Ch. 1111..1120
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 1111
A man of about fifty years old was standing at the doorstep. Based on his appearance, he looked sixty or seventy percent similar to James, especially the nose. It was of the same mold.
Meanwhile, there were two other men behind the man. One of them was the young master of the Witch Doctor Sect, Levi Bayer.
The man looked at James and said with a frown, “Dad, the time has long passed. Why haven’t you learned how to control your temper yet? Look at you. You are already so old. How long more do you have to live? Could it be that you don’t want to have someone to look after you and arrange a proper burial after your death?”
It turned out that this man was James’s son and Cheryl’s father, Franklin Coney.
“Even if I’m dead, I don’t need you to give me a burial! Get lost!” James was so angry that he roared, his eyes bloodshot.
Granny Coney, who was busy in the kitchen, ran out with a spatula.
“Husband, what’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
Upon seeing the standing man at the doorstep, the granny froze, and the spatula in her hand fell to the ground. “Frank… Franklin? Y-you are back?”
Compared to James, Granny Coney’s feelings for her son were always purer.
He was her biological son, whom she had bore for nine months and raised from childhood to adulthood. Although he was a jerk, she would think of him from time to time on quiet nights. Now that she met with him, she could not help feeling only excitement.
“Mom, I’ve come back to see you.” Such a word had made tears stream down the face of the granny.
“Mom? What Mom? We don’t have a son like you. Get out of here!”
However, in the end, the granny’s heart melted as she said, “Husband, he’s already back. Just let him in first, and we’ll see how it goes. If he really has repented, then… Then, we might as well give him a chance to atone for his sins.”
Meanwhile, Alex and Cheryl, who were in the room, naturally heard the ruckus outside.
Cheryl only heard someone talking, but she could not hear the contents of the conversation. On the other hand, Alex could hear everything clearly.
Cheryl asked, “Looks like someone is here. Shall we go and take a look?”
Alex had a strange look in his eyes. “It’s up to you.”
But then, Cheryl could hear Franklin’s voice due to his increased speaking voice. In that instant, her face turned pale, and her eyes were also filled with extreme resentment and indifference. “T-that brute has come back.”
Both her hands trembled slightly as if her entire soul had become turbulent because of the man’s presence. It could be seen that Franklin had left such a heavy blow in her life!
Alex gently grabbed Cheryl hand.
After feeling the power passed from Alex’s hand, only then did Cheryl’s mood improve a little. After that, she even pounced onto Alex and gently said, “Hold me, okay?”
Alex hesitated for a while. Finally, he still reached out his hands to hug her and comforted her, “If you don’t wish to see him, then we won’t go out there. Just hide in the room. I believe your grandpa can handle it well.”
Cheryl nodded without saying anything.
Meanwhile, Alex suddenly thought of Beatrice Assex in his mind. The two people’s experiences were extremely similar.
In this way, he felt that he could give Beatrice a bit more leniency when facing her again. Due to her father’s adultery and her mother’s death from depression, Cheryl’s entire life had undergone a tremendous change resulting in an emotional obstacle in her mind. It was already rare for Beatrice to be able to act heartlessly as if nothing had happened.
“Let us hear what they’re talking about outside,” Alex whispered.
At the time, he even released a wave of spiritual consciousness to the outside.
Compared to when he had just advanced to Divine Transcendence, his current spiritual consciousness’s strength and detection ability had improved slightly. But for now, it could travel for about five meters at most. When Franklin and the others were at the doorstep earlier, he still could sense them. He could sense them after they had entered the house.
When he saw Levi, he was a little startled.
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“What is this guy doing here?”
However, he understood it soon after. This guy came to propose marriage to Cheryl.
“What did you say? You want to marry my granddaughter, Cheryl?” James stared at Franklin with a hostile look in his eyes. Even his voice went up an octave. Then, he turned to Levi. “Oh, here I was wondering who it was! It’s you, the guy who pretended to be an Immortal Doctor.”
James did not pay attention to him earlier. Now, he could recognize him quickly.
“Aren’t you pregnant with a haunting fetus? Why would you still want to take a wife for? Besides, my granddaughter already has a partner. Her partner is a real Immortal Doctor. How dare you, a defeated weakling, try to snatch her away?”
Levi let out a scream with an ‘ah’!
He finally remembered.
Wasn’t the legendary doctor of California in front of him the very same old man who stood together with Wallace Yoke and scowled coldly at him in Triangle River Delta Medical Exchange earlier?
It was just that he was arrogant and did not care about people like Legendary Doctor Coney. His gaze was only fixated upon Wallace and Alex. He did not even know who he was.
