Purple Mist Dao Master
Chapter 313 - 240: To Train in Divine Skill, Cut off One’s Genitals!

Chapter 313: Chapter 240: To Train in Divine Skill, Cut off One’s Genitals!

Fu Yunzhan, in pursuit of divine skill, truthfully recounted his family’s deep-seated blood feud.

Only then did Yan Chuan and the others learn that Fu Yunzhan was from a Martial Arts Family. From his great-grandfather’s generation, the Fu family ran an escort agency, using martial arts to pass down the family tradition, and had been involved in Jianghu for three generations, becoming a local force.

It’s a pity that the Fu family had few members, with only one descendant per generation from his great-grandfather’s time. Otherwise, after three generations, the Fu family might have become a Martial Arts Family.

What a pity.

Three generations of single lineage make it hard to form a strong force.

The family business, under such a single lineage, also appeared fragile. If the descendants were lacking in strength, facing adversity, disaster could strike at any moment.

Just like the Fu family’s ’Da You Escort Agency’, which thrived only to decline and fall in a day.

More than ten years ago, ’Da You Escort Agency’ took on a peculiar escort—

"Our Fu family’s ’Da You Escort Agency’ has been in business for decades. We have taken on official escorts, salt escorts, gold, silver, and jewelery. No matter how big the business, we’ve never had the slightest issue."

"From great-grandfather to grandfather, three rules have been established in the agency—"

"We do not take on escorts involving entanglements, escorts of uncertain origin, or escorts below five thousand taels of silver."

"But that particular escort covered all three of the ’don’t take’ criteria."

Fu Yunzhan spoke of those years with a heavy heart.

Wang Zhengyi curiously asked, "What kind of escort was it?"

Wang Ge also wondered, "Since it covered all three ’don’t take’ criteria, why was it accepted?"

Fu Yunzhan, with a bitter expression, said, "It was an escort of ’transporting a person’. Someone was brought on a stretcher to the agency, and we were required to deliver them intact to Yin Huaidao, the Sect Leader of Purple Beard Sect at Purple Beard Mountain, on the border of Nandun in Hui State and Xiping."

...

"Purple Beard Sect?"

Yan Chuan raised an eyebrow.

This is a major sect in Jianghu. It used to have a reputation in the Fifteen States of Great Yan second only to the ’Six Great Sects’, and was in the second tier along with Qinghu Manor from Shengzhou, Blood Clothes Sect in Hezhou, and Wushan City in Ke State.

However, since the Great Yan Buwu, the emergence of the ’Mountain and Sea Realm’ has reshuffled the old Jianghu powers.

Among them—

The Six Great Sects remain the Six Great Sects, firmly in the top tier.

The second-tier forces like ’Qinghu Manor’, ’Blood Clothes Sect’, and ’Wushan City’ have also maintained their positions.

There was also the emergence of previously unknown Jianghu forces, such as ’Heavenly God Palace’, ’Snow Eagle Sect’, and ’Sun Shooting Heavenly Mountain’, which may not rival the Six Great Sects but are definitely in the second tier.

Certainly.

Equally, some original second-tier Jianghu forces failed to keep up with the trend and have fallen, including ’Purple Beard Sect’ in Hui State.

"With the advent of the new era, ’Purple Beard Sect’ reacted a little too slowly, failed to seize opportunities, and developed a little too slowly, and was long considered no longer a first-rate sect."

But a dying camel is still bigger than a horse.

’Purple Beard Sect’, after timely adjustments, remains an outstanding figure among the second-rate and can be considered the third tier in Jianghu.

Certainly.

The so-called ’top-notch’, ’first-rate’, ’second-rate’, and including ’first tier’, ’second-tier’, ’third-tier’, are merely views from some small newspapers in Great Yan, utilized by Yan Chuan at will, and are not recognized standards.

Truly recognized, there are only the ’Six Great Sects’!

Beyond the Six Sects, north to south, it is difficult to distinguish who is stronger or weaker, it cannot be compared or fought, it is all just talk.

For example, Purple Beard Sect.

The current state is largely unknown.

At least, a small figure like Yan Chuan in Jian Province has no way of knowing.

...

"Someone asked Da You Escort Agency to escort a living person to Purple Beard Sect?"

"Isn’t this just an ordinary escort mission?"

"What’s so peculiar?"

Wang Zhengyi was puzzled.

Fu Yunzhan shook his head: "It’s not like that."

He explained: "The person who commissioned us was of unknown background, and the person to be escorted was lying on a stretcher, unable to move or speak. Their relationship with Purple Beard Sect was unclear, at least it was unclear at that time."

"This is unclear, that is unclear."

"Why accept the escort?"

Wang Ge frowned.

At this point, the three all found it strange. The root cause of the Fu family’s ’Da You Escort Agency’ downfall was likely here.

However, the three did not understand. With Da You Escort Agency’s established rule of ’not taking the three types of escorts’, why accept such a mysterious escort?

Fu Yunzhan did not explain but continued on his own—

"My father also knew that this escort might involve entanglements and was of unclear origin. What a living person is worth is hard to say."

"’Three don’t take’, didn’t apply."

"However, the client had three conditions. First, this escort needed my father, the Chief of Escort, to personally oversee. Second, from Yutai in Xiang Province to Purple Beard Mountain in Hui State, the journey must be non-stop, day and night, arriving within ten days. Third, if there was any mistake, no apology or monetary compensation was required; they wanted the entire Da You Escort Agency dead, without leaving chickens or dogs behind!"

This, this, this!

With such outrageous demands, was Da You Escort Agency out of their mind, was Fu the Chief blinded by greed? Otherwise, why take the escort?

Wang Zhengyi and the other two had a change of thought.

All three of them were not foolish and guessed a few possibilities.

For instance—

"Money moves the heart!"

Fu Yunzhan’s expression changed, sometimes bitter, sometimes enraged, gritting his teeth: "This escort covered all three no-take criteria. According to Da You Escort Agency’s rules, it shouldn’t have been accepted, but as business gradually declined after my father took over, the client offered an astronomical reward of two thousand taels of gold, and my father couldn’t resist the temptation, accepted this escort."

Indeed!

Money opens all doors!

Two thousand taels of gold, equivalent to forty-eight thousand taels of silver.

Don’t be fooled by the ’not taking less than five thousand taels’ in the Da You Escort Agency’s ’three no-takes’, because that referred to goods, ’escort silver’, which belonged to the client or shipper. Da You Escort Agency merely handled the escorting, not owning it themselves.