Chapter 447 Exploding the Baosheng Sword Hall! [7,600 Words]

Whether it's the masters and apprentices of the Hosho Sword Gym, or the bearded party, in short—everyone present except for Atachi stared blankly at Ogata who just knocked out Shimura's wooden sword with a sword.

Everyone is recalling what just happened.

First, both Ogata and Shimura set up a mid-section stance, confronting each other.

Shimura shouted imposingly, "Come on!"

Then Ogata narrowed the distance between him and Shimura at a dizzying speed, and then hit the blade of the wooden sword in Shimura's hand with a horizontal cut, directly knocking the wooden sword in Shimura's hand into the air.

It wasn't until the wooden knives in his hand were blown away that Shimura belatedly realized that he had lost.

Shimura's blank gaze flicked back and forth between his aching hand from the forcibly knocked off knife back and Ogata in front of him.

"Concession." Ogata put down the wooden knife in his hand, bowed to Shimura, and then stepped back to where he was standing just now.

It was only now that Shimura fully recovered from his stupefaction.

The sword in his hand was directly knocked out by the opponent - in a real sword duel, Shimura already belonged to the kind of person who couldn't die any more.

He was defeated because he couldn't even see the opponent's figure and sword path clearly—this made Shimura uncontrollably angry.

But losing is losing, and he can only suppress the unwillingness and resentment in his heart, push back to the edge of the dojo and sit down.

As soon as Shimura retreated, a handsome young man about 25 years old quickly got up, took a wooden knife from the knife holder next to him, walked quickly up the dojo, and came in front of Ogata.

"Baosheng Ten Swords! Sanjo Heigoro!" The handsome young man set up the wooden knife in his hand while announcing his name.

Ogata also resumed his middle stance.

"Izumo Ronin, Mashima Goro."

"Drink it——!"

As soon as Ogata finished announcing his name, Sanjo let out a breath of air, shortened the distance between him and Ogata in one breath, and then slashed at Ogata with a knife.

Through the battle between Ogata and Shimura just now,

Sanjo has seen that Ogata's speed is quite amazing.

If he foolishly waited for the astonishingly fast Ogata to launch the first attack, he would probably repeat the same mistakes Shimura just made.

So in order to win, Sanjo decided to strike first.

According to the introduction to Ogata just now, "Baosheng Ten Swords" is the collective name of the 10 disciples with the most superb swordsmanship in this Baosheng Sword Gym.

Since this handsome young man named Santiao also has the title of "Baosheng Ten Swords", he is naturally one of the few leaders in the sword gym.

After Sanjo launched an attack on Ogata, faint exclamations sounded from around.

Many apprentices of Baosheng Sword Gym were amazed by Sanjo's extremely fast attack speed.

However——in the face of the extremely fast slash in the eyes of others, Ogata did not change his face, stepped to the side, and easily dodged Sanjo's slash.

Sanjo's stepping speed and slashing speed were extremely fast in the eyes of others.

But in Ogata's eyes—it was a turtle speed that could be dodged casually.

After absorbing the "immortal poison" in the body for the second time, Ogata's strength, agility, reflexes, stamina, and vitality increased to 20 points, 18 points, 15 points, 21 points, and 36 points respectively.

Compared with Ogata's current physical fitness, it can be said to be a world of difference from the period when he just traveled to this era and all attribute values ​​were only 5 points.

His physical fitness is now far beyond ordinary people.

The 15-point reflex allows Ogata to easily see through the three sword paths and respond quickly.

With an agility of up to 18 points, Ogata can easily dodge three slashes like walking through the streets in the early morning.

Although there is actually no need to use "steps" at all, in order to allow the Wuwu dual-sword style to gain some experience points, Ogata still uses "steps" to avoid Sanjo's attack.

After dodging Sanjo's attack, Ogata quickly switched the middle stance to the lower stance.

Sakakibara One Sword Style · Climbing the Tower!

Ogata's wooden sword accurately hit the blade of Sanjo's wooden sword.

The moment the two wooden knives touched, Sanjo felt a huge force passing along the wooden knives to the palms of his hands.

