Yuanshan's own weight, plus his own arm strength - one can imagine how powerful Yuanshan's chop was.
Even Mikami couldn't help but feel numbness in his arms after blocking the blow from Toyama, and he almost lost his grip on the sword in his hand.
The downward slash was blocked, but the distant mountains were not discouraged.
The moment his feet hit the ground again, Toyama moved the sword in his hand forward and stabbed Mikami in the chest.
Snapped!
The wooden sword struck with an explosion.
Mikami slashed away Toyama's sword with one sword, causing Toyama's straight thrust to deviate from its original trajectory. He took several steps back and regained distance from Toyama.
After Mikami blocked his attack again, a look of surprise finally appeared on Toyama's face.
"Unexpectedly...compared to last year, your strength has increased so much. In last year's God Sacrifice Competition, you couldn't even block a casual move of mine, but now you can block 2 of my kills in succession.
Mikami, I underestimated you."
"I will not only block all your moves." Mikami said solemnly, "I will also defeat you!"
"Ha!" Yuan Shan gave out his signature sneer, "Then you give it a try."
After saying that, General Yuanshan moved his feet and slowly raised his sword into an upper position.
In the upper stance, because the sword is raised high, the waist can be said to be defenseless.
Therefore, the upper posture is the least suitable for defense among all postures, and it is also the posture that is most likely to be exploited by the enemy.
However - even though Toyama adopted the upper position with the most loopholes, Mikami still couldn't find any exploitable loopholes in Toyama's body.
Mikami’s long-term experience in sword duels tells Mikami that if he rashly rushes into the attack range of a distant mountain, he will definitely lose miserably!
Therefore, Mikami always kept himself outside the attack range of Toyama and did not dare to step into Toyama's attack range rashly.
At the same time, he kept moving his steps and changing his position, hoping to find loopholes in the distant mountains.
But the result was a huge disappointment to Mikami.
No matter how many times Mikami circled Toyama, he still couldn't find any loopholes in Toyama.
"What's wrong? Mikami?"
There was a strong sense of ridicule in Yuanshan's tone again.
"Don't you want to defeat me?"
"You can't defeat me if you keep spinning in circles like this."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Mikami yelled impatiently, "I will defeat you soon!"
"Huh, I'm very pressed for time. I don't have time to keep walking in circles with you. If you don't come over, I'll go over!"
Along with the sounds of distant mountains, there was also the sound of his footsteps.
The next moment after he said these words, Toyama stepped forward. In less than two breaths, Toyama rushed to the position where his sword could already cut Mikami.
Without any hesitation, Yuan Shan directly slashed the raised sword down hard.
Snapped!
Mikami once again blocked Toyama's attack.
The attack was blocked by Mikami again, but Toyama was still neither anxious nor annoyed.
He calmly turned the position of the wooden sword in his hand, and then swung it towards the side of Mikami's face as he stood still.
Yuan Shan's slash, both in speed and power, was far superior to all his previous attacks!
Mikami, who didn't expect Toyama's slashing speed to be so fast, widened his eyes and wanted to immediately raise his sword to block Toyama's attack.
But his movements couldn't keep up at all.
Even if Mikami expected Toyama's attack speed to be so fast, it was of no use.
Because even if he expected it and his body's speed couldn't keep up, he still couldn't dodge or block it.
Toyama's wooden sword accurately struck Mikami on the face, and then cut Mikami to the ground with one blow.
If Toyama had used a real sword, Mikami must have moved his head.
Looking at Mikami who was lying on the ground, his cheeks already red and swollen, and he was moaning in pain, Toyama said with an indifferent face:
"In the practice of swordsmanship, you must not only hone your sword skills, but also remember to hone your body."
"Without physical strength and speed, even if you practice your sword skills to perfection, it will still be useless."
"Mikami, the reason why you lost to me was not because you didn't practice your sword skills well."
"It's just because your physical fitness is not as good as mine."
After coldly leaving this "teaching" to Mikami, Toyama turned his head and looked at the brothers beside him who had finished their respective battles long ago.
Because more people were hit than less people, except for 6 people who suffered minor injuries, no one else was injured.
As for the disciples of Sakakihara Sword Hall, they all fell to the ground, clutching various parts of their bodies, shouting and moaning in pain.
"Search everywhere!" Toyama ordered, "Remember! Ogata Issei doesn't shave his Tsukiyo head! Look for people who don't shave their Tsukiyo heads!"
"yes!"
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Toyama and others searched the Sakakihara sword hall, but could not find even a single samurai who did not shave his Tsukiyo head.
When Yuan Shan saw this, he said softly "tsk" with an impatient expression.
"Is that Ogata really not at the Sakakihara Kenkan..."
When Toyama was worrying about not finding Ogata, a junior brother standing next to Toyama asked Toyama with a hesitant attitude:
"That...Senior Yuanshan."
"What's wrong?" Yuan Shan asked impatiently.
"Why...are we looking for that Ogata Issei? And...is it really okay for us to humiliate Sakakibara Kenkan like this? Isn't it too..."
Among all the people in the Ishikawa Sword Hall, the only ones who knew why Toyama came to find Ogata were Itagaki and Toyama himself.
His wife's affair - such a shameful thing, Yuanshan naturally doesn't have the shame to publicize it.
Until now, Itagaki is still the only one who knows about the affair between Toyama's wife and Ogata.
He didn't plan to tell everyone that his wife was having an affair with Ogata - so Toyama naturally wouldn't tell his fellow apprentices directly that he wanted to teach Ogata a lesson.
He just told his senior brothers that he had a big conflict with Ogata and hoped that everyone could help him.
Although I don’t understand what the conflict is between Toyama and Ogata, because Toyama has a very high reputation in the Ishikawa Sword Hall, he is respected by everyone.
So even though they were confused, the disciples of Ishikawa Kenkan still followed Toyama to kill Sakakihara Kenkan.
After knocking down the 12 disciples of the Sakakihara Kenkan, headed by Mikami, some people woke up.
These people who came to their senses began to realize that they seemed to have... gone a little too far.
He broke into the Sakakihara Kenshu without permission and injured all the Sakakibara Swordsmen who were present at the time. After that, he searched the entire Sakakihara Swordsmanship inside and out without permission.
This series of events can be considered as humiliating the Sakakibara Sword Hall.
And it’s the same level of humiliation as stepping directly on someone’s face…