I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

"I was a swordsman in ancient Japan ()"

——Have you upgraded!

After the system sound fell, Xu conveniently pulled Shimada up from the ground, and at the same time eagerly clicked on his personal system interface, ready to add points.

Ogata intends to complete two small goals before leaving for Edo.

The first small goal: to upgrade the circulation in Wuwo Two Swords to "master level".

The second small goal: to practice Wuwu Two Swords to level 10, relying on the 6 exclusive skill points and 2 skill points obtained from the upgrade, to upgrade the source of breath to the "grandmaster level".

In the personal system interface, after clicking on the small question mark behind the martial skill circulation, it can display the three prerequisites that must be met to master the "master level" circulation:

One: master the "master level" blade counter.

Two: Strength up to 14 points.

Three: Dexterity up to 12 points.

Ogata has already reached the first point, and at this time he has mastered the "master level" blade counter.

Only the second and third points have not yet been achieved.

Ogata's strength is still 2 points short, and agility is 1 point short.

So—in order to learn the "master level" transfer as soon as possible, after Ogata clicked on his personal system interface, he did not hesitate to add all the 2 skill points obtained after upgrading the "Shiranui Ninjutsu" to In terms of strength, he increased his strength from 12 points to 14 points.

【Ding! Strength +2]

[Current power value: 14 points]

[Current remaining skill points: 0 points]

As the system sound fell, Ogata felt power springing from all parts of his body, and the power contained in every muscle in his body was instantly boosted.

After grasping his hands and briefly feeling the body's fuller strength, Ogata began to deal with the 3 "Shiranui Ninjutsu Exclusive Skill Points".

2 of these 3 points should be used to upgrade the most practical "Shiranui Liu Jutsu" - there is no doubt about it.

But the other point is whether to use it to upgrade the "Shiranui Stealth Technique" or to unlock the "Shiranui Ryu Breath Hold Technique"-this made Ogata a little difficult.

Shiranui-ryu's breath-holding technique, as the name suggests, is to use various techniques to cover up one's breath, so that it is not easy for others to discover when one sneaks into a certain place.

This skill may be a useful skill for a ninja like A-Machi who needs to sneak into a certain place frequently.

But for a samurai like Ogata, this breath holding technique is a bit tasteless.

So after some hesitation, Ogata decided to use this exclusive skill point to improve "Shiranui-ryu Stealth", upgrading the stealth from "beginner" to "intermediate".

Compared with holding breath, stealth is more practical for Ogata.

The mastery and improvement of stealth can enhance Ogata's ability to move in various terrains. For example: on the roof of the house, on the ceiling.

In Kyoto before, the usefulness of the "Shiranui-ryu stealth technique" has been verified many times.

——Use 2 exclusive skill points to upgrade "Shiranui Jutsu" to advanced level!

——Use 1 exclusive skill point to upgrade "Shiranui Stealth" to intermediate level!

As soon as the words in Ogata's heart fell, a series of system sounds immediately sounded in his mind:

【Ding! Consume 2 exclusive skill points, Shiranui Ninjutsu Martial Arts Shiranui Jujitsu is promoted to "advanced" skill]

【Ding! Consuming 2 exclusive skill points, Shiranui Ninjutsu and Shiranui Stealth are upgraded to "intermediate" skills]

[Current remaining skill points: 0 points]

After the system sound fell, Ogata stretched his shoulders, and then said to Shimada who just got up from the ground:

"Shimada, come. Let's continue."

Ogata intends to experiment a little with the power of the "advanced" Shiranui Jutsu.

"Hmm! Good! Ogata-sama, be careful! The two sparring matches just now made me realize some problems in the use of Tang Shou, and I have become stronger than before!"

Hearing Shimada's words, Ogata couldn't help but smile.

"Have you become stronger than before...then come on,

Let me see how much stronger you have become compared to just now. "

Ogata and Shimada opened up again.

It was still Shimada who launched the attack first.

This time, Shimada chose to use kicking skills against Ogata.

Shimada's leg hit Ogata like a black whip.

Looking at Shimada's kick, Ogata frowned.

Ogata found that Shimada's sentence "I have become stronger than before" just now was not nonsense.

Compared with just now, Shimada's center of gravity is a little bit better.

Of course, it's only a little bit better, and he still has a lot of room for improvement.

Effortlessly dodging Shimada's attack, Ogata hugged Shimada's shoulders, and then threw Shimada heavily to the ground with a much sharper and sharper technique than the previous three sparring sessions.

After throwing Shimada to the ground, Ogata immediately yelled "No".

"Hey, Shimada, are you not injured?" Ogata asked urgently.

