Chapter 212: Great Success Realm

Duan Rong pushed the door open and walked in. Xu Shouxian was sitting on a grand armchair in the innermost part of the room, waving a cattail fan. The desk in front of him was piled high with various account documents awaiting approval.

Diagonally across from Xu Shouxian, in front of a desk leaning against the wall, sat another person. Duan Rong had already been here twice; he already knew who this person was.

This person was named Li Jun. He was only in his twenties this year and was Xu Shouxian's Assistant. It was said that within the Escort Agency, this person's Mental Calculation was number one, and his memory was excellent.

This Dongjia Room was piled with all the account books, and he knew every entry by heart. No matter what entry Xu Shouxian mentioned, he could immediately find the corresponding account book and hand it to Xu Shouxian.

As soon as Xu Shouxian saw that it was Duan Rong who had entered, his originally calm and indifferent expression immediately turned cold.

Duan Rong naturally noticed the change in Xu Shouxian's expression, but that one hundred taels had been specially approved for him by Ruan Fengshan. He had come to collect the silver fair and square; why did Xu Shouxian's attitude make it seem like he was here to borrow money?

Duan Rong walked to Xu Shouxian's desk, cupped his hands in a salute, and said, "Chief Accountant Xu, regarding the funds approved by the Manager, you said last time I came that there was no money in the account. I wonder if it is a bit more plentiful this time?"

Duan Rong's words were already very polite.

Xu Shouxian lifted his eyelids and said, "Oh, it's Escort Duan."

"The Manager, he doesn't know the cost of firewood and rice because he doesn't manage the household. In such a large Escort Agency, where does money not need to be spent? I am supporting this whole setup of the Accounting Office, and I am truly just barely maintaining it. The account is really in difficulty; Escort Duan should come back in a while."

Duan Rong looked at Xu Shouxian's expressionless face.

This old rascal is clearly just playing the rogue with me.

Duan Rong said, "Coming back in a while is not impossible. It's just that I don't know, Chief Accountant Xu, how long exactly is this 'a while' you speak of? There must be some definite answer."

Upon hearing Duan Rong's question, Xu Shouxian did not even lift his eyelids; he just silently waved the cattail fan in his hand.

"Xu Lao has already said to come back in a while. You ask us for a definite answer, but who are we supposed to ask?" Li Jun, who was sitting at the side desk with his head buried in documents, suddenly looked up and said.

Duan Rong just stared at Xu Shouxian's face, not even glancing at Li Jun. But Xu Shouxian just drooped his eyelids, waving the cattail fan in his hand, treating Duan Rong as if he were air.

Duan Rong stared at Xu Shouxian for a while, then suddenly turned around and walked out.

In truth, he did not care about this bit of money at all.

Moreover, he could conclude that Xu Shouxian had been playing with him from the start; he had long since made up his mind to only give him one month's pay. Duan Rong could be certain that Xu Shouxian would not give him a single cent of the silver beyond that one hundred taels.

But what made Duan Rong even angrier was Xu Shouxian's look of having him completely figured out.

As Duan Rong walked to the Corridor, a thought suddenly stirred in his mind, and he released his Divine Sense.

Under the Divine Sense Envelopment, he saw that inside the Dongjia Room, Li Jun looked at Xu Shouxian and said, "This kid really doesn't know his place, daring to question us about how long 'a while' is. He really thinks that just because he made some merit with the Manager, he can climb all over us!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouxian smiled faintly and said, "Even if he really reports it to the Manager, I'm not afraid. With such a large setup as the Escort Agency, where would there be extra money to give him?"

Duan Rong withdrew his Divine Sense and walked out of the Backyard Accounting Office with a gloomy expression.

Duan Rong actually understood that Xu Shouxian was not so much targeting him as he was targeting Xiao Zongting, who stood behind him. Some time ago, when Xiao Zongting did the mid-year inventory, it seemed some problems were discovered. The two warehouses in the Front Courtyard and Middle Courtyard were also managed daily by Xu Shouxian. Because of the problems discovered during the audit, Ruan Fengshan had called Xu in and lectured him.

