Uncle Josh face turned black. He looked at Donna with cold piercing eyes. He couldn't believe that his savior's daughter was living like an animal with his own family.
Donna felt a mighty pressure pressing on her that she was close to fainting. She didn't even have the courage to face the grandmaster. He was said to be in the spirit realm and together with his alchemist position he was quite respected.
Uncle Josh dealt a spiritual attack on Donna. She was sent flying a few metres away and fell heavily on the ground blood coming out of her mouth. Donna tried standing up but she was heavily injured. Uncle Josh ordered a room to be prepared for Clarissa then went back to his courtyard.
Clarissa looked at the injured Donna and felt satisfied by uncle Josh. She didn't expect him to take things so seriously. She was glad because this showed that he cared for her adoptive mother. She went with the maids to the servants quarters and was given an executive room just like Donna's. In a while five dresses, shoes and food were delivered. A hot bath was prepared for her.
Clarissa ate her sumptuous meal. She was always given leftovers but today they delivered her rice, chicken with some fried vegetables, fried pork, fresh bread and fruit juice. Clarissa enjoy her food. After her meal she took a bath, then changed into a red dress. The dress was for a fifteen year old girl but because of malnutrition she looked twelve.
Clarissa decided that if she got her freedom she would nurture her body well so that she can be the most beautiful and powerful woman in this world. After cleaning up, she entered her space and began mixing her concoction. She didn't know the havoc she unleashed between the family members and even if she knew she wouldn't care.
Inside Donna's room
Donna layed on the bed as the doctor checked her injuries. She was sweating profusely, with just a slight touch she would feel immense pain. She didn't understand why a tier 2 healing pill didn't heal her.
According to the injuries she received she was only supposed to be feeling slightly sore but she was still complaining about pain.
The doctor checked her pulse down to her internal organs but still couldn't find what was causing the pain.
Donna tried to endure but the pain was becoming more unbearable that she started screaming. She suffered so much that she started cussing Clarissa. The pain was too much until she passed out.
Later in the drawing room.
Uncle Josh sat in a reclining sofa. His nephew Lucas, wife Gladys and their children entered the drawing room. Lucas's two concubines were waiting for them together with uncle Josh. Gladys has three children, two boys and one girl; her eldest son joined the military, then her thirteen year old daughter then her last child a boy who was nine years old. One of the concubines Carol bore a son who's the second among Lucas children. He also joined the military. Then Jane who bore him a girl.
Lucas laughed happily as he went to greet his uncle but his uncle's cold eyes stopped him on his tracks. Then he asked his uncle
Lucas: "Uncle Josh is there something wrong? What has made you unhappy? Did someone wrong you? Tell me I will quickly punish the person responsible."
Uncle Josh: " Remember the woman I brought to you fifteen years ago? She died not long after she arrived here. She was the most gentle woman I've ever met."
Lucas didn't understand why his uncle brought up the woman. She died a long time ago. Gladys however had a bad premonition.
Lucas: " uncle I remember her. But why are you talking about her now? The woman died a long time ago."
Uncle Josh looked at his nephew with a piercing look that even Lucas was startled. Lucas was in a higher cultivation, he was already at the rifiner spirit realm when his uncle was at the nascent spirit realm, but he was still afraid of his uncle. The spiritual attacks from his uncle was something to fear.
Uncle Josh: " I remember I asked you about her daughter and you told me that she was taken care of."
Lucas: " yes uncle she's taken good care of. Gladys found her a good family to raise her."
Gladys suddenly took a few steps back color draining from her face. She just felt a sharp pain in her soul that she immediately retreated. Uncle Josh's look was frightening that everyone started feeling suffocating from the pressure he was releasing.
Uncle Josh: " then your wife lied to the both of us. I just found the girl being assaulted by your head maid. To make it worse she's a slave and sleeps in the pigsty. I almost made a mistake of letting her suffer an injustice. Tell me nephew if you didn't want her you could have told me and I would have taken care of her myself. How could I repay kindness with such merciless treatment to my savior?"