Volume 3: The World's Strongest Chapter 23: The Sword Master is in Danger
Qi Ji looked at Kamiizumi Masanobu's sincere request, shook his head and spoke softly.
"Uncle Kamiizumi, you should have heard from Yiren why I am willing to come to Tokyo and become the swordsman of your company."
Kamiizumi Masanobu raised his head and smiled: "Of course I know. Our goals are not in conflict."
Qi Ji said: "If I win the championship of this Death Madness Sword Fight for your company, how long will it take you to influence the cabinet and make them retract their decision?"
Shangquan thought for a moment and said, "Within three years."
"One year." Qi Ji said calmly.
Kamiizumi Masanobu hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "If the order can be prepaid on time, then yes!"
Qi Ji looked at Shangquan Zhengxin's resolute expression, was silent for a while, and added: "Then it's a deal. No agreement or witnesses are needed. This is our verbal agreement."
Kamiizumi Masanobu nodded.
Qi Ji saw that the other party seemed to think that this agreement was too easy, so he thought for a moment and then said, "For Yiren's sake, you have a chance to regret it before I win the Death Mad Sword Fighting Championship, but..."
Kamiizumi Masanobu looked at Qi Ji with confusion, who paused deliberately for a moment, and then met Qi Ji's cold eyes.
The next second, Qi Ji's terrifying aura like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood suddenly erupted.
In Kamiizumi Masanobu's eyes, Qi Ji seemed to have turned into a terrifying Shura evil ghost at this moment. Endless bloody images spread over him, as if a sticky sea of blood rose from the ground and then completely submerged him.
Kamiizumi Masanobu looked horrified.
Shangquan Yiren next to him was also shocked.
Crack! Saeko Ueizumi, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, was shocked all over. Her hands went limp and the dishes she was washing fell into the sink and broke into two pieces.
The next second after the sound of the rice bowl breaking, the horrifying and bloody aura suddenly subsided.
Qi Ji, sitting upright in the chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip, as if nothing had happened.
He said calmly: "Although it is a verbal agreement, if I win the Death Mad Sword Fighting Championship and your business gets a huge boost , and you go back on your word and don't fulfill your responsibilities."
He glanced at Shangquan Yiren beside him, and then said: "Yiren can testify that if I want to kill someone, as long as it is on Earth, even if you invite Shangquan Sword Saint back to protect you, you will definitely die."
Even if the Sword Master himself comes, he cannot protect you.
So confident!
The momentum that Qi Ji had just displayed made his confident words at this moment full of persuasiveness, forcing Shangquan Zhengxin to believe it.
This time, he nodded formally with a serious face and said, "Please rest assured, Mr. Qi Ji. I have already said that our goals are the same. Even without your agreement, urging the cabinet to abandon emissions and switch to other more stable treatment solutions has always been my biggest goal in the near future."
Qi Ji nodded: "Okay, then I will believe you."
After thinking for a while, he asked, "When will the Death Mad Sword Fight start, and who will be my opponent?"
Ueizumi Masanobu sat up straight and said seriously, "Three days later, on a huge ship on the high seas, your opponent is a swordsman supported by Rhine Technology. His true identity is unknown, and his code name is 'Razor'."
After that, he said solemnly: "Yiren should have told you that the Death Madness Sword Fight is a real sword duel without protective gear. Although the treatment methods of the Death Madness Club are beyond common sense and can almost save lives as long as they don't die on the stage, there is no shortage of death and disability cases in this competition."
"Even so, Mr. Qi Ji, are you still willing to participate?"
Qi Ji chuckled: "You don't have to worry about this. Has Uncle Shangquan prepared for me what I told Yiren before?"
Ueizumi Masanobu nodded and smiled, "What Mr. Qi Ji wanted was delivered yesterday."
"Three 'swords' in total..."
…
Early the next morning, Qi Ji opened his eyes from the soft quilt spread on the tatami.
