Martial Arts Song

Chapter 297 Harada Keita
"Mr. Shangquan, Jueying has proven that he can control his abilities in minute detail. It was you who interfered with the competition and broke the rules. How do you explain this?"

This voice once again questioned Shizuji Kamiizumi.

But this time, Kamiizumi Seiji didn't say anything. He just silently squinted his eyes and looked at the "Jueying" in front of him.

"Jueying" looked at him without any fear.

When the masters around saw that Shizue Kamiizumi didn't say anything, they started criticizing him again.

"Old man, speak up! Why are you mute?"

"Old man, according to your Ryuo tradition, shouldn't you commit seppuku to atone for your crime?"

"Is this the character of Ryuo's sword master? He refuses to admit his mistakes even after he has done them?"

"Do you think you'll be alright if you don't say anything? As the old saying goes in our Yang country, admit your mistakes and stand at attention when you're beaten! Since you broke the rules first, don't even think about leaving here if you don't apologize today!"

……

One heart-piercing word after another came out of the mouths of each master.

However, Shizuji Kamiizumi remained unmoved.

But he remained unmoved, but his apprentice Takasugi Naoto could not stand it.

"It's none of my master's business!"

Takasugi Naoto, who was blown away by the blast and hit a member of the Ryuo Security Team, had already stood up again and walked out from among several Ryuo Security Team members behind the ring with a katana in his hand.

He shouted loudly first, and then after everyone around him looked at him, he looked at "Jueying", spread his arms and shouted loudly: "You are very strong, but I haven't lost yet, continue to cut with the sword you just used, I will never avoid it! After I take it, you and I will continue to fight!"

However, the masters around him did not buy into his words.

A master standing on the ring, who was closest to him, laughed coldly and said, "That's easy for you to say, and you pretend to be upright, but don't think we don't know your tricks!"

"You are a practitioner of Qi, so you should know the importance of Qi to a warrior very well! After Jueying made those two strikes, his Qi was no longer at its peak. And you knew that things had gotten to this point, and he couldn't really strike you again in front of so many people. So you used this high-sounding excuse to continue to consume him. What were you thinking?"

"Everyone present here is an expert. You may be able to fool laymen with these words, but you are too naive to play such tricks in front of us!"

With just a few words, the master revealed the trick in Takasugi Naoto's words.

This made those who had originally thought that Takasugi Naoto was quite upright come to their senses.

Of course, there are still some things that I haven’t savored yet.

"Master, what does that master mean by this?"

Chen Qing and others are here.

Next to Xin Guiqing, his chief disciple turned his head and asked in a puzzled voice after hearing these words.

Upon hearing this, Xin Guiqing frowned slightly, looked at Lu Hongfeng who was not far away, and said, "Master Lu, I am not good at practicing Qi. You are an expert in this area. Could you please explain it to this stupid disciple of mine?"

After hearing this, Lu Hongfeng frowned slightly.

But in the end, he still spoke and explained the trick to Xin Guiqing's first disciple and the surrounding disciples who didn't understand the reasons.

Chen Qing was standing in the crowd, so he naturally heard it.

However, he didn't actually need to listen because he understood all this knowledge.

The means by which a master of "Qi training" fights his enemies is mainly by relying on his own "Qi".

However, "Qi" is not infinite. Instead, through practicing Qigong, the energy contained in the body can be trained out and stored in the Dantian Qi Sea.

And the more this stored "qi" is used, the less it becomes.

If you use up all your Qi in fighting with others before your Qi reaches the stage of transformation, then all your years of Qigong training will have been in vain!
Therefore, people who practice qigong are generally calm and peaceful, and seldom fight with others.

The main reason is that they are afraid of consuming the "Qi" they have cultivated when fighting with others.

Even for masters who have transformed through "qi training", their qi is still limited.

It’s just that, for masters who have transformed through “Qi training”, they don’t have to worry about consuming all the Qi they practice, because the Qi they practice has already been transformed. Even if it is all consumed in a fight, when they practice again, it will be the transformed “Qi” and they don’t need to start all over again.

Of course, if you use up all your Qi before defeating your opponent in a fight, you will lose this aspect of your fighting style in the next fight and will be at a disadvantage.

To use the more easy-to-understand words of Chen Qing's previous life, "Qi" is actually blue energy.

