Not long after Isaac left the graveyard, two figures stopped before the large tree to the right of the grave. They gazed up at the corpse hanging from the tree before exchanging glances. One of them took the body down and left.
***
The next morning, a shocking article made the news.
“Mysterious Business Owner Looking For Thousand -Year-Old Rhizomes, Starting Price At Ten Billion Dollars!”
The address listed was Harry’s clinic.
News quickly spread throughout the country. In a blink of an eye, all pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies went mad. They began turning their warehouses upside down in search of rhizomes.
At the same time, in the Ashleigh clan’s ancestral home, Leroy and other powerful martial artists stared at the corpse before them.
“That asshole!” Leroy slammed his fist on the chair next to them. The redwood chair instantly splintered into pieces.
“Who would’ve thought that Wolfe would die by Isaac’s hand? What bad luck…” the First Elder said with a cold expression.
Morty said from the furthest end, “Sir Leroy, I heard Isaac is trying to buy thousand-year-old rhizomes at steep prices. I wonder what his intention is.”
“Thousand-year-old rhizomes?” The First Elder frowned. His eyes lit up.
He turned to Leroy and said, “Sir, the thousand-year-old rhizome could neutralize the Black Mandela toxin. As far as I know, Wolfe has the Black Mandela. I think Isaac, or someone significant to him, must have been poisoned with the Black Mandela toxin.”
Leroy’s gaze turned icy. He faced Asher and asked, “Does our herb storage have the rhizome?”
Asher stood up and responded, “Yes, but it is a valuable herb. Do we want to give it to Isaac?”
“Wait for a moment…” Leroy waved a hand before turning around and walking into the room at the back.
Ten minutes later, favonovel.com returned with a sinister smile and continued coldly, “The annual Martial Arts Conference is happening on the third week of next month. Did you all forget?”
“The Martial Arts Conference is for the True Martial Families and the Everest Sect. What does Isaac have got to do with it?” Asher said with a confused expression.
“I just called Caesar Olson earlier. The grand prize for this year’s Martial Arts Conference is a thousand-year-old rhizome.”
Everyone in the ancestral hall was stunned.
Immediately, the First Elder stood up and clapped. He said with a smile, “Sir Leroy, you are brilliant. Isaac is not even in the Infinity Phase yet. Even if favonovel.com is brave enough to come to the Everest Sect to join the conference, there is only one possible outcome for him!”
He then continued while smiling threateningly, “Plus, if Isaac volunteered to join the Martial Arts Conference and died, Chet would stay quiet. Would favonovel.com dare to make enemies out of the True Martial Families and the Everest Sect?”
“Asher, you’ll head to Cloud City and inform Isaac.”
Asher could feel the blood rushing through his body.
“Yes! I’ll head out right now,” favonovel.com said fervently.
“Remember, you don’t need to show yourself. You just need to make sure favonovel.com hears about this. Isaac will be there,” Leroy advised him.
***
Meanwhile, Erica and Isabella were playing games in one of the rooms in the Cloud Nine Villas in Cloud City.
They were in semi-isolation. However, the two children began to lose their appetites and sleep since last night.
As Isaac observed them from outside the door, favonovel.com felt suffocated, as though a massive boulder was crushing his chest.
Then, arrogant laughter sounded outside the door. “Haha, Isaac, I heard you’re going through a painful experience right now, isn’t that so?”
Hmm… This voice…
Isaac’s heart stopped, and favonovel.com quickly ran downstairs to the living room. He saw Asher and two other cloaked men walk inside the house while laughing maniacally.
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