I manage female characters in all the heavens.

The reason for this was not only because she was young and had never worried about money, so she was extravagant with nothing, but also because she was too naive and curious. Every time she encountered a city along the way, she would go in to explore and buy new things, which resulted in her being repeatedly cheated.

Not to mention Jiangdong, she traveled from the west to the east, and by the time she reached Jiangxi, she was already penniless and had to sleep on the streets.

Given this situation, she naturally couldn't continue to Jiangdong. Instead, she begged in a bustling city in Jiangxi to try and survive.

As a young lady from Mount Hua, she had no idea about the rules of begging. She didn't even prepare a broken bowl and just squatted on the street, watching. She didn't say a single kind word or a pitying word. She was dressed quite well, so no one paid any attention to her. No one thought she was a beggar.

Despite enduring for two days with her relatively high level of skill, Yue Lingshan still hadn't gotten a single penny. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. Anger rose in her heart, and evil thoughts took hold. She decided to use her martial arts skills to do her dirty work.

She was too fierce to be trifled with, so she set her sights on vulnerable groups, preparing to prey on the elderly, women, children, and the disabled.

It can only be said that evil creatures remain evil creatures wherever they go.

As the saying goes, rivals are enemies, so she first targeted the beggars in the city, using trickery and coercion to get some money from them, so that she could at least have something to eat.

But the beggars weren't fighting alone; they were organized and disciplined. The next day, hundreds of beggars came knocking, seeking revenge. Their presence was so great that they chased Yue Lingshan all over the city, and she barely managed to escape.

Having learned her lesson, she knew that beggars were not to be trifled with, so she changed her target and set her sights on the pickpockets in the city. However, the pickpockets were also organized in groups, and when she chased one away, a whole group would come after her, giving her a chaotic chase.

After working hard for half a month, every target she found was problematic. She was still struggling to make ends meet, her clothes were a mess, and she finally looked a bit like a beggar.

She was resigned to continuing to beg, since she had already mastered the essence of being a beggar.

However, at that moment, an opportunity suddenly appeared before her.

There was a wealthy man in the city named Wang, who was known for his virtue and kindness. He often opened a porridge shop to help beggars and vagrants who could not afford to eat.

Yue Lingshan had also eaten there a few times, and it was truly a timely help that moved her deeply, making her feel very fond of it.

That day, Master Wang was passing by on the street, surrounded by more than a dozen strong guards, when he spotted Yue Lingshan sitting on the street corner, looking lost and dejected.

Master Wang kindly inquired whether she would be willing to work as a maid in his household, offering her two taels of silver per month.

This was a windfall! Yue Lingshan now knew very well what two taels of silver represented. It was a huge sum of money that she could live on for more than half a year and rent a house if she saved every penny!

She agreed without hesitation, deeply grateful to Master Wang, and vowed to repay his kindness by finding everything and giving him a lifetime of wealth and luxury.

After hearing this, Master Wang remained silent, only laughing.

When they arrived at Master Wang's house, after taking a bath and changing into clean clothes, Yue Lingshan discovered that there were several other people there who had similar experiences to her. They had all been taken home by Master Wang and were all beautiful young women with outstanding figures.

Including Yue Lingshan, there were a total of eight girls who were all grateful to Master Wang and had no suspicions about him. At most, they thought that Master Wang had taken a fancy to them and wanted to take them as concubines.

Some of them blushed as they thought about it, but they were quite willing and had no sense of vigilance whatsoever.

That day, the Wang family steward summoned them to begin training them on etiquette, posture, and body management, which Yue Lingshan could accept.

But the requirement to learn various techniques to please men made her very unhappy, and she had bad suspicions, so she questioned it on the spot.

Several others shared the same question: why would maids need to learn this? Even if Master Wang really wanted to marry them, this kind of thing should be taught to them privately by the master. Why should a steward like you interfere?

You wouldn't be thinking of letting the master test its quality first, would you? If so, you're truly too loyal.

The teammate assigned to Yue Lingshan was named Jiang Yuyan. She looked gentle and weak, but she was the first to stand up and support Yue Lingshan, questioning what the manager wanted them to do by having them learn this kind of thing, and whether Master Wang knew about it.

But the manager just smiled coldly, waved his hand to summon more than a dozen strong guards, each holding a wooden stick, looking fierce and menacing, saying that if they didn't learn how to use sticks, they would be dealt with.

Only by mastering these skills can one fetch a good price at a brothel and repay the kindness of the wealthy man.

Upon hearing this, everyone knew things were going badly; they had entered a wolf's den!

But how could eight beautiful young girls with no outstanding skills resist more than a dozen burly men wielding weapons? They were beaten and screamed in agony on the spot.

