Musashi's move to kill Giogen was truly astounding. Except for Keijiro outside the house who was unlucky enough not to see it, the other three people could really see it.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door. With the dual harmonious martial arts, they must be considered experts. Therefore, this sword directly changed their view of Musashi.
The first impression of "nothing more than that". It is true that Musashi's physical ability and the quality of his internal strength are not amazing. At least in these two hard indicators, he is not as good as many first-class masters in the Central Plains martial arts. But not many can resist it.
In other words, even if the person sitting here today is not Yi Gen, but a top master from the Central Plains, the result will probably be the same.
This explosive combat power that cannot be predicted and quantified is
"Martial Arts" and
"Weapons" are combined with what is released
The "nirvana" should be the way to become stronger that these strong men in the Japanese martial arts world have discovered. To put it simply, the technology trees of the Japanese martial arts and the Central Plains martial arts in this universe are very different... The Central Plains martial arts focuses on the cultivation of internal strength. In the eyes of the vast majority of Central Plains warriors, superior internal strength is far more important than superior internal strength. It can be said that this is their consensus and even common sense.
This view obviously has its merits. First of all, internal strength has a bonus to various basic abilities of the body and various moves; in a one-on-one situation where no one is injured and there are no sneak attacks, the party with stronger internal strength is the one with the obvious advantage. It is similar to a cross-weight class showdown in a fighting game, and the weight difference caused by internal strength is far more terrifying than weight. This is not only higher in offense and defense, but also faster in speed, reaction, and recovery. It is a comprehensive Suppression... When the internal power gap reaches a certain level, the moves may even lose their meaning completely.
Secondly, moves are, to put it bluntly, variations and combinations of fixed actions.
"Visible"; no matter how exquisite your moves are, if you use them too much in front of others, they may be stolen, especially those with advanced internal skills or martial arts talents. They can use many moves after just one look. Seventy-seven or eighty-eight.
However, the method of operating internal force is invisible to the naked eye and is difficult to learn secretly. It is because of the development in such an environment that many Central Plains martial arts, even the moves, are designed to
"It must operate under a set of supporting internal forces to exert its maximum power." The third and most important point...the martial arts in the Central Plains, rather than fighting and killing, it also pays attention to one's human nature and sophistication.
What does it mean to stop at a certain point? Which one calls peace the most important thing? Ninety-nine percent of the grievances and hatreds in the world are rooted in conflicts of interest. If the dispute can be resolved alive, who is willing to risk his life at every turn?
For example, we are both well-known and decent people, and now we have some conflicts. What should we do? We are just like those awesome Japanese samurai, we just bumped into each other on the street, then we both turned around and glared at each other, called each other bastards a few times, then drew our swords and slashed, and one of us fell down after a few seconds. The other person walked away gracefully?
So~ where can I go? We chivalrous warriors in the Central Plains martial arts must first use three successes to test each other, so that both sides have an idea of the opponent's strength, and then report, who is your master, where is my sect... and then Then based on everyone's strength and the forces behind it, we will renegotiate how to resolve the current conflict and how to distribute the benefits. In the end, the party that took advantage will give the other side a step down - it was all a misunderstanding just now, and now the misunderstanding has been solved, you Give me a face, I will make you a friend, and we will be brothers from now on.
This is the daily life of people who can stay in the world for a long time. You said you don't practice physiognomy...do you think you don't practice internal strength?
Without some inner strength, you are not even qualified to negotiate with others on the table. However, this is not the case in Japanese martial arts.
Due to the differences in cultural background and social environment, the scale of pure martial arts sects here cannot develop at all, and the ultimate goal of most people who practice martial arts is to enter officialdom from martial arts.
The temptation of the "samurai class" is too great for them. To use a metaphor, it is equivalent to passing the exam.
"Hereditary civil servant". When you see this, some people may say, this doesn’t sound like the pinnacle of life, right?
Harmful, that’s because you live in a different era, your choices are more diverse, and you may have the opportunity to live a better life than a civil servant.
But in ancient Japan, when the economy was underdeveloped and the current situation was unstable, becoming
The "warrior class" is basically equivalent to directly solving the highest social class improvement that a person or even his descendants can achieve. Those warriors who come from the civilian class have no better way out.
Therefore, the martial arts in Japanese martial arts gradually developed into a method that focuses on deciding between life and death in a short period of time.
The "nirvana" method. After all, you don't have the conditions to fight with an opponent for too long on the battlefield. The best strategy is to kill the enemy quickly and then move... This also leads to the warriors here.
The tendency to "pass by hand" is relatively strong. In many dojos, people who kick out the gym are easily killed. Fellow sects can sometimes be injured or disabled by sparring with wooden swords. Ronins who are walking outside or warriors who have already started their training are easy to get killed if they don't take action. human life; warriors’
"Duel" is rarely final, most of them involve life or death. Here, only the number of enemies killed and wins can prove a warrior's worth.
And go this way
A person with the "Nirvana" style does not need to have too sophisticated or complicated internal strength. The breathing techniques he has learned only need to be able to support him in using his martial arts skills and allow his physical fitness to have a certain endurance on the battlefield. That’s it.
The Miyamoto Musashi in front of him shows the possibilities that warriors can exert under this martial arts concept.
His performance this time also made Shuangxi secretly rejoice: Fortunately, they opened their eyes here and understood early that they cannot use the perspective of judging the warriors from the Central Plains to speculate on the strength of the warriors here, which reduces the risk of overturning due to carelessness in the future. Probability.
