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Chapter 2220, Chapter 2218: Why is your head empty?
Chapter 2220, Chapter 2.218: Why is your head empty?
"Shinshin-ryu Menkyo, Sakakibara Saheiji," the warrior with five blackened cloaks on his body said in a deep voice. Menkyo, a third-level title in swordsmanship, grants the right to publicly reveal one's learned style and teach independently. He fully meets the requirements to challenge Goto Kyuemon of the Broken Stone Style.
"I am Sanada Yuhi, a female ninja from Shinano." The 12-foot-tall Nanban samurai proudly introduced himself.
Looking up from the bottom, one could see the imposing and imposing figure of the 12-foot-tall Nanban warrior. The five black-painted demon warriors also continued to grow into 12-foot giants amidst the surging demonic energy.
"Therefore, Futakuchi-onna is merely a manifestation of demonic transformation; the true evil essence is still Enenra." Wu Chen saw through the surging demonic energy at a glance. In other words, Princess Takahime only transformed into Futakuchi-onna after Enenra possessed her.
"Heh heh..." The 12-foot-tall, iron-black-painted warrior with five demon bodies chuckled sinisterly, "It's not surprising that you can see through it. What is strange, however, is why your head is empty?"
“You mean ‘empty head’?” The 12-foot-tall Nanban warrior immediately understood; it referred to a “black hole of faith.”
The "Faith Black Hole" is a unique "(spiritual) heteromorph" in the spiritual world of Wu Chen's female companion in the "Ω Microcosm" connected by the "Ω Curtain Network".
As mentioned before, the node capabilities of the Ω Web will be enhanced as the entire Ω Microcosm revives. Even when Wu Chen travels through other story worlds, he can maintain a certain degree of mental connection with his female companion. Among them is a very special mental anomaly called "Faith Black Hole," which can ignore the limitations of story planes and maintain a real-time trans-dimensional connection with Wu Chen.
Because the spiritual core of all the female companions transcends the constraints of their materialized bodies and solidifies within the Ω Microcosm, becoming a shining new star, when a female companion, constantly connected to each other through the Ω Web and serving as a "star node," enters an "offline state," her own mind (spiritual world) collapses into a (faith) black hole as she approaches the "threshold boundary." This achieves a transdimensional, trans-temporal connection with the Ω Microcosm.
Specifically, when the female companion participating in the field mission performance is not in the same broken spacetime as Wu Chen, the spiritual bond between the "Ω Microcosm," manifested through the "Ω Web," and the "Star Node" will collapse into a black hole of faith within the female companion's mental world. This boundary effect becomes even more pronounced when Wu Chen is in the Broken City, while the female companion is transported into a broken message in a bottle in the outer realm. The black hole of faith will then quietly form. Once the female companion completes the group performance and returns to the Broken City, the boundary effect of the threshold will disappear, and the black hole of faith will immediately close.
It's important to note that if Wu Chen were to leave the Shattered City and enter the outer space, the boundary effect of the threshold would generally not reverse. His female companion remaining at the 0326 Star Cube base wouldn't collapse into a black hole of faith. Ultimately, this is still a difference between inner and outer perspectives, between higher and lower dimensions.
“Yes, you have an empty head,” the 12-foot-tall, iron-black-painted demon warrior with five demon bodies said in a deep voice. “Your soul is not in this body.”
The "soul" here refers to the spiritual core of the female companion, which is solidified within the Ω microcosm.
"Am I still me?" That's the crux of the whole question.
"No matter where your soul goes, you are still you." This is the strangest thing about the 12-foot-tall, black-painted, five-faced demon warrior. "That's good." The 12-foot-tall Nanban warrior was not surprised at all.
To put it simply, it's equivalent to a diskless DS system or an OS cloud system, where the operating system (software) is not installed on the local terminal (hardware).
The benefits are obvious. No computer virus can damage the operating system through this terminal.