Yue Lingshan was frightened, but she didn't forget that she knew some martial arts. At this moment, anger rose from her heart and evil arose from her courage. Her true energy roared and her strength flew. She was so strong that bricks flew. She still didn't hold back when she attacked. She crushed more than a dozen people, including the manager, into dozens of pieces.

The backyard, which served as the training ground, was instantly transformed into a bloody hell. Yue Lingshan was covered in blood, panting heavily, like a demon crawling out of hell.

This sudden turn of events terrified the girls who had just been beaten, but Yue Lingshan was already in a killing frenzy and was determined to leave the backyard and slaughter the entire Prince's mansion without stopping.

Jiang Yuyan grabbed her and advised her to run away now to avoid any accidents, but Yue Lingshan wouldn't listen and insisted on wiping out the whole family.

If you're not capable enough to endure this kind of grievance, fine, but if I'm capable and still suffer this kind of grievance, then what's the point of having such ability?

kill!

However, she did not expect that there were experts in the Prince's mansion.

Although she possessed the memories of true energy and martial arts left by Song Yi on the ship, she was completely unable to use them as flexibly as Song Yi himself. She failed to defeat the experts from the Prince's Mansion and was defeated after a fierce battle.

The other seven girls also failed to escape; they were all captured, beaten, and locked in the basement.

Yue Lingshan's dantian and qi sea were destroyed by the experts of the Prince's Mansion, and her tendons in her hands and feet were severed. She was also imprisoned there.

The female warrior who used to be a formidable force is now so weak that she is not even as frail as an ordinary woman, and may never recover to the level of a normal person.

This disparity and despair caused Yue Lingshan, who was essentially only twelve or thirteen years old, to burst into tears, feeling so wronged that she wanted to die.

Jiang Yuyan, with tears in her eyes, hugged her tightly and gently comforted the benefactor who had helped her once before.

After her explanation, Yue Lingshan's attention shifted, and she remembered her.

It turns out that a little over a month ago, Jiang Yuyan's mother passed away. Before she died, she instructed her to go to Jiangnan to find Jiang Biehe and recognize her as her biological father.

After burying her mother, Jiang Yuyan sold all her family's belongings to obtain two hundred taels of silver, which she used as travel expenses to set off for Jiangnan to find her father.

Her father was a renowned swordsman from Jiangnan. She believed that she would live a good life in the Jiang family and had no intention of leaving herself a way out. She sold everything she could.

Not long after, she too was deceived, lost her travel money, and was almost forcibly sold into a brothel.

It was Yue Lingshan who happened to be passing by who saved her and generously gave her one hundred taels of silver for travel expenses. She left without even getting a clear look at Jiang Yuyan's face, as carefree as a god playing in the mortal world.

Unexpectedly, more than twenty days later, the two met again in the Prince's mansion in this way. Jiang Yuyan felt guilty for Yue Lingshan's help and did not dare to acknowledge her.

At the same time, he was also afraid that Yue Lingshan would feel embarrassed to see him, the person he had once helped, so it was better to pretend that he did not know her.

Although Jiang Yuyan is not very old, she is really understanding.

However, at this moment, Jiang Yuyan could no longer hold back.

To comfort the despairing Yue Lingshan, he revealed the situation to divert her attention.

This was indeed effective. Jiang Yuyan's words were deeply moving, and Yue Lingshan listened with great pleasure, forgetting to cry and pulling herself out of despair.

Upon learning that Yue Lingshan had once been so kind, wealthy, and noble, with exceptional martial arts skills, yet had now fallen to such a state, the other women felt deep pity for her.

But they themselves are barely able to take care of themselves, so what can they do for Yue Lingshan?

A few days later, they were tied up, put into a carriage, and sent to another city hundreds of miles away to be sold to local brothels.

The reason for not selling them locally was to prevent them from staying and spreading negative news about Master Wang, which would damage his image of benevolence and make it harder for him to deceive girls in distress in the future.

This kind of wisdom, this attitude of serving business above all else, can only be possessed by a villain who has committed many evil deeds over the years. This is certainly not the first time that Master Wang has done this; he has long had his own industrial chain.

Along the way, Yue Lingshan and Jiang Yuyan ate and lived together. Jiang Yuyan took great care of Yue Lingshan, who was unable to move around due to severed tendons and limbs, and the two gradually developed a deep affection for each other.

Several more days passed, and after arriving in another city, the Iron Heart Orchid, piloted by Yue Lingshan, was so beautiful that it was sold to the best brothel in the area for two thousand taels of silver, which was an astronomical price.