Now that he recognized him, his face turned pale. It was because he suddenly recalled that he saw Cheryl before.
It was the woman with huge buttocks standing next to Alex who held his arm that day. He even once asked Cheryl to dump Alex and live with him, only to be scolded harshly in the end.
To snatch a woman away from Alex… He would dare to do it before this. However, now that the Four Great Ghost Servants had just died, he really would not dare to do so!
However, how could Franklin know Levi’s thoughts?
Seeing his father did not agree, he was immediately incensed. “Cheryl is my daughter. It’s up to me to decide whoever she’s going to marry. You have no right to call the shots!”
James was furious. “Bull*hit, are you even considered Cheryl’s dad? Let’s see if she would accept you as her dad!”
Franklin said, “Anyway, I’ve received the betrothal gifts. Even if she doesn’t want to marry this time, she’d still have to get married! The marriage that I’ve found for her is one in a million. Husband, could it be that you don’t know the identity of Young Master Bayer? He’s the son of Witch Doctor Sect’s sect master, with a lofty status. Just look at all the sons of those bigwigs. Which one of them could be compared with Young Master Bayer? Don’t you ever throw a wrench in the works. Where’s my daughter Cheryl? Call her out!”
Click!
At this moment, the door to Cheryl’s room opened. Cheryl walked out of the room. She could not bear to listen to the conversation any longer.
If she ever kept listening to it, she would vomit blood out of anger.
“Who’s your daughter? Does a brute like you deserve to have a daughter too? My marriage has nothing to do with you! None of the matters in my entire life has anything to do with you!” Cheryl coldly said and looked at Franklin without a hint of emotion in her eyes.
On the other hand, there was not much emotional fluctuation when he looked at Cheryl.
Instead, he looked at Alex behind her and admonished, “Who is he? What’s your relation to him?”
Cheryl said, “None of your business! But, if you have to know. He’s my man!”
“Bullsh*t! From now on, your man can only be Young Master Bayer! I’ve already betrothed Young Master Bayer to you. You’ll go with Young Master Bayer tonight!” Franklin then shot a cold glare at Alex. “You, get lost right now! Otherwise, you will die before you know it if you ever offend Young Master Bayer.”
Alex gently smiled. “Really?”
He did not even deign to look at Franldin, but he turned to Levi. “Do you also want my woman?”
Levi really wanted to kill himself by running headlong into the wall now.
He never expected that the partner of the marriage proposal arranged by his father would be Alex’s woman.
“I… I don’t!” Levi’s legs trembled as he wanted to run away.
However, Alex grabbed the air, holding Levi right away.
“Kneel!”
Seeing Levi kneeling on the ground with a thud, Franklin was dumbfounded with his mouth agape.
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“Young Master Bayer, why are you kneeling before this brat? What is he even? He’s not even qualified to carry your shoes, and he’s worse than a pile of sh*t…”
Franklin could not see what was so terrifying about Alex at all.
When Alex grabbed Levi through the air, he could not even see the mechanics behind it. How could he know the fear in Levi’s mind now? Without the Four Great Ghost Servants, he could not even retaliate Alex at all with his little cultivation base.
He wanted to scold Franklin so that he would stop talking.
However, he could not even speak now. Under the suppression of Alex’s mental power, his entire body broke out in cold sweats, leaving only deep fear inside him.
“You there, kneel too!” Alex said indifferently to Franklin.
Franklin laughed heartily. “What did you say? You want me to kneel? Are you even qualified…”
As soon as he finished speaking, he uncontrollably fell to his knees.
‘Huh?! W-what happened to me? Why did I kneel?’
Just as Franklin’s mind was full of panic because of his unbelievable behavior, Alex slapped him across the face.
Smack!
Half of Franklin’s face was swollen from the slap as he bled from his mouth.
Alex said, “Do you know why I slapped you? It’s because you’re unfilial! You eloped with another woman for decades and didn’t look after your aged parents, leaving them with no one to depend on. They even had to endure criticisms from others. You deserve to be beaten!”
Franklin’s face was burning hot as anger rose in his heart, but he could not say a single word. He could only stare at Alex with his eyes widened.
Smack!
It was another slap.
The slap made the granny’s face twitch, but she did not say anything in the end. She was too disappointed with her son. At first, she thought her prodigal son had returned. Never did she expect that he came to sell off his daughter. She would rather not want her son…
She closed her eyes, seemingly in pain, then she turned around and entered the kitchen.
Whatever!
