Chapter 132: Kusanagi Sword
Mai Katsuhei's story of the three artifacts and Mai Miku's previous hearing are only a small part right. She was also curious about what the three artifacts looked like.
I saw Mai Shengping bowing a few times to the three nameless spirit cards, and then he went around to the back of these spirit cards, and carefully took the three wooden boxes to Mai Miku.
The three wooden boxes are all black, and the largest of them has a small sword drawn in the center of the rectangular wooden box, presumably the Kusanagi sword inside.
The other two wooden boxes are of similar size, one with the sun on it and the moon on the other.
According to the description of the appearance of the eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade and the Eight Mirrors, the wooden box with the moon should be the eight-foot Qiong Hook Jade, and the wooden box with the sun should be the Eight Mirrors.
Mai Miku directly opened the largest wooden box with a small sword drawn.
The moment the wooden box was opened, she was deeply attracted by the contents of the wooden box.
"Wow, what a beautiful sword. ”
According to Japanese mythology, no one can see the true face of the Kusanagi sword, not even the emperor.
But it is recorded in the history books that four or five priests tried their best to sneak a peek at the divine body of this sword.
[The body of the god is two feet seven or eight inches (about 80 centimeters) long. The blade looks like the blade of an iris, and the central part of the blade is thicker. The grip is about eight inches thick, and there are many links that are not smooth, like the back bone of a fish, which is white from top to bottom. 】
Later, these priests were cursed for peeping at the Excalibur, and they suffered a series of misfortunes.
At this time, Mai Miku's eyes saw a "burning" long sword. The sword had no concrete form, it seemed to be made up of countless rays of light, but the rays were not straight lines, they bent and danced like flames, and they were purple flames.
"You can see this sword!! Mai Katsuhei looked excited, "tell me what it looks like." ”
Mai Miku turned her head to look at her grandfather at this time, and wondered, "Can't you see it?"
Mai Katsuhei smiled bitterly: "This is an empty box for us, we can't see the Excalibur or touch the sword." ”
Mai Miku looked strange, and after thinking about it, she directly reached out and grabbed the hilt of the sword.
Suddenly, the dark ancestral hall was filled with purple light.
Mai Miku took out the Kusanagi sword and stood it erect in front of her.
And Mai Katsuhei also saw the Kusanagi sword this time, and he was so frightened by the purple "flame" that he retreated several steps before stopping.
Where is this still a sword!!
The flame burned violently, but it made people feel that it was "cold", and the power contained in it made him daunting.
Mai Miku also felt strange, she felt that what she was holding in her hand was a ball of light, without any sense of touch, but it was indeed in her own hands.
At this time, the other two boxes next to the long box suddenly popped open.
Mai Miku only had time to take a look, and the contents of the two boxes flew straight towards her.
One is a round mirror about the size of a human face, and the other is a piece of jade in the shape of a crescent moon the size of a palm.
In Japanese, the word "spirit" for "jade" and "soul" is pronounced the same, and some people regard jade as the spirit of the ancestors. And this piece of jade says that it is like the moon, and it is more like the right semicircle in the Taiji diagram.
The round mirror soon turned into a burning "little sun" and shot into Mai Miku's forehead, and the jade turned into a shimmering "little moon" and also shot into her forehead.
Mai Miku felt that there seemed to be something more in her soul, and instead of panicking and being afraid, she felt that she was more "clear".
What she didn't know was that the "sun" and "moon" shot into her heavenly soul and earth soul respectively.
Mai Miku closed her eyes, and the sun and moon patterns on her forehead flashed back and forth alternately a few times, and then disappeared.
When she opened her eyes again, the purple light of the Kusanagi Sword in her hand exploded, reaching straight into the sky.
A straight purple "flame" pierced the roof of the ancestral hall, and the noon sun could not suppress its "arrogance", and it burned into the clouds, not knowing where it led.
Outside the Tokyo Imperial Palace not far from here, a middle-aged man was walking on a stone bridge, and suddenly, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and then he quickly turned to look at the sky behind him.
"What! is it a ghost fire?"
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Okinawa Prefecture, located in the southernmost part of Japan, is the "throat" between the East China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean. It is also a self-governing island prefecture in Japan that is under the authority of the U.S. Trusteeship, and U.S. troops are stationed here all year round.
At this time, Admiral Paul Mitchell was in his office at the US military base in Japan, looking at the papers. Suddenly, his left hand shook, and the papers in his hand fell on the table.
He got up and ran towards a wall behind him, and as he was about to hit it, a strange scene reappeared.
I saw that Mitchell's body turned into a "puddle of water" and penetrated directly into the wall, and in the next second, he showed his body from the other side of the wall.
Standing on the ground, he looked at the sky in the north with a serious expression.
"What kind of power is this?"
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Sapporo is a metropolitan city located in the Doo region of Hokkaido, Japan. At the northernmost tip of Sapporo is a nameless hill full of red maples.
At the top of this mountain stands an old house with a wooden sign at the entrance of the house that reads the word "Tokugawa".
In an empty room on the north side of the old house, there was only one knife holder, and on the knife holder lay an unsheathed knife.
Judging from the appearance of the sword, it looks like a samurai sword from the Warring States period of Japan. And there is a red rope hanging on the scabbard, and four small diamond-shaped signs are tied to the red string, and the words written on these small signs are "Chiba Muramasa".
"Muramasa" does not refer to a knife, but the name of a type of knife, in the earliest days, the knives cast by the Muramasa family were called Muramasa, and later due to historical reasons, there were also some Japanese swords named Muramasa.
Muramasa is designated as a "demon sword" in Japan, and it is a demon sword that was taboo by the Tokugawa family during the Warring States period of Japan. But they don't want the word "Tokugawa" to be hung at the door of the ancient mansion here, but there is a demon knife that their family is most taboo inside.
[In the mid-16th century, Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Edo shogunate. And the reason why Muramasa is called a demon sword is precisely because of Tokugawa Ieyasu's ban on knives.
First of all, Tokugawa Ieyasu's grandfather was slashed by his own retainer with a knife from his right shoulder to his left abdomen while fighting.
Then, Tokugawa Ieyasu's father, Matsudaira Hirotada, was slashed in the thigh with a knife by a close minister, also with Muramasa.
Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu's son-in-law, Nobuyasu, was suspected of colluding with the Takeda family by Oda Nobunaga and committed suicide by seppuku, but he still used Muramasa!
Later, in the Battle of Sekigahara, it was Tokugawa Ieyasu's turn to be cut off by Muramasa.
Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu hated Muramasa very much, denounced it as a symbol of "bad luck", ordered the abolition of Muramasa, forbade its use, and those who wielded swords were regarded as contempt for the shogunate and were sentenced to death. After Tokugawa Ieyasu banned the sword, the term "demon sword" was generalized, and almost all Muramasa were called "demon blades". 】
The door to the room was pushed open, and a shirtless strong man walked in, but the temperature in Hokkaido was already below zero, but the strong man didn't feel anything.
He walked up to the knife holder and found that the knife was "shaking" and creaking.
As soon as the strong man grasped the place with the largest arc in the middle of the village, "What are you afraid of? Is there a sharper weapon in the world than you?"
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The sky-reaching light of the Kusanagi Sword was as bright as someone shining a searchlight on the sky during the day, and the light was not obvious.
But in the eyes of several top transcendents, what they saw was a purple and whitish light that went straight to the sky, making the midday sun dim.