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Chapter 2231-2229 The Demon's Armor

Chapter 2231-2.229 The Demon's Armor

Similar to the previously seen famous swords from the Warring States period, the four Mori cyborgs have also undergone varying degrees of "demonization," becoming "raw materials" for refining their destined magical weapons. For the "Assault High-Speed ​​Combat Hexagonal Jaw" Royal Witch Mobile Suit, which is built with the "MM Micro-Mechanical Hexagonal Jaw Transforming Attack Shell" technology line and can freely change its model, it is an exclusive item that is hard to come by.

"How is it?" asked the fake saintess, Hiroshima, her eyes fixed on him.

Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, nodded gently: "No problem."

“Alright, sir.” The fake saintess, Hiroshima, immediately smiled. “So, which one would you like to change to?”

"What?" Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, feigned surprise: "We can only exchange it for one?!"

"Do you want to trade the whole thing?" Now it was the fake saintess, Hiroshima, who was surprised: "In that case, you'll need 4 Lotuses."

"Can't you... make an exception?" It seemed that Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, was not going to give up easily.

"I'm sorry, esteemed guest." The fake saintess, Hiroshima, appeared polite, but her slightly tightened snake tail was already prepared to attack.

"Then let's leave it at that." The captain of the Gobancho courtesan, Yuko, unexpectedly gave up again.

"...This guest is quite unexpected." The fake saintess, Hiroshima, was momentarily at a loss for what to do. After all, "even the judgments of hell are based on money," weren't they? Ultimately, a deal was struck, each getting what they wanted. It wouldn't be too late to turn on them once the money was gone and the relationship was severed. Yes, wait until Baolian was in his hands before turning on them.

"How should Baolian be taken?" Having made up her mind, the fake saintess Hiroshima hurriedly asked for details.

Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, pointed at Baolian: "It's engraved on the inner wall of the petals."

Just as the fake saintess Hiroshima was about to verify it himself, Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, stopped him first: "Your spirit is leaking out, let me do it for you."

“Okay.” The fake saintess, Hiroshima, paused slightly and then nodded immediately.

Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, holds a precious lotus and points to something.

The petals opened one after another, and sure enough, there was a row of tiny characters on the inner circle of petals. Moreover, it was written in ancient bronze script. Chinese people traveling to and from Edo couldn't decipher it, and Japanese women would have no chance of recognizing it. In reality, it was just writing disguised by optical camouflage.

Because the flower is only half-open, with the outer layer blooming while the inner circle remains closed, the spiritual energy cannot escape. Even so, the supreme spiritual energy contained within the Fountain of Immortality still aroused the enchantresses' greed, gradually making them unable to suppress their desires.

The situation was about to spiral out of control. The courtesan captain, Yuuko, from Gobancho, flicked her wrist. The petals closed in layers, completely obscuring the radiant light.

"Ah..." Even the most powerful demon, the fake saintess Hiroshima, nearly lost control and went berserk, quickly taking deep breaths to calm herself. The several wet women sitting behind her covered their faces with their sleeves, concealing their monstrous appearances that were about to be revealed.

"So it's a deal?" Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, selected Shimizu, a 282-centimeter-long Mori Otsutsu.

"Okay." Forcing down the question "What exactly are the words carved on the petals?", the fake saintess Hiroshima nodded in agreement as if possessed.

Everything went exactly as Wu Chen had predicted. The pride of a saintess made her prefer to find a solution afterward rather than admit to being illiterate to his face. Even after Captain Yuko, the courtesan of the fifth district, left Baolian behind and took Mori Otsutsuki Shikaibo away, the female demons led by the fake saintess Hira Mashima remained seated with their heads bowed in farewell, completely unmoved.

When it comes to etiquette in dealing with people, the Edo period was indeed impeccable. At least on the surface, it was acceptable.

"My lord?" It wasn't until she jumped back onto Tokiwa Bridge from the deck of the Bizen-ya Karasuma that Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, finally asked the question that had been on her mind.

