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

Chapter 208 The Secret Path
In the secret passage, demonic aura overflowed, blood flowed horizontally, and a fishy smell filled the nose.

Almost every step you take, there are the corpses of various poisonous snakes, giant pythons, ashigaru, samurai, or those ghouls affected by the spirit stones. They all seem to illustrate how terrible the battles that have happened here are. Tragic.

The Yilong Army discovered this secret passage and sent an army and monsters to attack. However, there was no doubt that the three Taoist armies put up extremely fierce resistance, causing the Yilong Army to suffer heavy losses.

There are still strange roars and the sound of clashing weapons from time to time in the distance, proving that the fighting here has not completely stopped.

Probably because of this, after receiving the news of Oda Nobunaga's advance, Saito Yoshitsune chose to turn around and deal with the opponent instead of continuing to waste time here.

Because he probably already understood that even if there were monsters to help, he would never be able to completely capture this place in a short time.

Even Asai Nagamasa and the others have to be careful where they step at all times.

These poisonous snakes and giant pythons often die without being stiff, and they will not show mercy to them just because they have good intentions towards Dao San.

Coupled with the complex and dangerous terrain here, various traps that were obviously laid out in advance, and corpses with green light suddenly jumping out from time to time, even if Asai Nagamasa personally led the team, the speed of advancement was not as fast as before. Not too fast.

Because he not only has to kill the enemy, but also collects and seals the contaminated spiritual stones dropped by the enemy after death. Otherwise, if left unchecked, new monsters will regenerate here soon.

Although none of the people behind him are ordinary warriors, for the time being, only one person can complete this job.

After constantly defeating various monsters and looking at the traps laid out by Dao San, even Asai Nagamasa couldn't help but sigh a little, is this the true appearance of the Viper God Realm?

This name is indeed correct. It is the hometown of "Mino Viper" Saito Dozo. It is really suitable.

He knew before that the other party must have some plot in Lushan City, but he didn't expect Saito Douzan's handiwork to be so big. Looking at the current appearance, he may have hollowed out most of the entire mountain. I don’t know how long he has been operating here.

Maybe, before he ascended to the position of daimyo, he had already started to take action here!

But what is he planning?Could it be that Cheng was raising those poisonous snakes and giant pythons here and then cultivating his guardian spirit?
Or maybe there are other secrets in the White Snake Shrine?

He wanted to ask Akechi Mitsuhide, after all, he was Dao San's disciple, but when he saw the straight eyes of the other party, he knew that even if he asked, there would probably be no results.

After following Ning Ning across several collapsed stone gates in the secret passage, the other party has been in this state. It seems that he does not know the real secret of Dao San.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Akechi Mitsuhide, who had clearly claimed to know the underground secret passages of Lushan City before, so he specifically asked to be guided, was actually a little confused at the moment, because this was completely different from the secret passages he knew.

He originally thought that Master Daosan had always opened his heart to him, told him all his secrets, and taught him spells that ordinary people could not access, so he ignored his dark past and reputation and devoted himself to him.

But now it seems that what I know is actually what the other party wants me to know. After I and others passed through the stone gates destroyed by the Yilong Army monsters and entered these new secret passages, What is hidden here is the real secret of Master Dao San, right?

But then he started to blame himself, how could he speculate on the three great Taoists like this?If Lord Daosan hadn't promoted him, how could he have the status and power he has now, as a mere descendant of a branch family in Mingzhi City?

Even if Master Dao San has something to hide from him, no matter what, he is still far from being able to repay Master Dao San for his great kindness!
"Be careful, don't get distracted during the battle!"

There was a flash of purple light, and a corpse suddenly jumped out of a tunnel and was immediately beheaded.

Akechi Mitsuhide, who broke out in a cold sweat from behind, quickly saluted Asai Nagamasa: "Thank you for saving your life, Your Highness. I just lost my composure."

Asai Nagamasa waved his hand, indicating that the other party did not have to do this. He was more interested in the corpse in front of him than this trivial favor.

Different from the fully armed ghouls transformed by ashigaru or samurai who were killed by them on the road before, the ghoul in front of them looked like old corpses, all skinny and dark, as if they had died of dehydration. In addition, it was probably very short when it was alive, so at first glance it looks like a black monkey.

And it didn't have any decent weapons in its hands, only a pair of sharp and long claws.

Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly became a little surprised and uncertain: "It seems"

But it was Wu Ming who moved faster than him. She ran forward in three or two steps and turned directly into a fork. Then her angry screams and the sound of waving weapons were soon heard from inside. .

Asai Nagamasa and others quickly chased after them, and then they discovered that there were several very similar corpses fighting Wu Ming, but what attracted their attention more were some tools scattered on the ground, and the extremely dim light that was emitting from them. Green glow wall.

Although the light is so weak, indicating that its purity is extremely low and the energy it contains must be extremely rare, it is indeed the unique light of spiritual stones.

Asai Nagamasa immediately understood why Saito Douzan chose to live in seclusion here, and why he did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources to hollow out this mountain. He was all doing it for the spiritual stones here.

