Right as Grandmaster Cole and Grandmaster Victor Fang bowed their heads against the stone floor, a loud, uproarious commotion erupted from the direction of the main assembly hall outside.Angry shouts and the heavy slamming of wooden tables echoed across the courtyard.Leon raised his brows slightly, glancing towards the closed cedar doors."Seemed like the emergency meeting out there has already started," Leon muttered casually, waving his hand for the two old men to stand up,"Pull out the needles and let's go take a look.""Yes, Immortal Master!" Cole and Fang answered in unison, their voices filled with awe as they quickly stood up and plucked the silver needles from their chests.Without the mutated toxin weighing down their meridians, both of them looked ten years younger, their steps steady and vigorous once again.Lucas chuckled softly beside them, shaking his head at how fast his two stubborn old friends had changed their tune.Well, anyone who witnessed Leon's godlike medical

Two hours later, a chilly sea breeze blew across the deserted docklands on the eastern edge of Oakdale.Inside a massive, abandoned shipping warehouse near the pier, a single rusted bulb flickered overhead, casting long shadows across the concrete floor below.Up on the second-floor steel walkway, Leon leaned lazily against the iron railing with his hands in his pockets, while Dark Knight stood respectfully by his side."How many of them were close enough to make it tonight?" Leon asked softly, his voice echoing faintly in the empty space."Twelve, Master," Dark Knight answered immediately, glancing down at the dark warehouse entrance,"Number 5 was inspecting our underground intelligence network in the neighboring city, so he gathered the closest eleven brothers as soon as he received my summons.""They should be arriving right about now."Almost the exact second Dark Knight finished speaking, the night air inside the warehouse shifted subtly.There were no footsteps, no rustling of c

Twenty minutes passed by in the blink of an eye while the cold night wind continued to whistle through the quiet docklands.All of a sudden, the ground beneath the warehouse courtyard began to tremble faintly as a low, rumbling roar echoed from the main road.Soon enough, over a dozen heavy black vans and four luxury sedans came tearing down the dockland street at breakneck speed!Tires screeched across the concrete as the convoy fanned out in a massive semicircle, their blinding high-beam headlights turning the dark courtyard as bright as day.Bryce, who had been slumped against his sports car clutching his broken ribs, immediately lit up with vicious excitement."They're here! Our main force is finally here!" Bryce cackled loudly, ignoring the sharp pain in his chest as he staggered to his feet.One after another, the sliding doors of the black vans were kicked open from the inside.Heavy footsteps pounded against the pavement like a drumbeat as two hundred elite Dragon Gang thugs po

That morning at Bio Pharmaceuticals, the entire headquarters building was bustling with excitement as banners for the grand product launch were hung across the entrance.Inside the production laboratories, the new flagship medicine, perfected by the ten-degree temperature adjustment Leon had given Dr. Henderson, had already been successfully synthesized and mass-produced overnight.Every single batch had passed the strictest clinical inspections with a hundred percent purity and zero side effects.Camila stood in her top-floor office looking over the final regulatory certificates, while Leon was already lounging on his usual sofa down in the infirmary catching up on sleep.However, while Bio Pharmaceuticals was preparing for its biggest triumph in years, a completely different scene was playing out inside a luxury hotel suite across town.Thick cigar smoke filled the private suite as First Uncle Richard Ashford sat on a leather armchair with a wide, triumphant grin on his face.Beside

Dead silence fell over the entire conference hall.First Uncle Richard and Second Uncle Marcus froze right where they stood, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets as they stared at the entrance.Grandmother Anna walked slowly down the central aisle, her walking stick tapping against the polished floor with a sharp, rhythmic thud.Right behind her walked a group of stern-faced regulatory inspectors and the Ashford family's top corporate lawyers."Mother?" Richard swallowed the lump in his throat, a cold sweat instantly breaking out across his forehead."Why are you here?" He added, his voice trembling slightly as he tried to force a smile."Why wouldn't I be here?" Grandmother Anna stopped on her tracks in front of the stage, her cold gaze sweeping across her two sons."If I didn't come today, the company I spent my whole life building would have been sold off by you two unfilial wolves!"Marcus's scar twitched violently across his brow. He opened his mouth to defend himself, s