CHAPTER 1422 STILL ORDINARY WORLDLY FOLK

"UNGGH! UNGH!!"

The messenger was on the verge of tears.

Even if all this were the most delicious food and wine, this method of eating made him feel like dying right now.

He was from a reclusive clan of martial artists! He was one of the Fang family's men!

This welcome meal went on for an hour. All three bottles of high alcohol content baijiu was in his stomach. His face was crimson and he couldn't even stand properly anymore.

"So, where is the Fang family located?" asked Tan Long with a smile. "You're done eating and you've drunk quite a bit, so why don't we have a nice chat?"

The messenger was in a daze and his head was spinning. He didn't even know what he was talking about and could barely understand what Tan Long asked him.

By the time he sobered up, he wasn't in Donghai anymore. If not for his swollen face, he might not even remember that he had gone to Donghai.

He had gone to send a letter to Jiang Ning.

He would never forget the humiliation he suffered until the day he died!

Back at Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

Tan Long was reporting all the information he got out of the messenger.

"Mount Zhongnan!" Tan Xing's eyebrows shot up and he took several deep breaths to calm himself down. "I can't believe it! I never imagined it would be like this!

They're really in that place! They're really there!"

There were rumors like this within the martial arts circle but nobody proved it and nobody would believe that anybody would go so deep into the mountainous forests to live.

These reclusive clans were really brave and able to just give up on all worldly worries, to give up any dreams of fame and success, choosing instead to enter the deep mountains to live in anonymity and to pursue a higher state of being.

"All the rumors of the martial arts circle have been proven to be true after all. But I have a bad feeling about this," sighed Tan Xing. "Nobody has ever discovered them for the past few decades, but now that the Extreme Fist Technique Manual has surfaced, they're suddenly coming out of hiding. That can't be good news.”

He was worried that something else would happen.

More than a hundred years ago, Chinese martial arts suddenly went on a decline, and the martial arts circle was soon as good as dead in no time.

Many different sects and schools ended up falling apart and even though many had returned to the scene, not many had learnt what their sects and schools taught in its entirety.

So now that these reclusive clans were appearing, Tan Xing really didn't know if it was a good thing or not.

"It's a good thing. If it's a bad thing, we'll just trample on them," said Jiang Ning calmly.

"I was very curious before this, wondering what incredible people might be hiding in these famously reclusive clans of martial artists. But after seeing the messenger today, I realize that they are all still nothing but ordinary worldly folk, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

He looked at Tan Long. "You would understand this very well, right?"

Tan Long nodded.

The way they 'welcomed' the messenger was an old custom, but the method was a little different.

But it was enough for them to see that these supposedly reclusive clans were actually not too different from themselves.

"It's not that they don't care for fame and success, but they're looking for something bigger. For example, this Extreme Fist Technique Manual."

There was probably something very special hidden in the map that was behind the manual, and that was why they were so bent on having the manual.

"Master Tan, I don't think we have to be that reverent towards these people from the reclusive clans." Tan Long paused for a moment. "They're just ordinary people."

He didn't add on that Jiang Ning wasn't an ordinary person!

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The god of Donghai!

The religion of everyone in Donghai!

Tan Xing looked at Tan Long and he could feel the slight change in him. Tan Xing had let him come under Jiang Ning's care for just a short time, but the change was significant.

"Tan Long is right. You guys are a little too reverent towards these reclusive clans for no reason," said Jiang Ning directly. "We're all part of the martial arts circle. They want to be special and become a class higher than the rest of us, but none of us agreed to let them do that!"