I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

　　Who is the old family? Of course Ogata knows.

　　 As long as they are a warrior of the Hirose clan with normal intelligence, no one does not know who their Hirose clan is.

　　 Just as soon as he threw the term "family old" into his mind, the name "Kura Naga Saemon" instantly popped out of his mind.

　　 After listening to Hanbei's words that were like a thunderbolt, Ogata's expression was the same as that of Mikami next to him, his eyes widened and his face was full of shock.

　　 "I will hold a ceremonial 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 leaned forward with curiosity, and after learning that the sacrifice to the gods was going ahead, they all sucked in cold air.

　　 "Master!" Mikami on the side said anxiously again, "How could this happen? This is too sudden, right? Why did the elder family advance this year's sacrifice to the gods for no reason?"

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

　　Hanbei briefly recounted the entire process of the call he had just received from Kuranaga.

　　 Just now, both Hanbei and Ishikawa Heima, the owner of Ishikawa Sword Museum, received a summons from Kuranaga.

　　 The two entered Kuranaga's mansion with full of doubts, and just sat down on the tatami in Kuranaga's room, Kuranaga said directly to the two of them:

　　 "Advance the sacrifice to the gods! Advance to tomorrow morning!"

　　 After hearing these words from Kuranaga, whether it was a half-guard or a soldier, they were dumbfounded for a long time before gradually regaining their sanity.

　　 At the next moment they recovered their sanity, the two hurriedly asked why Kurunaga gave such a sudden order.

　　 However, Kuranaga didn't seem to have the will to explain to the two.

　　 just rudely reprimanded the two of them with the phrase "Don't ask so much", then let them go down to prepare for the sacrifice to the gods to be held tomorrow morning...

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

　　 "When did the old man become so interested in the sacrifice to the gods..."

　　 In Ogata’s memory, Kuranaga, the old family member of the Hirose clan, has always seemed to be lacking in the nature of their rituals.

　　 Since the establishment of the Sacrifice Competition, Kuranaga has not come to watch the game once.

　　 Ogata couldn’t figure it out—why was Kuranaga suddenly interested in their ritual contest? It also directly advanced the time for holding the sacrifice to the gods, directly to the morning of the next day.

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

　　 It's not just Mikami's face that is ugly.

　　 Ogata, the contestant of this ritual contest, also had an ugly expression.

　　 He silently summoned his personal attribute interface.

　　 The current personal level is-LV10 (540/900)

　　 Sakihara One Sword Style Level: 6 levels (560/1500)

　　Second Swordsmanship Level: Level 1 (180/300)

　　 Looking at his personal interface, Ogata's already ugly face has become even more ugly now.

　　 Saskatchewan went ahead of schedule, completely disrupting Ogata's plan.

Ogata’s original plan was very simple-taking advantage of almost 1 month before the start of the sacrifice to the gods, use this one month to practice frantically, accumulate as many skill points as possible, and strive to start the sacrifice to the gods. Before, increase his personal attribute value and sword skill level.

　　 But who knows that now the elder of the family gave an order to advance the sacrifice to the gods, and Ogata's plan was instantly disrupted.

　　 At present, the least amount of experience required to level up is the Second Sword Art of Selflessness.

　　 only needs 120 experience points, and the level of No-Self Sword Art can be upgraded from 1 to 2 levels.

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

　　Today, Ogata has already competed with Mikami many times.

　　 My body is tired, and my limbs feel a little soft.

　　 Ogata can no longer compete with others today.

　　 If Ogata gritted his teeth and forced his tired self to continue to learn from others today, he might hurt himself or make his body overtired, which would affect the performance of tomorrow's sacrifice to the gods.

　　 As for the proposal to Kuranaga to postpone the time for the sacrifice to the gods-such a plan would definitely not work.

　　Kura Naga is under the Hirose Clan, but under one person and over ten thousand people.

　　 Little characters like Ogata and the others, how dare to disobey the family elder's orders?

　　 So... the time for the sacrifice to the gods is no longer possible to change... It is destined to be held tomorrow morning.

　　 "...Ogata." Hanbei asked Ogata hesitantly, "What are you...what are you going to do?"

　　 "...what else can I plan?" Ogata gritted his teeth, "...tomorrow morning tomorrow morning!"

　　 "The grievances between me and Toyama will be settled tomorrow morning!"

　　……

　　……

　　 It just so happened that Toyama and Ogata learned the news that the festival was held in advance at about the same time.

　　 When he heard the news, Toyama was drinking alcohol at home alone.

　　 is one of his younger brothers hurriedly ran to his home and informed him of the news.

　　 After learning that the sacrifice to the gods was ahead of tomorrow morning, Yuanshan was taken aback for a moment.

　　 Then the color of ecstasy appeared on the face of the distant mountain at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye.

　　 If it is said that the whole Hirose clan nowadays, who most hopes that the sacrifice to the gods will be held quickly, then this person must be Toyama.

After learning that this was a happy event for Yuan Shan, Yuan Shan casually stuffed the junior brother who came to tell him the news some copper as a reward, and Yuan Shan asked his junior brother first. Leave his home.

　　 After the junior fellow left and only Yuan Shan was left in the huge room, Yuan Shan silently took his knife off the knife holder.

　　 drew the knife out of its sheath.

　　 The cold light reflected from the snow-white blade covered the eyes of the distant mountains.

　　 After looking up and down his saber several times, Yuanshan took out the sharpening stone and the other tools needed to sharpen the knife.

　　Used a skilled technique to take out the nails, and after separating the blade from the handle, Toyama held the blade with a white cloth and sharpened the sharpened knife on the whetstone one by one.

　　The distant mountains, who are constantly sharpening their swords~www.wuxiahere.com~, gradually show a hideous, terrifying shadow on their faces.

　　……

　　……

　　 The next day, early morning——

　　 Hirose Clan, Hachiman Shrine.

　　 Today’s Hachiman Shrine is quite lively.

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

The news that the time for the festival to be held earlier came too suddenly. Not only did the people at Sakurahara Sword Museum and Ishikawa Sword Museum unexpectedly come, it also made those who are interested in swordsmanship come to Hachiman Shrine to watch the battle every year. Unexpectedly.

　　 However—even if it was sudden, some senior officials in the feudal clan who liked to watch the annual ritual contest urgently adjusted their itinerary planning and successfully arrived at Hachiman Shrine on time, waiting for the start of the ritual contest.

　　 There were a lot of high-ranking officials in the feudal clan who came to watch the ritual contest this year.

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

　　 Those people who never watched a sacrifice to the gods in previous years are so active this year, not because they suddenly fell in love with swordsmanship and developed a strong interest in swordsmanship competitions.

　　 It was because they received news: Their elder, Kuranaga Saemon, will watch this year's ritual contest!

　　 Even the order to hold the sacrifice to the gods in advance was given by Kuranaga himself.

　　 Although I don’t know why Kurunaga, who never watched the ritual contest before, suddenly became so interested in the ritual contest this year, the senior officials in the feudal clan who did not watch the ritual contest before still rushed to Hachiman Shrine.

　　 After all-this is a great opportunity to curry favor with Kurunaga.