0839: Questioning the Old Daoist Before the Three Purities Hall

Wudang's reception hall was, in fact, the Three Purities Hall.

At this moment, there were over a hundred people sitting or standing inside the hall.

They were all leaders of various sects and schools, the foremost figures of the martial world among the Vassal States. Though they appeared to be arguing without end at first, they were actually deliberately speaking before True Person Zhang for him to hear.

Zhang Sanfeng, who had long secluded himself within the Three Purities Hall of Purple Heaven Palace and ignored worldly affairs, had originally paid no heed to such mundane matters as martial world grudges.

Anyone who came from afar to visit, regardless of sect, status, or standing, would at most be given a cup of clear tea within the monastery before being sent away. He would not meet them.

Yet this time, Abbot Xuan Ji, a senior monk of the Xuan generation and the newly appointed abbot of Shaolin's orthodox Shaoshi Mountain lineage, had come together with Abbess Miejue of Emei, the Kunlun Seven Sons of the Kunlun Sect, Master Liao Kong of the Jingnian Zen Sect, Three-Handed True Person of Sanmao Palace, Old Madam Tang and Old Master Tang of the Tang Sect, as well as many other towering figures and promising young talents of the martial world. They had come to discuss the tragedy at Cihang Jingzhai.

This concerned Cihang Jingzhai, once praised as a sacred land of the martial world, and might involve another bloody storm within the martial world.

Thus, at the earnest requests of Song Yuanqiao and the others of Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng ultimately emerged from seclusion to receive these visitors and hear the full account of what had happened, as well as their purpose in coming.

At this moment, facing Abbot Xuan Ji of Shaolin's respectful inquiry,