10 Ling Yue's Training (3).
Ling Yue 's eyebrows slightly raised.
A member of the Imperial Family? She wanted nothing to do with politics or the Imperial Family. Concubine Li? One of the Four Great Concubines of the Emperor, not someone easy to deal with...
If this was done right, then tremendous favor would be bestowed upon the Devil's Pharmacy, but if the Devil's Hand failed to satisfy the Concubine, then it meant death or worse.
"Tell her to rest at ease, I'll come and take care of things." Ling Yue dismissively waived her hand as she got up. Her red hanfu fluttered in the air, bright red against the bleak grey sky, like a flickering flame.
Who always wore red? The Yue Clan's Imbecile.
Always dressed extravagantly, adorned with tons of sparkling gold jewelry. Her fat face was always covered with heavy makeup, powdered pale as a ghost, her lips tinted red like a demon's, hideous.
They said she made red look ugly, and she looked like a prostitute wearing her flashy hanfu.
If the people of the Capital saw Ling Yue now, they would never recognize her. She was a flame in the great white sky, blindingly vibrant.
"Stand guard for me, Loan." Ling Yue said as she went inside her chambers, closing the wooden doors behind her.
Loan silently stood beside the door, eyes focused and sharp as ever. She knew not to ask much of the Lady's actions; the Lady has proven herself beyond anyone's belief.
These past few months, a line of pharmacies rose up in the capital and its surrounding cities. Every illness can be cured as long as there was gold; even a paralyzed man can stand up again at the Devil's Pharmacy. The pharmacy's name quickly became famous in the surrounding countries; even the Great Emperors knew of its leader - the Devil's Hand.
The Lunar Empire was only a small trading empire dependent on the three Great Empires, so it was an honor for a pharmacy from the Lunar Empire to become so well-known.
The pharmacy's name became popular so fast because it did not take from the poor. Its free medical sessions only opened for half a day every week, but the peasants still flowed from every corner of the cities, crowding the pharmacy's locations to get their illness cured.
As for the rich, the pharmacy took plenty, its price higher than any other clinics on the market. But there was not a choice for the noblemen, since many illnesses can only be cured at the Devil's Pharmacy. As the rich poured their money into the main pharmacy in the Lunar capital, other branches started growing in other cities, even spreading to the Great Empires.
This development speed was frightening, but no one said a word.
A capital nobleman once crossed the Devil's Pharmacy, demanding that his illness got cured for free and skipping lines, even barging into the pharmacy's private areas.
The next day, his head was hung on the walls of the capital for all peasants to see. The government never found out the culprit, and they did not have any evidence to frame the pharmacy, but it was clear as day that it was the pharmacy's revenge on the nobleman.
The Devil's Hand was behind this pharmacy chain. The Devil's Hand emerged out of nowhere, destroying the Lunar Capital's most powerful underground organization in just one night.
Warm blood flowed in streams at the organization's headquarters when Imperial Guards came. No corpses were found; the Devil's Hand's poison ate the corpses away into the flesh; not even bone dust was found.
On the walls of the organization's main hall, words were written in blood, like a threat to all of the underworld: "The Devil's Hand never forgives those who want him dead."
This organization was infamous for its assassins. Aside from normal martial arts users, many of the assassins were Medium Yellow Class Chi. The higher the Chi's Class, the more expensive it was to hire the assassins.
It was rumored that there was a Higher Green Class Chi user working as an assassin under that organization, the main reason why the organization reached rank two in the assassination market.
The Higher Green Class Chi user disappeared along with the organization, and no one has ever heard of him since. Some said he was killed and eroded to dust with the Devil's Hand's poison; others said he changed his identity and became the Devil's Hand's follower.
No one knew how strong the Devil's Hand was, but to be able to kill a Higher Green class, he was for sure no ordinary person.
By some coincidence, the destroyed organization was also the same that Aina had hired, several months back.
