In the glade between the forests, Yukishin and Kotsubaki stand opposite each other. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Boy, how many years have you been learning kendo with me?" asked Tsubaki Blade Emon, standing in front of Yukishin, looking at him.

Xue Xin thought for a moment and replied, "Twenty years." ”

Ten years have passed since the Kamen Legion incident, and it has been ten years since Yukishin became the vice-captain.

In the past ten years, many people have completely accepted the disappearance and disappearance of the captain, and returned to normal life.

During this decade, Xuexin visited every month, but there was no valuable information to transmit.

Kisuke Urahara has not yet found the most appropriate way to deal with indigo.

And the return of Captain Kamen has become a long way off.

Life is like a river that has been cut off suddenly, and it is not known when it will be able to connect together.

Xue Xin knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, so he waited slowly, and spent most of his time on managing the Thirteenth Team and cultivating.

The current thirteenth team has selected the top students of the Mao Spiritual Academy in advance for five consecutive years, and there are almost thirty-five of them.

Under the cultivation of concentrated excellent strength, the talents of these new recruits began to slowly show.

In another ten years, there will be a group of elite forces in the Thirteenth Team.

In addition, Xue Xin is also constantly practicing, occasionally learning from his master and studying kendo.

"Thirteen years ago, when you first started to solve the problem, I once sparred with you in kendo, and your performance at that time was still a lot worse. Kotsubaki Uemon looked at Yukishin and said, "I'll be playing kendo with you again today to see if you can beat me." ”

Xue Xin scratched his head and said, "If you want to compare with Master, I may be a little worse." ”

Thirteen years ago, the level of kendo that Master showed was very little higher than himself.

He is good at instantaneous steps, and he is in the prime of life, and his strength is not weaker than the other party, in this case, there is a level of difference.

Even after thirteen years, in terms of kendo level, he could not reach the level of the master at that time.

But Xuexin knew that he would win.

Because his momentary steps are better, because his strength has become stronger through training, because he has developed auxiliary moves.

And the master has grown a lot older, and the injuries he suffered when he was young are slowly revealed.

Under the advantages of the other, Xue Xin knew that it was very likely that he would defeat his master by relying on other moves instead of kendo.

"Then you have to be careful, because this time I will do my best, and I will not spare my hand, and if you don't improve, then I may hurt you. Kotsubaki Uemon pressed his right hand and held the sword, his expression solemn.

"I'll do my best. ”

Xue Xin felt that today's discussion was a little different, and his expression became solemn.

"Very well, let's get started. ”

With Tsubaki's words, he suddenly drew his sword.

Rumble.

The powerful sword press directly crushed the ground, and the dirt flew and the dust kicked up.

"It's still so strong. ”

Seeing this scene, Xue Xin didn't dare to be careless and pulled out the slashing knife.

But as soon as the slashing knife was unsheathed, a sharp mass approached rapidly, and he hurriedly raised the slashing knife in his hand.

Kotsubaki Uemon instantly appeared in front of Yukishin and slashed out.

Clang.

The huge force came, and the long knife that pressed him kept retreating, the back of the knife slowly approached his chest, and his legs couldn't help but retreat, making two marks on the ground.

"What's wrong? Your strength seems to have weakened a lot. Tsubaki Blade Uemon said coldly.

Hearing this, Xue Xin gritted his teeth, the muscles of his arms were raised, and the spiritual pressure was poured on the blade of the knife, and he stepped forward.

Bang.

The knife in the hand of the small Tsubaki blade right emon was flicked away, and at this moment, Yukishin slashed three times.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

These three knives are fast, leaving only three phantoms in the air, which are vertical slash, sweep and downspin.

Bells.

Two soft sounds came, and the small Tsubaki blade right emon blocked the two swords, and the figure suddenly disappeared, making Yukishin's third knife slash into the air.

Yukishin slashed the air with a knife, and the secret feeling was not good, but the small Tsubaki blade right emon had already appeared on his right side, and he cut horizontally with a knife, as if he was going to cut himself off.

In the face of this knife, Xue Xin's body leaned forward, his center of gravity was unstable, and he could not retract the knife to resist the knife that was slashed horizontally from behind.

But Xue Xin didn't resist, a little on his tiptoes, his body continued to rush forward, and disappeared in an instant.

Tsubaki's blade was extremely fast, but it was always an inch away from Yukishin's back, and when he was exhausted, he only cut through his clothes without hurting his body.

