Now that the case was done and they were still awake anyway, Gerald and Rey returned home to get Juno and Yrsa out to have supper. Heading toward a local night market, the four found a nice stall and took their seats there. Upon sitting down, Rey couldn’t help but exclaim, “Wow! To think that there’d be such a place in the city!” Rey, for one, had never come to places like this before, so he pretty much had no idea that locations like these existed in the first place. “…What? Didn’t you study here? How could you have spent all your years in this university without finding out about this place? Your university life was a complete waste!” joked Gerald before snickering. Chuckling sheepishly, Rey then scratched the back of his head in slight embarrassment before replying, “Still, that just shows that I work more and play less!” Though Rey unconsciously praised himself, the trio simply rolled their eyes in response. None of them could win against Rey when it came to narcissism!
Now that there were no further distractions and they were mostly done with their meals anyway, it was high time to discuss things more seriously. “Well, I’m thinking of starting a new office in a new place. If things work out, we’ll have our own established company that deals with psychic matters. That way, people will know where to find us if they have issues regarding such things,” replied Gerald. After solving today’s mystery, Gerald had thought about how the Great Council only dealt with matters between humans up till this point. If he established a company that specialized in dealing with the paranormal, those seeking help would be able to get actual results instead of having clueless investigators. What more, with the gates to the ghost world now open, more incidents like this would surely happen, which further prompted Gerald to give serious thought about the idea. Either way, after listening to Gerald’s suggestion, the trio immediately nodded without the slightest hesit
Shortly after, a scar-faced man walked up to the woman before scoffing, “Planning on going somewhere, boss?” “…Big Brother, we just run a small business…! We really don’t have any money to give you…!” replied the stall owner in a resigned tone. “Cut the cr*p!” sneered the scarred man before slapping her right in the cheek! Due to how hard he had hit her, the woman ended up staggering two steps back before having to lean against her cart to support herself… “Mother!” yelled the woman’s daughter as she immediately ran over to her to help her up. Following that, she glared at the scarred man before shouting, “You utter b*stard…! To think that you’d dare to hit a woman!” “Hmm? This your daughter, boss? She’s quite a looker!” sneered the scarred man, a malicious smile on his face as he walked over to the stall owner’s daughter before yanking her over to his side! “L-let go of me, you b*stard…! What are you planning to do?!” shouted the poor girl as she attempted to break herse
“You tired of living or something, kid? Are you seriously meddling in my affairs? Do you even know who I am?!” growled the scarred man as he continued glaring fiercely at Rey. “Don’t know, don’t care! Regardless, let them go already or I’ll call the Great Council over!” retorted Rey before fishing his phone out in hopes of threatening the gangster. Upon hearing that, the scarred man and his underlings instantly began laughing mockingly. Once he was done laughing, the scarred man then jeered, “Do you honestly think they’ll come over when they know we’re involved! Go ahead and call them then! See what happens!” Hearing that, Rey was slightly taken aback. To think that these hooligans weren’t afraid of the Great Council’s power! Shaking his head, the scarred man then signaled for his men to go after Rey, prompting Rey to instinctually take a step back… However, before he could take another, he suddenly felt a firm pat on his shoulder. Turning around and seeing that it was Ge
“Speaking of which, we’re not full yet, boss! With that said, why don’t you resume business?” said Gerald. “Oh! Just give me a minute and I’ll make more for all of you to eat then!” replied the stall owner almost instantaneously, a wide smile on her face. Since they had just saved her, it was only natural that she felt the need to repay their kindness with hospitality. With that, she quickly began setting up her stall again before getting to work… and not long after, a massive plate of food was served at Gerald’s table. “I’m truly grateful for your help today, so all this is on me!” declared the stall owner. Before Gerald or the girls could even reply, Rey was already saying, “You’re being way too polite, boss! It was only a small matter to us!” Upon hearing that, the trio could help but stare at Rey with raised brows, thinking how shameless he was. “Well, small or not, it was still a great help to us! Now eat up and do tell me if you need more!” replied the stall owner bef
