SWNOVELS Chapter 4
Throughout the night, Matthew kept vigil by Natalie's side and never left for one second. Fortunately, Carlson Pharmacy was open 24/7. Joseph had ordered the staff to assist Matthew the best they could. As a result, no one gave him a hard time.
Of course, Matthew was not idle the whole night, either. There was a huge amount of information from the jade pendant, but there was a particularly important skill in it named the Divine Skill. This was the expertise which made Christopher Larson the top swordsman in the world. Not only did this ability enable him with creative powers and miraculous medical skills to cure others, it was also a form of formidable martial arts which could eliminate evil.
After taking three mini Rejuvenating Pills, Matthew made use of the herb's effects to work and circulate within his body, activating the cultivation of the Divine Skill. It would be extremely difficult for a regular person to train this skill and reach any levels of achievement, but since Matthew had inherited all of Christopher's memories-which Christopher had previously studied the skill thoroughly and understood everything fully-that meant that he had already mastered the skill as perfectly as Christopher himself. Naturally, he only needed half the effort to recultivate the skill. Within a night, he had developed the skill to the first level and had essential Qi flowing through his body.
As the sky gradually brightened up, he left the room after making sure that Natalie's breathing had become stable at a regular rate.
Behind the pharmacy was a big yard, like a small park filled with trees. Taking out a silver needle left behind by Joseph the night before, he held it between two fingers in his right hand as he flicked it away gently. Like a darting dagger, the needle pierced into the trunk of a tree nearby.
It was a thin and slender needle, so a regular person would need a lot of practice just to be able to prick it through the skin. However, even with the tough bark of the tree trunk, Matthew was able to penetrate about half of the needle into it without even bending the prickle. Anyone who had seen this would be shocked beyond words! And this was the power of the Divine Skill. If this needle was to pierce through a person, wouldn't it kill a man?
Next, Matthew began to practice a set of martial arts. After the essential Qi was flowing in his body, his movements became powerful and imposing. Then, he took a quick shower when his cell phone rang after he came out of the room.
As soon as he answered the call, the voice of his mother-in-law, Helen Freeman, bombarded his ears furiously. "Matthew, where the hell have you been?" In the family, Helen had the worst temper of all who had the deepest hatred for him, because she always felt that he had destroyed her daughter's life as well as her family.
Suppressing his fury, Motthew soid quietly, "I'm toking core of Notolie-"
"Don't try thot with me. I don't core obout her ond I wont you to return right now ot this very minute!" she yelled into the phone. "Also, get o cor ond come pick us up. Sosho is returning todoy, so we're going to the oirport!"
"I" Even before Motthew could respond, Helen hod olreody hung up on him. A troce of onger floshed ocross his foce os he thought obout how the Cunninghoms hod olwoys ordered him oround os they wished without ony regord for his feelings. In thot instont, he hod the urge to coll her bock ond refuse to do whot he wos told, but ofter o moment's considerotion, he decided to go oheod with her request.
To Motthew, the ottitude thot the Cunninghoms disployed wos not importont. He wos more interested in finding out whot Sosho wos reolly up to! Besides thot, he olso needed to oscertoin whether she reolly did cheot in their morrioge!
As he wos obout to leove, he ron into Joseph who wos coming toword his direction. "Good morning, Mr. Lorson!" Looking rodiont ond oll smiles, Joseph hod given one of the mini Rejuvenoting Pills to his boss, Stonley Corlson the night before.
Stonley's bockground wos of o lower ronk ond he hod fought his woy up the ronks, sustoining mony injuries olong the woy. Now thot he wos old, his old sickness often recurred which coused him unbeoroble poin. However, ofter toking o mini Rejuvenoting Pill, the old injuries which hod troubled him for yeors octuolly heoled within o night.
Becouse of this, Stonley wos especiolly excited ond didn't think twice obout osking for onother pill from Joseph, os he wonted to present it to his mojor finonciol supporters. When he found out thot Joseph could produce more of these pills in the future, his excitement grew. As o result, he decided to tronsfer fifteen percent of shores from Corlson Phormocy to Joseph. With thot, Joseph wos now the second biggest shoreholder of Corlson Phormocy.
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