The second visit to the Tamamo former club brought Lin Nian's intuitive feeling was completely different.

If the last time he pushed open the door, he stepped into the enchanting stele forest wrapped in gold dust, this time he undoubtedly stepped into the stream in the forest, and the tea was fragrant under the vermilion torii.

On the crystal dance floor on one side of the vermilion balustrade is a long mulberry red table with a six-piece tea set on the table, boiling water on the stove, and the old man making tea sits at the end, with quaint wooden pillars and red-toothed cornices above his head.

Today's Tamamo Club looks extraordinarily elegant, and the decoration has not changed at all, but for some reason it gives people the impression that it has changed dramatically, and it should have been a paradise of beautiful music and drunken gold, but now it is more like a paradise without desires in Buddhist scriptures.

Lin Nian paced to the long table and sat down, and Mandy stopped not far behind him and did not step forward, because there was only one futon in front of the table, which meant that today's Tamamo former club only accepts one guest.

"I see, teachable." Lin Nian sat quietly for a long time and suddenly spoke.

"Where?" Inuyama He lifted the teapot in one hand and brushed his sleeves in the other, and the tea was poured from high down, and the tip of the tea rolled and spread out in the pot.

Constantly swirling, the fragrance of tea also overflowed with the whirlpool, as if it was about to be connected to the sky, smoked into the hundred-year-old vermilion wood pillar

"I was still strange before, and the atmosphere in today's club seemed to be a little elegant and quiet, but later I realized that it was because there were a lot of idlers." Lin Nian turned his head to look around.

The glass-like world hasn't changed in any way, but today it's missing the ubiquitous flower-like enchantress reflected on the crystal ground when I first came. The girls with heavy makeup and bright makeup held the beaker's hands white and ivory combs, and the watery waist and hip curves were moist and beady, and the skin like grinding outlined the words of book luxury and desire.

Now that there are no of them in this place, the whole space is less glamorous and vibrant.

Now there is only one old man left here who is meditating on making tea, so he can only see silence and meditation.

“... So it's never the place that's dirty, it's the people who are dirty. People are always dirty, and when they get dirty, they get dirty, and the atmosphere of a place depends not on the way it is, but on the smell of the people sitting there. Lin Nian said, "In the end, people give meaning to things and things." ”

"So you've been in Tokyo for a while, it doesn't matter what you've done, whose head you've beheaded, how many legs and feet you've cut off, the thing itself is that these things don't have any meaning, it's the person who wields the knife that gives them meaning." Inuyama said.

Lin Nian didn't say anything, just listened quietly.

"Wielding a knife for justice? And that beheading is for justice? Wielding a knife for hatred, then cutting off the head is revenge? The more for justice? The more determined the knife that cuts off the head, the more for revenge? The more you go down, the sharper you are. ”

"It's a terrible thing to wield a knife without purpose and without faith, and with faith can you be purer and go further." Inuyama Kaga stares at the hot tea spilling from the teacup? The sparkle in his eyes is as sharp as a sword? "Miyamoto Musashi is regarded as the strongest swordsman, just because he swords to win, and he does everything to maintain the title of the best in the world? He would only slash people faster and faster, until he crossed the Divine Domain of the Tenth Order. ”

"For the sake of stabbing the enemy? Once, I jumped from the third-order moment to the fifth-order instant, and slashed his head with a single sword, cutting off the withered leaves of winter. In order to chase fame and fortune, I could slash out the seventh-order instant from the fifth-order moment in the dojo, and after the bamboo sword broke and the floor cracked, I was recognized by Hilbert Jean Angers to become his student. ”

Have faith? Strong desire to break through the limits? Climb to the top.

This is true of people, and so it is for moments.

This is what Inuyama wants to convey.

"I've climbed to the seventh order in my life? That is a height that has an unobstructed view of most of the world, and in this seventh-order moment is piled up the karma and stepping stones that have been slashed over the past few decades? Now I am still moving forward to surpass that person. Are you seventeen? Is there too much that hasn't been experienced? You chose to come to see me when you left Tokyo, but are you really confident enough to bulldoze my hill? The old man at the end of the long table stared at Lin Nian, his eyes were suddenly full of swords and swords, and even the steam of the tea was blocked by his sharp words.