Sanjo is simply unable to resist this huge force.

Therefore, he could only watch helplessly as the wooden knife in his hand came out, flew high, almost hit the ceiling above, drew a beautiful parabola, and fell heavily behind him.

【Ding! Use Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu to climb the building and defeat the enemy]

[Gain 55 personal experience points, 55 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara One Sword Style", and 10 experience points for swordsmanship "Nugo Two Swordsmanship"]

[Current personal level: LV34 (19255200)]

[Sakakibara One Swordsman Level: 12th Dan (15709000)]

[Wuwu Two Swords Level: Level 11 (164012000)]

Because Ogata had used Wuwo Two Swords as a step up just now, Wuwo Two Swords also gained a certain amount of experience points-although it was very little, it was better than nothing.

"Concession." Ogata bowed slightly to Sanjo.

"I lost..." Santiao returned the salute with a wry smile, accepting her defeat frankly.

Convinced to lose - these are the three thoughts now.

The attack I made just now was an all-out attack without reservation.

But Ogata easily dodged it.

And he couldn't catch Ogata's slashing connection.

Undoubtedly a fiasco.

After nodding to Ogata, Sanjo turned around and retrieved his wooden knife that had been knocked into the air, and sat back to where he was sitting just now.

As soon as Sanjo stepped back, another young man excitedly took a wooden knife from the knife holder, and stood in front of Ogata.

"Baosheng Ten Swords! Takeshi Kayano!"

Oo nodded to him, and repositioned the knife.

This time, Ogata did not put in the middle stance, but in the upper stance.

The upper stance will be extremely intimidating for tall people.

If you imagine it a little bit, you can imagine how terrifying this scene is: a person who is more than ten or tens of centimeters taller than you is holding up the knife in his hand-you are afraid that even how close you are Do not know at all.

Chino's height is only about 1.5 meters.

Facing Ogata, who is 1.7 meters tall and posing in the upper stance, he suddenly felt pressure doubled.

Although feeling the pressure, Chino was not afraid at all, but was eager to try instead.

After licking his dry lips, he shouted loudly and attacked Ogata.

boom!

After Kayano rushed to the distance where his knife could cut him, Ogata did not hesitate to use Mizuro.

Because of his height, Chino's hands were much shorter than Ogata's, and his attack range was far inferior to Ogata's.

Ogata's knife was already able to cut him, but the tip of his knife could barely reach the corner of Ogata's clothes.

If you can't beat Ogata, there are only two options before Chino, dodge and forcibly connect Ogata's sword.

Chino is not the kind of person who is very nimble on his feet, and he is not good at dodging, so he can only grit his teeth and raise his knife to block, trying to block Ogata's knife with brute force.

boom!

The sound of wooden knives colliding exploded again.

Chino, like his first two classmates, couldn't bear the huge force passing along the wooden knife, and the wooden knife was directly sent flying.

【Ding! Defeat the enemy with Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu-Waterfall]

[Gain 55 personal experience points, 55 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ichidou"]

[Current personal level: LV34 (19805200)]

[Sakakibara One Swordsmanship level: 12th stage (16259000)]

"Concession."

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Immediately after Chino left the field, someone impatiently stepped forward with a sword in hand, wanting to compete with Ogata.

The contest between Ogata and the apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym has profoundly proved a truth - in unarmed combat and cold weapon combat, in the face of absolute poor physical fitness, any skill is useless.

Whether it is strength, agility or reflexes, Ogata is far superior to these apprentices in the Baosheng Sword Gym.

Ogata could easily dodge their attacks.

And Ogata's extremely ordinary attack, they could neither dodge nor catch it.

False moves, deceitful moves... There is no need to use these enemy skills.

Facing these apprentices at the Baosheng Sword Gym, Ogata is simply "One Sword Superman".

All of them can be defeated with one simple attack.

The only thing to pay attention to is that Ogata's current strength value is too high.

To control his powerful strength, try not to hurt the opponent on the opposite side - this is very troublesome.

