Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 280: The Immortal Thief of the Six Stories? A Man-eating Evil Ghost!
"At first, they said the Japanese had a big job and were looking for people, providing food and accommodation, and offering a lot of money, so some people went. At first, it was fine. Every now and then, people who had been there before would bring letters home and send money. I asked them and they found out that they were going to the city to help build a prison, and they thought they would be there to lock up those who didn't obey the Japanese.

Alas, we also know that these Japanese are not Han Chinese, and we also understand that doing this job is against our conscience, but we have to live our lives. So we thought that when the work is done, we will go back to the village and walk around in all directions, and let the young and old men shout and prevent those volunteers from entering the city.

But later we also found something wrong. There were fewer letters sent back, and we didn't see any people, not even someone to pass on a message, and we didn't see any money. It was not just us, but other villages were the same. We asked a few masters in the village, after all, they were the ones who introduced the work. The masters said that our man was delayed by the imperial army's project and was locked up. It was easy to come back, just pay to redeem him, and bring the money to redeem him.

Another group of people entered the city and didn't come back. We panicked and wanted an explanation. The masters were impatient and stopped pretending. They brought their servants, the Japanese soldiers and the puppet army to capture men every now and then. No one was spared. My husband and son were captured and we haven't heard from them since. We didn't know what they were doing with the men. We couldn't run or hide.

I just want revenge. These masters have moved into the city and sent people to watch us every day to prevent us from escaping. My dear heroes, I know you are not ordinary people. Please be kind and show mercy to us and save us!"

In the dilapidated village, a village woman was talking about what had happened in the Japanese-occupied area of ​​Heilongjiang over the past year since the Mukden Incident.

The answers to the questions about the uninhabited villages they passed along the way were also given by this village woman.

From far to near, they gradually and sustainably exhausted all the resources, turning these villages that were out of reach into deserted villages, and either defrauding, abducting, or robbing the young and strong people in the villages and bringing them directly to the city.

As for what they were going to do in the city, Wang already knew the answer.

After exchanging glances, Shuiyun and Changqing stepped forward to comfort the villagers, while Wang Yi, the eldest master and Chen Zhen went out, turned left and entered another house.

Inside the room were the three Japanese swordsmen who had drawn their swords to help when seeing injustice. At this moment, they were sitting upright. When they saw Wang Yi and the other three coming in, their expressions became visibly tense, and their movements became a little awkward.

As for why they were like this, it all started with the injustice they had just witnessed.

The three of them worked together to rescue the children of the villagers from the hands of the Japanese, but it was obvious that their tactics consumed too much of their own energy. After wiping out this small group of nearly two hundred Japanese and puppet troops, they no longer had much combat power.

The villagers who didn't know their background became furious when they saw the samurai swords in their hands and the Japanese samurai uniforms they wore. They immediately surrounded them, holding hayforks and axes in their hands, as if they would cut them into pieces if they couldn't speak Chinese.

If Wang Yi and his team had not taken action, these three people might have become the first Japanese aliens to die at the hands of ordinary people.

Before Wang could speak, the three of them started talking one after another. However, it seemed that the three young men had never studied Chinese in depth, and they spoke Chinese word by word in an incoherent manner.

Seeing this, Chen Zhen, who had studied in Japan, also acted as a translator.

"Who are you?"

"You can speak Japanese? Great. The three of us are demon slayers originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, and now live in Hokkaido. We rashly stepped into your country's territory with my good friend in search of my father. I hope you can forgive our recklessness."

Hearing that someone knew Japanese, the three guys came up and took a seat with great sincerity, introducing themselves.

Chen Zhen was still translating for the master. Wang Yi, who had already studied English and Japanese in the Dongshan Academy system, raised his eyebrows, took a step forward, and half-knelt in front of the three people. Looking at their appearance, two of them had quite similarities in their eyebrows and eyes, so they might be relatives.

And looking at his eyes, one can see that he has made great progress in his practice.

Demon slayer, Japanese sword, trio, there are three types of swordsmanship: wind, fire and thunder.

The elements are all right, the dates are right, but the ages don't match. If they are really those three little ones, they should have started a family and a career by now, and one of them is already in old age, in the countdown stage of his life.

The Taisho era lasted a total of fifteen years, starting in the 12th year and ending in the 26th year. It is now the twelfth month of the 32nd year, which is the seventh year of the Showa era according to the Japanese calendar.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi couldn't help but become interested.

"Tell me about it. I'm very interested."

Thinking of this, Wang Yi also spoke.

Looking at Wang Yi, who was almost a generation older than them, the three young men did not dare to neglect him and honestly told him the reasons and consequences of their entry into the Republic of China.

