I formed the strongest swordsman group

After teaching Qingdeng Suzhen how to draw and draw the sword, Okita did not teach Qingdeng any other new things today.

As for why, Okita also explained to Qingdeng that at the stage of laying the foundation, if he learns too many things at once, it will overwhelm the seedlings, and the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages. He asked Qingdeng to focus on practicing Suzhen today And draw the knife, close the knife.

You can't become a big fat man with one bite - Qingdeng naturally understands this principle, so he didn't have any complaints about this arrangement of Okita, and he practiced Suzhen, drawing and withdrawing the sword alternately in a regular manner.

Doing boring, mechanical exercises back and forth, but Qing Deng didn't feel bored or impatient.

Rather, it was the opposite—the more he practiced, the more interested he became.

The reason is because under the blessing of "Sword of Talent", the feeling of being able to feel that one is making rapid progress is really addictive.

Why are games from previous lives so addictive? Because the positive feedback of the game came too timely.

If you fight a monster, you can gain experience points, and then see your experience bar increase. After upgrading, you can use the points you get from upgrading to strengthen yourself.

With such quick and direct positive feedback, I don’t know how many blocks I have to memorize words and texts.

You memorized the words seriously, but in the end you still didn’t remember them—such rubbish positive feedback can make people addicted.

The strong positive feedback brought by "Sword Mastery" made Qingdeng like a fascination, and he stayed in the test hall to practice sword painstakingly.

Qingdeng just stayed in the test hall from morning to dusk.

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The setting sun, which was about to sink below the horizon, weakly poured the dark yellow sunset light into the dojo of the testing hall along the windows.

After working as a coach for a day, Okita glanced at the sunset outside the window, and clapped his hands vigorously:

"Okay! That's the end of today's practice!"

Okita's yell made everyone put down the bamboo swords in their hands one after another, and it also made Qingdeng, who was practicing with all his heart to draw and draw the sword, return to reality.

--Um? Is it this late?

Qingdeng looked at the sunset outside the window with surprised eyes.

Because he had been concentrating on practicing swords, Qing Deng didn't even realize that it was so late.

Kondo had previously introduced to Qingdeng that the testing hall opens at 8:00 in the morning and closes at 6:00 in the afternoon.

Qingdeng observed the sky outside the window - in a little over half an hour, the sun would completely sink below the horizon.

"That's the end of today's practice!" Okita put his hands on his hips, "Everyone, hurry up and clean up the dojo together, and then go home! The world is not very peaceful recently, everyone, don't go home too late."

After Okita's words fell, everyone in the hall answered "Yes" in unison, put down the bamboo swords in their hands, and then took out various cleaning tools such as rags and buckets to start cleaning the dojo.

This is one of the rules of the dojo in this era - unless it is a whole day, few apprentices have practiced swords in the dojo, otherwise when the sword gym is closed, the apprentices who are still in the sword gym are obliged to stay. Come down and clean up the dojo together, mainly by wiping the floor.

Apart from Qingdeng, there are a total of 9 apprentices who are still staying in the testing hall.

Because Qingdeng is a newcomer today, all the apprentices in the whole test guard are all Qingdeng's seniors.

Qingdeng just followed his seniors, picked up a rag, lay down on the ground, and wiped the dojo floor that had been "moisturized" by the sweat of many people all day long.

Okita also joined in the cleaning of the dojo.

Not only did he participate, he was also the one with the most nimble hands and feet. He wiped off one-fifth of the floor of the dojo by himself, and he wiped it extremely clean.

After successfully cleaning the sanitation, Okita stood at the door of the testing hall with his hands on his hips like a homeroom teacher standing at the gate of the elementary school and supervising the students going home, watching every student who left the hall.

"Okita-kun, goodbye."

"Well, goodbye. Remember to practice Suzhen in private after you go back. Your Suzhen still needs to be strengthened."

"Okita-kun, goodbye. I will go back to my hometown starting tomorrow, and it will take a few days before I can continue to practice swords in the sword hall."

"Well, good. Your Suzhen also needs to be strengthened, and you should practice Suzhen more on weekdays."