Xu Shouxian already had some friction with Xiao Zongting, and after such an incident, they were even more at odds. Naturally, he would seize every opportunity to make things difficult for people on Xiao Zongting's side.

Although Duan Rong felt depressed, after he walked back to Liu Lu, he had already put the matter aside.

The reason was simple: Xu Shouxian was deeply trusted by Ruan Fengshan and had been an accountant at the Yuanshun Escort Agency for decades. As long as he wanted to stay at the Yuanshun Escort Agency, he had to endure this.

This logic was the same as in his previous life in the workplace.

Unless you don't want to work there anymore, you can make a big scene and leave. As long as you want to keep working, you have to endure. In the workplace of his previous life, there were far more disgusting things than this; as long as you wanted to keep working, there was nothing you couldn't endure.

Duan Rong certainly still wanted to stay at the Yuanshun Escort Agency; his goal was the Taiyi Sect's Registered Disciple selection next March. Everything else was just a minor detail!

From then on, Duan Rong began to practice even more crazily.

Four months later, he achieved the Great Success Realm of the Inner Breath Realm Fourth Layer!

In the meantime, he also went on two escort missions.

After Duan Rong achieved the Great Success Realm of the Inner Breath Fourth Layer, during subsequent escort missions, he began to display the Small Success Realm of the Inner Breath Third Layer.

He was modest and got along very well with the escorts of the Second Escort Team. After several escort missions, he became increasingly familiar with the affairs of the jianghu and the various operations of escorting. Therefore, the Escort Head of the Second Escort Team, Sun Huang, valued him more and more.

After returning from the third escort mission in the second half of the year, Sun Huang applied for a Commendation Order for Duan Rong!

This Commendation Order of the Yuanshun Escort Agency could only be applied for by an Escort Head, and it would only take effect after Ruan Fengshan personally signed and approved it.

The Commendation Order would be posted in the Martial Arts Arena; it was not only an honor, but the escort's treatment would also be raised by a level because of it.

In the Second Escort Team, Xiao Yu and Liu Ao had both received the Commendation Order twice. As for the other escorts, none had received it even once.

Duan Rong had now received it once, and within the Escort Team, there was already a sense that he was quietly replacing Liu Ao.

When Ruan Fengshan saw the Commendation Order submitted by Sun Huang, he felt a surge of joy. The Second Escort Team had lost the arm that was Liu Ao, and its strength was quite weak. Although Xiao Yu had also achieved the Small Success Realm, she was, after all, a woman. He had been worried for the past few months and was preparing to recruit someone from the jianghu to fill the gap.

However, he had been overwhelmed by some matters over there recently and had not been able to attend to the Escort Agency.

But he did not expect that Duan Rong would achieve the Inner Breath Realm Third Layer so quickly, which was equivalent to filling the hole left by Liu Ao.

Ruan Fengshan picked up the vermilion brush on his desk, wrote "Approved" at the bottom of the application, and then signed his name.

"This kid seems to have been practicing diligently. That one thousand taels of silver was not given to him in vain!" Ruan Fengshan put down the vermilion brush and said with emotion.

How could he know that of the one thousand taels of silver he approved for Duan Rong, Duan Rong had only received one hundred taels, and the rest had all been withheld by Xu Shouxian.

After Duan Rong achieved the Great Success Realm of the Inner Breath Realm Fourth Layer, it was only two months before he also achieved the Micro-Perception Realm.

For an ordinary Martial Artist, the achievement of the Micro-Perception Realm is actually a process of grinding.

You have to explore bit by bit, the subtle changes between the meridians, constantly testing and adjusting.

But for Duan Rong, this process was obviously much simpler. He used Divine Sense Projection, which could directly penetrate his body to investigate the subtle changes between the meridians.

Whereas the internal vision of ordinary Martial Artists is often difficult to gain insight into subtle places, requiring repeated exploration.

(End of chapter)