"Hiss..." Shimada gasped, sat up from the ground, and said to Ogata in a half-joking tone, "Master Ogata, you were so merciless just now..."

"Sorry, sorry. I didn't control my strength just now. Are you injured?"

Compared with the last three matches, Ogata not only upgraded his "Shiranui-ryu Ju-Jitsu" to "Advanced", but also increased his strength by 2 points, so he is not quite used to this "new body", so he didn't perform well just now. Controlling the strength, Shimada was thrown heavily.

"It's okay." Shimada got up again and patted the dust off his body, "Although I'm not as good as Senior Mucun, I'm still the kind of rough-skinned and thick-skinned person."

"But... is it my illusion? I always feel that the jujitsu technique you just used, Ogata-senpai, is much sharper and more advanced than the previous three times..."

——Yes, this is not your illusion.

Although he said so in his heart, Ogata still casually said perfunctory:

"Well, it must be your illusion."

Shimada, who has an honest and simple personality, didn't dwell on the issue of "whether Ogata suddenly became stronger" for too long.

After getting up and cleaning the dust off his body, Shimada resumed his Tang Shou posture.

"Come on, Ogata-sama, let's continue!"

"Let's practice hand-to-hand combat here first." Ogata said as he walked slowly towards the few wooden knives that Shimada brought and put on the edge of the open space.

"Next—let's practice this!" Ogata picked up 2 wooden swords and 1 wooden Wakizashi, and threw one of them to Shimada.

"Practice swordsmanship?" Shimada grinned, "Okay! Then I ask Ogata-sama for advice!"

After throwing the sword to Shimada, Ogata clenched the two swords in his hands and set up the Wuwo 2 Swords style. At the same time, he opened his personal system interface to confirm the experience bar of Sakakibara 1 Swordsmanship and Wuwo 2 Swords Style.

[Sakakibara One Swordsman Level: 10th Dan (34555000)]

[Wuwu Two Swords Level: 9th Stage (55208000)]

Sakakibara Ichikatsu still has 1545 experience points to upgrade.

There are still 2480 experience points for Wuwo Two Swords to upgrade.

...

...

Ogata and Shimada fought 7 swordfights without stopping.

After the seventh match, Shimada hastily applied for a break.

In fact, these 7 matches cannot be regarded as competitions. They should be regarded as "Shimada was beaten unilaterally".

Although Ogata has always been a bit over the top, it is inevitable that the wooden knife in his hand will hit Shimada's body.

I was defeated by Ogata 7 times in a row, and there were so many bruises on my body. No matter how rough my skin was, I still felt pain. I could only apply for a timeout, a temporary rest, and a slowdown. .

Seeing that Shimada applied for a timeout, Ogata could only agree, and then sat on the edge of the court with Shimada.

Ogata, who was bored, casually asked Shimada:

"Shimada, Ms. Kinoshita said that she is not only going out this time to prepare for the ship to Edo, but also to meet some old customers and talk about future cooperation."

"What does this sentence mean? What old customers?"

When I heard Lin say in the Buddhist hall this morning that she would stop by to meet some old customers, Ogata was always curious about the "old customers" in Lin's mouth.

"Ah, this." Shimada smiled, "My lord's old customers actually refer to those people who often buy rice from us."

"Master Ogata, you should also know that our Calabash House is a rice merchant, right?"

Ogata nodded in response.

When they first reunited in Butterfly Island and Mamiya, Mamiya had introduced their gourd house to Ogata.

On the surface, it looks like a rice merchant who makes a living by selling rice, but in essence, it has been secretly investigating the "immortal" organization-this sentence can be regarded as the best introduction to Huluwu.

"The funds we usually use are all earned from selling rice."

"Our lord has an extremely good talent in business."

There was a bit of pride on Shimada's face at this moment.

"The buying and selling of rice—this matter has always been entirely in the charge of the lord."

"Master Yuan has an extremely extensive network of contacts."

"Senior Gamiya can make calculations and keep accounts."

"My lord, she uses Master Yuan's network resources and Jian Gong's bookkeeping ability to match her business talent. Every year, she makes a lot of money."

"According to the senior Mamiya who has followed the Lord for the longest time, since the Lord opened the gourd house, her surplus of money has been increasing at an astonishing rate every year."

"Thanks to the lord's business talent, our Calabash House has always been very prosperous. Since I joined the Calabash House until now, I have never seen our Calabash House lack money."

Hearing this, Ogata suddenly remembered—the Calabash House seemed to be really rich.

When I first met Jiangong, Jiangong had always been extravagant when spending money.

