Chapter 280: Oriental Swordsman

Li Cangxing simply sat down cross-legged, and Yanagi Xiongba also sat down opposite him, and the two of them chatted hand in hand underground by the flickering lights in the tomb.

It turns out that this Yanagi Xiongba is the descendant of the famous Yanagi family of Fuso martial arts, Oriental martial arts originated from the Tang hand, due to the frequent wars in the island country, there is a group of specialized military nobles, called samurai, all day long studying the way of marching and fighting, among these samurai, and some people do not like the art of war, but specialize in martial arts practice, similar to the martial arts people in the Central Plains, the East calls these people swordsmen.

Most of the martial arts schools in Japan are mainly family ancestors, similar to the sects of the Central Plains, these family-style swordsmen will also open a swordsmanship dojo and recruit disciples, but they often inherit the martial arts of the sect, and they are the biological sons of the previous head, these children often begin to practice martial arts at the age of three or four, and the toys from childhood are bamboo knives and wooden swords, and when they are five or six years old, they will take the children to the cemetery at night to spend the night to cultivate their courage.

Coupled with the unique bushido training of the Oriental people, these adult swordsmen often have the identity of samurai and strong martial arts, and the Yanagi family is a sect of the Taishan Beidou style in the Oriental martial arts, and the place where it is located is also close to the Yamato country in Kyoto, Japan, and its swordsmanship school is called the new Yin Stream, this Yanagi Xiongba, although he is not very old, only in his thirties, but in the Orient, he is already a famous swordsman in the world, and he has been a single sword scholar since he was thirteen years old, and he has not met an opponent.

The ancestors of Yanagi Xiongba have traveled to the Central Plains more than 100 years ago, and the masters of the Central Plains have fought and benefited a lot, and it is precisely because of the many moves of the Central Plains that they have been kneaded into the family knife method, so that the new Yin Liu, which was not the top in the East, has developed into a Taishan Beidou-style sect.

It's just that the Toyo is very different now than it was back then. For more than 100 years, the lords of Japan, as they called the daimyos, fought each other and attacked each other, and the authority of the shogunate, which was the shogun of the central court, had long since disappeared, and a large number of defeated samurai in the Kansai and Kyushu areas lost their land and had no way to make a living, so they could only take risks and go to the sea to become pirates, colluding with unscrupulous merchants along the Chinese coast to attack China's coastal prefectures. This is the origin of the Wako.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been a ban on going to the sea, although Zheng He went to the West to make this ban exist in name only, but after the rise of the Japanese Invaders, this ban was strictly enforced again, and a large number of coastal fishermen who lived by fishing and trading could not make a living. also colluded with these Japanese ronins and became pirates. Normal maritime trade and exchanges between China and Japan. Cut off here.

The Yanagi family has not been to the Central Plains for more than a hundred years, and when it comes to the generation of Yanagi Xiongba, when he was walking in the country, he met a person from the Ueno family (the country is equivalent to the province of China, and the lord of Japan is the Lord, the daimyo), and it is the red-armored head of the Ueizumi Nobuyuki this time. After he saw Yanagi Xiongba's ability, he greeted him, and when he was drinking, Yanagi Xiongba had no intention of mentioning his intention to come to the Central Plains to walk, and this Kamizumi Nobuyuki immediately patted his chest and guaranteed the ticket. said that he knew several shipowners and had a way to take him to the Central Plains.

Since Nobuyuki Kamizumi is also a famous swordsman in the East, not an ordinary nameless ronin, Yanagi Yuba also believed his words and followed him to the Central Plains by boat, but he didn't expect this guy to lead a group of people to kill and loot everywhere as soon as he came ashore.

Yanagi Xiongba stopped him several times, but he said that this was to earn money for the round-trip journey, Yanagi Xiongba had also left this gang of robbers who killed people and overhauled goods, but suffered from language barriers, it was difficult to move an inch, and even was besieged every time, and finally had to return to the middle of this gang of robbers, Shangquan Nobuyuki promised to bring him the Central Plains Gate Sect Competition, so all the way from Zhejiang to the city of Nanjing.

