Samsara Paradise: Shadow King

Chapter 120 Ninja Prosthetic Hand and Shura

The first time Zhao Zijin saw Nogami Inosuke, he was surprised that the charred piece of flesh and blood in front of him could still hold his breath and not die.

The formerly arrogant young man leaned against the stone wall. It was difficult to find a piece of intact skin on his body. Yellow-black pus dripped along the burn marks, giving his whole body an unpleasant stench. .

His eyes were once burned by the fire of Xiao's ninjutsu, but looking at his current body, there is no mark left by the fire. Zhao Zijin even suspected that this guy was fished out of the sea of ​​fire. .

And his mother has fallen into madness just like in the game. The only difference is that unlike the game where she is only slightly delirious, the old woman Zhao Zijin saw has completely fallen into madness, even for her own life. She has become a candle in the wind, but she still chants sutras and Buddhas with a hoarse voice.

"What did they go through?"

"No one knows! They were like this when our samurai dug them out of the ruins of the Hirata mansion!"

"So, who attacked the Hirata mansion and destroyed the Hirata clan?"

Kawarada Naomori's face showed a bit of shame and embarrassment, but he still said bluntly:

"Sir Genichiro and even Isshin-sama have always had orders to tell us to investigate what happened that night! But I'm sorry! Although there are voices of suspicion from the inner government, no one in Ashina can be sure who caused this. everything!"

Zhao Zijin sighed. The answer was not beyond his expectation. It was not easy to get information about the mastermind behind the scenes. He was already prepared for long-term tracking.

Summoning several shadow ghost warriors, he planned to help Nogami Inosuke and his son on the back of the dragon, and go to the main city of Ashina to seek medical treatment. Unexpectedly, an unexpected situation happened at this time. Naomori Kawamoto wanted to remind him but it was too late. At least he It looks like this.

I saw a burst of fire suddenly burst out of the chest of Inosuke Nogami, who was sitting paralyzed. The originally lingering vitality seemed to be injected with a shot of cardiotonic, and with some strength, he inserted the broken blade at hand into the neck of the shadow ghost warrior.

"kill!!!"

It was hard to imagine that that broken body could still erupt with such power. He violently killed several shadow soldiers, and was about to turn around and pounce on Zhao Zijin, but the butterfly's spider silk had already entangled him.

"Seyao!"

The sound of sleep sang in Nogami Inosuke's ears, and his distorted face gradually returned to calm. Just in case, Zhao Zijin asked Die to tie him up a few more times with spider silk.

"What's going on?"

Heyuantian Naomori explained with a low eyebrow, as if to make up for his failure to remind him in time:

"Ever since this guy was dug out, he has become extremely manic and crazy. Anyone who touches him will cause him to attack all living things around him. What is unbelievable is that even if he does not eat or drink for a long time, he can still In a short period of time, it explodes with power like a beast!"

Zhao Zijin didn't argue with him. He turned around and called to the wolf to lead the old woman onto the dragon's back. After he jumped on it himself, he hooked his hand and asked the other party to follow him.

A warrior general wearing large armor can move very nimbly. Before he could climb halfway, Zhao Zijin stepped lightly on the dragon's back, and a pair of dragon wings instantly spread out and leapt into the air.

Heyuantian Naomori's position is very awkward, I want to keep climbing up! Just now, the dragon had lowered its body, which was okay, but now it took off and its posture changed. Its own weight plus the weight of the armor plus the wind pressure when Nidhogg was flying would cause him to fall if he was not careful.

Under Zhao Zijin's deliberate torture, Nidhogg quickly increased his altitude, and then accelerated his flying speed. If he fell, I'm afraid the numeral word describing Heyuan Tian Naosheng would have to be changed from "one" to "a beach". Therefore, He could only hold back Lidian's miserable wail, begging Zhao Zijin or the wolf to help him.

But neither Zhao Zijin nor Lang paid attention. The former used the power of the [Hand of Dominator] to resist the wind pressure for everyone, and then came to the taciturn ninja.

"Wolf, do you mind if I call you that? If that's convenient, can I see that hand of yours?"

The wolf was a little hesitant, but under Zhao Zijin's sweet words, he still raised his prosthetic hand.

"These are the fangs of ninjas!"

In the real world, James Young, a young man from England, lost his left arm due to an accident at the age of 22. For this reason, in 2016, he joined an intelligent prosthetic development project called "Phantom Limb Project".

