Mifune looked at the closed gate of the temple and shook his head with regret:

"No one can comprehend the Tao of the predecessors of the time, and in the end, until the death of the predecessors, they have not been able to find a destined successor.

"After the death of the senior, there are still countless samurai who want to obtain the sword of the slight, but no one can get close to the sword, not even I can walk within 5 meters of it."

"What's so wonderful about getting close to this sword?"

Izumi heard Mifune approaching within five meters of the Sudden Sword, and his eyes lit up and he asked curiously.

Mifune looked at her carefully, he had only suspected before, but now he was sure that the person who took the sword was the little girl in front of him.

After admiring in his heart, Mifune said in a sincere tone:

"Be careful with that sword, it is said that the time seniors put all their life's understanding into the sword.

"Whoever comes within ten meters of that sword will fall into the illusion of time, and only one step will seem to have lived a lifetime."

As he spoke, Mifune showed a look of reminiscence, and his face seemed to have a lot of wrinkles:

"Most people have difficulty taking a single step, and if they are addicted to illusions and cannot extricate themselves, they will immediately turn into dry bones. And the closer you get to the sword, the more difficult it is to break free from the shackles of time...

"Alas... The contemptible man only took 5 steps back then, and he thought that he would fall into the abyss if he took another step, and finally chose to give up. ”

"I'm more interested in this sword now."

Izumi raised an eyebrow, the light in his eyes brightening a little.

She glanced at the numb face, then floated forward urgently, hovering three meters from the gate.

Izumi pushed out his palms and fingers slightly to the wooden door that was half covered by snow.

"Squeak~ah!"

Under the repulsive force of the reincarnation eye, the two wooden doors that had been pressed by the layers of snow opened steadily, and even the snow in front of the doors faded to both sides, revealing the brown mud underneath.

Mifune stood still and watched Izumi's action of opening the door, and his face was actually soothed.

Seeing his appearance, he smiled and said:

"She's the strongest swordsman in the Vortex Country!"

Izumi, who was facing away from the numbness of his face, heard this, and a shallow dimple appeared on his round face, and he withdrew his hand.

Mifune didn't have any worries at this point, took a deep breath and walked into the courtyard along the wet mud under his feet.

"The open space where I entered the door was the place where my predecessors competed with others back then, and I was also defeated here back then."

Although the courtyard has been dilapidated for many years and is still covered with thick snow everywhere, the sight in front of him still vividly reminds Mifune of many years ago.

He blinked, and a hint of nostalgia slowly crept up the old face.

To the west of the clearing was a low bungalow, the doors and windows closed and rattling under the wind and snow.

Through the papier-mâché windows, you can see that the interior of the house is still in its original appearance:

In the middle there is a wooden table with a few round chairs, a narrow bed against the wall, and a half-person high wooden cabinet next to the foot of the bed, and nothing else.

Opposite the low house to the west is a simple bamboo hut with a half-meter-high stone monument underneath, and it is difficult to distinguish the exact contents of the snow covered by salt.

Mifune recalled the layout of the courtyard and explained in a voice to Izumi Miyama:

"The wing room on the west side is the residence of the old-timers, so we can't bother it. The east side was originally a servant's house, but it has been demolished at the behest of the old-timers before their deaths, and it is now the cemetery of the old-timers. ”

He took a few steps forward, bypassed the square treasure tripod that had been offered incense, looked at the hall in front of him that was more than ten meters high, and said with respect:

"Here are the statues of the Buddhas of the past, present, and future, and the sword of the dawn is placed here."

While Mifune was talking, the other three also gathered at the entrance of the main hall and looked inward with curiosity.

The three pairs of doors in the main hall are unusually open, but the bad weather outside seems to have nothing to do with the inside of the hall, and there is no trace of erosion by the wind and snow inside.

Under the naked eye of the four people, the three big Buddhas sitting in the hall seemed to come to life.

In the past, the Buddha's face was withered, his clothes were shabby, and his plump lips moved as if to tell the suffering of the past.

Now the Buddha is dressed in gorgeous clothes, with jewels and accessories, and a kind smile on his face seems to describe the beauty of the present.

The future Buddha is hidden in a thick gray mist, and it is impossible to see or guess the appearance of it.

It's just that most of everyone's attention fell on a table in front of the three Buddha statues, on which a rather simple knife holder stood alone, and a long knife with a whole body of silver gray was placed horizontally on the frame.

The hilt of the long knife is engraved with the pattern of the sun and the moon, but the blade is very peculiar, the two sides are equal in width but there is no blade, and the tip of the knife is not pointed but flat, and the whole body is more like a sword ruler than a long knife.

If you look closely, you will also find that the knife body is engraved with a circle of fine and dense carvings with strange shapes, each of which has a different shape.

The front and back of the knife add up to just 365 pieces, plus the "leap" pattern on the knife block, a total of 366 pieces, symbolizing every day of the year.

Whether it is the three Buddhas or the carvings on the sword of the sudden, they are all very clearly presented in the vision of the face numb.

After a moment, he closed his eyes slightly and carefully perceived the scene in the main hall, and when he opened his eyes again, his blue eyes were calm, and he opened his mouth to say to Izumi:

"The center of the Sudden Sword, a circular area of 10 meters, is shrouded in the barrier it has created, and the barrier is shrouded in a layer of gray mist that is invisible to the naked eye, and the closer you get to the sword, the thicker the mist becomes.

"I think this should be the test of the seniors of the hour to the latecomers."

While the face was numb, Izumi also opened his reincarnation eyes and stared at everything in the main hall.

After about 5 minutes, she seemed to have figured out something and suddenly chuckled, Izumi blinked her eyes and asked playfully:

"Which is stronger or weaker, senior or face mamea?"

"I don't know who is stronger than him, but the enchantment here can't help me, it's just that time and space have always been weird and abnormal, so you should be careful."

Mifune and Uesugi Gen on the side looked at him in shock when they heard Meama's proud answer.

Being able to say such things in front of the main hall, the strength of the face hemp is still on top of the expectations of the two, Mifune and Uesugi Gen have a little difficulty even penetrating the scenes in the main hall, let alone entering to get the sword.

If Mifune from twenty years ago still had the strength to advance, but for him who was old and frail, any moment of gray gas could be fatal.

The smile on Quan's face was even worse, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of confidence:

"Then what am I afraid of, there is a reincarnation eye to see the road ahead for me, and there is a face Ma Master to protect the back road for me, my trip is bound to win!"

Under the gaze of the three of them, Izumi's body took a light step into the main hall.