I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 731

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What exactly did Toyotomi eat, and whether he could rely on eating this “unidentified object” to further increase his strength—Ogata, who lacked information, knew nothing about it.

If he entered the “No-Self Realm” from the beginning of the war, he might force Toyotomi to eat the “unknown object” again.

Therefore, Ogata decided to use “Ogata flow”——

To fight against Toyotomi first, let Toyotomi mistakenly think that this is his full strength, and let Toyotomi “get used to” his strength.

Then, taking advantage of Toyotomi’s unpreparedness, he suddenly entered the “no-self realm” and gave Toyotomi a surprise attack!

One blow decides the outcome, directly take down Toyotomi’s head, and end the battle!

The above is Ogata’s battle plan.

The “surprise attack timing” chosen by Ogata was the moment when he and Toyotomi passed by, and when Toyotomi turned his back on him!

After passing by by mistake with Toyotomi, Ouhan immediately switched his breathing rhythm to “Breath of the Source”.

Entering the “No-Self Realm”, take the left foot as the axis, turn back quickly, and use centrifugal force to split Da Shitian out – the action is done in one go!

The sword in which Ogata’s determination resides is like a summer shooting star falling to the head of the demon!

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Seeing Da Shi Tianhou slashing towards his head, there were not too many negative emotions in Toyotomi’s mind at this time.

Because this change came so quickly that Toyotomi’s brain was too late to react.

He is now… still in the comfort of thinking he has the upper hand.

However, although his brain did not react, his body reacted——

scoff.

Toyotomi felt a sharp pain in his throat.

He caught a glimpse of blood splattering down his slit throat, either on Ogata’s body or in the air, before falling to the deck along with the raindrops.

When Da Shitian’s blade was about to hit him in the head, his body moved first before his brain.

He stepped back and tilted his head as far back as possible—a slash that could have cut off Toyotomi’s entire head, but due to Toyotomi’s timely retreat, only half of his throat was cut off.

If he were an ordinary person, half of his throat had been cut, and he was not far from death, and the outcome was not far away.

However… it was Toyotomi who faced off against Ogata.

The severe pain from the throat can be regarded as a disguise to promote the recovery of Toyotomi’s brain.

He covered the cut throat in one hand and the knife in the other, and stepped back quickly, opening the distance from Ogata.

Because the throat was cut, he was temporarily unable to speak, so Toyotomi, who was bleeding continuously, could only spit out meaningless words such as “goo” and “poof”.

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——Tsk…Can’t you cut off his head…!

Toyotomi’s rapid response made the surprise attack fail, and the head of the person who saw Toyotomi fell to the ground as expected – which made the expression on Ogata’s face change slightly.

——Can you even dodge this blow…

Ogata silently adjusted his estimate of Toyotomi’s current physical fitness-even his “surprise attack” could pass through. The speed of reaction that Toyotomi currently possesses is indeed somewhat beyond Ogata’s expectations.

Although the surprise attack failed, Ogata did not let time go to waste.

He quickly packed up his mood, then stepped forward, raised his sword, and launched a pursuit at Toyotomi.

The one who attacked Toyotomi’s head this time was the great freedom of Ogata’s left hand.

A straight line is the shortest between two points. for

Pursuing the fastest speed to pursue Toyotomi whose head had been chopped off in half, Ogata aimed the tip of Dazai’s knife at Toyotomi’s throat that was being covered——

Sakakihara slashed, stabbed!

The blade of great freedom, pulled into a straight white light——

clang–! !

Toyotomi erected Jiguang Bone Food, held up the great freedom from the thorn, and resolved the crisis once again.

“Your…the…breath…”

A large amount of red shredded meat emerged from Toyotomi’s injured throat.

The huge wound was quickly “filled” and repaired by the red shredded meat, and Toyotomi slowly regained his ability to speak.

“I also saw such a strange breathing rhythm at Uncle’s place just now.”

Toyotomi pressed Ogata’s chest up and down with a peculiar rhythm with a solemn gaze.

“So that’s the case… Did you rely on this strange breathing technique to increase your strength…”

Toyotomi’s judgment is quite accurate and deserves praise.

But Ritsu Ogata ignored Toyotomi’s murmur.

He only silently increased the force he instilled in the great freedom of his left hand.

Toyotomi now feels like… he is like a weight that is constantly gaining weight.

The great freedom of Ogata’s left hand is actually only for confusion.

While Toyotomi was struggling with his great freedom, Ogata brought up Oshiten and swept up Toyotomi’s legs from below.

