Tyler returned to his home with a beaming smile.
"What happened, Young Master? You look so happy." Alfred asked with a smile on his face.
"Alfred, look! The third elder gave me this certificate. Now, I only need to send fifty percent to the clan, and I didn't even have to use those coins."
Tyler, excited, showed him the certificate.
Even his previous gloominess due to his lack of talent disappeared.
Seeing that smile, Alfred froze.
'Just how insecure you are, Young Master? Are you so afraid of your own family?'
For any other family, this would've been normal. In fact, that's the reason why he made those stories about the coins.
Well, they weren't stories. They did happen, but it wasn't for the coins. He just mixed those coins with those stories to change Tyler's mind.
He believed the third elder would give him this certificate as long as Tyler went to ask him.
Among many people whose memories were changed, Alfred wasn't one of them. But precisely because of this, he felt heartbroken.
Seeing his young master feel so genuinely happy about such a small thing broke his spirit.
After all, he was Tyler's caretaker, but he could never give him an emotional effort.
"That's great, Young Master! Now you can use that money to improve your cultivation speed."
Erena excitedly congratulated him.
Looking at Erena's excited face, a smile appeared on Alfred's face.
'I hope you can make Young Master feel secure, Erena!'
He thought to himself and asked.
"Young Master, I talked to the fourth elder and settled all of our properties."
He took out a gold card and said.
"The Fourth Elder had decided to keep this house under his name. If you ever feel like returning home, you can simply use this house."
"As for other properties, they have been sold back to the family. This card currently holds four million gold coins."
"For your cultivation, I have transferred fifteen million gold coins to our central bank and withdrew one hundred fifty thousand spirit stones."
He took out a ring and passed it to Tyler.
"Young Master, you only need to drop your blood onto the ring. It will automatically register your identity, and you can use it to use your mana."
Hearing that, Tyler couldn't help but feel excited. He bit his finger and dropped some blood on top of the ring.
At this moment, he felt a strange feeling in his mind.
"Alfred, what's going on? I am not using mana, but I feel this ring."
"That's the innate connection between you and the ring. Once you wear this ring, you can simply input your mana, and you will get the interior view in your mind."
"Then, you can select the items inside the ring with just a thought. That's how Spatial Ring works."
"I see!"
Tyler nodded and placed the ring on his index finger.
"You are really efficient, Alfred. By the way, I only need to follow my Inherited Technique to cultivate, right?"
Tyler asked.
Alfred nodded.
"Then, I will be in my room."
Tyler hurriedly ran to his room.
Seeing this excitement, Erena couldn't help but chuckle.
"Young Master is so excited about cultivation."
But then, her expression dropped as she clenched her fist.
"Damn it! If only I could give Young Master my talent."
Her words froze Alfred as he remembered one of his Master's instructions.
'Alfred, after I leave, you must do your best to find a beautiful and talented lady for Tyler, but she can only be his maid, understand?'
'No matter what, they must never have any intentions to be husband and wife!'
Those words were just simple instructions. So, when Tyler met Erena, even if she was a part of the Vampire Race, Alfred still decided to take her in.
He even convinced the elders of the family to take her in.
Humans were very cautious about their identity. Being a vampire, Erena could only thrive in vampire-populated regions.
But just like Tyler, she also lost her family. She had been living alone and in frugality until she encountered the Holy Church of Humanity.
Holy Church would never allow a vampire to live among humans, so she was immediately subjected to capture.
She retaliated, but at that moment, she hadn't awakened her talent. So she was just a slightly stronger human.
Coincidentally, Tyler was there when that happened.
Or rather, Alfred had taken notice of Erena early on, and after realizing she could be that person, he had brought Tyler to that area.
Knowing Tyler's kind nature, he knew he couldn't see a young girl being persecuted like that.
Just as he expected, he ordered Alfred to save the girl. Although Tyler was a cautious person, he had his own sense of justice.
Especially after learning about her past, he couldn't let go of her, forcing his family to get involved.
That was the first moment when he truly felt safe in his family. Because he was ready to be abandoned by his family at that moment.
After that, Erena took care of him. Although Alfred was initially hesitant about her talent, when she turned eighteen, and they checked her talent, she was found to have inherited Grade A technique.
Nobody except Tyler and Alfred knew about it, and they kept it a secret. Or at least, Tyler thought they had kept it a secret.
Alfred had already told this secret to Tyler's grandfather and other elders. He also told them it was his Master's intentions.
Although they didn't understand the reason, they didn't do anything to her. They let her become his maid.
It was kinda scary considering those with Grade A talent were considered the best in the family, but that best became Tyler's maid.
The only person with higher talent was Richard, who had awakened Grade S Inherited Technique.
At this moment, Alfred felt a bit hopeful.
'Maybe master found a solution for Young Master's low talent. After all, both father and son predicted the same thing.'
'Could it be that there is a possibility to take Erena's talent? Would she resist? I hope she doesn't. I don't want to harm her.'
He shook his head and said.
'No, Master, I know is not that kind of person.'
Although he thought about it, he couldn't shake off those thoughts.
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Inside his room, Tyler sat on his bed with his legs crossed and his eyes closed.
He was constantly meditating, trying to find the Inherited Technique in his brain. It wasn't as easy as Alfred made it sound.
For almost an hour, Tyler didn't find anything. Until his meditation became more and more fluent.
Suddenly, he felt his mind exploding. He didn't know what was happening, but he felt a strange feeling as if he was walking even though he was still sitting on his bed.
He tried to move his body and realized that he could feel something around him.
Suddenly, a large text struck him on the face. His brain trembled, and his soul shook.
A large amount of information entered his brain and shook him to his very core.
As the information kept entering his brain, he entered a state of shock.
Because he understood his technique.
It was a Dual Cultivation Technique.
[Harmony of Nine Phoenixes]
It was a unique technique attached to his soul. It wasn't his inherited technique. In fact, his inherited technique was something else, hidden deep within him.
Even the previous awakening hadn't truly awakened his Inherited Technique, and it could only be awakened through one thing.
Bathing in the waters of Primordial Chaos.
At first, he felt like he was hallucinating until he realized these were instructions rather than just a technique.
It was about reaching the Tempered Body Realm to unlock the first stage of the Immemorial Paragon Tower.
It was a supreme tower that was deep within his soul, and the first floor of that tower had the Pond of Primordial Chaos Water.
Unfortunately, to open the first stage, he must reach the Tempered Body Realm. But without unlocking the first stage, he couldn't awaken his Inherited Technique.
So, someone inserted another technique in his mind, a Dual Cultivation Technique that was connected to the Immemorial Paragon Tower.
He must practice this technique with a woman and then share a portion of her talent to improve his cultivation speed.
But at the same time, he must also be prepared to abandon this woman. He must preserve his Yang Essence to merge with the First Phoenix inside the first floor of the tower.
Only by merging his nine Yang Essences with the Nine Phoenixes locked inside the tower would he be able to completely control the tower and also elevate his talent beyond this world.
After he understood his technique, Tyler slowly opened his eyes.
"This is impossible."
Without a second thought, he abandoned the idea of practicing this technique, not because he didn't like Dual Cultivation.
But simply because he had to abandon someone he had dual cultivated with.
He had only one person in mind that could dual cultivate with him, and he couldn't abandon this person just because this technique said so.