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Chapter 105 Date Munehide

At the same moment that Mo Lan and her group were exploring the Longevity Cave, somewhere in Kyoto:

Despite it being broad daylight, Date Munehide got completely drunk at his residence.

It's important to understand that if a military general in chaotic times is idle and drunk, it basically means that he is either a surrendered general or has been marginalized by power.

Date Munehide was naturally the latter.

"Jong-soo, drink less. You can't keep going like this..."

Date Munehide's wife came to his side and brought him a cup of hot tea.

"You woman, shut up! If you interfere again, I'll beat you up too, you hear me!"

Suddenly, Date Munehide sprang up, knocking the tea to the ground with a single blow, and grabbed the other man by the collar, roaring angrily.

The hot tea scalded the back of the lady's hand, leaving it bright red. She could only wipe away her tears, dry the tea on the floor, and leave feeling wronged.

Even after she left, Date Munehide was still furious. He picked up a vase and smashed it in the courtyard, roaring, "Hojo Masanobu! You bastard! You beast! You shameless scoundrel!"

Date Munehide's anger stemmed from Hojo Masanobu's betrayal.

In the recent attack on the Kingdom of Kyosan, Date Munehide risked almost all of his resources to achieve victory.

He committed all his elite troops to the battle, and ultimately achieved victory at an extremely heavy cost.

The reason he worked so hard was because his good friend Hojo Masanobu had promised to grant him part of the Kanto Plain and the Kyoto Province after the war.

Unexpectedly, Hojo Masanobu turned his back on him after the victory, issuing a military order to transfer him back to the rear, forcing him to hand over the territory he had just conquered.

Betrayed by his brother, Date Munehide never recovered.

Just as Date Munehide was gripped by impotent rage, a voice suddenly rang in his ear: "Munehide, are you willing to degenerate like this?"

"Who?!" Date Munehide looked around, but there was no one there.

The voice rang out again: "Zongxiu!"

Date Munehide suddenly turned around and looked at the Buddhist shrine inside the room. His eyes widened in surprise, and he rubbed them.

"Buddha! Is that Buddha calling me?"

"Buddha... Ah, yes... I am both your Buddha and your God."

Above the enshrined Buddha shrine, a cloud of black mist gradually condensed.

Date Munehide could no longer care about anything else. He scrambled to the Buddha shrine, knelt down, and kowtowed heavily, pleading, "Buddha! Please show me the way! I am not resigned to this! I am not resigned to this! I am not resigned to living in this small mansion forever!"

"I want revenge on Hojo Masanobu!"

Within the black mist, a pair of deep red eyes stared at the man before them.

The seal on the Longevity Cave has been broken; now it's time to put my plan into action.

"Revenge? Easy peasy."

"But are you willing to bear the consequences?"

"At the cost of the entire Kyoto and Kyoyama."

Upon hearing this, Date Munehide, whose forehead was pressed to the ground, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

He instantly sobered up, realizing that the person standing before him was probably not Buddha at all.

"What do you mean by 'at the cost of Kyoto and Kyoyama'...?"

"Literal meaning."

The other party said calmly.

He knew that the man kneeling before him had been driven to the brink, and had no other choice but to agree to his conditions.

At the same time, he could easily see that the man's deepest desires were enough to destroy everything.

"I..." Date Munehide hesitated.

The black mist beside him spoke in the coldest voice, "Do you think, given Hojo Masanobu's personality, he would let you go after unifying the country?"

Date Munehide was taken aback.

His hands and feet instantly turned ice-cold. The image flashed through his mind. He gritted his teeth and finally kowtowed heavily, pleading, "Buddha, please lend me a hand!"

The black mist slowly spread, presenting a withered, dark, and thin finger to Date Munehide.

"This is a finger from the Demon God. You only need to eat it to gain the power to dominate the world."

Make your choice.

Date Munehide took the finger, his eyes bloodshot. After only a moment's hesitation, he swallowed it whole.

Soon after.

"Zongxiu?"

Outside the camphor tree gate, the lady knelt on the ground and knocked cautiously on the door: "Are you alright? Should I go and fetch a doctor?"

