There were two cars following far behind them. They were a white Toyota Prado and a Range Rover. “Slow down, Mr. Collins. I… I don’t think my heart can take it.”Even though Chase had already slowed down, it still seemed fast to Bianca. She was worried that Chase would crash into the railings and they would fall to their deaths down the cliff.Chase took a look at cars that were about to catch up to them and smiled. “Have you ever played with bumper cars before?”“What?”Bianca had just replied when she saw the Range Rover overtake their car. It made a sharp turn and suddenly blocked them at the front.“What do they want with us?”Bianca’s pretty face turned pale when she realized what was happening.Meanwhile, the other car behind them caught up, and both cars seemed to be trapping their car in the middle.“Mr. Collins, w-what should we do?” Bianca was a little scared.“Hold on tight.”Chase instructed her and stepped on the accelerator instead of slowing down.The Rolls-
Inside the car, both women’s faces were covered in blood, and they were motionless.Three muscled men in suits and helmets opened the door. One of them exclaimed, “Wow, they’re really lucky to still be alive…”“What should we do now? Kill them?” another man asked.“No!”The man in the lead shook his head and said, “Bring Norris back with us. We’ll hand her over to Mr. Horton to deal with!”…Half an hour later, Bianca was taken home by someone sent by the Coopers.Chase was preparing to return to Imperial Dragon Bay when he suddenly received a call from Laura. “Come over here right now, Chase. We have something to tell you!”She hung up after that, and Chase hailed a taxi to rush to the Turners' residence.He had just walked into the door when Laura pointed at him and started scolding him, “You damned troublemaker! What did we do to deserve this? It’s not enough that you gave us trouble once. You’re doing it again!”Even Henry took a deep breath before saying, “You’ve really
Hudson interrupted him and said coldly, “My dad wants you to immediately break off his engagement to Riley.”Henry rejected this without even thinking twice. “That’s impossible.”“If you aren’t willing to break off the engagement, I’ll have to break his limbs and deliver him to the Quaids as an apology to Mr. Ferb,” Hudson smiled coldly as he said.Laura immediately stood up and sobbed. “Just agree to this, Henry. Otherwise, we’ll all be dragged down by him sooner or later.”“Dad, do you really want to watch my life go to waste because of him?” Riley knelt to the ground.“You…”Henry struggled with the decision.Chase suddenly said, “You don't have to hesitate any longer. I agree for the engagement to be broken off.”“But Chase, you…” Henry looked at him in disbelief.Chase said calmly, “I’ve been against this engagement from the very start. Besides, your daughter doesn’t like me. If we aren’t interested in each other, there's no need to continue with this mistake.”Laura was
It was ten at night.Elaine was in a hospital ward. She was bandaged up and sitting on the hospital bed while giving her statement to the police. She could not stop crying.That was when Bianca walked into the ward with Chase. “Office Coleman, can we have time alone with Miss Parker?”Mandy was in charge of this case, and she hesitated. In the end, she left the ward to Bianca and Chase.Elaine struggled to get out of bed. “Miss Cooper, you have to save Miss Norris…”Chase looked her up and down and noticed that Elaine only suffered from minor physical wounds. She was not seriously wounded.“Don’t get agitated.”Bianca quickly stopped her and said, “Tell me exactly what happened. How did Quinn go missing?”She had just returned home when she received news of Quinn going missing after an accident. She immediately informed Chase about it and rushed to the hospital.Elaine wiped away her tears and told Bianca everything that happened during the accident.Bianca’s expression chang
Before anyone let their imaginations run wild, the Quaids immediately released a statement claiming that they had nothing to do with both accidents. They also mentioned that Ferb Quaid had his limbs broken by a thug.After releasing the statement, the Quaids took the opportunity of having all that attention to announce Arthur’s 70th birthday celebration.…It was nighttime at the Quaids' residence. Arthur was looking darkly at Dean. “Useless bastard! You’re all useless! You can’t even take care of a girl and a good-for-nothing rascal!”“Please don’t be mad, Mr. Arthur!”Dean fell kneeling to the ground. He trembled while he said, “We utilized five men and two cars, but we didn’t expect all five of them to fail at their jobs.“Fortunately, three of them fell off the cliff and died while another two were run over by a car. The Coopers and the Norrises have no evidence against us even if they suspect us…”“Dad, I want to use the shadow guards against that Collins boy. He broke al
Sam knelt heavily on the ground. “I deserve to be punished, sir. There seems to be some mistake with the information I received. I only found out today that besides the seven girls, there was another woman who survived the fire as well.“It seems like she had worked as a caretaker for Green Hills Orphanage back then and was in charge of the washing, cooking, and cleaning.”Chase felt hope in his heart. He quickly asked, “Is her name Julia? Julia Radley?”“Yes. That’s her name, Julia Radley.”Sam immediately nodded and said, “She survived the fire at the orphanage, but her face was burned. And it seems that she went crazy after that. She has been hidden away by the Quaids all these years at Oswald Sanatorium.”Chase was agitated upon learning the news.It was Julia Radley!He could never forget how Julia had treated the children like her own back when he was still at Green Hills Orphanage. She washed and cleaned for them for free and would even spend money to buy delicious snacks
