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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1271

Gerald found himself subconsciously taking a step back from the immobile person who was sitting at the corner of the cave. After a brief moment, however, Gerald realized that the person didn’t seem like he was going to make a move at all.

Upon closer inspection, Gerald found himself heaving a sigh of relief when he saw that the person’s eyes were peacefully closed. Anyone would’ve been shocked to see a living man seated within a mountain all by himself!

Carefully approaching the figure—who had his legs crossed—Gerald saw that it was a white-haired old man who had a robe on. His eyes closed and his complexion ruddy, the old man gave off the impression that he was a monk that was concentrating on his mediation.

Heading closer to check whether the old man was breathing, he quickly realized that that wasn’t the case!

With that knowledge in mind, Gerald then continued getting closer to the old man to further inspect the body. However, the second he got within arms-reach of the person, the man’s face instantly turned blank and his skin dried up extremely quickly! In the blink of an eye, the body had turned into a mummy!

Quickly moving away from where he was standing, Gerald then stared at what remained of the body for a while before turning to look at the Zircobsite that was as tall as a man.

It was only a guess, but Gerald had a feeling that aside from being able to perform the baptism of heaven with it, the Zircobsite stone was capable of preserving a person to make them look youthful forever.

Thinking about it for a moment, he suddenly came to a realization that the previous eternal coffins—that he had come across— were also extremely colorful. In fact, the colors that emanated from the coffins were exactly the same as the ones the Zircobsite was letting out!

Could it be that the bottoms of the eternal coffins were made of Zircobsite…?

As Gerald lowered his head while thinking about it, he suddenly realized that rows of characters had been carved on the wall beside the old man! It appeared to be a suicide note of sorts!

Since he was from the Department of Language and Literature, Gerald could easily recognize and understand what those characters meant.

‘I am a man of divine destiny. I became a master at the age of sixty and I’ve had the honor of participating in the pledge of the holy water. Alas, the journey there was filled with all sorts of danger, and I ended up learning the important secrets behind the pledge. I fled all the way here as soon as I could, but in the end, all is still lost due to my old age! Know that as long as you embark for the pledge of the holy water, there will be no turning back! If any masters or great masters ever come across this note, then please remember to stop everything!’

After reading through what the old man had left behind, Gerald realized that he was actually a great master who had participated in one of the past pledges of the holy water. In fact, he appeared to be the first person to actually be able to escape alive!

The old man had also mentioned that he had discovered the great secret behind the pledge of the holy water. Alas, he didn’t actually write it out, and that made Gerald slightly worried.

The pledge of the holy water truly was mysterious… Any person who embarked on the journey had little to no chance of returning home safely. The biggest mystery surrounding the pledge, however, was still its connection to the Sun League.

Even so, Gerald had the Death Curse on him. With that in mind, he was going to find out the secrets behind the pledge of the holy water no matter what. Not even death was going to be able to stop him!

Shaking the thought off, Gerald then continued scanning through the cave that was within the mountain. Briefly after, Gerald confirmed that the rest of the cave was completely sealed up. He was the first to create an opening to the cave. But then… How did the old man get into the cave in the first place? Gerald simply couldn’t figure it out.

Regardless, now wasn’t the time to think about that. After all, Gerald still had to deal with Queena’s Squad of Divine Grimness and the Judgement Portals, both of which had strong purpose and determination.

Gerald couldn’t allow the woman in white to fall into their hands, otherwise, Gerald would surely fail even though he was already so close to succeeding! He needed to focus on the Zircobsite first!

After bowing slightly to pay his respects to the old man, Gerald then walked over to the Zircobsite stone. The closer he got to it, the harder his heart thumped in anticipation.

When his hand finally touched the stone, a burst of heat suddenly rushed out of the stone! The heat itself was transferred into Gerald’s body, and it instantly began circulating within him. At the moment, Gerald’s pores kept opening and closing as he received the baptism of heaven…

Fast forward to three days later, several figures could be seen jumping around in the vicinity of Mountain Top. It was Tiara and those eight men!

