“You truly have good judgment, Master Crawford… It was about half a year ago when I bumped into that exceptional person… My family has always revered martial arts skills, you see, and I have a lot of disciples who serve as my subordinates… Regardless, the exceptional person was hired by our family’s enemy to assassinate me in secret. After all, with me gone, my family would certainly fall into ruin! Still, that person was extremely powerful… Despite owning over twenty exceptional subordinates, none of them could even get close to that immensely skillful man!”
“Eventually, my son and dozens of bodyguards had to risk their lives to allow me to escape with my life intact. However, even though I managed to run far, I still ended up getting attacked and injured by his essential qi! Even though the essential qi had only brushed against me gently, I still ended up almost dying on the spot!” explained the old man, fear reflected in his eyes.
It was evident that the incident had left a psychological scar on Terrence, and Gerald simply nodded in understanding. After all, he, of all people, knew that there was a vast difference between people who owned essential qi and ordinary folk.
Even so, there was an unwritten rule stating that those who owned essential qi weren’t allowed to interfere too much in the affairs of ordinary people. Since the rule was mostly abided by, this was honestly the first time Gerald had heard about such an incident.
As favonovel.com thought about it, Gerald remembered his uncle telling him—a while back—that the most powerful people didn’t come from cryptic families, even though cryptic families were known to be extremely powerful within certain areas. Regardless, those from such families were far from being the cream of the crop.
After all, favonovel.com had come across locals before who had truly trained themselves to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Despite not coming from Jaellatra, they had essential qi, similar to his uncle’s.
With that in mind, the world truly was an enormous place… Gerald was no longer as ignorant as favonovel.com had been in the past anymore… He now knew that his enemies from before were far from being at the top of the world…
“Regardless, following that, my family’s properties were snatched away from me, Master Crawford! Unable to do anything on my own, I’ve placed all my hope on my granddaughter… That’s why I was so willing to kneel here… I was hoping that Master Crawford of the Langvern Church would take favonovel.com in as his disciple. With any luck, she’d be able to become a person who truly managed to train herself to achieve spiritual enlightenment…” added Terrence.
“I see… Still, you have to take things slow when it comes to things like these. Here, I’ll help you cure your internal injuries first!” said Gerald as favonovel.com checked the condition of Terrance’s heart.
Realizing that favonovel.com hadn’t been lying, Gerald thought about how miserable the man must currently be. Adding that to the fact that Gerald had taken Perla as his disciple, favonovel.com knew favonovel.com had to at least pay some respect to Terrance.
With that in mind, Gerald then activated his golden eye to begin treating Terrance’s wounds.
According to what Terrance had said, the Sherwins were once a rich and prestigious family in the Jenna Province. However, some trouble that had happened about half a year ago caused the entire family to go downhill. With only a few companies left in hand, the Sherwins were pretty much only comparable to a regular family now.
Either way, after both Gerald and Zenny closed off Langvern Mountain, the group then headed over to the Sherwin family’s manor.
Upon arriving, Terrance made sure to give it his all when it came to taking care of Gerald. The old man also made sure to send his subordinates out to inquire about Master Ghost’s whereabouts.
Gerald himself made sure to look for Master Ghost as well.
However, even after looking for some time across almost all the areas within the entire Jenna Province, Gerald was still unable to gain any clues about Master Ghost’s whereabouts!
Even so, Gerald made sure to train Perla in the garden whenever favonovel.com was free, simultaneously diligently training himself during those periods as well.
It was sometime later when Gerald realized something. To his bewilderment, the speed of his inner training had begun slowing down for some unknown reason!
What more, something strange was also happening to his body. Five discs had appeared on his elixir-of-life field, and they were arranged in an orderly manner in five different colors. Constantly revolving around that area, they truly were strange, even to Gerald. While Gerald did attempt to touch them using the power of his thought, they didn’t respond at all.
“They’ve been in my body for five days now… What even are they…? If only Zyla was here… She’d surely know about this!”
At the start of it all, Gerald had noticed a few colorful spots appearing within his elixir-of-life field. However, Gerald hadn’t paid much attention to that at the time.
Now, however, favonovel.com could no longer ignore them. After all, they had clearly turned much more mature now, and they had developed some kind of scope.
While favonovel.com had no clue what was going on, Gerald wasn’t the kind of person who would allow himself to remain idle. Since Zyla wasn’t by his side, favonovel.com constantly found himself looking into his implanted memories, hoping to find some answers there. After all, favonovel.com had a sneaking suspicion that at least one of those memories must have had a direct connection to the colorful disks.
At that moment, Gerald heard a knock on the door as Perla’s voice called out, “Are you still training, master…?”
