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

Chapter 251 Aquatic Village

"My lord, Your Highness Nagamasa, five miles ahead is Shuisheng Village, and it was the villagers in their village who first discovered the abnormality. Further ahead, it is in the direction of the legendary Ashina Castle shrouded in fog."

The young samurai, who looked about the same age as Asai Nagamasa, introduced him excitedly.

He is the son of Murakami Yoshikiyo, the general of the Uesugi family - Murakami Kunikiyo.

His father had defeated the famous Takeda Shingen twice. In the end, he was completely defeated only when his allies fell into a trap and the strength gap was huge.

As a result, he had to seek refuge with the Uesugi family, and Teru Uesugi cried and asked her to help uphold justice and regain the lost territory. This was also the direct cause of the first Battle of Kawanakajima.

In short, Murakami Yoshikiyo hated Takeda Shingen very much. As a general in his family, when he learned that the Takeda family was also involved in this incident, he immediately actively sent his son and many samurai to accompany him. He wanted to Look for opportunities to attack the Takeda family samurai.

If he hadn't been in his sixties, covered in injuries, and struggling to walk and ride a horse, I'm afraid he would have carried a knife with him.

Asai Nagamasa was very interested in this young samurai, because when Axiu attacked the Uesugi family before, the opponent was one of the few who could survive three attacks in Axiu's hands. Considering his age, It is even more worthy of appreciation.

Of course, what interests him even more is that the other party is quite accomplished in water fighting.

He had been worried about not being able to find a suitable navy general before. Although Haizuka Koroku was powerful, his appearance was too special and he was incapable of fulfilling all his requirements. This time, he got a good opportunity. .

And he also asked Uesugi Terutora in private, not only did she not have any dissatisfaction, but she was very supportive.

Because this is not poaching, the Murakami family has never been truly loyal to the Uesugi family, and the relationship between them is more of an alliance.

Previously, the Murakami family had all their land taken away by Takeda Shingen, so they took refuge in her. Therefore, she handed over part of her territory to the other party. However, considering the attitude of other retainers, she certainly could not give too much.

If the Murakami family can now join the Asai family, with his generosity, they will definitely be able to obtain more land and can afford to raise more troops, which will make them more likely to seek revenge. This is something she is very happy to see. .

The only thing that needs to be considered is that the Murakami clan has been committed to regaining their Kuzuo Castle from Takeda Shingen. Before this goal is achieved, they may not be loyal to anyone easily.

While thinking, Asai Nagamasa glanced at the village in the distance. Although it was several miles away, his five senses were already far superior to ordinary people, so this distance was still no problem.

Then he immediately narrowed his eyes because he saw some villagers from the aquatic village. They were not behaving like ordinary people. Moreover, hundreds of them were walking together, but they did not scare any birds and beasts in the forest. This in itself is not normal.

After listening for a while, he vaguely heard the melodious sound of pipa, and glanced at the woods in the distance. He couldn't help but stroke the hilt of the Seven Star Sword: "Kagetora, let everyone prepare for battle."

Terutora Uesugi suddenly had a look on her face, without any hesitation at all, she directly issued the preparations for the battle. In fact, she had already anticipated this action. After all, even the famous Sword Master disappeared among them!
Hundreds of samurai from the Uesugi family immediately grasped their swords and spears. Although there were not many in number, they were all elites of the Uesugi family without exception.

However, Asai Nagamasa did not rely too much on them. Among other things, if there were ten or eight tengu-level monsters in Ashina Castle, these samurai would probably suffer heavy casualties.

Ordinary humans will always appear very fragile when faced with magic. Human beings have their limits after all, not to mention that these warriors are far from reaching the limits of humans.

As they approached Shuisheng Village, the sound of the pipa became more and more clear to their ears. At the same time, they also found traces of most of the people passing by.

Uesugi Teruhora only took a few glances before he immediately made a judgment: "Nagamasa is from the Takeda family."

Asai Nagamasa did not question it. This place is located at the junction of the Three Kingdoms. The Nagano family will definitely not act rashly after losing the sword master, and their family is not strong enough.

It was clear that Terutora Uesugi, the governor of the family, personally led people to the rescue. The Nagano family could not send many people, only a few local samurai as guides, which already explained the problem.

It's not that they're being rude, it's that they really don't have any manpower available.

The Nagano family didn't have any famous generals, and it was all supported by the family governor Nagano Yamasa, and then there was the sword master Kamiizumi Hidetsuna. As for the so-called Nagano Sixteen Spears, although the name sounds good, how big is Nagano in total?How many outstanding talents can be produced?
Naturally, the only ones left are the Takeda family.

