At the same moment that Toudo Takataka’s broken body fell to the ground, a series of system sounds sounded in Qingdeng’s mind——

[Ding! Talent scanned]

[Successfully copied talent: "Cat Turns Around"]

[Talent Introduction: Excellent sense of body balance]

[Ding! It has been detected that the host already has the same type of talent]

[Ding! Start talent fusion]

[Please wait a moment, host...Please wait a moment, host...]

[Ding! Talent fusion successful]

["Cat Turn" ability promotion - "Cat Turn +1"]

[Introduction to the talent of "Cat Turn +1": the talent effect is enhanced on the original basis. "+9" is the highest level]

Qingdeng thought to himself: It's talent fusion again... Recently, the words "talent fusion" have appeared quite frequently in my mind.

Copying the "cat turn" from Todo Takataka... Aonto is not surprised by this.

Maintaining body balance in a situation where "the body is disabled and one side of the body is lighter and the other is heavier" - this is not an easy task.

Qingden didn't know whether Toudo Takataka's mutilated limbs were born or caused by some acquired accident.

But no matter why he lost his left arm, there is one fact that is indisputable - he successfully practiced swordsmanship with one arm... This not only means that he has good swordsmanship talent,

It also shows from the side that his body balance is very good.

Qingdeng straightened his waist and released Liu Guang's posture, while vigorously vibrating the knife to shake off the blood attached to the knife.

"...What a superb sword-drawing technique."

A compliment that was neither salty nor bland, neither sad nor happy, floated faintly into Qingdeng's ears.

Qingden followed the sound and looked into the eyes of the person who uttered this praise.

"The battle of Ba Dao Jutsu... is truly a rare and exciting duel."

The corners of Takasugi Shinsaku's mouth curled up slightly.

"I didn't expect that the famous Nioh would not only be proficient in swordsmanship, but also have such outstanding attainments in the art of drawing swords."

"You are ridiculous."

Qingdeng responded calmly.

"My attainments in the art of drawing swords are far from being considered proficient. To be honest, I just learned the art of drawing swords not long ago. I didn't officially start to come into contact with this martial art until more than three months ago."

Thanks to personal unremitting efforts and a little help from insignificant talents such as "Sword Saint", "Ghost Heart", and "Gathering God", Qingden's success in "Liuguang Drawing Technique"

The progress of cultivation is much more exaggerated than that of Yunliu Ninjutsu - it is several times faster.

Counting from the day when he officially started practicing Liuguang, it only took Qingden 7 days to work before he was called to him by the pleased Kiryu boss:

"Junior Jun, you don't need to chop down dead objects like wooden piles or bamboo mats anymore. You can proceed to the next stage of practice."

What Boss Kiryu calls "the next stage of training" is to stop chopping dead objects and switch to chopping moving objects.

The content of the training is roughly as follows: Boss Kiryu continuously throws various objects of different shapes at Aomori with different strengths and angles, and Aomori needs to use his streamer to chop them all down.

Qingdeng was used to chopping dead objects that could not move. He suddenly turned around and chopped at a living object that flew towards him with unknown force and angle. He was particularly uncomfortable for a moment.

Therefore, at the beginning of practice, Qingdeng suffered a lot. He often failed to hit objects flying straight towards him in time and was smashed to pieces.

but!

People's hard work may be deceiving...but the cold entries in the talent list will never be deceiving!

With Qingdeng's unyielding practice and the small blessings brought by various small talents led by the "Sword Saint", even though the difficulty of practice has increased linearly, Qingdeng has excelled in the "Flowing Light Drawing Technique"

The progress of your cultivation is still rapid!

Qingdeng's other talent, the "Eagle Eye +1" that enhances dynamic vision, also helped Qingdeng a little in this exercise.

The enhancement of dynamic vision allows Qingden to more accurately capture the flight path of flying objects, making practice more effective with half the effort.

As Aoto's cultivation level continues to improve, the things Kiryu throws at Aoto become more and more outrageous.

At first it was old clothes crumpled into a ball and large wooden boards.

Then there are water cups and porcelain bowls.

Now, the things that Kiryu's boss throws to Qingnobo include but are not limited to: writing brushes, small nail clippers, and Western glass beads.

I don’t know where Boss Kiryu picked up so much junk...

After nearly three months of chopping down "living creatures" with increasingly outrageous styles, Qingnobu is now able to accurately chop flies flying within the attack range - just like he showed off this morning to intimidate Suzuki.

The hand that came out.

Qingdeng turned around and thought about it carefully: the reason why he chose to have a "middle-door confrontation" with Toudo Takataka just now was partly due to his technical skills and he wanted to test the results of his recent training.