Even if her son were to be beaten to death, he deserved it too. She did not want to care about him anymore. “This slap is for your malice. You don’t deserve to be a father. You only bring endless pain to your daughter. Not only did you not raise her, but you even want to sell your daughter for profit!”
Smack! Smack! Smack!
It was another three slaps after that.
After Alex made the three slaps, a few teeth of Franklin fell out
“These three slaps are to tell you that I shall not be insulted!”
“If it weren’t for you being Old Man Coney’s son, you would have turned into a corpse now!”
As he spoke, he looked at the grandfather and grandchildren of the Coney family. He rummaged in his pocket and took out a bottle. After getting a soybean sized pill out of the bottle, he flicked it into Franklin’s mouth.
Only then was Franklin able to speak.
He touched his throat. “You… What did you just feed me?!”
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was not right There was a strange spontaneous itch from his throat to belly. He could not help wanting to scratch the skin with his hands. With a few swipes from the scratches, his skin started bleeding, followed closely by immense pain. Franklin fell to the ground and rolled around, holding his stomach and howling.
“I… I’m in so much pain. What is this thing? Help! Help! Dad, hurry and save me! Please, hurry and save me!”
He kept wailing as his tears and snivels fell at the same time.
However, James remained unmoved. “It serves your right, you brute. If you had known it would come to this, why did you do those things? This is the retribution that you deserve. Even if you die in front of me today, I won’t even beg a word for your sake.”
Franklin crawled up with difficulty and knelt before Alex. He groveled and knocked his head on the ground for forgiveness. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I was wrong. Please spare me! I… I’m still Cheryl’s dad…”
Alex snapped his finger.
Franklin’s condition went away.
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He asked indifferently, “Do you know what I fed you? That’s called a heart-devouring parasite. It’ll accompany you for the rest of your life. It’ll exist inside your body till the moment you die!”
Upon hearing it, Franklin’s face was full of horror.
Even Levi’s entire body trembled. He had seen it before in the ancient records at the Witch Doctor Sect. The heart-devouring parasite was an extremely terrifying parasite. Once it was planted in one’s body, there was no way to remove it. It would integrate with the heart as one. One would have to take the antidote every once in a while, or the parasite would slowly devour his heart. Even if his father were to come over, he would not be able to remove the parasite.
Once a man was inflicted with such a parasite, his entire life would be done for. He must take orders from the others.
He took a glance at the man next to him.
That man was someone from the Witch Doctor Sect, he was his personal bodyguard. Although his strength could not be compared to the Four Great Ghost Servants, there was a tiny difference. This bodyguard was a living person who had his own thoughts and communicated with him, unlike the Ghost Servants.
They were tantamount to tools.
The bodyguard nodded at Levi subtly and silently stood in front of him. At this moment, Levi took out a scarlet talisman, patting it on his chest.
The coercion from Alex was instantly wiped out. Levi ferociously jumped and rushed out like an old cat. He broke the window and jumped out of the seven story high building right away.
“Hmph! Running away?” Alex snorted coldly.
He reached out to grab him through the air.
The air surrounding Levi’s body froze. A large invisible hand seemed to have appeared and fiercely squeezed him, causing his body to stop moving in mid-air yet unable to fall down. Moreover, his entire body seemed like it was about to explode from the squeezing. Even his tongue and eyeballs protruded, as if he were Monkey King being squeezed by Buddha.
Howl!
At this moment, the bodyguard suddenly made his move. Two daggers unknowingly appeared in his hands. This man was extremely cunning. His attack target was not Alex, but Cheryl and James next to him.
Forced by the attack, Alex had to save them.
Whoosh!
Alex decisively gave on Levi. With a speed of lightning, he caught the two flying daggers with his hands.
He held the daggers hard, crushing them into crumbs. Franklin shuddered with fear after witnessing the scene. He had never seen a strange scene in his entire life. If he could reverse the time, he would never have accepted Witch Doctor Sect’s betrothal gifts or returned to this house. However, it was all too late. At first, he thought the elderly and children at home could be manipulated at will. Never did he expect that this would be a huge abyss. It was too late for regrets.
“Die!” Alex gently let out a breath. A slap landed across the bodyguard’s face.
Wham!
The bodyguard was slapped and sent flying out of the window broken by Levi earlier. While his body was still in mid-air, his head and neck made a huge 360 degrees turn. He was beaten to death right there and then.
It was almost the same time when Levi fell to the ground, the bodyguard’s corpse fell next to him.
Puff!
Levi spat a mouthful of blood. His arm was also broken, and three pieces of his ribs were broken from the squeeze.
