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There is a cherry blossom tree in the deepest part of the Iga Valley. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is impossible to verify when this cherry blossom tree was planted and by whom.

The people in the Iga Valley only know that the cherry blossom tree has been full of cherry blossoms since the day the Iga Valley was founded, so at least the age of the tree is some years older than the Iga Valley.

And Iga Valley has been in Fuso Province for a hundred and thirty-seven years, which means that this cherry tree is at least nearly one hundred and forty years old.

For human beings, one hundred and forty years is already a long time, whether you are a prince and a general, or a wealthy man in Kyushu, no one can live past one hundred and forty years old.

Even the generation of True Dragon First Emperor, who swallowed the heavens and the earth through heaven and earth, only lived a few dozen cold and summer days with the strength of the world.

In the past one hundred and forty years, Iga Valley has changed thirteen leaders, ninjas are ghosts living in the shadows, dead soldiers who pin their heads to their waists, and even if you are the leader of a ninja village, you can't escape the shackles of this curse.

This cherry blossom tree in the center of Iga Valley can be said to have witnessed the rise and fall of Iga Valley, and the ninjas who swore an oath under the cherry blossom tree have long since disappeared into reincarnation, and even their descendants are no longer alive.

And for this cherry tree, 140 years is just a good night's sleep, although the cherry blossoms on its body bloom 140 times, thank you 140 times, but it is still very young.

Compared to many predecessors who have lived for thousands of years, this cherry blossom tree is just a babbling child.

Maybe the cherry blossom tree can live for a few hundred years, and it can become a predecessor in the eyes of other trees, and he can also be like those thousand-year-old trees, accustomed to watching the rise and fall of the world without joy or sorrow.

But it can't, it's a child after all, and its heart isn't as hard as a rock like its predecessors who have lived for hundreds or thousands of years.

So when the blazing flames rose from the Igaya ninja village, and when the red blood flowed into a small stream in front of it, it panicked as if it were a wounded child, and shook its branches desperately as if it wanted to wake up from the nightmare in front of it.

People often wake up from nightmares, but sometimes they wake up to find that reality is actually more cruel than dreams.

The cherry blossom tree wept and struggled, and it saw a young man who had watered it, chopped into minced flesh.

It witnessed the girl who had once collected cherry blossoms under it being torn and dragged under a tree, stripped naked...... The girl's eyes are full of hatred and resentment, and there is no longer the innocence and gentleness of the past, so that people can't see which is the real her.

But the cherry blossom tree is just a tree, it can't do anything, no! maybe there's one more thing it can do......

It is the beginning of spring in March, when the cherry blossoms are just beginning to bloom, but the cherry blossoms in the Iga Valley begin to drift away on this night.

Under the reflection of the red moon in the sky, every cherry blossom is like a shocking drop of blood.

Finally, a drop of blood drifted along the warm spring breeze...... Floating, floating...... Floated out of the Iga Valley and escaped from the earthly purgatory.

It flew over the meadow, it flew over the woods, and it was about to fly over the hill in front of it, and then the cherry blossoms were sheltered and sheltered by the hills, and whether it was the fire or the smell of the valley, it would be blocked by the hills.

The little cherry blossom flew higher and faster, and it really couldn't bear to look at the tragic situation behind it, and only wanted to escape as soon as possible.

But at last it could not fly over the hill in front of it, and just as it was about to cross the top of the hill, a large hand suddenly deepened to end its escape.

It is a very rough and thick palm, and if you look closely, you can see the old scars crisscrossing the hand, and there is a thick layer of calluses on the palm of the hand, which gathers into a hard shell on the tiger's mouth.

Such hands are by no means the hands of ordinary people in Fusang, there are never so many scars on the bodies of ordinary people, and they are by no means the hands of high-ranking officials and nobles.

Such a hand can only be the hand of a person who practices martial arts, and a person who practices martial arts in Fuso Province can only become a ninja if he cannot become a samurai.

However, the tasks performed by ninjas require them to have flexible and sensitive hands, so this hand is by no means the hand of a ninja, so the answer is already obvious.

It was the hand of a samurai, and judging by the crust of the tiger's mouth, this man must have been a good hand with weapons.

This big hand pulled Sakura off from the wind, and the rough fingerprints made Sakura feel as if it were broken.

However, to Sakura's surprise, the hand pinched herself and slowly lifted it up, slowly putting it into the stench hole.

The entrance to the cave was black, with rows of yellow-brown boulders growing on top and bottom.

The samurai swallowed the little cherry blossoms, and the only creature in the Iga Valley who survived tonight died here......

The man put the cherry blossom in his mouth and chewed it carelessly, but his eyes looked in the direction of Iga Valley in the distance without blinking.

Sniffing lightly at the smell of blood in the air, the corners of the man's mouth involuntarily curved in an arc, and then when he saw the monstrous fire in the Iga Valley again, the corners of his mouth curved wider...... It's bigger......

When the curvature of the corners of his mouth finally reached saturation and could no longer expand by a minute and a half, the man finally seemed to laugh out loud.

