I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Take the example of Sakakibara Ichidou's downward hacking technique - Mizuro.God knows how long Ogata would have to practice Mizuro before he could upgrade Mizuro's level from intermediate to advanced.

Compared with attacking skills such as water drop and bird thorn, skills such as "breath of the source" are the most suitable for this experiment.

Because "Breath of the Source" does not require you to hold a sword.

No venue is needed either.

You can start practicing anytime, anywhere.

Therefore, the time-consuming to do this experiment with "Breath of Source" will be much shorter.

The current Ogata can only use "Breath of Source" for about 4 minutes.

After 4 minutes, Ogata's breathing will gradually become messy, and he will be forced to stop using "Source Breath".

After this period of continuous practice, Ogata vaguely felt that the use time of "Breath of Source" seemed to be longer.

Although it didn't grow much, it probably only increased by a few seconds.

Although Ogata didn't know how long he would have to practice to raise the level of "Breath of Source" from elementary to intermediate without using skill points, he was ready for a protracted battle.

At the same time, we are also ready to meet the worst result of "Under the constraints of the system, hard training alone cannot improve the level of skills".

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After the hot sweat on his body stopped flowing and his hot body gradually cooled down, Mikami turned his head and looked at the sky outside the dojo.

"The sky is already very dark..." Mikami said, "That's all for today's practice."

"Yeah." As soon as Mikami's words fell, Ou conveniently answered, "I also have that intention. It just so happens that my body is too tired to move and I'm hungry, so let's go home and have dinner. "

Ogata stood up while talking.

However—at this moment, a hurried figure rushed into the dojo.

Because the footsteps of this hurried figure were too loud and too fast, which attracted everyone's attention. After this figure rushed into the dojo, Ogata and others in the arena immediately followed the prestige.

After seeing the appearance of this figure clearly, Ogata raised his eyebrows: "Master?"

The person who rushed into the dojo in a hurry was none other than Ogata and the others' master, Hanbei Sakakibara.

After entering the dojo, Hanbei turned his eyes anxiously, looking for someone in the dojo.

Because it's a bit late now, not many people are practicing swords in the dojo.

Therefore, Hanbei quickly found the person he was looking for.

"Ogata!" Banbei hurriedly rushed towards Ogata, and said anxiously, "Something has happened!"

"Master, what's the matter?" Ogata asked suspiciously.

"Just now, the elders of the family suddenly summoned me and Ishikawa Bingma." Banbingwei said in a deep voice, "The elders of the family asked us to advance the time for the god sacrifice competition!"

"Advance the opening time of the God Sacrifice Competition?!" Mikami, who was standing next to Ogata, was the first to exclaim after hearing Hanbei's words, "Master, when will it be brought forward?"

Hanbei gritted his teeth: "Tomorrow! Advance to tomorrow morning! This year's god competition will be held tomorrow morning!"

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Who is the master, of course Ogata knows.

As long as they are Hirose clan warriors with normal intelligence, there is no one who does not know who their Hirose clan boss is.

As soon as the term "Karao" was thrown into my mind, the name "Kuranaga Zaemon" jumped out of my mind instantly.

After listening to Hanbei's words that were like a bolt from the blue just now, Ogata's expression was the same as that of Mikami beside him, his eyes widened and his face was full of astonishment.

"We're going to hold a god-sacrificing contest tomorrow morning?!" Ogata couldn't believe his ears.

The conversations of Ogata, Mikami, and Hanbei attracted the rest of the brothers in the dojo.

The rest of the people in the dojo gathered around with curiosity, and after learning that the competition for offering sacrifices to the gods was going to be advanced, they all gasped.

"Master!" Mikami said anxiously again, "How did this happen? Isn't this too sudden? Why did the elder of the family advance this year's god sacrifice competition for no reason?"

"I don't know..." Hanbei shook his head with a deep voice.

Hanbei briefly recounted to everyone the whole process of his summoning by Kura Naga just now.

Just now, Hanbei and Ishikawa Bingma, the owner of the Ishikawa Sword Gym, were summoned by Kura Yong.

The two entered Cang Yong's mansion full of doubts, and as soon as they sat down on the tatami in Cang Yong's room, Cang Yong said directly to the two:

"Advance the god sacrifice test! Advance to tomorrow morning!"

After hearing Cang Yong's words, both Banbingwei and Bingma were stunned for a long time before gradually regaining their sanity.

The next moment they regained their sanity, the two anxiously asked Cang Yong why he gave such a sudden order.

However, Cang Yong seems to have no desire to explain to the two.

After just rudely reprimanding the two of them, "Don't ask so many questions", they let them go down to prepare for the god sacrifice competition that will be held tomorrow morning...

After listening to Hanbei's overview of what happened to him just now, Ogata raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, then smiled wryly:

"When did the old man become so interested in the competition of offering sacrifices to gods..."

In Ogata's memory, their Hirose Clan's old family, Kurangaga, has always seemed to be lacking in the nature of their god-worshiping competitions.

Since the establishment of the God Worship Competition, Cang Yong has not come to watch the competition once.

Ogata couldn't figure it out—why was Kurangaga suddenly interested in their god-sacrificing contest?Moreover, the time for holding the God Sacrifice Competition was directly advanced to the morning of the next day.

"How could this be..." Mikami on the side looked ugly, "Time is really tight..."

It wasn't just that Mikami's face was ugly.

Ogata, the contestant of this god sacrifice competition, also had an ugly face.

He silently summoned his personal attribute interface.

The current personal level is - lv10

Sakakibara Ichikatsu Ryu level: 6 ranks

Wuwo Two Swords Level: Level 1

Looking at his personal interface, Ogata's already ugly expression became even uglier now.

