The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 2477

 

Chapter 2477

Whatever the case was, Finnley then replied, "Indeed.

He had hidden himself so well that I almost didn't

notice him! Thankfully, at the time, I had already

encountered your grandfather once before a few

decades ago..."

"...You've... known him for that long?" asked the

surprised Gerald.

"I have, and from the second I met him, I knew he

wasn't worthy of becoming my acquaintance. For

context, when I first met Daryl, I was still

investigating the Soluna Deus Sect. At the time, I

figured that there'd be a higher probability for people

in cryptic families to have angelic roots, so I traveled

across the globe to meet them. It was during my

travels when I first met your grandfather. Even at the

time, his cultivation techniques were exceedingly

odd."

"For one, despite there being demonic essential qi in

his body, one of his cultivation techniques was black

magic. Aside from that, he also seemed to have

entered the devilish cultivation realm! He possessed

devilish essential qi as well. Since the latter was

clearly stronger, it indirectly told me that though he

had initially wanted t o enter the highest realm using

his demonic cultivation, he ultimately switched to

devilish cultivation."

"Regardless, at the time, he was apparently pestering

the Gunters. Unfortunately, I had more important

matters to attend to at the time, and thinking that he

was just a minor character, I didn't take him too

seriously. Alas, when I completed my job and

attempted to look for Daryl again—to ask him where

he had learned the secret techniques of demonic and

devilish cultivation—, I realized that he had gone

missing."

"Following that, a few years passed and I eventually

forgot about him... It was only when I found Mila and

you when I realized that someone was always pulling

the strings when it came to you. This was when I

found out that Daryl was the one behind all this!

Daryl had been trying to obtain your Herculean

Primordial Spirit since then, and you had been

manipulated like a mere pawn!" explained Finnley.

"...It's all coming together now. Speaking of which, I

remember wanting to head to where my previous

incarnation was buried, but my grandfather clearly

didn't want me to know too much about my previous

incarnation. It was around then when I received a

package from a mysterious old man who told me to

check that place out again. Due to that incentive, I

ultimately headed there... and shortly after, I found

out that Daryl had killed the anaconda Guardian

Beast! It was then when I began suspecting Daryl, but

that aside, that mysterious old man was you all along,

right?" asked Gerald.

"Bingo! I had been trying to identify his motives at the

time, but boy was that kid cunning. He kept hiding

behind the scenes and I'd always lose track of him!

Had I managed to get my hands on him, you wouldn't

have been in such a passive position!" replied

Finnley.

"But... shouldn't his cultivation and yours have been

worlds apart at the time...? With your ability, finding

him should've been easy, no...?" asked Gerald.

Laughing slightly bitterly, Finnley then shook his

head as he said, "True enough, he wasn't nearly as

capable as me back then, but he was still extremely

cunning... You can't underestimate him, Gerald, and I

say this since I discovered a major secret about him

while investigating that old man!"

"What did you find out?" asked Gerald as he filled

Finnley's teacup.

"It's about his cultivation... After thorough

investigation, I found out why he possessed both

demonic and devilish essential qi. Apparently, the

secret technique that he was practicing was a devilish

technique known a s the Hellish Skynet! This

technique was sealed in a forbidden book that was

apparently written during the Deitus Realm's

heyday... With that in mind, even I don't know how

long that book's remained lost. After all, there was

hardly any news about it...!"

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