Chapter 63: Those who kill the Japanese pirates are heroes

"I didn't hear it clearly either."

Dongfang Sheng stood among the corpses of the Japanese pirates, dressed in red, with a unique kind of beauty, and replied to Chu Yuan.

However, he thought of the martial arts that Chu Yuan had just displayed, which made him invulnerable to swords and guns.

"It's not just about deep internal strength... it should be a martial art that can transform internal strength into the ability to be invulnerable to swords and guns!"

Dongfang Sheng analyzed in his mind.

He recalled the first time he met Chu Yuan on Mount Hua.

At that time, Chu Yuan used his internal force to form an elliptical air shield to keep the rain out of his body, so that even the heavy rain could not wet him.

At that time he still felt strange that internal force was an invisible aura.

No matter how strong your internal strength is, you shouldn't let it block the rain.

Now I understand that this kind of gas shield must be a very powerful special martial art.

Once this air shield is completed, it will not only protect against rain, but also be invulnerable to swords and guns.

But in the world, no one has ever heard of such a strange martial art!
This skill is quite similar to the Shaolin Temple's Golden Bell Cover and Iron Cloth Shirt, but it is much more powerful.

Dongfang Sheng couldn't help but imagine Chu Yuan as his opponent in his mind, thinking about how he could defeat him.

After thinking about it from another's perspective, he just felt that it was really difficult.

Chu Yuan having this kind of air shield is like having a turtle shell. He can hurt himself, but he cannot hurt himself.

In addition, the "Tiandun Sword Technique" that Chu Yuan created in Huashan Sect is also very troublesome.

Not only is it extremely fast, it is also extremely soft and extremely hard.

Even if it can't compare to the "Nine Swords of Dugu" by the Huashan Sect's senior Feng Qingyang, it's not much worse.

The only thing that made me better than Chu Yuan was that I was fast enough.

But it is impossible to defeat Chu Yuan just by being fast.

If you want to defeat Chu Yuan, you can only find a way to break Chu Yuan's energy shield.

But I don't know how strong Chu Yuan's gas shield is...

Is there a limit...

Can a strong attack break through...

"This gas shield should be related to internal strength. If you want to break it, you have to exhaust his internal strength, so you have to fight a war of attrition..."

After some analysis, Dongfang Sheng thought to himself.

Chu Yuan didn't know yet that the battle just now had already made Dongfang Sheng think of a way to defeat him.

After killing the Japanese pirate named Nakajo Motohide, Chu Yuan walked to Nakajo Motohide's body and bent down to touch it.

As the leader of this group of Japanese pirates, he should have good stuff on him.

In the end, I actually touched a... book?
Chu Yuan flipped it open and took a look. It was full of words written in Japanese, mixed with many little figures that looked like martial arts moves.

After reading it, Chu Yuan concluded that this should be a martial arts secret book.

It’s just the martial arts secrets from Fuso.

"what?"

When Dongfang Sheng saw Chu Yuan, he took out a book from the corpse of the Japanese pirate leader, walked up to Chu Yuan and asked curiously.

"It's a secret book, but it should be a Fuso martial arts secret book. It's a pity that it's written in Fuso language. Otherwise, I could take a look at what the Fuso martial arts are like."

Chu Yuan said.

Since there are rivers and lakes and martial arts in the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, there is also the Japanese martial arts world in Fuso.

It’s just that perhaps due to different regions, the forms of existence of the martial arts world are different.

"Let me see, I know some Fuso characters."

Dongfang Sheng said to Chu Yuan.

"Do you know Fusowen?"

Chu Yuan said in surprise.

"I learned it when I was the Left Envoy of Light."

The Eastern Way of Victory.

“Brother Chu, you should have known about my identity as the leader of the Demon Cult a long time ago, right?”

After saying this, Dongfang Sheng realized belatedly that he had exposed his identity, so he simply took this opportunity to reveal his identity.

Chu Yuan had revealed several times before that he knew his identity. There was no point in continuing to pretend when he knew the truth.

"Yes, I knew it when we first met in Huashan Sect."

Chu Yuan nodded.

"After all, apart from the Demon Cult leader Dongfang Bubai, who else in the world has such a light skill as flying through the air!"

Chu Yuan continued.

"Then why do you keep walking with me? Aren't you afraid of me?"

Dongfang Bubai looked puzzled.

"Why are you afraid, Brother Dongfang? Are you afraid that you, as the leader of the Demon Cult, have killed countless people? Or are you afraid that the Demon Cult and the Qingcheng Sect cannot coexist with good and evil?"

