After concentrating, Qingdeng focused on following Okada's instructions and practiced Su Zhen.

As for Okita, he was carrying his bamboo sword and wandering around the apprentices, supervising everyone's practice.

His surveillance eyes glided over Qingdeng's body, and the surprise in his pupils flashed once.

——This person... is so awesome...!

When practicing Su Zhen, novices often make various small mistakes, such as not swinging the sword forward, but rather downward; when swinging the sword, they turn their wrists or press their wrists...

Generally speaking, it is very normal to spend several days practicing Su Zhen so that he will not make any mistakes again.

If you can use one day to give Su Zhen the standard, that is already a talented person.

And this new junior brother... he only watched him demonstrate it once, and then practiced it once, and he could use the standard so that he could not find any mistakes...

——This person’s talent...maybe even above Brother Kondo and Mr. Tuoka...

Okita's uncontrollable eyes and attention were all cast on Aoden.

The practice requirement this beautiful boy gave Qingdeng was to practice until he could no longer swing the sword. Let's see what Qingdeng's current limit is.

Standard Su Zhen, you have to use your best strength to swing each knife, so it consumes a lot of physical strength.

When he swung the 32nd knife, Qingdeng felt that the muscles in his arms were extremely sore and it was difficult to raise his arms again, so he had no choice but to give up his practice and whisper to Okata, "I can't swing anymore."

"Well... Not bad." Okata dragged the bamboo sword slowly to Qingdeng's side, "I have been observing you silently just now to see if your movements are standard."

"You did a lot better than I expected."

"Except for the last few blows, which caused the posture to become a little messed up due to insufficient physical strength, each of the rest is quite standard."

"I feel a little embarrassed..." Qingdeng smiled bitterly, "I can't swing it after just 32 swords..."

——This body is really weak!

Qing Dengdi complained about his new body many times.

"Beginners don't need to pay too much attention to the number of Su Zhen." Okita smiled slightly, "Whether Su Zhen's movements are standard is the most important thing."

“It’s better not to practice a thousand non-standard practices.”

"I originally wanted to use all my time today to teach you how to keep it alive."

A helplessness slowly emerged on Okita's face.

"But your progress rate... is far beyond my imagination. Your Suzhen has no other place to correct, so go to the next step of practice."

"Next, I'll teach you how to draw and close the knife."

"Drawing the sword and retracting the sword are the foundations of swordsmanship. If you can't even draw the sword and retract it well, then don't talk about swordsmanship."

"You can take a little rest now and call me after the rest. I'll get you the props to practice drawing and collecting swords."

"yes."

...

...

Qingdeng rested for half an hour before finally feeling the soreness in his arms dissipated most of the time.

After informing Okita that he had finished resting, Okita ran to the dojo and took two wooden knives with sheaths back.

"So heavy..." After taking the wooden knife handed over by Okina, the unexpected weight from the wooden knife made Qingdeng scream in a low voice.

"This is a wooden knife specially used to practice drawing and retracting the knife." Okita explained, "It has been specially increased to perfectly simulate the weight of the real knife."

Qing Deng weighed the sheathed wooden knife in his hand - in terms of weight, it was really the same as the real knife.

"Okay, watch me demonstrate now." Okita put the wooden knife on his left waist. "There is only one key point for drawing the knife and retracting the knife - let your hand draw the shortest route to touch the knife, and do not do any unnecessary movements."

"Look carefully."

After saying that, Okada suddenly raised his right hand, pressed the wooden knife on his left waist, and pulled it out of the sheath.

call--!

The knife was unsheathed, causing a harsh sound of air being cut.

After pulling the knife out neatly, Okita retracted the wooden knife with the same neat movement.

Okita's move just now was the same as Su Zhen he demonstrated before, clean and concise, making even those who don't understand swords want to shout: "Awesome!"

"When drawing the knife, remember to hold the knife in this way..."

Okita briefly introduced to Qingdeng various movement details that need to be paid attention to when drawing and retracting the knife.

