I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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"It's still early." Mucun said as he opened a bottle of sake again, "Let's drink for a while."

"You guys really like drinking..." Asai said helplessly.

"Wrong." Mucun grinned, "I don't like to drink, I like to drink in places like izakaya. Because drinking in izakaya, I often hear some interesting stories."

Mucun used chopsticks to pick up fennel beans for drinking and stuffed them into his mouth.

"When I was still in Yuli, I would often instruct my subordinates to hang out in izakaya and other places. A lot of useful information can often be collected in places like izakaya."

"A place like an izakaya, I just think it's very noisy, and I don't have any other feelings..." Asai sighed.

Just as Asai's words fell, a loud noise suddenly erupted from a large table some distance away from them:

"Wow! It's true!"

"What I said is true!"

"Is that person so powerful?"

……

"What are the people at that table doing..." Asai frowned, and looked at the table surrounded by people number 8, "Suddenly it was so noisy... It scared me..."

"Okay, don't worry about such trivial things." Mucun said in relief, "Continue to drink."

"Appetizers seem to be a bit insufficient." Shimada suddenly said at this moment.

"Then let someone serve some more plates of fennel beans. Miss Aqian!" Mu Cun waved to a young girl who was cleaning the table not far away.

During this period of time, Mucun and the others often visited this izakaya, so they became acquainted with the people in this izakaya.

The young girl called "Miss Aqian" by Mucun came quickly with a plate: "You guys can really drink...you have already drank so much..."

"Because your wine is made well here." Mucun chuckled, "It's because of your wine made here that we come to visit you so frequently during this time."

"Mr. Mucun's mouth is still as sweet as ever. What do you want? Do you want appetizers, or a few more bottles of wine..."

Before Aqian could finish her words, a sudden burst of noise interrupted her conversation. The source of the noise was the table of guests who had caught the attention of Asai and the others because of being too noisy just now.

"What are the people at that table doing..." Asai frowned again, "Even in an izakaya, it can't be so noisy, right?"

"This is also the normal state of our izakaya." Aqian showed helplessness, "I've been used to it for a long time. The guests at that table are also our regular customers here, so we are embarrassed to say anything more."

"What are they talking about... talking so loudly..." Mucun also became curious about the guests at the table at this time.

"I don't know the details." Ah Qian shrugged, "But I just heard a little bit of their chat."

"They just seemed to be talking about Fumaki Yamada Asemon, the number one swordsman in Edo, and Zena, the demon sword passed down from generation to generation by the Yamada Asemon family."

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Chapter 606 The Demon Sword That Slaughtered Thousands of Lives【6600】

"The number one swordsman in Edo and the demon sword Zena?" Mucun's eyes sparkled with interest, "What is this? It seems very interesting. Miss Aqian, can you tell us more about it?"

Ah Qian shrugged: "I don't know much. When I served them wine just now, I just happened to hear the words Edo No. [-] Swordsman and Yaodao Zhena."

"And I'm busy right now..."

Ah Qian let out a long sigh.

"If the proprietress sees that I am not doing business and chatting with customers here, I will be scolded."

"That's it, forget it." Mucun smiled, "Then Miss Aqian, you can go on with your own affairs. Ah, don't forget to bring the 2 plates of fennel beans."

"Okay."

As soon as Aqian left with the pan in his arms, Asai turned his attention to Shimada, a native of Edo: "What is Edo's number one swordsman and Yaodao Zhena?"

"Uh... this..." Shimada showed embarrassment, "I don't know very well. Edo has a population of one million, and some rumors of unknown origin are born every day, and I have always been familiar with these rural rumors. Not interested, so never paid attention to it..."

"Then go ask the people at that table." Mucun grinned and said, "I happen to be very interested in the number one swordsman in Edo and this demon sword."

"Wait for me for a moment. Ah, I'm asking you to take care of my Odachi temporarily."

After saying that, Makimura, who was not armed with any weapons, picked up two bottles of unopened sake, and strode towards the table of guests who had been making loud noises since just now.

"Guys! Can I be added?"

While talking, Mucun squeezed into the crowd of guests at this table under the gaze of doubtful eyes very familiarly.

For Mucun, who has lived in various places where fish and dragons have mixed up since he was a child, "naturally blending into other people's circles" is simply a trivial matter for him.

Sure enough, he looked at the people at Mucun's table with suspicion and wariness at first, and after a while, he began to chat with Mucun.

Mucun asked about their identities. They were ordinary construction workers who could be seen everywhere in Edo. Almost every night, they would go to various izakayas to have a few drinks together and talk about what they called "big things in the world".

Their behavior of spending a lot of money on drinking every night is very in line with the personality of the Edo people.

