A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 136 Detour
Asai Nagamasa didn't know that Baozangyuan Yinrong unknowingly blocked a disaster for him, but even if the monks and soldiers from Long Island City caught up with him, it was just adding a few more dead souls. Arrive at Nara.

Compared to the Inoguchi Town at the foot of Inabayama Castle that Asai Nagamasa had visited before, Nara is undoubtedly more developed. Even though it is dark, there are many places in the town that are brightly lit.

Looking around, in addition to rice houses, horse houses, grocery stores, blacksmith shops, weapon shops and even martial arts schools, there are also many shops that perform tricks and sell various snacks, which attracted the attention of the little ninja Ning Ning. Because there were many things she had never seen in Owari.

In contrast, Axiu showed a lack of interest, because her judgmental gaze was different from that of the little kunoichi. When she saw a new face, she usually first observed whether the other person could fight. When she saw something new, She wanted to find out whether the opponent could be used for fighting, and then the rest.

The same goes for Asai Nagamasa. He is not too interested in Nara. Compared with the colorful world hundreds of years later, everything here seems so primitive and ordinary.

More importantly, the most important thing at the moment is to treat Shima Sakon's injuries. His spell can prevent the evil force from harming his body, but it cannot help him heal quickly for the time being. He still needs a doctor.

He hasn't mastered healing spells yet, otherwise there is no need to be so troublesome, but after successive battles, his mana has been further strengthened, and it will take some time to digest it.

As a half-native, Shima Sakon quickly found the most famous doctor in Nara. Although the doctor seemed extremely curious and surprised about the special wound on his body that he had never seen before, seeing the long knife on Asai Nagamasa's waist, And for the generous medical fee, he kept his mouth shut.

Without any nonsense, he treated Shima Sakon's wound as quickly as possible, and promised not to reveal anything about the wound to anyone, and then respectfully sent the others out.

After a speechless night, Asai Nagamasa adjusted his condition and practiced two new spells. If he encounters the blind monk soldiers of Changdao City Ichigo Sect next time he returns, he will definitely let them die. Worse.

After having breakfast, he paid more attention to the situation around the island. After discovering that his energy and energy had improved significantly, he began to ask if there were any well-known ronin in the Nara area.

In addition to strengthening his strength, recruiting Ronin as his subordinates is also an indispensable part of his plan. Unfortunately, so far, although he has met many famous figures in later history, excluding Shima Sakon, he But even half of the ronin haven't been recruited yet.

Ning Ning is a little kunoichi, Tokichiro's younger brother Koichiro is a farmer, and there is a small businessman who doesn't know if he will go to Miyabe Castle to find his cheap apprentice.
Anyway, I have to be more serious this time.

Both he and Huang Long need to collect spirit stones, but just by himself, or with the help of Axiu, Ningning and Tokichiro, their power is still very small. If he wants to collect spirit stones as quickly as possible, The best way is that he has a powerful force.

Although Kitanomi has barren land and a lack of population, it definitely has a population of at least several hundred thousand. If he can become a daimyo, there will be a lot more manpower available. If he can unify North and South Omi, or the entire In the Kinki region, the manpower he can use will undoubtedly increase many times.

From the beginning, he did not do it for the original owner of this body. He wanted to become stronger and even seek the position of daimyo for Huang Long and himself.

It's a pity that when he inquired about Shima Sakon, the other party shook his head: "Sorry, young master, as far as I know, the well-known local ronin in Nara have either been recruited by Tsutsui's family and Kofukuji, or they are acting as locals. The merchants' guard."

Asai Nagamasa was suddenly a little stunned, knowing that he had thought too much before.

Indeed, with such two big forces nearby, whether it was to strengthen their own talents or to eliminate hidden threats, they were indeed unlikely to allow any famous wanderers to wander outside, after all, they were not short of money.

Judging from this, I am afraid that the situation is similar in other places. Unless the local lords and high-ranking warriors are all greedy for pleasure and have no ambitions, it is unlikely that they will allow outstanding ronin to remain in the wild under their command.

"Okay, let's bring some food and continue on the road. This time our goal is Jie Town."

Jie Town is currently the most prosperous commercial town in Nibon, and it is also the largest port city in Nibon. Of course Asai Nagamasa will not go there just because of how lively it is.

Apart from a personal letter from Miyabe Jirun, what he really wanted was to meet the Nanman people there.

In fact, after hearing the words Nanman, he already had a relatively complete plan in his mind. In the entire Nibon, he was probably the most suitable person to implement this plan.

In the history of the parallel world, the purpose of the Nanman people coming to Nibon is very simple. The first is to make money, and the second is to promote their Christianity.

