Chapter 126: Return to Dust
This should be the strongest samurai in the Iaikai, "Iaisai" Gen Sosuke, and naturally he is also the strongest samurai under Genji.
Tomorrow's imperial trial, Genji should be the one who sent to fight.
For Shiratori Ling, this is a pre-imperial trial that has been advanced for half a day.
"I really didn't expect that. Gen Sosuke took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped the blood on the knife, and the blood red on the blade contained not only the blood of Kenichi Gen, but also the blood of his original companion, Shinzo Kuroba, "I thought that we could slaughter the ukiyokan without much effort, and then we could lead the head to receive the reward, but I didn't expect that there would be three of you guys who were in the way tonight!"
Shiratori Ling looked at him calmly, without the slightest emotion in her tone, "You are wrong. Even without us, you would never have gone all. She pointed to the bloodied corpse downstairs, "Look, the women of the Kimura family are not lambs that you can kill at will, you are tigers, they are wolves, and no tiger can be unharmed by the siege of wolves." ”
Gen Sosuke threw away the bloodstained handkerchief, carried the shiny knife on his shoulder, and smiled, "Tiger, wolf." The analogy is quite vivid. ”
Shiratori Ling sneered and said, "It's very vivid." The wolves are united, and the tigers are always alone. How can the tigers be afraid of the wolves, but unfortunately the tigers do not exist. ”
Tigers are solitary animals, and even if they are forced to be thrown together to form a tiger group, there will be serious problems between them, and the word unity will not appear in them at all. And the Seven Samurai of the Spirit Sword are completely such a group of tigers, gathered together on the surface, but in fact they are all their own masters, and they have a very strong sense of territory.
Gen Sosuke couldn't hear her sarcasm, but he seemed to have long been accustomed to such a small group, and even sneered at unity at all, "Extra tigers will only get in the way, and they will compete for prey, just like that stupid Shiratori Kazama, and that traitor Kuroba Shinzo, if it weren't for them, you would have died under my sword a long time ago, and this war should have ended a long time ago." ”
Bai Bird Ling snorted coldly, "But none of them made a move because they wanted to compete with you for prey, they all died on justice and morality, and these are what you don't have!"
Yuan Cangsuke was stunned for a moment, as if she had said something, but was soon covered by his fierce and tyrannical eyes, "It's useless to say more, at the moment, whether it is a tiger or a wolf, there are only two of you and me, a lone wolf and a tiger, the victory or defeat is self-evident." If you know yourself, you can go back with me now, and with your strength, it will be easy to succeed Shiratori Kazama. ”
"You also said it, and it is useless to say more. White Bird Ling was unmoved, and the blade tornado behind him gathered into a huge whirlwind on the scale of a hundred papers at this time, like a last wolf king, arching his body, revealing his sharp teeth.
"What are you still fighting for? The Kimura family has been wiped out, and Genji has nothing to do with your Shiratori family, you are so persistent, I really don't know what to say. ”
"The duel between you and me is not in the family, but in the individual. Now I just want to use your head to honor my friends. "Shiratori Ling, who has never admitted that she has friends, is classifying them as friends for the first time at this time, even Iori, who has always been guarded against by her.
It seems that it is indeed not speculative. Gen Sosuke didn't fight anymore, moved the knife from his shoulder to the front of him, held the knife in both hands, and took a stance.
Without any more nonsense, the huge blade tornado went straight to Sosuke Minamoto.
Having seen this blade tornado like a meat grinder before, there was no chance of winning with a hard sting, Gen Sosuke flashed back, and a whirlwind composed of hundreds of spell sigils whistled in front of him, and then he raised his knife and slashed into the air, and suddenly a flash of fire flashed, as if his knife rubbing the air could cause such a large temperature, igniting his entire blade.
Iai, is the Japanese kendo in the instant drawing of the sword to kill the technique, also known as the sword drawing technique, in the five families of the six schools have in line with their respective schools of sword drawing, and Genji's sword flow is one of the oldest swordsmanship in Japan, the pursuit of their own strength, speed, reflexes to the extreme, in the hands of Genji and the fusion of spiritual arts, become the most prestigious swordsmanship in the East continent.