Last night in the Tower of Transcendence, he used the Secret Record of Rebirth to kill another powerful enemy of the ultimate level.
This is a powerful enemy in the worldview of Ninja "Wolf". He is a tall opponent wearing a cassock, a Prajna mask, and holding a naginata. Judging from the occasional voice he makes, he seems to be a woman.
She was a very tough opponent. Not only was she extremely powerful, but her huge naginata was rarely broken by her continuous swings, making it difficult for Qi Ji to find a suitable attack opportunity. Most importantly, she was obviously immortal and had a very strong life force. Qi Ji had difficulty finding two kill opportunities under her swift attack. None of the fatal attacks on her killed her.
Until the end he summoned the Undying Slash, pulled out the huge centipede-like insect that emerged from the person's mouth after she was "killed" for the second time, and forcibly killed her, only then did he kill her completely, and at the same time he also obtained her skill - Illusion Mist Cutting.
This is a way of using killing intent. If used in the dark or foggy night when vision is obstructed, it will give the opponent the illusion that they are being chopped continuously. If they are fooled by the illusion and dodge or resist, thus ignoring the caster's real killing move, they will be killed in one fell swoop.
Four days had passed since he defeated the Lord of Baiyun City. During these four days, he "died" once, at the hands of the evil monk he had just killed last night. In total, he killed three enemies.
In addition to the "Illusion Mist Cut" obtained by killing the demon monk, he also obtained two skills.
One is in the world view of Battousai, in which he killed an enemy who covered his eyes with a cloth strip with "heart's eye" written on it. This person held a tortoise-shell shield in his left hand and a strange weapon in his right hand that called itself a sword but was actually a pistol. Although his eyes were covered, he was able to accurately resist Qi Ji's tentative attack when Qi Ji did not respond seriously. He also said that although he could not see, he had a "heart's eye" that was more powerful than his eyes. To put it bluntly, it was superhuman hearing. By adapting to this superhuman hearing day and night, he could perceive emotions by analyzing the opponent's heartbeat, and judge actions by analyzing the friction sound of the opponent's bones, thereby achieving insight into everything.
Unfortunately, no matter how the other party claims that he can "see through" all attacks.
But after Qi Ji slightly relaxed his physical strength, this man could only be defeated with horror on his face due to the huge gap.
Then he contributed his skill called "the art of sound discrimination". That's right, he only contributed the skill of distinguishing sounds, and it didn't come with any super hearing.
However, Qi Ji himself possessed hearing far beyond that of ordinary people due to the blessing of transcendence. What he lacked was the skill to use this hearing.
Now with this listening skill, even if he closes his eyes and cannot see, he can still outline the shape of the world in his mind through various sounds.
Another skill, called "Xianfeng Kick", is a kicking skill, and different from the real kicking, this kicking skill is good at jumping up and kicking the hand backwards, and then following up with continuous roundhouse kicks to break the enemy's posture.
He obtained this Senfeng Kick in the Wolf's worldview by killing a ninja who was good at using this leg technique in a cave similar to a sewer.
To this end, he called out the panel and specifically checked the skills that he had recently acquired or changed.
[Transcendence: Qi Ji]
[Transcendence: 345]
[Spiritual: 90/100]
[Skills: Flying Sword Style·Missing (6/100)]
[Skills: Ninjutsu Style Illusion Butterfly·Remnant (3/100)]
[Skill: Master's Strike·Ultimate (Cannot be upgraded)]
[Skills: Xinyou Sword Technique Japanese Sword Technique - Remnant (5/50)]
[Skill: Baru·Remnant (7/100)]
[Skill: Ashina-ryu·Remnant (8/100)]
[ Skills : Flying Knife Skills·Proficient (3/50)]
[Skill: Riding·Proficient (0/100)]
[Skill: Fairy from the Sky·Remnant (2/50)]
[Skill: Illusion Mist Cutting·Remnant (5/100)]
[Skill: Art of Argument·Proficient (5/50)]
——The rest of the unchanged ones will not be elaborated——
Qi Ji looked at the large number of new skills and couldn't help but marvel at his own skill library. He knew more and more things, but if he wanted to improve, only a very small number of skills were worth improving through transcendence. Most of them could only be achieved through accumulated proficiency on his own.
