“You may be a ghost, but you are still my Edward Carter’s son.” Edward Carter burst out laughing, neither confirming nor denying it. If he knew this guy was just a ‘phony’ now, who knows if he’d immediately turn hostile and kill him with a single punch.

“Steward, bring more tonics. My son needs to rest.” Down below, William Carter was forcibly sent back to his room by his father to recuperate.

After taking the medicine, he was meditating and savoring the lingering effects when he heard the playful singing of his little cousin Frank Carter and his friends in the courtyard outside: “Three meridians open the source, five meridians are the strongest, seven meridians bring forth anomalies, nine meridians shake heaven and earth…”

William Carter knew that Frank Carter was singing the ‘Genius Song’ among martial artists.

So he asked the beautiful maid in a white dress standing beside him, Emily Reed, “Emily, after nine meridians, are there no more geniuses?”

“You’re overthinking it, young master. The starting stage for martial artists, the ‘Cangyue Realm’, is the body-tempering phase.

You have to temper your body to be as solid as a mountain. So, once three meridians are connected, everything falls into place, the muscles vibrate to form qi and blood, and the ‘Gate of the Divine Court’ opens, like a spring opening its source, entering the ‘Heaven Gate Realm’.

In this way, the more meridians, the bigger the ‘mountain range’, and naturally, the more abundant the spring water.

Even within the same Heaven Gate Realm, someone with five meridians has several times the qi flow of someone with three meridians. Such a genius can be called the strongest of the strong.

Those who can open seven meridians in their body’s mountain will trigger terrifying anomalies in heaven and earth.

For example, when the fourth daughter of the The Harris Family, Miss Harris Olivia Harris, was born, colorful clouds shone over the The Harris Family’s compound, and magpies gathered overhead for a whole day without dispersing.

Because of this, the master of one of the three great pavilions in the world, the Falling Moon Pavilion, Julia Brooks, came and took her as her last disciple.

And those with nine meridians are called ‘Grand Slams’, able to shock heaven and earth, make mountains and rivers pale, and are true peerless prodigies.

Like the founding monarch of our Great Chu, Peter Clark, who expanded the territory, ruled over hundreds of millions, and was a king of his era, with the aura of a true emperor.” Emily Reed pursed her lips in a smile, as if looking at an idiot.

Of course, Emily Reed was deliberately teasing him; the two had played together since childhood.

“The Heaven Gate is like an opening spring, but when a nine-meridian enters the Heaven Gate Realm, how big is the spring’s source?” William Carter was still unwilling to give up.

“How would I know about nine-meridian people? But when a three-meridian opens the source, the spring is only ‘an inch wide’.

It’s said that for five meridians, it’s half a foot, and back then, Olivia Harris supposedly reached a whole foot.

Young master, don’t overthink it. You have at most three meridians, so your Heaven Gate’s water is only ‘an inch wide’.” Emily Reed exaggeratedly emphasized the words ‘an inch wide’ with a nasal tone, actually trying to encourage her young master to recognize reality.

In my previous life, I died fighting the thief ‘Grass on the Wind’ in front of the Nine-Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City, and in the end, I broke through the dragon’s mouth and achieved the ‘Heaven Gate Realm’. This means the original owner of this body had already cultivated his body into a mountain of dragon veins.

When opening the Heaven Gate, the source was a whole zhang wide. Even Olivia Harris, who triggered anomalies in heaven and earth, only had a foot. A foot versus a zhang, that’s a threefold difference—what kind of situation is this?

Could this be a nine-meridian?

That’s it, the founding monarch Peter Clark must have had dragon qi; I should be on the same level as him.

Thinking that he actually possessed such a rich foundation, he figured he could surely make a name for himself in this other world, and hopefully enjoy a life with three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines! William Carter was already delighted with himself.

“Young master, what are you grinning about? Hurry up and practice! Otherwise, there’ll be no one left in the The Carter Family.” Emily Reed rolled her eyes, but her fair, apple-like face was full of worry.

“No one left? My The Carter Family has been one of the three great families in Tianyang County for over a hundred years. How could there be no one left?” William Carter’s face darkened a bit, feeling that Emily Reed was exaggerating.

“You still don’t know, do you, young master? A few days ago, after you were seriously injured by David Thompson, you coughed up blood and died from anger—pah, pah! Look at my foul mouth, you should have just fainted from coughing up blood.” Emily Reed stuck out her tongue playfully, looking apologetic.

“No worries, go on.” William Carter waved his hand indifferently; what she said wasn’t wrong.

“The eldest young master, in a fit of rage, challenged the The Thompson Family, but David Thompson naturally became a coward and hid.

Then the second young master of the The Thompson Family, Charles Thompson, accepted the challenge. The two were originally evenly matched, but who would have thought Second Young Master Thompson would use a secret technique to temporarily break through to the fifth level of the Heaven Gate Realm.

The eldest young master was seriously injured and is now bedridden.

Otherwise, how could he be missing from today’s mourning hall?” Emily Reed said angrily.

“Damn it!”

A cold, sinister look flashed across William Carter’s face. He glanced at Emily Reed and asked again, “Isn’t there still Second Brother? Why haven’t I seen him either?”

“Sigh… That day, after Dr. Foster came to check, he said a main medicinal ingredient was missing, called ‘black-spotted carp’, which can only be found in the Red River.

Otherwise, the eldest young master will be bedridden for years, his strength will gradually fade, and he’ll eventually become a cripple.

This fish is extremely rare. As soon as Second Young Master heard, he rushed out overnight, and just one round trip will take ten days or so.

If things don’t go smoothly, it could take several months, or even a year or two.” Emily Reed shook her head helplessly.

“This all started because of me. I must bring it to an end myself!” William Carter’s face was icy cold.