The next moment, Qingden stepped to the left and struck the one-armed samurai on the left with his sword.

Frightened by the dancing blade, the one-armed warrior had no choice but to retreat.

After forcing the one-armed warrior back, Qingden turned to deal with the ugly warrior.

When the ugly man saw Qing Deng rushing towards him, he couldn't help but panic, but this panic only appeared for a moment.

His waist sank, he raised his sword in a Xia Duan style, and he lunged straight at Qingdeng's chest with his sword in hand.

Qing climbed up to one side of his body to avoid Choubi's fierce attack, then pounced forward and pressed against Choubi's right side of the abdomen.

The next moment, Dingguishen slashed across the belly of the ugly guy like lightning!

Ugly is not a fuel-efficient lamp either.

Seeing Qingdeng's sword coming towards him, he tried his best to dodge sideways and returned Qingdeng's sword fiercely.

Qingden saw Choubo's sword flash before his eyes... He felt that his upper left arm was hit somewhere, but he didn't feel much pain. The wound must not be deep.

Choupai only caused minor injuries to Qingden. But the injuries Qingden inflicted on Choupai were just...

Qingdeng and Choubo passed each other.

After Qingden rushed forward for a few steps without losing momentum, he turned around and held his knife, taking a mid-range stance that could be used both offensively and defensively to check for the ugly move.

"Ahem...! Ahem...!"

The ugly man lowered his head and coughed hard. A large amount of blood spurted out from his mouth and nose... The blood was mixed with many fragments of internal organs.

He held the knife and turned around slowly, glaring at Qingdeng with his eyes that were red and bloodshot due to severe pain, while approaching Qingdeng with shaky and staggering steps.

He only took 2 steps, and his ankle seemed to have lost strength, and his lower body began to become unstable.

When he was only a short distance away from Qingdeng, he raised the knife high and assumed the upper stance.

However, as soon as he raised the knife, he heard a "pop" sound - the knife suddenly slipped from his palm.

The ugly guy is still standing there.

Still maintaining the posture of holding the sword high, he looked at Qingdeng with an expression of resentment and unwillingness.

Then his body began to shake violently. Finally, he fell face down to the ground, no longer alive.

——17...!

Of course, Qingdeng did not have the leisure time to "stay in place and quietly watch the ugly guy's final struggle" - before the ugly guy walked towards Qingdeng while coughing up blood, the only four remaining members of the anti-barbarian group started to attack Qingdeng.

Den launched...the final siege.

Although Yunliu's "Indoor Fighting Technique" has many techniques and techniques, there are only two core concepts -

First, make good use of your ears.

Second, learn to control the length of the weapon.

Tiancang Xiao once said to Qingdeng earnestly: A common mistake made by people without indoor fighting experience is to ignore the restrictions on weapons in a narrow environment.

Right now, one person has made such a stupid mistake as Tiancang Xiao said.

One of the three people who had just fought with Qingdeng, for some unknown reason, suddenly lost his cool.

While shouting "Aoao", he opened and closed the knife widely, swinging the knife indiscriminately.

"Kuse!" the one-armed warrior shouted anxiously, "Don't mess around!"

The one-armed warrior tried to use his voice to awaken the man's sanity.

But the words of the one-armed warrior have not yet fallen——

Bang!

The man's knife, which he was swinging wildly, accidentally hit the sliding paper door beside him, and the blade of the knife sank deeply into the door frame.

In the blink of an eye... really in the blink of an eye, this person's face turned pale as if it had been smeared by fine snow.

He frantically tried to pull the knife back, but it was sunk too deep into the door frame, making it difficult to pull it out immediately.

Sometimes, some mistakes can only be made once in a lifetime.

Qingdeng saw this opportunity and immediately stepped forward.

Seeing Qingdeng coming to kill him, the man no longer bothered to draw his sword and quickly let go, leaving the sword embedded in the paper sliding door.

But as soon as he freed his hands, his waist was chopped off until only a tiny bit of skin and flesh remained.

His head, hands, and shoulders all hung down feebly, but his feet still retained a little bit of inertia and muscle memory. It was obvious that the person was dead, but his feet still supported the upper body that had no breath of life, crookedly.

He wandered a few steps.

The time when he fell to the ground coincided with the ugly one.

Not only did the two men fall to the ground in no particular order, but they also fell to the ground in basically the same position - the two men fell to the ground almost at the same time, and their bodies were stacked together on the tatami.