“Hah! You’re still alive, old witch? If it wasn’t for you, Gerald would’ve already ended up in our hands by now!”

It had only been a few days ago when they surrounded and subdued Gerald. Unfortunately, the force that Gerald’s pendant emitted sent all of them flying in all directions! As if that wasn’t enough, all nine of them found that their strength and inner strength had momentarily been sealed off!

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Due to Gerald having such a powerful weapon on him, the nine people had momentarily fled for fear that Gerald would end up killing them instead.

It was only after they made their escape that they recalled that Gerald wasn’t able to properly control the jade pendant’s power yet. As all nine of them slowly recovered their strength, they each thought about stealing the pendant off Gerald before taking him away.

With their mind made up, all of them began making their way toward Mountain Top the moment their strength fully recovered. However, both parties truly hadn’t expected to bump into each other on their way there.

Being enemies, they naturally fought and bickered the entire way there.

“How unlucky we are to meet you again! Regardless, we’ll certainly be the ones who’ll end up getting our hands on both Gerald and that jade pendant!”

After continuing to bicker for quite a while, all nine of them swiftly made it past the restricted area on Mountain Top.

Several of the bodyguards noticed their speedy entry and instantly grew frightened. With that, they immediately informed their superiors about what they had just witnessed.

By the time the guards were done passing the message on, the group of people had already arrived at the top of the mountain in no time flat.

“So you’ve finally appeared!” shouted Chester as they approached the cave’s entrance.

Chester had been sitting cross-legged and on guard atop the mountain for days, and when he saw the nine people, a strong sense of resentment was reflected in his eyes. Of course, his hatred amplified the second he saw Tiara.

“You traitor! Still, I really hadn’t expected Gerald to have the ability to restore both your sanity and consciousness!” scoffed Tiara, murderous intent in her eyes.

Clenching his fist, Chester then retorted, “The fact that he’s done so means that Mr. Crawford has granted me the opportunity to take my revenge!”

Though the old woman standing before him was his own grandmother, Tiara had never once regarded Chester as her grandson at all. In fact, he was pretty sure that she had only ever seen him as nothing more than a dog.

She didn’t even hesitate to kill him and turn him into a monster that was barely even human! To Tiara, once a dog, always a dog, and that made Chester hate her even more.

“Hah! Take revenge? I guess you now have the same mindset as Gerald after following him around so much! To think that you’re actually daring enough to even consider taking revenge on me, Chester! I see how it is! And here I thought that you’d finally be useful for once after I turned you into a killing machine with witchcraft! Yet here you are, planning to betray me! Since that’s the case, I’ll just kill you again and make sure all your limbs are ripped from your body!” scowled Tiara with a murderous look in her eyes.

“No matter how one-sided it is, I’m still going to fight you! I won’t allow any of you to take a single step inside, even if I have to die trying!” declared Chester fearlessly as he got to his feet.

“Hahaha! Say, you old witch! Do you need our help clearing the path for you? If you do, then we’ll hand Gerald over to you as a bonus! However, we’ll be taking the jade pendant with us! How’s that sound? Regardless, he seems to be right inside the cave before us!” said one of the men with a grin.

“Dream on! I’m getting my hands on Gerald, the pendant, and also this traitor today!” retorted Tiara, a malicious smile formed on her face.

The second her sentence ended, her expression instantly turned terrifying as she dashed toward Chester! Her movements were so swift that Chester was only able to go on the defensive.

It certainly didn’t help that Gerald’s pendant had suppressed quite a bit of his strength. Due to that, Chester’s combative abilities were much worse compared to before.

Finding gaps in his defense, Tiara managed to land several hits on Chester’s chest, causing the youth to fly backward! His body ended up colliding with a boulder—which then shattered from the impact—and the second that happened, Chester immediately began vomiting blood!

Despite Tiara using all of her strength in that deadly attack, the bloody-faced Chester still managed to get to his feet, albeit a bit shakily.

“…You… You can only enter over my dead body…!” shouted Chester whose resolute white eyes contrasted his now-reddened face.