At this moment, he dared not even stay there for half a second. He hurriedly ran away while enduring the pain.
“Ah!”
“Someone jumped off the building! Someone jumped off the building!”
Screams were heard from downstairs.
Many elderly women dancing in the square happened to see someone falling to the ground. They were shocked to the core.
Alex took a glance downstairs and frowned slightly. He gave Anna Coleman a call. “Anna, are you in California now? Come and settle a corpse!”
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After making a call to Anna, Alex did not care about the noise downstairs and turned to look at Franklin.
At this moment, he had already been scared out of his mind as his face turned pale.
“Do you wish to die or live?”
Franklin wished dearly that he could go around to beg for help now. Upon hearing his words, he hurriedly cried and said, “I wish to live. I wish to live, Bro… Brother, please forgive me. Just treat me like a fart and let me go!”
“Let you go? Alright, then you can just go!”
“Huh… W-what about the parasite inside my stomach…”
“What does it have to do with me?”
“Ah… Brother, son-in-law. My good son-in-law, I beg you. Please let me go. I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong!”
Seeing Franklin crying as he kept groveling and knocking his head on the ground to admit his mistakes, Cheryl was reminded of her mother. At the time, her mother had died from depression. She still could not forget this man before taking her last breath, but he even refused to see her for the last time. He even said that he would rather let her die fast to reincarnate into the next life quicker.
Was this something that a human being could do?
“What did you do wrong?” James said.
“I was wrong. I shouldn’t have abandoned my wife and daughter. I shouldn’t have eloped with someone else. I shouldn’t act below the moral baseline for the sake of temporary pleasure… Dad, I’ve already been punished. That b*tch turned around threw herself at someone else’s embrace after spending all my money. I was even sold off to work as a miner in the cold northern region. I couldn’t even come back even if I wanted to!”
“Hmph! You couldn’t even come back even if you wanted to. That’s because you deserved it! Therefore, you’re back now to sell off your daughter. Do you think I’ll sympathize with you?” As James said furiously, he picked up a wooden stick and hit Franklin right in the face.
It was until the stick was broken did he then let him go.
Alex said, “Get lost! Starting from tomorrow, go to the tomb of Cheryl’s mother and kneel before it for forgiveness. Kneel ten hours per day. I’ll see your performance in one month before deciding to give you an antidote.”
Franklin left the Coney family’s residence in fear.
James sighed and said that their family was unfortunate for giving birth to such a brute. Cheryl hugged Alex right away, burying her face in his arms without saying a word.
James was startled for a brief moment.
Then, he turned around and entered the kitchen to talk to his wife.
***
Levi fled in a hurry. He finally escaped back to the place where he lived with Carol Rockefeller temporarily. He was now gravely injured. He needed Carol’s help to send him to Hosiah Qantas for treatment.
Puff!
As soon as he saw Carol, he spat a mouthful of blood again.
Shocked, Carol asked, “Young Master Bayer, what’s wrong with you?”
Levi said, “What bad luck. My dad asked me to marry the granddaughter of Legendary Doctor Coney in California. It turned out that the woman is Alex Rockefeller’s woman. I was squeezed by him in mid-air and fell from a tall building. Three pieces of my ribs are broken, stabbing into my lungs. Carol, hurry up. Find Qantas the Weird and send me to him. Only he can save me now.”
Carol was even more surprised.
Then, she asked, “Why did your dad ask you to marry the granddaughter of Legendary Doctor Coney? Now that you’ve been beaten to such a state, does your dad know?”
Levi said, “Not yet, one of my arms is also broken. When I tried to escape from there just now, my personal bodyguard had already died while trying to save me… Cough, cough. Stop the idle chatter. Hurry and send me there, or else I’m really going to die here.”
“Oh, okay. Just rest on the couch first. I’ll give you something to fix your arm. Otherwise, it’ll be crippled.”
“Alright!”
Levi half laid on the couch. He took out a medicine and consumed it, activating the inner force inside his body to heal his injuries.
However, Carol did not go and find the item for fixing his arm. Instead, she found a knife. Her expression was hideous and her eyes were cold. She let out a strange smile in the mirror.
Then, she walked toward the outside.
“Carol, is it done?”
Levi asked without opening his eyes.
“It’s done, I’ll bandage you right away!”
As the voice fell, the knife hidden behind Carol’s back stabbed into Levi’s chest.
“Ahhh!”
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Levi opened his eyes as his face was filled with disbelief.