"Two peaches kill three warriors." Wu Chen laughed, "Two things fight and three die. The priestess Qing'e, the young girl Xiaoling, the bird-chasing girl Asen, the middle-aged woman Fujio, the Hakone bride Akemi, and the fake saintess Hira Mashima, six women vying for one lotus, their fates are predictable."

"I see!" Captain Yuko, the courtesan of Gobancho, suddenly understood.

Before the words were even finished, the 330-meter-long tail suddenly tightened, coiling around the hull until it enveloped the mast. The hull was completely sealed, without a single gap. Even more bizarrely, like the rattlesnake's tail, the tail perched high on the mast extended a cannon—a Shibazuji cannon.

The "Shibatsuji Cannon" was a forged cannon with a diameter of 93 mm and a weight of about 2 tons, forged by Shibatsuji Riemon, the gunsmith who served Tokugawa Ieyasu, during the late Sengoku period of Japan. It was made using an eight-piece forging process and was hailed as the pinnacle of Japanese forging technology at the time. The cost was as high as a thousand taels of gold. It was a heavy cannon used by the Tokugawa army in the Siege of Osaka.

The dark muzzle of the cannon was aimed at Tokiwa Bridge, ready to blast the only wooden bridge leading to the castle tower to pieces at any moment.

"This is her hidden trump card." Captain Yuko, the courtesan of the fifth district, knew that the power of this Shibatsuji Cannon must far exceed that of the previous ones. Because it was a yokai's weapon.

In fact, since the Edo period, imported goods to Japan have had two distinct sources: Chinese ships and Nanban ships.

The input of technology has also become clearly differentiated.

In 1932, Japanese scholar Shimizu Tachibana pointed out in his book "Complete Collection of Swords": "In ancient my country, the techniques of clothing, food, housing, arts and crafts, and all other crafts were introduced from China. Since swords are not unique to our country, the earliest swords were all imported, which is something that no one can argue about."

However, in the Edo period, following the Nanban-do of the Sengoku period, Nanban iron appeared in the Edo market.

"Nanban-tetsu" was a general term used in Japan from the mid-to-late 16th century to the early Edo period to refer to imported steel via European merchant ships from Portugal and Spain. The Echizen Yasutsugu family, the official swordsmiths of Tokugawa Ieyasu, were renowned for forging Nanban-tetsu. Their works often bear inscriptions such as "Made in Edo, Musashi Province, by Yasutsugu Nyudo using Nanban-tetsu" or "Made in Edo, Musashi Province, by Echizen Yasutsugu using Nanban-tetsu."

This also serves as evidence that "Dan-gyo" (Dutch studies) from Europe and "Sinology" (Chinese studies) from China were considered two major imported cultural systems. Subsequently, Dan-gyo gradually overshadowed Sinology and completely replaced it after the Meiji Restoration: The Japanese government promoted "civilization and enlightenment" and "leaving Asia and joining Europe," abolishing the official school system centered on Zhu Xi's philosophy during the Tokugawa period. The highest institution of Sinology, the Shōhei-kō (Shōhei-zaka Gakumonsho), was closed in 1870, and the domain schools, Terakoya (temple schools), were abolished, and Sinology lost its institutional support. The focus of education shifted to Western science, English, and practical subjects, and Chinese language was reduced from compulsory to elective. Although most reformers advocated "Eastern morality and Western skills," Sinology, lacking the support of pragmatism, gradually declined. The Confucian tenets of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, which were revered for generations, were distorted and polarized by the rapidly expanding militaristic ideology under the educational program of "Japanese spirit and Western learning," stripping away the core of "benevolence" and turning it into an ideological tool for loyalty to the Emperor and obedience to the militaristic system.

All of the above did not surprise Wu Chen at all.

The envoys to Tang China, with only a superficial understanding of Chinese characters, actually disassembled them into radicals and even individual strokes. This act of "dissecting the writing system" alone demonstrates their complete lack of even the most basic respect for their mother civilization.

There's a line in the movie that says it well: We were never friends.

It wasn't like that in the past, it's not like that now, and it definitely won't be like that in the future.