked at him in surprise. Takayama Morigen was famously unruly in the Iron Kingdom. No one except Musashi, who was a general, could be taken seriously by him. Now they saw Takayama Morigen. How could he not be surprised that Yuan was so respectful to Senju Hashirama, the leader of the ninja clan?

However, those samurai thought so, but Takayama Morigen did not think so. Although the Kingdom of Iron has always been neutral, as a high-ranking official of the Kingdom of Iron, he naturally knew the situation of the ninja world very well. Faced with the situation of the ninja world, he could almost break it with one person. The stalemate between the Hand clan and the Uchiha clan ended the Warring States Period. Naturally, he did not dare to take advantage of Senju Hashirama, not to mention that not long ago, Senju Hashirama killed another famous murderer by himself in a duel. The great god Uchiha Madara's reputation has reached a higher level.

"Well, thank you." Senju Hashirama nodded, "By the way, are the other four shadows already here?"

Takayama Morigen replied: "Well, the Kazekage of Sand Hidden Village is the last of the Four Shadows to come here. He arrived here two days ago and should have arrived at the meeting location by now."

"It seems that we are not too late." Qianju Tobirama said calmly.

Takayama Morigen looked at Senju Tobirama's appearance and knew his identity, so he nodded, and then waved to the warriors behind him.

The samurai under Takayama Morigen immediately understood and took out a package from their backs. They stepped forward and handed the package to the entourage behind Senju Tobirama.

"What is this?" Kurosaki Ichigo asked as he took the package strangely.

The samurai in front of Kurosaki Ichigo explained to him: "This is a thickened cotton coat. Although it is already April, the temperature in our country of Iron changes drastically. If you go about a hundred kilometers north, it will be the same as other places. It’s also cold in winter in this area, so I need to prepare cotton-padded clothes for you in advance.”

Upon hearing this, Kurosaki Ichigo handed the package in his hand back to the samurai, which made the samurai stunned. Seeing this, Kurosaki Ichigo pointed to his forehead with a smile and said: "No need, don't you Do you think I am sweating profusely because of the rush? I really hope to get to a cold place as soon as possible, otherwise I will be overheated by the thick clothes inside."

The samurai looked at Ichigo Kurosaki in embarrassment, then turned back to look at Morigen Takayama, who was chatting with Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, and found that he nodded to him, so he took the package and walked back. .

"Hey, it turns out that you were hiding secretly to change clothes before. You are really cunning." When he went to bed, Xiaochun had already put on the cotton-padded clothes. Although the black cotton-padded clothes were warm, they were not too thick and were perfect. It outlined her toned curves and attracted people's imagination. However, Koharu herself did not have this consciousness when she went to bed. She leaned next to Kurosaki Ichigo and said.

Kurosaki Ichigo glanced at Koharu who was sleeping and said: "It is common sense to check the relevant information before going to a country."

"You" Xiaochun's eyes widened when she went to bed, but she didn't know what to say. She always thought of herself as experienced in front of Kurosaki Ichigo, but she didn't expect that this time she would be silently slapped in the face by Kurosaki Ichigo.

"Okay, let's go." At this time, Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama also finished their greetings with Takayama Morigen and turned around and said to their entourage.

In this way, a team of nearly 30 people quickly headed for the meeting place of the Five Shadows.

"Hey, Mirror." On the way, Ichigo Kurosaki approached the Uchiha Mirror and asked while moving quickly, "Didn't you come to the Land of Iron once? Then why does that alpine ape seem to not recognize you? ah"

Uchiha Kagami glanced at Kurosaki Ichigo helplessly and said: "I...uh, Kurosaki, he is called Takayama Morigen, not Takayama Ape."

"It's almost the same. You haven't answered my question yet." Kurosaki Ichigo waved his hand.

Uchiha Mirror shook his head, and then explained in a low voice to Kurosaki Ichigo: "When the Five Shadows Conference was held before, the situation in the ninja world was relatively turbulent, so the peace talks were conducted in secret. Not only did the five major ninja villages not I know, and even the Iron Country, which is the host, only a small number of people know about it.”

"I see." Kurosaki Ichigo nodded, and then continued to ask, "By the way, that Takayama said before that he was sent by the general of the Kingdom of Iron. What is this general? I saw it in the Uchiha library. It’s not mentioned in the Iron Kingdom Chronicles.”

"Chronicles of the Iron Kingdom" Uchiha Mirror was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Oh, the history of that book is two or three hundred years old. The pattern of the Iron Kingdom has long since changed. The people who originally ruled the Iron Kingdom The daimyo was overthrown, and the samurai established their leader as a shogun, a position similar to that of the Hokage, responsible for commanding the entire Iron Kingdom."

