A person in Japan, a sword that soars to immortality.

After understanding his own problems, Taiichi decided to set off again.

However, before leaving, I still need to report to Matsudaira Aoki.

When they went to capture He Yi before, although he had a family, he did not have a lord. His relationship with the head of the family, Ji Ci, was that of an employer and employee.

But things are different now. With a lord by his side, and especially after being appointed as a horse guard and becoming a personal guard, he can no longer act so casually.

Otherwise, if everyone is like him, what if one day the lord encounters trouble and shouts for help, only to find that there is no one around? Wouldn't that be the end of them?

On the way to Kamiyashiki Ward, we happened to pass through Kandacho, so Taichi stopped by to visit Joichiro.

"Lord Taiyi, what is this?"

Looking at the slip of paper and a test tube containing blood on the counter, Jingyilang subconsciously touched his bald head and asked Taiyi a question.

"You don't need to know this. Just put these two things in a prominent position, and the problem of your shop inexplicably going short of medicinal herbs will naturally be solved."

Taiyi said with a smile.

"Ah? Really fake?"

Jingyilang held the test tube up to his eyes, his eyes wide open, but he couldn't see anything different.

If you could see that, that would be a miracle.

Taiyi waved goodbye to him and then left the Great Cleansing Room.

The blood was naturally Gyutaro's blood, and the note read: "Want the Upper Moon's blood? If you do, go find Yamada Asaemon Taichi."

He believed that when Tamayo returned, she would see the test tubes and the contents of the note.

"Hehe, I'm not afraid you won't come. This is called an open strategy."

Taiyi thought to himself with a chuckle.

This idea suddenly came to me after seeing Fu Zhineng refining medicine.

Since Zhu Shi is a medical talent, wouldn't partnering with Fu Zhi, who is also a medical expert, help him refine a "miracle pill"?

The techniques one cultivates are called Breathing Techniques in Demon Slayer, the Path in Hell Paradise, and In the East, they are called Internal Alchemy.

Just as there is internal alchemy, there is also external alchemy, which is alchemy.

However, Taiyi would never mix lead and mercury into the Daoist canon, as that would be tantamount to suicide.

He walked and stopped along the way, enjoying the lively atmosphere of people coming and going. After crossing a bridge, he arrived at the Ueyashiki area.

The people living here are all daimyo from various domains in Sakura who have come to serve in the shogunate.

Therefore, the area occupied by each samurai residence is several times, or even more than ten times, that of a town dwelling.

If you go through this area and continue further in, you will reach Edo Castle, which is also the location of Tokugawa Ienari, the eleventh Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In Matsudaira Aoki's zashiki (house), there are not only Taichi and Matsudaira Aoki, but also Hasegawa Yozo, the commander of the fire thief.

"Huh? What did you say, Lord Aoki? You don't want me to go?"

Taiyi frowned, somewhat puzzled.

Why is it that everything was fine before, and suddenly they won't let us leave?

Upon hearing his question, Matsudaira Aoki closed the fan in the hall, tapped his brow, took a deep breath, and then pointed at Taiichi.

Seeing this, Hasegawa Etsō, who was standing nearby, said to Taichi in a calm tone:

"Lord Aoki did this because he was worried about your safety."

"How so? Could you be more specific?"

Taiyi narrowed his eyes and asked thoughtfully.

"Before you volunteered to arrest these heinous criminals, we had already sent people to have the local magistrate assist in the arrest of the arsonists."

"The team that went to Okayama Domain earlier has returned, but only one person came back, and he went mad."

As Hasegawa Yotsuzo spoke, he lowered his head with a look of guilt.

As the commander of the Fire Thieves Bureau, he was directly under Aoki and was also highly regarded by the general.

However, the efforts to apprehend the heinous criminals have been far from smooth during this period.

Many teams went out and haven't heard from them since. Today, one team came back, but only one person was left, and he went crazy.

Meanwhile, Taiichi was sitting on the tatami mat, nodding slightly, his brows furrowed, with an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"

Seeing this, Aoki shook his head helplessly and gestured to the young man outside the door.

Before long, a samurai with a shaved head, drooling, and a vacant look in his eyes was carried up by two pageboys.

"Excuse me, have you seen the Bizen Giant—Rikutaro?"

Taiyi turned his head and asked calmly.

The samurai, who had been babbling incoherently, suddenly jumped up from the ground and desperately tried to run away after being asked that question.

Seeing this, two servants quickly stepped forward and grabbed his arms. Then Taiyi heard:

"Monster! Monster! Guns are useless, cannons can't kill it! It eats people! It's eaten so many people!"

Matsudaira Aoki waved his hand dismissively, and the two pageboys nodded and bowed before carrying the crazed samurai away.

Meanwhile, Taiyi, on the other hand, realized the seriousness of the situation.

Firearms are useless; even cannons can't kill them?

Even Gyutaro wouldn't dare to directly confront a cannon, right? I suspect there's some exaggeration involved.

However, based on his performance in the original work and the samurai's description just now, Lu Taro's strength, in terms of essence and blood, should easily exceed 300, and may even reach 500.

Even the Lower Rank Demons in Demon Slayer don't have the power to swing a giant tree.

Furthermore, Tanjiro was already very strong during the Pillar Training Arc, and he was able to move a giant rock.

Even without mastering the thirteenth form of Sun Breathing, he was able to use Hinokami Kagura multiple times, but even with all that strength, he still couldn't lift that giant rock.

Therefore, in terms of strength alone, Rikutaro is definitely in a class of his own.

As a child, he could easily slap his parents to pieces and casually throw a stone, killing a whole group of villagers.

No matter how powerful the Stone Pillar is, he couldn't have reached Rikutaro's strength when he was a child.

Not only that, Taiichi also has to solve a problem: he must capture the incredibly strong Rikutaro alive!

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This is a bit difficult.

"What's your decision? Taiichi, I acknowledge your strength. While it's true that samurai shouldn't fear death, pointlessly throwing one's life away is foolish."

Seeing Taichi's unpredictable expression, Matsudaira Aoki felt much more at ease.

We mustn't let such a great general, whom we finally discovered, be lost.

"No, Lord Aoki, I want to go."

Taiyi regained his composure, then lowered his eyelids and spoke with unusual firmness.

"Do you know what you're saying? If you go this time, you might not come back!"

"Then I won't come back!"

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Taiyi's eyes seemed to blaze with flames. As he stood up, a stream of air emanated from him and instantly spread outwards.

Matsudaira Aoki and Hasegawa Yūzō instinctively raised their forearms to shield their faces, which also happened to hide their horrified expressions.

Taiyi, what kind of power is this?!

"Lord Aoki, I have said that I will extend the authority of the shogunate to the ends of the earth."

"If we can't even handle Rikutaro, how can we keep our promise?"

"After all, I aspire to be a renowned swordsman."

"Lord Aoki, Lord Hasegawa Etsou, please forgive my rudeness, farewell!"

Taiyi bowed slightly, nodded to the two of them, then tucked the knife into his waistband and walked out without hesitation.

"Taiyi will likely face many dangers on this journey to the west."

Hasegawa Yozo muttered to himself.

"No." Matsudaira Aoki suddenly opened the fan in the hall, looked at Taiichi's back with admiration, and said softly, "Danger is only for ordinary people. For Taiichi, it is just a test for the dragon that travels west."

He then thought for a moment, a playful smile appearing on his face. He stopped what he was doing and said to the air above his head:

"A-Xia, Taiyi's mission this time can't rely on him alone, you should go too."

"Yes."

Then a series of soft, moving sounds drifted into the room through the ceiling.