Chapter 1750: Chapter 1750: We Are Senior and Junior Brothers
The pressure test, although simple and direct, undeniably serves as an efficient testing method, and the results are convincing.
Seeing the Vice Hall Master of the Heavenly Palace, ’Lay Sinclair,’ rise into the sky, apart from Wyatt Barnes and a few other Middle Saint Realm disciples from the Heavenly Palace, the rest’s expressions were heavy, with their True Origin surging within, ready to deal with the impending pressure at any moment.
Soon enough, the pressure arrived.
At first, the pressure wasn’t much, but as time passed, it kept increasing.
Since it was gradually increasing, the spectators could clearly see that among the more than forty people present, quite a number were first to have flushed faces, seemingly bearing immense pressure.
Moments later, these individuals with flushed faces were pressed downwards, falling from the sky.
Consequently, they lost the opportunity to enter the Sheng Wu secret realm.
The first wave of eliminated individuals amounted to five people.
The elimination of five people naturally gave the remaining Middle Saint Realm disciples from the Heavenly Palace immense pressure, including Enoch Mullins and Isaias Tasker, whose expressions were all solemn and focused entirely on resisting the still increasing pressure.
As for Wyatt Barnes, Ebba King, Ewen Price, and Tommy Dunn, and other Middle Saint Realm disciples from the Heavenly Palace, they stood in the sky as if nothing was happening, seemingly unaffected by the pressure.
As Middle Saint Realm entities, their strength surpassed the others by far. This kind of pressure did not affect them in the slightest.
On the contrary, a number of Middle Saint Realm disciples, including ’Isaias Tasker,’ began to flush, with some even sweating profusely, trembling all over, clearly unable to endure much longer.
Whoosh!
Very soon, another Heavenly Palace disciple succumbed to the pressure, falling from the sky, which meant he was eliminated and lost the opportunity to enter the Sheng Wu secret realm.
"That Isaias Tasker..."
Wyatt Barnes stood in the sky calmly, his gaze sweeping over the Little Saint Realm Heavenly Palace disciples, finally locking onto Isaias Tasker, frowning involuntarily.
Just one look, and he could tell Isaias Tasker’s situation wasn’t optimistic.
"He’s probably going to be eliminated."
Simultaneously, Ebba King’s voice came to Wyatt Barnes’s ears, obviously noting Isaias Tasker’s situation too, "Your kindness, he probably cannot bear."
Wyatt nodded while instinctively glancing at Enoch Mullins.
After all, as a Little Saint Realm peak existence, compared to Isaias Tasker’s late Little Saint Realm martial artist state, Enoch Mullins’s condition was much better, even better than many Little Saint Realm peak Heavenly Palace disciples.
"Enoch Mullins should pass this competition."
Ebba King’s voice entered Wyatt Barnes’s ears again, obviously after observing Isaias Tasker, she was watching Enoch Mullins too.
"Mm."
Wyatt responded, already realizing thus without needing Ebba to point it out, thinking to himself, "Seems like this time I’ll only be able to settle the favor from Elder Mullins... As for Vice House Master Tasker’s favor, I’ll have to repay it later if the chance arises."
The ’Elder Mullins’ Wyatt referred to was the Second Elder of Surge Hayden’s House, Castiel Mullins.
As for ’Vice House Master Tasker,’ naturally, it was Vice House Master DonovanTasker of Teng Yue House.
Both used to host the Overleaping Rankings, helping Wyatt Barnes a lot during the rankings battles. Wyatt originally intended to repay them by joining one of their factions.
Unexpectedly, upon leaving Jewel Valley and waiting for DonovanTasker and Castiel Mullins, he suddenly learned about the recruitment of under-forty Saint Realm geniuses by the Mysterious Void House. Thus, he decisively ducked an appointment with Donovan and Mullins.
This left him feeling eternally guilty and always looking for opportunities to repay their favors.
This time, the Sheng Wu secret realm of Mysterious Void House became an excellent place to repay favors for him.
Regrettably, repaying favors in the Sheng Wu secret realm still required the other’s cooperation, and without a doubt, Isaias Tasker from Teng Yue House wasn’t going to obtain entry into the Sheng Wu secret realm, leaving Wyatt Barnes helpless.
Just as Wyatt and Ebba King deduced, Isaias Tasker was soon eliminated as well.
Upon elimination, Isaias Tasker looked downcast, then glanced upward at Wyatt Barnes standing in the air, letting out a long sigh.
He knew he had lost a great opportunity.
Originally, if he could gain entry into the Sheng Wu secret realm, he could collaborate with Wyatt Barnes. With Wyatt’s help, he would certainly comprehend high-level Divine Abilities inside.
Now, failing to earn entry into the Sheng Wu secret realm sealed his fate of missing out on the Divine Abilities relics within it.
"Fate played a huge joke on me... First threw me a pie, only for me to realize it was fake when I went to bite it, inedible."
At present, that was Isaias Tasker’s state of mind.
However, because Isaias Tasker was prepared to be eliminated from the start, he wasn’t overly saddened, merely left feeling a little regretful.