Although the laughter was rough, it gradually became gloomy against the backdrop of the fire in Iga Valley, and even the spring breeze mixed with the laughter became a little colder.

There was another man standing next to the laughing man, whose face was not very real in the night, but his eyes were very bright and radiating a thief's light, obviously a cunning man.

Hearing the man laughing loudly, he hurriedly leaned over and said: "Congratulations, congratulations, it seems that the three ninja villages have already exchanged hands with Iga Valley, and after tonight, our plan will be more than half, and in the future, the adult must be a celebrity next to the master, so it is just around the corner to say that it is just around the corner to be on an equal footing with His Excellency Toyotomi." ”

The man was in a very good mood, and although he was happy to hear the man say that he was an adult, he blamed him: "Alas ~ Brother Araki, although the two of us are not brothers, our feelings are better than brothers, this time I can get the master's appreciation, not thanks to your plan, brother, don't say that I haven't been appointed by the master now, that is, I will be promoted by the master by your auspicious words in the future, and the glory is also half of us, and we will be commensurate with brothers in the future, don't call any more adults." ”

The Araki brother nodded with a smile on his face, as if he agreed with what the man said, but he still spoke and closed his mouth as an adult, and did not dare to exceed the rules at all.

Although the big and small man said that he would let Brother Araki be called a brother, but when he saw that the other party still called him an adult, he didn't say more, and his heart was actually more joyful.

I heard Brother Araki continue: "My lord, this time, let's take a step ahead of the ape flying the sun and the moon, rushing back to Fusang from the Ming Kingdom, and taking the lead in the master, so that the master is suspicious of the ape flying the sun and the moon and sending someone to take him, it can be said that it is a risky move." ”

"If the ape flies back to Fusang day and night, and when the time comes, he will say something that he shouldn't say in front of his master, whether the master believes it or not, it will be a trouble after all. ”

"Well, now, the three forces of Musashi Ninja Village, Koga Valley Ninja Village, and Kii Ninja Village went to Iga Valley together, and instead of finding Sarutobi Sun and Moon, they destroyed the entire Iga Valley. ”

"When the ape flies back to Fuso and sees that the Iga Valley has been destroyed, we are quietly releasing some news, so that he thinks that the master destroyed the Iga Valley, according to the prodigal nature of the ape flying the sun and the moon, he will never surrender to the master again, and when the time comes, the master will be angry, and he will never have a chance to turn over......"

It turned out that these two people who stood on the barren hill outside the Iga Valley late at night were none other than Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had sent to the Ming Kingdom to support Ape Fei Sun and Moon in stealing the secret art of Kyushu Soldier Forging, and Araki Murashige.

On the same day, Takataka Kuroda was entrusted with an important task by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and asked him to bring people back to the Ming Kingdom to carry out the mission.

Kuroda Takataka was under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he had just been beaten by Qi Jiguang, the god of war in the Ming Dynasty, and fled in shock.

However, he was just a retainer and samurai raised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he didn't dare to go against the will of his master, so he could only lead people all the way to delay time.

Later, when he saw Ape Fei Sun and Moon, he was unwilling to obey the other party's leadership, and even grabbed the command with Ape Fei Sun and Moon, which not only did not play a role in aiding, but greatly restricted Ape Fei Sun and Moon's actions.

In the end, because of Kuroda Takataka's selfishness, Sarutobi Sun and Moon's actions in the Ming Kingdom failed, and the elite masters of Iga Valley who brought to the Ming Dynasty were also slaughtered by the Chinese knights in the Crucible.

Kuroda Takataka saw the failure of the ape flying the sun and moon, and knew that returning to Fuso like this would definitely be punished by his master Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and even his life was in danger.

So he listened to the strategy of his subordinate Araki Murashige, and rushed back to Fuso by speedboat by ape flying to the sun and moon.

After Kuroda Takataka returned to Fuso Country, he did not go to his master Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the first time, but went directly to the master's master, Oda Nobunaga, the overlord of the world.

framed Ape Fei Sun and Moon with the poisonous trick offered by Araki Village, saying that the reason why this operation to the Ming Kingdom failed was entirely because Ape Fei Sun and Moon gave birth to a rebellious heart, saying that Ape Fei Sun and Moon not only stole the casting secret technique from the Ming Dynasty, but also grabbed the peerless divine weapon.

Oda Nobunaga was furious when he heard this, but he didn't fully believe it in his heart, so he just ordered someone to take his overlord order to let the three major ninja villages send people to capture the ape flying Sun and Moon.

Who knew that there was a deep grudge between the four major forces, and after the three major forces received the overlord's order, they didn't know the reason, they only thought that Ape Fei Sun and Moon offended their master, and it was reasonable to contact Iga Valley by the way.

As soon as the three forces discussed, they felt that it was better to take this opportunity to completely weaken the power of Iga Valley, and when it was finally known that Sarutobi Sun Moon and Iga Valley Elite were not in Iga Valley, the weakening action finally turned into destruction......