For example, the Master's Strike, after long-term use, has now naturally broken through to the "extreme" level that cannot be improved any further. Now in combat, he is not only familiar with his own weapon, but also extremely sensitive to the size of the opponent's weapon. In most "knife fights", he can accurately grasp the positions of the strong and weak sword bodies of the enemy and his own weapons, so that in most cases he can use the strong sword body of his own weapon to contact the weak sword body of the opponent, making it more suitable for his own force.
"Transcendence is becoming more and more valuable..."
No longer worrying about his numerous skills that needed to be mastered, Qi Ji quietly walked out of the bedroom, quickly washed up, then left the Shangquan family's dojo and began his unshakable training.
The sky in Tokyo was a little gray in the early morning, and the air seemed to be even worse than that in Amami City.
More than an hour later, Qi Ji returned to the Kamiizumi family's dojo in the already bright sky.
He pushed open the door of the side room of the dojo and walked in.
In the living room, Ueizumi Saeko was wearing an apron and placing a simple but varied breakfast on the dining table. When she saw Qi Ji coming in, she immediately smiled gently: "Qi Ji, have you finished your morning exercise? Do you want to take a shower first and then have breakfast?"
Qi Ji nodded and smiled in response: "Yezi also got up so early to prepare breakfast, you are very virtuous."
Ueizumi Saeko smiled and said softly, "After all, we have a distinguished guest like Qi Jijun. If we don't entertain him well, we will be laughed at."
Masanobu Kamiizumi was very busy. After discussing the details of the Death Madness Sword Fight with Qi Ji last night, he did not stay in the dojo, but got in the car and went back to the company.
After taking a shower in the bathroom, Qi Ji came out drying his hair.
Then I happened to see Kamiizumi Yiren yawning and walking out of the room.
"Good morning, Yiren." Qi Ji greeted him casually, then put down the towel he used to dry his hair and sat down at the dining table.
Shangquan Yiren immediately perked up and replied loudly, "Good morning, Qi Jijun! Wait for me for a moment, I'll go wash up!"
After a while, the three of them sat down at the dining table together. Without Kamiizumi Masanobu, the two siblings and Qi Ji started talking more.
"Mr. Qi Ji, are we going to the Xuanwu Pavilion of Beichen Ittoryu today?" Shangquan Yiren asked while tearing a large piece of bread.
"Of course, we'll set off after breakfast. Would you mind leading the way?" Qi Ji said with a faint smile, "If you're not free, I'll go there by myself."
Shangquan Yiren nodded quickly: "Of course I am free. I still have more than a month before the university starts, so I have a lot of free time."
Ueizumi Saeko suddenly said, "Qi Jijun, I want to go with you and admire your heroic sword-wielding skills. Do you mind?"
Qi Ji smiled and said, "Why would I mind? Will it delay your schooling?"
Ueizumi Saeko smiled gently and shook her head, saying, "Qi Ji-kun, no, in fact, I am also in summer vacation now. I only go to school because the academy offers special holiday tutoring. It is relatively easy to ask for leave during this period."
Kamiizumi Yiren slapped his thigh beside him and said, "Oh! I thought you had already started school, Yazi! Turns out it's just the cram school period!"
Qi Ji was speechless. How can you be a brother when you can't even handle your sister's studies?
Saeko Ueizumi looked at the idiot brother helplessly and said, "Let's hurry up. The Genbukan is in Suginami District, and it takes more than an hour to get there from here. They are only open from 9 to 11 in the morning and from 7 to 9 in the evening. If we are late, they will be closed."
