Chapter 135: Address Your Title at Work

Upon leaving the classroom and being hit by the outdoor night breeze, Shi Feizhe calmed down a lot.

This feeling of awkwardness and incompatibility had been with him ever since he came to this world.

You feel that you and others are all human, all in the same Jianghu. But your behavior patterns, thinking logic, and worldviews are completely different.

It’s difficult to understand and communicate with each other.

Just like his two years of arguments with Old Man Yuan, and his many disagreements with Shan Xu.

You and others have completely opposite views on the same matter.

Sometimes, Shi Feizhe felt like he was walking in a future world full of intelligent bionic humans.

Those people in the Jianghu were like intelligent bionic humans.

They are “human”, but also not “human”.

He had already seen it during that failed lesson earlier.

Most people in the Jianghu were illiterate and lacked clear logic. Their understanding of martial arts manuals was very subjective, with no concept of right or wrong.

If they guessed correctly, they became martial artists.

If they guessed wrong, they would reincarnate early and try again.

There was also the kind who guessed wrong but didn’t die from practicing, instead becoming martial artists in a confused manner, just like the Celestial Maiden Sect, such a demonic sect.

The more mistakes they made, the more they grew, until later generations didn’t even know what was a correct manual and what was a wrong one.

As long as they could practice it successfully, who cared about the rest.

Just like Guan Shan, all that mattered was becoming a skilled martial artist through practice. What use was arithmetic!

Since arithmetic was useless, then were good and evil, righteousness, right and wrong, also useless?

As long as one became a martial arts expert, the means didn’t matter, what mattered was being a martial arts expert!

Jianghu…

It was this realistic.

Shi Feizhe looked at the dark night sky, like a dark curtain covering the Jianghu.

The Jianghu was sick.

Should he go with the flow and be sick with the Jianghu, becoming a carefree Jianghu person who only cared about their own happiness?

Of course not!

He had to cure the Jianghu’s illness!

If you don’t accumulate small steps, how can you walk a thousand miles?

He would start by teaching the few people around him well!

He had to prepare this lesson again! Lower the difficulty, lower it to the first grade level…

Thinking about this, Shi Feizhe returned to his room and began to recall the curriculum of first grade.

In the classroom, as soon as Old Man Fan left the room, he saw Xiong Ba looking at him.

He indicated that he understood and followed Xiong Ba.

“Brother Shan, should we follow them and see?” Huang Goudan nudged Guan Shan and said.

Guan Shan glanced at him and said, “With our level of cultivation, let’s not get involved in this. What if we disappear one day? While Academy Head Shi can avenge us, wouldn’t we have died for nothing?”

“…Brother Shan! You’re right!” Huang Goudan thought about his own meager skills, which were nothing in front of Old Man Fan and Xiong Ba.

“I’m going back to practice martial arts!” Guan Shan said.

After reaching the See the Truth stage, he felt like he had opened a new chapter. Martial arts had opened its doors to him, and he wanted to practice diligently and become the best in the world!

“Brother Shan is truly diligent. I’m going back to study the Supreme Wisdom that Academy Head Shi talked about,” Huang Goudan said.

“Uh… about the Supreme Wisdom, take it easy!” Guan Shan said, turning and heading towards his room.

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Huang Goudan closed the classroom door and left as well.

Old Man Fan followed Xiong Ba and soon arrived at the room where Jiang Ning was staying.

Jiang Ning was meditating in the room, with black blood she had vomited beside the bed.

The poison of Ghostly Manor was truly formidable!

“You’re here!” She glanced at Old Man Fan and said.

“Fan Xiang greets Miss Jiang!” Old Man Fan bowed to Jiang Ning as a subordinate.

“Address your title at work!” Jiang Ning’s words seemed to be snorted out from her nose.

“Fan Xiang greets Chief Steward Jiang!” Old Man Fan bowed again as a servant and said.

They, the members of the subordinate manors under the Jiang family, could be considered servants of the Jiang family, so naturally they had to perform servant’s etiquette.

“Hmm~ speak, what’s the situation here!” Jiang Ning said.

“More than ten days ago, the hero Fan Jianqiang suddenly appeared, killed the Grand Chief Manager, drove away the people in the manor, and then sold the manor to Shi Feizhe. Shi Feizhe then transformed Ghostly Manor into a martial arts academy,” Old Man Fan, feeling the sword Qi within his body, picked what he could say and spoke.

“I heard that Fan Jianqiang is also an expert in sword Qi. Is it possible that they are the same person?” Jiang Ning thought about the intelligence she had seen on the way here.

The intelligence contained a lot of information about Fan Jianqiang’s moves and martial arts.

“It’s possible, but not certain,” Old Man Fan said according to Shi Feizhe’s instructions. “They could be senior and junior brothers, or master and disciple. There are many senior and junior brothers in the Jianghu who use the same type of martial arts.”

“Fan Jianqiang roams the world upholding justice, while Academy Head Shi likes to preach to his students. They don’t seem like the same person!” Old Man Fan concluded.

Jiang Ning pondered for a moment and felt that this was possible, especially since Fan Jianqiang’s actions in Luoyang all involved killing with sword Qi. This Academy Head Shi also used sword Qi openly, making it hard not to suspect they were the same person.

But it was also possible that the two of them deliberately created this illusion for others.

Especially that ethereal strike without any trace of fireworks in the fog earlier, which directly knocked Xiong Ba unconscious. It seemed very profound.

Perhaps the sword Qi was just a disguise!

It was hard to say in the Jianghu.

However, regardless of whether it was one person or two, in the eyes of the Jiang family, they had to die!

If they didn’t die, how could the Jiang family regain their face?

“What are this Academy Head Shi’s preferences and weaknesses?” Jiang Ning asked.

She was not someone who would sit back and wait for death. She wanted to gather intelligence and then deliver a fatal blow, crushing Academy Head Shi’s skull!

“Academy Head Shi is very fond of teaching others martial arts,” Old Man Fan said.

“Hmph… It’s probably some Grand Medicine Technique!” Jiang Ning snorted. Her tone of voice remained unchanged, slow and leisurely as if speaking through her nose.

“This…” Old Man Fan thought for a moment and said, “In my humble opinion, it’s probably not.”

“Because Academy Head Shi has many martial arts techniques and a deep understanding of martial arts principles. He’s far from being a medicine man who only knows one technique and deceives people!”

Hearing Old Man Fan say this, Jiang Ning sneered, “Then why does he teach others martial arts? To be a good person?”

“He says he wants to make it easier for all martial artists in the world to practice,” Old Man Fan added.

“Hahaha~” Jiang Ning burst into laughter as if she had heard a huge joke. She didn’t stop laughing until her wounds started to hurt. “That’s hilarious! Is he an idiot?”

Old Man Fan pointed to his own head, the meaning self-evident. “That’s what I think too.”

“So he’s an idiot!” Jiang Ning said with a smile. “An idiot…”

She suddenly looked at Xiong Ba, who was standing by the window, gazing at the starry sky and counting the stars. She thought about how she had been defeated by Academy Head Shi and also by Xiong Ba.

There was a thought she didn’t voice:

“Idiots were her, the expert’s, kryptonite!”

Who was the idiot?