The fathers of these three people once worked for a demon slayer organization, an organization dedicated to slaying man-eating demons since the Edo period in Japan.

This ghost-slaying organization, which is supported by a family, consists of ordinary warriors and a dozen strange people. It has no intersection with other local strange people factions. Its purpose of existence is to kill a ghost king who has lived for hundreds of years among the many man-eating evil ghosts.

In the early years of the Taisho period, the fathers of the three people finally gathered their strength and killed the Demon King of the man-eating evil demons when they were their age. The mission of the demon slayers was completed, and this organization no longer had any meaning to exist.

The leader disbanded the organization and used the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years to feed the survivors, mourn the dead, and start a new life.

The parents of the three also chose to return to Fukuoka and start their own families.

Perhaps it was because the battle to kill the Demon King in Kyoto caused too much noise. Even if they tried their best to cover it up, they still left too many clues that were learned by the military at the time. Following these clues, they realized that there actually existed such an organization in their own country, and there existed such a method of longevity that could allow ordinary people to live for more than a hundred years.

This investigation also disrupted the lives of those who participated in the final battle to slay the demons and survived, and their fathers suffered the most.

"···At first, they were very polite and invited our father to serve as a senior officer in the army and teach swordsmanship as an instructor to open up the future for the new era of the country. My father and his family refused. In order to avoid being disturbed, our three families moved from Fukuoka to Hokkaido. My father and his family just wanted to live a peaceful life.

We didn't understand at the time, because as long as my father and his family agreed, we could move to Kyoto to live and study, and my mother could learn more medical knowledge to treat my father's body after the war. But my father and his family told us that the mission of slaying demons had ended, and there was no need to hold swords anymore. Moreover, the military did not want the swordsmanship that my father and his family had learned, but my father as a person.

We were still young at the time and didn't understand what my father and his friends said. Although life in Hokkaido was not as good as in Fukuoka, we could still live there. My mother was a village doctor and a part-time teacher, teaching us to read and write. Until one day, my father and his friends received a letter from the leader of the demon slayer organization that they had served. The content of the letter was very simple, which was about the years that my father and his friends had lived in Hokkaido to avoid disaster.

Those who survived the battle with my father and his companions to kill the Ghost King, including the leader, were persecuted by the military. The leader wrote to my father and his companions, asking them to be more careful. Then one night, my father and his companions disappeared, taking the sword of the family with them.

Mother and aunt seemed to know where father and his companions had gone, but they didn't tell us. In order to find out the truth, we found the home of the chief that father had served from the letter he sent to him. Through him, we learned that the last place father and his companions left was the port, and their destination was you. With the help of the chief, we boarded the ship with swords and entered your country..."

Wang Yi raised his eyebrows as he succinctly described the ins and outs of how these three men set foot on the land of the Republic of China. The old man who was listening to Chen Zhen's simultaneous translation also had a thoughtful look on his face, obviously trying to figure out whether the story of these three guys was true or not.

Seeing Wang Yi turned his head to look at him, the master thought for a long time before speaking.

"If Mr. Wang is curious about whether the so-called Immortal Ghost King they are talking about exists, then I can tell you that in this circle, apart from the unique advantages of the immortals, it is not impossible for people to live forever like the immortals."

"But there is a price to pay, right? Just like the man-eating evil ghosts in their stories, they are never allowed to see the light of day, and they survive by eating human blood. They die when they see the light of day."

"That's true. Why do we practitioners need to lay a solid foundation before we get Qi? We practice in the hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter. After we get Qi, we must not slack off for a single day. We must always pay attention to the cultivation of life and nature. This is to make us understand that every bit of Qi is hard-won. Although holding a sharp weapon will naturally make you want to kill, being able to control your killing intention and master yourself is a lesson that practitioners must practice throughout their lives. The reason why Quan Xing was rejected by his peers is that they are too arbitrary. Such people cannot be tolerated in any sect. If they are not careful, they will bring disaster to their master. In the past, Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to Japan to seek the elixir of immortality. It's not that there is no elixir of immortality in our Chinese land, but that the elixir of immortality cannot be learned by the first emperor, and those who can learn it all have strong side effects. What the first emperor wants is the elixir of immortality that has no side effects and takes shortcuts. However, according to what these three people said, it seems that Japan does have the elixir of immortality, but it is very different from what the first emperor thought.

But it’s the first time for an old man like me to hear from others that there are people who have lived for hundreds of years. As expected, when the world is in chaos, demons and monsters are everywhere, both in China and abroad.”

"Who says it's not true? So it's better to live in peace."

Wang Yi also felt the same way when hearing the master's sigh.