"This kid is a lot faster. ”

Kotsubaki Blade Uemon secretly thought in his heart, if Nagasawa was here, he would also agree with this sentence, because Yukishin has indeed been a lot faster recently.

Tsubaki's blade Uemon missed, and his body had already caught up, and he slashed out again.

And Xuexin's speed was already fast, and after pulling away the distance, he had enough time to turn around and slash out.

The two long knives collided, and the swords were pressed and squeezed, shattering violently, scattering in all directions, forming ravines on the ground.

After a short period of holding each other, the figures of the two disappeared again.

Bell, bell, bell.

I saw that two figures continued to appear in the clearing, and they kept disappearing, leaving only a vague phantom and the sound of the collision of slashing knives.

"Tornado"

Kotsubaki Blade Uemon jammed Yukishin's way out of the knife and spun around him, slashing out three times.

The three swords pressed and swirled and touched, rolling upwards like a tornado.

But the tornado had just been imaged, but it exploded with a bang.

"Feng Xiangyi. ”

I saw three sword rays break through the tornado, turn into a phoenix, and attack the small Tsubaki blade right emon.

"Well done. ”

Tsubaki Uemon raised his long knife, clenched his hands tightly, and slashed hard.

"Broken waterfalls. ”

I saw the phoenix in front of me being split from it, and the air currents were separated by the places of contact, tearing apart the phoenix's wings.

But this blow made Tsubaki's figure stagnate.

"Swallow strikes back. ”

Xue Xin took advantage of this opportunity and directly used this move to make a move that could be used in the face of an evenly matched opponent.

His figure instantly appeared around Kotsubaki Blade's right emon, unleashing four different sword moves.

Tsubaki Uemon swung his sword to block, and after three clangs, Tsubaki's arm hung down, the tip of the knife pointed straight to the ground, and at his neck, a knife lay horizontally there.

"I'm defeated. Kotsubaki said half helplessly, half relieved.

Xue Xin had already put away the blade, and he didn't know what to say.

He has won, he is better than his physical strength, he is better than his speed, he is still young, and his master is old.

Because he is physically stronger than him, he can beat him.

But Xue Xin couldn't say it, he couldn't give the word old to his master.

"It's enough to lose to my apprentice as a curtain call for my retirement. ”

Tsubaki Blade Uemon looked at Yukishin with a touch of appreciation in his eyes, as well as a touch of ease.

"Master, do you want to retreat?" Xue Xin looked at Master blankly.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon nodded and said, "Well, the Ryoling Court has issued a notice and agreed to my retirement in three months. ”

"You can have your strength, it's more than enough to be a vice captain, why not ......"

Xue Xin hurriedly said, with Master's strength, it is enough to be the vice captain.

"Because I don't have enough energy and stamina to continue this duty. Tsubaki Blade Uemon sighed and said helplessly.

When Xue Xin heard this, his nose suddenly became sour, his master was old, not only old, but also recognized this fact.

Master said before, don't look at my age, it's more than enough to teach you a little ghost.

He never thought of age as an issue.

But now that he is saying it, it means that Master's body is really not enough to support the corresponding position.

"Don't be sad. ”

Tsubaki Blade Uemon said with a smile, "What I can't let go of the most is my duty and the inheritance of the Shinto Mirror Flow. And now I have found two qualified replacements, the Komamura Left Formation will succeed me as the vice-captain, and you, defeated me, and completely inherited the Shinto Mirror Flow. In the future, it's up to you to carry it forward. ”

"I will. ”

Xue Xin said with red eyes.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon nodded, and then said, "I can't make you stronger, but there are heavens outside the sky, and there are people outside the people, so I'm going to take you to a place and tell you that it can help you grow." ”

"Master, what kind of place is that?" Xue Xin asked curiously.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon asked rhetorically, "Did you know that in the Thirteenth Team of the Imperial Court, there is a team dedicated to combat?" ”

"Master, you're talking about Team Eleven, right?" Xue Xin replied directly.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon nodded and said, "Every captain of the Eleventh Team has the name of Kenpachi, and the way to get the position of captain and the title of Kenpachi is to defeat the previous Kenpachi. Except, of course, for the ninth Kenpachi. ”

The ninth Kenpachi is the vice-captain of the seventh Kenpachi and the eighth Kenpachi, and after the unnatural death of the eighth Kenpachi, he took over as the captain of Kenpachi, but his strength is limited, and he is very unpopular with Yamamoto Motoyanagisai.