She spoke while knocking her head onto the ground. Her forehead started bleeding profusely.Chase raised an eyebrow. His tone became softer. “That’s enough. Get up. I promise to treat your father, but I need to get to work right now. Anything else will have to wait until I’m done with work.”“That sounds good.”Evelyn cried with joy as she stood up. “Thank you, Dr. Collins.”“This is my contact number. Please call me once you’re free. I’ll come to pick you up.”She gave him a name card respectfully before driving off.Chase soon arrived at La Fleur.The security guards informed Edward of his arrival the moment Chase stepped into the company.Edward hung up the call in his office, and a cold smile appeared on his face.From the moment Chase and Riley broke off their engagement, he had been itching to kick Chase out of the company.From his point of view, it was easy for a sales manager to handle a country bumpkin.Raymond, Anna, and the others looked forward to what was about
Edward thought Chase had gotten scared when he saw him staying silently, and it only made Edward feel gleeful about it.“Everyone knows that Benson Group is the leading company when it comes to South River City’s luxury items. They have a strong influence in the market and own numerous physical stores.“The new cosmetics our company has just pushed out are not well received in the market, which is why we still have 500,000 sets left unsold in our inventory.”At this point, he sneered at Chase and said, “Your job is to get Benson Group to sell at least 50,000 sets of our new product.“I’m giving you three days, and if you don’t manage to sell 50,000 sets in three days, pack up and leave!”When Edward announced this, everyone looked at Chase either gleefully or sympathetically.This job was too difficult to accomplish, and it was almost impossible to get it done.They had tried to reach out to Benson Group before to promote the new cosmetics, but they ended up getting thrown out.
When Willow and Cyril saw Walter attack, they both thought he had acted too recklessly. As expected, alarms blared throughout the Worthingtons' ancestral home.Warning lights flashed wildly as the guards swarmed out of the compound like ants from a nest.Chase stared in disbelief.In the programming world, there was a popular principle known as the Duck Test. If it walked like a duck, quacked like a duck, looked like a duck, and pecked like a duck, then it was probably a duck.This so-called ancestral home, aside from its exterior resembling a military base, had military-grade alert systems and personnel. By the duck principle, without a doubt, this was a military base."Is this ancestral house hiding some kind of secret? Why is the defense so tight?" Chase asked Cyril.Cyril was equally stunned by the scene. "My mentors just told me the Worthingtons' ancestral home is very important. I don't actually know what's inside… But now, it seems I underestimated how much it means to the
In Walter's understanding, even among ape-type beasts, it was nearly impossible to move so effortlessly between high-rise buildings using only physical strength—let alone doing so with such speed, like Chase just did.Willow, being a practitioner focused on soul-based and spiritual techniques, had also trained her body somewhat recently. However, she was nowhere near Walter's level and definitely far below Chase's.When she sensed that Chase had surpassed her even while she was fully employing both her movement techniques and vital energy without using any vital energy at all, she went numb inside."Chase is just a genius. I can't compare…" she said to comfort herself.In the end, even with her top-tier body movement techniques, she arrived at Cyril's location more than ten minutes later than Chase. Seeing everyone already waiting on her, she felt slightly embarrassed."Sorry, I was too slow.""It's fine. We were just taking a break anyway. What's ten minutes?" Chase waved it off
Chase and his group arrived at the rooftop of a tall building next to the Worthingtons' headquarters."That whole building over there belongs to the Worthingtons," Cyril said, pointing to the rooftop across from them where the giant words for 'Worthington Group' were displayed.For Willow and Walter, this was their first time seeing the high-rise buildings of modern society. Everything felt fresh and fascinating. They were curiously scanning the surroundings.Chase glanced at the crowds below and frowned. "This isn't a good place to fight them. There are too many civilians around. One misstep and it'll be a disaster.""Is that a problem?" asked Walter, the Water and Fire Two-Headed Giant Python. Although currently in human form, he still carried a beast's mindset and did not see anything wrong with the idea.Cyril, hearing Chase's concern, immediately understood he did not want to harm innocents. However, Walter, as Chase's contract beast, seemed surprisingly indifferent to human
In the Worthingtons' headquarters, Ricky looked at Dominic, who was still stunned from the earlier battle, and shook his head.Dominic clutched his throbbing head and asked, "Is there really no way to get all this weird junk out of my mind?""To clear it out, I'd have to work with Carla and treat you for nearly a full year. And that's only if we return to the nether realm. Here? It's practically impossible," Ricky snorted."You're a peak martial nirvana cultivator, and you've already mastered the Nine Nefarious Holy Fist, a top-tier yellow-ranked technique. You even have the Two Evils of Hell by your side, so why did you insist on fighting that kid one-on-one? Wasn't his destiny aura bright enough for you to realize who you were dealing with?"After explaining the difficulty of healing him, Ricky could not help but scold Dominic in a tone full of frustration. From his perspective, their side had been at a disadvantage ever since entering this so-called Dark and Light Mineral Ore.
