A Man Like None Other novel Chapter 9

“Mr. Chance, just let me know what you need. As long as I can fulfill it, I will not refuse,” William quickly declared. At that moment, Josephine queried, “Mr. Chance, what do you need the calligraphy brush and cinnabar rosary for?” After all, both items didn’t look like they were required for medical treatment, and they were also widely available. “Josephine, Mr. Chance has his reasons for writing them down. You shouldn’t question him!” William admonished her with a glare. “It’s all right.” Jared smiled. “They are used for treatments, too. However, they aren’t just any ordinary brush and rosary.

They have to be imbued with spirituality for them to work.” “Imbued with spirituality?” Josephine and William were dumbfounded, as they had no idea what Jared meant. When he saw how confused they were, Jared explained, “Everything in this world will live and die, and all of them contain spirituality. Even items deemed inanimate by men can have spirituality as well. However, it can only form under very strict conditions.

“Let’s take this chair I’m sitting on as an example. If I sit on it and meditate for decades, it would gradually be imbued with spirituality too.” Worried that both of them would not understand, he illustrated the concept in layman’s terms. “Oh, I get it!” Josephine suddenly exclaimed. “Mr. Chance, are you saying that it’s the same as what is shown on TV? At one of the trees where the immortals reside, it will gain spirituality after some time and even turn into a human form!”

“Josephine, stop your nonsense!” William was speechless at the way Josephine described it. From his perspective, immortals didn’t exist, especially not in the modern world. “Ms. Sullivan, you hit the nail on its head,” Jared replied with a grin. Previously, Jared didn’t believe in such things too. However, after spending the last three years with Draco, he finally realized that there was still a lot out there that he didn’t understand. In fact, the secrets Draco had passed on to him were the Focus Technique. As long as he continued to train in them, he might actually become an immortal.

William smiled awkwardly, as he didn’t expect Josephine to get it right. If anyone else talked to him about spirituality and immortals, he would have scoffed at them. However, since it was Jared who brought it up, William’s skepticism wavered immediately. While Jared and William continued their discussion, they didn’t even give Jonathan, who was still kneeling on the ground, a look. Even though Jonathan was not particularly evil, he was unable to take on any real responsibility. Hence, Jared didn’t intend to accept him as his student. Moreover, he would not simply take in anyone without Draco’s permission.

After talking for more than ten minutes, Jared finally knew how William injured himself. When he was young, William was hit by a palm strike by a business competitor. As there was no external wound, and the results of his checkups were clear, he didn’t pay much attention to it. As time went by, William began to feel that he was growing weaker to the extent of having difficulty breathing. As a result, he kept himself going all this while by consuming a lot of health supplements.