After loudly announcing his own name, an arc-shaped blade light was pulled out from the Yang Shen in Yuan Yi's right hand.
The rain curtain was cut off, and a gap was cut out in the thick rain curtain.
The cold light reflected by the blade penetrated Yoshihisa who was standing on Genichi's right hand side.
Jijiu took a deep breath, shook the tip of the pistol, and smashed it towards the Yang Shen that Yuan Yi was slashing at.
Looking at the gun tip that Yoshihisa was throwing at him, Genichi narrowed his eyes slightly and the movement of his right hand holding the knife changed slightly.
Yang Shen was still facing the spear head that Ji Jiu was throwing at him and slashing straight at it.
However, the momentum of the blade has changed slightly.
clang!
As expected, Yang Shen's blade and Jijiu's gun tip collided with each other, scattering the raindrops around them.
The weapons of a person with "immortal power" and a person with an ordinary body collided - in this competition of strength, no matter how you look at it, the former has the advantage.
But the fact is - the former's gun was directly shaken away by the latter's knife!
——It happens again!
Looking at the scene before his eyes, Yoshihisa's expression became uncontrollably ferocious.
After the brief duel with Genichi last night, Yoshihisa deeply realized that compared with Genichi, his only advantage was his physical fitness far exceeding that of ordinary people and his terrifying recovery ability after being transformed by the "immortal power".
But this small advantage of his could not be turned into victory in front of Yuanyi.
The reason for this is that Yuan Yi's skills in transforming and eliminating force have reached a superb level.
Once the attack touched Genichi's sword, it would be like hitting a ball of extremely soft cotton.
Most of the force on the gun was directly eliminated by Yuan Yi's force transformation and force elimination techniques, and in the end the power was less than one-third of the original - like now.
According to Yoshihisa's prediction, if his attack just now could hit Genichi's sword solidly, it would definitely be able to shake Genichi's sword away. However, due to Genichi's exquisite force-dissipating technique, not only did he fail to shake Genichi's sword away, but his own weapon was blocked, leaving his body wide open!
He would not miss any fleeting opportunity for battle - this was the instinct of a swordsman like Genichi who had experienced hundreds of battles... no, thousands of battles.
Seeing that Yoshihisa's body was wide open because he had blocked the spear tip, Genichi immediately took two steps towards Yoshihisa's direction, and when he was close enough to launch an effective attack on Yoshihisa, he raised the Flame in his left hand.
However - before he could bring down the raised Yanrong, Yuanyi felt the pressure of wind and an ominous aura of something approaching from his side.
Sensing the approaching danger, Genichi stopped chasing Yoshihisa and took a half step back, avoiding the slashing blow from Toyotomi Nobuhide who was standing on his left.
The blade of Yoshimitsu Boseki's knife almost passed by Genichi's nose.
While dodging Toyotomi Nobuhide's attack, Genichi immediately launched a swift counterattack.
Yan Rong, who was originally going to chop Yoshihisa, turned around and slashed at Toyotomi Nobuhide.
The offense and defense were switched in an instant.
Just now it was Toyotomi Nobuhide who initiated the attack and Genichirō who was on the defense, but now the positions of the two sides have been directly swapped.
Yan Rong's blade cut through the layers of rain curtains, and his target was Toyotomi Nobuhide's right hand holding the knife.
Yan Rong was using a wakizashi, which was not long enough to cut off Toyotomi Nobuhide's head - but it was more than enough to cut off Toyotomi Nobuhide's sword-holding hand.
After realizing that Genichi was planning to cut off his knife-wielding hand and weaken his strength, Toyotomi Nobuhide took a deep breath and retracted the Yoshimitsu Bones Food he had just chopped out.
Then, he placed the Yoshimitsu Bone Food diagonally across his body with the tip of the knife pointing diagonally to the right front of his body.
clang!
The moment Toyotomi Nobuhide took such a strange defensive posture, Yan Rong's blade hit him.
