0870: Reason Prevails in the Martial World Once More! (Monthly Ticket Request)

Name!

When people were born, their elders assigned them a name to follow them. Those who had no name thus came to have one.

As they grew up, they heard other people's names resound more loudly than their own, so they too wanted their names to ring out just as loudly, even louder. Thus, those without fame came to possess fame.

Few people ever stopped to consider that neither a name nor fame was something they possessed from the beginning. Both existed only because of others, yet they spent most of their lives fighting over them. When they grew old and frail, no longer able to fight, their fame slipped away as swiftly as their strength, and only then did they realize that all those decades of struggle had amounted to nothing.

Most people only understood this truth in old age. Duan Shuai was not old yet, so naturally he had never understood it.

Besides, when the Duan family's ancestors had once been mighty and renowned, Duan Family Manor had been far more glorious than it was now.

Now, the vast Duan Family Manor had long fallen into ruin and poverty. The only things it still retained were its enormous ancestral grounds and the inherited Fire Qilin Sword.

With all the gold gone from beside the bed, even a brave man lost face. Compared with the increasingly powerful, well-armed Unrivaled City and Heavenly Alliance, Duan Family Manor had undoubtedly withered beyond saving and no longer commanded any following.

Had he not earned the title of "Southern Scale Sword Master" in the martial world with the Fire Qilin Sword, Duan Family Manor would likely not even have measured up to the present-day Huo Family Manor.

Thus, two years ago, Duan Shuai had entrusted his son, Duan Lang, to distant relatives and