Think about the modern times, all the commotion is nothing more than the appearance of the successor of the Eight Wonders, and while everyone is coveting the Eight Wonders, they are also taking this opportunity to settle old debts, to settle karma and to repay favors.

Fighting is just a matter between extraordinary people and will not affect ordinary people.

It’s not like nowadays, when you go on a long journey, you either fight with immortals or meet Japanese ghost slayers.

At this point, how could Wang Yi not know who the fathers of these three guys in front of him were? They were just short of revealing their identities.

But if you say it's inconsistent, it's not.

After all, the breathing and sword techniques may look fancy, but to put it bluntly, they are nothing more than the breathing techniques of Taoism. Ordinary people can strengthen their bodies by practicing them. Once they obtain the Qi, they can attach the true Qi to the sword, making it easy to cut steel and iron.

People also say that there are only a dozen or so people in a generation who can master this breathing method and become true ghost slayers. Most of them are ordinary people who rely on their numerical advantage and fearlessness to die in exchange for the lives of those man-eating evil ghosts.

As for the various methods used by the man-eating evil spirits, they can be understood as illusions or as physical mutations.

The upper limit is there. Even if there are no demon slayers like them, as the times progress, they can still be eliminated through thermal weapons.

As for the method of immortality by eating humans, doesn’t he have one at home? It’s one of the Eight Wonders, the Six-Storey Immortal Thief.

Based on the six organs, namely the large intestine, small intestine, stomach, triple burner, gallbladder and bladder, a perfect digestive system is created. It can absorb vitality from between heaven and earth without ordinary eating, and transform it into its own Qi, which is inexhaustible and can delay aging.

In the year of Jiashen 44, the wanderer Ruan Feng, who mastered this extraordinary skill, was alive in the modern world. Judging from his appearance, he was just a greasy and fat middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

The side effects are also obvious. When one no longer needs to worry about survival, if the practitioner cannot stand the loneliness, he will gradually lose his original nature and root as a human being over time. He will also slowly be unable to suppress his cannibalistic desire until he becomes a cannibalistic monster in human skin.

The immortal ghost king and the man-eating evil ghost mentioned by these three little ones, in Wang Yi's opinion, are they not the Japanese version of the Eight Great Skills?
But Wang Yi still has some questions that he wants answers from these three little ones.

Squatting in front of the three little ones, Wang Yi also spoke.

"I'll believe you for now, but I'm still curious. If the breathing techniques you're using are considered family traditions, and according to what you said, your father didn't intend to teach you swordsmanship, then where did you learn these swordsmanship techniques?"

"There is a dojo in our village that teaches the living sword. I heard from the elders in the village that the first-generation owner was also an executioner active in Kyoto during the overthrow of the shogunate. In order to create a new era, he killed too many people. He knew that he had committed a serious sin, so he came here with his wife to teach the living sword that does not kill people."

Wang Yi: "... Your first master had a nickname called Battosai, and the Living Sword was a family heirloom from his wife, right?"

"how do you know?"

'How should I know? I read it in a fucking comic!'

Rubbing his swollen brows, Wang Yi began to digest this information and connect them together in his mind.

In this world full of strange people yet not much different from the official history, this notorious demon army has a clear outline from its birth to what it has done.

Leading by the battle to kill the Immortal Ghost King, he discovered the secret of immortality for ordinary people. He wanted to replicate the Immortal Ghost King and optimize the process.

Therefore, they started with these surviving demon slayers and forced the fathers of these three people to submit by persecuting their friends. Following the Fengtian Incident, they traveled across the ocean here and captured villagers within a radius of dozens of miles, and even people on the Sino-North Korean border for human experiments.

Then the experimental targets of these guys are not limited to ordinary people, but also include extraordinary people. Maybe even some local extraordinary people and immortals have fallen into their hands.

After figuring it all out, Wang Yi also looked at the three little ones.

"How long have you been here?"

"More than half a year."

"Have you found your father's whereabouts?"

The three of them were silent.

"That means you found them and tried to rescue them, but failed. The fact that you were able to save people shows that you still have a conscience. You also know what those people in the military did to take these villagers away, right? Is your father one of the people behind the scenes?"

"Father wouldn't be that kind of person!"

"They are the victims. Even these villagers have been persecuted. I think you should know that as the source of everything and having accepted the gift from the Immortal Ghost King, your father's fate will only be worse than theirs. Are you mentally prepared for that?"

The three of them were silent for a long time before they gave their answer.

"Mother, mother, she is still at home waiting for father to come back..."

"Well, I understand. Now I am going to do the same thing as you. You want to save your father, I want to save people, and I want to destroy that place. Want to work together?"

"You, who on earth are you?"

"Chinese alien, company, Wang Yi."

(End of this chapter)