Musashi's move to kill Giogen was truly astonishing.
Except for Keijiro outside the house who was unlucky enough not to see it, the other three people could really see it.
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while experts watch the door.
With their dual harmonious martial arts skills, they must be considered experts. Therefore, this sword directly changed their first impression of Musashi as "nothing more than that".
It is true that Musashi’s physical ability and internal strength are not very impressive. At least in these two hard indicators, he is not as good as many first-class masters in the Central Plains martial arts. But his left-hand Kodachi Iai However, not many of the top masters in the Central Plains can resist it.
In other words, even if the person sitting here today is not Yi Gen, but a top master from the Central Plains, the result will probably be the same.
This kind of explosive combat power that cannot be predicted and quantified, that is, the "nirvana" released by the combination of "martial arts" and "weapons", should be what these strong men in the Japanese martial arts world use. Discover the way to become stronger.
To put it simply, the technology trees of the Japanese martial arts and the Central Plains martial arts in this universe are very different.
The Central Plains martial arts emphasizes the cultivation of internal strength. In most of them, In the eyes of Central Plains warriors, superior internal strength is far more valuable than superior moves. This can be said to be their consensus and even common sense.
This view obviously has its merits.
First of all, internal strength has a bonus to various basic abilities of the body and various moves; in a one-on-one situation where no one is injured and there are no sneak attacks, the party with stronger internal strength is The one with the obvious advantage is similar to a cross-weight class showdown in a fighting game, and the weight difference caused by internal strength is far more terrifying than weight. Not only is the offense and defense higher, but the speed, reaction, and recovery are also faster. , is a kind of all-round suppression. When the gap in internal strength reaches a certain level, the moves may even lose their meaning completely.
Secondly, moves are, to put it bluntly, variations and combinations of fixed movements, which are "visible"; no matter how exquisite your moves are, if you use them too many times in front of others, they may be stolen. Especially those who have advanced internal skills or high martial arts talents, they can use many moves at once.
However, the method of operating internal force is invisible to the naked eye and is difficult to learn secretly.
It is because of the development in such an environment that many Central Plains martial arts, even the moves, are designed to "must operate under a set of supporting internal forces to exert their greatest power." .
Thirdly, and most importantly, the Central Plains martial arts world is more about being human and worldly than fighting and killing.
What does it mean to stick to the point and what does peace mean?
Ninety-nine percent of the grievances and hatreds in the world are caused by conflicts of interest. If you can resolve the dispute alive, Who is willing to risk their lives at every turn
For example, we are both well-known and upright, and now we have some conflicts, what should we do?
We are also like those awesome Japanese samurai. We just bumped into each other on the street, then both turned around and glared at each other, flicked our tongues at each other and called each other bastards a few times, then slashed with our swords, and one of us fell down in a few seconds. Next, the other person walked away gracefully
How can that work?
We knights in the Central Plains martial arts must first use three successes each to test each other and let Both sides have an idea of the strength of their opponents, and then they report, who is your master, and where is my sect? Then based on everyone's strength and the forces behind them, they renegotiate how to resolve the current conflict, how to distribute the benefits, and finally take advantage of it. The one who gets the cheaper deal goes down the stairs to the other side. It was all a misunderstanding just now. Now the misunderstanding is solved. You give me a face, and I will make you a friend. From now on, we will be brothers.
This is the daily life of people who can stay in the world for a long time.
You said you can’t practice physiognomy or internal strength? Without some internal strength, you are not even qualified to negotiate with others on the table.
However, this is not the case in Japanese martial arts.
Due to the differences in cultural background and social environment, the scale of pure martial arts sects here cannot develop at all, and the ultimate goal of most people who practice martial arts is actually to join the officialdom from martial arts.
The temptation of the "samurai class" is too great for them. To use a metaphor, it is equivalent to passing the "hereditary civil servant" exam.
Some people may say after seeing this, this doesn’t sound like the peak of life
It’s because you live in a different era and you have more choices. In this way, you may have a chance to live better than a civil servant.
But in ancient Japan, where the economy was underdeveloped and the current situation was unstable, becoming a "samurai class" was basically equivalent to directly solving the highest social class improvement that a person and even his descendants could achieve. Those of their origins There is no better way out for warriors from the civilian class.
Therefore, the martial arts in Japanese martial arts gradually developed into a path that focuses on "nirvana" that can determine life and death in a short period of time. After all, you don't have the conditions to fight with an opponent on the battlefield. For too long, the best strategy is to quickly kill the enemy and then move.
This also leads to the tendency of the warriors here to "get over it".
In many dojos, people who are kicked out of the gym are easily killed. Fellow sects can sometimes be injured or disabled by sparring with wooden swords. The ronin who are walking outside or the warriors who have already started their training are also either If you don't take action, it's easy to kill people; warriors' "duels" are rarely final, and most of them involve life and death.
Here, only the number of enemies killed and wins can prove the value of a warrior.
As for those who follow this "nirvana" style, they do not need too sophisticated or complicated internal strength. The breathing techniques he has learned only need to support him in using his own martial arts, and Just let his physical fitness have a certain endurance on the battlefield.
The Miyamoto Musashi in front of him demonstrates the possibilities that warriors can achieve under this martial arts concept.sex.
His performance this time also made Shuangxie secretly glad that they had opened their eyes here and understood early that they could not use the perspective of judging the Central Plains warriors to speculate on the strength of the warriors here, which reduced the The probability of overturning due to carelessness in the future.
