Chapter 447 Destroy the Baosheng Sword Hall! [7600 words]
Whether it was the masters and apprentices of the Hosei Sword Hall, or the bearded group, in short - everyone present except Omachi stared blankly at Ogata, who had just knocked off Shimura's wooden sword with one sword.
Everyone is recalling what just happened.
First, Ogata and Shimura got into a mid-range stance and faced each other.
Shimura shouted "Come on!" with great momentum.
Then Ogata closed the distance between him and Shimura at a speed that was dizzying, and then hit the blade of the wooden sword in Shimura's hand with a horizontal slash, knocking the wooden sword away from Shimura's hand.
It wasn't until all the wooden swords in his hands were knocked away that Shimura realized belatedly that he had lost.
Shimura's dull gaze flickered back and forth between his palm, which was aching from the force of the blade being knocked off, and Ogata in front of him.
"Accept." Ogata put down the wooden sword in his hand, bowed and saluted Shimura, and then returned to the position where he had just stood.
It was only now that Shimura finally came back to his senses from his daze.
The sword in his hand was directly knocked out by the opponent - in a real sword duel, Shimura is already the kind of person who cannot die anymore.
He was defeated without even being able to clearly see the opponent's figure and sword path - this made Shimura look unhappy.
But if he lost, he would lose. He could only suppress the unwillingness and resentment in his heart and push back to the edge of the dojo to sit down.
As soon as Shimura retreated, a handsome young man about 25 years old quickly stood up, took a wooden sword from the knife holder next to him, quickly walked into the dojo, and came to Ogata.
"Hosei Ten Swords! Sanjo Heigoro!" The handsome young man announced his name and readied the wooden sword in his hand.
Ogata also regained his mid-level stance.
"Izumo Ronin, Majima Goro."
“Drink ahhhh——!”
As soon as Ogata said his name, Sanjou released a kiai, closing the distance between him and Ogata in one breath, and then swung his sword towards Ogata.
Through the battle between Ogata and Shimura just now, Sanjou has seen that Ogata's speed is quite astonishing.
If he foolishly waited for Ogata, who was extremely fast, to launch the first attack, he would probably make the same mistake as Shimura just now.
Therefore, in order to win, Sanjo decided to strike preemptively.
According to the introduction Luo Shihu gave to Ogata just now, the "Hosho Ten Swordsmen" is the collective name for the 10 disciples with the most superb swordsmanship in this Hosho Sword Hall.
Since this handsome young man named Sanjo is also known as the "Ten Swordsmen of Hosei", he is naturally one of the few leaders in the swordsmanship hall.
After Sanjo launched an attack on Ogata, faint exclamations sounded from the surroundings.
Many apprentices at the Hosei Sword Hall were surprised by Sanjou's extremely fast attack speed.
However - faced with what others saw as a very fast slash, Ogata remained calm and stepped to the side, easily dodging Sanjo's slash.
Sanjo's stepping speed and slashing speed were extremely fast in the eyes of others.
But in Ogata's eyes - he was so quick that he could easily avoid it.
After absorbing the "immortal poison" in his body for the second time, Ogata's strength, agility, reflexes, physical strength, and vitality increased to 20 points, 18 points, 15 points, 21 points, and 36 points respectively.
Ogata's current physical fitness is completely different 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.
With 15 points of reflex nerves, Ogata can easily see through Sanjo's sword path and react quickly.
And with an agility of 18 points, Ogata could easily dodge Sanjou's slashes like he was walking through the streets in the early morning.
Although there is actually no need to use the "step step", in order to gain some experience points for the Wugo Nitōryu style, Ogata still used the "step step" to dodge Sanjou's attack.
After dodging Sanjo's attack, Ogata quickly switched from the middle stance to the lower stance.
Sakakihara Itto-ryu: Climb the stairs!
Ogata's wooden sword accurately hit the blade of Sanjo's wooden sword.
The moment the two wooden swords touched each other, Sanjo felt a huge force transfer from the wooden sword to the palms of his hands.
Sanjo was 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, drew a beautiful parabola, and fell heavily behind him.
[Ding! Use Sakakibara Itto-ryu to climb the stairs and defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 55 personal experience points, 55 experience points for the swordsmanship "Sakakibara One Sword Style", and 10 experience points for the swordsmanship "Muga Two Sword Style"]
[Current personal level of Sakakibara's one-sword style level: 1 Two-sword style of no-go level: 1 Because Ogata had just taken the step of using the two-sword style of no-go, the two-sword style of no-go also gained a certain amount of experience points - although it was very small, it was better than nothing.
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"Accept." Ogata bowed lightly to Sanjo.
