I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

And another main reason why Ogata is not interested in this competition in the museum is because Ogata knows that the top winner of the competition in the museum in June every year has to participate in the competition in July every year. A competition for worshiping gods held in the courtyard of Yunda Shrine.

God Worship Competition - the full name is "Shen Worship Martial Arts Competition".

Choose an auspicious day in July every year, and hold a friendly match between Sakakibara Kenkan and Ishikawa Kenkan in the courtyard of Izumo Taisha not far away.

Ishikawa Sword Gym - not far from Sakakibara Sword Gym, a sword gym that teaches Katori Shinto style.

It is considered a competitive relationship with Sakakibara Sword Gym.

The main content of the god sacrifice competition is to send a disciple from each of the two sword gyms to fight, to see whose disciple is stronger.

Using the competition to deepen the friendship between the two sword halls and help improve sword skills - this is the purpose of establishing this god-sacrificing competition.

But in fact - friendship is basically put aside, the focus is entirely on learning sword skills and fighting for face for the sword gyms they belong to.

The establishment of the Sakakihara Sword Hall was later than the Ishikawa Sword Hall.

Therefore, since the establishment of the Sakakibara Sword Academy, the masters and apprentices of the Ishikawa Sword Academy have always been hostile to the people of the Sakakibara Sword Academy.

He regards the Sakakihara Sword Gym as a thorn in their side for robbing their business.

In fact - Sakakibara Sword Gym has indeed robbed the business of Ishikawa Sword Gym.

Since Sakakibara Hanbei established the Sakakibara Sword Gym, the number of people who came to the Ishikawa Sword Gym to learn from teachers has decreased a lot.

It was Sakakibara Hanbei who took the lead in advocating holding a god-sacrificing competition to ease the tension between the two sword halls.

However, since the first holding of the God Worship Competition, the relationship between the two sword halls has not only not been eased, but has even worsened.

Since each of the two families sent a disciple to fight, whichever family's disciple lost, the sword gym of that family would lose face.

And because the competition held by the two sword halls is so famous, it attracts many big figures from the domain to watch every year.

Surrounded by so many big figures in the feudal domain—whether people from the Sakakihara Sword Gym or the Ishikawa Sword Gym, no matter which sword gym they are from, they are even less willing to lose in this god-sacrificing competition. Lost face in front of the big shots in the domain.

Chapter 15

In order to win the Ishikawa Kenkan in the competition for the gods, Sakakibara Hanbei will send the person who ranks first in the competition in the hall in June every year to compete in the competition for the gods held in July.

Ogata knew about this practice, so he was even less interested in the ranking of the competition in the museum that was about to start.

After all, he didn't bother to fight any more god-sacrificing competitions.

Although participating in the god sacrifice competition can compete with the masters of the Ishikawa Sword Gym, you may be able to gain a lot of experience points.

Makino on the side also saw that Ogata didn't seem interested in the competition in the museum that was about to start in a month, so he asked aloud:

"Senior Ogata, you don't seem to have any fighting spirit for the competition in the gym."

"It can't be regarded as lack of fighting spirit." Ogata smiled bitterly, "If possible, I would be happy to get a high position in the competition in the gym. After all, I want to win more than lose."

"I'm just not interested in the god sacrifice competition in July."

"You also know that the person who won the first place in the competition in June will participate in the competition in July."

As soon as Ogata finished speaking, Makino let out a soft "ah".

"So, Ogata-senpai, you are afraid that you will be forced to take part in the god-sacrificing competition after you win the first prize in the competition in the hall..."

"That's right." Ogata nodded.

"Sacrificing to the gods..." Muye mumbled, turning his head and looking towards a corner of the dojo, "Speaking of this, I just remembered—Senior Mikami has been practicing swords very hard recently."

Ogata followed Makino's gaze - in the corner of the dojo, the current head of their Sakakibara Sword Gym - Mikami, is now practicing swordsmanship alone.

Within a few steps with him as the center, his sweat was everywhere.

Mikami has won the chief of the competition three times in a row.

The competition in December of the previous year, the competition in June last year and the competition in December of last year - the chief position was all won by Mikami.

Looking at Mikami who was practicing swordsmanship hard, Makino murmured:

"Senior Mikami, maybe he is planning to participate in the god sacrifice competition again, and what about the humiliation Yixue suffered in Yuanshan last year..."

"Yeah." As soon as Makino finished speaking, Xu Bian nodded and agreed, "It's very likely."

In June last year, Mikami was the head of the competition in the gymnasium, so it means that in the competition for the gods in July last year, it was Mikami who represented the Sakakibara Sword Gym and participated in the competition for the gods.

On behalf of the Ishikawa Sword Academy, Toyama Renro is known as "a rare genius swordsman in 10 years".

Toyama Renro—the undoubted strongest existence among the many disciples of Ishikawa Sword Gym.

Although Mikami is the head of the Sakakibara Sword Gym, he cannot win every battle against other masters in the Gym, such as Ogata.