And Tokumaru, who was beside Shuangxie, was also stunned at this moment.
Due to his lack of strength, Tokumaru could not see the mystery of Musashi's "two-day first-class". However, precisely because he could not see it, he felt that the other party was unfathomable, and he was dissatisfied with himself just now. I feel afraid of blind confidence.
"Mr. Miyamoto" A few seconds later, Tokumaru spoke in a trembling voice, and his tone became respectful, "It is indeed well-deserved."
"Why" Musashi Station He didn't move or turn his head, but his eyes moved half a minute in the direction of Tokumaru, "You want to try it too"
"No" Tokumaru quickly waved his hand, "I sigh to myself Why don't you try?"
"What are you trying?" Sun Yixie saw that Musashi couldn't stop pretending, and the situation was almost uncontrollable, so he quickly joined the conversation and advised, "This is not the case. Is one of them dead already? The one outside is also lying down. That’s just right. Let’s talk about it. If we hand them over as murderers, it’s over.”
When Musashi heard this, he looked at Sun Yi "Don't you care who the real murderer is?"
"Nonsense, do you care?" Sun Yixie asked back, paused, and continued, "Besides, anyone with any brains will understand. The murderer either used an identity that would not be suspected, or he sneaked in from outside in the middle of the night to kill, and then ran away. There is no record of staying in the hotel. How could someone carry weapons or clearly indicate that he is a warrior? He checked in with a certain identity, and then used a method that was obviously reserved for people with strong martial arts skills to kill someone. After killing him, he still stayed there, waiting to be investigated."
His words were superficially meant for Musashi listened, but he actually said it to Kumagai, who had been discovered by them a long time ago and was hiding on the ceiling.
This is equivalent to giving Xiong Gu two choices: you can either use these two dead monks as murderers and let the rest of us help you make up a story that makes sense, so you can count. You have obtained many "witnesses" and the evidence is enough; or you can continue the investigation and spend a few days and nights to check everyone in the hotel, but you may not be able to identify the murderer, and there is a high probability that the murderer is not in the hotel. Here, he has already run away.
Xiong Gu had already calculated most of this account in his mind before, and he was clear about the possibility of the latter option, so he didn’t think much about it this time and quickly decided to accept Sun Yixie. The first intersection method suggested.
To make a long story short, before noon that day, everyone unanimously blamed the murder of Takeda Kuranosuke on the two monks of the Ichigo sect.
According to their "confession", the two monks quickly exposed their flaws in the conversation under "Kumagai-sama's careful arrangements and everyone's cooperation" and tried to escape through violent resistance. Led by the wise and powerful Kumagai-sama, everyone enthusiasticallyThe heroes of the world worked together to win.
They don’t care how Xiong Gu explains it later. This is the best result Xiong Gu can give, and it may even be better than finding the real culprit.
After the incident was over, these warriors hurriedly left Sichuan Pengzhuang under Xiong Gu’s instruction, in order to prevent the iron eucalyptus that had settled down from another incident.
After Miyamoto Musashi left the hotel, he went to Ganliu Island without stopping to meet his duel opponent. Although he was late for this battle, it also disrupted his opponent's mentality. Instead, he gained an advantage and easily won the peak duel that made him famous.
Tokumaru, on the other hand, was greatly shocked and suddenly felt that there were mountains beyond the mountains, so he decided to travel to distant places and practice again; in the future, this guy will appear in the Central Plains Wulin. In a certain martial arts competition, of course that is a story for another day.
As for Sun Huang and Keijiro, they embarked on their journey to the east.
It is worth mentioning that before leaving, Huang Donglai went to see what was going on with the two monks Yi Gen and Xing Gen, and why if one of them died, the other would suddenly die on his own.
As a result, Huang Donglai found a row of nail-like objects with a certain degree of magnetism on Xing Gen's back vertebrae. These "magnetic nails" were deeply embedded in Xing Gen's crest vertebrae. , looking at the growth state of the flesh around him, it can be inferred that he should have been embedded with these things when he was a boy who was not that tall.
And in Yi Gen's body, they also found similar things. The items are not nails, but small round magnetic rings. There are ten of these magnetic rings, which are put on Yi Gen’s ten toes like rings, and the surface of each magnetic ring is engraved with strange text.
This Yigen’s toes are also different from ordinary people. They appear to be particularly slender and widely spaced. It seems that he has undergone years of training to make his toes extremely flexible. Visual inspection shows that he can sneak in shoes and socks. Use your toes to make precise movements that are no less precise than your fingers.
After Huang Donglai saw those magnetic rings, he speculated that there should be similar words on the magnetic nails on Xing Gen’s back. On weekdays, Yi Gen influenced or controlled Xing Gen by secretly moving his toes. And this Xing Gen may have been a "living dead" for a long time, so once he loses control, he will directly turn into a corpse.
Unfortunately, when they checked, Xing Gen had already been classified as a "prisoner" and his body was already in custody, so they could not destroy his body or pull out the nails for inspection; the most they could do was take off his clothes. Yi Gen’s shoes and socks were inspected
But it is certain that the two monks of the Yixiang Sect, or the monks who “claim to be Yixiang Sect”, are far more weird than that. Maybe they are not The real murderer of Takeda Kuranosuke was definitely involved in other incidents.
The intersection between Shuangxie and these two people in Chuanpengzhuang may have foreshadowed some troubles in the future.
So, having said that, the real culprit of this crime nowWho is it?
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