Chapter 59: Enmity and Enmity
When he knocked on the door of Chen Yue's house, Gu Yun thought he would see two figures fighting all night in front of the computer, but the computer in the living room was turned off. There were a few empty cans on the coffee table in front of the TV, and five or six half-turned books were placed on the carpet.
Chen Yue lay on the carpet, with thick dark circles on her eyes, and it really looked like she had been staying up all night.
Gu Yun never expected that one day, Chen Yue would become an outstanding student who stayed up late to read books.
"Ha--Good morning Brother Gu Yun."
Chen Yue turned the book over a page, "I called Ikeda overnight yesterday and asked her to recommend a few books to me."
The three of them are biography of Ashina, Ikeda and Misou. These three books have created a chaotic world where swordsmen are the dominant and demons are rampant. The three famous heroes at that time have written a biography of ups and downs in the troubled times.
The other three books are professional books.
"Ancient Famous Sword Records", "Swordsmanship in Troubled Times" and "Demon Map".
It is not easy to find these six books. Even though Chen Jiang mobilized the forces of all the branch employees and woke up the bookstore administrators in most of the cities who were sleeping, he gathered these six books.
And what she is flipping in her hand now is the "Demon Map".
After reading this book, she realized that paranormal phenomena and abnormal creatures have existed since ancient times. As early as the troubled times when the first head of the Ikeda clan lived, there were disasters in the troubled times. The Ikeda clan, known as the ghost-killing clan, has been passed down from generation to generation since that era.
However, there are considerable gaps in the biological categories born from different regions.
For example, the ones that turmoil the European continent were once the familiar monsters such as vampires, werewolfs, and witches, which are now familiar to people. However, the demons from this continent in ancient times were mostly shown as spiritual bodies.
An Ling woke up early in the morning and spontaneously joined the ranks of reading.
"Gu Yun, do you know that the first head of the Ikeda clan was named Ikeda Daoman. He married a witch who was fascinating to the country at that time. The two of them had a marriage contract under the moon, which was very romantic... Ah, later, male descendants freely learned kendo, and female descendants learned witchcraft skills, which was passed down like this."
In fact, the three heroes of Ashina, Ikeda and Misou were the only ones who had a good ending.
Ikedado is 61 years old.
The book says that Ikeda Daoman had a vague premonition of his death in his later years.
One morning during the cherry blossom season, outside the Ikeda tribe's dojo, listening to the whistling wind of the sword, Ikeda Dao was pillowing on his wife's lap, staring at the scattered cherry blossom petals, and decided to take a nap.
This hero in troubled times fell asleep completely in this way.
As for the two people who are as famous as Ikeda Doman, their fate is not that perfect.
The Imperial tribe loyally served the shogunate. When the first head of the family, Mitsuko Akutagawa, was 52 years old, he led his army to the south to fight. In the end, he was wrapped in a body and died on the battlefield. The South Expedition Army was defeated and returned. There were no generals in the court, and there were fox demons in chaos. The shogunate entered a long dark period.
However, compared to Mimaru Akutagawa, who was born on the battlefield and died on the battlefield, the ending of Shinichi Ashina, the former world's number one swordsman, is even more regrettable. Shinichi Ashina left home to practice since childhood. In order to pursue the ultimate swordsmanship, he rejected his beloved woman throughout his life and stayed away from his close friend, but eventually went astray and was bewitched by the sword demon.
"Then what?"
Gu Yun saw An Ling suddenly stopping and couldn't help asking.
The last time I talked to him, I mentioned Shinichi Ashina's name, and called his sword drawing technique, reminding him of Shinichi Ashina, the great sword master of the world in the past, so he couldn't help but become interested in this great sword master who had heard the name once.
"The 43-year-old Shinichi Ashina was defeated by his lifelong friend Ikeda Daoman and Mitsuma Akutagawa. When he was dying, Shinichi Ashina recovered his consciousness and realized that he could only thank the world with a septum. I hope Ikeda Daoman could make a mistake for him."
"That is, he committed suicide?"
"Um."
According to the records of three biography, Ikeda Daoman and Mimaru Akutagawa both passed down their bloodlines and kendo. However, Ashina Shinichi had no wife or son in his life, and was known as the world's number one swordsman, but he brought his life's unique skills to the grave.
"This story tells us that only when a spirit master marrys a witch can he live a happy and stable life. If you really can't find a witch, you can find a witch. The two words are reversed, and the meaning is still the same."
An Ling was seriously carrying private goods, but when she met Gu Yun's skeptical eyes, she coughed with guilt, "Actually, these three biography have their implicit meanings. According to my understanding, after Ikeda Daoman married the witch, she stayed away from the government and established a dojo in the countryside, which was a bit similar to the folk spiritual masters. The Imperial Sect made great achievements and became an important minister in the court. It is said that to this day, the Imperial Sect still plays an important role in N City; Ashina Shinichi is a prodigal son who abandons everything, wanders around the world and has no home, so after his death, the two friends could only scatter his ashes in the river outside Kyoto."
"How come you think of studying this?"
"Didn't you say that the 'aggressive ghost' you saw in the live broadcast belongs to the sword? Shen Yue and I have a little understanding of the culture of N City."
As the saying goes, if you want to defeat the enemy, you must first understand the enemy.
"In addition to these grudges, love and revenge, we have another important discovery that can explain the situation you encountered last night!"
An Ling read the book all morning and spoke with confidence.
She has never understood the meaning of the saying "knowledge is power" as clearly as she is now. As long as she reads the book, one day she, the trainee witch, can popularize knowledge in front of Gu Yun.
"In his later years, Shinichi Ashina was controlled by the demon sword, but he was still a human in essence. In order to facilitate your understanding, you can understand him as a demon wearing a human cloak. This explains why the yellow talisman that night did not have the effect of warning, because the attacker was an anchor who approached as a human."
But although it is a human, it has the power that is almost a demon.
However, she and Shen Yue have not yet figured out why the demon sword recorded in the biography appears in City X, so after reading the biography, Shen Yue has begun to study whether there is any demon sword lost in the records of "Ancient Famous Sword Records", and it corresponds to which descendant of a swordsman.
After listening to An Ling's narration, Gu Yun was really shocked.
When two players who stay together will form a team to play games become serious, the perception brought by them will be subversive.
"I don't think Shen Yue's worries are redundant."
Anling said, "We found that in these biography, we recorded a tradition that was once very popular in the swordsman's sword, called "killing with a sword."
In that era, there were far less complete laws than today. Swordsmen and swordsmen often aroused their grudges, and all of them were honestly convinced that the more blood they were stained with, the stronger the sword would become.
Chapter completed!