Then the ghost Yancheng Kenpachi killed the ninth Kenpachi and became the new Kenpachi.

"So what do you mean?" Yukishin's eyes lit up.

Kotsubaki said: "Except for a small number of Kenpachi, such as the noble Mole City Kenpachi, most of the other Kenpachi are from the Soul Street, and generations of swordsmen have challenged Kenpachi, and after killing them, they inherited the name, where is the place where these Kenpachi were born?

Xue Xin has also thought about this question, for example, the term wicked has appeared many times in the Grim Reaper.

Like Uno Hua Lie, when he was still a sword eight, he went to Soul Street to find wicked people to try his sword.

Of course, except for Gengi, they are not her opponents, but being selected by her proves that they have a certain strength, at least they can be given hope by Uno Hanari.

And the truth is, she did find one too.

There are also these generations of Kenpachi, Ghost Rock City Kenpachi, Genmu Kenpachi, and their own masters, all of whom are from Soul Street and have a strong sense of spiritual pressure and combat.

Why are there so many powerful people in Soul Street?

Where were they before they entered the Zenith Court?

"Are you going to take me to them?" asked Xue Xin expectantly.

"That's right. ”

Tsubaki Blade Uemon nodded and said, "The place I took you to is extremely poor and full of great dangers, and everyone has the breath of a beast, fighting each other and constantly fighting. It's like the Colosseum, where only the fiercest beasts and the fiercest warriors can survive. ”

"Where the hell is it?" asked Xue Xin curiously.

Kotsubaki Blade Uemon said: "Eighty districts of Kitaliusoul Street, and more than one wood. ”

"Changing wood?"

Xue Xin couldn't help but exclaim, isn't this the origin of the surname of Gengmu Jianba?

"That's it. ”

Kotsubaki said softly, "Many people go there to try their swords, and after failing, they live in seclusion and practice hard in order to be able to defeat their opponents again. And I, too, failed there. ”

"Master has been there?" Xue Xin asked curiously.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon nodded and said, "That's where I got this scar on my face." A long time ago, I heard that there were many excellent swordsmen in the Gagi area, so I went to the Sagi area, challenged many strong men, defeated almost all of them, and was defeated by a man, and only used one move, if I hadn't been wary, I couldn't have come back easily, but even so, it left a scar on my face. ”

"That's exactly what happened. Xue Xin sighed and asked curiously, "Who is that person?"

Kotsubaki Uemon said, "That person was born in Saragi Ward and has only one surname, which is called Saragi. ”

"It's him. ”

Xue Xin narrowed his eyes, if there was no accident, it should be more wooden Kenpachi.

"Master won't let me challenge that guy, will you?"

Xue Xin looked at the master, cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

Kenpachi is still in the seal, and without using the Slashing Sword, he has captain-level combat power.

How could he defeat him, would he be killed in seconds.

"How could it be. ”

Tsubaki Blade Uemon waved his hand and said, "I'm taking you there to challenge you and other swordsmen." Watch a big battle at the same time. ”

"Great war?" Xue Xin asked curiously.

Kotsubaki Blade Uemon nodded and said, "Kenpachi of Onigakushi Castle will go to Sashigi District in the next few days to challenge the swordsmen there to show his name as Kenpachi. Gengi had long heard of the name of Kenpachi of Oni Yan Castle, and he was the 'strongest combatant' of the thirteenth team of the Imperial Court, and he had always wanted to challenge the other party, but for some reason, he was unwilling to approach the Imperial Court. So as long as the ghost Yancheng Kenpachi goes there, Genmu will make a move, and the two will inevitably have a big battle. ”

"Is there a battle between Kenpachi?" Xue Xin's eyes lit up, and he was very much looking forward to it.

He wanted to see how far he was from them.

"It's going to take at least five days, can you find time now?" asked Tsubaki Blade Emon.

Xue Xin hurriedly replied, "If you go to ask Captain Ukitake, there should be no problem." ”

Now that the Corpse Soul Realm has gradually become stable, the team affairs of the Thirteenth Team are also easy and simple, and Hu Che Qingyin can handle most of the official duties, and please ask the captain, please take a five-day vacation, it should be possible.

Tsubaki Blade Uemon said, "Let's go." ”

"Hmm. ”

For the battle of two kenpachi, and the powerful kendo masters that can be encountered.

Xuexin is full of anticipation.