At this time, Takasugi Shinsaku raised his eyebrows.

"You have only learned the sword-drawing technique for more than three months? You can achieve such a feat after only studying it for more than three months... Heh, it seems that the rumor that 'Nioh is an unparalleled swordsmanship genius' is not just nonsense."

"Okay, let's stop this useless conversation."

Qingden took out a stack of pocket paper from his arms and wiped away the grease remaining on the Dinggui Shenjian and the solidified blood stains that could not be shaken off.

The three-foot green front glowed with a bright blue cold light again.

This cold light reflected on Qingdeng's face, illuminating his face half-brightly.

"You're the only one left."

Qingden glanced at the body of Todo Takataka at his feet, paused for a moment, and then said a question in an affirmative tone:

"You...are not from the Yi group, are you?"

While he was fighting with Todo Takataka and others, the long-faced young man stood outside the battlefield and watched the whole process.

When Takataka Toudo and others died in battle one after another, Takasugi Shinsaku remained expressionless and indifferent... as if he didn't care about the deaths of these people.

According to the known information, lurking in this house is a swordsman who is so skilled that he can kill the Seventh Squadron, which is equipped with a series of equipment such as matchlocks, shields, armors, etc.

Qingden fought fiercely, killing almost no one alive around him, and he didn't even find the super master that the members of the 7th Division said.

Right now, the only person left alive who he had not yet fought against was the long-faced young man in front of him... So a reasonable guess quickly emerged in Qingdeng's mind.

"..." Qingdeng lowered his eyelids slightly, silently tightened the five fingers of his right hand holding the knife, and was ready to fight at any time...

"……Ha ha."

As soon as Aoshito finished speaking, Takasugi Shinsaku let out a chuckle of unknown meaning.

"I am indeed not a member of the anti-barbarian group."

"Ah, if I think about it carefully...it seems that I haven't introduced myself yet."

After saying this, Takasugi Shinsaku took half a step back and bowed slightly to Qingden in a neither humble nor overbearing manner.

"I am rude. I am the vassal of Choshu Domain - Takasugi Shinsaku!"

Choshu Domain - Aomori raised his eyebrows involuntarily the next moment he heard this word.

It’s no wonder Qingdeng reacted this way.

The relationship between Choshu Domain and the Edo Shogunate is extremely close.

It's just a negative level of "closeness" - the two sides have been feuding for three hundred years.

Choshu Domain is located at the westernmost tip of Honshu Island. Because the lord of the domain is the Mouri clan, it is also called "Moori Domain".

Three hundred years ago, the ancestor of the vassal, Mouri Yuan, known as "the wisest general in the Western Kingdom" and "the God of the Warring States Period", made the Mouri family grow from a small local wealthy family to one with 120 people in just one generation.

The largest power in Western Japan with a thousand stone height.

After Morimoto died, his grandson Terumoto Mori succeeded the family governor. When Terumoto Mori succeeded to the throne, he happened to be facing the great prince who wanted to unify Japan: Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Mori Terumoto's qualifications were mediocre and he was no match for the military strength of the Toyotomi clan in its heyday, so he compromised with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and became Toyotomi Hideyoshi's younger brother while retaining his fiefdom.

The decline of Maori's family vividly explains why "choice is far more important than hard work".

Toyotomi Hideyoshi relied on a series of far-reaching and close-attack methods to briefly unite the world and then passed away not long after.

Also due to losing to the strength of the Toyotomi clan, he compromised and became the "super ninja" of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's younger brother: Tokugawa Ieyasu took advantage of the situation to rebel, intending to steal the Toyotomi clan's throne of "people of the world".

The Mori clan firmly sided with the Toyotomi clan.

The Toyotomi Army and the Tokugawa Army, with a total strength of more than 200,000, started a decisive battle in Sekigahara.

The battle to decide whether Japan's surname would be "Toyotomi" or "Tokugawa" was fought for only one day. Tokugawa Ieyasu successfully instigated several important generals under the Toyotomi clan and suffered a tragic death.

The Toyotomi clan, who was stabbed in the back by the fifth son, was defeated.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established his hegemony in the Battle of Sekigahara, was awarded the title of "General of the Conquering Barbarians" three years later and founded the Edo shogunate.

As the defeated party in the Sekigahara War, the Mori clan was severely punished by the Edo shogunate - the territory of 1.2 million koku was reduced to only 299,000 koku.

The Choshu Domain, which suffered a sharp decrease in income due to this major reduction in feudal terms, had to re-measure the land in order to support a large number of samurai under its command and maintain the normal operation of the domain. After a series of arduous land inspections, it was finally allowed to
To be continued...