--18 pcs……!

Two black shadows, and the suffocating murderous aura carried by these two black shadows, rushed towards Qingdeng.

Qingdeng shouted low and dodged under the two swords, leaving two sword lights behind him.

——19,20...!

Without looking behind him, Aomori faced the last two opponents: the one-armed samurai and Takasugi Shinsaku, who had not made a move. The two men behind him had fallen to the ground one after another while covering their wounds that were constantly spurting blood.

"Whirring whirring……"

The high-intensity continuous fierce fighting had already made Qingdeng's breathing become somewhat rapid, and a layer of sweat appeared on his body, but his physical strength was basically intact.

Keep fighting, no problem.

He looked at the one-armed samurai, and then at Takasugi Shinsaku - Aoto's eyes lingered on Takasugi Shinsaku for an especially long time.

"..." Takasugi Shinsaku stared at Qingteng for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at the one-armed warrior beside him.

Takasugi Shinsaku's action was another... and final confirmation to the one-armed samurai: Do you really not need my help?

The one-armed samurai immediately sensed the look from Takasugi Shinsaku and the meaning contained in this look.

He shook his head firmly and without hesitation, and then with an expression on his face as if he was about to do a great deed of humiliation and sacrifice, he took one step forward, then half a step to the left, and stood directly in front of Qingdeng.

Looking at the one-armed warrior's actions, Qingden asked softly: "You...won't you come together?"

The one-armed warrior ignored Qingdeng's rhetorical question.

He straightened his waist and inhaled hard until his chest reached its limit——

"Tachibana Aoden! I am Takataka Todo! I am a close friend of Tatsugoro Kamino!"

Kamino Tatsugoro...a familiar name I haven't heard for a long time.

At this juncture, Qingto suddenly claimed that Kamino was his good friend... Qingto vaguely guessed what the one-armed warrior wanted to do next, and his eyelids sunk slightly.

What the one-armed warrior said next and what he did perfectly confirmed Qingdeng's conjecture.

"You kill my companions first, my best friends first, and then you destroy our great cause! I have to avenge this blood feud!"

Speaking of this, the one-armed samurai...or Todo Takataka slowly raised his sword, pointing the tip of the sword at Aoden.

"Ju Qingden! I will formally file a complaint against you!"

Qiudu——Hearing this word, Takasugi Shinsaku on the side opened his eyes slightly in surprise.

And even Qingteng, who had guessed what the one-armed warrior wanted in advance, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Since the establishment of the Edo shogunate by the Tokugawa family, in order to better domesticate the samurai group as the country's ruling class, under the leadership of the Tokugawa family, the ethical values ​​​​of the samurai...that is, "bushido" began to take shape.

Reputation is more important than life - this is one of the core ideas of Bushido in the Edo period, and it is also one of the most twisted ideas.

Many laws in the "Samurai Laws", the basic law drafted by the Edo shogunate to control samurai, were formulated with the starting point of "protecting the honor of samurai".

The typical representative among them is the "Zansha Yufu", which can kill rude servants, townsfolk, and ordinary people without being punished.

Since under the influence of Bushido, samurai have an almost pathological pursuit of reputation... then "to whom should we take revenge" has become an unavoidable topic.

Suppose one day a man kills his parents and takes away his wife... If he doesn't kill the beast with his own hands, what reputation will he have?

Therefore, revenge has naturally become an important right for samurai to maintain their honor.

As a result, although the Edo shogunate prohibited samurai from dueling in private, it did not prohibit samurai from taking revenge on those who had blood feuds with them.

In a nutshell - in the Edo period, samurai could legally take revenge.

Whether you kill your enemy with your own hands or not will directly affect the world's judgment of the person involved.

People generally respect those who succeed in revenge, pity those who fail in revenge, and despise those who dare not take revenge.

This led to the introduction of a special system...or culture: "Qiu Bei".

Whether it is the banners under the shogun, the imperial family, or the vassals of the "three hundred princes", they can legitimately obtain the power of "revenge of murder".

When deciding who to seek revenge from, the person involved can apply for a "permission for revenge" from his or her superiors.

It doesn't matter if the permission is not granted, but if the permission is granted, then the government has the obligation to protect the person's right to revenge and provide some convenience for the person's journey of revenge.

For example, if the enemy of the person involved is out of town, the government is obliged to grant the person involved a document that allows him to travel freely throughout the country.
To be continued...