Once it is used up, then there will be no means for a master of "Qi training" and it will be easy to suffer losses in this regard in the next battle.

In addition, "Qi" also affects the physical strength of warriors during combat, so masters generally do not easily use "Qi" directly, and will only use it at critical moments that can determine victory or defeat.

Because directly using "Qi" consumes a huge amount of energy and is not cost-effective, if it is used to support physical energy consumption, it can maintain the physical combat endurance for a long time.

The idea of ​​Naoto Takasugi was to consume the "energy" of "Jueying".

If Shizuji Kamiizumi had not stepped in to stop it at that time, "Jueying" would have been able to kill Takasugi Naoto with one sword.

But now, due to the intervention of Shizue Kamiizumi, "Jueying" has already made two strikes.

The sword energy it released was so huge, so the amount of "qi" consumed was naturally a lot as well.

Naoto Takasugi now wants to trick the other party into making a third move, and he also portrays himself as being upright and honest. Naturally, the masters around him cannot stand this.

Of course, although Chen Qing knew all this and understood the meaning of the masters' words, he still just stood silently in the crowd without saying a word.

He even deliberately blended in with the other disciples to make himself look more like an ordinary disciple who had not yet practiced kung fu and "transformed".

Although the disciples led by Luo Zongping and others wore training uniforms of three colors, due to the previous crowd, these people were not clearly separated, but stood together.

This made him blend in without seeming out of place.

Just when Chen Qing was mixed in with the other disciples, Lu Hongfeng was explaining the reasons for what had just happened to the disciples around him.

The situation ahead has changed again!
After Takasugi Naoto's conspiracy was exposed, his face suddenly turned ugly.

Afterwards, the master and disciple were both criticized by the masters around them.

But before the masters around could use verbal abuse for long, suddenly!
At the two intersections of "Hongjiang Road", a large number of joint security team members wearing uniforms of various colors and styles and holding rifles suddenly poured out!

Among the members of these joint security teams, there are the yellow-skinned Ryuying Security Team and the white-skinned security teams from various countries in the Western Continent.

In addition to people, there were jeeps armed with machine guns, military trucks equipped with mortars, and even a few tanks!
After the members of the Joint Security Team and the armed forces came in, a white sheriff from the Westland wearing a uniform in a slowly moving jeep said with the same loudspeaker: "No one is allowed to move! The Joint Security Team is in action! All armed forces that are not members of the Joint Security Team, please put away your weapons immediately and leave the concession!"

The white sheriff from Westland spoke these words in the Central Chinese dialect, and the target group was self-evident.

As he spoke, members of the joint security team who had poured in from both ends of the street also came to the crowd in the middle of the street, raised their guns, and aimed at the martial arts disciples who stayed there.

Moreover, the members of the joint security team spoke the Central Chinese language with various strange accents and shouted to the martial arts disciples in the outer circle: "Get down! Put your hands up and squat!"

The sudden change made the many martial arts disciples who were already somewhat at a loss panic. The outermost martial arts disciples were timid and fell behind intentionally or unintentionally. Now they were pointed at with guns by the joint security team of the International Settlement. They were afraid and raised their hands and slowly squatted down.

The behavior of these disciples also caused a chain reaction, causing the martial arts disciples in the outer circle to panic and raise their hands and squat down.

Fortunately, not all the martial arts school disciples were timid, and one of them immediately shouted loudly:

"Stand up! What are you squatting for? Are you going to squat when these Westerners tell you to? Where is the courage of you Central Country people?! Stand up!"

"Everyone, stand up! This is Hu Hai! This is our country! Hong Jiang Road was rented to these Westerners by those pigtailed bastards from Ning Dynasty! We are not going to be bullied by these white people on our own land!"

"That's right! There are so many of us, there's no need to be afraid of them!"

With the passionate shouts, many of the martial arts school disciples who had originally raised their hands and squatted stood up again.

When the members of the joint security team saw the martial arts disciples standing up, they frowned, took off the safety of their rifles and loaded them.

The conflict is imminent!
But just then——

"Bang!!!"

"boom!"

"Crackle, crackle, crackle..."

A loud bang sounded again!

But what was different from before was that this time the loud noise was accompanied by other explosions and noisy sounds!

At the same time, countless cement fragments splashed down from the sky, and smoke and dust filled the air above!
The crowd and cars below, which were about to clash, stopped because of the sudden loud noise and explosion. They subconsciously squatted to avoid it, and then looked up at the explosion site.