Tonight, some people were simply fated to mysteriously disappear off the face of the planet… Soon enough, Gerald found himself hovering over the Hoklux Gang’s headquarters… As previously seen, the Hoklux Gang was a bunch of hooligans, and the head of the group was a vicious man known simply as Roger. From the rumors Gerald had managed to gather, he was frequently summoned to the Great Council for ‘coffee talks’. Upon phasing through the headquarters’ ceiling, Gerald was immediately greeted by the sight of the scarred man kneeling before a seated person—whom Gerald assumed to be Roger—while saying, “I apologize, master…! We truly are useless for being defeated by others…!” “That you all are! Rubbish! To think that all of you weren’t a match for a single man! You’ve truly embarrassed the Hoklux Gang this time!” retorted Roger as he glared at the scarred man. Hearing that, the scarred man and his subordinates simply lowered their heads, not having the guts to even look up. “Y-
To Gerald, they deserved to die.Instead of letting them come and cause trouble, Gerald would rather get rid of them in advance. That way, he would be able to avoid getting into bigger trouble.After staring at them for a few seconds, Gerald took out the Phangrottom Rune.With a firm wave of the Phangrottom Rune, Gerald exterminated the souls of those two.People like them didn’t qualify to be reincarnated. They should just turn into nothingness.After dealing with the matter, Gerald left right away.Gerald knew that the next morning, the death of the head of the Hoklux Gang would be reported on every news channel, and the news would definitely shock the whole city.However, most of the people would only feel glad seeing as the gang’s head had finally been punished for his evil deeds.After going back to his place, Gerald returned to his body and fell asleep.The next morning, a phone call woke Gerald up.When Gerald was awakened, he took his phone and saw that it was from H
“Brother Gerald, you should be using that out-of-body experience technique, right? When will I be able to learn that?”In the car, Rey asked Gerald curiously. He also wanted to learn that skill.“Don’t rush. You will learn it one day, but you should focus on the basics first!”Gerald turned his head and looked at Rey.Some skills were not that easy to master. One could not learn to run before he could walk.They arrived at the headquarters of the Hoklux Gang as they were conversing.The place was surrounded by many people inside and outside. It was really crowded.There were already a few cars of the Great Council in front of the building, and the inspectors were working to maintain the order at the scene.Gerald walked over with Rey.“Rey, don’t say anything once we get inside. I’ll handle everything!”Gerald reminded Rey softly as they walked in.Rey nodded in understanding.“I understand, Brother Gerald!”Rey knew what Gerald meant.When they arrived at the entrance, t
Watching in fury as his black air blade dissipated, Daryl roared, “W-what power…!” As Daryl was too shocked to move, Gerald took the chance to yell, “Attack…!” And just like that, a blazing light momentarily lit the entire sky…! As surges of energy shot out in all directions, Daryl’s devilish formation was reduced to dust in a matter of seconds! “No…!” howled the anguished Daryl as the earth beneath him cracked and clouds of dust flew everywhere! It was chaos incarnate… yet moments later, everything fell deathly silent. Gerald himself had already vomited a pool of blood by now, and as he fell unconscious, he could feel his body freezing up… Fast forward to three years later, Mayberry Commercial Street was as lively as ever… “Darling, it’s your brother’s wedding day today… Shouldn’t we head over earlier? You’ve been dolling yourself up for ages!” “Fine, dad… Though, isn’t Second Uncle already there to help set things up? That aside, my brother’s gone through so many hardsh
‘Daryl’s been possessed by the Supreme Devilish Lord for ages, and the lord himself has been using your grandfather’s body to attempt his resurrection! This cycle has been repeating for years, and the Supreme Devilish Lord has already captured many people with Yin physiques but thankfully failed! This grew so out of hand that the Soluna Deus Sect, or Sun League as you call them, have actively been trying to force the Supreme Devilish Lord to show himself!’ ‘In order to further deter the Supreme Devilish Lord’s efforts, they’ve even been kidnapping people with Yin physiques! Do you see the entire picture now, boy?’ explained Finnley. ‘…So that’s the truth… Then, how’s Mila?’ asked Gerald. ‘She’s fine, but your reunion depends on whether we can destroy him this time!’ replied one of the white-robed ladies. That was relieving to hear… Still, as it turned out, the Sun League weren’t villains at all! They had simply been abducting people like his second uncle, Mila, and Leo for the
His chest felt like it was exploding, and it didn’t take long for blood to spurt out of his mouth. What immense devilish power…! Following a sneer, the Nirvadevil sect’s master scoffed, “I know you raised your cultivation level this high because you want to learn more about the Sun League, but you should understand that devilish cultivators will always be stronger! Did you really think that acquiring the angelic inheritance would give you absolute power? How laughable! Your Herculean Primordial Spirit won’t save you this time!” Furrowing his brows, Gerald retorted, “…Who on earth are you? How do you know me so well? In fact, how do you know about my Herculean Primordial Spirit?” Laughing in response, the master then said, “Oh, you’ll know who I am soon! But before that, allow me to snatch your Herculean Primordial Spirit! I need to destroy it so that the sacred Primordial Devilish Internal Pellet can reign supreme…!” Upon hearing that, Gerald couldn’t help but frown even more.
