Osaka, Saito family.
"Father, why did you call me here?" Saito Shinji sat at the bottom and looked respectfully at the old man sitting at the top.
Saito Fukutaro's cloudy eyes looked at his son and asked expectantly, "Have you understood the meaning of the sword?"
Saito Shinji lowered his head and said in shame, "Father, I have been in business for many years, and my heart can no longer calm down. The sword intention is illusory to me. The sword intention that Youchi realized at the age of twenty-two won the prize in this year's Asahi Competition." I will be ranked third in the youth group. When Youqi turns thirty, I will let him take over as the head of the family."
The current Saito family, Saito Shinji is the head of the family. It's just that he is not very talented and likes to do business.
Saito Fukutaro has two sons.
The eldest son was once a swordsman genius, but when he was young, he had a fight with Tsukahara Miwu of the Tsukahara family, and the two signed a life-and-death battle. As a result, he lost to Tsukahara Miwu and was beheaded to death. After his failure and death, Fukutaro made Saito Shinji the head of the family.
Now Shinji Saito has two sons and one daughter.
The eldest son is Saito Yushichi. He realized the meaning of the sword at the age of twenty-two and has good talent. He is now twenty-four years old.
Fukutaro nodded, not disappointed. He had already expected it, but after all, he was his son, so he still hoped that the other party could understand the meaning of the sword. Thinking about it, he continued to speak, his voice was slow, as if he used all his strength on every word, "Call Tomoya back."
Saito Shinji raised his head in surprise, "Father, Tomoya also has a mission at the Kamikaze Fuming Palace."
Futaro said coldly, "The Fuming Palace of Gods and Ghosts requires our families to protect their personal safety and help them exorcise ghosts every year. The task is so dangerous, but there is no benefit. Do you really think we are a welfare institution?"
There are no benefits to Kamiki Fumeigong either... Saito Shinji actually respects Kamiki Fumeigong.
Shengui Fumeigong is an organization composed of a group of onmyoji and shrine maidens, distributed throughout Japan, with its headquarters in Kyoto, but because it is too mysterious, few people know about it.
However, after Fukutaro finished speaking, his mood also calmed down. He said, "Let Yushichi replace Tomoya. I just got the news that the successor of Yagyu Hiken style has appeared?"
"Yes." Shinji Saito said respectfully, "There is a lot of buzz on the Internet right now, but this is NHK's promotion of the Yulong Banner, so I don't think there is any need to pay attention to it."
"I remember Tomoya is also a high school student, let him participate." Fukutaro coughed, and under Shinji's puzzled eyes, "I have been informed by the Takeda Sword Master that he will set up a inheritance in Genrei Mountain at the end of this year. The most powerful person under the age of eighteen will be selected from the eight tribes as the heir."
"Then there is no need for us to get involved with the Jade Dragon Flag. Wouldn't Tomoya's participation reveal his strength?" Saito Shinji looked confused. You must know that his second son Tomoya did not participate in this year's Asahi Competition. The participants were his disciples.
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Fukutaro shook his head, "Sword Master Takeda asked to be selected from the eight families, but he did not mention our current eight families."
We must know that there are hundreds of kendo schools in Japan. Although the Saito family is one of the eight major kendo families today, who knows whether there will be some geniuses in other small families that have declined
When these small families arrive at Yuanling Mountain with the geniuses of the younger generation, their current eight tribes will have to compete with these people to determine the final eight tribes. Then there will be a competition to determine the strongest among the younger generation, who will be able to obtain the inheritance of Takeda Sword Master.
The Tsukahara family, who received the news, happened to see Kigoro talking nonsense on an NHK program and made a decision.
That is to ask all the major schools that are still practicing ancient swordsmanship to let the younger generation participate in the Jade Dragon Banner.
As a towering mountain in the ancient kendo world, the Tsukahara family has far-reaching influence in the business and political circles, so no one dares to resist this notice.
As for the purpose of the Tsukahara family, it is also obvious. That is to see if there are any geniuses in other kendo schools today. Make preparations for the inheritance of Yuanling Mountain.
Taketa Swordsman combines the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and creates amazing natural logistics. As the strongest kendo family in Japan at the moment, the Tsukahara family naturally does not want this inheritance to fall into the hands of others.
So that’s it, Saito Shinji understood.
His father asked Tomoya to participate in the competition. It seems that the other eight clans also have some powerful disciples hidden. The Jade Dragon Banner is probably just for the various races to compete with each other in order to prepare for the inheritance of Yuanling Mountain.
As for the Asahi Tournament, it is a competition for the eight major kendo families to compete and learn from each other. It is also to see if there are any gaps in strength among other families. If so, the families with gaps in strength will be eliminated from the Eight Families, and then other rising schools will be brought into the collective of the Eight Families.
"I understand, father. I will let Tomoya participate in this Jade Dragon Banner."
"Well... go ahead."
After Saito Shinji went out, he immediately contacted his second son Tomoya. Reveal the sword master inheritance of Yuanling Mountain, let him perform well in Jade Dragon Banner, and try to force the strength of other families to see the situation. It would also be a good way to prepare for the inheritance of the Sword Master in Yuanling Mountain at the end of the year.
"I see."
His son's young and confident voice came from the mobile phone. Saito Shinji smiled and said, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, just keep everything as usual."
"No, father! I want the championship of the Yulong Banner. I heard that there will be an IH conference during the summer vacation? I will also win this championship." Saito Tomoya's confident voice made Saito Shinji excited, "When the time comes I will let Master Takeda Swordsman know that only I, Tomoya Saito, am qualified to accept the inheritance of the natural universe."
It’s not just the Saito family.
There are also the Tsukahara family, the Yagyu family, the Momoi family, the Sasaki family, the Kondo family, the Ono family, and the Ito family.
In the past two days, many high school kendo clubs across Japan were suddenly shocked.
They discovered that when the Jade Dragon Banner competition was approaching, many students they had never known before came to join the Kendo Club. However, these people were extremely powerful and appeared out of nowhere. And because of their strong strength, they were all qualified to compete in the Jade Dragon Banner.
Some high schools who just wanted to try their luck in the Jade Dragon Flag Competition were overjoyed. Like the members of the Kendo Club of Yingjiu High School, they suddenly had masters joining them, so they naturally had high hopes for Yulong Banner.
Just when young disciples from all races joined the Kendo Club and prepared to compete for the Jade Dragon Flag. Kimura Kazuki's life is as usual. He teaches Chunyang "Heavy Rain Style" day after day.
Chunyang's talent surprised him, because Chunyang didn't like studying, so he didn't know what the other person's learning talent was.
But in the way of swordsmanship, the opponent is indeed talented. Coupled with the opponent's hard work and diligence, his kendo strength improved rapidly.
This made Kimura Kazuki relieved. The women's championship seemed to be very promising.
And amid this expectation, the county qualifiers for Yulong Banner finally arrived.
(End of chapter)