What's more, as an opponent of Takeda Shingen for many years, Uesugi Teruhu's judgment will definitely not be wrong.

But taking another look at the villagers of the aquatic village who were wandering like lonely ghosts, Asai Nagamasa couldn't help but sigh: "Huitora, let most of the samurai stay here."

Terutora Uesugi did not respond immediately, but looked at him quietly, as if waiting for his explanation.

"Look at their appearance. Do you think they still look like living people? Their movements have not changed."

Following the direction of his finger, Uesugi Teruhu couldn't help but stare. She had noticed something strange just now, but now she truly understood where the strangeness came from. Just like Asai Nagamasa said, the villagers seemed to have been there since a long time ago. I haven't moved since the beginning!
She immediately thought of the pipa sound that she had been recalling in the village: "This sound is Changzheng. Are they being driven by others?"

Asai Nagamasa shook his head: "No, Hui Hu, on the contrary, I think it was the sound of the pipa that calmed them."

In his psychic vision, there are no souls in the bodies of these villagers. Instead, there are some extremely weak auras of decay and evil, and they have turned into zombies.

But compared with Shikijiro or the ghouls he had seen before, they seemed a bit weird, but he hadn't yet fully figured out where this weirdness came from.

But no matter what, there are so many zombies even at the door, and the danger inside must be greater. It's better not to let these ordinary warriors die in vain. He doesn't need their power now anyway.

Although Uesugi Teruhu didn't know his specific thoughts, they reached a consensus on one thing, that is, they did not need the power of ordinary samurai.

Everyone knows that she and Takeda Shingen Sai Kawanakajima fought several times, and the two sides mostly tied, but few people know that she has never truly demonstrated her full power.

Although the "Tiger of Kai" also has some special abilities, once she truly uses the power of Bishamonten, who among the Takeda family samurai can stop her?

So she quickly decided to let most of the samurai stay outside the aquatic village, but she didn't let them stay here. They needed to take some defensive measures to guard against possible reinforcements from the Takeda family.

Even though the legendary Fountain of Eternal Life is very likely to exist in Ashina Castle, many samurai also showed extremely obvious disappointment, but in the end no one raised objections, but obediently chose to obey. Uesugi Teruhu said Their dominance is also evident.

At the same time that Uesugi Teruhora issued the order, Asai Nagamasa had already drifted into the water village like the wind because he had found the player in the village.

Unexpectedly, the other party turned out to be just a little girl under ten years old, and she was extremely skinny and thin. I don’t know how long her playing action lasted. In short, she was slumped on the ground now, with a pale expression on her face. He was pale and his arms were shaking slightly involuntarily.But despite this, she still did not give up the movement of her hands.

When she saw Asai Nagamasa's unique entrance posture, she, who was as uneasy as a deer, suddenly showed obvious surprise in her eyes, and the movements of her hands slowed down a bit because of this.

But just after such a slight delay, hundreds of villagers in the village suddenly stopped keeping quiet. Instead, they roared from their throats like wild beasts. The little girl was so frightened that she quickly continued to play the pipa before they resumed their play. Calm.

Obviously, her pipa sound has a very special effect, but Asai Nagamasa can be [-]% sure that there is no fluctuation of mana on either her body or the pipa. There is only one explanation for the scene in front of her. .

That is because these villagers were accustomed to her playing during their lifetime, so they remained peaceful after death because of the sound of the pipa.

Moreover, Asai Nagamasa noticed that although most of the villagers' clothes were extremely torn, and many even had blood stains on them, some of them were indeed wearing shrouds.

This means that the villagers knew that some of them were dead, but in the end they emerged from the coffins again and caused a wider range of deaths.

Even now, the little girl is probably the only one left in the entire aquatic village.

At this time, Teru Uesugi quickly followed. After seeing the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but frown slightly: "Nagamasa, have they all turned into zombies?"

Not sure if it was because of the sound of the armor on her body clashing, or simply because they heard her words, the dozen or so zombies closest to them couldn't help but tilt their heads, looking in their direction with their cloudy and dim eyes.

Now there was no need for him to answer. She immediately understood that hundreds of residents in the village had probably fallen into the same fate.

Asai Nagamasa sighed softly and waved his hand to summon Demon Sword Princess: "Huitora, don't let the samurai come forward. I suspect that they all have extremely powerful contagious abilities."

Uesugi Teruhu didn't say a word. She just stared at the woman who suddenly appeared. She was exuding a metallic luster and looked like a female tengu. She had an extremely hot figure.

Then she looked at Naotora Ii next to her. She couldn't help but feel a little confused for a moment. It turned out that Nagamasa liked this kind of woman, so was even the shikigami the same type?