"snort!"
Toyotomi Nobuhide snorted coldly, and his hands holding the knife shook. Yan Rong, who had hit the blade of Yoshimitsu Bonesaki, slid away like riding a slide, sliding to the side along the inclined blade of Yoshimitsu Bonesaki that was pointing to the ground.
The next moment, Toyotomi Nobuhide suddenly turned the blade, and the blade, which was originally pointing diagonally at the ground, was pointed diagonally at the sky in a flash, and then he slashed heavily at Genichi.
The offense and defense switched again.
Looking at the series of actions that Toyotomi Nobuhide just performed, Genichi's eyebrows twitched slightly.
——Are there no inazumas who leave the country?
[Note: "Inazuma" is a real sword technique in the Mugai-ryu. It uses the same action as Toyotomi Nobuhide in the previous article to block the enemy's slash and then quickly return the enemy's sword.]
Recognizing at a glance the sword technique that Toyotomi Nobuhide had just used, Genichi sneered softly.
——No outflow?
——It really makes me miss it.
——The first sword style I learned... was Mugai-ryu.
Genichi took a deep breath, and then made a move that made Toyotomi Nobuhide's eyebrows uncontrollably show surprise - he pulled the Yang Shen in his right hand in front of his body, and pointed the tip of the Yang Shen diagonally to the front right side of his body.
The action...is exactly the same as the one Toyotomi Nobuhide used just now.
The Yang God intercepted the Ji Guang bone food that was coming towards him in the sky.
Following Yoshihisa, Toyotomi Nobuhide experienced the feeling of chopping thick cotton with a knife.
After using the force-dissipating technique to dissipate most of the force on Toyotomi Nobuhide's sword, Genichi shook his hand, and Yoshimitsu Gushi slid to the side along Yang Shen's blade just like Yan Rong just now.
However, Genichi did not have time to launch a counterattack - because Yoshihisa's support arrived.
The series of violent attacks and defenses by Genichirō and Toyotomi Nobuhide were completed in just a few seconds.
In these few seconds, Yoshihisa had regrouped.
He reached behind his waist with his left hand and pulled out three shurikens strung together with thin ropes, then threw them hard at Yuan Yi.
Because the three shurikens are strung together with a thin rope, their flight trajectory is extremely strange, making it easy for people who are not good at dealing with this kind of throwing weapons to lose their defense and evasive direction.
And it was obvious that Genichi was not in the category of "not good at dealing with thrown weapons".
He calmly pushed Yan Rong forward.
Don't do any other actions.
He just held Yan Rong upright in front of him.
clang!
After these three shurikens strung together hit Yan Rong's blade, they bounced directly to the side.
Just like seeing a performance after drawing back the curtain, Genichi had just deflected the incoming shuriken when he saw the tip of a gun rapidly enlarge in his field of vision.
The shurikens that Yoshihisa had just thrown were simply to confuse Genichi. He didn't expect these three shurikens to cause any damage to the "Sword Saint" at all.
He only hoped that these three shurikens could serve as cover .
This time, Yoshihisa is not alone.
After he stabbed Genichi with the spear, Toyotomi Nobuhide next to him also launched an attack at the same time.
The two of them launched a 90-degree attack on Yuan Yi, one in front and one on the left.
Genichi never paid much attention to Yoshihisa from beginning to end.
After taking a quick glance at Yoshihisa and recognizing the direction and trajectory of Yoshihisa's attack, he focused all his attention on Toyotomi Nobuhide.
Toyotomi Nobuhide launched the killing again this time.
However, it is no longer the desperate, powerful and heavy blow of the Shixianliu.
He did not assume the standard upper stance with the knife raised above his head.
Instead, he held the Ji Guang Gu Shi with both hands, passed it over his left shoulder, and carried it behind his back.
When the back of Yoshimitsu Hatsukoi 's knife was almost touching Toyotomi Nobuhide's back, Toyotomi Nobuhide swung the knife at Genichi.
