Episode 26: Fury, Take Action!

  The news of the Hunter's Guild suddenly producing a Boundary Master-level expert spread like wildfire throughout Blackstone City, causing the entire city to be in an uproar, like a pot of boiling water. Despite it being late evening, nothing could stop this news from spreading through various channels to surrounding regions.

  However, just as the entire Blackstone City was shocked by this mysterious Grandmaster-level expert, Duan Yue had already returned to the Duan Clan's branch estate. To conceal his identity as Qiu Shan, he still didn't enter through the front door, but instead quietly entered through the back door, just like when he left in the morning.

  With a thorough understanding of his own strength and a substantial income, Duan Yue's mood at this time was obviously not bad. He didn't seem like he did in the morning, hastily rushing along, while walking, he also took the opportunity to look around. To be honest, before that, he really hadn't noticed that the scenery in the Duan family's branch estate was actually quite good. The surrounding trees were neatly trimmed, the roads were well-connected and clean, with elegant buildings, artificial hills and ponds, and lush grass everywhere.

  Looking at these exquisite buildings and flying eaves, Duan Yue couldn't help but smack his mouth. These scenery have a lot of the flavor of his own ancient times in his past life. Unfortunately, hidden within such beautiful scenery are the most ruthless struggles between families, sinister plots, and murderous intentions. This mountain, this water, who knows what year or month it was, had already been stained with countless blood, just like the bloody green shirt on his body, and even from a distance, he could smell a strong bloody odor.

  As he watched and thought, Duan Yue unknowingly arrived at a waterside pavilion. The clear water flowed gently over the bridge, where a delicate stone bridge spanned across. Along the creek's banks stood over a dozen stone kiosks, with some maids sewing fur coats in the kiosks, basking in the evening sun's radiance.

  Heishi City is adjacent to Heishi Mountain Forest, which is rich in the fur of ferocious beasts. This is a valuable commodity that the upper-class nobility is extremely enthusiastic about. The Duan family has branched out here specifically to take control of this business. Although it doesn't look like much, every year it can provide a large amount of funds for the Duan family headquarters.

  Most of the seamstresses in the mansion were over thirty years old, occasionally there were sixteen or seventeen year old girls, and their appearance was not impressive. Of course, in such a large Duan family estate, there would be no shortage of young and beautiful maidservants, but these pretty maidservants were mostly assigned to the courtyards where important people lived.

  "It seems, Mother is working here."

  Duan Yue's heart suddenly trembled, his footsteps came to an abrupt halt, and his eyes involuntarily swept around, wanting to find that familiar figure. However, it wasn't easy to pick out his mother Duan Yun from among the many maidservants who were busily sewing fur coats. After a slight pause, Duan Yue relaxed his mental focus.

  "You wretched woman! You said ten taels and it's ten taels. In this household, who gave you the right to speak?"

  At this moment, a stern shout with a few parts of anger came from a stone pavilion not far away, and it sounded in Duan Yu's mind.

  Who is that? So arrogant! Duan Yue couldn't help but feel a little curious and turned to look, only to see a black-clad steward standing outside a stone pavilion not far from him, scolding someone. Unfortunately, due to the angle, he was blocked by one of the pillars of the pavilion. All Duan Yue saw was that behind the black-clad steward, there stood a young woman with a beautiful face, about 18 or 19 years old, wearing a blue servant's uniform. Although she was far away, Duan Yue's senses had been greatly enhanced as his spiritual power spread out, so he could still see clearly that despite her servant's attire, the beautiful woman had an air of pride between her eyebrows, looking down on the person being scolded with a face full of arrogance and mockery.

  While around them, the maids sewing fur coats, most of whom were smiling with a hint of schadenfreude. Only a few older maids showed a hint of intolerance on their faces, but no one dared to intervene.

  "But... but what was agreed upon at first was... it was thirty taels, honorable manager, how can you go back on your word..."

  A voice, tinged with a hint of fatigue and fear, pleaded repeatedly. The sound was low and intermittent, and others might not have heard it clearly, but Duan Yue suddenly froze, simply because the voice was extremely familiar.