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At this time, Okita changed back to his previous cheerful appearance with a smile all over his face, and he no longer had the vicious and ferocious expression when he was teaching people how to learn swordsmanship just now.

Qingdeng was the last person to leave the library.

"Ju-kun, goodbye." Okita smiled and took the initiative to bid farewell to Qingdeng, "You must be very tired after practicing all day today. Remember to rest early when you go back."

"If conditions permit, it is best to set aside a little time every day to practice Suzhen."

"Suzhen is the basic skill among the basic skills, and it must be practiced frequently, often and hard."

"Yeah." Qingdeng nodded vigorously, "Mr. Okita, goodbye. You should go home earlier and rest."

"I don't need to go home." Chong Tian smiled, then stretched out his right index finger and pointed to the ground under his feet, "I will live here."

"Mr. Chongtian, did you live in the test guard hall?" Qing Deng was taken aback.

"To be precise, I live in Kondo's house." Okita explained, "Our test hall is a very typical structure where the owner's home and the dojo are integrated."

"Here, look, the room connected to the dojo is where Brother Kondo and his family usually live."

Okita raised his finger and pointed to a simple private house connected to the dojo behind the dojo.

"Our Okita family and the Kondo family have a very good relationship, almost like a family."

"For the convenience of practicing swordsmanship, I moved here not long after I first joined the trial guard hall, and lived with Brother Kondo and the others."

"Should I live directly in the sword hall...that is indeed very convenient." Qingdeng said with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

When he was in middle school in his previous life, what Qingdeng envied most was the kind of people who were so close to the school.

He is one of those students whose home is a little far from the school.

Every day to go to school, he has to step on his bicycle for half an hour.

Every time Qingdeng recalled the time when he had to step on the bicycle like a cyclist every day, he would feel a chill in his heart...

"I remember that Kondo-kun told me that his father and his mother are not at home today." Qingdeng changed his tone half-joking at this time, "And Kondo-kun is also temporarily absent due to something."

"In this way, wouldn't you be the only one living in such a big place today?"

"Yeah..." Okita smiled helplessly, "Whether it's cooking or boiling bath water tonight, I have to do it myself..."

"I'm too lazy to cook tonight, so I'll just eat something."

"Ah, speaking of Kondo-kun..." Qingdeng was startled as if remembering something at this moment, "Okita-kun, can I ask a question related to Kondo-kun?"

"Huh? What do you want to ask?"

"I heard Suzuki-kun say today: Our master is 68 years old this year." Qingdeng said slowly, "I'm a little bit concerned...the age difference between master and Kondo-kun seems to be too much, and Kondo-kun is the master. Is it your adopted son?"

Today, when listening to Mr. Suzuki introduce the "Five King Kongs" in the test hall, Qingdeng was quite concerned about the age difference between Kondo and his son.

According to Mr. Suzuki - their master Kondo Shusuke is 68 years old this year.

And Isamu Kondo, the son of Kondo Shusuke, is only about 25 years old no matter how you look at it.

The age difference of more than forty years... No matter how you look at it, it doesn't feel like a normal age difference between father and son.

"Oh, this one..." Okita, whose expression became slightly weird, raised his hand to play with the slender high ponytail on the back of his head, "You guessed right."

"Brother Kondo, he is the adopted son of the master."

"Brother Kondo was originally the son of a rich farmer in Tama, and his original name was 'Katsugoro'."

"Master, he has never had any heirs of his own. By chance, he met brother Kondo."

"Master likes Brother Kondo's character very much, and the swordsmanship talent shown by Brother Kondo also makes Master very happy."

"So, when Brother Kondo was 16 years old, he was officially adopted by the master as the adopted son of the Kondo family."

Having said that, Okita sighed.

A bit of sadness welled up between his brows.

"The identity of the 'former farmer' and the adopted son has put Kondo under a lot of pressure."

"In order not to disgrace the name of 'Kondo' and 'Natural Rishin-ryu', I have always worked harder than anyone else."

"But even though you have worked so hard, there are still a lot of annoying people who are clinging to Brother Kondo's identity as a 'former farmer'..."