So in order to save trouble, Ogata did not attack the bodies of these people, but only attacked the knives in their hands, and flew the knives in their hands.

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【Ding! Defeat the enemy with Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu-Waterfall]

[Gain 35 personal experience points, 35 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ichidou"]

[Current personal level: LV34 (23305200)]

[Sakakibara Ichikatsu level: 12th stage (20059000)]

After throwing away the sword of the challenger in front of him again, the system sound reminding him of gaining experience points sounded in Ogata's mind again.

This is today's 13th system sound that prompts you to get experience points.

Ogata has defeated 13 challengers in Baosheng Sword Gym one after another.

In addition to Baosheng Ten Swords, there were also some apprentices who had itchy hands and wanted to compete with this rare and strong man to compete with Ogata.

Because their strength is very good, after defeating them, the experience points gained are not much.

But after fighting in one breath, Ogata still gained a lot.

If it were other people, Lian Zhan's 13 people would probably be out of breath.

But Ogata is still acting like a normal person.

His breathing was steady, except for a few drops of sweat on his forehead. It was completely impossible to tell that he had already fought 13 people in a row.

Ogata's current physical strength is 21 points.

It was after he left Edo with A-Machi, in a forest where no one passed by, for the first time, he experienced how strong the physical strength with a numerical value breaking the prefix 2 is.

Ogata and A-Machi were troubled by certain things because they had too much physical strength and recovered too quickly.

Hitting 13 vegetable chickens will not make the current Ogata short of breath.

After the 13th challenger went off the field with a look of frustration, no one came back on the field as immediately as before.

Just when Ogata thought that no one was going to play again, another apprentice from the Baosheng Sword Gym hesitated for a while, and then slowly walked forward.

Although this apprentice was short, his figure was extremely strong.

This "short" apprentice did not go to the knife holder to take the knife, but just stood in front of Ogata empty-handed.

"One step!" The short and sturdy apprentice said loudly, "Excuse me, are you good at unarmed martial arts?"

"Not as good at swordsmanship." Ogata said, "But I still know a little bit."

"Then—can you let me learn a thing or two?"

After all, the short and sturdy apprentice raised his hands, and made a Katori Shinto-ryu jutsu gesture.

It is actually an inaccurate statement to say that the Katori Shinto style is a school of swordsmanship.

The Sakakibara One Swordsmanship and Wugo Two Swordsmanship that Ogata learned are the most standard schools of swordsmanship. Apart from fencing, nothing else is taught.

The Katori Shinto style is not just about teaching swordsmanship.

The full name of Katori Shinto-ryu is "Innocently Transmitting Katori Shinto-ryu", which was born in the Warring States Period two hundred years ago, and is a proper ancient style of martial arts.

In addition to fencing, Katori Shinto-ryu also teaches many other martial arts.

Small swordsmanship, big swordsmanship, double swordsmanship, sword drawing, staff, naginata, spear, jujitsu, shuriken, ninjutsu.

In addition to these martial arts, Katori Shinto also teaches a lot of strange things.

For example: Feng Shui, fortification...

Although Katori Shinto-ryu is a comprehensive samurai school that includes many martial arts, there are very few dojos that teach Katori Shinto-ryu that are capable of teaching all martial arts.

Most of the Katori Shinto-style dojos can only teach swordsmanship.

When Sakakibara Kenkan was still there, Ishikawa Kenkan, which had a very bad relationship with Sakakihara Kenkan, and Ogata once fought a battle with it, was a good example.

Ishikawa Kenkan is also a dojo for teaching Katori Shinto style, but they only teach swordsmanship and do not teach other martial arts.

Seeing the short and sturdy apprentice in front of him put on a fighting posture, Xu Fang guessed that this Baosheng Sword Gym should be a relatively rare dojo that teaches both swordsmanship and unarmed combat.

"I'm so happy." Ogata placed the wooden knife in his hand on the floor not far away, raised his hands, and performed Shiranui-ryu Jutsu's opening gesture.

"Shimabara Shihei!"