In order to prevent his legs from being cut off, Toyotomi could only grit his teeth and try his best to push Da Zizai’s blade slightly away, then quickly retreated towards the position that Da Shitian couldn’t cut.

He tried his best to dodge, but the tip of Da Shitian’s knife still cut into his thigh, creating a not shallow or deep wound on his thigh.

——Have you escaped again… Forget it, that’s all.

After thinking about it like this, Ogata quickly adjusted his posture with the knife, and then relentlessly pounced on the retreating Toyotomi, “sticking” to Toyotomi tightly.

Ogata also thought about it in advance: what if the surprise attack launched by relying on the “realm of no self” failed and failed to take down Toyotomi’s head in one blow.

The countermeasures are also very simple – just rely on the increase brought by the “No-Self Realm” and directly kill Toyotomi!

Ding! clang! clang! clang! Ding……

The sound of hammering iron was dense enough to compare with the sound of raindrops now falling on the deck.

With 2 knives, Ogata danced to the effect of 8 knives.

The “8-handled swords” attacked Toyotomi from different angles and directions.

The situation of the war situation has undergone tremendous changes as Ogata enters the “realm of no-self”.

Toyotomi, who was under Ogata’s onslaught, clearly felt that after using this special breathing technique, Ogata’s physical fitness and swordsmanship skills improved a lot!

Ogata’s physical fitness, which was supposed to be inferior to him, is now directly graded! The one whose physical quality fell, became Toyotomi himself.

And the swordsmanship skills that are not as good as Ogata’s, the gap has been pulled even bigger!

Although Ogata’s current swordsmanship is still slightly inferior to Genichi, it is not much inferior! Basically the difference between 90 points and 100 points!

If it was said—Ogata and Toyotomi had a difficult battle just now, neither one would lose. Now, Ogata has the upper hand.

There is no place that can surpass Ogata’s Toyotomi, and he is completely suppressed, not to mention the strength to fight back, and even the strength to parry can only be maintained.

Ogata can be said to always remember: “Toyotomi can greatly enhance his strength by eating some unknown object.”

Therefore, in order to prevent Toyotomi from having a chance to eat anything, Ogata can be said to be worthy of the name and did not even give Toyotomi a chance to breathe.

One after another, the knives in his hands attacked Toyotomi like a wave, so that Toyotomi did not have the slightest free hand to do things other than “defense”.

It was impossible for Toyotomi, who was already at a disadvantage, to completely dodge and dodge Ogata’s attack.

Therefore – in order to prevent Ogata’s rain-like attack, Toyotomi had to make some necessary sacrifices.

Take the head as the key protection target, and the rest of the body… Unless it is an attack that will break hands and feet, if it cannot be successfully blocked or dodged, it will be directly passed.

Therefore, I saw that Toyotomi’s body was constantly incised with large and small wounds, and then quickly repaired, and so on…

The blood that flowed and splattered from his wound mixed with the raindrops that fell from the sky, dyeing the deck around him and Ogata into a strange light red…

The sword in Toyotomi’s hand was swung at high speed in order to defend against Ogata’s onslaught.

And “moving” at high speed, and his brain——

—Damn…! Damn…!

Toyotomi once again vented his inner emotions by roaring in his heart.

——The plan was once again deviated by an unexpected appearance… It’s really endless!

——A breathing technique that can greatly improve a person’s strength… Uncle, he can master it, so why even Ogata Ichitosai has this skill…!

——Even so…it’s useless to think about this now.

——Let’s get back to calm quickly, and then come and think about how to break the game.

Taking advantage of the interval between Ogata’s attack, Toyotomi took a deep breath. With this deep breath, Toyotomi’s irritability and disgust calmed down a little.

– The situation is now very clear.

——Ogata Ichitosai’s physical fitness and swordsmanship skills are now better than mine.

——If I keep fighting like this, I will definitely lose.

——Would you like to… let the Master and the others come to “help” me now…

Toyotomi’s eyes narrowed slightly, and both eyes became half-closed.

——No, let the Venerable Master and the others come to “help” me, just like the head of the eight hundred bhikkhunis, it is the last resort that should be avoided unless it is absolutely necessary.

–Think again……

– What other means can I use now?

——What else… The advantage I have when I have Ogata Ichitosai as my opponent…

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Hikki Maru, in the cabin, somewhere inconspicuous in the corner——

“Hurry up! Hurry up! Carry out the orders of Lord Kasugabee! Push all the unimportant heavy objects in those areas into the sea! Lighten the load on the ship!”

“Is this useful?”