He wanted to struggle and kill Carol, but how could he do it? “Y-you, how dare you try to kill me? A-aren’t you afraid of being chased after and being killed by my Witch Doctor Sect?”
Carol’s knife did not stab into Levi’s heart, but it went to the right area next to the chest.
She took two steps back and said with a smile, “Why would the Witch Doctor Sect come to kill me? You were killed by Alex Rockefeller, right?”
Levi kept coughing up blood. “Y-you are so vicious!”
Carol laughed heartily. “Young Master Bayer, you are in vain for being a young hero of the next generation. Don’t you know women are the most vicious creatures in the world? When you transferred the haunting baby to me, I had secretly sworn that I’d kill you someday. Today is the day!”
“You… Puff!”
“Alright, it looks like you can’t hold it any longer. I’ll just make good use of the trash. Pass all the power inside your body to me!”
A layer of bloody red mist suddenly rose upon Carol’s body. Her entire body exuded a strange fragrance as if it were blooming peach blossom.
This was what she had learned from Seamus Owen, the Peach Blossom Demon Art.
She used the Peach Blossom Demon Art to absorb all the cultivation base inside Seamus’s body, too. Later, she even absorbed the inner force of several other fighters with Hosiah’s help. Only then could she reach Mystic rank so fast.
The power of the Peach Blossom Demon Art was no less than the Great Star-suctioning Art.
Levi’s clothes were torn apart by Carol. The bloody red mist enveloped his entire body.
Then, Carol pounced on him right away.
After a half-minute, Levi let out a terrible yet mournful roar. “The Peach Blossom Demon Art, Blood Cult. Carol Rockefeller, you’ll die a terrible death…”
However, his voice stopped abruptly at this moment.
After a few minutes, the bloody red mist disappeared. However, the power inside Carol’s body soared as her eyes turned scarlet as if they were filled with blood.
On the other hand, Levi’s body had turned into a mummified corpse!
***
On the lower level of the Coney family’s residence, Anna Coleman hurriedly came over to drag away the corpse.
Meanwhile, Cheryl finally let go of Alex’s embrace. She called out to her grandfather and grandmother in the kitchen. “Let’s have dinner. I’m already very hungry.”
The dinner was a bit depressing.
Alex could tell that Granny Coney had always missed her son, Franklin. It was just that those things that he had done were too despicable. She feared that she might anger James and Cheryl if she said something. Still, Alex took the initiative to speak, “Sir, the parasite that fed your son earlier won’t cause any danger to his life. I can also remove the parasite. Whether I should remove it or not, you guys can decide! There’s another way. He could protect his life without any worry by consuming a temporary antidote every year.”
James said, “Just use the temporary antidote then. In this way, he can always remember that there’s a sharp, murderous sword hanging overhead so that he can be a good person.”
As the matter was settled, Granny Coney sighed in relief and started smiling.
After the dinner, Alex said to James, “Sir, I have a medical issue that needs to be discussed with you alone.”
James laughed and said, “Alex, now you’re an Immortal Doctor whom even Wallace Yoke conceded defeat to. In the field of medicine, I’m afraid I’m no match for you. How can I give you any advice?”
“You can never say never. The same goes to the field of medicine.”
Then, the two people entered the study.
Alex did not mention anything medical, but told James one thing, “Sir, I asked Darven Mikail about one thing. The legacy of the Immortal Doctor, Guilherme Extraordinaire, is hidden inside the plaque of Ganoderma. Sir, you can deal with it yourself.”
“What? Impossible! Where did your Immortal Doctor’s Legacy come from?”
Alex smiled indifferently. “I have never said I acquired the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy!”
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James was stunned.
After a long while, he was hesitant and asked, “Then, how did you…”
Alex smiled mysteriously. “You want to know how I learned the Thirteen Acupunctures of Hell? Then, do you know from where the Immortal Doctor of the previous generation, Guilherme Extraordinaire, learned the Thirteen Acupunctures of Hell? Or, fromwhere did the Thirteen Acupunctures of Hell in the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy come?”
Shocked, James asked, “Could it be that your Thirteen Acupunctures of Hell have an even longer history than Guilherme Extraordinaire’s?”
Alex waved his hand. “It’s pointless to say all these. But, the legacy that I have learned indeed is a bit related to the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy. I’m not very interested in the Immortal Doctor’s status. But, sir, if you can acquire the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy of Guilherme Extraordinaire, it’ll be a great thing for the majority of the patients.”
James also seemed very excited.
As a doctor, no one was not tempted by the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy.
