Volume 3: The World's Strongest Chapter 48: The Man Who Sweeps the Cherry Blossoms
Everyone in the audience was stunned when they saw Yagyu Jubei kneeling down to thank Qi Ji.
What 's going on? Why would someone kneel down to someone who defeated them?
Qi Ji put away the meridian nourishing method, controlled his muscles to close the wound and stop the bleeding, then turned around and looked at Jubei who thanked him and stood up on his own.
"Done?" he asked with a smile.
"It worked!" Yagyu Jubei laughed happily, tears seemed to flow from the corners of his eyes: "So this is the feeling of surpassing the limit."
"So when do you plan to go there?" Qi Ji asked again.
"I can't wait to go now!" Yagyu Jubei's face was full of impatience.
"Okay, we'll have a chance to meet again in the future, so let's not talk too much today." Qi Ji said with a smile.
The two ignored the people around them and chatted calmly on the stage, while the audience and swordsmen from various schools were already going wild.
In addition to the Sword Master Kamiizumi, the biggest figure in the Sakura Kendo circle, Jubei Yagyu, was also defeated by Qi Ji's sword.
This basically means that Qi Ji's goal of sweeping the Sakura Kendo circle has been achieved.
At this moment, countless audiences from the Sakura Country cursed loudly, and countless audiences from the Sakura Country burst into tears.
Back in Daxia, the live broadcast rooms of various events seemed to be celebrating the New Year, with all kinds of joyful comments scrolling wildly.
[Yagyu was defeated by Qi Shen, and my youth has no regrets! 】
[Yagyu is ranked seventh in the world. Beating Yagyu means Qi Ji has reached the same level? ]
[Brothers in front, be bold. Judging from how Qi Shen easily cut off Yagyu Jubei's favorite sword at the last moment, he should be the best person under the Sword Saint! ]
[Fuck, the best person under the Sword Master, awesome! ]
[No, what I want to know more is, Yagyu Jubei lost, so why did he kowtow to Saishin? ]
[I am dying of laughter. It really looks like he kowtowed. Is he kneeling down to thank God Qi for not killing him? ]
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On that day, the popularity of the two words "Qi Ji" on the Daxia network exploded.
The most popular ones are [Qi Ji sweeps through the Sakura Kendo] and [Can humans really do nine sword strikes in one second?].
What follows next is [Where should Qi Ji, who defeated the world's seventh, be ranked?] and [How fast is the sword-drawing technique that cannot be seen even if it is put down ten times slower].
Then the title was brought up again: [The most courageous man in Daxia - Qi Ji]
Nine out of the top ten trending searches directly mentioned the words "Qi Ji", and the remaining one was a statement issued by an organization in Sakura Country. This statement did not mention the word "Qi Ji" in any sentence, but every sentence was about Qi Ji.
【Announcement from the Sakura National Kendo Federation: In view of the fact that a foreign jiju player recently conducted a bad kendo exchange activity with a kendo school under the alliance without reporting to our organization, we hereby declare that the kendo exchange activities with the jiju player are all private behaviors of the school, and the exchange results cannot represent the true kendo strength of our organization, let alone the true strength of the Sakura Kendo collective . At the same time, in view of the extremely bad private challenge behavior of the jiju player, our organization has decided to impose a permanent ban on the player, which will be implemented immediately from September 3, 2032.】
This announcement from the Sakura Kendo Federation was spread to the Daxia network, which immediately triggered a second carnival among all the people on the Internet.
[All Swordsmen: Give me back my sword, I don’t want to play anymore! ]
[All Sword Alliance: Qi Shen, this bastard, raped my entire family in front of me. This is too much. I will never allow him to come to my house and mess around again! ]
[You above, you want to make me laugh to death! 】
Not only the various meme comments, but also the anthropomorphic expressions of the entire Sword Federation being punched in the face also went viral.
It was a shabby little man with a cherry blossom head and a cherry blossom bamboo sword on his back. He would squat in the corner and draw circles, or hide behind the door and watch his beloved kendo style being subjected to various bullying actions such as NTR.
It's both murderous and heartbreaking.
In this way, no one dared to challenge Qi Ji, who defeated Yagyu Jubei, anymore.
Amid the anger and tears of the Sakura people and the online carnival of the Daxia people, Qi Ji's journey of sweeping the Sakura Kendo world came to an end.
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September 8, early morning.
Qi Ji, wearing pajamas and rubbing his messy hair, opened the door and walked out of his guest room.
Time passed quickly, and five days went by in the blink of an eye.
What made him feel helpless was that he wasted another five days of opportunity to climb the tower.
So far, he has been defeated eight times in the Tower of Transcendence by the powerful knight in the ice cave in the Secret Record of Rebirth.
Of course, it's not that he has made no progress. In several life-and-death battles, he has been able to stably dodge all the opponent's attacks in normal mode, and used the Undead Slash to deal several severe blows to the opponent.
However, this time the enemy was also wearing heavy plate armor, and it was not the damaged plate armor like Arthas's.
He was armed from head to toe.
Without using his special moves, Qi Ji would not be able to leave any cracks in his armor, let alone cause him any harm.
It doesn’t matter, as long as I reach the extraordinary level, I will definitely be able to defeat the opponent.