"I lost..." Sanjo returned the favor with a wry smile, accepting his defeat calmly.
I am convinced that I have lost - this is how Sanjo feels now.
The attack he just made was carried out with all his strength without reservation.
But Ogata easily dodged it.
And he couldn't catch Ogata's slashing attack.
Undoubtedly a fiasco.
After nodding to Ogata, Sanjo turned around and picked up his wooden sword that had been knocked away, then sat back to the position where he had just sat.
As soon as Sanjo retreated, another young man excitedly took a wooden sword from the knife rest and stood in front of Ogata.
"The Ten Swords of Hosheng! Takeshi Kayano!"
Ogata nodded to him and then readjusted the knife.
This time, Ogata did not assume the middle stance, but instead assumed the upper stance.
Taller people using their upper stance will be extremely intimidating.
With just a little imagination, you can imagine how terrifying this scene is: a person who is more than a dozen or dozens of centimeters taller than you, raising the knife in his hand high - you are afraid that you can't even get close.
Do not know at all.
Kayano's height is only about 1.5 meters.
Facing Ogata, who was 1.7 meters tall and in an upper stance, he suddenly felt the pressure doubled.
Although he felt pressured, Kayano was not afraid at all, but was eager to try.
After licking his dry lips, he shouted loudly and attacked Ogata.
boom!
After Kayano rushed to a distance where his sword could cut him, Ogata used Suiluo without hesitation.
Due to his height, Kayano's hands are much shorter than Ogata's, and his attack range is far inferior to Ogata's.
Ogata's knife could already cut him, but the tip of his knife could barely brush the corner of Ogata's clothes.
Unable to hit Ogata, the only two options before Kayano were dodge and direct contact with Ogata's sword.
Kayano was not the kind of person who was very agile on his feet and was not good at dodging, so he could only grit his teeth and raise his sword to block, trying to use brute force to deflect Ogata's sword.
boom!
The sound of wooden knives clashing exploded again.
Kayano, like his first two classmates, could not withstand the huge force transmitted along the wooden sword, and the wooden sword was directly knocked away.
[Ding! Use Sakakibara's Ichitōryu Suiluo to defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 55 personal experience points and 55 swordsmanship "Sakakibara Itto-ryu" experience points]
[Current personal level of Sakakihara Itto-ryu level: 1 transfer."
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Immediately after Kayano left the stage, someone else couldn't wait to step forward with a knife in hand, hoping to compete with Ogata.
The contest between Ogata and these apprentices from the Hosei Sword Hall profoundly proved a truth - in unarmed combat and cold weapon combat, any technique is useless in the face of absolute poor physical fitness.
Ogata's strength, agility, and reflexes were far superior to those of the apprentices at the Hosei Sword Hall.
Ogata could easily avoid their attacks.
As for Ogata's extremely ordinary attack, they could neither dodge nor catch it.
Feints, deceptive moves...there is absolutely no need to use these techniques against the enemy.
Facing these apprentices of the Hosei Sword Hall, Ogata is basically a "one-sword superman".
All of them can be defeated with just one simple attack.
The only thing that needs attention is that Ogata's current strength value is too high.
You have to control your own powerful strength and try not to hurt the opponent - this is very troublesome.
Therefore, in order to save trouble, Ogata did not attack the bodies of these people, but only attacked the swords in their hands and knocked them away.
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[Ding! Use Sakakibara's Ichitōryu Suiluo to defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 35 personal experience points and 35 swordsmanship "Sakakibara Itto-ryu" experience points]
[Current personal level of Sakakibara's Itto-style: 1. After once again knocking the sword of the challenger in front of him away, the system sound prompting him to gain experience points sounded in Ogata's mind again.
This is today’s 13th system sound prompting you to gain experience points.
Ogata has defeated 13 challengers in the Hosei Sword Hall one after another.
In addition to the Ten Swords of Hosei, there are also some apprentices who have itchy hands and want to compete with this rare strong man. They go into battle to compete with Ogata.
Because they are all very weak, you won't gain much experience points after defeating them.
But after fighting in one breath, Ogata still gained a lot.
If it had been anyone else, 13 people in Lien Zhan would have been out of breath.
But Ogata still acts like a fine person now.
His breathing was steady, but there were just a few drops of sweat on his forehead. It was completely invisible that he had fought 13 people in a row.
Ogata's current physical strength is 21 points.
It was after he left Edo with A-machi that he experienced for the first time how powerful his physical strength was, in a forest where no one had passed.
Because their physical strength was too high and their recovery speed was too fast, Ogata and Atachi were troubled by certain things.
Beating 13 rookies would not make Ogata's breathing become short.
