"Kiyosuke-san doesn't know?" Tanihara looked at Kiyosuke in surprise.

He also thought that Kiyosuke knew about Sword Valley, so he challenged him so hard.

"No wonder there have been so many foreign genius swordsmen recently, and there is a reason for it." Kiyosuke said secretly in his heart.

When he checked the list in the hotel yesterday, he felt that something was wrong, there were too many outsiders, and they were all genius swordsmen, but he didn't expect that there was really something greasy in this.

"Please also ask Tanihara-san to solve my doubts." Kiyosuke bowed slightly.

Tanihara stretched out his hand to refill the tea in the cup for Kiyosuke, and muttered, "Kiyosuke-san, do you know the origin of the list?" ”

"I didn't know." Kiyosuke shook his head, it was also the first time he had seen this kind of list, there was no similar list in Tokyo at all, maybe there was a higher level list, but he hadn't heard of it.

"Then Miyamoto Sword Saint, Kiyosuke-kun should know, right?" Tanihara smiled and narrowed the sip of tea in his cup.

Kiyosuke nodded, when he first encountered the rift girl, Miyata had told him about the Miyamoto Sword Saint, but he didn't know how his strength compared to his own master.

"A hundred years ago, there was a great demon in Hokkaido named Snow Maiden." Tanihara held the teacup and swayed the pale green tea in the cup slightly.

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, has a very low temperature, even in summer, only 20 or 30 degrees Celsius, and has been a good place to escape the heat in the summer.

However, there are two sides to the story: Hokkaido's winter is the coldest place in Japan, and a hundred years ago, before modern technology developed, the biggest problem people had to face at that time.

Therefore, Hokkaido has had the legend of the great demon 'Snow Maiden' since ancient times, and it can be traced back to more than 1,000 years ago.

"When the snow girl comes out, she returns home early" is an old saying that is widely spread among the people of Hokkaido. A snow girl who specializes in making ice and snow, she is also known as Snow Hime.

According to ancient legends, the Snow Maiden lived in the mountains, similar to humans, with a stunningly beautiful appearance, and often attracted men who entered the snowy mountains to kiss him in places where no one was, and at the same time completely froze them and took their souls to eat.

Snow Maiden is a very contradictory youkai in people's hearts, she has snow-white skin, beautiful appearance, and virtuous character, but she can take people's lives mercilessly the moment you break your oath.

If you encounter the Snow Girl, it will most likely be a sexy and terrifying experience.

Because the Snow Girl has the ability to think, she is not classified as a strange story, but is considered a powerful type of monster, and there are indeed people in history who have successfully subdued the Snow Girl as a Shikigami.

But a hundred years ago, Hokkaido suddenly suffered a heavy snowfall that was rare in a century, and the continuous heavy snow fell for seven days, freezing to death at least thousands of ordinary people.

The strange heavy snow attracted the attention of the team that had just been established at the time, and soon the team arranged for a B-class onmyoji to investigate, but after he arrived in Hokkaido, he lost contact with the team and disappeared into the vast snow-capped mountains.

And the frequent strange incidents at that time made the newly established team take care of themselves at all, and in desperation, Fujiwara-sama, who was the head of the department at the time, asked Miyamoto Kenjo to go to Hokkaido to investigate.

After Miyamoto Kenjo arrived in Hokkaido, he felt a trace of resolute sorrow from the heavy snow that closed the mountain, and understood that this snow was definitely not a gift from heaven.

After half a day of investigation, he quickly determined that the heavy snow was caused by the Snow Maiden, and found the Snow Maiden who had fled violently in the vast snow-capped mountains that day.

He also saw the dead squad onmyoji beside the Snow Maiden, and it was obvious that he had done his best, suppressing a crumbling formation under his dry body, dragging the Snow Maiden's feet so that she could not leave the snow mountain.

But that's not all.

What followed was similar to the Eight-Foot Adult's incident, when Miyamoto Sword Saint was furious and slashed the Snow Maiden in the vast snow-capped mountains with a sword.

"I don't know if I will be able to look up to the back of the Miyamoto Sword Saint for the rest of my life." Tanihara sighed, and then took a sip of the cold tea in the cup.

"But what does this have to do with the list?" Kiyosuke was a little puzzled, what Tanihara said didn't seem to have anything to do with the list.

"Kiyosuke-san, do you know how terrifying it is for His Excellency Sword Saint to use all his sword." Tanihara looked at Kiyosuke with a smile.

"Don't sell Guanzi, Tanihara-san." Kiyosuke drank the tea in one gulp, and stretched out his hand to signal Tanihara to add water, although the master is also a sword master, but he really hasn't seen the master go all out.

The only possible one was the shrine incident in Kyoto, but his memories faded after the event.

"Ten miles."

"What?" Kiyosuke looked up at Tanihara in confusion.

"A hundred years ago, the sword of the Miyamoto Sword Saint left a ten-mile-long canyon in the snow-capped mountains." Tanihara smiled and poured a cup of tea for Kiyosuke.

A knife to cut out a ten-mile-long canyon?

Kiyosuke stared at Tanihara with wide eyes, a little incredulous, is this really something that humans can do?

Although he knew that the master was very strong, and he had seen many non-human shots, it was too terrifying to cut out a canyon with one knife.

"Master is also known as the Sword Master." Kiyosuke's heart moved, could it be that Master's strength was so terrifying, Kiyosuke found that he might have seriously underestimated Master's strength all along.

Tanihara took a sip of tea and looked at Kiyosuke with a smile, he was very satisfied with Kiyosuke's shocked reaction.

When he first heard about this from his master, his reaction was even greater than that of Kiyosuke, after all, what is the difference between such a sword master and a humanoid self-propelled nuclear bomb?

"But what does this have to do with the list?" Kiyosuke suddenly reacted, Tanihara said so much, but he still didn't get into the topic.

"In the middle of that canyon, there is also the sword intent left by the Miyamoto Sword Saint, and the twenty people on the list have the opportunity to go to the realm twice a year, once in September and once in January."

A hundred years, and there is still a sword intent left?!

Kiyosuke is a little numb, not to mention being able to change the terrain, even the remaining sword intent can be retained for a hundred years, what is the difference between this and a nuclear bomb, even nuclear radiation is there.

"The tenth place on the list, each person has an hour of perception time, the first place is more than half an hour, and the time of the bottom ten is only half an hour."

"Those who can feel something in the sword intent, as long as they don't die, are all inhuman."

"All non-human?" Kiyosuke looked at Tanihara in surprise.

"Yes, without exception." Tanihara took a sip of tea and made a slurp.

"No wonder that Xiaochuan is so ruthless, if you eliminate me, it means that there will be one less competitor in the top ten." Kiyosuke mused to himself.

In fact, Kiyosuke is not the only one who is challenging, everyone on the list is challenging each other, wanting to win each other's positions, and there are also many foreign swordsmen who also want a piece of the pie.

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