CHAPTER 1449 THE DIGNITY OF A MARTIAL ARTIST
Back at Extreme Martial Arts Academy.
Jiang Ning was still kneeling before the coffin.
Three days had passed.
Lin Yuzhen stayed by his side because she knew that Jiang Ning needed someone by his side right now and that was something she ought to do for him. This belongs to : ©.
"Regardless of what you've done, you will always hear nasty comments." Jiang Ning looked at the altar in front of the coffin. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I know you were worried about me clashing with these reclusive clans. But didn't you think that I would make them pay the price for pushing you to your death?"
He clenched his fists.
He had already sorted himself out.
No matter whether this man was He Daoren or His Lordship, he was his teacher all the same. He was the same man who brought him up for more than ten years, molded his character and taught him martial arts.
Even until the day he died, he was still protective of Jiang Ning and had taken on all the suffering and angst by himself.
But didn't he regret it?
He hadn't been able to rescue the woman he loved even till the day he died.
"He Daoren doesn't want you to follow in his footsteps, I suppose." Lin Yuzhen pursed her lips and took a deep breath. "He's gone through the pain of being separated from the one he loves, so he doesn't want you to go through that.”
He had been separated from the one he loved most for twenty years!
She couldn't imagine and didn't want to imagine that sort of pain. How could she empathize if she hadn't gone through it herself?
If she had to be separated from Jiang Ning or be unable to ever see him again, Lin Yuzhen felt that it would be the darkest days of her life.
She...she wouldn't be able to go on living!
Jiang Ning took a deep breath, turned to look at Lin Yuzhen, then pulled her into his arms.
"I won't let you leave my side. Nobody in the world will be able to separate us." He held onto Lin Yuzhen and gently caressed her long hair. "Nobody will be able to!"
Jiang Ning collected He Daoren's ashes.
Lin Yuzhen went back to the office.
Lin Group was now expanding rapidly and the company needed her to make many decisions every single day. She couldn't stop in her footsteps at all.
Back at the Extreme Martial Arts Academy.
Jiang Ning was seated in the middle of the hall while Tan Xing and the rest sat on both sides.
Everyone here were highly respected advanced grandmasters of the martial arts circle.
The Fang family had sent people to make trouble at He Daoren's funeral and they had been both audacious and arrogant, so everyone was furious!
On top of that, Fang Hongshan had boldly proclaimed how worthless the martial arts circle was, and the prideful look on his face was something that made all of them uncomfortable.
"These reclusive clans really think that they're above other people," said one of them angrily as he clenched his fists. "Do they think we're just ants that they can bully and humiliate as they wish?"
Even someone like He Daoren had been controlled by them. They had threatened and made use of him for twenty years, and in the end, even after losing his life, he still didn't manage to rescue the person he wanted to.
These so called reclusive clans didn't value their lives at all.
What was this about being removed from the world to gain a higher insight? That was bullshit!
"The academy has gathered everyone together, and I think it's an excellent thing," said Tan Xing. "The martial arts circle has been on the decline for too long, so there are many people who look down on us and even want to humiliate us. But I will never let this happen!"
Everyone else in the room nodded in agreement.
All of them had the dignity of a martial artist. There was no way anybody else could simply trample on these seniors' determination and beliefs.
Tan Xing looked at all of them and declared, "Everyone, Jiang Ning is the head of this academy and his main aim of
setting this place up was so that everyone would have a place to interact with each other so that nothing left behind from the martial arts circle will go extinct."
"He's even taken out something as precious as the Extreme Fist Technique Manual and shared it with everyone, so I'm sure nobody will doubt his sincerity, right?"