Hu Lan's message:
"Or her ancestors were outsiders!"
Tang Wen's breath caught in his throat. 'Outsider status is hereditary?'
Hu Lan had previously said, "The Huang Family cannot leave Ganshan City."
'Was this what she meant?'
'But what's the difference between an outsider and a local?'
'Aren't they all just people?'
...
Tang Wen's thoughts were a tangled mess, and he couldn't grasp the crux of the issue.
He decided to just keep reading:
"This is a very strange, illogical illness, or rather, a curse."
'A curse?'
"The major Fourth Grade Influences call it the 'Earth Curse'."
"The reason for the curse's manifestation is baffling. Ancient texts record the saying, 'The water and soil of a place can only nurture its own people.'"
"Many clans discovered that if a Martial Arts Clan with a long lineage were to move and live thousands of miles away, it wouldn't be long before both they and their locally born descendants would often fall victim to the 'Earth Curse'."