The corner of Yuanyi's eye twitched again:
——Katori Shinto-ryu's rolling strike... Did he realize that the heavy slashes of the Shigen-ryu wouldn't work for me, so he switched to this more flexible slash...
[Note: "Kan-tachi" is a real sword technique of Katori Shinto-ryu. Many sword techniques of Katori Shinto-ryu are designed based on the premise that the swordsman is wearing a full set of armor. Because ancient Japanese helmets usually have strange decorations, it is not convenient to use the upper stance of holding the sword above the head while wearing a helmet, so "Kan-tachi" came into being. Instead of holding the sword above the head, the sword is tilted back, allowing the blade to pass over the shoulder and back, and then the centrifugal force is used to chop the sword out.]
Being attacked by two people at the same time, Genichi did not get complacent and did not fight them head-on. Instead, he used his footwork to retreat to the right rear, away from the attack range of the two people.
This was the first time since the war officially began that Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa successfully forced Genichirō to retreat. Although they did not cause any serious damage to Genichirō, it was still some progress.
Without any instructions or reminders, Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa launched a continuous and fierce attack on Genichi like the two big claws of a crab.
If you can block an attack directly, just block it.
If an attack cannot be directly blocked, use footwork to dodge it.
Be it defense or dodging, Genichi's level can undoubtedly be rated as first-class.
But even with first-rate defense and evasion, it is difficult to deal with two "non-humans" with "immortal power" as opponents.
Under the two's relentless attacks, they soon achieved their greatest victory so far.
Genichirō dodged backwards once again, avoiding the spear tip that Yoshihisa was throwing at him. Toyotomi Nobuhide took advantage of the gap when Genichirō was stepping back, with his old strength having been used up but new strength not yet arising, and switched his knife-holding posture to one-handed. Holding the lower half of Yoshimitsu's bone-shaving knife handle with his right hand, he threw the knife in his hand towards Genichirō's left leg with a strange movement, creating a knife light that caused a brief gap in the rain curtain.
——Yagyu Shinkage-ryu’s Yan Fei…
[Note: Swallow Flying is also one of the real moves of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu. The author is still researching the specific content of the move. All he knows is that it is a slashing attack in which the knife is held in one hand and thrown out with centrifugal force.]
There was no time to dodge - Yuan Yi quickly made this judgment in his mind and blocked Yang Shen on the "necessary path" of Ji Guang Gu Shi.
This time the defense was a little hasty, so he failed to completely block Yoshimitsu Gushi with the force-dissipating technique, and only made Yoshimitsu Gushi deviate from the original trajectory of the attack.
The blow that could have cut off Genichi's left leg at the knee ended up only leaving a shallow cut on his leg that caused considerable bleeding.
Before he had time to savor the pain in his leg, a new attack came - Yoshihisa aimed at Genichi's already injured lower body and stabbed the pistol in his hand, leaving a trail of afterimages.
Under Yoshikyu's rapid stabbing, Yoshikyu's hands and gun seemed to have multiplied in an instant.
Although there was a cut on his left leg, the injury did not have a significant negative impact on Genichi's movements.
With his agile movements that were not much slower, Genichirō performed a quadruple backflip like an elegant , widening the gap between himself and Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa in one go.
Genichi's original intention was to create some distance so that he could take a short break and adjust his stance.
Unfortunately, his obvious intention had already been seen through by Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa.
The act of increasing the distance between them does not have much effect on these two people - because they are both people with physical fitness far beyond that of ordinary people.
As soon as Genichi retreated, these two immediately followed and stuck to him tightly.
As soon as the old man stood still, he saw the faces of Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa just within reach of him.
Yoshihisa, holding a pistol, circled behind Genichir, intending to double-team him from the front and back together with Toyotomi Nobuhide.
Jijiu has done similar things many times.
Since the beginning of the war, Yoshihisa has tried to "circumvent the enemy's defense" countless times.