However, I may not be inferior to the other party.
While she was thinking about it, Demon Sword Girl had already rushed forward waving her purple sword, which was currently in the direction of the frightened little girl.

She doesn't have to worry about being infected by any toxins as her body is Thunder Sword Xiaolong Jingguang, and as Demon Sword Princess, she can become stronger by constantly killing enemies, which is a bit like Asai Nagamasa's unique talent, so he I don't mind giving her more chances.

Asai Nagamasa himself turned around and rushed in another direction.

To the northwest of the aquatic village, there was a small forest that was also shrouded in mist. When they started to approach the aquatic village, there was a faint sight coming from it. The malice and greed in it were as real as they were, and they were not concealed at all. .

He originally wanted to be a bait to see what the other party wanted to do, but he didn't expect that he had just summoned Demon Sword Girl, and the other party immediately gave up. From the vibration of the earth, he could feel that the other party seemed to want to start. He ran away, how could he allow this?
But as soon as he jumped into the forest, he immediately received a small surprise. Large illusory, octopus-like tentacles flew straight towards him. Judging from their movements, it seemed that they were not trying to kill him, but more like To capture him.

A man in red clothes, dressed as a minister, with bulging eyes and a bunch of tentacles on his chin, who looks like a monster but not a human being, is grasping with both hands to control the tentacles, while a large amount of translucent viscous liquid is flowing. It flowed down the corner of his mouth.

Asai Nagamasa suddenly felt a little nauseous. Suzuki Akane and Ning Ning just wanted to covet him. How about you, an octopus monster?Dare you?

The Seven-Star Sword shook, and saw a flash of fire, and all the tentacles disappeared. Before the opponent could react, he had already crossed a distance of dozens of meters in an instant, and the long sword was directly placed on the opponent's neck.

Since he knows magic, he should at least have some wisdom, right?

"Were the residents of the village killed by you?"

The octopus monster was obviously stunned by this unexpected situation. He didn't know what to do for a while, until Asai Nagamasa became impatient and made a cut in his neck, making it almost spit with him. After a lot of translucent blood with little difference flowed out, he finally understood the current situation.

"No, no, they are the food I just discovered!"

Although it was vague, he did speak human language, but the accent didn't sound like a local one at all, but more like Kyoto, and at least it was the one from hundreds of years ago.

Asai Nagamasa couldn't help but feel something in his heart, and once again thought of the legend of this place. If the other party had lived in seclusion in Ashina Castle during the Heian period, it would have been almost that many years by now.

It's just that legend has it that Ashina City contains mermaid flesh and the fountain of eternal life, but now it seems that the reality is completely different. If he wants to live forever by eating people, he would rather live for only a hundred years!

Moving the Seven-Star Sword slightly, he continued to ask: "To be clear, do you rely on eating human flesh to maintain your life?"

The octopus shook his head when he heard this: "No, human flesh is not delicious. I just suck their essence."

Asai Nagamasa could barely hold back the anger in his heart: "Then why are they all dead?"

In Yin Yang art, essence is the source of all life. Although the loss of essence will not lead to death, it will definitely lead to physical weakness and serious illness. However, there is no essence in the body of the deceased. If the facts are true, As the octopus monster said, why did he kill those villagers?
"Because only by dying can they continue to provide me with energy over and over again!" The octopus monster took it for granted.

As if he was afraid that Asai Nagamasa would not understand, the octopus monster specifically explained to him: "If they are ordinary dead people, they naturally have no vitality, but they drank the water from the Palace of Origin, in which I specially put the essence of immortality." Gu, so that even if they die, they can continue to provide me with energy."

He pointed at a river behind him, indicating that that was the water in the Palace of Origin.

"And in this way, even if their essence is sucked out, they will not die. As long as they lie in the coffin for a year and a half, they will always recover. There are hundreds of people in this village, which is enough for me to eat every day. "

Having said this, the octopus monster once again looked at Asai Nagamasa with greedy eyes: "But none of them combined can compare to you. The energy in your body is so strong that even if it is compared to the legendary White Snake God and Sakura Longdu is no less impressive, I wonder if you can let me have a taste?"

Asai Nagamasa sighed, the Seven Star Sword burned with blazing fire again, and cut off the opponent's head with one sword.

There was not much blood spurting out from the fractured area, but instead there was some jet-black mucus, twisting like a living creature, as if trying to reattach the broken head, but with a flash of fire, the flames instantly swallowed the octopus. Not even a trace of ashes was left in the monster's entire body.

"Originally, I wanted to get more information from you, and I knew you must have a plan to escape, but you really make me sick, and now I have a new choice."

He turned to look at a corner in the forest: "Are you going to come out on your own, or should I invite you out?"

(End of this chapter)