After the 13th challenger left the field in frustration, no one came on the scene immediately as before.
Just when Ogata thought that no one was coming again, another apprentice from the Hosei Sword Hall slowly walked forward after hesitating for a while.
Although this apprentice is short, his figure is extremely strong.
This "short and stocky" apprentice did not go to the knife rest to get the knife, but stood in front of Ogata empty-handed.
"One step!" the short and stocky apprentice said loudly, "Are you good at unarmed martial arts?"
"I'm not as good at swordsmanship," Ogata said, "but I still know a little bit about it."
"So - can you give me a lesson?"
After saying that, the short and stocky apprentice raised his hands and assumed the starting position of Katori Shinto-style jujutsu.
To say that Katori Shinto-ryu is a swordsmanship school is actually an inaccurate statement.
The Sakakihara One-sword Style and the Mugo Two-sword Style that Ogata learned are the most standard swordsmanship schools. Apart from swordsmanship, nothing else is taught.
Katori Shinto-ryu does not just teach swordsmanship.
The full name of Katori Shinto-ryu is "Innocent Shinto-den Katori Shinto-ryu". It was born in the Warring States Period 200 years ago and is a proper ancient martial art.
In addition to swordsmanship, Katori Shinto-ryu also teaches many other martial arts.
In addition to these martial arts, Katori Shinto-ryu also teaches many strange things.
For example: Feng Shui, fortification...
Although Katori Shinto-ryu is a comprehensive samurai school that includes many martial arts, few dojos that teach Katori Shinto-ryu are capable of teaching all martial arts.
Most Katori Shinto-ryu dojos can only teach swordsmanship.
When the Sakakibara Kenkan was still there, the relationship with the Sakakibara Kenkan was extremely bad. The Ishikawa Kenkan with which Ogata had a battle is a good example.
Ishikawa Kenkan is also a dojo that teaches Katori Shinto style, but they only teach swordsmanship and not other martial arts.
After seeing the stocky apprentice in front of him put on a fighting stance, Oubon guessed that this Hosei Sword Hall was a relatively rare dojo that taught both swordsmanship and unarmed combat.
"I'm so happy." Ogata placed the wooden sword in his hand on the floor not far away, raised his hands, and assumed the starting position of Shiranui-ryu jujutsu.
"Shimahara Shibei!"
After announcing his name loudly, the stocky apprentice, Shimahara, moved his feet and leaned closer to Ogata little by little.
Ogata also moved his feet bit by bit and headed towards Shimabara.
Just after both sides' hands were able to touch each other, Shimahara shouted, rushed into Ogata's arms, grabbed Ogata's collar, and then used Katori Shinto-style jujutsu techniques
, wanting to throw Ogata to the ground.
Shimahara didn't hold anything back and directly used all his strength.
However - even though he tried his best, Ogata didn't move at all.
Shimahara cast a shocked look at Ogata - he felt as if Ogata's feet were rooted to the ground and could not move even an inch.
Unarmed combat pays more attention to physical fitness than armed combat.
When both parties are unarmed, the person with stronger strength, faster speed and faster reaction speed will basically win - there is no doubt about this.
Unless you use "Ogata-ryu" and throw sand in people's faces.
Ogata just used some strength to plant his feet more firmly on the ground, and easily resisted Shimabara's power.
After Shimabara tried to pull Ogata several times but failed to move him, Ogata launched a counterattack.
Ogata raised his hand and grabbed Shimabara's kimono skirt, then used Shiranui-ryu jutsu to easily pull Shimabara up from the ground, and then threw him to the ground.
When throwing Shimabara to the ground, Ogata restrained his strength, causing him some pain but no injuries.
[Ding! Use Sakakibara's Ichitōryu Suiluo to defeat the enemy]
[Acquire 45 personal experience points and 45 experience points for the Ninjutsu "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu"]
[Current personal level of Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu level: After seeing that Ogata can actually do jujitsu and is willing to use jujitsu to "ask for advice" from them, some people present are not confident in their own swordsmanship, but they are confident in their own jujitsu.
The apprentice who had some confidence began to get ready to take action.
After Shimabara bowed to Ogata with regret and left the stage, another apprentice immediately came forward and wanted to compete with Ogata in jujitsu.
After Ogata used Shiranui-ryu jujutsu to defeat three more people in succession, his personal level experience bar rose to Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu's experience bar, including the 13 people he had defeated with swordsmanship, plus those he had just defeated with jujutsu.
With 4 players, Ogata now has a 17-game winning streak.
Just now when he was watching the bearded men and others challenge the apprentices of the Hosei Sword Hall, Ogata had counted the number of apprentices of the sword hall present - a total of 68 people.