“Heh! He’s still standing after you used such a deadly attack on him, old witch! You sure you don’t need our help?” mocked one of the eight men. The men themselves had been standing at the side, their arms crossed as they watched the show.

“Silence! I only need one final attack! He’ll surely die once I break off all the meridians in his body!” shouted Tiara as she prepared to land her finishing blow.

Gritting his teeth fiercely, Chester was sure that this was his end when suddenly, he heard a voice shouting, “Fight back!”

The voice itself seemed like it came from right beside his ears… No. It felt like… it came from within himself.

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Whatever the case was, Chester didn’t care anymore. As his last resort, he raised his arm to attempt to counterattack Tiara’s finishing blow!

“You’re overestimating your abilities too much, boy!” sneered Tiara as she instantly began doubling the power of her blow! She was determined to cut off all the meridians in Chester’s body once and for all!

As both their fists met, an explosive sound was heard!

While Chester barely moved an inch from the impact, it was a whole other story for Tiara.

The old woman instantly found herself flying backward, breaking dozens of thick-trunked trees as her body collided into them! It was as though she had just been struck by a powerful tornado, and the impact of all those collisions made her body feel like it was falling apart! After leaving a trail of blood on the ground—that she spurted from all the damage she had sustained—she finally lost enough momentum for a tree to stop her from going any further!

By that point, all four of her limbs were bloodied and she had a feeling that most of her internal organs were heavily damaged. Slowly raising her head to look at Chester in both horror and disbelief, she then muttered, “…H-how… How is this even possible…?!”

As Tiara spurted out even more blood, the eight men—who had been watching excitedly with their arms crossed this entire time—had their eyes widened in shock by what they had just witnessed.

Chester himself hadn’t expected to have so much power in a single punch.

‘…No, that wasn’t from me! That wasn’t my own power!’

Having already sustained several terrible injuries, Chester slowly turned to look behind him…

And there Gerald was. Chester didn’t even know when Gerald had gotten behind him, but he did know that Gerald was now looking and feeling extremely strange…

For one, Gerald’s skin appeared to have undergone a major change, now looking pearly white. Even weirder was the fact that Gerald’s hair had turned a purplish-black shade! As if that wasn’t already odd enough, a faint purple mist seemed to be surrounding him!

From what Chester could understand, there seemed to be some sort of invisible pressure that was forcing the purple mist to envelop Gerald’s body while also preventing the mist from dissipating…

Trembling all over, Chester felt as though a heavy load had been lifted off his shoulders as he stuttered, “M-Mr. Crawford…!”

“It seems that I’ve almost gotten you into dire trouble again, Chester! You should withdraw for now! I’ll help heal your injuries later!” said Gerald casually.

“Have… Have you successfully completed the baptism of heaven?” asked Chester excitedly with a nod.

“Indeed I have!” replied Gerald with a slight smile.

Now that Gerald’s inner strength had undergone the baptism of heaven with the aid of the Zircobsite stone, he was able to fully control his functional yin energy. With that in mind, Gerald knew that he no longer had to worry or be afraid that he wouldn’t be able to fight back against Queena, Tiara, or any other person with a strong yin physique for that matter.

I know, it’s the jade pendant, isn’t it? It’s giving you all that strength!” shouted

item! Once we capture Gerald and steal that pendant from him, we’re going to get filthy rich!” said one of

any of Gerald’s changes into account at all. In fact, they were each extremely confident that they were going to be able to easily acquire

want it, then!”

hand, prompting the rest of his group to dash toward Gerald

Gerald was much faster now. In the blink of an eye, he used his

stuttered the last man standing as he looked at his dead comrades. None of them had even been able to reach him

shocked man quickly pulled himself together before thinking, ‘I… I can’t go against him or

around to run, he suddenly felt a strong suction force pulling him into the air! Unable to resist at all, the man felt as all the meridians in his body

was dropped from high above, and his body hit the ground with

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life, Mr. Crawford…!” pleased the man as he crawled back up and turned around before kneeling in front of Gerald, trembling in utter

an entirely different person after only a three-day

man was wise and he knew better than to continue fighting when the odds were clearly against him.