Stepping aside, Isaias Tasker looked enviously at Enoch Mullins high in the air, "Seeing how relaxed Enoch Mullins is now, getting a spot to enter the Sacred Martial Realm doesn’t seem difficult at all... It’s truly enviable. One can imagine that by going into the Sacred Martial Realm with Wyatt Barnes and Ebba King, he will certainly gain considerable benefits."
As he thought about it, Isaias Tasker’s eyes seemed to blaze with fire, a hot flame full of longing, clearly mixed with a trace of jealousy.
He believed that with Wyatt Barnes’ guidance, Enoch Mullins was sure to comprehend advanced divine abilities.
"Truly useless!"
Seeing Isaias Tasker eliminated, although Ebba King had been mentally prepared, she couldn’t help but curse lowly.
Wyatt Barnes was already familiar with this true temperament of the young lady next to him, so he wasn’t surprised.
"Isaias Tasker, I remember your Tengyue House had two people get into Mysterious Void House... The other person seems to be at the late Little Saint Realm too. Comparing your strength to his, who’s stronger? He seemed to have gone to Mystic Palace later on, do you think he stands a chance to get the qualification to enter the Sacred Martial Realm?"
Even though Wyatt Barnes was already prepared to repay DonovanTasker’s favor as the Vice House Master of Tengyue House in the future, if he could clear the debt by entering the Sacred Martial Realm this time, it would be a relief.
After Isaias Tasker was eliminated, he recalled that when DonovanTasker first came to Mysterious Void House, he had brought two people along.
The other person is also in the late stage of the Little Saint Realm.
"His strength is slightly weaker than mine... As for whether he can get a spot from Mystic Palace, I can’t say for sure. However, I think his chances should be greater than mine. Although Mystic Palace has fewer spots than the Heavenly Palace this time, the competition isn’t as intense."
Hearing Wyatt Barnes’ inquiry through a voice transmission, Isaias Tasker responded, his tone somewhat sour towards the end.
Back then, he entered the Heavenly Palace because he was chosen by Vice Hall Master Lay Sinclair; he had no choice in the matter, unlike Wyatt Barnes or Ebba King.
If he had a choice, he certainly wouldn’t choose the Heavenly Palace.
As the saying goes, ’better to be a head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix,’ he understood this reasoning.
"That’s good. If I meet him in the Sacred Martial Realm, I’ll help him as much as I can."
Wyatt Barnes conveyed through voice transmission.
"Thank you."
Hearing Wyatt Barnes’ words, Isaias Tasker hurriedly expressed gratitude, unable to resist asking through the transmission, "Wyatt, could you tell me why you’re helping us? Enoch Mullins said you mentioned repaying a favor to our elders. What kind of favor do you owe, if you don’t mind sharing with me?"
"Actually, strictly speaking, it’s not a favor I owe your elders, but one owed by a friend of mine... Back then, due to some urgent matters, he let your elders down and felt very guilty. Half a year ago, when he broke through to the ’Great Saint Realm’ and left the ’Lower Domain’ heading to the ’Upper Domain’, he entrusted me to repay the favor to your elders if I had the chance."
Wyatt Barnes said.
He had good reason to believe that his previous actions had led those from Tengyue House, ’Isaias Tasker’, and from Surge Hayden House, ’Enoch Mullins’, to strongly suspect his close relationship with ’Eden Lee’, the top ranked person on the Overleaping Rankings.
After all, the ranking war of the Overleaping Rankings back then was hosted by the vice house master of Tengyue House and the second elder of Surge Hayden House. They must have informed their younger generation about his moves in detail, including his solar True Origin and a domain as fierce as the scorching sun.
So, he went along with it, saying Eden Lee was his friend.
"It seems I guessed right, you indeed have a connection with Eden Lee!"
At that, realization dawned on Isaias Tasker, his tone filled with shock, "You just mentioned... Eden Lee broke through to the ’Great Saint Realm’ half a year ago?"
While saying this, Isaias Tasker’s voice quivered a bit.
Not yet forty years old, and already in the Great Saint Realm!
Such talent was beyond his reach, even evoking a sense of powerlessness from deep within.
"Yes."
Wyatt Barnes nodded.
"Could you tell me what kind of relationship you have with Eden Lee? Why are your True Origin and your domains so similar?"
Isaias Tasker couldn’t help but ask, as it was the thing that puzzled him the most.
"Strictly speaking, he can be considered my ’senior brother’."
Wyatt Barnes replied through transmission, "Our master is someone from the Upper Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, who came to the Lower Domain years ago to live in seclusion and took both Eden Lee and me as disciples... We grew up together, practicing the same cultivation technique, even our martial arts moves are exactly the same. In the end, the domains we comprehended were almost identical."
"Your master must be a strong person from the Upper Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land,"
Isaias Tasker said with envy.
"Perhaps... however, he returned to the Upper Domain ten years ago. Even for us, we can only rely on our own strength to go to the Upper Domain and search for him after breaking through to the ’Great Saint Realm’.
Wyatt Barnes said.
From the beginning to the end, there wasn’t the slightest flaw in Wyatt Barnes’ words, making them convincing, so Isaias Tasker did not doubt him.