Chapter 379 The New Head of the Puckett Family
Isabella thought of something and asked Gwyneth, "Do you know why descendants of ancient martial arts professionals are sometimes born unable to practice ancient martial arts?"
Gwyneth's eyes narrowed slightly upon hearing this. "Are you talking about Kennedy?"
Isabella nodded. "It's precisely because she can't cultivate that even though she's a descendant of the Hope family's former head, she couldn't get support from the family elders and was driven out."
"Her energy channels were probably sealed when she was just born," Gwyneth said.
A newborn baby's life force is at its weakest. If someone takes the opportunity to seal her energy channels at that time, it would result in her being unable to practice ancient martial arts later in life.
Isabella's brow furrowed slightly. "Is there any way to undo it?"
"Of course there is," Gwyneth said in a casual tone. "Since the energy channels were sealed, you just need to unseal them."
Actually, years ago when she heard that Kennedy couldn't practice ancient martial arts, she had guessed this was the reason.
However, she had never met Kennedy, so naturally she didn't get involved in this matter. This kind of thing should be an internal dispute within the Hope family.
"How do you unseal it?" Isabella asked.
"If you want to help her, take her to see Louie. He can do it."
"Louie is proficient not only in divination but also in medicine."
Come to think of it, there weren't many people in the entire Northern Ice Empire who were proficient in both divination and medicine. Gwyneth figured it was impossible that Eldridge didn't know the reason Kennedy couldn't cultivate, but he hadn't unsealed Kennedy's energy channels, probably because Eldridge couldn't find anyone who could unseal her energy channels.
"One more thing," Gwyneth reminded. "If it's really sealed energy channels causing the inability to practice ancient martial arts, then the positions of those channels that need to be unsealed are matters of life and death."
If any mistake occurs during the treatment process, she would die from her body exploding.
So this matter carries enormous risk, and ordinary physicians don't have this ability.
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The matter of the Puckett family quickly alarmed all the nobles.
The thirty-six noble families already liked to spy on each other, so naturally someone saw Gwyneth entering and leaving the Puckett family castle.
And coincidentally, right after Gwyneth visited the Puckett family castle, Wilford's son Delmar died, and Wilford also suffered serious internal injuries.
Therefore, without even thinking about it, everyone believed that Gwyneth had killed Delmar and severely injured Wilford.
"What on earth did the Puckett family do to offend Gwyneth? For her to strike so ruthlessly!"
"..."
Speculation ran rampant among the nobles, but no matter how much they discussed it, no one could figure out why Gwyneth would suddenly break into the Puckett family castle at night and kill Wilford's son.
More importantly, everyone also heard that Delmar had died from a nightmare.
This further confirmed the outside speculation that Gwyneth practiced dual cultivation.
In any case, this incident made many people even more wary of the Powell family, but at the same time, it also caused dissatisfaction among some nobles who felt that if Gwyneth could kill Puckett family members indiscriminately today, she might kill other nobles in the future.
But even so, they only dared to discuss it privately.
After Gwyneth left, Wilford coughed up blood and fell unconscious, not waking up for several days.
As a result, turmoil quickly arose within the Puckett family.
The ambitious Remy Puckett's faction brutally killed Wilford's faction and seized power to become the new family head.
On the ninth day of Wilford's hospitalization, news that Remy had become the new head of the Puckett family spread throughout the nobility.
Garth frowned when he heard this news.
"What?"
"Remy became the new head of the Puckett family?"
"That's right," said the messenger. "It's not that Wilford hasn't woken up - he actually woke up about two days ago, but he's still being held by Remy's people at the hospital. I heard Remy has people inject him with slow-acting poison every day, so his days are probably numbered."
Garth didn't care who the head of the Puckett family was. He was just thinking that now that Wilford was controlled by Remy, as long as Wilford didn't tell Remy about the evidence he held, would what he had done just blow over?
Garth decided to wait and see if Remy would come looking for him.
"Has any news come out?" Garth asked. "Why did the Powell family strike at the Puckett family?"
"Not clear," the messenger said. "It happened very suddenly, but right after Delmar died, Remy seized power, so could it be that Remy secretly reached some kind of agreement with Gwyneth, so..."
"It's probably not that reason," Garth directly denied. "Whatever Gwyneth wants, she can get it easily. Does she need to collude with Remy?"
This explanation didn't quite hold up.
"In any case, this matter has nothing to do with us. We just need to avoid offending the Powell family's people from now on."
Garth decided that from now on, he would take a detour whenever he encountered people from the Powell family.
Moreover, he became increasingly determined that his past involvement in the ambush on the Powell family must never be discovered by Gwyneth, no matter what.
He didn't want to end up like Wilford at all.
"By the way, have you found any news about Kennedy? Where is she?" Garth asked again, his eyes turning fierce as he spoke.
Regardless of what happened to the Puckett family, he still wanted to get his hands on Kennedy's shares.
After all, only this way could he gain complete control of Summit Technologies Group.
"Calista and Kennedy have been hiding in a hospital and haven't come out."
Hearing this, Garth sneered coldly. "Does she think she'll be fine just by hiding in the hospital and not coming out?"
How naive!
"It seems you were too lenient last time," the subordinate said in a low voice.
Garth stood up, his face tense. "Which hospital? Take me there right now."
It seemed another lesson was needed.
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Hospital ward.
Kennedy could now take care of herself, though walking was still a bit difficult.
Isabella knocked and entered.
Seeing Isabella arrive, Calista quickly stood up. "Ms. Taylor."
Ever since Isabella brought the Powell family's troops to protect them, Calista felt that Isabella was no ordinary person. How could an ordinary person get the Powell family's troops to come protect them? Isabella probably had a close relationship with some core member of the Powell family.
So Calista's tone when speaking to Isabella had become respectful.
"Ms. Taylor, please sit. Would you like some fruit? We have grapes here, and pears..."
"Calista, you don't need to be so polite," Isabella smiled. "I came today because I have some things I want to ask Kennedy."
Kennedy looked over upon hearing this. "What is it?"
"Kennedy, do you know the reason why you can't cultivate ancient martial arts?"
Kennedy thought for a moment. "My father mentioned it. He said my energy channels were sealed by someone."
She didn't know who did it.
At first, Eldridge had also asked many people if there was any way to unseal them.
But almost all the physicians said they could try, but the probability of death was over ninety percent, because the energy channels that needed to be unsealed were matters of life and death, and if they weren't careful, she would die suddenly during the treatment process.
Therefore, Eldridge didn't want her to take the risk.
For Eldridge, Kennedy being alive was more important than anything else. Whether or not she could practice ancient martial arts was secondary.