Volume 5: Return to Donghua Chapter 43: The Legendary Swordsman
On the dry earth, a huge egg-shaped meteorite stood in a huge deep pit.
A huge amount of tangible purple demonic energy surrounded the meteorite like flames, and continuously dissipated between heaven and earth, emitting an aura that was enough to drive ordinary extraordinary people crazy.
Qi Ji was floating in the clouds thousands of meters above, overlooking the deep pit in the distance. Even though he was thousands of meters away, he still felt a wave of discomfort.
However, he was so powerful that when faced with the influence of this evil spirit, he only needed to practice the meditation method of the Yangmai Method to completely dispel the influence of this aura on his mind.
Even he felt uncomfortable with the demonic energy, so one could imagine how terrifying it would be to other weaker people.
This is not an inference, but a statement of fact.
Because the result of this fact has already appeared before Qi Ji's eyes.
Within a radius of several thousand meters near this "Devil Star", Qi Ji saw countless warriors wearing armor, holding sharp weapons, and killing anyone they saw with a crazy look on their faces.
However, these are all low-level extraordinary beings. They had already been transformed by the evil spirit into violent and manic demons. It was normal for them to be transformed into chaotic and murderous beasts after being impacted by this strong evil spirit.
Looking deeper, one can see a large number of third-level or even inferior fourth-level transformed beings who are suppressing their desire to kill and waiting obediently outside the pit of the Demon Star.
Who are they waiting for? Are they waiting for someone from Dengtian Tower?
Qi Ji quickly took out a pen and paper from his pocket and wrote down the current situation concisely and clearly on the paper, then rolled up the paper.
Then he took out a messenger bird that he had hidden in his arms, tied the letter paper to the bird's legs and let it fly away.
This carrier bird was specially assigned to him by Mo Daoming from Wuxiang Temple so that he could convey the actual situation back in a timely manner.
Qi Ji saw that the carrier bird was flying slowly and was afraid that it could not keep up with his speed, so he simply caught it and hid it in his arms, and flew with the bird to the depths of the Falling Star Plain.
After releasing the carrier bird, Qi Ji did not leave immediately.
He was also very concerned about what the Dengtian Pavilion behind the mirage was planning to do.
Moreover, the large number of Level 4 Transformers gathered on the ground made him quite envious...
Although they are all inferior fourth-level ones, there are at least thirty or forty of them. Even if each of them can only give 250 points of transcendence, that is a huge sum of about ten thousand points!
He had just upgraded his newly acquired skills before coming to the Outland, and now he was short of money.
Isn’t this a coincidence?
However, he was not in a hurry to take action now. After all, he, like these modified humans, wanted to wait until the so-called "Commander-in-Chief" appeared to see who else was inside the Dengtian Pavilion besides Blood Slaughter and the Golden Swordsman.
Unexpectedly, the wait lasted for a whole night.
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[Select: Enter the next level]
[Tower of Transcendence·Crazy Stage·Second Floor]
[Crazy-class projections all possess skills and strengths far beyond conventional cognition, please try to live longer]
[Current transcendence degree 6640, spirituality 100/100]
Late at night, Qi Ji, who failed to wait for the people from Dengtian Pavilion to show up, found an opportunity to fall asleep.
Then, he thought that his current strength was already able to crush the first level of the Mad Class relatively stably, so he would not play the Secret Record of Rebirth for the time being, but would try to see what the second level of the Mad Class was like.
As the scenery changed, by the time he realized what was happening, he was already in the middle of a long mountain path.
The scenery on both sides is quiet and the moonlight in the sky is bright.
He raised his head and looked upwards. The end of the stairs pointed to the belly of the mountain. There seemed to be a temple-like building, but it did not look like the architectural style of a Daxia temple. It looked more like a mountain temple like those in the Sakura Country.
I looked around briefly, but didn't notice anything special.
So Qi Ji deduced that he should go up the mountain to see his target.
Thinking of this, he let out a sigh of relief and began to walk quickly towards the top of the mountain.
As he walked, he summoned the Spiral Sword and Berserker Armor.
At the second level of the Berserker Stage, it was very likely that he would encounter an opponent comparable to the fifth level of the Outer Realm. Even though he was prepared to be killed by Chu Jian this time, it was necessary for him to die in a more valuable way.
He adjusted his state while walking towards the mountain, and soon he came to a place built of wood, which resembled a mountain gate.
There was a vertical plaque nailed to the center of the large wooden gate, with three large characters inscribed on it:
Ryudo Temple.
At the foot of the mountain gate, there stood a man.
He had a long dark blue ponytail tied with a lavender headband, and his hair fell to his collarbone, giving him a handsome appearance.
She wore a dark purple sleeveless waistcoat on the outside, a purple kimono on the inside, purple wrist guards on her wrists, and straw sandals on her feet.
The man was standing with his hands folded across his chest, carrying a five-foot-long sword on his back. Outside the blade was a purple scabbard.
At this moment, the man was looking at Qi Ji calmly with a faint smile on his lips.
The two looked at each other for a while, and then it was still this man who spoke first. The first sentence he said made Qi Ji slightly stunned.
"Hello, my name is Sasaki Kojiro. May I ask your name?"
Sasaki Kojiro!?
The famous swordsman of Sakura Country, the peerless kendo master who was defeated by Miyamoto Musashi and became a stepping stone to the most famous swordsman of Sakura Country?
Qi Ji was stunned for a moment - Sasaki Kojiro should be on Ganliu Island, not in this place called "Ryudo Temple", right?
In addition, if he remembered correctly, the level of the Tower of Transcendence where he was now was the "Mad Level", which was an absolute extraordinary realm.
How could I encounter a swordsman who was a legend in the history of Sakura Country among the extraordinary class?
In his opinion, no matter how powerful an ordinary person is, he should not be qualified to be included in the Berserker class to serve as his sparring partner, right?
unless……
Qi Ji's eyes narrowed slightly.
Unless the Sasaki Kojiro in front of him is not the one in historical legend, but a fictional character in a fantasy work.
This is a very normal phenomenon.
Ancient people with legendary colors in history are easily fabricated in various fantasy works to satisfy the author 's creative impulse of "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong".
For example, Musashi and Kojiro from the Land of Sakura, and Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen from Daxia, etc.
If we consider it from this perspective...then Sasaki Kojiro in front of us cannot be viewed with the mentality of an "ordinary person".
It is very likely that he has been modified and his strength has reached the level that is required of a Berserker-level Transcendence Tower.
Qi Ji was thinking and answering at the same time, but his eyes were fixed on Sasaki Kojiro: "I'm Qi Ji, do you want to compete with me in sword skills?"
When Qi Ji took the initiative to propose a sword-fighting contest, Sasaki Kojiro, who was standing opposite the mountain gate, saw his eyes light up and he quickly agreed to Qi Ji's request.
He slowly drew out the large sword behind him, and before Qi Ji could say the second sentence, he had already slashed towards Qi Ji without mercy!