"Aren't you going to help your companion?"Cyril pointed at Walter, whose massive python body was still twitching on the ground."Oh, he'll be fine in a bit," Chase replied calmly.He knew Walter had just been frightened by Silly Husky's soul-based attack.At that moment, Chase finally grasped the full extent of Greedy Wolf's power. The next time he encountered Dominic, he would make sure the man paid dearly.He began reciting the Tranquil Mind and Spirit-Clearing Mantra, dispelling the lingering effects of Greedy Wolf's soul attack from Willow and Walter.As for Cyril, he managed to recover on his own, which did not surprise Chase. After all, Cyril was the protagonist of this world."Just now, were we trapped in some kind of illusion left by the enemy?" Willow, still shaken, finally snapped out of it and recalled the terrifying scene."No, that was a special soul-based attack from my Greedy Wolf blade. Sorry about that," Chase offered an unusually rare apology.The indiscrimi
Although there was no physical damage, the soul damage was very real. It was exactly that soul damage that allowed Chase to subdue Walter."Master, has the soul damage on your Greedy Wolf increased again?" Walter asked.Soul damage? How could a blade cause soul damage?Willow and Cyril were both stunned.With their current strength, neither of them had experienced it directly and had no idea that Greedy Wolf had already awakened a spirit—specifically, a star spirit aligned with slaughter.Hearing Walter's question, Chase suddenly recalled that the spirit within Greedy Wolf—Silly Husky—possessed astonishingly strong soul power.When they first met, it had disguised itself as a deadly blade spirit, radiating a terrifying killing intent that had completely fooled Chase.Fortunately, his own soul was resilient enough not to be tricked. He had eventually seen through Silly Husky's bluffing and recognized it as more bark than bite.Now, Chase wondered if Dominic could have been affec
Being the only one who had previously faced Chase's Greedy Wolf, Stone stood frozen in disbelief.He had always believed that as a stage-nine martial god, the gap between himself and Dominic, a peak martial god and an elder of the Nefarious Deity Sect, was merely half a step. Yet now, he had witnessed something that shattered his assumptions.His most powerful dark beast, the Crimson-Scaled Nether Serpent, was electrocuted to death in an instant. Then, even when he gave it everything he had and struck with Greedy Wolf, he still ended up at a disadvantage.Meanwhile, Dominic had taken on Chase's full three-pronged assault—including a direct strike from Greedy Wolf—with nothing but his bare skull and stood his ground.It was at that moment that Stone finally understood. The gap between him and Dominic was far larger than he had ever imagined.There was simply no comparison.He and Cherry had once considered challenging for the Supreme Elder title at the sect's year-end assembly, ho
This should be easy enough!"You brat! Dying at my hands is your greatest honor. Save your breath!" Dominic shouted as he launched the Nine Nefarious Holy Fist.His body swelled in size, his shirt bursting open to reveal muscles that were as hard as stone. They gleamed under the morning sun. The sight left Willow and Walter utterly stunned.An opponent who exploded out of his shirt right at the start? That was rare enough. However, to see a Supreme Elder doing it against a junior… Was this not a bit overkill?Facing him directly, Chase wore a serious expression. His consciousness detected an overwhelming vitality radiating from Dominic, so dense it even suppressed the aura of killing intent.After easily defeating Stone earlier, Chase's impression of the Nefarious Deity Sect had dropped a notch. He had thought that after so many rounds of body refinement and reinforcement by the Dark and Light Emerald Lotus, his physical strength should be at the top tier.Yet this Dominic, the s
The answer soon revealed itself.A sizzling noise rang out as the Crimson-Scaled Nether Serpent lunged at Chase with its jaws wide open, clearly intending to end his life in one bite.It thought to itself smugly, 'This fool is too slow. He's dead for sure.'However, to everyone's surprise, the serpent suddenly spasmed mid-air. Electric arcs danced across its scales as smoke began to rise from its body. Twitching uncontrollably, it looked like it had been struck by lightning. It fell straight to the ground like a thick rope within seconds, utterly limp.Stone stood there, dumbfounded.He had not expected his Crimson-Scaled Nether Serpent to be defeated so quickly. Sensing that the serpent was now truly and completely dead, his eyes flared with rage.Chase actually dared to kill his dark beast?!His expression turned grim. Black energy spirit surged from his body, and the demon-headed broadsword on his back gleamed with a menacing red light, eager to be unleashed. Even those nearb