But each time, it ended in failure due to Genichi's sharpness.
Whenever he noticed that Yoshihisa seemed to be trying to outflank him from behind, Genichi would immediately adjust his position so as not to expose his back to the enemy.
It was because of Genichi's sharpness and agility that he ensured that Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa would only appear within the range of his sight at all times.
As expected, Yoshihisa's "backward detour" failed again.
Genichi jumped to the front left and escaped from Yoshihisa's encirclement.
However - just as his feet touched the ground, Ji Guang Gu Shi's blade shattered the rain curtain and slashed towards him.
It's another Katori Shinto-ryu style of fighting.
"It's really endless..."
Genichi's murmur was quite calm in tone.
However, in this dullness, there is a bit of...joy.
The old man took a deep breath, then turned his body counterclockwise with his left foot as the axis.
If Ogata were present and saw Genichi's actions, he would probably feel very nostalgic.
Because the move that Genichi was using now was one of the secret techniques he had previously taught Ogata - the doddle.
Genichi turned his body counterclockwise to avoid the attack from Toyotomi Nobuhide, and then used the centrifugal force brought by the rotation of his body to cut out a horizontal sword light and slashed at Toyotomi Nobuhide's belly.
The human stomach can be said to be one of the most vulnerable parts.
There is nothing like bones that can be used for defense. The only thing that can be used for defense is some flesh which is no different from paper against a sharp blade.
And there happen to be many important organs inside the abdomen.
Stomach, large intestine, small intestine, bladder, kidneys...
Once a person was deeply stabbed in the abdomen and the internal organs were injured, the survival rate could be said to be terribly low given the level of medical technology at that time.
Therefore, unless one is a madman who doesn't care about his life, any normal person will immediately dodge or defend himself when facing any attack aimed at his stomach.
This is something that is close to common sense.
But this common sense no longer applies at this moment.
Facing Genichi's horizontal slash that was made possible by centrifugal force, Toyotomi Nobuhide neither dodged nor evaded, but just stood there.
After putting on an "I'll let you chop me as you please" look, he raised the Yoshimitsu Bones Food in his hand, ready to attack Genichi in front of him! He used the Katori Shinto-ryu's rolling strike again and chopped at Genichi's forehead.
While standing in place and launching a new pursuit towards Genichi, a faint smile with a hint of satisfaction appeared on Toyotomi Nobuhide's face, as if he saw his plan succeed.
Yuan Yi's pupils shrank slightly at this moment.
He suddenly remembered something.
He immediately adjusted his movements.
He exerted force with his right arm to stop the attack on Toyotomi Nobuhide, then rolled to the side and escaped from Toyotomi Nobuhide.
Although Genichi's actions were quite timely and swift, he still accidentally let Yoshimitsu Gushi's blade cut a deep wound at the corner of his left eyebrow.
"I almost forgot..."
Genichi rolled to the side , and using the jutsu's receiving technique, he quickly stood on the deck of the ship and raised the two swords in front of him again.
[Keijin: One of the basic techniques of judo, a method of self-protection to reduce the impact when being thrown down by an opponent or falling down yourself.]
"You are 'monsters' that are not easy to kill. We cannot fight you the same way we fight ordinary people."
"Heh, after fighting normal people for most of my life, it's really difficult to temporarily change the combat experience I have accumulated over the years."
"Ah? You said we are 'monsters'?" Toyotomi Nobuhide put away his "planner" smile and stared at Genichi with an expression of obvious impatience. "If we are 'monsters'... then what are you, who can fight against two 'monsters' like us on your own?"
"The fact that you can fight me back and forth already proves that you two are 'monsters'." Yuan Yi calmly wiped the blood from the wound on his left eyebrow. "It's been a long time since I was chopped by someone after giving it my all."
"'Sword Saint' Genichi... I expected you to be difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect you to be this difficult..." Toyotomi Nobuhide and Yoshihisa once again double-teamed Genichi on the left and right.