Chu Yuan asked Dongfang Bubai in return.

"That's right. How could a genius like Brother Chu care about these worldly prejudices?"

Dongfang Bubai smiled on his cold face when he heard this.

"Brother Chu, I, Dongfang Bubai, accept you as my brother."

Dongfang Bubai looked at Chu Yuan and said solemnly.

"It's the same."

Chu Yuan smiled.

"Then Brother Dongfang, please help me take a look at this book."

Chu Yuan handed the book in his hand to Dongfang Bubai.

"This book is a Fuso sword manual. It's called "The Catalogue of Katori Shinto", but it's incomplete. It records some sword techniques of Fuso Katori Shinto. Brother Chu, do you want to read it? If you do, I can help you translate it."

Dongfang Bubai said after flipping through it.

"Swordsmanship?"

Chu Yuan was puzzled.

The Japanese pirate leader just now was clearly using a Japanese sword.

"The Fuso swords and sabers are indistinguishable. What they call swords are what we call Japanese swords, so their swordsmanship is actually the swordsmanship of Japanese swords."

Dongfang Bubai explained to Chu Yuan.

"Forget it. There are so many sword techniques in the Ming Dynasty that I am too lazy to learn. I don't plan to learn the Japanese sword."

Chu Yuan shook his head and refused.

"I'll translate it for you and return it to you. Katori Shinto-ryu is one of the three famous sword schools in Fuso. Even if you don't learn it, it can broaden your horizons."

Dongfang Bubai said.

"That's fine too. Thank you for troubling Brother Dongfang."

Chu Yuan said.

"How long are you going to hide? Come out..."

After talking with Dongfang Bubai, Chu Yuan looked into the night. He just opened a gap and looked outside, and then the man turned into a sculpture, standing there in a daze.

"I am Cui Tai, the magistrate of Min County. Thank you two heroes for helping me and saving the people of Min County from the dire situation..."

Seeing that the two knights who killed the Japanese had discovered him, Cui Tai opened the door of the county government office, walked out of the county government office and bowed to express his gratitude.

"I'm not really a hero. You just heard that I am the leader of a demonic cult..."

Dongfang Bubai interrupted Cui Tai, the magistrate of Min County, and said in a cold tone.

Cui Tai smiled awkwardly. As a county official, he knew a thing or two about the martial arts world.

The Ming Dynasty martial arts world is divided into two factions, good and evil, and the two sides are fighting endlessly.

Among them, Shaolin and Wudang are the most important orthodox sects.

In recent years, a new Five Mountains Sword Sect has emerged, which is extremely powerful and has a good reputation.

The evil path is mainly this demon cult.

The Demon Cult is extremely powerful. Even Shaolin and Wudang have suffered great losses at its hands.

It is said that the people in the Demon Cult all have bad personalities, commit many evil deeds, and kill people like crazy.

However, the leader of the evil cult came with his good friends to help kill the Japanese pirates.

This behaves more like the righteous path than the righteous path in the martial arts world.

It can be seen that rumors cannot be fully trusted.

"You two are joking. Since you are willing to help the people kill the Japanese pirates, it shows that even if you are the leader of the Demon Cult, you still have a chivalrous heart."

Then Cui Tai laughed.

Dongfang Bubai stopped talking.

But judging from the indifferent expression on his face, it seemed that he was somewhat disdainful of what Cui Tai said.

"Please tell us your names, so that the people of Min County can know who saved them and express their gratitude to you two."

Then Cui Tai said again.

"Chu Yuan!"

"The East is undefeated!"

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai said one after another.

"There's no need to express gratitude. We were entrusted by the prefect, Lord Yang Xuefeng, to come and kill the Japanese."

Chu Yuan then said.

"It turns out that you two were entrusted by Lord Yang Xuefeng to come here to kill the Japanese." Cui Tai suddenly realized.

"We must inform the people of Min County and let them know which two heroes saved them."

Cui Tai's tone changed.

It was learned that Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai were invited by Lord Yang Xuefeng, the prefect of Fuzhou.

They were his immediate superiors, so of course he had to try his best to make friends with them, Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai.

"It's up to you. The Japanese pirates have been eliminated. The cleanup and disposal of the bodies are left to you. We have to rush to Changle County to deal with another group of Japanese pirates."

Chu Yuan was too lazy to argue with Cui Tai about this matter.

"Don't worry, my two heroes. Leave this matter to me."

Cui Tai was very happy.