However, James pondered for a while and said, “Alex, I’m already old and have one foot in the grave. Even if I’ve acquired the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy, it won’t be much useful for me. If possible, I’d like to have Cheryl try it. Whether she could get it or not, that would depend on her luck.”
Alex looked at him and nodded.
Soon after, Cheryl was called into the study.
Upon hearing about the matter, she could not help but feel surprised. “The Immortal Doctor’s Legacy of Guilherme Extraordinaire is in our family?”
James said, “Tracing the roots, our Ganoderma was indeed created by the Immortal Doctor, Guilherme Extraordinaire, several hundreds of years ago. But, there were no Immortal Doctors for the next generations after Guilherme Extraordinaire. Back then, I had heard my master say that the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy was not something that could be obtained easily, but it depended on luck and chance. Why else didn’t another Immortal Doctor appear in Ganoderma?”
Cheryl said, “But, I have never heard you talked about it.”
James shook his head and said, “Ganoderma had gone through several hundreds of years, but how many calamities did it experience? Especially during the war years in the 1800s, it was a catastrophe and a rebirth every time. And, Ganoderma had its ups and downs. In the great chaos of conflicts among countless medical schools and medical families back then, it was already remarkable for it to be able to be in Grandpa’s hands today. The Legacy’s Origin had changed hands several times, but it had long since gone missing. If Alex hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have known the secret of the legacy is hidden within the plaque.”
When Alex and Cheryl heard it, their thoughts could not help but recall the turbulent years back then.
They thought about it. It was also the same reason.
Cheryl asked, “So, Grandpa. Where’s the plaque located now?”
James lowered his voice as he said, “That plaque is in Puerto Rico Rainforest. We, people of Ganoderma, hid it in a certain depth of the forest in Puerto Rico under circumstances where everything was hard to be preserved. When my master handed over Ganoderma to me back then, I hid that plaque somewhere. Cheryl, Grandpa is old. I’ll leave the matter of the legacy to you! Alex, the journey to Puerto Rico Rainforest is far away, and it’s also off the beaten track. I have a request. Can you accompany Cheryl there and keep her safe?”
Alex looked at Cheryl and nodded. “Of course, there’s no problem.”
James smiled as an imperceptible smile flashed in his eyes.
The Immortal Doctor’s Legacy mattered a great deal. It would be better to get it earlier, lest complicated issues might arise due to the delay.
James asked, “Can you go there tomorrow? If you go there by flight, you can reach Puerto Rico within a few hours, but you still need to go through many routes from the airport to reach there. You can only get there on the next day at the earliest. I’ll draw a map today and specify the detailed instructions and prepare a bit on the way. Will you depart tomorrow?”
Alex pondered for a while. Since he had no important business lately, he nodded in agreement.
Soon, it was the next day.
After briefing the few women at home, Alex drove to Cheryl’s house to fetch her and embark on the journey to Puerto Rico.
Holly wanted to go with them. However, when he thought about the recent conflict with the Witch Doctor Sect, he felt that it would be more appropriate for Holly to stay with Brittany.
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When Alex fetched Cheryl at the Coney family’s residential unit, he could not help his eyes from glistening. At this moment, he saw Cheryl wearing a white T-shirt with embroideries. She had on a pair of sea blue jeans coupled with a pair of red sneakers. She looked young, beautiful, and full of vigor. He could not tell that she was already a mature woman of twenty-sixyears old. She was more like a college student walking out of the campus.
Alex poked out his head and whistled. “Oh, my, whose sister is this? Are you taken yet?”
As soon as the voice fell, James’s voice rang from the inside next to the unit door. “Alex, I’m waiting for you to come to our house for a marriage proposal.”
In that instant, Alex jumped in shock. He seemed a bit awkward.
Cheryl only smiled and pointed at the luggage near her feet. “Kind brother, please help to carry my luggage!”
“Why are there so many luggage bags?”
“It’s more troublesome for girls to go out than you boys.”
Alex did not speak any further but moved the luggage bags into the car together with James.
Before leaving, James handed over a letter to Alex and said, “Alex, I’ll leave Cheryl to you. Although she’s older than you, she’s very innocent. Just treat her as your sister. If she ever throws a tantrum, you have to forgive her.”
“Grandpa, I’m not a kid.”
“Haha, great. That’s great. The thing that you guys want is inside this envelope. Have a safe journey.”
Cheryl got into Alex’s car and headed to California airport. Cheryl was in an extremely good yet nervous mood. She felt as if the two of them were going on a honeymoon. As a result, she did not care if she could acquire the Immortal Doctor’s Legacy. Instead, she wondered if something special would happen in this journey. For instance… Becoming a woman.
