Chapter 1919: Chapter 1919: The Visitor Comes with Hostile Intentions
Talent in spiritual roots is hidden deep within the soul.
Generally speaking, even a powerful individual at the ’Ninth Transformation of the Saint Immortal’ cannot move someone’s talent in spiritual roots without affecting their soul.
Because once the talent in spiritual roots is disturbed, that person’s soul will also be annihilated!
Unless there is some special method targeting only the talent in spiritual roots.
However, such special methods only exist in legends...
At least, ’Maximus Lee’ had never heard of anyone mastering such a method!
"Master, now my speed of sensing and absorbing spiritual energy is probably not even as good as a person with a ’red root’! My talent seems to have vanished overnight... Please check for me, is there really a problem with my talent in spiritual roots?"
Seeing Maximus Lee’s disbelief, Arlo Drake could only explain with a bitter expression, and as he spoke, he became increasingly anxious.
"What?!"
Upon hearing Arlo Drake’s words, Maximus Lee was greatly shocked, he could see that Arlo Drake was not lying.
Moreover, he believed that Arlo Drake did not have the audacity to deceive him!
"Do not resist my divine sense!"
As Maximus Lee lightly spoke, his divine sense extended, entering into Arlo Drake’s body. It merged into Arlo Drake’s soul.
As a Saint Immortal Realm strongman, Maximus Lee’s divine sense was sufficient to sense the presence of talent in spiritual roots.
However, when his divine sense entered Arlo Drake’s soul, after a thorough search, he did not find the slightest trace of talent in spiritual roots!
Finally, he arrived at a shocking conclusion:
There was no talent in the spiritual roots within Arlo Drake’s soul!
"How can it be like this?"
After withdrawing his divine sense, Maximus Lee’s pupils shrank, revealing a look of horror and disbelief.
At the same time, great waves surged in his heart!
He was certain that Arlo Drake had talent in spiritual roots.
Not long ago, Arlo Drake participated in a talent assessment, using the Spirit Pearl to test his talent in spiritual roots, and Maximus Lee was present, witnessing firsthand Arlo Drake testing for a ’green root’.
But today, his divine sense unexpectedly discovered there were no talent in spiritual roots deep within Arlo Drake’s soul!
Thus, there were only two possibilities:
First, Arlo Drake’s talent in spiritual roots was not inside his soul but elsewhere.
Second, Arlo Drake’s talent in spiritual roots was gone!
To Maximus Lee, both possibilities were extremely improbable.
Firstly, he had never heard of anyone whose talent in spiritual roots was not inside the soul; secondly, he had never heard of anyone’s talent in spiritual roots mysteriously disappearing, especially when the soul remained intact.
Seeing Maximus Lee exclaim and then fall into a daze, Arlo Drake’s expression changed dramatically, but he did not dare disturb Maximus Lee.
It wasn’t until he noticed Maximus Lee did not regain his senses after a long time that he couldn’t help but call out, "Master..."
However, as soon as he opened his mouth, before finishing his words, Maximus Lee interrupted:
"Test again!"
As Maximus Lee spoke, a Spirit Pearl appeared in his hand out of thin air, the very Spirit Pearl used to test talent in spiritual roots.
Upon seeing the Spirit Pearl, Arlo Drake’s heart inexplicably trembled with a vague foreboding.
In the end, Arlo Drake gritted his teeth, reached out, and placed his hand on the Spirit Pearl.
In the next moment, Arlo Drake held his breath, eyes fixed intently on the Spirit Pearl, waiting silently...
A breath’s span of time passed.
Two breaths’ span of time passed.
Three breaths’ span of time passed.
...
After about ten breaths, Arlo Drake gasped, staring at the Spirit Pearl, resigned to receiving a blow.
"Hmm?"
However, to Arlo Drake’s astonishment, after ten breaths, the Spirit Pearl did not react at all.
"Master, this is..."
At that moment, Arlo Drake thought the Spirit Pearl was broken.
However, seeing Maximus Lee place his hand on the same Spirit Pearl, and ten breaths later, green radiance bloomed from the Spirit Pearl, Arlo Drake’s face changed completely.
For an instant, something dawned on Arlo Drake inwardly, his heart roaring incessantly, "No! Impossible... Impossible! Impossible!!"
"If I did not guess wrong... your talent in spiritual roots is gone!"
As Arlo Drake’s heart roared incessantly, Maximus Lee timely spoke, pronouncing a ’death sentence’ on Arlo Drake’s talent in spiritual roots.
Boom!
Maximus Lee’s words completely shattered Arlo Drake’s final line of inner defense, causing him to collapse, his body going limp and falling to the ground.
"How can it be like this?"
"Why is it like this?"
"My talent in spiritual roots is gone... I am ruined, I am ruined!!"
Collapsing to the ground, despairing cries escaped Arlo Drake, his eyes filled with unwillingness.
"What exactly happened to your talent in spiritual roots? How did it just vanish?"
Only when he heard Maximus Lee’s voice did Arlo Drake gradually calm down.