But Yuanshan is different.

It is said that Toyama has been undefeated for two consecutive years in the Ishikawa Sword Gym.

Among the many disciples in the Ishikawa Sword Gym, none can compete with Yuan Shan.

It is also enough to see what a terrible person Yuan Shan is.

Last year was Yuan Shan's first time to participate in the god sacrifice competition.

Originally, the duel between Mikami and Yuanshan had attracted the attention of thousands of people.

Everyone wants to see how exciting the match will be between the strongest in the Ishikawa Sword Gym and the strongest in the Kamisakakibara Sword Gym.

However... the final result disappointed those who had been looking forward to this competition...

The duel between the two was not exciting.

From the beginning of the competition to the end of the competition, only a few breaths passed.

Toyama knocked Mikami down with just one move.

Mikami didn't even have time to use a sword skill, and was instantly killed by Yuan Shan...

Last year's competition for worshiping the gods became a thorn in the hearts of everyone in the Sakakibara Sword Gym...

After all, this is really too humiliating...

The strongest person in his own hall was killed in seconds...

Mikami was also lost for a long time because of this, and it took nearly two months to cheer up.

It is now mid-May, and there is not much time left before the start of the big competition and the god-sacrificing competition in the museum.

Mikami is practicing sword so hard now, it is very likely that he will win the chief position in the competition in the gymnasium in a month later, and then go to the god-sacrifice competition again, duel with Yuanshan in the Ishikawa Sword Gym, and wash away what he has done last year. the shame suffered.

Whether it's the big competition in the museum or the competition for worshiping the gods, Ogata is not very interested in these two major events.

Now he just wants to practice the sword silently and become stronger silently.

Ogata has now confirmed a fact—even though he doesn't know what to do next, there is absolutely nothing wrong with making himself stronger first and making his sword skills superb.

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That night——

Ogata went to the Ruiya as usual, guarding the peace of the Ruiya.

Because the people nearby knew that there was a famous and powerful samurai stationed in the Liuwu, so in recent days, almost no one dared to do anything wrong in the Liuwu.

It also made Ogata's "security" work a lot easier.

Now every night, Ogata just needs to sit at the door of Ruiya.

Saki and Fu are busy entertaining guests.

On the other hand, Ogata was holding his long and short sabers in his arms, sitting at the door of Liuya, checking his current personal attribute table.

[Name: Ogata Yishi]

[Level: LV8: 670/700]

[Personal attributes:

Power: 5

Agility: 6

Reflexes: 5

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5]

【Skill:

Sakakibara One Sword Style: 4 stages: 620/700]

[Remaining skill points: 2 points]

……

[Sakakibara Ichidao Style (4 paragraphs):

Stair climbing: primary

Waterfall: Intermediate

Bird spines: primary

Dragon Tail: Elementary]

……

……

Looking at his personal attribute table, Ogata murmured in a voice that only he could hear clearly:

"Is the experience value still a little bit..."

Ogata's personal level, as well as the level of Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu, can be upgraded with only a little bit of experience points.

The personal level is still 30 experience points away from the upgrade, and Sakakibara is still 80 experience points away from the upgrade.

As long as you compete with 1 or 2 people and defeat them, Ogata's personal level and Sakakibara's Ichidou level can both be upgraded.

At that time, Ogata's skill points will be richer.

——After the personal level and Sakakibara Ichidou are both upgraded, I will get another 3 skill points...

——Including the 2 skill points I have always saved, there are 5 skill points in total...

——With so many skill points, it's time to spend some of them...

Just when Ogata was hesitating how to spend his skill points, Ah Fu's exclamation suddenly sounded in the room of Ruiya.

Ogata hastily interrupted the thoughts in his mind and followed the prestige.

I saw Ah Fu blushing slightly, covering his buttocks, and looking at the guests at the table beside him with angry eyes.

Looking at the guests at the table, Ogata frowned involuntarily.

Because the guests at this table are different from other guests.

The people who patronize this floating house are basically farmers, handicraftsmen...in short, some civilians.

And the guests at this table, without exception, all had neatly shaved Yuedai heads.

A samurai sword rests by their legs...

Chapter 16 Katori Shinto Style VS Sakakibara Ichidou Style

"What are you doing!" Ah Fujiao shouted.

"I'm sorry."

One of the guests at the table continued in an unapologetic tone:

"Your ass is so tempting. I saw you turning around here, as if you were tempting me, so I couldn't help touching it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

As soon as this person's voice fell, the companions at the same table burst into laughter.

This person's apology without any apology, and the laughter of his companions made Ah Fu's face turn redder with embarrassment and anger.

On the other hand, Ogata silently inserted the saber in his arms back to his left waist, then stood up slowly, and walked slowly towards the guests at the table.

Ah Fu was treated so rudely - as the "security guard" of this izakaya and as Ah Fu's friend, Ogata couldn't just sit back and watch.

"This guest."

Ogata said in a low voice to the samurai who harassed Ah Fu just now: