All living beings in hell

Chapter 163 - Ninja Xuanju

The lotus lantern at the entrance was lit up, and the firm welcomed the 110th and seventh guest.

There was a rustling sound from the skylight, and when I just looked up, a guest dressed as a ninja wearing a huge straw hat and covered in black cloth from head to toe, landed firmly on the floor.The guest put one hand behind his back, put the index finger and middle finger of the other hand together in front of his chest, raised his head slightly, and revealed a pair of fierce eagle-like eyes under the bamboo hat.

"Please sit down."

The ninja hopped on his toes, landed on the chair, and sat cross-legged.The whole movement is done in one go, and the body is light.

"Xuan Ten."

"your name?"

Ninja nodded and stopped talking.He put his hands and fingers together in front of his belly button, as if he was about to enter a state of meditation at any time.

"Xuan Shi, why did you come to me today?" I wrote down his name on the paper.

"Between stillness and movement, it's like a virgin off the rabbit. Between good and bad, it's like the flow of blood coagulates. If you want to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers, you must first calm your heart; if you want to go with the times and the trend, you must survive against the middle. What do you think about this?" look?"

"I think you're right."

"This is the knowledge my master taught me, and it is also the theory I pursue all my life. It's a pity that I was born at the wrong time, did not serve the Lord, was dissatisfied with life, and regretted death."

"Why are you dissatisfied? Why do you regret death?"

"I was born bright. Although I walk in the dark, I hope to take people's lives and act according to the rules and etiquette. Although everyone is their own master, but since they are born to live, they should be treated with respect. No matter how great a general is or how worthless I will give a notice before the assassination of the villain spies mentioned. Everyone celebrates their birthdays, so when they pass away, they should also be solemnly notified."

"If you notify in advance, won't they set up heavy traps to defend? Wouldn't this add a lot of trouble to the mission?"

"It is indeed troublesome, but if you don't do this, it will violate my code of conduct."

"Well, how did you die then?"

"The general I served thought I had betrayed him, sold the information to others, and ordered me to be executed. I fought with a group of ninjas who came to hunt me down, and was seriously injured and bled to death."

"Have you betrayed him?"

"This matter was framed by a villain. It must have been designed to make the general misunderstand me, hate me, and even send so many ninjas to hunt and kill me. I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and there are many enemies. I have long expected that I will be retaliated I just didn't expect this method to be so bad and outrageous."

"Then do you regret being a ninja?"

"This is my destiny. Although it is difficult and rough, I have benefited a lot. I have no other complaints."

Xuan Shi pulled his hands apart in the air, and pulled out a nine-section long whip out of thin air. The long whip was surrounded by purple energy, which looked very fast.

"This is what I used when I was alive. The whip is like a snake twisting, like a thorny shackle. It was also passed down to me by my master. It has been contaminated by countless souls of the dead, and it will accompany me until my death."

"Who is your master?"

"Served the shogunate for more than fifty years, and then lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, imparting what he had learned throughout his life, and recuperating."

"Sounds like a great guy."

Xuan Shi put away the long whip between his hands, and resumed his previous sitting posture.

"There are countless disciples who have visited the master, but only two persisted in the end. One is me, who uses the whip method. The other is Sanxian, who is good at hidden weapons. Of all the remaining disciples, no one can survive the master's devil Training, all quit halfway."

"What is your master's devil training like?"

Xuan Shi's exposed eyes twitched slightly.

"The main categories are: body, mind, and mind. That is, the method of self-cultivation, the method of mind, and the method of mind. Let the three complement each other and support each other.

There are 26 different aspects of training subdivided into sub-categories, and if it is further subdivided into specific exercises, there are hundreds of thousands of them.Each one is specially formulated for self-cultivation, mind-cultivation and mind-cultivation.Its ferocity and cold-bloodedness are indeed beyond the tolerance of ordinary people.

The master taught us to have respect for life and contempt for worldly affairs at the same time.What is this respect and what does it mean to be contemptuous? I have only a half-knowledge, and I only gradually learned about it later in my actions. "

"What do you know about respect?"

"Life, no matter how great or small it is in the eyes of the world, is something external to our assassins. Our respect for life is not the honor that is associated with this life, but the existence of this life itself. Maybe doing good, Maybe doing evil, this life has been going around in the world for several years, leaving its own traces. I respect the existence of life, which means respecting the laws of the world."

"Then what is the meaning of contempt?"

"Impermanence, unintentional, irrational, these are the pains of life. Contempt is the way to survive, it is subtraction, it is to detach oneself from the facts, and lighten the vulgarity. It is trapped but not scattered, arrogant but not dry."

"Is this what your master taught you?"

"The master teaches the theory, which is what I learned during my lifetime."

"If you can live as long as your master, will you lead apprentices like your master?"

Xuanju closed his eyes.

"The life of a ninja does not belong to me, and I didn't think about it in the long run.

But if possible, I would rather go back to the mountains and forests, alone, until the end of my life. "

"Why don't you bring your apprentice?"

"This is a hard job, and I don't want to let more people suffer this pain."

"Don't you think it's a pity to waste your life's talents like this?"

"Killing skills, each sect has its own strengths and weaknesses, so it's not a pity not to pass it on. Teach it according to the situation. If you don't have the predestined relationship, it's useless to teach it, so it's not a pity."

"No regrets?"

"It's no use regretting."

"Okay, so what are you going to do next?"

"If there is an afterlife, I will be an ordinary person. I would rather give up my reputation and live a mediocre life than pick up a butcher knife and take people's lives."

"As long as you like it yourself, that's fine."

"It is impossible to always like, but there is always comparison."

"Yes, yes."

The ninja stood up directly from the chair in a cross-legged posture, leaped lightly to the back of the chair, and nodded to me: "Thank you for your ear."

"Too polite."

The ninja's wolf eyes looked up and down at me, as if scanning something.

"There are a few words, I want to tell you before parting, I don't know if it's appropriate."

"Please speak."

"Man is born and dies, and nature has a beginning. It is neither destroyed nor diminished, nor increased nor extinguished. Only the mind is always in peace. Although I die, God still sings. May the souls of the dead from ten miles to hundreds of miles, search for lost, and the pure land will always be exist."

I listened quietly, letting each word hang in the air for a moment.

"Thank you." I said.

"do not."

"Goodbye."

A burst of white mist exploded from under Xuan Shi's feet, and a light breeze poured in from the skylight.When the fog cleared, Xuan Shi had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)