Chapter 1739: Chapter 1739: Like Father, Like Son?
Although Ebba King knew before making a move that she could not possibly be Wyatt Barnes’ opponent.
What she wanted to know more was the gap between herself and Wyatt Barnes.
Before she broke through to the Middle Saint Realm mid-stage, she didn’t even have the courage to spar with Wyatt Barnes because he possessed late-stage strength of the Middle Saint Realm, and it wasn’t even the average late stage.
Moreover, after Wyatt Barnes went to the spirit pool for cultivation, even if he hadn’t broken through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm, his strength would definitely have greatly increased!
This time, after breaking through to the mid-stage of the Middle Saint Realm, her confidence increased significantly, prompting her to seek out Wyatt Barnes for a match.
"This... how is this possible?!"
However, when she saw that her full effort didn’t even break through the defense forming around Wyatt Barnes, Ebba King was dumbfounded. The confidence she had gained from breaking through to the Middle Saint Realm mid-stage was completely shattered at that moment, turning to nothing.
"Did you... break through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm?"
Immediately, a dreadful thought emerged in Ebba King’s mind, and she looked at Wyatt Barnes in a daze and asked.
The scene before her could only be explained if the opponent had broken through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm.
Even an exceptionally strong existence at the late stage of the Middle Saint Realm could not have so easily blocked her full-strength attack.
Originally, Ebba King speculated whether the guy before her had broken through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm after coming out of the spirit pool... Now, through her own personal probing, she was completely convinced that the guy definitely broke through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm; otherwise, he couldn’t be this absurdly strong.
In response to Ebba King’s inquiry, Wyatt Barnes shrugged, offering a subtle smile without saying anything.
However, in Ebba King’s eyes, Wyatt Barnes had tacitly agreed.
If Wyatt Barnes knew what Ebba King was thinking, he would surely be at a loss for words. The reason he didn’t speak was that he feared he would frighten Ebba King, and she might not even believe him... It’s important to know, that his true cultivation level was only at the early stage of the Middle Saint Realm, not even as formidable as Ebba King currently.
Of course, this was referring only to ’cultivation level,’ not ’strength.’
Currently, Wyatt Barnes’ strength was no longer confined to his ’cultivation level.’
Even without relying on a powerful physique, without external assistance, just by using True Origin, his strength was sufficient to match an early-stage Great Saint Realm expert.
"In three days, it will be the day when we at the Heavenly Palace compete for the quota to enter the Saint Martial Secret Realm... At that time, I’ll come to find you, and we can go together."
After being struck here by Wyatt Barnes, Ebba King’s confidence instantly collapsed, and she no longer wished to stay here any longer. After saying her piece, she hurriedly left.
"In three days, competition for the quota. In thirteen days, the Saint Martial Secret Realm opens... The Saint Martial Secret Realm, the Divine Ability Ruins, is truly something to look forward to."
Watching the distant back of Ebba King, Wyatt Barnes muttered softly to himself.
Wyatt Barnes was unaware that just as he was waiting for the competition in three days for a place in the Mysterious Void Mansion’s Saint Martial Secret Realm, rumors about his identity as ’Wyatt’ began to spread, even reaching the ears of members of other quasi-third-rate powers.
Wyatt, a Saint Realm prodigy under forty.
Upon entering the Mysterious Void Mansion, he quickly tied with a late-stage Middle Saint Realm elite from the Heavenly Palace.
Subsequently, he went into the Heavenly Palace spirit pool and, within just twenty days, absorbed all the Spiritual Energy inside.
Such a Saint Realm prodigy is extremely rare, not only in the Mysterious Void Mansion but even among the other quasi-third-rate powers.
For the leading entities of the quasi-third-rate powers in the Lower Domain’s Martial Dao Sacred Land, such as Shadow Mountain Black Market and Mansion of Azure Clouds, there are indeed such outstanding young geniuses today, but only one... and when compared to Wyatt from the Mysterious Void Mansion, they fall short.
Because of this, rumors about ’Wyatt’ reached Shadow Mountain Black Market and Mansion of Azure Clouds, causing quite a stir.
At the headquarters of Shadow Mountain Black Market, the supreme leader ’Solitary’ also learned of this news.
"Is this all confirmed?"
Solitary asked with steady eyes and a calm tone, looking at the respectfully standing black-robed elder below him.
"Yes, Leader."
The black-robed elder responded respectfully, "This information was sent back by our operatives planted within the Mysterious Void Mansion, it’s absolutely reliable. Leader, that Wyatt is unquestionably an unprecedented prodigy of our Lower Domain’s Martial Dao Sacred Land. If secured by our Shadow Mountain Black Market, even if the leader ascends to the Upper Domain in the future, our Shadow Mountain Black Market could flourish for several more centuries."
"You certainly think highly of him... But do you believe he’s really stronger than ’Black Eagle’?"
Solitary questioned again.
"Leader, I suspect that Wyatt from the Mysterious Void Mansion has already broken through to the ’peak of the Middle Saint Realm’ now! Black Eagle might be an unprecedented talent of our Shadow Mountain Black Market, but he’s already thirty-nine years old, and surely will not break through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm before forty."
The black-robed elder continued.
In the Martial Dao Sacred Land, anyone under the age of forty is considered young.
It’s only above forty that one is counted as having left the ranks of the young.
"How old is that Wyatt?"
Solitary asked once more.
"It’s said to be under thirty-eight years old."
