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During the summer, Hua Zheng went on a trip to Japan and experienced another change.
In Japan, Hua Zheng went to the old site of the military academy in Tokyo. It was no longer a military academy. After being bombed by the Americans in 1945, the defeated Japan abolished the academy. The place was first turned into a slum, then a viaduct. Decades of change had taken place, and the world had changed. After that, the Japanese created a fake military officer school site and moved it out of the suburbs of Tokyo. It was already a tourist and pseudo-cultural site. It had nothing to do with the former military officer school. If there was a connection, it would be the fact that the name of the school was still the same as before.
Due to Hua Zheng's special request, Japan arranged for a tour guide to take him to the new military academy. Hua Zheng told the tour guide that it was definitely not the place. The tour guide and interpreter was a China student. He told Hua Zheng that there was only one military academy in Japan. At the same time, he asked for help from two Japanese security guards who always followed Hua Zheng around. One of the older guards told the tour guide that the old military academy could no longer be found.
Hua Zheng asked one of the guards to drive while he sat in the back. He asked them to follow his directions. He did not know the way, so he could only give them a general direction.
After three hours of searching, Hua Zheng told them that it was the place. Looking at the scenery in front of them, the three of them could not associate this place with the famous military academy of the past. They did not dare to believe it, nor did they want to believe it. Chen Weizheng was in a car from the Japan Security Administration. He found a place to park in the middle of the street. Hua Zheng told the security guard to park the car there. He needed to sit in the car for an hour. The security guard told Hua Zheng that there were rules that prohibited parking. Hua Zheng smiled and said, "That's your business. I don't care." Then, he got into the car and closed the door, leaving a tour guide and two security guards staring at each other outside.
Hua Zheng didn't know why he had come to this place. It was only when he entered a meditative state that he felt a large amount of information entering his brain. He couldn't reject it, nor could he block it. He could only passively accept it. Soon, Hua Zheng knew that this was some extremely excellent information. Not only did it contain new information, but it also effectively sorted out his previous knowledge. It made his consciousness clearer, his thinking smoother, and his understanding of painting and music deeper. Hua Zheng believed that he had encountered a mysterious inheritance. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He didn't know that this was partially unraveled by the divine sense that Mr. Fang Zhen had left in his mind. This was the place where Mr. Fang Zhen first became famous. Here, he became the top graduate of the year and won the prize. It was the commander's sword that was given to him by the King of Meiji. If it weren't for a coincidence, the divine sense that had left in Hua Zheng's mind wouldn't have been unraveled so quickly. Although it was only unraveling the information of Mr. Fang Zhen before he was 23 years old, to Hua Zheng, it was as vast as the East Sea.
After staying in the car for an hour and a half, the three people outside felt like a day and a half had passed. When they finally saw Hua Zheng open the car door, they breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't know why this boy from Shin Myung Province came to this place for such a long time. They only knew that if the traffic police came looking for trouble, they could only delay them as much as possible. If the traffic police came to tow the car, they could only use guns. This was because the higher-ups had told them that this boy was the most important member of the Shin Myung Province tour group. All of his requests had to be met, and he couldn't be harmed in any way.
When Hua Zheng asked them to get in the car and leave, the security guard realized that at both ends of the road, the traffic police were already guiding the car to take a detour. The place they were at before was already a restricted area. No wonder they didn't see any traffic police or even cars. It turned out that they weren't fighting alone. The entire system was closely protecting this child's safety. The security guard couldn't help but feel his back go numb, and he broke out in cold sweat.
This was the only time that Hua Zheng left the group. The rest of the time, he followed the group and went on the trip according to the schedule. Unlike before, he didn't talk much and spent most of his time thinking. During the ten nights in Japan, Hua Zheng spent them all meditating. He was doing one thing, which was to use his new knowledge to explain the Green Cloud Art.
When Mr. Fang Zhen was young, he had received a good traditional education. His family had a long history of learning, and his grandfather was a book collector. He was diligent in his studies, and his writing was excellent. He was admired by the local county magistrate and was recommended to the prefectural school. Later on, because of his intelligence, he received funding from Governor Lin and County Magistrate Fang to study in Tokyo. In 1905, he graduated from the 13th class of the Tokyo Military Academy.
Hua Zheng's love for reading was influenced by Fang Zhen's thoughts. He was involved in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and was also guided by Mr. Fang Zhen's divine sense. It could be said that other than the Jiefu Quan and the Green Cloud Art, Hua Zheng mostly had traces of Mr. Fang Zhen. Perhaps it was because Mr. Fang Zhen's divine sense was especially focused on the Green Cloud Art. Therefore, once a part of it was unlocked, the first thing he paid attention to was the Green Cloud Art.
Using Mr. Fang Zhen's knowledge to understand the Green Cloud Art benefited Hua Zheng greatly. His Green Cloud Art was taught by Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu's understanding of the Green Cloud Art came from Zheng Qijie. Zheng Qijie was from the same generation as Mr. Fang Zhen, and was younger than Mr. Fang Zhen by 20 years. When he was studying, he had already entered the New Culture Movement, and some of the traditional ideas were broken and distorted. From then on, China entered a period of impatience. Until now, there were still no new cultural theories and moral standards. People could only live according to their own understanding, and were impulsive and selfish.