17 people - this already accounts for a quarter of the number of apprentices in Baosheng Sword Hall.
In other words, Ogata has single-handedly defeated a quarter of the apprentices in the Hosei Sword Hall.
Ogata moved his gaze and looked at the other three quarters of apprentices who were still on the field.
The remaining three-quarters of the students all lowered their heads slightly or looked away, showing no intention of stepping forward to compete with Ogata and save face for their own sword hall.
As for the bearded group - after they saw Ogata flying away the "Ten Swordsmen" who defeated all four of them with one sword, their mouths opened wide in shock, and their jaws seemed to be about to fall to the ground at any time.
Same thing.
Then after seeing Ogata winning consecutive battles, the shock on their faces turned into joy.
Human psychology is so strange.
After feeling frustrated, I hope that others can vent my anger on my behalf.
No one showed up again.
An old male voice full of praise sounded:
"Beautiful skills! I didn't expect that in this era of declining martial arts, there could still be such an outstanding talent!"
The owner of this old male voice is an old man who is about 50 years old.
This old man has been sitting in the main seat of the dojo, quietly watching the apprentices in the dojo fight against the bearded group and Ogata one after another.
Being able to sit in the main seat of the dojo - it is self-evident what kind of identity this old man has.
"I am Shinnosuke Hosei! I am the owner of this Hosei Sword Hall!" the old man introduced himself, "I have little knowledge and cannot recognize the names of the swordsmanship, jujutsu, and the swordsmanship and jujitsu schools that I use.
yes?"
"The swordsmanship I am practicing is called Komaki Itto-ryu." Ogata responded, "It is an unpopular swordsmanship that is only spread in a corner of Izumo. It is normal that Azhidashi didn't recognize it."
"As for the jujitsu I use, there is no school or school, it's just a wild way I found out by myself."
Naturally, it was impossible for Ogata to tell that the jujutsu he used was from the Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu.
Baosheng smiled and nodded, looked at Ogata several times with his smiling eyes, and then asked:
"Are you a traveler who has traveled here?"
"Absolutely. Because of some things, I traveled here."
"Are Ashiki and Rei planning to live in Nishikino Town for a long time? Or are they just passing through here and will leave here soon?"
"I don't plan to stay in Kinkino Town for a long time, but I won't leave immediately. Due to some reasons, Uchiko and I will have to stay here in Kinkino Town for more than a month, and we shouldn't 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 like he was thinking.
After thinking for a moment, he turned to the disciples not far away and shouted:
"You guys should leave for a moment. I want to discuss something privately with Majima-kun."
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 given, his disciples responded in unison without saying a word and then filed out of the dojo.
Although Bearded and the others were defeated miserably, because they saw Ogata avenging them with their own eyes, they were in a pretty good mood and left the dojo with a bit of joy on their faces.
Soon, only three people, Hosei, Ogata, and Atachi, were left in the dojo.
"Mashima-kun, please feel free to sit down."
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 Bo Sheng said he wanted to talk to him about, so he walked slowly to a few steps away from Bo Sheng and knelt down on his knees.
At this time, A-Machi also came to Ogata's side, holding the Daishiten and Daizizai that Ogata had just given her for safekeeping, and then sat down next to Ogata.
"My apprentice is not good at learning." Baosheng smiled bitterly and bowed to Ogata, "I made you laugh."
"No problem." Ogata immediately bowed in return, "My disciples 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 all the truth.
He sincerely felt that the Baosheng Sword Hall was quite good, the apprentices were very energetic, and the sword hall had a pretty good atmosphere.
Ogata could see that quite a few of the people who came up to compete with him just now knew that they would lose.
But they still went on the field without hesitation, just to compete with a rare master.
Most of the 17 people frankly admitted their defeat after their defeat.
Enter the game neatly and leave the game happily.
Nearly a quarter of the people in a sword hall have the courage to challenge themselves. An open mind is really rare and valuable.
After Baosheng said a few modest words in succession, he asked Ogata seriously:
Hearing Ogata's words, Baosheng's face showed an unconcealable joy.
"I admire Shi Shi's level of swordsmanship." Baosheng said, "Even I might not be able to take three of your moves."
"It's nothing." Ogata also said modestly, "I'm so impressed."
"If you don't mind, I hope that you can be a guest at my dojo for the next month or so and teach me and my disciples swordsmanship."
After saying that, Baosheng leaned down and bowed to Ogata.
"Diners?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, "Teaching you swordsmanship?"
Recruiting diners - one of the customs that became popular in dojos during the Edo period.