“Kawawa and Taro-sama, I heard that there was no one on the deck of the gourd pill that was about to crash, and now the ghost is driving the gourd pill, is this true?!”

“Of course it’s fake! If there are gods and ghosts in the world, why don’t they punish those **** landlords who killed my parents and seized my land! Stop talking nonsense! Go and execute Kasu Lord Bee’s order!”

Nearly 10 sailors rushed to the lower cabin along a corridor that was rarely passed by on weekdays.

After the roars and footsteps of the sailors were gone—

“It’s very noisy now…”

A somewhat pleasant and smug murmur emerged from an inconspicuous dark corner somewhere in the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, a black figure was seen “squirming” out of the dark corner here.

If there is any cadre of Toyotomi’s here now, they will be able to recognize it immediately – this dark shadow is the remnant of Shiranui who was “held” by Toyotomi: Kikutaro.

Kikutaro looked at the direction in which the crew members left just now, and the corners of his mouth evoked an arc of complacency, ridicule, and joy.

“Is Gourd Maru going to hit you…”

“Then I’ll wait…”

“Wait for this ship to be a little messier…”

After whispering, the ninja who survived, retracted into the dark corner again…

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“Well…” Yuan Yi endured the pain and used the torn piece of clothing to make a simple bandage on the wound on his chest.

He wanted to light a fire and scorch the wound with flames—a painful method, but a very convenient way to stop the bleeding.

It’s a pity – this heavy rain that seems to pour down all the sea water in the sea, makes Yuan Yi think that he can’t do it.

——Okay… It’s almost enough to wrap it up like this…

——Have to take advantage of the fact that Ogata-kun has suppressed Toyotomi… quickly rescue Xiao Lin…

Genichi knew that he was afraid that he was no longer able to support Ogata and help Ogata defeat the demon Toyotomi.

So——he decided to do everything he could to do what he could do now.

Yuan Yi grabbed the Sun God who was stuck on the deck beside him, leaned on the knife, and tried to stand up.

With the remaining strength of his arms, Genichi reluctantly stood up—but his now weak, feeble legs could no longer keep him on his feet.

As soon as he stood up, Yuan Yi’s body trembled violently like a needle standing on the ground.

Whoa!

A handful of big waves came, and the hull of Hikari Maru shook greatly.

In this massive shaking, Genichi, who was unable to stand firm, fell to the ground again.

“Damn…” Yuan Yi put his hands on the ground, slowly propped up his upper body, and muttered in a calm and regretful tone, “I don’t even have the strength left to stand firm…”

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Ding! clang! Ding! clang! clang! clang……

The duel between Ogata and Toyotomi has gradually heated up.

I saw Ogata hold Da Shitian high, and first fell a knife on Toyotomi’s cheek.

When he stabbed Toyotomi face to face, he used five fingers and forks on his left hand, switched the great freedom of his left hand to an underhand grip, and stomped towards Toyotomi’s lower body.

Attacks from either direction are quite lethal.

Although the trauma outside the brain is not easy to kill him, Toyotomi still wants to avoid injury as much as possible.

Although he now has a recovery ability far beyond ordinary people, his pain has not disappeared, and he will still feel pain when injured.

In this kind of battle where the whole body is tense, a little carelessness and relaxation will lead to irreversible consequences, any injury may lead to an accident.

Because of the pain brought by the injury, it is very easy to cause the reaction to become slow, or the movement to become insensitive.

Whether it’s an attack on the face or an attack on the lower body, it’s not something that Toyotomi can just take.

He jumped to the side, dodging the slashes that attacked his face, and at the same time switched Jiguang Gusui into a lower stance to protect his lower body.

The slash that attacked his lower body was successfully blocked by him.

But the slashes that attacked his face… did not completely escape.

The sharp blade, grazed from his right ear, cut off a small section of his ear…

Although the ear that was cut off soon grew back, and the pain from the ear was not too strong, the expression on Toyotomi’s face at this time was still serious enough to compete with just now.” A comparison of the temporary state of the source of the “transparent realm”.

Even people who don’t understand “battle” at all can see that the battle situation is already obvious.

Toyotomi has been completely suppressed by Ogata, the kind of suppression that is impossible to even turn over.

Toyotomi is now holding on – as long as he shows the slightest flaw in the defense on his head, he will be able to take his head in an instant.

It was clear that the situation had the upper hand—but in Ogata’s heart, there was always a… an ominous premonition that I couldn’t tell…

He always felt that Toyotomi seemed to be too calm…

It has been completely suppressed, and there is not even the strength to fight back, but Toyotomi is still calmly launching defense and dodging…

In this regard, Ogata can only think of two possibilities.