After calling out his name loudly, the short and stout apprentice—that is, Shimabara moved his feet and leaned closer to Ogata little by little.

And Ogata also moved his feet little by little, and went towards Shimabara.

Just after the hands of both parties could touch each other, Shimabara shouted loudly, pounced, rushed into Ogata's arms, grabbed Ogata's collar, and then used the technique of Katori Shinto Ryu-Jitsu , trying to throw Ogata to the ground.

Shimabara didn't hold anything back. He directly exerted his full strength.

However—Ogata did not move even when he had exerted all his strength.

Shimabara cast a surprised look at Ogata - he felt that Ogata's feet were rooted in the ground, and he couldn't even move an inch.

Unarmed combat is more physical than armed combat.

When neither side is armed, the stronger, faster, and quicker person will basically win-there is no doubt about it.

Unless you use "Ogata-ryu" and throw sand in people's faces.

Ogata just exerted some strength and planted his feet on the ground more firmly, and easily resisted Shimabara's strength.

After Shimabara failed to move Ogata several times, Ogata launched a counterattack.

Ogata raised his hand and grabbed Shimabara's kimono lapel, and then used Shiranui-ryu Jutsu to easily pull Shimabara from the ground and throw him to the ground.

When he threw Shimabara to the ground, Ogata held back his strength, which only caused him some pain, but he didn't suffer any injuries.

【Ding! Defeat the enemy with Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu-Waterfall]

[Gain 45 points of personal experience, 45 points of ninjutsu "Shiranui Ninjutsu" experience]

[Current personal level: LV34 (23755200)]

[Shiranui Ninjutsu Level: 6th Stage (38054500)]

Seeing that Ogata knew Jiu-Jitsu and was willing to use it to "ask" them for advice, some apprentices who were not confident in their own swordsmanship but had some confidence in their Ju-Jitsu began to move.

Immediately after Shimabara bowed to Ogata and left the stage with a regretful face, another apprentice stepped forward and wanted to learn jujitsu with Ogata.

After Ogata used Shiranui-ryu jutsu and defeated 3 people in succession, the experience bar of personal level rose to LV34 (25255200), and the experience bar of Shiranui-ryu jutsu rose to 6th stage (39554500).

Counting the 13 people he defeated with swordsmanship before, and the 4 people he defeated with jujitsu just now, Ogata now has a 17-game winning streak.

Just now, when he was watching Luhuhu and others challenge the apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym, Ogata had already counted the number of apprentices present at the Sword Gym - a total of 68 people.

17 people - this already accounted for a quarter of the number of apprentices in Baosheng Sword Gym.

That is to say, Ogata has defeated a quarter of the apprentices in Baosheng Sword Gym by himself.

Ogata moved his gaze and looked at the other three quarters of the apprentices who hadn't played yet.

The remaining three-quarters of the students all lowered their heads slightly, or looked away, without the slightest intention to step forward to compete with Ogata and save face for their own sword hall.

As for the bearded group - after they saw Ogata flying the "Baosheng Ten Swords" that defeated all four of them, their mouths were wide open in shock, and their jaws seemed to fall to the ground at any time same.

Then after seeing Ogata's winning streak, the surprise on their faces turned into joy.

Human psychology is so strange.

After being deflated, I hope that others can vent my anger for me.

No one played for a long time.

An old male voice full of praise sounded:

"Beautiful skills! I never thought that in this era of slack martial arts, there are still such talents!"

The owner of this old male voice is an old man who is about 50 years old.

The old man has been sitting on the main seat of the dojo, quietly watching the apprentices of the dojo face off against the bearded party and Ogata.

Being able to sit on the main seat of the dojo - the identity of this old man is self-evident.

"I'm Baosheng Shinnosuke! I'm the owner of this Baosheng Sword Gym!" The old man introduced himself, "I have little knowledge, and I can't recognize the swordsmanship and jujitsu used by my step, and arrange the names of the swordsmanship and jujitsu schools of my step. yes?"

"The swordsmanship I'm practicing is called Gumu Yidaoyu." Ogata responded, "It's normal that I didn't recognize the unpopular swordsmanship that is only spread in the corner of Izumo."