Edo people are notorious for not saving money. If they have money today, they spend it today. After spending it all, they make money tomorrow, and then spend it again, and the cycle repeats like this.Therefore, such a saying was born: "Edozi does not carry overnight money in his pocket"

The reason why Edo people generally love "today's wine and today's drunkenness" is quite complicated.A very important part of the reason is that Edo's food and entertainment industries are too developed.

Snack bars, restaurants, and izakaya are everywhere.There are countless storytellers and jugglers.There is also Yoshihara, the gold-selling cave that most Edo men dream about.

The over-developed catering and entertainment industries made Edo people dizzy and unable to restrain their desire for enjoyment, so they gradually developed the character of spending as much as they had every day.

After quickly getting acquainted with the guests at this table, Mucun didn't waste much time and got straight to the point:

"Brother, I just heard that you seem to be talking about the No. [-] swordsman in Edo and the demon sword. What is this? I am from a foreign country. This is the first time I have heard of the No. [-] swordsman in Edo. Where's the swordsman?"

"Oh! This one!" A broad-nosed young man sitting next to Mucun hiccupped heavily, and then continued, "Are you interested in this?"

Makimura nodded vigorously.

"Hey, since you're interested, let me tell you. Brother, do you know Yamada Asemon Fumaki?"

"Yamada Asemon Fumaki?" Mucun raised his eyebrows, "Yes, I heard."

Some time ago, when I accompanied Shimada to his Shimada’s mansion, it happened that Shimada’s father invited people from the Yamada Asemon family to test the knife. It was at that time that Mucun heard about the “Yamada Asaemon Emmon Fumaki" is the name of the person.

"It's the seventh generation head of the Yamada Asemon family." Makimura added.

Broad Nose nodded vigorously: "That's right, it's him, he is the number one swordsman in Edo."

"That Yamada Asemon Fumaki is the number one swordsman in Edo now?" Mucun was surprised.

Broad Nose nodded, but after nodding he smiled wryly and said, "Actually, there have always been different opinions on who the title of the number one swordsman in Edo belongs to."

"However, at this stage, most people think that Wen Xian is the number one swordsman in Edo. At least the few of us all agree that Wen Xian is the well-deserved number one swordsman in Edo."

"Because Wenxian has the most rumors about his strong swordsmanship."

"Brother, do you know how the Yamada Asemon family practiced swordsmanship?"

"I don't know." Mu Cun honestly shook his head.

"The Yamada Asemon family has been responsible for the executioners and sword testers of the shogunate for generations, so in order to practice swordsmanship, the Yamada Asemon family has a very unique swordsmanship training method."

Having said that, Broad Nose patted the back of his neck.

"Brother, you may not know that when chopping someone's head, the best position for the knife is between the third bone and the fourth bone from the top to the bottom of the back of the neck. Cutting the knife from this position can make the most beautiful head cut it down."

Back when he was Yori in Kyoto, Mucun had heard such cold knowledge from a colleague who was a prison guard.

But in order not to spoil the interest of the broad nose, so that the broad nose can continue to speak, Mucun deliberately pretended to be stupid, and nodded as if he didn't understand at all: "So beheading is still so particular..."

"That's right. So in order to improve the precision of swinging a sword, the Yamada Asemon family created this training method: put two pieces of tatami together, and then swing the knife to split the gap between the two pieces of tatami."

"The gap between the two tatami mats?" Mucun frowned. "The gap between the two tatami mats... the gap is only the width of a few strands of hair?"

"Yes." Broad Nose nodded, "So this training method is simply incredible."

"It is said that every time the knife is used, the knife can be accurately cut into the gap between the tatami mats without damaging the two tatami mats together."

"The Yamada Asemon family has undergone this kind of training for generations, so everyone in the Yamada Asemon family is a savage who is both accurate and fierce with knives. They want to chop off the third bone in the back of your neck and The gap between the 3th bone is definitely the gap between the 4nd bone and the 2rd bone."

"The current leader of Yamada Asemon, that is, Fumaki, is a swordsman who has perfected the accuracy of his sword."

"I heard that Wen Xian can chop off the wings of a flying fly without hurting the fly's body."

"Cut off the fly's wings without hurting the fly's body... This is too exaggerated." Mu Cun couldn't help laughing.

"This rumor may be exaggerated and fabricated, but a real incident related to Wen Xian's powerful swordsmanship just happened recently, and the few of us were talking about it just now."

Wide Nose picked up the wine glass, took a few sips of wine, and then continued vividly:

"Beheading criminals sentenced to beheading at the execution ground has always been one of the main tasks of the Yamada Asemon family."

"Just a few days ago, Wen Xian was invited to the execution ground as usual to chop off the head of a murderer."

"But after the hair on the back of the murderer's neck was pulled away, everyone in the execution ground was surprised to find that the five characters of Dongzhao Daquanxian were tattooed on the back of the murderer's neck."

