Invisible Rich (The Invisible Rich Man 2)

Chapter 1302

After giving a bitter smile, he then quickly began reconnecting the severed Gerald bone before swiftly and skillfully bandaging all of his open wounds.

“I admit that I wasn't so interested in the past, but now I'm interested! After all, she was really quite confusing!” answer the woman.

“Hah! The martial arts that you want to learn are not something that ordinary fighters can achieve! The requirements to reach Nebula realm are too harsh! Even having the right blood will not give you easy access to that realm! You should know by now that many families here have different blood types than ordinary people, and that is because they are part of a secret society. The people of the secret society depended on their extraordinary physique, and they would always be one step closer than the others in terms of reaching human limits. Even so, only those who were quite diligent — of that family — were able to control their inner strength and potentially arrive at the Nebula Realm!

“However, in the eyes of some cryptic families, secret societies are nothing. I will not blame them because those from the faint family are able to use secret techniques while manipulating their inner strength! Regardless, those from the faint family reached the Earth Spirit Realm through a process that involved a second transformation of their inner strength. While secret societies and secret families may not seem so different from each other, I want you to know that their abilities are so different that members of the secret society family can never dream of surpassing those from the secret family! If you don't know, the Gunters are a cryptic family too! From what I heard, after the members of the family have accumulated enough inner strength, they will be enlightened with their family secret techniques that will help them reach the Earth Spirit Realm!” obviously the middle-aged man.

Afterwards, he then looked towards Gerald before adding, “As for Gerald here, he mostly relied on his physique being changed by someone — through the use of some special secret technique — to get to where he is today. Adding to how unique the Crawford family lineage is, his training is growing rapidly every day. From what I saw, he made it through the early, middle, and late stages in less than a year to arrive at the Nebula Realm!

“After that, he surpassed the Nebula Realm by undergoing the baptism of heaven. That, of course, made him at the current stage, the early stage of the Earth Spirit Realm. In fact, I can see that he is already approaching the middle stage. Even so, his current strength alone seemed extremely strange. In comparison, even extraordinary people who had reached his current stage would not be a match for him at all!” said the middle-aged man with a bitter smile.

"…I saw! Then so that Gerald would not even come close to defeating Hogan.. How strong was even Hogan?” ask the woman curious.

"Him? From what I know, he should have been at the middle stage of the Earth Spirit Realm, although notice that he had already arrived at that realm for several years. I guess he should only be one step away from the final stage! With that in mind, there was no way Gerald could hope to defeat him!”

“I understand.. By the way, I remember you saying that Miss Gunter and those from the new group that—Portal Judgement— seem to have reached the final stage of the Earth Spirit Realm. With that in mind, I feel sorry for Gerald! Why did the person who had helped change his physique not tell him about all this?” the woman replied while scratching the back of her head.

Even though he said that, he still found the person who had helped Gerald to be quite extraordinary. After all, his help had allowed Gerald to change to his current state.

“Hmm. My guess is that Gerald had another chance meeting that allowed him to further hone his training. However, he had to continue to rush into chaos like this due to his lack of knowledge! While he was definitely capable of handling the weaklings he had met before, the Gunters were on a completely different level! If he manages to get cornered by them, I'm afraid he'll die!”

After hesitating for a while, the man simply shook his head before saying, “Haha! Even if there is, it doesn't mean anything. After all, there was already a huge gap between the middle and final stages of the Earth Spirit Realm. I want you to know that even if someone spends their entire life training, there is a high chance that they will never make a breakthrough. It was even less likely that it happened considering the fact that apart from Gunter, very few had managed to reach the final stage of the Earth Spirit Realm. The Gunter family itself naturally had a higher chance of reaching that realm because of how strong their family blood type was. With that thought in mind, the extraordinary people from outside of that family found it quite difficult to imagine themselves reaching the final stage of the Earth Spirit Realm, let alone the world outside of it!

“But... Then why are there so few people who have reached the Nebula Realm whereas many more have arrived at the Spirit Earth Realm? Isn't that a bit illogical?”

"Ha huh! Didn't your grandfather ever tell you about a mystery that unsettles the pencak silat world? Basically, those who had arrived at the Nebula Realm tended to disappear in groups once in a while. However, since the cryptic family had access to the secret techniques, they could quickly surpass the Nebula Realm and reach the Spirit Earth Realm, basically minimizes the threat of being lost with another— outside the— family that is still in Nebula. Worlds. This was also the reason why secret societies used to be the strongest families. However, after the disappearances started, things slowly decreased for them, then increased their ranking of the cryptic family, ” explained the man.

“So that's what happened!” the woman replied, finally seeing the bigger picture.

At that moment, he saw a small pouch that Gerald had on him. Curious, he inevitably opened it and looked at the contents.

After realizing that there were many small photos there, the woman laughed before saying, “Although she is a high and mighty rich heir, to think that she has such a hobby! Lookie! He keeps some small photos of women with him at all times!”

After which, he held them in hand to take a closer look at them. From what he could soon surmise, Gerald had a habit of keeping photographs of the most valuable people nearby. Of the many photos, the woman considers the photos of Gerald's parents, Mila, and her cousin—Queta— the most interesting.

“Say, uncle! There is a charming beauty among these photos that has eyes that are very similar to yours! Ha ha!" said the woman while extending the photo in question while smiling.

“Stop saying nonsense! With how ugly I was, how could there be anyone who almost resembled me? Also, stop looking at his personal belongings! It's not polite to do it!” replied the man with a wry smile before sighing resignedly.