"As for the jujitsu I use, there is no sect or sect, it's just a wild way I found out by myself."

It is naturally impossible for Ogata to say that the jujitsu he uses is the jujitsu of Shiranui Ninjutsu.

Baosheng nodded with a smile, looked Ogata up and down several times with eyes full of smiles, and then asked:

"Is this a traveler who has traveled here?"

"Almost. Because of some things, I traveled here."

"Are you going to live in Nishino Town for a long time? Or are you just passing by here and will leave here soon?"

"I don't plan to live in Nishino Town for a long time, but I won't leave immediately. For some reasons, my wife and I will stay here for more than a month, and we should not be able to leave until January next year."

After learning that Ogata was going to stay here for more than a month, Baosheng raised his eyebrows, and then looked thoughtful.

After thinking for a moment, he turned his head and shouted to the disciples not far away:

"You guys leave for a while, I want to talk to Mashima-kun privately about something."

After giving orders to his disciples, Baosheng looked at the bearded group in the distance.

"Everyone, please leave first."

Baosheng seemed to be very prestigious among his disciples. After Baosheng's order was issued, his disciples did not say a word, and after echoing in unison, they filed out from the dojo.

Although the bearded and the others suffered a disastrous defeat, they were in a good mood because they saw Ogata avenge them with their own eyes, and they left the dojo with a bit of joy on their faces.

Soon, only Baosheng, Ogata, and Atachi were left in the dojo.

"Mashima-kun, please sit down as you please."

Baosheng smiled and made a "please" gesture in front of him.

"I want to talk to you about something."

Ogata was a little curious about what Baosheng said he wanted to talk to him, so he walked slowly to a few steps away from Baosheng and knelt down.

At this time, A-Ming also came to Ogata's side holding Da Shitian and Da Zizai that Ogata had just handed over to her for safekeeping, and then sat down beside Ogata.

"My apprentice is not good at learning." Baosheng smiled wryly and bowed towards Ogata, "I'm making you laugh."

"Nothing." Ogata bowed immediately to return the salute, "The apprentices are all very good. I haven't seen such a vigorous and energetic sword hall for a long time."

What Ogata said just now was not polite at all, it was telling the truth.

He sincerely felt that this Baosheng Sword Gym was quite good, the apprentices were very energetic, and this sword Gym had a pretty good vibe.

Ogata could see that—among the people who had come forward to compete with him just now, quite a few of them actually knew that they would lose.

But they still played without hesitation. Only to compete with rare masters.

Most of the 17 people frankly admitted their defeat after the defeat.

Get on the pitch cleanly and get off the pitch fast.

It is really rare that nearly a quarter of the people in a sword gym have such a courageous and open mind.

After Baosheng uttered a few modest words in a row, Chao Ogata asked seriously:

Hearing Ogata's words, Baosheng's face showed an unconcealable joy.

"I admire the level of swordsmanship at your feet." Baosheng said, "Even if it's me, I might not even be able to handle your three moves."

"It's nothing." Ogata also said modestly, "It's absurd."

"If you don't mind, I hope that you can be my dojo's diner for the rest of the month or so, teaching me and my disciples swordsmanship."

After finishing speaking, Baosheng bowed down and bowed to Ogata.

"Diner?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "Teach you how to use swordsmanship?"

Recruiting diners - one of the customs that became popular in dojos in the Edo period.

Some dojo owners with considerable financial resources will recruit some people with good sword skills to their dojo.

The so-called eaters are a group of people who are usually supported by the master of the dojo, and when the dojo is in need, they have to come forward to serve the dojo.

"Help when you have nothing to do, help when you have something to do, help when you have a fight, and help when you fight"-this sentence is perfect to describe diners.

The reasons for recruiting diners are often strange.

Some are to guard against kickers, raising a group of powerful diners, and when they meet people who come to kick the hall, let the powerful diners play.

Some are to strengthen the power of the sword hall.

And according to what Baosheng said just now, he recruited Ogata as a diner, obviously for another more popular reason-to allow powerful diners to teach the apprentices in the hall.