"This scares everyone in the execution ground enough. Dongzhao Daquan is now Ieyasu's god name." Ieyasu: Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first general of the Edo shogunate.As for the name of the god, you can understand it as something similar to the temple name and posthumous name

"After careful questioning, I found out that this guy knew he would be arrested and executed before he committed the crime, so he specially tattooed these five words on the back of his neck, so as to disgust the people in the government."

"It's disrespectful to have the tattoo on the back of the Ieyasu Kojin's neck."

"If you want to change the penalty, you have to report it layer by layer, which is very troublesome."

"Just when everyone in the execution ground was at a loss, Wen Xian, who was calm from the beginning to the end, drew his sword."

"Wen Xian is a well-known expert in sword drawing in Edo. It is said that his sword drawing skills are so fast that the enemy is beheaded before he realizes that his opponent Wen Xian has already drawn a sword."

"Wen Xian first used his knife-drawing skills to peel off the prisoner's skin with the five characters Dongzhao Daquanxian tattooed on the back of his neck."

"The prisoner didn't even have time to scream, Wen Xian swung his knife again and chopped off his head."

"It wasn't until Wen Xian shook off the blood attached to the knife and put the knife back into its sheath that the human skin with Dongzhao Daquanxian's tattoo fell to the ground."

It has to be said that this broad-nosed man has a talent for storytelling, and he told this short story so vividly that even Mucun was fascinated by it.

"Peel off the skin on the back of a person's neck with a knife drawing technique..." Mu Cun's eyes showed unconcealable astonishment.

Although he didn't have much research on the knife drawing technique, he also knew how difficult it was to use the knife drawing technique to peel off the back of the neck of a kneeling person in a standing posture.

"By the way, what I said just now is not a sliver of fiction." Broad Nose added, "I know a man who works at the execution ground, and Wen Xian is executing this guy with Dongzhao Daquan tattooed on the back of his neck Before that, my friend happened to be there, and it was a real event that happened just a few days ago."

"What's the matter with Yaodao Zhe?" Mu Cun asked.

"Oh, this is the sword passed down from generation to generation by the Yamada Senemon family that we talked about when we were talking about Wen Xian just now."

"Yoto Zena is a family treasure passed down from generation to generation in the Yamada Asemon family."

Speaking of which, Wide Nose drank a few more sips of wine to moisten his throat.

"Zana's full name is Vairocana."

"Vairocana is the saber of the previous head of the Yamada Asemon family: the sixth head of the Yamada Asemon Yoshihito."

"It is said that this knife is a treasured knife made of special steel and special knife-making techniques. It is indestructible."

"Jiheng has always used this precious sword when executing people."

"I heard that until Ji Heng passed away, he used Vairocana to send at least a thousand people into the underworld."

"After Jiheng passed away, he left a family motto: to always pass on Vairocana to the best son of Yamada Senemon's family."

"Vairocana has now been handed down to the current head of the seventh generation: Wen Xian."

"However, Wen Xian is not like his father, Jiheng, who used Vairocana to execute everyone. He only took out this precious sword when he executed warriors, and used ordinary swords when he executed civilians."

"It is said that this knife, which has only been handed down for two generations, has killed thousands of people."

"Because this knife has been bathed in too much blood, gradually everyone calls this knife an evil sword, a demon sword."

"What's more, it is said that only those who are equally murderous can control Vairocana, otherwise ordinary people will not be able to use this knife at all, and will only be eroded by the evil spirit of this knife."

Mucun has always been insensitive to gods and ghosts, so he automatically ignored the absurd statement behind the broad nose that he was "corroded by the evil spirit of the knife".

"So that's how it is..." Mucun nodded, "But I" But I don't understand why this knife is named Vairocana?Isn't Vairocana the name of Dainichi Tathagata in Tantric Buddhism?It feels strange to name a knife specially used for executions as Dainichi Tathagata. "

"I don't know about that." Broad Nose shrugged, "I have to ask the sixth-generation master who made this sword, Yamada Asemon. But now even if I want to ask, I can't ask, Yamada Asemon The head of the sixth generation is dead long ago."

"Speaking of Yamada Asemon." At this moment, the tall man sitting across from Broad Nose suddenly said, "Recently, the quality of the Rendan pills produced by Yamada Asemon seems to be much higher."

"I have a friend who is very rich. His wife has lung disease and must take human gallbladder pills regularly to keep her life alive."

"He told me yesterday: The quality of the human gallbladder produced by the Yamada Asemon family recently is very good, and his wife's complexion has improved a lot recently."

"Hey." Broad Nose sneered, "The bile pills of the Yamada Asemon family are not that easy to use."

"I don't deny the role of their human gallbladder pills in treating lung diseases."

"However, the medicinal effect of Rendan Pills is only effective for a small number of people. The vast majority of people have no effect at all after taking Rendan Pills. Some people even got new diseases instead of being cured after taking Rendan Pills."

"You can't say that." The tall man showed displeasure, "If no one had the guts, my friend's wife would have died long ago."