“…This formation. It feels… familiar,” muttered Sanchez. “Same thought here. I think it’s the Septelic Perishment Formation of the ancient Black Dragon Sect!” replied Gerald. “Ah, no wonder it felt so familiar… Though, wasn’t this formation lost to time ages ago? How did you learn of it?” asked the surprised Sanchez. The formation had been a legendary one that, as Sanchez had said, had been lost at the end of the ancient era. Just from its name alone, one could imagine that this immensely powerful formation had been used against the people of the Deitus Realm. In the end, however, the allies of the Deitus Realm still managed to destroy the Black Dragon Sect, thus leading to the destruction of all the sect’s other mysterious and bizarre formations… Naturally, they had made sure to obliterate all of them to ensure that nobody in the future would be able to threaten them like that again in the future… Whatever the case was, Gerald was quick to reply, “I read about it somewhere. Ho
Upon hearing Gerald’s question, Lord Ethern was prompted to reveal a few samples of the herbs they were locating… and it wasn’t long before Gerald felt his eyes twitch. After all, those samples were herbs inherited by the ancient witches… In other words, they were the ones he was for as well! Naturally, Marcel recognized them as well, and he was quick to say, “…These…” Noticing how the two were looking at the herbs, Darkwind muttered, “…I take it that the herbalist they’re looking for really is Ms. Phoebe, Mr. Crawford?” “…Well, it’s hard to say if she is since Marcel already said that the timing wasn’t right… Regardless, this is an important clue. Lord Ethern, was it? Could you elaborate a bit more on your master?” muttered Gerald as he turned to face the man again. “I really can’t say…! Look, Master always appears before us in a shadowy form, so none of us have ever seen his face!” replied Lord Ethern while shaking his head. “…Is that the truth?” “I swear on my life!” exc
“Flaxen, you bloody traitor…!” roared the three other lords who grew so angry that their faces went red!However, they had no time to remain angry since the Blancetnoir Double Lords and Sanchez had already made their move! As one would expect, it only took a single round for all three of the lords to crumble to the ground.With his eyes wide open, Lord Ethern stuttered, “Who… Who the hell are you people…?!”“You don’t need to know that information. That aside, tell us what you four are planning to do already,” scoffed Gerald as he slowly approached the three defeated men.“…Who the hell do you think you are? What makes you think I’ll comply so easily?” growled Lord Ethren.Upon hearing that, Gerald raised his hand… and within a split second, Lord Ethern let out a bone-chilling wail. The Blancetnoir Double Lords had just snapped both of the poor man’s arms!“If you want your other limbs intact, don’t make me repeat the question,” growled Gerald.Now terrified, the agonized man replied,
From what Gerald could tell, all of them were devilish cultivators. After all, their auras were way different compared to regular cultivators like Gerald and demonic cultivators like Sanchez. Though he had read about devilish cultivators before in one of Uncle Zeman’s books, this was his first time actually coming across them. It was a while later when the frowning Sanchez muttered, “So, they want to ambush some herb lady… Is she the one we’re looking for?” Sanchez, for one, had pretty much been frowning throughout his journey with Gerald. His only hope at the moment was for Gerald to find the person he was looking for as soon as possible. Otherwise, who knew how long that boy would continue controlling his life! Regardless, Marcel was quick to add, “I had the same thought, Mr. Crawford. After all, Phoebe excels not only in pharmacology, but also in all sorts of special techniques and formations!” Watching as Gerald nodded, the Blancetnoir Double Lords couldn’t help but scoff,
There were two straightforward purposes of the trip. The first was to find Phoebe, the descendant of the ancient witches. Only by finding her would Gerald have a chance to locate Daryl’s hideout… Hopefully the Yinblood pellet—that was now in his hands—would aid with that effort… As for the second goal, he was hoping to retrieve the inheritance according to the Zearl’s instructions. After all, he’d only stand a fighting chance against Daryl and the Soluna Sect after getting the inheritance. While it was true that Gerald’s cultivation level was currently one of the highest in all of the cultivation realm, the fact remained that Daryl practiced devilish cultivation, and those from the Soluna Deus Sect were already in the Deitus Realm. In other words, he was merely an ant to them, which was why he was making sure to fully prepare himself before confronting them. Though he now had Sanchez and the Blancetnoir Double Lords under his command, he still felt that he was underprepared… Re
Now that all three of them had been subdued with the Nineraid Band, the other big shot cultivators couldn’t help but stare enviously at Gerald, knowing full well that they’d never be able to obtain his angelic artifacts. After all, if he could take down the Blancetnoir Double Lords and Sanchez, then what chance did they have? By this point, Sanchez had managed to get to his feet, albeit with quite a bit of difficulty. Naturally, he no longer dared to make any rash moves on Gerald. Instead, he was prompted to resentfully say, “You’re really something else, Gerald…! It makes me wonder why you still need our help. After all, not only are you the sole person who knows the secrets of the general’s tomb, but you also possess those angelic artifacts!” “Oh, don’t you worry about that. With how powerful you three are, I’m sure you’ll become indispensable assistants as we head to the North Desert in search of a certain someone! Speaking of which, if you’re already thinking about killing me t