Although this project has brought together top talents in medicine, physics, biology, bionics, chemistry, metallurgy, etc., it still faces many obstacles during the development process. It is not that easy to make a limb that can meet the needs of normal movements. , but in such an era when gunpowder firearms were just beginning to flourish, it was created by the strange man Daoxuan, which shows that this character who only appears in the background story is not simple.

It can extend its hook to fly over walls, or it can pop out its sharp ax to split the enemy's defenses, or it can open its umbrella and turn it into a shield to block the enemy's attacks. It is worthy of the praise of the retired ninja master monkey.

Zhao Zijin's eyes focused on the human bone part of the Ninja Prosthetic Hand. The ape once caused too many killings, which caused him to fall into "Shura". Fortunately, he was discovered in time, and Ashina Isshin personally took action and cut it off. He used the arm that had been ignited with the fire of Shura to restrain the further influence of "Shura" on the ape.

But the bad thing is that the ape underestimates the "power of Shura" too much! He thought that everything would be fine after cutting off his arm. In order to continue fighting, he installed the Ninja prosthetic hand made by Daoxuan for him and devoted himself to killing again. When he was on the verge of sinking into "Shura" again, It's too late.

Shura, this word should be familiar to everyone. In Buddhism or Brahmanism, it refers to "a group of people who live by killing", but in Sekiro's game, it tends to refer to "a collection of killings and curses" !

To put it simply, people who kill too much will ignite the "Fire of Shura" in their hearts, which will attract the resentment of those who died in the war. After accumulation, this power will lose people's minds and turn people into victims of killing. "The ghost of resentment". In fact, many of the settings of Sekiro can be found in the animations of Master Hayao Miyazaki. The concept of "Shura" and why the first "Shura transformation" phenomenon is the arm can be found in "Princess Mononoke". .

In this animation, the wild boar harboring the heart of killing transferred its resentment to the arm of the male protagonist Ashitaka before being killed. According to the world view of this animation, the curse was caused by resentment. , Ashitaka's resentful arm began to breed self-awareness, exuding black flames, and its only goal was to kill!

Ashitaka's "cursed arm" wants to kill all humans!

In "Princess Mononoke", the collective resentment is the mountain beast god called "Qilin". It controls life and death. It can resurrect the dead and make the living die quickly. Its blood can make people immortal. This It also made this noble god a target of human hunting.

In the animation, the "Kirin" whose head was blown off is similar in appearance to the resentful spirit "Headless" in the Sekiro game. They have also become the incarnation of the curse of resentment. Even just touching his breath is enough to make the contact The person was killed by the resentful spirit.

Since the duty of "Qilin" is to store the dead souls, once it dies, the resentment will have no place to contain it and can only overflow to harm the world. This is why the "ghost of resentment" in the game absorbs the war The prototype of this concept generated by countless resentful souls.

In order to maintain his last sanity and not fall into "Asura", after the war of stealing the country, Yuan lived in seclusion in a dilapidated temple, trying to turn the temple covered with talismans into a cage to seal himself and "Asura".

The white runes plastered all over the outside of the dilapidated temple are a type of yin-yang talisman, originating from Taoism. Its basic meaning is "pressure (ya) wins" - "those who hate it, press ya" is the Tongjia character of the Chinese character - as the name suggests, This kind of rune has the meaning of suppression, and "pressure victory" means suppression and victory.

However, can just such an external force suppress "Shura"? the answer is negative!

Here I would like to mention the content and setting of another manga - "Fire Bird: Phoenix Chapter" by Osamu Tezuka! In the game, the prototype of the ape character comes from this!

In this comic, there is a character who has also lost his left arm and right eye. Although he is disabled, he is extremely powerful and is a cruel warrior in the sky. Unfortunately, due to the tragic experience of his childhood, he accidentally... Astray, he became a thief who committed murder and set fires, and called himself "my king" after the evil ghost.

There are two Buddhist carvers in the Sekiro game and "Fire Bird: Phoenix Chapter". After living in seclusion in a dilapidated temple, Yuan hopes to use the power of faith to suppress the "Fire of Shura" in his heart, and takes the alias of a Buddha carver. He devoted himself to carving Buddha statues day after day, but most of the Buddha statues he carved had angry faces, not as calm and kind as the Buddha statues carved by the real Buddhist carvers in the temple.