The flight was at ten thirty in the morning. It required three and a half hours to reach Puerto Rico airport from California.
Cheryl had specially prepared a tablet and downloaded a few movies on it. She was ready to watch the movies with Alex when the time came.
Each of them wore one side of the earphones. They were just like the usual couples.
However, after getting on the plane, Alex met an acquaintance.
“Oh, Alex Rockefeller!”
“Is that you? What a coincidence. Why are you on this flight, too? Are you traveling to Puerto Rico?”
Alex was startled for a brief moment. Never did he expect to bump into someone he knew on the plane. He took a look at the person.
“Hubert Gordon, it’s you. And… Thea Stone? Are you two… Together?”
It turned out that the one who spoke earlier was a former university classmate.
Recalling those years back then, Alex was a wealthy heir of a 300 billion dollar listed company, and this Hubert Gordon was also one of his lackeys. However, he was also born with a silver spoon. Moreover, he did not hail from California but Missouri. After graduation, he went back to Missouri, and the two drifted apart.
However, their relationship was still fine.
It was just that the beauty next to him, Thea Stone, had a bad relationship with Alex. She was one term older than Alex and in the same term as Maya Howards. Moreover, this person was a rival to Maya in the student council. She also bore a bit more animosity toward Alex because he was close to Maya.
At this moment, Thea recognized Alex and said contemptuously, “Oh, it’s you, Alex Rockefeller. I heard that your dad was involved in corruption and treason. You were kicked out of the Rockefellers and became Assex’s live-in son-in-law. What are you doing here today? You’re traveling to Puerto Rico with another woman behind Dorothy’s back Are you trying to earn quick cash by becoming a kept man?”
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Alex glanced indifferently at Thea without feeling anything in his heart.
In his eyes, there was a vast difference in personality between Thea and Maya. Maya was like a cloud in the sky, whereas Thea was a rotten leaf on the ground. At first, he had a better relationship with Maya. She even used to try to win him over by trying to drive a wedge between him and Maya. Moreover, the means used by her was a confession!
That was right. Thea once confessed to Alex and wanted to be his girlfriend. Unexpectedly, her goal had been long seen through by Alex because he happened to hear her conversation with another girl back then.
The ending was predictable.
The woman could be summarized in two words laughing stock!
Alex did not even deign to look at her. Naturally, he did not even retort with disdainful words, but Cheryl could not hold it in any longer. It would be no problem if others were to badmouth her. She could endure it. However, it was pushing her buttons when Thea bad mouthed Alex.
Cheryl coldly said, “You are full of it. You look like a person, but your true nature is exposed once you start speaking. Do you think you can show off your sense of superiority in this way? In fact, it just shows your dark character without any moral baseline inside your heart.”
The female doctor’s words did not contain a single vulgar word, but every word touched a sore point with her.
As her face flushed, she was so furious that she was about to go mad. She pointed at Alex and said, “Could it be that I’ve said something wrong? You better ask him if all these things that I’ve said earlier are true.”
Cheryl said with a cold smile, “You just picked up someone else’s vomitus halfway and held that hear say as the truth? If your eyes aren’t just for decorations, you can go and take a look at the police announcement. Alex’s father was framed. Even the official had rectified it. Why are you still using some old fake news to attack others? What’s your intention?”
Hubert also said with a frown, “Thea, why are you talking about this? We’re all classmates. Why are you making a big fuss about it?”
Thea let out a snort. “I’m just reminding you that it’s better off without some classmates.”
Hubert said, “Thea Stone, Alex Rockefeller is my classmate and also my friend. If you ever say such a thing again, I’ll be angry.”
“Hmph!” Thea sat down and turned her face to look at the scenery outside the window.
“Alex, I’m really sorry. Thea…” Hubert said apologetically to Alex.
“It’s okay! I know very well what kind of person she is. The point is, why are you with her?”
Just as Hubert wanted to say something, Thea jumped again. “What do you mean by that? What’s wrong with Hubert and I being together? Why would I still want to be with someone who lives with his wife’s family like you? Are you still thinking about the matter of me confessing to you during the school period? Have you been feeling proud about it all these years? To be frank, that was fake. I deceived you, you idiot! Think about it, what benefits did you get from following Maya Howards all day? When something happened to your family, did she help you? I’m afraid she has long forgotten who you are!”
Alex glance at her. “Thea Stone, don’t be cynical about the integrity of others. For Hubert’s sake, I’ll take you a stalking nonsense if you try to badmouth me with a few words. If you keep badmouthing Maya, I’ll still slap you.”