After calming down, Wyatt Barnes’s figure re-emerged in Arlo Drake’s mind, spoken with near-gritted teeth: "It was Wyatt Barnes! It was him! He ruined my talent in spiritual roots!!"
By the end, Arlo Drake was shouting these words!
Maximus Lee originally thought Arlo Drake must have encountered some accident to lose his gifted spiritual roots.
Now upon hearing Arlo Drake’s words, he quickly realized his mistake. His expression changed dramatically, showing shock and disbelief, he asked, "Wyatt Barnes?"
"It was him! It was him who destroyed my gifted spiritual roots!!"
With a roar, Arlo Drake lunged forward, grabbing Maximus Lee’s leg like grasping at his last hope, "Master, you must help me get revenge! You must help me get revenge!!"
"I want Wyatt Barnes dead, I want him dead! I want him torn to pieces, bones crushed to dust! I also want his two companions captured and their flesh fed to dogs!!"
Arlo Drake continued to roar, as if venting the agony of losing his gifted spiritual roots.
Losing the gifted spiritual roots is akin to cutting off his path of cultivation.
With his current talent now inferior even to those with red spiritual roots, he is destined to forever remain stagnant at the ’Earth Saint Realm’ initial stage, never advancing.
How could he possibly accept such a fate?
"What exactly happened? Speak!"
Maximus Lee spoke in a deep voice, not loud, yet infused with immense power, easily overshadowing Arlo Drake’s roar, causing Arlo Drake to momentarily quiet down.
"Master, Wyatt Barnes..."
Immediately, Arlo Drake relayed everything he had learned from several new disciples, word for word to Maximus Lee.
Additionally, he mentioned when he had lost consciousness.
"He went to great lengths to block others’ view, clearly intending to do something unspeakable... This matter must be related to the disappearance of my gifted spiritual roots!"
After recounting the events, Arlo Drake added through clenched teeth.
"It’s not unreasonable to speculate that way... It seems that the disappearance of your gifted spiritual roots is indeed related to Wyatt Barnes!"
A cold flash appeared in Maximus Lee’s eyes, full of killing intent.
"Master, you must help me get revenge!"
Arlo Drake looked at Maximus Lee sorrowfully, eyes filled with pleading and expectation.
"Rest assured! As long as it’s confirmed that Wyatt Barnes destroyed your gifted spiritual roots... He is definitely dead!"
Maximus Lee said coldly.
"Isn’t this obvious?"
Hearing Maximus Lee say he still needed ’confirmation’, Arlo Drake couldn’t help but frown.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt empty in his embrace and light underneath, as Maximus Lee carried him away from the eastern side of the Black Tortoise area, heading straight to the residence of disciples on the western side.
"Wyatt Barnes!!"
Still some distance from the disciples’ residence, Maximus Lee shouted in anger.
The voice filled with rage and rolling power spread like thunder.
In an instant, it completely enveloped the entire residential area of Black Tortoise disciples.
Suddenly, all disciples in that residence, unless in a closed meditation, were startled!
From the lowest ’Gamma House’, Black Tortoise disciples emerged from cottages, appearing densely packed, over a few thousand at a glance.
From the ’Beta House’ above, quite a few disciples also came out, numbering in the hundreds.
Even from the ’Alpha House’ further up, dozens came out.
But the topmost ’Omega House’ remained silent for now.
"What’s going on?"
"Who did Wyatt Barnes provoke again?"
"This voice sounds somewhat familiar?"
...
As it was only Maximus Lee’s voice resounding now, before he had appeared, the group of Black Tortoise disciples who came out seemed somewhat clueless.
"I recognize it! It’s Elder Maximus Lee’s voice!!"
A disciple from the Beta House exclaimed suddenly, as if recalling something, his eyes lighting up.
Though his voice wasn’t loud, it startled many people around.
One passed to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand.
Shortly after, all Black Tortoise disciples who emerged from their residences knew whose voice it was... It was their zone’s head Elder Silver Flame, Maximus Lee!
Maximus Lee, in the Black Tortoise zone, ranks only below the ’Head’ in terms of identity and status!
"What has Wyatt Barnes done again? Even Elder Maximus Lee has come personally!"
Many senior Black Tortoise disciples exchanged looks, faces full of astonishment.
They never expected such audacity from the new disciple, repeatedly provoking their zone’s head Elder Silver Flame ’Maximus Lee’ just after entering the Black Tortoise zone.
"Since Elder Maximus Lee personally comes, it won’t be a trivial matter... It seems Wyatt Barnes is in trouble!"
Many more Black Tortoise disciples thought this.
Soon after, under the gaze of everyone, Maximus Lee appeared with Arlo Drake.
Now, Maximus Lee had set Arlo Drake down, allowing Arlo Drake to follow behind him.
Despite following behind Maximus Lee, Arlo Drake’s eyes were filled with extreme hatred, staring directly at one of the Beta House rooms.
That room was the residence ’Wyatt Barnes’ had taken from him, whom Arlo Drake longed to kill!
"Maximus Lee?"
At the same time, within the Beta House, Wyatt Barnes, situated on the fourth level of the Jewel Tower, was suddenly awakened.