Li Cangxing and Liu Sheng Xiongba talked for a long time, and finally figured out the matter, and also understood why this Liu Sheng Xiongba has not made a move, but took the initiative to compete after meeting a master, but he still didn't figure out something, frowned, and wrote on the ground: This Shangquan Nobuyuki doesn't seem to be a fool, how could he think of bringing these dozens of people to attack Nanjing City, which has tens of thousands of defenders?

Yanagi Xiongba pondered for a moment, his eyes were bright, and he wrote: There is now a war in the East, and this Kamiizumi Nobuyuki should have served a powerful daimyo, maybe this daimyoshi wants to invade the Central Plains in the future, so let this Kamiizumi Nobuyuki fight the front station first and conduct armed reconnaissance.

Li Cangxing nodded, he suddenly heard Liu Sheng Xiongba's stomach scream, and he suddenly felt hungry, it had been at least a day since he was chasing the Japanese Kou, he had fought for so long in the middle, ran for dozens of miles, and groped in this tomb for a long time.

Li Cangxing wrote on the ground: It seems that I can't go out for a while, so I will look for food first.

The two of them got up, Liu Sheng Xiongba brought two cakes with him, took them out, and gave one to Li Cangxing, Li Cangxing was not polite, and gnawed it directly, the two of them looked for it while eating, this tomb is very large, but the surrounding walls and corners are mostly piled up with swords and armor, or classics such as bamboo slips, or there is no food.

Li Cangxing became more and more depressed the more he looked, yes, this is a tomb, how can the dead need to eat and drink, look at this Liu Yu's self-description, he has been fighting all his life, he was born poor, and there is no gold and silver treasure in this burial goods, obviously this hero of the Northern Expedition is also a simple master, but he came in inexplicably, and he was trapped in this tomb inexplicably, and now he is afraid that he can't get out.

Li Cangxing and Liu Sheng Xiongba finally met again, and the two searched for a long time in the tomb, but they didn't find any news or anything like that, and finally their eyes fell on the huge stone coffin behind the dragon slaying knife.

Liu Sheng Xiongba's eyes flashed, and he walked to the sarcophagus, and the true qi around him gradually gathered, Li Cangxing hurriedly stood in front of him, shook his head, and wrote on the ground: This person is my Han emperor, a national hero, and should be respected.

Yanagi nodded and put away his internal strength, and the two of them began to search for mechanisms and words around the sarcophagus.

Li Cangxing wiped the side of the coffin, and suddenly felt uneven, it seemed to be some words, and hurriedly squatted down, his eyesight was very good, even by the light of the fire on the wall, he could see the words written on it clearly: Enter my tomb, that is, you are destined to be a person, if you can respect my body and kowtow to me a thousand, you can give you peerless martial arts.

Li Cangxing smiled helplessly, now that he is trapped in this tomb, he can't even get out, what's the use of wanting this peerless martial arts? But when he looked at Liu Yu's life, he really respected this national hero who expelled the Tartars, and it can be seen from his tomb that this should be a diligent and frugal emperor, and there is nothing valuable in the funeral goods.

Li Cangxing turned his head and looked around, and found that under the steps next to the sarcophagus, there was a futon made of stone, which seemed to make people kneel on it and bow down.

Liu Sheng Xiongba stood quietly to the side, watching Li Cangxing bow to the coffin non-stop, his forehead was grinding blood from contact with the ground again and again, his expression also became solemn, his hands clapped, and then he bowed to the coffin a few times like a monk.

After Li Cangxing kowtowed more than 600 heads, Rao is skin was much thicker than ordinary people, but he was still drenched in blood and dizzy, and he had never kowtowed so much from childhood to adulthood, and even smashed a small hole in the ground in front of him, and after the 674th head was knocked out, he finally couldn't support it anymore, kneeling there, panting constantly.

I don't know why, in the eyes of sweat and blood, Li Cangxing suddenly found that the thousand or two words on the side of the coffin were particularly eye-catching, and he secretly said in his heart: Since he promised others and kowtowed a thousand heads, he can't be untrustworthy, anyway, it's not worse than these three hundred.

Li Cangxing gritted his teeth and continued to kowtow, another half an hour passed, and when he reached the ninth hundred and seventy-third head, Li Cangxing suddenly felt that the ground that his forehead was touching had sunk, revealing a small chamber that was only one fist square, and there was a small jade wrench in it, like a switch for a certain mechanism. (To be continued......)