After being looked at by Alex, Thea suddenly had a feeling of being watched by a devil as a chill rose in her heart for no reason. It felt as if she would die at any time.
She was flabbergasted by such a feeling in herself, but she dared not retort Alex in the end.
Hubert felt a bit awkward, so he changed the topic. “Alex, this is…?”
Alex introduced. “She’s a doctor in California, Cheryl Coney.”
Cheryl added, “I’m his girlfriend.”
“Then, Dorothy Assex…”
“They got divorced.”
“Oh…”
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Alex looked at Cheryl. The woman winked at him.
Fine. The beautiful doctor loved him deeply. They had even kissed and hugged. If he were to deny it at this time, it would hurt her feelings. Moreover, it would also embarrass her very much. How could he possibly do such a thing?
After about of chatter, Alex learned that Hubert’s family was in dire straits.
“My Gordon family in Missouri was also a top notch great family before. But, a major event happened some time ago and caused my Gordon family’s business to meet its Waterloo. If we can’t survive this crisis, our Gordon family might have to face the danger of bankruptcy. Therefore, my grandpa has made an announcement. Whoever in the third generation of the Gordon family can help the family to earn a billion dollars first will be the next patriarch of the family.”
“And my father ranks the youngest in the family and is the least pleasing to my grandpa’s eyes. He is also at odds with a few of his brothers. Once he fails this competition, my family will end up in an even more difficult situation. We might be kicked out of the family without any rights of inheritance.”
Upon hearing that, Alex sighed silently.
It was another drama of struggling for power in an aristocratic family.
In reality, he had already experienced it twice in the Assex family and the Rockefeller family.
Cheryl said, “What major event happened in Missouri that could make your family so miserable?”
Hubert said, “I wonder if you guys have heard of the eight great royal families of America before?”
“Uh..?” Alex was slightly startled.
At this moment, Thea could not help saying, “He’s just a down and out young master who lives in such a small place like California. How could he possibly know about the eight great royal families? You have overestimated him.”
Alex sneered and thought, ‘You woman, do you even know anything? If you were to know that the Stoermers revere me and the Colemans would die for me, you might wet your pants out of fear.’
However, he did not plan to show off his capability.
Hubert said, “The eight great royal families of America are the eight supreme families passed down from ancient times of the Golden Era. In our Missouri, there’s the Coleman family of Missouri. It’s one of the royal families. But, the Colemans of Missouri had a major incident some time ago, and they were almost annihilated! Now, most of the properties have fallen into the hands of the Stoermers of Michigan. And, my Gordon family has ties of kinship with the Coleman family. Many of our businesses rely upon the help of the Coleman family. Now the Coleman family is powerless to fend for themselves, our Gordon family suffers a great catastrophe.”
Alex touched his nose.
To his surprise, the Gordon family and the Coleman family were related.
The current predicament of the Gordon family was tantamount to an indirect cause by himself.
At this moment, Hubert whispered, “Alex, do you know how the Coleman family suffered heavy losses? I heard that someone called Master Rockefeller had appeared in your Califoniia. Oh right, he even has the same last name as yours. This Master Rockefeller could summon lightning with his bare hands and has even killed a martial Grandmaster from the Coleman family. He had destroyed the first genius of America, Tristan Coleman, too. In the end, he allowed the Stoermers to grab a bargain. Have you ever heard of this Master Rockefeller in California?”
Thea next to him said again, “He hasn’t heard a damn thing! That Master Rockefeller is such an expert. He’s an existence that even the royal families have to bow their heads to. Do you think he would know about it just because his last name is also Rockefeller?”
However, Cheryl silently squeezed Alex’s hand. She pinched his hand lightly with her fingernails.
She had also heard of Alex’s alias, it was Master Rockefeller.
In addition to the relationship between him and Daya, she could determine with high probability that the person was Alex Rockefeller.
Hubert smiled. “Yeah, you’re right. That Master Rockefeller keeps an air of mystery about him. How could ordinary people like us know about him? Even if we have heard about him, it was of extreme luck. If we could meet him in person for once, then we could die without any regrets.”
Thea said, “Hubert, we heard about him because we are of the upper class society, whereas they are just civilians at the bottom of the society. To them, Master Rockefeller is equivalent to myth. It’s like preaching to deaf ears by talking to them about it! Alright, the plane is going to take off now. I’ll just close my eyes and take a nap!”
Cheryl glanced at Thea. “Hmph. How do you know that we haven’t seen him before?”