Lin Nian paused, and said with a light smile: "Earlier, I heard that the Inuyama family master had a relationship with Principal Ange, and now it seems that that time was not very good for the Inuyama family master, is it really so afraid of being knocked over under the table by the young man, and making the belief that has supported the Inuyama family master move forward for so many years become a joke?" ”

The smell of gunpowder in the air suddenly became thicker, and even the water waves in the teacup were taut into a mirror, waiting for the ripples to shatter the waves.

At this moment, the old man and the young man really met each other.

From the moment she received the call across the ocean, Inuyama knew the boy's purpose for arriving in Tokyo, and that Ange, who was on the other side of the ocean, wanted to sharpen his sword for his new collection, so he found his mossy stone in the forgotten gutter.

So he had been waiting, waiting for the moment when the boy at the end of the long table couldn't help but show his sharp fangs.

Teacher Ange, as your former student, is this kind of reunion too cheap at the moment I have been hiding in the scabbard for decades, full of belief that I will talk to you on an equal footing beyond you, and will we usher in the end of becoming a whetstone?

"The moment is like climbing to the top of the mountain, and the seventh-order moment is at best halfway up the mountain, even if I have never faded the desire to rush to the top of the mountain." Inuyamaga held up his teacup as if it contained burning spirits, "Because there is someone waiting for me on the mountain, waiting for me to leap up and slash that bloody slash at his back." ”

The man at the top of the mountain, Hilbert Jean Angers.

Lin Nian was silent for a moment, and finally only showed a smile on his face.

"At the age of 17, can you really climb over my seventh-order low flat hill?" Inuyama He also smiled, his eyes like a torch.

Even if his body is aging, he has the strongest moment in the world, 128 times the speed of the seventh order.

The old man could still draw the hazy trajectory of the white horse flying through the gap when he lay half in the dirt, and if necessary, he could cut out the dust that countless swordsmen could not reach.

In his eyes, there is still a flame of desire that has not been extinguished, and the hot tea in his hand is steaming, even if it has not cooled for decades. His belief is not old, and he still has to rush towards the back of his heart, faster and faster, before this he is not allowed to fall in front of anyone, let alone the other party's students!

"Inuyama family master, this era is young after all, why don't you give me this opportunity to surpass the top?"

It wasn't until the wisp of tea smoke rose to the beams of the room that Lin Nian's voice slowly sounded in the hall.

Smoke erupts from the teacup.

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“... No wonder, when I first came to Japan, I didn't see anything in your eyes. Inuyama's voice gradually calmed down, "But when I look at it from such a distance today, I suddenly find that it has been filled with things, it seems that the experience of these days has made you quench and refine again, what things have you encountered that can make you change so much?" ”

"These things don't worry about the head of the Inuyama family... The elderly still don't do much of this kind of thing, and the people standing on the top of the mountain should be us young people. Lin Nian looked at Inuyama He, who was close at hand, and said, "Although the head of the Inuyama family is probably still unwilling in his heart, the next mountain that has not been climbed is still handed over to our descendants to continue climbing." ”

The hot tea is still the same, but the futon at the end is missing the young man who meditates.

At the end of the long table, Inuyama's right hand was gently pressed on the waist of the black feather weaving, revealing a crimson wooden handle there, the national treasure-level alchemy knife "Onimaru Kunitsuna", but unfortunately it was not unsheathed today, and when it was pulled out five inches, a young hand had already pressed on the back of the old hand, and pushed it back inch by inch.

Inuyama He stared at Lin Nian, who stepped on the table and clasped his wrist, and after a while, the teacup he held high was slowly put down, handed it to the boy in front of him, and said, "Hilbert Jean Angers's new student, good, good." ”

The blade slashed through the sheath and chirped until the blade slammed against the scabbard with a crisp sound.

It was only then that Mandy, who was not far away, realized that she had missed something.

What she missed was that the new king took off the crown of the old king, the alternation of the old and new scepters with the change of times, and the cup of hot tea that Lin Nian received from Inuyamaga.

Between the old and the young, the clash of the Speeders has quietly ended.

That's how the battle should be in an instant, with sudden waves and waves.

The sixth-order instant against the seventh-order instant, the 128 god speed against the 64 times the god quick victory, and Lin Nian against Inuyama He won.

The strongest moment is defeated without a shot.