The first year of Kansei (1789 AD), August 15.

Hirose Domain, Sakakibara Sword Museum -

It's almost dusk.

The disciples of the Sakakibara Sword Pavilion, who had finished their work for the day, gathered in the Sakakibara Sword Pavilion at this time and began their respective exercises today.

"Drink!"

Makino let out a good aura and slashed at Mikami in front of him with a swing of his sword.

Syllable!

The dull sound of the wooden knife striking sounded, and Mijo commented with a smile:

"Makino, nice slash, my hands are numb from the shock."

"Mikami-senpai, thank you for the compliment." After smiling slightly and accepting Mikami's praise frankly, Makino once again put on a posture and prepared for a new round of competition with Mikami in front of him.

However, at this moment, Makino, who happened to be facing the gate of the dojo, spotted a familiar figure at the gate of the dojo.

"Mikami-senpai! Look! ”

Mikami followed Makino's excited voice and gaze and looked behind him.

After seeing the face of the figure standing at the entrance of the dojo, a look of excitement also appeared on Mikami's face.

"Ogata-kun!"

Mikami shouted Ogata's name as he and Makino walked briskly towards Ogata, who was standing at the door of the dojo.

Mikami's "Ogata-kun" instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the current field, and everyone looked towards the door of the dojo, and when they saw that it was Ogata, they put down their practice and greeted Ogata who was standing at the door.

"Good afternoon, everyone." Ogata smiled at the brothers in front of him.

"Ogata-senpai!" Makino said, "Are you already able to come and practice swords?" ”

"Not yet." Ogata touched his left shoulder and smiled wryly, "Dr. Genan said that I will have to wait another 2 days before I can practice the same intensity as before. ”

"I'm just too bored at home today, so I'll just come to the dojo to have a look, you don't have to worry about me, just go back and continue practicing."

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After greeting Ogata word by word, and expressing their concern for Ogata, they scattered and resumed the practice they had just interrupted.

Ogata, on the other hand, sat silently in a corner of the dojo, silently watching the practice of his brothers.

Gambling for one's life with the distant mountains - this was more than a month, nearly two months ago.

After that deathmatch, Kuranaga commissioned Dr. Genyasu, the most skilled physician in their domain, to treat Ogata.

Ogata only felt flattered by Kuranaga's kindness.

At the same time, I felt very confused.

Because no matter how much Ogata tried to scavenge the memories in his mind, he couldn't think of any intersection he had with Kurunaga before.

There was no intersection before, why did Kuranaga treat him so kindly?

This question has been hovering in Ogata's mind until now.

And Dr. Genan is worthy of being the most skilled doctor in their Hirose Domain.

In the battle with Toyama, Ogata had 5 more openings on his body.

However, these injuries on Ogata's body are all minor injuries, and they are just ordinary flesh wounds.

After his bandage, Ogata felt that the wounds on his body, which were still hot, immediately became less painful.

According to Dr. Genyasu, Ogata felt less pain because he used his exclusive secret recipe, a medicine that helps people with pain.

After helping Ogata to diagnose and treat and bandage, Dr. Xuan An specially told Ogata in every possible way - not to practice swords until the injury is healed.

If you drag such an injured body to practice the sword, it is very likely to cause the wound to crack, making the injury, which was not very serious, become serious in an instant.

Genan not only told Ogata, but also Sakakihara Hanbei, telling Hanbei that he should not be allowed to touch his sword until his injuries healed.

And the half-guards were also very cooperative, and bluntly announced to everyone in the Sakakibara Sword Gym that no one was allowed to touch the sword until Ogata was restored, and no one was allowed to practice with Ogata.

Oke is not the kind of martial arts idiot who has to brace his body to practice swords even if he is injured.

Since Dr. Xuan'an said that his injured body was not suitable for sword training, Na Xu also obediently obeyed Dr. Xuan'an's will and obediently lay on the bed at home to recuperate.

Because he spent more than a month obediently recuperating from his injuries and didn't practice swords, Ogata naturally didn't even get 1 point of experience in more than a month.

Although he didn't practice swordsmanship, Ogata didn't lie in bed stupidly and didn't do anything.

For more than a month, Ogata has been practicing "Breath of the Source".

"Can you increase the level of martial arts without using skill points and relying only on hard training?" - Ogata is still insisting on this experiment.

Although you can't practice swords during the period of recuperation, you do have time to practice "Source Breath".

However, after more than a month of practicing, Ogata's mind still didn't hear the system sound that prompted him to upgrade the level of "Source Breath" from elementary to intermediate.

Although the level of "Source Breath" has not been improved until now, Ogata's hard training of "Source Breath" for more than a month has not been in vain.

The duration of "Source Breath" has been extended from more than 5 minutes to more than 7 minutes.

Sitting on the edge of the dojo and watching a few laps of practice by his brothers, Ogata, who felt a little bored, simply opened his personal system interface and checked his current data.

[Name: Ogata Yise]

[Level: LV10: 770/900]

【Personal attributes:

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 8

Reflex nerves: 8

Stamina: 5

Vitality: 5]

【Martial Arts Genre:

Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu: 6 stages: 760/1500

No self two knife flow: 2 stages: 60/500]

[Remaining Skill Points: 0]

[Sakakiwara Ichito-ryu (6 paragraphs):

Ascending the stairs: Beginner

Water Fall: Intermediate

Bird Thorn: Advanced

Dragontail: Beginner】

[No Self Two Knife Flow (2 paragraphs):

Breath of the Source: Primary

Blade Reversal: Elementary

Circulation: Elementary】

After successfully slaying the distant mountains, Ogata's level of "No Self Two Sword Flow" was successfully upgraded to 2nd rank, and a new sword skill called "Circulation" was opened for Ogata to unlock, and it also brought 2 skill points to Ogata.

Ogata uses one of these two skill points to improve his "power", and the other is used to unlock the sword skill of "Selfless Two Sword Streams" - circulation.

After the battle with Toyama was over and Dr. Genan had bandaged his wounds, Ogata immediately opened the interface of his system in a hurry, wanting to unlock the sword technique he had been wanting to obtain since he learned the martial art genre of "Selfless Two Sword Streams".

However, when Ogata opened the system interface and excitedly wanted to unlock the sword skill of "Circulation", he was surprised to find that if he wanted to unlock "Circulation", he not only needed to spend 1 skill point, but also had a requirement for his personal attribute value.

At that time, Ogata found that he had silently recited "Unlock Circulation" countless times in his mind, and the system sound did not sound, so he clicked on the small question mark behind the item [Circulation (can be unlocked with 1 skill point)" in the system interface with full doubts.

When this little question mark expands into a virtual interface, it reads:

[Can be unlocked with 1 skill point.] You need to master the sword skill "Blade Reversal" and reach 6 strength. Since the host's current strength has not reached 6 points, it cannot be unlocked at this time.