Although Jiang Yuyan was somewhat beautiful, she was far inferior to Tie Xinlan, and was sold for only 500 taels of silver to the third-best brothel in the area.

The other six women also found their own places to go, and each sold for at least 300 taels of silver, demonstrating the high quality of this batch of new brides.

When they were forced to separate, Yue Lingshan and Jiang Yuyan looked at each other and shed tears. They both knew that even if they were in the same city, they would probably never see each other again.

Perhaps the only time we'll meet again is on the road to the underworld.

On her first day at the brothel, Yue Lingshan decided she didn't want to live anymore, but she didn't have the strength to commit suicide, so she could only try to starve herself to death.

But the brothel madam was incredibly experienced; she had encountered all sorts of suicide methods and was well-versed in the procedures for dealing with them. Whether Yue Lingshan died or not was entirely out of her control.

After dressing up, the stunning Yue Lingshan captivated the madam for a while.

The madam was overjoyed and that very night she was asked to go on stage to showcase Yue Lingshan in an auction to find her first patron.

She frankly admitted that with Yue Lingshan's looks, if she encountered a sucker, she could easily make ten thousand taels of silver from him.

She was willing to give Yue Lingshan one thousand taels as her performance bonus.

A 10% performance bonus is honestly very generous, but Yue Lingshan doesn't think so. She refuses to give in for a mere 10% and insists on at least 90% before she'll even consider it.

Yue Lingshan's attitude was not sincere at all; it wasn't about negotiating cooperation. Since she refused to cooperate, the madam didn't force her and stopped giving her 10%; she went straight for the hard way.

She was powerless to resist and was tied to a frame by the madam along with several other prostitutes. She was forced into seductive poses, and the ropework was exquisite, fully showcasing Yue Lingshan's most beautiful side.

Knowing that she would be pushed onto the stage in such a humiliating way and auctioned off under the gaze of dozens or even hundreds of fiery eyes, Yue Lingshan was filled with despair.

She now deeply regrets her previous reckless actions. If she had followed the instructions in the letter diligently, she wouldn't have suffered so much pain and hardship.

My other self, when are you coming back? I was wrong, please come back and save yourself!

Song Yi descended in response, and a vast and boundless true energy was born out of thin air, feeding back a huge amount of human essence, like a miraculous medicine, instantly healing the body's injuries, and restoring the meridians and dantian in an instant.

As the flashback ended, "Tie Xinlan" felt sorry for Yue Lingshan's stubbornness and anger at her lack of ambition, but she also understood that this time Yue Lingshan couldn't be entirely blamed.

This time, the problem isn't Yue Lingshan, it's the era!

With a slight activation of her inner energy, "Iron Heart Orchid" easily snapped the ropes binding her, shattering the frame into dust and regaining her freedom.

Looking up, two oppressive gazes shot out, piercing through the curtain of the brothel stage and revealing everything outside.

All he saw was sin, decay, desire, and greed. He hadn't thought it was so disgusting before, having once been one of them himself.

But now, when evil is persecuting her, her attitude immediately changes. She grits her teeth and is filled with boundless hatred, wanting to eliminate, annihilate, and destroy!

She directed her anger at the people outside, at the brothel, at all the bad people who had cheated and swindled Yue Lingshan along the way, and at Master Wang.

She will set this place ablaze with fury, burn away the evil, and set it on those hundreds or thousands of miles away, making them feel the pain of the deepest hell!

The magic is in the air!

Chapter 115 The Sun's Reflection Must Be Greater Than the Moon's Invitation and the Star's Pity

As night fell, the Red Sleeve Pavilion was brightly lit, with the sounds of silk and bamboo instruments and the sounds of laughter and moaning weaving a decadent web that enveloped the most famous den of iniquity in this beautiful city of Jiangnan.

The house was packed with guests, both upstairs and downstairs.

There were salt merchants with protruding bellies, scholars waving folding fans, chivalrous outlaws with swords at their waists, and even officials in their robes. At this moment, they all took off their usual masks, revealing the same greed and lewdness.

On the high platform, the madam swayed her hips, her face full of rouge and a smile, as she enthusiastically introduced tonight's "product"—a girl who was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old.

She was being held by two pimps, her whole body trembling like a leaf, her face still wet with tears, but her eyes were already lifeless.

"Gentlemen! This is a genuine daughter of an official. Her father committed a crime, her family was confiscated, and that's how she ended up at our Red Sleeve Pavilion! She's proficient in all the arts—music, chess, calligraphy, and painting—and she's still a virgin—"

"Five hundred taels!" A fat, big-eared merchant couldn't wait to raise his sign.

"Six hundred taels!"