"Even Kondo-san's mother..."

Having said that, Okita suddenly stopped speaking, closed his mouth tightly, and then shook his head vigorously, and the slender ponytail at the back of his head also flew up.

"Forget it! Don't talk about these unlucky things!"

Seeing that Okita seemed unwilling to discuss this topic any more, Qingdeng also kept his mouth shut in a sense of the times, and did not delve into the topic just now.

"Okay, let's talk about this first, and you should hurry up and go home."

Okita waved his hand to Qingdeng.

"It's almost completely dark. In this world, it's better not to walk at night."

"Afterwards, I remember to come here often to practice swordsmanship. There is no other way to practice swordsmanship. There is only one way to go—diligent practice."

"If it's possible, I would like to come here to practice sword every day..." This time, Qingdeng showed a helpless smile, "However, my current conditions do not allow me to do so. Starting tomorrow, I will go to Going to work... Ah, no, I'm going to Fenggong. I can only wait for the holiday again, so that I have time to continue practicing swords."

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After chatting with Chongtian for a few more words, Qingdeng held the saber at his left waist and walked quickly on the way home.

Okita stood there, silently watching Qingdeng leave.

It was not until Qingdeng's figure completely disappeared from the field of vision that Okita turned back to the museum.

I saw Okita closing the gate of the sword gym from the inside, while muttering in a somewhat smug tone:

"The next time we fight against those people from the Xuanwu Hall and Little Qianye Sword Hall...we finally have hope to defeat those stinky things...!"

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Facing the breeze blowing, Qingdeng, who was walking home, couldn't help showing a faint smile.

Today's gains are so many and so great that Qingdeng is powerless to suppress the corners of his lips.

"The talent of the sword" - the power of this talent is like a powerful reassurance pill, which calms Qingdeng's mind, which was disturbed by the death threat from the anti-barbarian faction and the property threat from Yakuza.

Today, apart from practicing swords, Qing Deng has been chatting with Chong Tian and others from time to time.

During the chat, Qingdeng learned a lot about the sword gym he had entered so far.

According to Okita, there are currently 43 apprentices in the test hall.

This number of apprentices... can only be described as bleak.

Just judging from the number of apprentices, the trial guard hall is a very typical small and medium-sized sword hall, and the number of apprentices is less than a fraction of the big sword halls such as Xuanwu Hall, Little Chiba Sword Hall, and Military Training Hall.

The number of apprentices is rare, and there are naturally not many people who can come to practice swords every day.

As of today, as of now, the trial guard hall is closed, except for Okita, there are only 14 apprentices who come to the sword hall to practice swords.

Qingdeng's only regret today is that he didn't copy his talent from anyone other than Okita.

Holding the mentality of "maybe he can copy some powerful talents", he changed his method and changed various reasons to invite every senior brother he met today to discuss.

Qingdeng is undoubtedly the focus of today's test hall.

Everyone who came to the sword hall to practice swords today knows that they have an extra talented junior who is highly praised by Kondo and makes it difficult for the "devil coach" Okita to pick his faults in swordsmanship training.

Facing this new genius junior, some people were quite enthusiastic, while others were quite indifferent.

Therefore, for Qingdeng's invitation to discuss, some people readily agreed to it, while others rejected it indifferently.

Among the 14 apprentices who came to the sword gym today, only 8 agreed to compete with Qingdeng.

Although he couldn't compete with all the seniors he met today, Qingdeng didn't care much about it. After all, his mentality was originally "If he can bring a few people over for a discussion, he will invite a few people to do a discussion."

Because the current level of swordsmanship is still quite unsatisfactory, the record of the eight senior brothers is not very good - 3 wins and 5 losses.

In these three victories, Qingdeng basically relied on the footwork skills and martial arts skills accumulated in his previous life to win.

These 8 battles, without exception - could not be copied to the talent...

But fortunately—to be able to obtain the talent of "Sword Mastery" today is already a great surprise.

Compared with this huge surprise, this little regret is nothing worth mentioning.