I was already prepared to die, but who knew that not only would I save my life, but I would also receive this credit for free.

Although he would not steal the credit from Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai for killing the Japanese.

But even so, the fact that he successfully protected the safety of the people in the county and the little merit he got from Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai were enough for him to benefit from.

The night is dark.

There is no rush to kill the Japanese in the short term.

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai finally stayed in the Min County government office for a night at the request of Cui Tai, the magistrate of Min County.

The next day, at daybreak, County Magistrate Cui Tai led the county constables to deal with the pile of Japanese pirates' corpses in front of the county government office. While they were cleaning up the bloodstains, Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai had already left quietly.

……

Leave Min County.

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai went south for thirty miles and arrived at the bank of the Minjiang River.

The Minjiang River is the largest river flowing into the sea in Fuzhou Prefecture.

The river is a hundred feet wide at its widest point and sixty or seventy feet wide at its narrowest point.

Min County and Changle County are across the river from each other. Many relatives and friends of the people in the two counties live on the other side of the river. Usually, everyone visits relatives and friends by boat.

Therefore, there is no shortage of boats crossing the Minjiang River.

Chu Yuan and his companions hired a small boat on the shore and crossed the Minjiang River.

During the process of crossing the river, Chu Yuan stood at the bow and looked at the scenery of the Minjiang River for a while. Then he asked the boatman who was rowing at the stern about the news of the Japanese pirates in Changle County.

Chu Yuan said, "Sir, I heard that there have been Japanese pirates in Changle County recently, right?"

The boatman was a middle-aged man wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat. He had dark skin and although he was not very old, his face was full of wrinkles.

While rowing, he replied to Chu Yuan: "That's right, Taoist priest, Changle County is indeed plagued by Japanese pirates. In this era, there is no peace anywhere along the coast."

The boatman looked at Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai and said, "I wonder if you and this gentleman are going to Changle County to look for relatives or to visit friends?"

When they just got on the boat, the boatman heard Dongfang Bubai speaking, and it was a man's voice.

Although Dongfang Bubai looked as beautiful as a woman, he did not really regard Dongfang Bubai as a woman, but only as the son of an official or a wealthy family.

An ordinary family cannot raise a boy who is more beautiful than a girl and has such a delicate appearance.

He could see that Dongfang Bubai was not young, but he couldn't tell exactly how old he was, so he called Dongfang Bubai "Sir".

Chu Yuan said: "We have something to do in Changle County."

The boatman saw that Chu Yuan didn't want to talk, so he changed the subject: "I see that the Taoist and the gentleman are from Min County. It seems that Min County has also been plagued by Japanese pirates recently?"

Chu Yuan said: "It's a joke!"

It was only last night that the two of them eliminated this group of Japanese pirates!

The boatman thought for a moment and said, "Sir, I am from Changle County. I would like to remind you two that the Japanese pirates in Changle County are much stronger and more cunning than those in Min County. If you go to Changle County, you must be careful."

Chu Yuan was curious when he heard this: "What do you mean?"

"The Japanese pirates in Min County are relatively small in number, only about a hundred people."

"There are more than 300 Japanese pirates in our Changle County."

"Because of the terrain, Changle County is surrounded by rivers and the sea on three sides. After each looting, this group of pirates would retreat back to the sea."

"The Zhendong Guard is in the next county. We have also dispatched them twice, but we couldn't do anything to them. The small guards are no match for them. The large guards have gone to guard the city."

"This time the Japanese pirates didn't last long, less than a month, but there were three towns that were looted and burned, and more than a dozen villages. It is said that the Japanese pirates once even broke into the county town."

"Fortunately, our Changle County Magistrate Lord Xu was alert and disguised the local army as a large number of guards coming to support, which scared away the Japanese pirates. But even so, the Japanese pirates still set a fire when they left, causing heavy losses to Changle County."

……

Seeing that Chu Yuan liked to chat with him, the boatman told him all the news he knew.

Chu Yuan was also very detailed and asked about the names and locations of the villages and towns that were looted by the Japanese pirates during this period.

By the time Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai arrived at the other side of the Minjiang River and got off the boat, they already had a general understanding of the situation of the Japanese pirates in Changle County.

First, the number of this group of Japanese pirates was almost the same as what he had heard before, about three hundred people.

Second, the methods used by this group of Japanese pirates were very different from those in Min County.

This group of Japanese pirates was just as brutal, but they were also more cautious.

They usually did not spend the night on shore. They plundered during the day and left the land and returned to the sea at night.

