Of course Ogata knows who the family is.

As long as they are samurai of the Hirose Domain with normal intelligence, there is no one who does not know who their Hirose Domain's family leader is.

As soon as the term "family elder" was thrown into his mind, the name "Kuranaga Saemon" instantly popped out of his mind.

After listening to Hanbei's words just now, which were tantamount to a thunderbolt from a sunny day, Ogata's expression was the same as that of Mikami beside him, his eyes widened and his face was full of shock.

"Tomorrow morning, there will be a contest to worship the gods?!" Ogata couldn't believe his ears.

The conversation of Ogata, Mikami, and Hanbei attracted the rest of the brothers in the dojo.

The rest of the people in the dojo gathered around with curiosity, and when they learned that the god worship competition was going to be advanced, they all gasped.

"Master!" Mikami, who was on the side, said urgently, again, "How can this be?" It's too sudden, isn't it? Why did the eldest of the family advance this year's sacrifice competition for no reason? ”

"I don't know......" The half-guard shook his head in a calm voice.

The half-guard briefly recounted the whole process of the summons he had just received from Kuranaga to the crowd.

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

The two entered Kurainaga's mansion with full doubts, and as soon as they sat down on the tatami mats in Kuranaga's room, Kuranaga said to the two of them bluntly:

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

After hearing Cangyong's words, whether it was a half-guard or a soldier or a horse, they were stunned for a while before they gradually regained their senses.

The next moment they regained their senses, the two of them asked urgently why Kurunaga had given such a sudden order.

However, Kuranaga didn't seem to be in the mood to explain to the two.

After rudely reprimanding the two of them, "Don't ask so much", he asked the two to go down and prepare for the god sacrifice competition that will be held tomorrow morning......

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

"When did the eldest of the family become so interested in the god worship competition......

In Ogata's memory, Kuranaga, the head of their Hirose Domain, always seemed to have lacked the nature of their god sacrifices.

Since the inception of the god worship competition, Kuranaga has not come to watch the game once.

Ogata couldn't figure out why Kuranaga was suddenly interested in their god worship competition? In addition, the time of the festival was brought forward to the morning of the next day.

"How can this be ......" Mikami on the side had an ugly face, "Time is too tight......"

It's not just Mikami's ugly face.

The face of Ogata, the contestant in this god worship competition, was also ugly.

He silently summoned out his personal attribute interface.

The current individual rank is - LV10 (540/900)

Sakakiwara Ichi-Stream Grade: 6 Stages (560/1500)

No Self Two Knife Flow Level: 1 stage (180/300)

Looking at his personal interface, Ogata's face, which was already quite ugly, is now even more ugly.

The advance of the god sacrifice competition completely disrupted Ogata's plan.

Ogata's original plan was very simple - to take advantage of the fact that there was still about one month before the start of the god worship competition, and use this one month to practice frantically, accumulate as many skill points as possible, and strive to increase his personal attribute value and sword skill level before the god worship competition begins.

But who knew that now that the old man of the family gave an order to advance the sacrifice to the gods, Ogata's plan was disrupted in an instant.

At present, the least amount of experience required to level up is the selfless two-knife flow.

With only 120 XP, you can upgrade your level from 1 to 2 dans.

However, Ogata doesn't have time to earn those 120 XP anymore.

Today, Ogata has had many exchanges with Mikami.

My body was tired, and my limbs felt a little soft.

Ogata is no longer able to compete with others today.

If Ogata gritted his teeth and forced his already tired self to continue to compete with others today, he might hurt himself or make his body too tired, which would affect the conduct of tomorrow's god worship competition.

As for proposing to Kuranaga to postpone the holding of the god worship contest - such a plan will definitely not work.

Kuranaga is an existence under one person and above ten thousand people in the Hirose Domain.

How dare a small character like Ogata disobey the orders of the elders?

So...... It is no longer possible to change the time of the god sacrifice competition...... It is destined to take place tomorrow morning.

“…… Ogata. In a hesitant tone, Hanbei asked Ogata, "You...... How are you going to do it? ”

“…… What else can be planned? Ogata gritted his teeth, "...... Tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning! ”

"Settle the feud between me and the distant mountains tomorrow morning!"

……

……

Coincidentally, Toyama and Ogata learned about the early opening of the god festival around the same time.

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

It was one of his juniors who hurried to his house and told him the news.

After learning that the god sacrifice competition was advanced to tomorrow morning, Yuanshan was slightly stunned at first.

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

If there is anyone in the entire Hirose Domain who wants the god sacrifice competition to be held as soon as possible, then this person must be Yuanshan.

After learning the news that this was a great event for Yuanshan, Yuanshan casually stuffed some copper coins into the junior brother who had come to inform him of the news, and Yuanshan asked his junior brother to leave his home first.

After the junior brother left, and Yuan Shan was the only one left in the huge room, Yuan Shan silently removed his knife from the knife holder.

Draw the knife out of its sheath.

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

After looking his saber up and down a few times, Toyama took out the whetstone, along with the rest of the tools needed to sharpen it.

After skillfully removing the nail and separating the blade from the handle, Toyama held the blade with a white cloth and sharpened the knife, which was actually very sharp, on the whetstone.

The distant mountains that were constantly sharpening their knives gradually showed hideous and terrifying shadows on their faces.

……

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The next day, early in the morning—

Hirose Domain, Hachiman Jingu.

Today's Hachiman Jingu Shrine is quite lively.

In the grounds of Hachiman Jingu, there are many people standing or sitting in an open space made of fine white sandstone.

The news that the festival was scheduled for the event came so suddenly that it was not only unexpected by the people of the Sakakiwara Sword Hall and the Ishikawa Sword Museum, but also by those who were interested in swordsmanship and who came to Hachiman Jingu every year to watch the battle.

However, even suddenly, some high-ranking officials in the domain, who already liked to watch the annual god worship competition, urgently adjusted their itinerary and successfully arrived at Hachiman Jingu on time, waiting for the god worship competition to begin.

This year, there were many high-ranking officials in the domain who came to watch the god worship competition.

Even some high-ranking officials in the clan who were not interested in swordsmanship and had no interest in this kind of swordsmanship competition came to watch the battle with great enthusiasm.

The reason why these people who have never come to see any god worship competitions in previous years is not because they suddenly fell in love with swordsmanship and developed a strong interest in swordsmanship competitions.

It's because they received the news that their family elder, Kuranaga Saemon, will be watching this year's god worship competition!

Even the order to hold the god worship competition in advance was given by Kuranaga himself.

I don't know why Kuranaga, who had never watched the god worship contest before, suddenly became so interested in the god worship contest this year, but the high-ranking officials in the domain, who had never watched the god worship contest before, hurried to Hachiman Shrine.

After all—this is a great opportunity for Kuranaga.