Then, everyone saw that there was a big hole like a window in the wall of a high-rise building next to "Hongjiang Road" street!
It was as if it had been hit by a bomb!
Looking at this big hole, everyone couldn't help but show some degree of lingering fear on their faces.

Cannon gun!

This is the power of the cannon!

With the power of one shot, a hole as big as a window was directly broken in the concrete wall!

Just as the people on the street calmed down, the voice above their heads that had been using the loudspeaker rang again: "Inspector Charles, this is a matter between our Central State Party and Liuying Party. Are you sure you want to intervene?"

Hearing this voice, the white sheriff who was sitting in the back of the jeep on the street below and who had just been shouting with a loudspeaker, looked away from the big hole made by the cannon with a look of fear on his face.

Then, he held the loudspeaker in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Since you said it's a matter between the Central State Party and the Liuying Party, then let the Liuying Party's people come and talk to you."

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at the black vintage car followed by the Joint Security Team behind him, and shouted: "Mr. Harada, the Central State Party invites you to discuss the matter here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rear door of the black vintage car parked in the group of joint security teams opened with a "click".

A middle-aged man, less than 1.7 meters tall, thin, with a middle-parted hair, wearing a suit, and with a square beard on his philtrum, got out of the car.

Then, he walked all the way to the jeep where the white sheriff called "Charier" was riding, reached out to take the loudspeaker, and said to the sky: "I am the deputy consul of the Ryusakura Consulate, 'Harada Keita'. This time it was our residents who caused this conflict. I am very sorry. On behalf of the Ryusakura side, I apologize to all the Central Chinese present."

After saying that, the man put down the loudspeaker and bowed repeatedly to the martial arts masters and disciples in front of him.

This scene stunned the people from the Central Kingdom present.

This joint security team came with great force, and they thought they were up to no good.

But who would have thought that this deputy consul named "Keita Harada" would actually admit his mistake and apologize like this!

For a moment, all the Central Chinese people present were confused.

"Harada Keita..."

in the crowd.

When Chen Qing heard this name, his brows slowly frowned.

He didn't expect that this time he would encounter so many targets that he had seen in the "Cloud" organization's task folder.

Of course, he was just subconsciously recalling this person's information in his mind and didn't have any other thoughts.

Just as he was recalling the information about this person, in response to the apology of "Harada Keita", a master said: "What's the point of your apology? It's not you who broke the rules, and we don't need your apology. It's the person who made the mistake who should apologize!"

After hearing what this master said, the other masters also reacted and echoed:

"Right! Whoever did something wrong should apologize! There's no point in apologizing on someone else's behalf!"

"That's right! We don't want your apology, we want his!"

"Kamiizumi Shizuji, apologize!"

"Old man, apologize!"

For a moment, the surroundings turned into the same criticism as before.

After hearing this, "Harada Keita" suddenly looked embarrassed and looked at Shizuji Kamiizumi who was surrounded.

The latter remained expressionless and said nothing.

The inspector "Charrier" who had originally arrived with the joint security team frowned when he saw that "Harada Keita" had brought the situation to this point.

But no matter how embarrassed "Keita Harada" was, or how Charles frowned, the voices around him calling for an apology were getting louder and louder.

In the end, with an embarrassed look on his face, "Harada Keita" chose to compromise.

He picked up Inspector Charles's loudspeaker again and said helplessly to the people in front of him, "Okay, but please give me some time to persuade Mr. Shangquan."

Seeing that he agreed, the masters around him stopped denouncing him.

One of the masters said, "Okay, we'll give you some time to persuade you, but we can only persuade you here! We have to watch!"

Upon hearing this, "Harada Keita" couldn't help but look embarrassed again.

But in the end, he nodded.

Then, he was seen walking through the crowd and, in full view of everyone, came to the side of the surrounded Kamiizumi Shizuji.

Then, "Keita Harada" whispered a few words to Shizue Kamiizumi, and then the two of them got into the extended car behind Shizue Kamiizumi to discuss.

When the masters around saw this scene, they all folded their arms, waiting for the result.

Only Chen Qing, who was in the crowd at the back, frowned after seeing this scene.

This "Harada Keita" seems to be different from what he knew...

(End of this chapter)