But they are Southern Barbarians after all. Even though they have huge wealth, powerful muskets and cannons, Southern Barbarian medical skills and foreign ideas, because of their special appearance, they are criticized by local forces, especially religious forces such as the Yixiang Sect. Strong obstruction.

It was not bad in terms of making money, because they did have money, and their Nanman items were sought after by many samurai and even daimyo because of their rarity and strangeness, so they made a lot of money.

However, in terms of belief, even though it has been more than 100 years since the Nanman first appeared, there is still little progress, at least in the mainland where Buddhism has the deepest roots, and in the Kinki region where the Nanman first arrived.

It is said that on the relatively remote island of Kyushu, the Nanman people have initially developed some beliefs with their wealth and cannons. But now, it is amazing that there are only a few hundred people in Nibon who have converted to the Nanman faith.

Even many believers simply want to take advantage of these southern barbarians, pretending to believe in them first, and then throw them away immediately after achieving their goals.

For example, the blacksmith who met Miyabe Jirun did marry his daughter to the Nanman at first, but after he learned the technique of forging iron cannons from the Nanman, he immediately made a fool of himself. A trick to let his daughter fake death and escape.

There are countless things like this, but there are definitely a lot of them. Cut some meat when you need it, and kick it away when you don’t need it. The Nipen people simply regard those southern barbarians as big fat pigs , and it is the kind that does not need to be fed, which really makes the Nanman people suffer a lot.

In this case, if Asai Nagamasa showed his sincerity in front of the Nanman people, he would almost certainly get some support.

Because compared to other warriors of the same era, he has a unique advantage.

First of all, based on the memory of his previous life, he can speak Nanman language. Although he is not particularly proficient, he is still unique among the current Nibon people.

Secondly, he is the young master of Kitanomi and has great potential. Once he agrees to promote the faith of the Nanman people in his territory, the effect will definitely be much better than that of ordinary samurai.

For Asai Nagamasa, by showing interest in the beliefs of the Nanman people, he has a great chance of receiving muskets, cannons, and other support from the Nanman people, but all he has paid is some vague promises. .

Even if he completely failed to fulfill his promise afterwards, the Nanman people couldn't do much to him.

In the past few years, among the various people who have fooled the Nanman people, I have never heard of a few who were actually retaliated afterward.The southern barbarians are not fools, but they have come from far and wide. Their number is really limited, and it is impossible to do it by themselves. However, many ninjas who can do it for them seem to be indifferent to their money, which is very embarrassing. .

Of course, Asai Nagamasa is not treacherous. He can allow the other party to promote their beliefs in Kitaomi, but whether the farmers are willing to believe it is another matter.
But regardless of whether the plan can succeed, he has decided that after arriving in Nara, he will only go to Kyoto and Kofukuji Temple at most. After that, he will return directly to Kitaomi. It is also time to seize the position of governor of the Asai family!
At the same time, a small but extremely fierce battle was going on on Fukiro Mountain in Mino.

One of them is a complex that seems to be composed of rock, smoke, and fire, a huge faceless monster that can transform into a fiery whirlwind.

On the other hand were several humans, including Tokichiro, whom Asai Nagamasa was familiar with, Rizo Saito, the ashigaru general of the Saito family, and a young samurai in his thirties wearing gorgeous armor.

As for the last person, she was an exquisite warrior Ji, and she looked a little like Axiu, because they were using the same weapon, which could be transformed into three types of naginata and sickle.

But the most eye-catching thing is the mask, or helmet, on her face.

It was a terrifying mask with a pair of twisted golden horns and sharp teeth. I don’t know what the original intention was for the female Warrior Hime to choose to wear such an ugly mask. mask.

Although the faceless monster is huge and powerful, and every blow can send the ground flying at any time, the battle is very beneficial to the human side, because except for Tokichiro, who is waving the flag at the end, the weapons of the other three people all flash. Water-colored light.

Almost every time they attack, they can chop off a large body fragment from the faceless monster, and after being attacked, the speed of the faceless monster becomes slower and slower, even though its attack power is infinite , almost every attack can create a large crater with a radius of several meters on the ground, but no matter how powerful the attack is, it is useless if it cannot hit the target.

Finally, with a scolding sound, Warrior Ji struck hard, directly cutting most of the giant scythe's blade into the head of the faceless monster. In an instant, all its movements stopped, and with a burst of The breeze blew by, and its body was blown away like dust. Only a soul core that emitted a faint light fell to the ground.

Several people who were fighting breathed a sigh of relief. They all knew that the battle was finally over.

The name of this faceless monster is Yanyanluo. It was originally made of bituminous coal, flames and mist, plus spiritual power, so even if it died, there would be no corpse left.