At this time, Gen Sosuke's knife became a fire knife bathed in raging fire under the dual blessing of spiritual art and swordsmanship. Seeing his intentions, Shiratori Ling hesitated for a moment, but still turned the blade tornado and swooped towards him.
Unfazed, Gen Sosuke flashed to the side, holding the knife in both hands, holding it at his side, and facing the blade with the blade.
It was like a tornado of hundreds of blades spinning and flying that collided with his flaming blade, but instead of shattering the blade like Kimura Masasa, the blade slashed through the side of the blade tornado as he stepped forward, like a swift shark lunging towards him, but he dodged it aside and slashed it from its mouth to its tail with his knife, splitting it in half.
The bladed tornado is not a shark, and it is still in its original form after the stroke. However, Gen Sosuke's knife was not only undamaged after slashing through these hundreds of blades, but also left a dozen pieces of burning red paper in the air.
Shiratori Ling could see that he did understand the weakness of the talisman technique. Although the spell sigil can become as hard as a blade or as soft as a long whip under the blessing of spiritual power, the essence is still a piece of paper, and the flame generated by his spiritual power has been suppressed in attributes, and all the spell sigils that the flame knife has drawn have been burned, and the huge blade tornado is obviously smaller.
Knowing this information, Shiratori changed her tactics, and she split the blade tornado into six small whirlwinds, attacking him from six directions.
Gen Sosuke also guessed that she would change her strategy, and at this time, she did not hurry to slash with her knife under her feet, and immediately a wall of fire rose to the ground, and a small tornado coming from the front hit the wall of fire and instantly turned into a cloud of ashes. Then he drew another wall of fire behind him, easily destroying another one.
Seeing this, White Bird Ling hurriedly controlled the remaining four blade tornadoes to bypass the wall of fire. At this time, although there were fewer and fewer spell sigils, but in exchange for better and better control, the remaining four were obviously much faster, dodging left and right around him, avoiding all the flames.
Seeing this, Gen Sosuke jumped out of the ring of fire in understanding, and the moment he landed on the roof, he retracted the knife into its scabbard.
Along with the blade, there was a raging flame on the blade. When Bai Bird Ling couldn't understand his intentions, he saw him put on a posture of drawing the knife, and then quickly pulled out the knife, and the blade that had just come out of the sheath instantly ignited flames, and with a very fast hand, the fire blade was picked up, and a blade tornado was chopped, almost without stopping, the blade flipped, and then another group was split downward, and then it was another flip up, and finally it was flipped down, and a total of two back and forth went up, and four knives were chopped, and the four blade tornadoes from different directions were cut impartially.
In Japanese kendo, such a continuous slash without any other action is called "continuous slash", which is a continuous slashing technique that gives up superfluous movements as much as possible in pursuit of speed, and Gen Sosuke's is "four consecutive slashes", which are extremely fast and smooth, such as flowing clouds and water, and the speed of the knife is so fast that it takes less than a second to complete four consecutive slashes, and all the four bladed tornadoes that are almost at the same time but in different directions are all hit, which has reached the top level of swordsmanship for human beings.
The mystery of the sword drawing technique - the fire dragon slashes.
However, the significance of this move was far more than he defended Shiratori Ling's blade tornado, more importantly, the blade tornado that was divided into six parts was already very small, and it was hit by his flame knife infused with spiritual power, and immediately burned a single one, and in this short second, Shiratori Ling had no time to react, and her spell seal talisman had all turned into ashes.
"Looks like you've run out of spell sigils, right?" Gen Sosuke said with a laugh, "I've seen the Shiratori family's talisman control technique today!, but this kind of spiritual art, which is limited by quantity, doesn't seem to be practical. Now that you have no spiritual skills, don't you want to surrender?"
Seeing that all her spell charms had turned into embers flying in the sky, she didn't show the slightest fear, inserted the dagger back into her arm, lunged and raised her hand, and made a gesture of drawing her sword without saying a word.
Yuan Sosuke knew that the knife drawing technique was often a move that decided the outcome of the battle, and the master duel often used it to determine the victory or defeat, and often decided the life and death, and he didn't say much at the moment, and put the knife back in the scabbard and put on a posture.