"The Daimyo has been overthrown." Kurosaki Ichigo touched his chin as if thinking about something, "It seems that there are big changes in the Kingdom of Iron."

"Yes, about 200 years ago, great changes did occur in our Iron Kingdom." At this time, a samurai also came up and said. The voice sounded like the one who had been rejected by Kurosaki Ichi as an escort in cotton clothes. .

"Hey, can you tell me what happened?" Kurosaki Ichigo looked at the people rushing in front of him and didn't seem to notice it, so he whispered with some curiosity.

"It's not good for Kurosaki to do this," Uchiha Kage said sternly.

The samurai glanced at Kurosaki Ichigo, then at the Uchiha mirror and shook his head. Kurosaki Ichigo thought that the incident was a secret of the Iron Kingdom and could not be told, so he was a little disappointed, but Unexpectedly, the samurai said next: "It doesn't matter, because our Iron Kingdom has always maintained absolute neutrality and does not participate in the disputes in the ninja world, so the situation in our country will basically not prohibit external reports."

"That... is really rude." Uchiha Kagami hesitated after hearing this. Kurosaki Ichigo had a smile in his eyes. Although what he said sounded nice, in fact Uchiha Kagami was also very curious about what happened in the Kingdom of Iron. of.

"Yes." The warrior nodded, and then began to recall the past events 200 years ago.

200 years ago, when the samurai reached their peak, not only were they numerous, but various powerful swordsmanship schools also emerged one after another. Even Hanbana Kanshin-ryu, who had always been the leader in swordsmanship, faced huge challenges.

It is said that there were no fewer than ten swordsmanship geniuses with the potential to become sword masters at that time, and each of them was a master who challenged a large number of swordsmanship schools. However, perhaps it was the luck of Hanren Kenshin Ryu, or the misfortune of the swordsmanship geniuses at that time. A super genius named Yan Zong Katori emerged from the Cold Blade Kanshin-ryu.

Rumor has it that at the age of 27, Genso Katori mastered the swordsmanship Ichi no Tachi created by Tsukahara Ichi, which was regarded as a divine skill by Hanren Kuenren, and then challenged and defeated him with overwhelming force within five years. He defeated all swordsmanship schools except Hanren Kanshin-ryu and became the last sword master of the Iron Kingdom.

All the swordsmanship geniuses at that time were defeated in the hands of Yan Zong Katori. Yan Zong Katori's arrogance soared. He believed that he had surpassed Tsukahara Kazuo, who was known as the strongest sword master in the Iron Kingdom, so he became a sword master. In the seventh year of , Yanzong Katori summoned almost all the swordsmen at that time in the name of the sword master, and wanted to lead them to find the Temple of Gaotian mentioned by Tsukawaraichi.

"The Palace of Gaotian" Kurosaki Ichigo said with a frown.

"Why, you know that too," the warrior said curiously.

Kurosaki Ichigo nodded: "Well, I've seen it in the book. Isn't the Temple of Heaven a legendary place where the gods live?"

The samurai shook his head and smiled: "But Katori Yanzong doesn't think that is a legend. He firmly believes that Tsukawaraichi gained such terrifying swordsmanship after entering the Temple of Heaven after being taught by the gods, and he thinks that he has already While studying the classics left by Tsukaharaichi, I found the location of Gaotian Temple."

Yanzong Katori believed that the legendary Palace of Heaven was located on the boundless ice field at the extreme north of the Kingdom of Iron, and forced warriors from all major swordsmanship schools to embark on a journey to find the Palace of Heaven with him. .

Less than three months after entering the ice field, Yan Zong Katori's only disciple Yagyu Kawahisa escaped from it in embarrassment. According to him, everyone who followed Yan Zong Katori into the ice field died except him. Even Yanzong Katori died inside. From then on, the strength of the Iron Kingdom's warriors plummeted, and they no longer had the grand scene of countless swordsmanship schools competing against each other.

As for what happened in the ice field, no one except Yagyu Kawahisa knew it. As the only person who knew about it, Yagyu Kawahisa kept it secret, and then spent his whole life sitting on the only way to enter the ice field, guarding the ice field and preventing people from letting people know. After entering it, the disciples of Yagyu Kawahisa also inherited his will. Each generation only accepts one disciple. The disciple who inherited the swordsmanship of Cold Blade Kenshin-ryu will continue to sit on the path into the ice field after the death of the master. No more leaving on the road.

Things were normal in the Iron Kingdom after that. The daimyo tried to control the samurai after their strength declined. After more than ten years of tyranny, the samurai finally couldn't bear it and launched an uprising, drove away the daimyo and elected their own president. The leader rules the entire Iron Kingdom as a general.