Samurai Ji picked up the soul core on the ground unceremoniously, then turned to look at the young samurai: "Hey, Master Mitsuhide, I will accept this soul core."

It turns out that the young samurai is the general of the Saito family, and also the superior of Saito Toshizo, who is famous for both civil and military skills, and at the same time the family is also very close to Saito Dozo Akechi Mitsuhide.

After listening to Samurai Ji's words, Akechi Mitsuhide sheathed his sword first, and then he bowed his hands very politely: "Of course it is as it should be, and thank you Lord Wu Ming for your help."

Ji Ji, who was called Wu Ming, waved his hand: "You don't have to be so polite, Mitsuhide, when did you learn this move? Without these spells, our battle this time might not go so smoothly." Listen. It seems that she is no stranger to Akechi Mitsuhide.

Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. In fact, it wasn't going well. They had already fought fiercely with this big demon named Yanyanluo several times, but each time they ended in a disastrous defeat for their side. No matter how careful he was, Many elite samurai and ashigaru were also lost.

If Tokichiro hadn't brought these charms from Owari and informed him of the opponent's weaknesses, allowing him to take advantage of the situation, lead the opponent into an ambush, use a large amount of water prepared in advance to ambush, and then activate these charms, I really don't know how many people will die in Yan Yanluo's hands.

But despite this, after several days of fierce fighting, the total number of samurai, ashigaru, blacksmiths and farmers who died directly or indirectly at the hands of the opponent was already hundreds.

In the final analysis, I am still too weak. Although I got this power from Master Daozan, neither I nor Rizo seem to have any talent in this area. However, Master Asai from Kitaomi is able to create Such a useful, almost game-changing spell.
Sighing secretly again, he patiently explained: "Master Wu Ming, this was not Mitsuhide's doing. My onmyojitsu still lacks some heat. This is what Tokichiro got from an acquaintance in the south."

Hime Samurai Wuming immediately became interested. Except for Akechi Mitsuhide and Saito Rizo, she had never seen any outsiders who could master Onmyoji.

"Did you get it from Owari? Is there any famous Onmyoji in Qingzhou City?"

Hearing this, Tokichiro, who didn't know what he was muttering to Saito Rizo, couldn't stand. He trotted quickly and came to Wu Ming: "Of course Owari didn't. This is a small thing for me to come from Kitaomi specially. My young master, I asked you to get it from Lord Nagamasa!"

Akechi Mitsuhide and Saito Rizo looked at each other, somewhat embarrassed. The more embarrassing one was undoubtedly Saito Rizo. When they thought about how he dared to try to ask for money when they first met each other in Inoguchi Town. Spiritual stone, he just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

I really don't know what kind of mentality that Mr. Asai had, so he let himself perform there, he was like a geisha!
"The Asai family? Nagamasa-sama?"

Warrior Ji frowned slightly as she chewed on these words, but in the end she could only shake her head helplessly, because she really couldn't think of anything that could be related to Onmyoji.

"Yes, this is the power of Lord Nagamasa." Tokichiro nodded hurriedly. From Lord Asai's recent actions, he has gradually figured out something. It seems that Lord Asai is very eager for talents.

Although he is not a qualified samurai, if he can recruit this obviously very powerful Samurai Hime to the Asai family, Master Asai will not ignore his contribution in any case, right?

Seeing the other party's obvious expression of interest, he then added: "By the way, it's really a coincidence. Next to Master Asai, there is also a warrior Ji who is as good as you, Master Wu Ming, and she uses It’s also a special, transformable weapon.”

Ji Jiji's eyes narrowed in ignorance for a moment: "You mean, she also uses a naginata sickle?"

This unique weapon not only has extremely high requirements for users, but also requires extremely high technology to forge them. As far as she knows, there is currently no second force in the entire Nippeng who can forge them, but now there are outsiders who can also forge them. Own this weapon?

Tokichiro nodded immediately. He didn't think there was anything to hide, because everyone who had seen Axiu would never forget that unique weapon. Unfortunately, Master Asai seemed to have a very special attitude towards Axiu. He didn't even I am willing to let Axiu come here, otherwise it would be a good time for the two Ji warriors to communicate with each other.

"Is he still in Owari now?"

Hearing this, Tokichiro shook his head: "Probably not here, Mr. Asai is out traveling this time. Maybe he will go to Kyoto?"

Wu Ming couldn't help but clenched the weapon in his hand. From this point of view, after dealing with the nearby monsters, it was necessary for him to see Master Asai no matter what.

I also stopped by to check the sealing barrier there. In recent days, demons have appeared more and more frequently, and the formation has been affected by earthquakes, so I have to be careful!

(End of this chapter)