The two of them represent the highest level of Shiratori and Genji's swordsmanship in the Iaikai, and naturally the winner will be decided by the Iai jutsu in the end.
"You can't use spirit magic in the imperial trial, since you are the strongest in Genji, then you must be attending on behalf of Genji, today we will do it in advance, no matter who wins or loses, we must inform Emperor Ling of the result tomorrow, in order to decide the fate of my Shiratori family. ”
Gen Sosuke knew that the girl in front of him had challenged Genji to try out the match, and he also knew about their bet, so he smiled meaningfully at this time, "That's a pity." ”
This sentence sounded to Shiratori Ling, just ordinary self-confidence, thinking that she would never be able to win against him. No longer talking at the moment, the two bowed their waists and looked at each other, each knowing that the victory and defeat were between this move, and neither of them made the first move, but brewed this final blow to each other.
The noisy ukiyo-kan immediately fell silent, only the cool breeze blew in the ears at night, and there were more than a hundred corpses lying on the silent street, and the ukiyo-e hall was also full of corpses, and the terrifying blood red could be seen everywhere. However, if you look beyond the Soul Barrier, the ukiyo-kan is still darkly lit, as quiet and peaceful as the surrounding buildings.
A piercing sword roar broke the silence of the night, and two black shadows leaped into the air.
Shiratori Ling threw out the ribbon with his left hand and swooped straight at Gen Sosuke's front door. His vision was filled with this curling ribbon, at this time his knife had been drawn, he knew that his continuous slashing technique had been used in front of her before, and she had seen through it at this time, this ribbon was used to consume one of his slashes and buy her time, so his knife did not mean to cut at the ribbon at all.
I saw that when he took out the knife from his waist, his foot kicked to the side, and his body actually shifted in the air, avoiding the ribbon that slapped him in the face. The moment he bypassed the ribbon to see Shiratori's feathers, the knife went straight up from his waist and slashed at her abdomen.
At the same time, Shiratori Ling's right hand had already pulled out the dagger and caught his fatal knife, but his knife was very powerful, and the moment it hit the dagger, the dagger flew out of his hand.
Although the first slash was blocked by her dagger, she also lost the dagger, and now she was powerless, and he quickly slashed the second blow.
This second blow showed all his swordsmanship cultivation, compared to the previous extremely fast four consecutive slashes, what was even more incredible was that after his first slash hit Bai Bird Ling's dagger, he actually ignored the inertia and stopped, and directly slashed out the second slash. It takes a lot of strength to contain the inertia, but in this extremely short time, what is more needed is speed and reflexes, and he didn't give Shiratori Ling any chance to buy time, and slashed the second knife as fast as he could, which naturally achieved excellent results.
The second slash slashed through her chest, but before the slash was halfway through and before it could leave her body, it was stopped again, and the third stab was struck without stopping. And this third knife is not a slash, but a stab.
The blade slashed halfway through her chest, and suddenly turned into a stab, straight into her chest, through her chest.
At that moment, before Gen Sosuke could think that he had won, he noticed the moment the knife stabbed into Shiratori's chest, her left hand jerked the ribbon, and then a sharp blade stabbed into the back of his head.
Just as he struck Shiratori's dagger, the dagger was grabbed by the ribbon that had been shot from her left hand earlier, and with her last pull, it shot him to the back of the head.
In two seconds, the winner is decided, and just like in this war, there is no winner.
The two of them, who lost their vitality at the same time, slammed on the roof under the drive of gravity and residual force, and instantly smashed a hole, and the two fell straight into the ukiyo-e hall and smashed on the ground on the first floor.
Gen Sosuke was stabbed in the back of the head and was devastated on the spot. Shiratori Ling still had a little strength left, she used her last strength, pushed the source Sosuke on her body away, and lay quietly in the ruins, looking at the bright moon in the black sky through the hole in the roof.
The war is finally over, and it looks like no one left the battlefield alive. Her thoughts were suddenly pulled back to Wuxi, the day she met Bai Maxiao.
Along the way, it was difficult, although she did not recover her previous memories, but she gained new memories that belonged to her.
But now, everything is dust, dust and dust.