Clang!

The camphor gate was pushed open by Date Munehide.

The lady raised her head and looked at Date Munehide in surprise, because at this moment, he no longer showed any signs of dejection.

In a daze, she seemed to see in her eyes the fearless and always confident Date Munehide.

"I'm sorry, Meihui."

Date Munehide held the lady's hand, his smile gentle: "Next, I will take back everything that belongs to me."

Mei-hui didn't know what had happened, but she was happy because Date Munehide seemed to have recovered from his disappointment.

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Longevity Grotto Heaven:

After the bronze gate opened, Mo Lan and her group lit torches and used them to illuminate the oil lamps on the walls.

The entire Changsheng Cave Heaven was revealed to everyone at this moment, and its former grandeur could still be vaguely seen.

Inside the cave, crimson spider lilies bloomed in every corner, resembling bursting fireworks under the candlelight.

At the very center of that field of crimson spider lilies, a bronze-cast stepped altar stands.

"More than 1,700 years have passed since Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and sent Xu Fu as an envoy to Japan."

Mo Lan held up a torch.

"Did Xu Fu really find the Fountain of Immortality, and not something else?"

Fujino Seiran gripped the hilt of the sword cautiously.

"If he really achieved immortality, how come there's no record of him in history at all?"

Mo Lan gradually formed some guesses in her mind.

"Yun Ting, the three of you guard the door."

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"yes!"

Mo Lan and Fujino Seiran stepped into the sea of ​​crimson flowers and headed towards the altar in the center.

Upon arriving at the altar, Mo Lan looked at the bronze cauldron that had been there for countless years. It was dry and old, without a trace of spring water.

"Hiss...why don't you try making some more offerings?"

Fujino Seiran scratched his head, completely clueless.

Mo Lan fell into deep thought.

The altar is located on the cliff.

That should be the earth altar in front of them.

He raised his hand, used the Crimson Blood Manipulation Technique to rub a ball of blood, and filled the entire earth altar.

"Splash!"

It seemed that the ritual was incorrect, and the bronze cauldron opened automatically, spitting out all the blood that Mo Lan had rubbed out.

It's as if they're saying, "Ugh, this tastes awful."

Mo Lan had no choice but to take out Xu Fu's alchemy book, flipping through it again and again, and tracing the patterns on the bronze cauldron back and forth.

"Hmm... Ah... Uh..."

Fujino Seiran: "After looking at it for so long, do you have any clues?"

Mo Lan closed the book and declared confidently, "Absolutely not!"

Fujino Seiran sighed, "Okay."

"There's no other way. Let's go back and see if there are any clues in the Japanese imperial court's archives."

Fujino Seiran said.

Mo Lan nodded in agreement with his idea, and the group turned and left, preparing to explore again next time.

Before leaving, Mo Lan didn't forget to knock off the stone slab on the gate.

Rumble...

The door then closed again.

By the time the group crossed the pond again and returned to Kyoto, the sun was already setting.

With the banquet time fast approaching, Mo Lan and his party headed back home, changed their clothes, and then boarded a carriage to travel to Hojo Masanobu's Tenka Gosho (Imperial Palace).

Go meet this guy who's always just been in the background.

At the same time, Kujo Yorinao, who was stationed outside the Kingdom of Kyoyama, received a secret letter from a ninja.

He opened the secret letter, and inside was a detailed map of the defenses of the Xiashan Kingdom, showing every defensive and offensive facility.

It can be said that as long as Kujo Yorinao had this map, his siege plan was already 70% successful.

This is something that even the current daimyo of Xiashan Kingdom doesn't have.

And there was no one else but the Japanese imperial court who could have delivered this secret letter.

They planned to help Kujo Yori attack Kyoyama Province, so that the enemy and Hojo Masanobu would fight to the death.

To prevent Kujo Yorinao from being unable to defeat the enemy, the imperial court also secretly contacted Date Munehide, hoping that he would raise an army to betray the Hojo.

For the imperial court, the best outcome would be for all these warriors to perish together in the Xiashan Kingdom, or for only a few remaining soldiers to survive.