In addition to the "elite of the sword", Qingdeng actually gained another achievement today: through today's swordsmanship practice, he deeply felt that the physical strength of his current body urgently needs to be strengthened.

With such a light bamboo sword, after a few swipes, his arms began to feel sore, and his breath began to become unstable.

Whether it's stamina or the muscles of his hands and feet, in Qingdeng's eyes, they can only be described with the word "horrible".

Measured by the standards of ordinary people, the physical fitness of this body is not bad.

But for Qingdeng, whose personal safety and property safety are not guaranteed, such physical fitness is really difficult to deal with the threats posed by the Barbarians and Yakuza.

If you practice martial arts without practicing kung fu, it will be nothing until you grow old—this sentence has always been regarded as the most reasonable saying by Qing Deng.

No matter how well your moves are practiced, if your strength and speed cannot be improved, you may not even be able to touch the enemy.

——After that...you have to find time to exercise your physical fitness...

——I don’t know if there will be a chance to acquire any talents related to physical fitness in the future...

While kneading the muscles of his right arm, Qingdeng secretly said this in his heart.

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His footsteps were fast, and after a while, Qingdeng returned to his home in Hatchobori.

"I'm back."

As soon as he stood in front of the house, Qingdeng could smell the faint aroma of food.

After shouting "I'm back" and opening the door, Qingdeng saw his old servant Jiubei rushing out of the kitchen with a wooden spatula.

"Young master, you are back. Why did you come back so late today? How is it? Did you find any suitable sword gym in Qianshiwu?"

"Yes." Qingdeng took off the samurai sword on his left waist, and nodded with a smile, "It can be said that today is a very fruitful day."

Qingdeng told Jiubingwei what happened today in a concise manner.

After listening to Qingdeng's "one-day itinerary report", Jiubingwei first let out a low exclamation, and then said in a worried tone:

"Young master, you practiced sword for a whole day in that guard hall today? No wonder you look tired, young master..."

After saying that, Kubei picked up his spatula and turned back to the kitchen.

"Young master, you can go to the living room to rest for a while."

"Dinner will be ready soon."

"After dinner, you should go to bed earlier."

"Tomorrow, I will go back to the enforcement office to serve my duty."

"You have to rest early and recharge your spirits."

"Don't let today's fatigue affect tomorrow's Fenggong."

After hearing the word "Fenggong" from Jiubingwei's mouth, the corners of Qingdeng's mouth couldn't help twitching, and then he let out a silent sigh.

——Do you serve the public...

The short one-day vacation is over.

Tomorrow, he will return to the Beifan Institute and return to the status of "community animal".

In his previous life, he had just graduated from the police academy and before he could enter the workplace, he traveled to this strange era.

In the previous life, I didn't have time to eat public meals, but in this life, I have eaten...

Starting tomorrow, Qingdeng will formally start his official life after traveling to the Edo period.

Qingdeng felt a little apprehensive and nervous about this.

I also felt a little bit of anticipation.

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[Japanese history class starts~]

In the Edo period, people's status was limited to death.

Warriors have been warriors for generations, and commoners have been commoners for generations. Class solidification is immeasurable.

[Of course, this is just theoretically restricted to death]

A samurai became a commoner, or a commoner became a samurai-this kind of thing was not too unusual in the Edo period.

If a samurai made a serious mistake, he might be stripped of his samurai status and reduced to a commoner.

There are many ways for civilians to become warriors.

The easiest way is to become the adopted son of a samurai. As long as he can be adopted as an adopted son by a samurai, he can be automatically promoted to a samurai.

Just like Isamu Kondo mentioned in this chapter, as the son of a rich farmer, he acquired the status of a samurai after being adopted by Shusuke Kondo.

Another way is to buy it.

A large number of "taro samurai" who were too poor to eat sold their samurai origin at a low price in order to beg for stuttering.

Although the Edo shogunate strictly prohibited the buying and selling of the samurai’s native place, but in the middle and late Edo period, due to various reasons such as the decline of the shogunate’s ruling power and the collapse of rituals and music, the control over the behavior of “buying and selling the samurai’s native place” also declined a lot. You can only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.