As for the two Buddhist sculptors in the comic, one is the "real Buddhist sculptor" from the capital, and the other is the "my king" whom the character "Ape" pays tribute to. After his great enlightenment in the later period, In order to atone for his sins and vent his inner resentment, he began to carve Buddha statues after practicing.

The Buddha statue of "True Buddha Sculptor" is noble and kind. It corresponds to the "standing Buddha" in the dilapidated temple in the game that can help people enter memories. Both the overall shape and the posture of the Buddha statue are the same. Its prototype is "Eleven Faces". "Statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva".

The ability of the Buddha statue in the game to help people enter memories and even "go back in time" also originated from the comics. In the comics, the "True Buddha Sculptor" was persecuted by high-ranking officials and ordered to find the "Phoenix", a divine bird from the West, and Carve an identical statue.

The "True Buddha Sculptor" traveled through thousands of rivers and mountains, and went through a lot of hardships, but could not find the divine bird. When he was desperate, he accidentally came to a wall with a "Phoenix" painted on it. He was overjoyed. , suddenly fell into drowsiness.

He saw his own future life in his dream, and not only experienced his life after reincarnation. I also saw the elusive divine bird "Phoenix". Just like the "retrospection" in the Sekiro game, the dream of the "True Buddha Sculptor" is not just a dream, but will definitely happen in the future. What really happened.

The entire content of "Fire Bird: Phoenix Chapter" is a complete reincarnation story. Whether it is the overall story or individual characters, they are all in a connected reincarnation.

After the "True Buddha Sculptor" woke up, he carved the "Phoenix" he saw in his dream and gave it to the senior officials. After entering the memories through the Buddha statue with the wolf in the game, he took the withered flower from the night when the Hirata clan died. It's the same when you bring it out, and it makes people feel that they have the same purpose but the same approach.

Although the Buddha statues carved by the "One-Armed Buddha Sculptor" are more "human", they are always full of anger. He decided to complete a thousand Buddha statues in the rest of his life to repay the price of being a human being.

Whether it is "my king" or an ape, their behavior of carving Buddha statues is not out of true belief, but relies on the process of carving Buddha statues to transfer some emotions in order to make their willpower stronger and resist the killings that bring about inner feelings. coming impact.

On the other hand, it must be said that the prison where "My King" lives in the comics is the prototype of a dilapidated temple. "My King" was imprisoned here for two years. Because he could not leave, the Buddha statues he carved piled up. The entire prison was filled with him, sitting cross-legged, and his body hair was extremely thick because it had not been trimmed for a long time.

It can be seen from the official original painting of the character Buddha Sculptor in the Sekiro game that the design of this character is based on the comics, highlighting the size of the nose and thick body hair as much as possible. Not to mention the composition, it cannot be said to be extremely Similar! All I can say is that they are exactly the same!

Zhao Zijin stared at the human bone and slowly fell into a trance. In a daze, he saw sporadic flames igniting on it, and they continued to burn and grow until they covered his entire sight.

In the sea of ​​​​fire, he saw the wraiths writhing in the flames and wailing in pain. They surrounded him and issued accusations that he could not understand.

In the sea of ​​​​fire, the sound of chanting sutras and chanting Buddhas was heard from time to time. Zhao Zijin could not tell which sutra it was, but he found that every time this sound was heard, the pain on the faces of the surrounding resentful souls intensified, and the flames grew stronger. one cent.

The resentful spirits were getting closer and closer. Zhao Zijin wanted to struggle and escape from their surroundings. At this time, he realized that his body seemed to be on fire!

His consciousness began to blur, his spirit began to decline, his soul began to sink, and the idea of ​​"integrating into the surrounding groups" began to appear!

Just when his soul was about to completely lose its resistance and turn into one of the resentful souls, a voice rang out in the sea of ​​fire, driving away all the voices of chanting sutras and chanting Buddha:

"Alas! What an incompetent brat! Can't you save me some trouble?"

　The interpretation of most of the Sekiro content in this chapter comes from Ryuzaki Lollipop, the master of Xiaopo Station!

　　** Capitalist, don’t forget me even if it’s Sunday! It was another day when I wanted to resign, but after looking at my royalties, I thought, forget it, maintaining this job to support myself is the first thing I need to consider.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)