The Onisaburo Deguchi projects to increase the influence of the Omoto religion were numerous and magnificent . They exposed to Ueshiba and a handful of friends a very secret utopian design that consisted of applying a religious state in Mongolia where the Chinese and Japanese armies confronted each other and in creating a Sino-Japanese alliance.

February 13, 1924 Onisaburo ,Ueshiba and a group of relatives left for the mainland and joined their fates , to achieve their goals with a rebel soldier , Lu Chang K'uei commander operating in the area.

It was during this trip that we had the famous episode where Ueshiba , threatened with death by enemies, armed with guns, saw in the form of rays of light , the direction of the bullets coming towards him and could thus avoid them with no harm done to him. But unfortunately they were soon captured by Chinese troops and sentenced to death . They owed their survival to the intervention in extremis of the Japanese consulate. Several photographs taken during their captivity demonstrate their painful experience.