The elderly man in black said.
"Under thirty-eight years old?"
Suddenly, Duguzhan’s eyes brightened sharply, a gleam flashing through them, "So, this Wyatt is not inferior to the ’Eden Lee’ who appeared in the Sky-scraping Mansion region some time ago, is he?"
"He might be slightly inferior to Eden Lee, but not by much."
The elderly man’s eyes glistened as he continued, "However, that Eden Lee is like a fleeting bloom; many suspect he comes from the Upper Domain... But this Wyatt is different. If he were from the Upper Domain, joining those powerful factions would be easy; there would be no reason for him to come to our Lower Domain to join a quasi-third-rate power."
"Good, very good!"
Duguzhan nodded, "You must go yourself, and by any means bring Wyatt back... If he is unwilling, then kill him! If the Mysterious Void Mansion has him, in another hundred years, wouldn’t they be above our Shadow Mountain Black Market? I don’t want Mysterious Void Mansion to become another ’Mansion of Azure Clouds,’ do you understand?"
"Understood!"
The elderly man in black nodded gravely at these words, then withdrew.
"Wyatt... That name does sound a bit familiar."
After the elderly man departed, Duguzhan mumbled to himself, then seemed to recall something suddenly, "Right, Lanni Barnes’ son is called ’Wyatt Barnes’!"
Even though he felt that the name of the Mansion of Azure Clouds’ House Master Lanni Barnes’ son sounded very similar to the genius at Mysterious Void Mansion, the Shadow Mountain Black Market leader Duguzhan did not connect the two.
The reason he did not connect them was, firstly, because he thought it unlikely for Lanni Barnes’ son to be so exceptional, and secondly, because he believed if this Wyatt were Lanni Barnes’ son, he surely wouldn’t go to Mysterious Void Mansion.
Compared to the current Mansion of Azure Clouds, the difference with Mysterious Void Mansion is significant.
Upon getting the news, the Mansion of Azure Clouds, as a power in the Lower Domain of Martial Dao Sacred Land, naturally received the information as well.
On an island floating in mid-air like an earthly paradise, within a grand hall of a gigantic palace, a middle-aged man in blue robes sat at the head position, holding two jade beads that continually rotated in his hands, producing faint sounds that were particularly piercing in the quiet hall.
"Elder Honorston, you say the genius at Mysterious Void Mansion is named ’Wyatt’?"
Finally, the middle-aged man in blue, who is the House Master of Mansion of Azure Clouds, Lanni Barnes, spoke, looking at one of the two elders below him.
"Yes."
The elder whom Lanni Barnes was observing was ’Asa Honorston,’ also Lanni Barnes’ right-hand man, comparable to ’Withered’ in the Mansion of Azure Clouds, and now, upon hearing Lanni Barnes’ question, Asa Honorston nodded solemnly.
At this moment, Withered, another elder, also spoke, "House Master, this Wyatt from Mysterious Void Mansion seems to have appeared out of nowhere... Moreover, his name is exactly the same as that of the Junior House Master! Could he be the Junior House Master?"
"Wyatt?"
Upon hearing Withered’s words, Lanni Barnes’ eyes flickered; this possibility had actually crossed his mind.
However, if his son had already achieved a cultivation that seems to be at the peak of the Middle Saint Realm, he found it quite hard to believe... After all, how long had his son been in Martial Dao Sacred Land?
"If he truly is Wyatt, then there’s hope that he could contest with the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon ’Emperor End’ of the Dragonsmith Clan in more than two years, vying for a chance to enter the ’Dragon Washing Pool’... But, could he really be Wyatt?"
Lanni Barnes found it unlikely.
"Probably unlikely."
Asa Honorston shook his head and said, "Two years ago, when the Junior House Master left Fletcher Kingdom with the Demon Sealing Monument, he was only at the Great Perfection of Entering the Saint Realm... Over a period of two years, advancing from ’Great Perfection of Entering the Saint Realm’ to ’Peak of the Middle Saint Realm’, how is that possible?!"
"It may be impossible for ordinary people, but he is the Junior House Master, the son of the House Master!"
Withered declared emphatically, expressing unwavering confidence in the Junior House Master he had never met.
Of course, this confidence stemmed from Lanni Barnes’ own ’exceptional’ reputation; in Withered’s view, like father, like son.
Upon hearing Withered’s words, Asa Honorston glanced at Lanni Barnes and fell silent.
The rise of their Mansion of Azure Clouds’ House Master, Lanni Barnes, is undoubtedly legendary; if his son inherited his uniqueness, reaching the peak of the Middle Saint Realm from the Great Perfection of Entering the Saint Realm in just over two years wouldn’t be entirely impossible.
Noticing the gazes from Withered and Asa Honorston, Lanni Barnes was internally shaking his head.
He knew his experience well.
His rapid rise back then was largely due to the influence of the powerful Demon Cultivator ’Black Nether.’
At that time, Black Nether helped him ascend quickly through various shortcuts, a path of cultivation that regular Martial Artists and Taoist Cultivators couldn’t replicate.
Thus, he alone understood that unless his son encountered similar ’fortunate events,’ it would be impossible to progress from the Great Perfection of Entering the Saint Realm to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm in just over two years!
"Elder Withered, regardless of whether he is Wyatt... you should make a trip to Mysterious Void Mansion to investigate."
After a while, Lanni Barnes addressed Withered with a directive.