After the speech was finished, he turned his hands and the bamboo sword in his hand behind him.

"Okay. You can try it yourself now."

"yes."

Qingdeng broke his feet and lowered his center of gravity. He imitated Okita's previous movement and slowly stroked his right hand to the wooden knife on his left waist.

Looking at Qingdeng who was about to draw his sword, Okita said in his heart in a look forward to a little proud tone:

——Drawing the sword and retracting the sword... This is not enough to be practiced in one or two strokes, right?

After seeing Aoden's amazing talent, Okita developed a strange curiosity in his heart - a curiosity that wanted to explore the depth of Aoden's talent.

Okita, who was looking forward to the look of expectation in his eyes, looked at Qingdeng, who had already pressed the handle of the knife with his right hand.

The "high-speed camera" in Qingdeng's mind was opened again at this moment-

call!

The wooden knife's blade was quickly pulled out of the sheath inch by inch, while Okada's eyes opened a little by little.

After pulling out the wooden knife, Qingdeng imitated Okita's previous action and retracted the knife back into the sheath.

——This person...has he really not received formal swordsmanship training before?!

Whether Qingdeng was Su Zhen before or just drawing his sword and retracting his sword, Okada looked at it, it didn't seem like an action that a beginner could do.

Not even a veteran of swordsman can do such beautiful movements.

However, in the competition between Aoden and Suzuki he had just seen, Aoden's extremely childish sword swinging movement clearly told him that this junior brother is indeed a newcomer who has never been involved in swordsmanship before...

——If... he really hasn't received any formal swordsmanship before... then his talent...

Okita's eyes gradually became solemn... No, it should be said that they became weird and "terrible".

Qingdeng, who was stared at Okita's gaze, couldn't help but say:

"That... Okina-kun?"

"Ah." Okita, who woke up from a dream, blew up, "I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted just now."

"Your movements just now are good. It's rare for beginners to use such a level of movements."

"But you haven't done it right now."

Okata walked up and carefully explained to Qingdeng what details he had not done just now.

After Okita's correction, and then Aoten practiced several times by himself, Okita nodded.

"For the rest of the time, you should concentrate on practicing drawing and retracting the knife." Okita instructed, "Let's practice 40 times first. Remember to set the standard of the movements when practicing, and don't ignore the standard of the movements in order to complete the number of exercises as soon as possible."

After giving Qingdeng a new practice task, Okina took his bamboo sword and went to supervise and check the other people's practice.

After Okita left, Aoden began to follow Okita's instructions just now and concentrate on drawing and closing the sword.

And at this moment, Uehara, who had been practicing Suzhen under Okina's command, finally completed a series of practice tasks assigned by Okina and sat next to Aoten's side and rested with sweat.

While massaging the muscles of his arms, he suddenly spoke to Qingdeng:

"Brother, you are so awesome. This is the first time I have seen Okita Jun so gentle and kind when guiding swordsmanship."

Uehara's appearance and voice all exudes a sense of boldness.

"Brother, where are you from? Where are you dedicated to the public?"

"I am a native of Edo." Aoto said, "I am currently working in the Edo Kitabashi, and I am the unity of the Edo Kitabashi.

After briefly introducing herself to Uehara, Aoden saw Uehara's eyes lit up suddenly.

"You turned out to be a 'Three Times' Warrior!"

He only heard that in an impatient tone, he asked Qingdeng urgently:

"Brother, since you are a 'Three Times' Warrior, can I ask you something?"

"Hmm? Please say."

Uehara, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor, leaned her upper body forward in the direction where Aoden was, and her breathing became a little thicker.

"I heard that the little cat monk who has made a lot of noise in Edo recently is a female ninja who is proficient in ninjutsu. Is this true?"

Qingdeng's hands, who were practicing drawing and closing the knife, stopped involuntarily.

"Ha?" Qingdeng tilted his head to Uehara, "Cat Monk? Female Ninja?"

Inheriting all the memories of "Yuan Ju Qingdeng", Qingdeng naturally knew who the cat monk was.
To be continued...