The advance of the god sacrifice competition completely disrupted Ogata's plan.

Ogata's original plan was very simple - take advantage of the fact that there is still about a month before the start of the god-sacrificing competition, use this one-month time to practice crazily, accumulate as many skill points as possible, and strive to be at the beginning of the god-sacrificing competition. Before that, increase your personal attribute value and sword skill level.

But who would have thought that Ogata's plan was disrupted in an instant when the old man gave an order to advance the competition of worshiping the gods.

At present, the level that requires the least amount of experience to upgrade is Wuwu Two Swords.

With only 120 experience points, the level of Wuwo Dual Swordsmanship can be raised from tier 1 to tier 2.

However - Ogata now has no time to get the 120 experience points.

Today, Ogata has already exchanged ideas with Mikami many times.

The body is already tired, and the limbs feel a little soft.

Ogata is no longer able to compete with others today.

If Ogata gritted his teeth and forced his exhausted self to continue competing with others today, he might hurt himself, or make his body overtired, which would affect tomorrow's god-sacrificing competition.

As for the proposal to Cang Yong to postpone the holding time of the god worship competition - such a plan is definitely not acceptable.

Kuranaga is an existence under one person and above ten thousand in Hirose Fan.

Little characters like Ogata and the others, how dare they disobey the orders of the elders?

So...the time of the God Sacrifice Competition can no longer be changed...It is destined to be held tomorrow morning.

"...Ogata." Hanbei asked Ogata in a hesitant tone, "What... are you planning?"

"...how else can you plan?" Ogata gritted his teeth, "...tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning!"

"Just settle the grievances between me and Yuan Shan tomorrow morning!"

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It was a very coincidence that Yuanshan and Ogata learned of the news that the god sacrifice competition was held in advance at almost the same time.

When he heard the news, Yuan Shan was drinking alone at home.

It was one of his younger brothers who hurried to his home and told him the news.

Yuan Shan was taken aback for a moment when he learned that the competition for worshiping the gods had been moved forward to tomorrow morning.

Then the color of ecstasy appeared on Yuan Shan's face at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye.

If there is anyone in the entire Hirose Domain who most hopes to hold the God Worship Competition as soon as possible, then this person must be Yuanshan.

After learning that this was a great news for Yuan Shan, Yuan Shan casually handed over some copper coins to this junior who came to tell him the news as a reward, and Yuan Shan asked his junior leave his home.

After the junior brother left and only Yuan Shan was left in the huge room, Yuan Shan silently removed his sword from the knife holder.

Pull the knife out of the sheath.

The cold light reflected from the snow-white blade covered the pupils of Yuanshan.

After looking up and down at his saber several times, Yuan Shan took out the whetstone and the rest of the tools needed to sharpen the knife.

Using skillful techniques to remove the eye nail and separate the blade from the handle, Toyama held the blade with a white cloth and sharpened the already sharp knife on the whetstone one by one.

Yuan Shan, who was constantly sharpening his knife, gradually showed a hideous and terrifying shadow on his face.

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The next morning, early in the morning—

Hirose Domain, Hachiman Shrine.

Today's Hachiman Shrine is quite lively.

In the courtyard of Hachiman Jingu Shrine, there were many people standing or sitting on an open space made of fine white sandstones.

The news that the god-sacrificing competition will be held earlier came too suddenly. Not only did the people in the Sakakibara Sword Gym and Ishikawa Sword Gym not expect it, but it also made those who are interested in swordsmanship come to Hachiman Shrine to watch the battle every year. people did not expect it.

However—even if it was sudden, some high-ranking officials in the feudal domain who liked to watch the annual competition of gods still adjusted their itinerary urgently, and successfully arrived at Hachiman Shrine on time, waiting for the start of the competition of gods.

This year, there are a lot of high-ranking officials in the feudal clan who come to watch the competition of offering sacrifices to the gods.

Even some high-ranking officials in the feudal clan who lacked interest in swordsmanship and had no interest in this kind of swordsmanship competition came to watch the battle excitedly at this time.

The reason why these people who never came to see any god-worshiping competitions in the past are so active this year is not because they suddenly fell in love with swordsmanship and had a strong interest in swordsmanship competitions.

It's because they received news that their elder, Kuranaga Zaemon, will watch this year's competition for the gods!

Even the order to hold the god sacrifice competition in advance was issued by Cang Yong himself.

Although I don't know why Kuranaga, who never watched the competition before, suddenly became so interested in the competition this year, all the high-ranking officials in the feudal clan who had never watched the competition before rushed to the Hachiman Shrine.

After all——this is a great opportunity to curry favor with Kuranaga.

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Such a great opportunity to get in close contact with Cang Yong and curry favor with Cang Yong, the senior officials in the domain will not let it go.

After learning that Kuranaga was also here to watch the god sacrifice competition, these people immediately rushed to Hachiman Shrine one by one like cats smelling fish.

Of course, these high-ranking officials who were able to come to the Hachiman Shrine were all people who successfully adjusted their itinerary this morning.

Some people who couldn't turn down the work this morning could only let this great opportunity to curry favor with Cang Naga slip through his fingers with resentment.

The test site has been surrounded by white curtains.

People from the Sakakibara Sword Gym stood at the far east of the competition venue.

The people from the Ishikawa Sword Gym stood at the westernmost part of the competition venue.

As for the spectators who came to watch the battle, they all stood or sat at the northernmost part of the venue.

The audience is almost here.

The people who came to watch the battle this time were basically senior officials at all levels in the domain.