And Chaofan is very close to me...
The battle with Yagyu Jubei was not just about giving Yagyu Jubei the chance to take the final step.
Qi Ji himself was dueling with him, and the physical and mental momentum was constantly clashing. In addition, he saw with his own eyes that he was sending him into a super-limit state and witnessed a special event of a breakthrough on the spot.
The combination of all these factors also allowed Qi Ji to successfully achieve complete resonance and harmony between his body and mind.
In other words, he had inadvertently reached the peak of both his spirit and body, and officially entered the depths of the "divine" realm.
While he was thinking, Saeko Kamiizumi, who was busy in the kitchen, heard the noise, turned around and saw Qi Ji, and couldn't help but smile.
"Qi Jijun, are you up?" She tied an apron on and pointed to the dining table next to her: "Breakfast is ready, Qi Jijun, come and have breakfast after you wash up."
Qi Ji nodded in response and went directly to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash up.
Not long after, Kamiizumi Yito also came out of the room yawning.
Soon, the three of them sat down at the dining table. Qi Ji looked at Shangquan Yiren and asked , "Has anyone come to the dojo to sign up these days?"
Shangquan Yiren said speechlessly: "Yes, I don't know how these people spread the rumor that Qi Jijun will teach in our Shangquan family's dojo. As a result, after your competition , a lot of people want to sign up to learn your kendo style every day."
Ueizumi Saeko covered her mouth and laughed, "These past few days, my brother's task is to communicate with the people who are eager to learn the Qi Ji Kendo style, and then make them go back disappointed."
Kamiizumi Yiren collapsed weakly on the table.
Qi Ji smiled slightly: "So today we continue to go out and hide from the limelight? Where are we going this time?"
Accompanied by the Kamiizumi siblings, Qi Ji tried out almost all the fun things to do in this giant metropolitan area of Tokyo.
If it weren't for the Deathly Mad Sword Fight, he would have returned home by now.
While eating and chatting, the cell phone rang. It was an international call from Qin Zijin.
"Meximexi." Qi Ji answered the phone and spoke in the voice of a colonel.
Qin Zijin chuckled on the other side: "Our charming Qi Jisang, why didn't you return home after crushing Sakura Kendo? I'm afraid you are indulging in the gentle land over there?"
Qi Ji couldn't help but laugh and said, "No matter how gentle the outside world is, it can't compare to the gentleness of you, the queen." After teasing, he continued, "There are still two more rounds of the Death Mad Sword Fight here. I will go back after the fights. Why, Miss Qin definitely didn't come to me to urge me to go home, right? What's the matter?"
"Hey, can't I come to you if I don't have something important to do?" Qin Zijin chuckled, and then turned serious: "Actually, I do have something important to do."
"What's wrong?" Qi Ji leaned back in his chair, assuming a leisurely and contented posture.
Qin Zijin said: "I mentioned to you before that there was an 'outer demon' on Earth. Do you remember it?"
Qi Ji nodded involuntarily: "Of course I remember. It's better to say that I have always been concerned about this matter. What is the progress now?"
"Since Mr. Yu went to the Western Region of Donghua Continent to provide support and could not be contacted for a while, the higher-ups decided to organize manpower and begin formally tackling several desperate situations that have been discovered within Daxia in order to prevent any further complications." Qin Zijin said some very important words.
Qi Ji sat up straight at once: "Attack the barrier? How are you going to attack it? We can't bring anything in, not even weapons. Are we going in to die?"
Qin Zijin said with a hint of helplessness: "From a rational point of view, we really shouldn't act rashly. After all, it would be much safer to wait for the Sword Saint to come back."
She then said, "But the Sword Saint has not replied yet, and the situation has become worse. The foreign devil desperate places that have been discovered in Daxia are basically still in places where few people go, but... new foreign devil desperate places have appeared. This time, the three new foreign devil desperate places are closer to villages and towns where humans gather than the previous ones. The higher-ups feel that if these new foreign devil desperate places are not dealt with, I'm afraid they will appear in towns next time!"
"This is not good news." Qi Ji's face suddenly became serious.
Then he realized what was happening and asked, "Since you specifically informed me of this, there must be something I can do to help, right?"
Qin Zijin's voice was affirmative: "That's right. Because of this special incident , the confidentiality level of the 'outside world', 'outside demons' and 'supernormal' matters has inevitably been lowered. All countries have unanimously decided that the information that was originally only known to super geniuses who have reached the ninth level under the age of 35 will now be conditionally relaxed."
She continued, "Now all top masters who have reached the ninth stage, as well as eighth stage geniuses under the age of thirty, also have the right to know about this matter. Accordingly, they need to respond to the call from above, form an advance team, and enter the outer demon desperate situation to try to break through!"
After a pause, Qin Zijin added, "Your strength is almost the strongest in the world under the Sword Saint, and you are the focus of Daxia's consideration. The superiors hope that you can lead the advance team this time to try."
Qi Ji took a deep breath and said, "So, you want me to lead the team to fight the dungeon?"
"Yes, the 'copy' that you are responsible for leading the team to conquer is located deep in the mountains of Shanshui City in the southwest region."
"Shanshui City?"
Qi Ji sat up. That was the city where his parents lived, his hometown!