After getting rid of these corpses in a few clicks, everyone else fell silent. Of course they were not idiots, and they all soon realized something.

Looking at the scattered tools on the ground, although some wood and bamboo had become decayed due to the passage of time, they could still judge from the remaining wreckage that they were tools for digging and moving stones.

And these corpses that they had just killed were probably just innocent miners!Were they digging spiritual stones for Dao San, so they were silenced and abandoned here afterwards, or were they killed by other monsters and then transformed into corpses?
But in fact, that is no longer important. No matter what happened in the first place, Dao San has occupied this place for decades, but they still have not been able to rest in peace. Dao San has even used them as guards here. This is undoubtedly Is the truth.

The real purpose of Saito Yoshiryu's rebellion is full of doubts. Is he really seeking revenge, or is he trying to snatch the spiritual stones collected by Saito Dosan, or both?

After leaning over and inspecting it carefully, Wu Ming turned to Asai Nagamasa and nodded: "It's a spiritual stone. These ghouls are the same as the ghouls that I and Master Mitsuhide crusaded on Fukiro Mountain that day. They were all made of miners." Transformed from their corpses."

"In other words, we should call them Shikijiro."

Shikijiro, in the legend of Nibon, are some little monsters transformed from miners' corpses or unwilling souls. They are very weak, and only their fangs are a threat. Speaking of which, their appearance is actually a bit pitiful and sad.

Akechi Mitsuhide felt like something was broken in his heart.

Ming Mingdao, the Third Great Master, told himself before that he did not hesitate to bear the infamy and became the Warring States Daimyo in a "lower to overcome the higher" way and became the master of Meinong just to make it easier to collect spiritual stones.

He once said that in the hands of ordinary people or people with malicious intentions, spiritual stones will become a force that causes trouble in the world, so he will do everything he can to collect spiritual stones to avoid falling into the hands of people with evil intentions or being possessed by monsters. use.

But now in the secret passage under Lushan City, these miners not only died in extremely suspicious circumstances, but also continued to work for them in disguise after turning into monsters.

Even though these monsters were not transformed by his own hands, he did not conquer them. Doesn't he know how much casualties they would cause to innocent people once these monsters were allowed to escape?

No matter how weak Shikijiro is, they are monsters after all!

Akechi Mitsuhide's body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he finally couldn't help but groan: "Master Daosan, why are you like this? Is the power of the spirit stone destined to cause trouble in the world?"

"I can't pretend I didn't hear this, let alone agree with it."

Akechi Mitsuhide turned around and found that the one who spoke was his grateful Asai-sama.

"Your Highness." At this moment, there was a trace of expectation in his heart that even he himself could not distinguish.

"Master Mitsuhide, I don't know what Master Daosan once told you, but there is no good or evil in spirit stones themselves. The key lies in how you use them."

"Yoshiryu Saito uses the power of the spirit stone to transform ghouls and kill people, but I will use the power of the spirit stone to defeat monsters and save people."

"There may be many truly evil forces in this world that we should not be exposed to at all, but at least the spirit stone is not one of them. The key is how you want to do it."

If the secret of his rapid growth was made public, most people would probably think that this kind of power obtained through killing would be the most complete evil, right?

However, he has never used them for evil. Instead, he has been constantly fighting against the rebellious monsters.

In this world with the four evil gods of chaos, maybe even the power itself has justice or evil, but at least the spirit stone itself has no good or evil.

"Do I want to?"

Akechi Mitsuhide fell into a trance after hearing this, but Wu Ming, who was a few meters away, suddenly became a little confused, because she felt that the water aura in the air around her seemed to be suddenly abundant.

As the legendary guardian spirit, the mermaid princess Yaboiki, she will never feel wrong in this regard.

But this feeling was fleeting, as if it had never happened before.

But Asai Nagamasa next to him couldn't help but smile: It's interesting, breaking and then standing, so does it also stimulate the hidden power in the body?

From this point of view, the rules summarized by Abe Seimei are not completely correct. After being possessed by a guardian spirit, the possessed person will not immediately show special powers.

There are also cases like Mitsuhide Akechi, where the guardian spirit in the body fell into a deep sleep for a time, and then finally awakened under some special opportunity.

Maybe before this, even he himself didn't know that there was a guardian spirit lurking in his body?
But they have no time to continue thinking here, because the purpose of their coming here is to save Dao San's life from the ghouls under Yilong. The longer time passes, the more dangerous Dao San will be.

When this matter is over, they will have plenty of time to question Wen San.

Akechi Mitsuhide obviously figured this out quickly, so he solemnly thanked Asai Nagamasa again and followed him closely, his attitude much more respectful than before.

No matter what, we must first save Master Dao San to repay the other party's kindness over the years!
At this moment, an extremely weird beast roar suddenly sounded, and then as if some mechanism had been touched, the entire underground passage shook violently.

Wu Ming and Akechi Mitsuhide were both shocked. They were underground. If an earthquake broke out at this time, they would probably be buried alive to death!
(End of this chapter)