If we replace software with a soul, hardware with a physical body, and computer viruses with mental pollution, it's equivalent to saying that Enenra, who transformed into a 12-foot-tall, iron-black-painted demon warrior with five demon bodies, could not possibly erode or corrupt Sanada Yuhi, the Shinano female ninja who merged into a 12-foot-tall Nanban warrior with an empty head.
"Then let's have a fair and square sword duel." The 12-foot-tall, iron-black painted five-masted demon warrior gripped his swords with both hands, raising them above his head in a starting stance.
The Jikishin-ryu school corresponds to four "legal" techniques based on the four seasons: Eight-Session Break (Spring), One-Sword Cut (Summer), Right Turn Left Spin (Autumn), and Long and Short in One Style (Winter). It is said to share technical origins with the Shinkage-ryu's "En" (En). In actual combat, Jikishin-ryu employs the Eight-Session stance, holding the sword with both hands high above the head to create a unified offensive and defensive posture. The school emphasizes "mental and courageous training," and its manual, *Ten Evils*, explicitly forbids ten mental flaws such as arrogance, greed, and fear. Training requires achieving personal perfection through "internal cultivation," believing that swordsmanship improvement must be accompanied by moral cultivation. During the Edo period, practitioners were required to experience the state of "sword and Zen as one" through wooden sword practice (sparring).
Specialized training equipment includes wooden swords, a bag-shaped scabbard, and a blade-drawing device; the tradition of using bamboo swords for kata (form training) is still maintained today. This school's unique shuriken technique employs a spear-like grip: the last three fingers are bent to hold the thicker end of the blade, while the index finger is extended to guide the throwing trajectory. This is combined with a stepping and arm-swinging motion to simulate a sword strike, emphasizing the fluidity of the throwing motion and mental concentration. By the Meiji era, the 3-shaku 8-sun (approximately 1.5 feet) bamboo sword standard established by this school became the modern standard for kendo equipment.
In contrast, Sanada Yuhi, the Shinano female ninja who combined her powers to become a 12-foot-tall Nanban-do samurai, did not have a fixed ninjutsu style. The Sanada ninjas also failed to develop their own style like the Koga or Iga ninjas. Historically, the ninja forces of the Sanada clan during the Sengoku period were mainly led by local Shinano clans and ninja schools, not a single organization. It is said that they were jointly commanded by the "Twin Pillars of Sanada (Ninjas)," Izuura Morikiyo (Izuura Morichika) and Yokotani Yukishige (Yokotani Sakon).
Izuura Morikiyo, the hereditary leader of the Togakure-ryu ninja clan, praised by Tokugawa Ieyasu as "the eye of Sanada Masayuki," secretly supported the Sanada father and son even during the Sanada clan's exile, making him a key figure in maintaining the Sanada family's survival. Yokotani Yukishige was originally a wealthy landowner in Shinano, later becoming a hereditary retainer of the Sanada clan. He is the prototype for "Sakon," a member of the Sound Four in *Naruto*.
"Ninja clan" is a collective term for ninja groups or ninja villages. Togakure-ryu is one of the five famous ninja gathering places known as the "Five Villages." The other four ninja clans are Iga, Koga, Fuma, and Banten no Sato.
As a "wandering priestess" trained by Mochizuki Chiyome, a Koga-ryu ninja, Shinano female ninja Sanada Yuhi not only mastered the ninjutsu of both Koga and Togakushi schools, but also learned many incredible and miraculous ninjutsu techniques, which are the true deadly moves of female ninjas.
Sanada Yuhi, a female ninja from Shinano who has merged into a 12-foot-tall Nanban-do samurai, also holds a ten-strip sword and assumes a fighting stance.
"Hah!" Five 12-foot-tall, iron-clad, black-painted demon warriors sprang up like cannonballs, crashing head-on into his opponent. Kagehide Kurakiri in hand was poised, ready to deliver a thunderous blow at any moment!