spare my life, I’ll share a big secret with you, Mr. Crawford!” said the man rather tentatively as

however, simply raised his foot and

then added, “I-I’ll tell you everything I know

to attempt to retrieve a hidden

of his foot, causing a disgusting ‘splat’ to be heard as the man’s head

way, Gerald turned to

limbs all broken, the old woman could only stare at him with fear as she immediately attempted to crawl away

Crawford!” said Chester as he walked

agreement, Tiara’s eyes grew red as she roared, “You ungrateful child! You dare kill

to me, I’d never turn into something as inhumane as you are. Though I won’t personally be killing you, I told Mr. Crawford to leave you to me since I have a

in my way dies, no matter who they are!” roared

her reply ended, Tiara took that opportunity to gather all the inner strength left in her body to launch a

her move, however, Tiara heard a whistling sound as an extremely fine ray

took her a second to understand what had just happened, but the second she realized that there was now a hole—the size of a fist—in her neck now, her eyes widened as she flopped lifelessly to the ground. Tiara

kind deeds before she died? When she barely had any traces of humanity left in her? Regardless, I know you’ve always been brooding and feeling troubled due to the matter regarding Lola and

Chester clenched his fists tightly with a heavy

him on the shoulder, Chester then

a bit about the woman in white. Before Yume disappeared, I know she was attempting to look for the woman in white as well. Regardless, though the king of the ocean’s palace has been destroyed, I find it odd that none of my men have been able to locate Yume’s corpse, even after so long.

that there’s a high likelihood that the Celestial Lady has been taken away to the Gunter Manor, correct?” replied

started returning to its normal color and the

a large auditorium within Mayberry City. Since Master Nacol was an extremely famous person in Weston, everyone was brimming

within the crowd since they had grown up following the guidance

have to change his schedule because of him. What more, quite a lot of people had been

wait in the auditorium for Master Nacol to be

walking into the building, he felt someone tap him on the shoulder

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see who it was, Gerald was surprised to see

are you doing here, Naomi?”

And what about you? Could it be that you’re interested in such lectures as well?” replied Naomi as she

In fact, whenever she had sleepless nights, Naomi always felt like calling Gerald up to see what he was up to and ask how he had been doing lately. She

aware of

well aware that Gerald was completely loyal to Mila. Nothing could get in his way of finding her, and he wouldn’t ever reciprocate to anyone else’s feelings for him. He simply wasn’t interested in any other attachments aside

deep in her heart, she wouldn’t ever be able to just give up on the hope that she could be with him. Due to that, she

at all. I’m here to discuss some matters with Master Nacol!” said Gerald, not feeling the need to hide the

been such a coincidence for them to bump into each other today, both of them then continued

cell phone suddenly began ringing. Seeing that it was a call from Jace,

today to be extremely important! Due to that, he’s arranged VIP seats for both you and Master Nacol! With that in mind, I’m calling to ask whether you’d like to come over to the VIP seats now!” replied Jace with a

need for that! I’m with a friend now, you see. All I need is for you to arrange a private meeting for me with Master Nacol once he’s

Jace. The doctor truly admired Gerald, so it was an honor for him

turned to look at Dixon—who had been rubbing his hands to calm his nervousness this entire time—before shaking his head

sweat off his forehead, feeling slightly disappointed. After all, this was a missed opportunity

next to her students, Naomi then asked, “Could you perhaps be busy? If you are, you

that, Naomi was honestly slightly worried that he really was that busy and

smiled

was

a sudden, a

running after another to attempt to grab his cell phone. Unfortunately for him, he accidentally ran into a waiter, causing the wine tray in the waiter’s hand

happened that a beautiful woman—who had her arms locked with a middle-aged man—was walking past that waiter at that moment, resulting in red wine spilled

that, the woman instantly shrieked in

shine. With that in mind, her anger and embarrassment was completely understandable. After all, her

male student—who had unintentionally caused all

word, however, he was immediately greeted

boy, she then roared, “Do you think that apologizing will make everything right?! Are