  "Hmph! You still want those thirty taels!" The black-clad steward, who had been replaced as the 'noble manager', let out a cold snort and sneered, "This is Miss Qing'er, a maid under Young Master Duanheng. She's here to tell me that last time you made a tiger fur coat for Young Master Duanheng, he didn't like it. According to the rules, all your pay should be deducted, but I'm giving you ten taels because I want you to work through the night and remake it. If Young Master Duanheng is still not satisfied this time, I'll let you know my methods!"

  After saying this, he didn't look at the woman again. The 'noble manager' hastily turned his face and smiled ingratiatingly at the pretty young maid beside him: "Miss Qing'er, are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

  "Hmm." The 'Green Girl' let out a faint, cold hum from her mouth, her eyes scanning the scolded woman up and down, her gaze aloof and proud, yet she didn't say a word.

  "But... but my son-in-law's injury has not healed yet, I still need to go back and take care of him! This... this..." The scolded woman hurriedly explained again, hoping the other party could understand her difficulties.

  However, as soon as the woman's words fell, the face of the 'Qing Er' girl suddenly turned gloomy, and she coldly rebuked: "What do you mean by this? Are you saying that Young Master Duan is less important than your family's useless son? With winter approaching, if something happens to Young Master Duan, can you take responsibility for it?"

  "The words 'Qing Er' were like a knife cutting into Duan Yue's heart, causing him unbearable pain. At this moment, he finally realized that the person being scolded was none other than his own mother, Duan Yun."

  In an instant, a surge of anger suddenly rose up from the depths of his mind, and the good mood he had just gained from going out was instantly gone. The smile on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a chilling coldness that sent shivers down one's spine.

  Although it has only been a little over a month since he arrived in this world, from the initial strangeness to the current familiarity, Duan Yue has thoroughly identified with his mother, Duan Yun, deep down. Moreover, whether for the original tragic male or for the current Duan Yue, Duan Yun is the only person he cares about in this world, the most important existence in his heart. It can also be said that... Duan Yun is Duan Yue's "reverse scale"!

  It is said in ancient times, a dragon has an inverted scale, touch it and it will surely get angry, when angry, it will kill!

  Duan Yue endured ridicule and mockery, even bullying, but he could tolerate it because he knew that one day he would get revenge for all of this.

  But he couldn't tolerate his mother being humiliated, not even a bit!

  Duan's face was pale and cold, her teeth clenched tightly. For so many years, whether in the Duan family headquarters or in the current Blackstone City branch of the Duan family, she had endured all sorts of hardships with an attitude of "enduring for a moment, calm and peaceful, retreating a step, vast and boundless". She listened and obeyed, the fundamental reason being that she didn't want to bring trouble to her child, Duan Yue. However, she never thought that her constant endurance would only make her retreat step by step, but behind her was not a vast expanse of sky, but an endless abyss.

  "You... you have gone too far in deceiving people!"

  Her face changed from calm to gloomy, then from gloomy to bright red, and finally she burst out in anger!

  Qing Er heard this, suddenly furious, his face turned cold, a hint of killing intent flashed in his eyes, and he angrily shouted: "How dare you!" As soon as the words fell, he had already raised one palm, chopping down towards Duan Yun.

  In the Duan family, maids were also qualified to practice martial arts. If they had enough talent, they might even be promoted to become outer disciples. Although the maid Qing'er's strength was not high, she had reached the fourth level of acquired skill, barely qualifying as a mid-level warrior. However, seeing her raise her hand, a faint red glow appeared on her palm, clearly indicating that she had used all her strength. Such a palm strike would be fatal to an ordinary person, even if it didn't kill them, it would take away half their life.

  "Boom!"

  At this moment, Duan Yue's anger was completely ignited, and his boiling blood surged up, making his eyes a deep red, revealing an unparalleled fierce killing intent!

  "Who dares to hurt my mother? You're asking for death!"

  Like a wounded beast letting out a low growl, a chill to the extreme and majestic aura suddenly rose into the air, instantly locking onto the maid Qing Er who was just about to slap Duan Yun.

  "What is this?!" Qing Er's face changed instantly, without time to carefully look at who it was. The palm that originally wanted to chop down towards Duan Yun suddenly flipped over and struck out in the direction of the incoming aura, a hand wrapped in a pale white cold light, as if covering the sky and sun, had already arrived with a loud crash.

  "Boom!"

  Overflowing with endless icy cold and powerful terror, it directly crushed Qing Er's palm strength, carrying an unstoppable massive momentum, sending her flying out.

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