CHAPTER 1544 HOPE

Sima Ru wasn't dumb. He wasn't going to be fooled so easily by Fang Hongshan.

Since matters had reached this stage, there was only one possibility. Jiang Ning was very powerful, and he was powerful beyond their imagination!

Otherwise, there was no way he would have gotten his hands on so many pages, and there was no way all the reclusive clans would have suffered such severe losses at his hands.

"Sima Gao deserved to die! Sima Heng brought this on himself! Let Senior Elder deal with that part. We have to make preparations, because I sense that Mount Zhongnan is not going to remain calm anymore," said Sima Ru in a stern voice.

He hadn't been sitting around and doing nothing all these years. He had been expanding his circle of influence and the entire clan was filled with people on his team. Even though Sima Gang was the Senior Elder, he was aggressive and of high status, but he didn't have anything else.

Sima Ru was well aware of what Sima Gang was trying to do by purposely planting Sima Heng into the highest circle of the clan.

The advancement of the clan was affected by all these selfish people!

"I hope this old geezer doesn't give the Sima clan any trouble."

Sima Ru had a bad feeling about this.

Given Sima Gang's temperament, he was going to march right up to Donghai to settle this feud with Jiang Ning directly.

If that was the case, then they were certainly in trouble. Sima Ru had to make preparations in advance.

Meanwhile, over in Donghai.

Everything went on as usual.

The energy emanating from the city made the reclusive clan elders more and more befuddled, and they became more and more curious about Jiang Ning.

Over the next few days, Jiang Ning didn't limit their movement at all. They could move about freely in the city.

When they walked around outside, all the children were very polite to them. When they saw that the elders had white hair and were clearly elderly, everyone was genuinely respectful towards them.

As long as they stood around for a short period of time, someone would come forward to ask if they needed help.

Sima Quan felt like he had come to another world.

This was truly a world that was a class above the martial arts circle!

Back inside Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

Sima Quan didn't say anything and just sat by the side of the practicing arena. Nobody bothered about him and just let him watch on.

To Sima Quan, all these students were as amateur as a bunch of children.

Their moves were hilarious, but Sima Quan didn't look at them disdainfully at all. Instead, he was filled with praise for these youngsters.

"What exactly do all of you want?" Sima Quan finally turned to look at Tan Xing as he guided the students. "What is Jiang Ning trying to achieve? What is this city trying to achieve?"

Tan Xing glanced at him and didn't say anything. He continued to patiently guide the students.

"Don't any of you know about the meaning behind the boxing manual?"

Sima Quan really had many questions on his mind.

"Of course we know," Tan Xing finally replied.

"To all of you, the most important part about the manual is the secret of the map behind. But to the martial arts circle, it carries the hope of a revival." He glanced at Sima Quan. "Do you know what is the most precious thing in this era?"

"That's right, it's hope."

"The hope of an ordinary person on the street, the hope of a martial artist, the hope of this city, the hope of this world..."

"What Jiang Ning is trying to do, or rather, what Jiang Ning and his wife are trying to do, is to give more people hope. That's something that you reclusive clans will never understand."

Tan Xing spoke very calmly. He took a long time of interacting with Jiang Ning and Lin Yuzhen before he finally understood what they were trying to do.

This sort of unconditional love and broadmindedness wasn't something that these reclusive clans would understand.

Sima Quan murmured to himself. His heart started to tremble as he repeated the word 'hope' to himself.

BAM!

Suddenly, there was a loud blast from outside followed by a loud shout.

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