When Lin and his party left Kyoto and headed for Owari, Lin also boldly expressed to Ogata and Atachi that she would bear the travel expenses of the two along the way, but Lin's bold move was declined by Ogata up.

Ogata did not forget that the relationship between him and A-Machi and Gourdya was nothing more than an alliance, so Ogata didn't want to owe Gourdya too much favor, so he and A-Machi's food and drink along the way from Kyoto to Owari All the expenses on the website were borne by Ogata alone.

"Since your lord is going out this time, in addition to preparing for the boat to Edo, you also have to meet your old customers of Gourd House by the way, wouldn't it take a lot of time?" Ogata asked.

"Probably not." Shimada shook his head, "My lord, the old clients she wants to see should be those old clients from Owari, so they should be back soon... Ah, Mamiya senior!"

Before Shimada could finish his sentence, he suddenly called out "Senior Mamiya", and then shook his hand vigorously towards the northwest of the open space.

Ogata looked to the northwest—I saw Jiangong walking slowly towards the open space from the northwest corner, holding a wooden knife.

"Mamiya, why are you here?" Ogata asked.

"I have nothing to do, so I came to this place to practice swordsmanship." Jiangong smiled, "I am a frequent visitor to this open space. When I have time and mood, I will come here to practice swordsmanship. You two too Are you exercising here?"

"Yeah." Shimada smiled wryly, "I've been practicing hand-to-hand combat with Ogata-sama here just now."

"I was beaten very badly by Master Ogata."

After that, Shimada stretched out his finger and pointed at the bruise on his cheek.

"Being beaten badly means that you still have a lot of room for improvement." Mamiya said in a half-joking tone, "Work hard, Shimada."

Gamiya walked slowly to a corner of the open space, then put on a very standard mid-section posture, and began to practice "Su Zhen".

Not long after Mamiya started his own practice, the two of Ogata and Shimada, who were rested, started their competition again.

...

...

That night——

"Why is it a big miscellaneous pot again..." Ogata twitched the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, night has fallen.

At this moment, Ogata and everyone in the Gourd House gathered in a small room in the temple.

At this moment, Ogata looked at the cauldron full of various foods on the floor with black lines on his face.

It was very windy tonight, and it was inconvenient to burn things under such a strong wind, so everyone changed the place for dinner tonight to a certain room in the temple.

Ogata and Shimada practiced against each other from morning until night fell.

At noon today, they ate a big miscellaneous pot.

The taste of the big miscellaneous pot is actually not very good. After all, a lot of food is mixed together to cook, and because their gourd house is very rich, the variety of food they usually eat is also very rich. There are so many types of food Mixed together, so the smell is quite peculiar.

I ate a big miscellaneous pot at noon today, Ogata did not expect to eat a big miscellaneous pot tonight...

"No way. My lord is not at home." Asai, who was sitting next to the cauldron, poured a pot of tofu into the pot, and casually said to Ogata, "My lord is responsible for our usual meals. When my lord is not at home In order to save trouble, we usually eat a big pot."

"Don't you all know how to cook?" Ogata cast a questioning look at Genichi, Mamiya, Mucun, Shimada, and Asai who were in front of him.

"Among the few of us, only Jiangong can cook." Mucun replied for everyone, "But for some reason, Jiangong won't cook himself until it's necessary."

"For some reason?" Ogata raised his eyebrows, then turned his questioning gaze to Mamiya aside.

"Well. For some reason, I don't really like cooking that much." Gamiya smiled wryly, "I don't know how to cook until it's necessary."

"Is that so... that's a pity, your craftsmanship is pretty good, Mamiya."

When he arrived at the gourd house last night, Ogata had a taste of Mamiya's craftsmanship.

Although it's not so delicious that it makes people suspect that the God of Cookery descended to earth, it can be regarded as very good. The food made by Mamiya is better than the food in many restaurants that Ogata has eaten so far.

When everyone was busy pouring food into the pot, Yuan Yi was holding a knife, sitting carelessly by the pot, holding a bottle and sipping there.

Because the body of the bottle is brown, and there is nothing pasted on the outside of the bottle, it is impossible to tell what the liquid in the bottle is.

"Ogata-kun." Yuan asked Ogata after looking around, "Where's that ninja named Amachi you brought?"

"She won't come to eat." Ogata responded without thinking, "She will be busy making her new weapon, so tonight will be closed in that room just like noon."

"Then what does she want to eat?" Mucun asked.

"There is still a lot of dry food left from the road from Kyoto to Owari." Ogata said, "Amachi eats these dry food."