Some wealthy dojo owners will recruit people with good swordsmanship into their dojos.
The so-called diners are a group of people who are usually supported by the dojo master. When the dojo is in need, they have to step forward to serve the dojo.
"Help me when I have nothing to do, I will help you when I have something to do, I will help you in a quarrel, I will help you in a fight" - this sentence is perfect to describe diners.
The reasons for recruiting diners are often very strange.
In some cases, in order to prevent those who want to kick the restaurant, they raise a group of strong diners, and when they encounter people who come to kick the restaurant, they let the strong diners go out to fight.
Some are to increase the power of the sword hall.
According to what Baosheng said just now, he recruited Ogata as a diner, obviously for another more popular reason - to allow powerful diner to teach the apprentices in the hall.
"To be honest, I have never seen such a powerful young talent as this one."
Baosheng, who was leaning on the ground, said respectfully.
"It would be a pity if you, who are so skilled in swordsmanship, just leave like this."
"Since you are going to stay here for more than a month, why not come to my sword hall often and teach my disciples during this more than a month."
"I will not treat you badly. If you are willing, I can provide you with three meals a day and give me a salary."
Baosheng extended an olive branch to him - this incident was indeed beyond Ogata's expectation.
A bit of surprise appeared on his face. After looking blankly at Baosheng in front of him for a few times, Ogata asked:
"You want to recruit me as a diner? Are you sure?"
"Sure." Baosheng replied without hesitation, "Every word I just said is not a lie."
"It's rare to meet a swordsman who is so powerful that he may be able to improve the swordsmanship of my disciples. It would be a pity not to ask him to give me some advice!"
Looking at Baosheng who was still prostrate on the ground in front of him, Ogata pondered.
In fact, it was quite common in the Edo period for people who skipped the gym to suddenly turn into diners.
Sometimes, some sword gym owners become interested in talents and will accept strong players as diners.
Therefore, some ronin who don't want to work but just want to eat and drink will travel around in a certain dojo in order to become a diners and live in a dojo, hoping that someone will accept them.
But it is relatively rare to find a sword master who beats all your disciples but is still willing to accept him as a guest and ask him to mentor his disciples in the future.
"... Azama's broad-mindedness is really admirable." Ogata showed a faint smile, "Faced with me who came to ask for advice and defeated 17 of your disciples, not only did I not get angry at all, but I also asked me to become your disciple.
Diners.”
Ogata somewhat understood why the apprentices of the Hosei Sword Hall were so energetic and energetic, and neither humble nor arrogant - what kind of master there was, the atmosphere of the sword hall would be like that.
"Okay then." Ogata nodded vigorously, "I will ask for your guidance in the remaining more than a month."
What does it mean to have a pillow when you feel sleepy - this is it.
Just when Ogata was worried about how to gain experience points in the remaining one month, Baosheng invited him to come to his sword hall as a diner.
As long as you become their diners, you can go to the Baosheng Sword Hall openly in the future, and then "beat up" the apprentices in the sword hall openly, and then accept a large amount of experience points openly.
Ogata naturally has no reason to refuse such a win-win situation.
"Then -" Baosheng's face showed undisguised joy, "I will have enough work in the future."
After saying that, Baosheng bowed to Ogata again, and Ogata also bowed respectfully.
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at the same time--
In a village a little away from Nishikino Town.
In a certain house in the village, a dozen men gathered.
They are of different ages. The man sitting in the middle is the oldest, with most of his hair white. He is estimated to be between 50 and 60 years old - this old man is the village chief.
The village chief and the other men gathered in this house all had sad and heavy expressions on their faces.
"Village chief... what should we do now?" A middle-aged man closest to the village chief said in a deep voice, "We have gone to the government many times... The government completely ignored us..."
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, the rest of the people present looked sad and angry.
Some people even gritted their teeth and clenched their fists, looking like they wanted to find someone to fight right away.
Only the village chief looked calm, as if he had expected such a situation to happen.
The village chief, who remained calm, said abruptly:
"...Go and invite the samurai."
"Senior please?" The middle-aged man just now exclaimed.
Everyone focused their doubtful and shocked eyes on the village chief.
"This is the only thing we can do." The village chief let out a long sigh, "The government is unable to save us, so we can only ask the samurai to save us..."
"The life of the samurai is not easy now."
"As long as we can provide a certain amount of compensation, there should be people who are having a hard time and are skilled enough to be willing to help."
"...What should we use to invite samurai?" It was the middle-aged man again, his face looked sad, "There is nothing in the village..."
"And... what if we invite a group of jackals to fight off the big bear?"
"...I can only take a gamble." The village chief let out a long sigh again.