Chapter 21: The Power of One Sword

  "Inspector Ding Yunyi of the Great Ming is here! You, Lu Gongbao, are a traitor to the throne. Are you prepared to meet your death?"

  Under the vast sky, only Ding Yunyi dares to loudly proclaim the words "Great Ming Inspector".

  Chang Lü Gangbao had long been resentful of the Ming officer who brought shame to himself, and now hearing Ding Yunwei's words, he became even more enraged.

  But he was an experienced pirate after all, and in his lifetime, he didn't know how many times he had fought with others. Seeing Ding Yunwei's fearless appearance, he also dared not to be too careless, letting someone bring his own samurai sword, holding it high.

  Ono-ha Itto-ryu originated from Ito Kagehisa's creation of Itto-ryu.

  After that, Kozen Noguchi Taira no Minamoto followed Ito Ittosai to learn "Takumi Gokui Goken" and "Fusetsu-to", defeated his younger brother Ogami Kozuke no Suke, and then added his own techniques to form the 50-technique set of Odachi, establishing the position of Niten Ichi Ryu.

  He was later chosen, along with Yagyū Munenori of the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, as a sword instructor for the Tokugawa family. The Ono-ha Ittō-ryū was then passed down to both the Tsugaru and Ono families for some reason. The Ono family temporarily called itself "orthodox" but the Tsugaru family transmitted the correct techniques. A branch of the Ono-ha Ittō-ryū, founded by Nakayama Tadanao's student Nakanishi Chūzō, is known as the "Nakanishi-ha Ittō-ryū".

  What Ryota Takeda learned from is a branch of Shinto-ryu called Hokushin Itto-ryu.

  Beichen Yidao Liu emphasizes quick victory, one sword to subdue the enemy. All momentum and killing moves are concentrated in this one sword, once it is out, there is absolutely no holding back.

  Most of the Ichimonji are like this, and it's precisely what makes them terrifying.

  Most Chinese martial arts schools emphasize the concept of "later to send people", even so-called "with virtue to defeat people". They often leave room for their opponents and try not to completely destroy them. This, however, gave Japanese swordsmen an opportunity to take advantage of. As a result, when top swordsmen from China and Japan faced off, Chinese martial artists would often fall into disadvantage at the beginning due to their benevolent intentions.

  However, Chang Lügong Bao often encountered Ding Yunyi.

  Ding Yunyi's skills were learned from his contemporary "Third Brother", who came from Shaolin and after mixing with society, improved the skills he had learned at Shaolin Temple by removing the complicated and fancy movements, making them simpler and more practical. "Third Brother" treated Ding Yunyi like his own younger brother, teaching him half of his skills.

  Ding Yunyi had been determined from the start to wipe out these pirates, and he would not give Chang Lügang Bao Tian any chance.

  The two held their breaths, gripping their weapons tightly and staring each other down. The people around them also held their breaths, not a single one daring to make a sound.

  Ding Yunyi followed "Third Brother" and fought in countless battles, also fighting against the Dutch, but facing off against the Japanese was a first in his life.

  He knew that the Japanese liked to boast, making some originally ordinary things sound extraordinary. For example, when Takeda Shingen fought Uesugi Kenshin, they were fighting, and Takeda Shingen rode his horse to the front of Uesugi Kenshin who was resting there, raised his sword and chopped down, Uesugi Kenshin used a fan in his hand to block it in an emergency, then the guards on both sides rushed forward and retreated.

  It's just a small thing, but it was exaggerated by the Japanese into one of the most famous solo battles in Japanese history.

  So-called Japanese swordsmanship schools are no exception. In the mouths of Japanese people, an ordinary martial arts school is often exaggerated tenfold or hundredfold.

  Ding Yunyi was worried about not what Xiaoye's so-called unique swordsmanship, but rather the extremely rich actual combat experience of Jirobo.

  At this time, Chang Lü Gangbao shouted loudly, holding the samurai sword high with both hands and quickly rushed towards Ding Yunyi.

  Ding Yun's Yilongjia comes out, fully focused!

  Just as he rushed in front of Ding Yunyi, Chang Lü Gang Bao Tian suddenly stopped abruptly and then slashed down at Ding Yunyi's head with one knife.

  This knife is extremely powerful, with a sharp blade and an intent to kill with one strike.

  The Japanese sword is long and cheap, if it were someone else, Ryota Aoki might have succeeded.

  But unfortunately he overlooked one thing:

  The Japanese were originally short, and Ryota Kondo was no exception. While Tevin Farmer was a whole head taller than him. As a result, the advantage of the long blade of the Japanese sword was largely offset.

  Ding Yunyi raised his hand and made a mighty block. A loud "thud" echoed through the air, causing an unexpected event to occur:

  The samurai sword in Ryota's hand was suddenly cut into two pieces.

  The dragon's dominance was so great that even Ding Yunyi did not expect it.

  Chang Lü Gongbao was completely shocked.

  He held the knife with only half of it left, completely at a loss, when suddenly Ding Yunyi let out a loud roar and counterattacked, also grasping Dragon's Tooth with both hands, using all his strength to chop down with one slash!

  Use his own method to deal with him.

  Chang Lü Gang instinctively used his half-tasseled knife to block, but it was all too late. Ding Yunyi's knife still came down...

  No scream, just a large amount of fresh blood splashing out...

  It's over.

  Ding Yunyi grasped Longyao calmly standing there, his entire body covered in blood.

  There was a corpse lying on the ground. What was terrifying was that half of the head had disappeared. It was the body of Chang Lügang Baotian.

  He didn't even have time to let out a cry before he died...

  No one cheered and no one shouted, it was all quiet.

  Ding Yunyi's knife was too overbearing, Chang Lügong's private law was too miserable, and the time they fought each other was too short, so that no one noticed Longya's sharpness!

  After a long while, Hong Diao Yuan couldn't help but ask quietly to Old Ji beside him: "Is it over?"

  "It's... probably over..." Old Ji replied hesitantly.

  "Is Kongbo dead?"

  "It seems, it seems that the corpse on the ground is Kongbo Tenzin's."

  Hong diaoyuan still couldn't believe it, he carefully confirmed the corpse that was already difficult to distinguish from its original appearance, and then swallowed a mouthful of water with difficulty, before shouting loudly:

  "We won!"

  Before others could react, Hong Diao Yuan shouted again:

  "We won! Inspector Ding won!"

  With a loud crash, the scene suddenly erupted like a boiling pot.

  Won, won, Ding Xun actually won! The invincible Chang Lü Gang Bao Tian was actually killed by Ding Xun's sword!

  "Inspector Ding won! Inspector Ding has won!"

  "We won! We won!"

  Everyone went crazy and shouted.

  At this time, Ding Yunyi was standing there calmly with his dragon tooth sword in hand, calmly accepting the cheers of everyone towards him, and calmly looking at the corpse of Chang Lü Kongbao Tian on the ground.

  Won, but this is just the beginning for pirates!