Either Toyotomi is the type of person who can be extremely calm no matter what happens.

Or… it’s because Toyotomi has any other tricks that can make him turn defeat into victory…

If it’s the former, that’s fine.

if the latter one……

——No matter if Toyotomi still has any means…

Ogata said to himself in his heart.

——It’s right to suppress him all the time, so that he has no time to play any means…

With such a decision in his heart, he did not dare to continue to attack Toyotomi with any relaxation and carelessness.

Ogata pointed the tips of Da Shitian and Da Zizai’s knives at Toyotomi, stomped on the deck with his hind feet, and slammed into Toyotomi like a wild ox, and the two knives in his hand were the horns of the ox.

Sakakihara’s One-knife Row, Bird Thorn!

The knives of both hands use bird thorns at the same time – with the blessing of “no self and two knives”, he can easily do this skill.

For this trick, Ogata tentatively named it “Bird Thorn Double Sound”.

The two knives each stabbed at Toyotomi’s head and lumbar spine.

Looking at the two knives that were stabbing at his vital point, Toyotomi opened his nostrils slightly, took a deep breath with his nose, and rushed towards Ogata who was “colliding”.

When the two were about to collide, Toyotomi reluctantly avoided Ogata’s “bird thorn and double sound” with his agility and reflexes.

The two crossed each other and slammed their body towards Toyotomi like a cannonball—with such a huge dynamic potential energy, Ogata only took half a step forward, and then he just stopped by brute force and the flexibility of his body.

Stop the body that continues to charge forward, use the left foot as the axis, quickly turn the body, and use the centrifugal force brought by the rotation of the body, swing Da Shitian, and cut a knife horizontally at Toyotomi.

Da Shitian slashed towards Toyotomi’s neck at a speed that seemed to shake off the cold light reflected from the blade.

Looking at Da Shitian who was getting closer and closer to his neck, Toyotomi erected Jiguang Bone Food, as if planning to force Ogata’s move.

However, at this time-

–Um?

Ogata’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

The next moment when Toyotomi erected his Jiguang bone food… Ogata could vaguely see it — a smile appeared on the corner of Toyotomi’s mouth…

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At this moment-

Hikkimaru, on the open deck, on the lookout on the mainmast—

slap… slap… slap… slap…

From the observation deck of the main mast, the strange sound of intermittent “pat-ta-ta-ta-ta” continued to appear.

The fixed-focus observation deck of the field of vision – I saw a young man sitting on the railing of the observation deck with a golden knife.

He didn’t wear a dagger on his waist, only a sword with a yellow handle and a red sheath.

Apart from this knife, there was no weapon on his body.

In his hand, he held a small bamboo tube.

The young man holding the bamboo tube kept playing with the bamboo tube, and the strange intermittent “pa-da-pa-pa-da” sound was the sound that the person made when playing with the bamboo tube.

Generally speaking, people sitting on the observation deck are observing the course and the surrounding sea conditions.

But this person didn’t do it – the sight of his eyes, from beginning to end, was firmly fixed on the battlefield of Ogata and Toyotomi…

“…Master Toyotomi…”

While muttering like this, he stopped the hand that was playing with the wooden tube, and clenched the small wooden tube tightly.

“It looks like… it seems that I don’t need the ‘help’ of Master Xianyuan and me…”

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Can any readers guess who the young man at the end of this chapter is? What are you going to prepare for?

Today I wanted to write a big chapter of more than 6000 words, but I still underestimated the busyness of today’s grave sweeping… Writing 5400 is the limit… Tomorrow, the author will try to write as much as possible (Leopard Headache Cry.jpg)

The author said before: The book will be completed in about mid-March~www.mtlnovel.com~ However, the amount of plot is misestimated, it seems to be the traditional artistry of the author…

Now it seems… it will be finished in late April, so it is not impossible… After all, the author is planning to write some chapters similar to the day after the war.

Because it is almost over, the author also intends to unblock some settings about this book that have never been mentioned before.

The author has designed several “IF lines” for this book.

The author definitely doesn’t have time to write these “IF lines” slowly, but I can tell you about them in general.

One of the “IF lines” that the author personally thinks the most interesting is the “Shura Line” where “Ogata single-handedly captured Edo Castle and finally fought with Genichi in Edo Castle”. Are you interested in listening? ?

If you are interested, I will tell you a little bit about the general plot in the “writer’s words” in the subsequent chapters.