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male student who was still

the student immediately felt extremely humiliated with so many people now staring at him. The student was smart

isn’t she?! Unless you’re telling me that you planned for all

a glance, everyone could tell that her husband wasn’t someone that they should ever

only look at the boy sorrowfully as he burst into tears

know that this dress cost over ten thousand dollars! Now I can’t wear it anymore! You better compensate me

a rich family…!” replied

be in the

back or even show any resistance as tears rolled down his cheeks due

his classmates were now witnessing all this play out, a few of the boy’s female friends quickly ran over to Naomi before reporting, “M-miss Milton! Huxley is being beaten

she was immediately greeted by the sight of several people surrounding her crying student—Huxley Loman—as some woman

head lowered as

problem, can’t things be talked out nicely?!” shouted Naomi as she immediately rushed over to Huxley before

the other student—who had initially grabbed Huxley’s cell phone to play around with him—was shocked silent. They truly hadn’t expected

her other student was simply standing there with

woman’s eyes met, both of

“…Naomi Milton?”

“Xeila Wyser?”

woman scoffed, “If I remember correctly, you entered Mayberry University after we graduated from

both of them were acquainted with one another, Xeila’s insult certainly confirmed it. Some people were just like this. They simply assumed that they were superior to others

you have to slap him so badly?” replied Naomi who knew Xeila’s character and personality well. Adding that to the fact that she had been constantly humiliating her student, the angered Naomi really couldn’t be bothered to

my expensive clothes! Does he even think he

Why did you have to hit him

Of course, what Naomi had said was right about the compensation being a separate issue. Quite honestly, Xeila had only slapped Huxley so much since she wanted to show off and prove to the others how superior she was

that everyone was now staring at her and waiting for her reply, the anxious Xeila quickly turned that anxiousness into anger

before straightening his suit and

finish his sentence, Zadie suddenly felt a tight slap across his face! The force of the slap was so hard that by the time he realized

people, and some of them even

course, was Gerald who hadn’t been able to tolerate

at her hurt and confused husband who was already spitting out a few broken teeth. Quickly snapping out of it, she turned back to look at Gerald, rage in her eyes as she said, “You… You…! Are you courting death or

fact that his last name was Lavington instead of Ziegler!

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“You…!”

though she could explode in anger at

glares at both Gerald and Naomi, she then hurried over to the

the man was now seething in rage as he viciously roared,

instantly began making a phone call. As she did that, those from the crowd were already whispering among

Mr. Lavington,

he’s also Chairman Harell’s cousin! Still, to think that young

over for him! There’s no way he’s going to get out of

in the crowd sighed with sympathy for Gerald, many others were

another middle-aged man could be seen walking

was. He was Dixon Harell,

asked Dixon in a chilling voice as he turned to look at how badly Mr. Lavington had gotten beaten up. In a way,

someone who was actually daring enough not to give him face! Said person could only be asking

told him everything. Once she

Naomi? Come on, show me how great you are now!” scoffed Xeila as she glared triumphantly at

be finding out where both of you live later, and I’ll make sure that your entire families suffer as a consequence of your actions!” added the sinister woman in a loud voice as

Xeila going to give him trouble, but she

site, hmm? I guess you truly must be tired

who hit my student first!”

Dixon wasn’t going to only listen to Xeila’s half of the story, right? Was he truly going to act unreasonably

student she hit? Tell me, right this instant!”

everyone’s eyes turned to look at the boy in question, Dixon slowly walked up to him… Before giving

expectations. To think that instead of doing the right thing, Dixon simply chose to slap the student more! The slap itself had

like that?” sneered Dixon as he looked right

You…!” said Naomi who was now so angry that her face

reserved for those who don’t cause trouble on my site, and you’ve already done enough trouble for one day! What to do… Hmm… How about this? You can call all your family members over to kneel before my cousin and ask for his

crowd instantly began

a domineering person! Whenever an issue occurs, he never just targets a single person! Instead, he’ll go after

people are definitely done