"That means - tonight is the same as noon, only a few of us guys eat?" Yuan Yi moved his eyes to look at the people in front of him.

"Yeah." Ogata nodded, "It should be."

"... Ogata-kun." Yuan Yi suddenly looked at Ogata with a more thought-provoking look, "Do you want something to drink?"

After saying that, Yuan shook the bottle in his hand.

"Drink something? Okay." Ogata nodded without much hesitation, "Master Yuan, what's in that bottle in your hand? Is it wine?"

"It's oolong tea."

"Oolong tea? Well, oolong tea is fine too. I like drinking tea too. Mr. Yuan, please bring me some."

"it is good!"

After Genichi let out a bold cry, he picked up a clean cup at his feet, poured a full cup of brown liquid, and handed it to Ogata.

"Here, oolong tea!"

"thanks."

After receiving the oolong tea from Genichi, Ogata found that the oolong tea was already cold.

But Ogata didn't mind the tea being warm or cold, after receiving the cool oolong tea from Genichi, Ogata handed the cup full of oolong tea to his lips.

Ogata, who was busy drinking tea, didn't notice—the surrounding Mamiya and others all looked like they couldn't help laughing at this moment...

The cup was brought to his lips, and when the cup tilted, Ogata's lips touched the tea in the cup.

The moment his lips touched the tea in the cup, Ogata suddenly stopped.

After pausing for several breaths, Ogata put down the cup in his hand expressionlessly.

Then he picked up a branch with a small flame under the cauldron in front of him, and stretched the branch with a small flame towards the tea in the cup.

Bear!

As soon as the flame touched the surface of the tea, the surface of the tea immediately ignited a raging flame...

"...Master Yuan. Why can oolong tea be ignited?"

"Probably because it's flammable."

"How can oolong tea be flammable!!"

Ogata almost smeared the cup filled with an unknown brown liquid on Genichi's face.

Fortunately, rationality prevailed over sensibility in the end, and Ogata resisted the urge to throw the cup of unknown liquid in his hand at his face.

After Ogata's roar fell, Genichi and other people around laughed out loud.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Yuanyi laughed and waved his hands, "I was just kidding you just now! This thing is actually a good wine made by myself! Because the color is very similar to oolong tea, so I Everyone calls my wine 'oolong tea'."

"Please don't give such a misleading name to a drink that is strong enough to catch fire..."

After finishing speaking, Ogata cast his eyes on Mamiya and the others beside him, and said angrily:

"Since you guys know that the thing in my cup just now is not oolong tea at all, please remind me!"

"Sorry."

Asai apologized to Ogata in a non-apologetic tone.

"But we really want to see your reaction after you find out that oolong tea can be ignited, because everyone present has been treated by Mr. Yuan's joke."

"One Dao Zhai, you should be able to understand, right? After falling into a certain pit, you eagerly want to see other people fall into that pit like yourself."

"Okay! Everyone listen to me!" Yuan Yi clapped his hands suddenly, "It's rare that Lin is not here tonight, so...after dinner, how about everyone come and help me see my latest work?"

Hearing Genichi's question, everyone except Mamiya turned weird.

"Master Yuan..." Mamiya smiled wryly, "Have you finished your new work yet?"

"Recently, my desire to create is very strong!" Yuan Yi smiled, "And after seeing the new painting that I entrusted Asai to buy for me, I immediately had a new inspiration, and the painting became my new work overnight!"

"Well, I don't have anything to do tonight." Jiangong said, "I can indeed help Mr. Yuan to see your new work."

After Mamiya said this, Makimura, Asai, and Shimada also echoed, saying that when they have time, they can go and see the so-called "new work" of Genichi.

Only Ogata remained dazed from beginning to end.

"What new work?" Ogata asked.

"Ogata-kun. I don't know if I told you." Yuan Yi smiled, "Drawing is one of my greatest hobbies."

"In recent years, I have become obsessed with ukiyo-e paintings that specialize in depicting men and women."

"That's why I've been trying to draw this kind of ukiyo-e that specifically depicts the relationship between men and women!"

"I completed a new piece of work last night!"

"How is it? Ogata-kun, do you want to take a look together?"

"Ukiyo-e that specifically depicts the affairs of men and women?" Ogata repeated the sentence that Genichi just mentioned, and his face became weird.

Ukiyo-e - a unique national art born in the Edo period of Japan. It mainly depicts people's daily life, scenery and drama.

An important branch of ukiyo-e is the ukiyo-e that specifically depicts the affairs of men and women.

This kind of ukiyo-e that specifically depicts the affairs of men and women, in layman's terms, is the little pornographic picture of this era...