"To be honest, I have never seen a young talent as strong as this one."

Bao Sheng, who was leaning on the ground, said respectfully.

"It would be a pity to let you, who is so skilled in swordsmanship, leave like this."

"Since you are going to stay here for more than a month, why not come to my sword gym often during this month to teach my disciples."

"I will not treat you badly. If you want, I can provide you with three meals a day and pay you."

Baosheng threw an olive branch at him—this incident was indeed beyond Ogata's expectation.

A bit of surprise appeared on his face, and after staring blankly at Baosheng in front of him, Ogata asked back:

"You want to recruit me as a diner? Are you sure?"

"Sure." Baosheng replied without hesitation, "Everything I said just now is not a lie."

"It's rare to meet a swordsman with such high strength, who may be able to improve the swordsmanship of my disciples. It would be a pity not to invite him to teach me a thing or two!"

Looking at Baosheng who was still bowing to the ground in front of him, Ogata pondered.

In fact—it was quite common in the Edo period that this kind of kicker suddenly turned into a swordsman.

Sometimes, some sword gym masters love talents, and they will accept powerful gymnasts as diners.

Therefore, some ronin who don't want to work and just want to eat and drink, in order to become diners and rely on a certain dojo, will kick around, hoping that Bole will accept him.

But the kind of gymnast who beat all your disciples, but is still willing to accept the other party as a diner, and ask the other party to guide his disciples in the future, is relatively rare.

"...The heart of your step is really admirable." Ogata showed a faint smile, "Facing this servant who came to ask for advice and defeated the 17 disciples of your hall, not only did you not get angry at all, but also please become your hall's disciple. diners."

Ogata somewhat understands why the apprentices of this Baosheng Sword Gym are so full of vigor and vitality, and they are so neither humble nor overbearing - what kind of master there is, what kind of ethos the sword gym will have.

"Okay then." Ogata nodded vigorously, "For the rest of the month or so, I will ask your library for your advice."

What is a pillow when you doze off-this is it.

Just as Ogata was worried about how to earn experience points in the remaining month or so, Baosheng invited him to come to his sword gym as a diner.

As long as you become their diner, you can go to the Baosheng Sword Gym openly and aboveboard, and then "beat" the apprentices of the Sword Gym openly and aboveboard, and then receive a large amount of experience points openly and aboveboard.

Ogata naturally had no reason to refuse such a win-win situation.

"Then—" Baosheng's face showed an undisguised joy, "I will have enough work in the future."

After finishing speaking, Baosheng bowed to Ogata again, and Ogata respectfully returned the salute.

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at the same time--

In a certain village a little far from Nishinocho.

In a certain house in the village, a dozen or so men gathered.

They were of different ages. The man sitting in the middle of them was the oldest, with more than half of his hair gray. He was estimated to be between 50 and 60 years old. This old man was the head of the village.

Whether it's the village chief or the other men gathered in this house, they all have sad and heavy faces.

"The village chief...what should we do now?" A middle-aged man closest to the village chief said in a deep voice, "I have gone to the government many times...the government completely ignores us..."

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, the rest of the people present showed expressions of grief and indignation.

Some people even gritted their teeth and clenched their fists, as if they wanted to find someone to fight immediately.

Only the village chief had a calm face, as if he had expected such a situation to happen a long time ago.

The village chief who kept a calm appearance said abruptly:

"...Go get the samurai."

"Samurai?" The middle-aged man just now exclaimed.

Everyone focused their puzzled and shocked eyes on the village head.

"That's the only way to do it." The village head let out a long sigh, "The government is unable to rescue us, so we can only ask the warriors to rescue us..."

"The life of the samurai is not easy now."

"As long as we can pay a certain amount, there should be people who are not going well and who are skilled enough to help."

"...What do we bring to invite warriors?" It was the middle-aged man again, with a sad face, "There is nothing in the village..."

"And... what if we invite a pack of wolves to fight off the big bear?"

"...I can only gamble." The village head let out another long sigh.