And Tokumaru, who was beside Shuangxie, was also stunned at this moment. Due to his lack of strength, Tokumaru could not see that Musashi was
The mystery of "two-day first-class", but precisely because he couldn't see it, he felt that the other party was unfathomable and felt afraid of his blind confidence just now.
"Miya...Mr. Miyamoto..." A few seconds later, Tokumaru said with a trembling voice, and his tone became respectful,
"Sure enough, the reputation is well-deserved..."
"What?" Musashi stood still and didn't turn his head, but his eyes moved half a minute in the direction of Tokumaru.
"You want to try too?"
"No..." Tokumaru quickly waved his hand,
"I... feel sorry for myself."
"What should you try?" Sun Yixie saw that Musashi couldn't stop pretending, and the situation was almost uncontrollable, so he quickly joined the conversation and advised,
"Isn't one of them already dead? The one outside is also lying down. That's just right. Let's say the same thing and turn them over as murderers. Wouldn't it be over? How about a slap in the face?" Musashi heard this and looked at Sun Yixie : "Don't you care who the real murderer is?"
"Nonsense, do you care?" Sun Yixie asked back, paused, and then continued,
"Besides, anyone with any brains will understand that the murderer either used an identity that would not be suspected, or sneaked in from outside in the middle of the night to kill, and ran away after the killing. There is no record of staying in the hotel... How could someone bring a weapon or clearly indicate that he is a warrior and then kill someone using a technique that is obviously reserved for a person with high martial arts skills, and then stay there, waiting to be investigated?" He said this On the surface, the words were meant for Musashi, but in fact they were meant for Kumagai, who had been discovered by them a long time ago and was hiding on the ceiling.
This is equivalent to giving Xiong Gu two choices - you can either use these two dead monks as the murderers, and let the rest of us help you make up a story that makes sense, so that you can count as having multiple names.
"Witnesses" are enough; or you can continue the investigation and spend a few days and nights to check everyone in the hotel, but you may not be able to identify the murderer, and there is a high probability that the murderer is not in the hotel. Already ran away.
Xiong Gu had already calculated most of this account in his mind before, and he was clear about the possibility of the latter option, so he didn't think much about it this time and quickly decided to accept the first settlement method suggested by Sun Yixie. .
To make a long story short, before noon that day, everyone unified their opinions and blamed the murder of Takeda Kuranosuke on the two monks of the Ichigo sect.
press their
"Confession", these two monks are
"Under Kumagai-sama's careful arrangements and everyone's cooperation," he quickly revealed his flaws in the conversation and tried to escape through violent resistance. As a result, the wise and martial Kumagai-sama led many enthusiastic heroes to jointly capture him.
They don't care how Xiong Gu explains it later. This is the best result that Xiong Gu can give, and it may even be better than finding the real culprit.
After the incident was over, these warriors hurriedly left Sichuan Pengzhuang under Xiong Gu's instruction, in order to prevent the iron eucalyptus that had settled from dust from causing another incident.
After leaving the hotel, Miyamoto Musashi went to Ganliu Island without stopping to meet his duel opponent. Although he was late for this battle, he disrupted his opponent's mentality and gained an advantage, easily defeating him. Winning this peak match that made him famous.
Tokumaru, on the other hand, was greatly shocked and suddenly felt that there were mountains beyond the mountains, and there were people outside the people... so he decided to travel to distant places and practice again; after that, he would also appear in a certain martial arts competition in the Central Plains martial arts. , of course that’s a story for later.
As for Sun Huang and Keijiro, they embarked on their journey to the east. It is worth mentioning that before leaving, Huang Donglai went to see what was going on with the two monks Yi Gen and Xing Gen, and why if one of them died, the other would suddenly die on his own.
As a result, Huang Donglai found a row of nail-like objects with a certain magnetic force on Xing Gen's posterior spine.
The "magnetic nails" are deeply embedded in Xing Gen's vertebrae. Looking at the growth of the surrounding skin and flesh, one can deduce that these things should have been embedded in him when he was a boy before he was that tall... And in They also found similar items on Yigen's body, but instead of nails, they were small round magnetic rings. There were ten of these magnetic rings, which were put on Yigen's ten toes like rings, and each The surface of a magnetic ring is engraved with strange words.
Yi Gen's toes are also different from those of ordinary people. They appear to be particularly slender and widely spaced. It seems that he has been trained for many years to make his toes extremely flexible. Visual inspection shows that he can quietly use his toes in shoes and socks to make shapes that are not inferior to those of his fingers. precise movements.
After Huang Donglai saw those magnetic rings, he speculated: There should be similar words on the magnetic nails on Xing Gen's back. On weekdays, Yi Gen affects or controls Xing Gen by secretly moving his toes, and this Xing Gen may have already Just one
It is a "living dead", so once it loses control, it will directly turn into a corpse. Unfortunately, when they checked, Xing Gen had already been classified as
The body of the "prisoner" has been supervised, so they cannot destroy his body or pull out the nails for inspection; at most, they can only take off Yigen's shoes and socks for inspection... But it is certain that these two have always been the same. monk, or rather
The weirdness of the monks who "claim to be Ichigo Sect" goes beyond that. Maybe they are not the real murderers of Takeda Kuranosuke, but they are definitely involved in other incidents.
Shuangxie's encounter with these two people in Chuanpengzhuang may have foreshadowed some troubles in the future.
So, having said that, who is the real culprit in this crime now? Don't worry, everyone, because you will meet Shuangxie at the next stop.