The trip hadn't ended, and Hua Zheng had long lost interest in traveling. He just wanted to return to Shin Myung Province as soon as possible, and find a safe place in the palace to practice. During the last two days of the trip, the bored Hua Zheng began to dig out the Japanese foundation that Mr. Fang Zhen had left for him. He looked for a translator to learn Japanese, and used this method to pass the time. What made the translator speechless was that in just two days, Hua Zheng's Japanese had become very fluent, and he spoke with a pure Tokyo accent. The translator could only say that he was a genius, and in front of a real genius, knowledge was so simple.
At noon on the day of their return, the Emperor of Japan held a farewell dinner for the tour group, and they had a big meal in the Japanese palace. During the banquet, Hua Zheng spoke on behalf of Shin Myung Province, thanking the Emperor of Japan for his care and hospitality. Not only did he enjoy the beautiful scenery of Japan, but he also appreciated the local customs of Japan. He was very grateful, and he invited the Emperor to travel to Shin Myung Province when he was free. The moment he opened his mouth, he spoke fluent Japanese. Not only did it shock his companions from Shin Myung Province, but it also shocked the Japanese people. That was the legendary aristocratic accent, an extremely noble way of speaking Japanese. Many Japanese linguists had been examining the Japanese language of a hundred years ago, and they felt that the language of that time was filled with culture and pride. Because of the destruction caused by the bombing, the traditional Japanese language was also quite damaged. The recording of Hua Zheng's speech immediately became the most precious treasure of those Japanese linguists. After the meal, Hua Zheng waved his brush and splashed ink, and in front of everyone, he painted a painting of "Fuji Hanqiu". The style of the painting was different from before, and it was full of vigor and grandeur. The Crown Prince of Japan regarded it as a treasure, and on the first day of the tenth month, during Xiao Zhu's wedding, he specially found an excuse to come to Shin Myung Province, just to ask Hua Zheng for advice on painting. Who would have thought that instead of comparing their painting skills, he would sing loudly during the wedding, and countless cameras would record it. When he saw it the next day, he was interested in public manholes for the first time, and he only wanted to find a place to hide.
On the flight back, Chen Weizhong's wife, Nong Lidan, a Chinese teacher from Longshan First High School, asked Hua Zheng where he learned Japanese. Hua Zheng told this aunt-cum-teacher that he had always liked to play Japanese games, and unknowingly, he had learned some bits and pieces of Japanese. This time, he had been in Japan for more than ten days, and he had put in a lot of effort to systematize these bits and pieces into Japanese. In fact, Japanese was quite easy to learn, and it was like the dialect of Nanliu.
Nong Lidan could only lament that there was nothing a capable person couldn't do.
After returning to Shin Myung Province, Hua Zheng stayed in the quiet room that Liu Yi had arranged for him for ten days, and he only ate an apple and water every day. When he came out after ten days, he had lost a lot of weight, and he looked taller and more mature. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he had been reborn. In the ninth month, Hua Zheng entered the puberty stage, and his voice started to become hoarse, and he began to grow taller. By the eleventh month, he had already broken through the 170cm mark. When he sat next to the Crown Prince of Japan, they were about the same height, except that the Crown Prince was slightly chubbier.
On the second day of the tenth month, Hua Zheng returned to his cultivation room and went into seclusion. He discovered that the best supplement for growing taller was cultivation. The energy gained from cultivation would directly enter his taller body and replenish his Innate Spiritual Qi. In fact, he did not understand that after he entered a meditative state, what replenished his body was not the little bit of Spiritual Qi that he had cultivated, but the large amount of Metal Qi that Chen Weizheng had given him. Every day, after he entered a meditative state, the replenishment of more than a hundred Metal Qi Balls was the real source. Chen Weizheng's greatest hope now was to explain to Hua Zheng about the Green Cloud Art after he had finished a period of cultivation. This was because Hua Zheng's rapid improvement proved that he had found a more accurate explanation than Xiao Yu. In the eyes of more than a hundred people, there were more than a hundred Green Cloud Arts! Who was the most accurate, no one knew.
It was not until the end of the tenth month that Hua Zheng's seclusion came to an end. The screen showed that Hua Zheng had broken through the Body Tempering Stage in one fell swoop, and entered the late stage of Qi Accumulation Stage. This was really quite powerful. His height had also reached 1.75m, and the sportswear he wore before had become a crop top.
On the day he came out of seclusion, his mother, Liu Yi, made Hua Zheng's favorite dishes. He ate until he was sweating profusely and patting his stomach. Looking at his son who had eaten his fill, Chen Weizheng impatiently pulled Hua Zheng into his study. He opened the 《Green Cloud Art》 and asked Hua Zheng to explain it word by word, explaining it, and getting to the bottom of it, afraid that he would miss anything. Hua Zheng did not hide anything, and seriously sorted out his understanding of the 《Green Cloud Art》. Through this sorting out, and with his father by his side to clarify some of his past ambiguous understandings, his understanding of the 《Green Cloud Art》 became more systematic and more accurate, and the benefits were not shallow.
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