It is suspected that there is a habitat on a small island not far from Changle County.

Otherwise, with so many people, it's impossible for them to eat, drink, defecate and urinate all on the sea, right?
"Brother Chu, what are your plans?"

Walking along the bank of the Minjiang River, Dongfang Bubai asked Chu Yuan.

"If we want to get rid of this group of pirates, the difficulty lies in how to find their traces. Since this group of pirates travels between the sea and the land every day, they must need a lot of ships at the seaside. After all, there are quite a lot of them, more than 300 people!"

"Every time they robbed a village or town, it must be not far from where they landed. After all, they only had one day, so they didn't have time to run too far."

"As long as we know the approximate range of the villages where these pirates plundered, we can search along the coast to see where there are a large number of ships, and then we can find this group of pirates."

Chu Yuan told the boatman how he had thought of finding the Japanese pirates while chatting with him on the boat.

"Yes, this plan is feasible." Dongfang Bubai thought for a moment and said, "And brother Chu has just asked the boatman about the names and locations of the villages and towns in Changle County that have been looted by the Japanese pirates in recent days. It seems that they have been prepared..."

"Brother Dongfang, this is going to be a tough battle. You and I need to be prepared!"

Chu Yuan said to Dongfang Bubai with a serious expression.

The more than one hundred Japanese pirates in Min County had already made the two of them feel a little pressured.

The Japanese pirates are brutal and their military strength is quite high.

When the number of people reaches a certain level, it will consume a lot of the internal energy of the two people.

When the internal energy is exhausted, even top masters like Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai will be injured... or even die.

"Brother Chu, if we join forces, we can conquer the world. It's just three hundred Japanese pirates."

Dongfang Bubai said proudly.

Chu Yuan had held back before and had not used his full strength, and so had he.

"let's go!"

Seeing Dongfang Bubai say this, Chu Yuan said.

The two men quickly left the bank of the Minjiang River and began searching along the coast where the villages and towns had been looted by the Japanese pirates.

This range is very large and time-consuming for ordinary people.

But for Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai who were skilled in Qinggong, the search was extremely fast.

A maritime ban was implemented in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court stipulated that the people of the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to go out to sea privately or do business on the sea. Fishermen were only allowed to go out to sea to fish during the fishing season with permission from the government.

However, in order to make a living, fishermen sometimes secretly go out to sea to fish.

In order to keep the people alive, the government will turn a blind eye.

Recently, there have been incidents of Japanese pirates in Changle County, which has caused almost no fishermen on the coast to dare to go out to sea.

After a search, Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai actually found three places on the seashore where there were a large number of ships parked, which were suspected to be the landing points of Japanese pirates.

After checking one place after another, there was only one place left that was suspicious.

……

Hailong Town.

Southeast of Changle County, there is a small town with a population of 500 households, only about ten miles away from the sea.

Horn Bay.

A bay located fifteen miles northeast of Hailong Town, which is uninhabited all year round and is named after its shape which resembles a bull's horn.

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai stood on the cliff on the shore of Niujiao Bay, their robes rustling in the sea breeze and their hair flying. They looked at the more than 30 sampans hidden in the bay and tied together with ropes.

Chu Yuan said: "I have asked the fishermen in the town, and there were no boats in Niujiao Bay before."

Dongfang Bubai said: "The Japanese pirates are quite smart. They didn't even attack Hailong Town."

Chu Yuan said: "If they move Hailong Town, it will be too obvious."

Chu Yuan continued, "This is the Japanese pirates setting up a maze. The surrounding villages and towns were looted and slaughtered, except for Hailong Town and another Yanban Town nearby."

Dongfang Bubai looked at the sunset on the beach, dyeing the entire sea surface golden: "Let's wait here. Calculate the time. The Japanese pirates will be back soon!"

The two of them didn't say much, they just sat cross-legged behind a rock on the cliff that was not easily noticed, recovered their internal strength and adjusted their state.

Although the two had said before that they didn't care much about this group of Japanese pirates.

But they knew that the next battle would be a difficult one.

Time passes imperceptibly.

The golden sunset sank into the sea, the sky and the earth were shrouded in darkness, and the full moon rose into the sky at some point, hanging high above the two people's heads.

Today is exactly the fifteenth.

A group of tiny flames lit up in the dense forest beside the beach below, gradually moving towards Niujiao Bay, mixed with the sound of talking.

It sounds like Fuso language, but there is also Ming language.

"coming!"

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Bubai, who heard the noise, opened their eyes at the same time in the dark.

(End of this chapter)