Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 1017: The Mysterious ’Lanni Barnes

Chapter 1017: Chapter 1017: The Mysterious ’Lanni Barnes

"From where do you hail?"

Wyatt Barnes asked again.

The fear in the eyes of the man in black, as he regarded the ’Taoist Talisman’ in Wyatt’s hand, was all captured by him, compelling a look of surprise.

The ’Taoist Talisman’ in his hand was left to him by his foster father.

Unexpectedly, even this powerful being, who seemed to come from a realm beyond the Cloud Skies Continent, appeared to be quite wary of the talisman in his hand.

"From where do I come?"

The man in black took a deep breath, his face filled with anger as he looked at Wyatt Barnes, "Are you mocking me? Since you possess the ’Inscription Drawing of a Taoist Cultivator’ entering the Saint Realm, how could you not know from where I come?"

"This time, for the sake of the Taoist Cultivator entering the Saint Realm behind you, I will not pursue the matter of you destroying my ’Demon Puppet’. Otherwise, even if you possess his ’Taoist Talisman’, even at the cost of severe injuries, I would still kill you!"

The man in black declared coldly and harshly.

In his words, it was implied that the ’Taoist Talisman’ in Wyatt’s hands could severely injure him.

As soon as the man in black finished speaking, he vanished in front of Wyatt Barnes and Winnie Romero as if he had never been there.

Seeing the man in black disappear without a trace, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but show a bitter smile, "I still had so many questions for him... Why did he leave so quickly?"

Whether it was the ’Mortal Realm Martial Artist’ mentioned by the man in black, or the ’Taoist Cultivator Entering Saint Realm’, they were all extremely foreign to Wyatt.

Even after scouring the memories of the Martial Emperor through two lifetimes, he couldn’t find any relevant records.

"Mortal Realm Martial Artist, Taoist Cultivator Entering the Saint Realm... Even the Martial Emperor, through two lifetimes, has never heard of them!"

It was for this reason that Wyatt felt astonished.

"Could it be that both ’Mortal Realm Martial Artist’ and ’Taoist Cultivator Entering the Saint Realm’ are cultivation realms from a deep sea territory or even another continent overseas, similar to our Cloud Skies Continent’s ’Void Realm’, ’Martial Emperor Realm’, and ’Emperor Realm’?"

Soon, regaining his composure, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but speculate to himself.

The more he thought, the more certain he became.

"Additionally, that man in black also mentioned my talisman as a ’Taoist Talisman’. Moreover, it’s a Taoist Talisman inscribed by a ’Taoist Cultivator’ entering the Saint Realm."

Considering this, Wyatt Barnes brooded deeply.

The talisman in his hand, well, specifically, the ’Taoist Talisman’, was left by his adoptive father, Lanni Barnes, before he left.

"How did father have a ’Taoist Talisman’? Could it be that he..."

Suddenly, a wild thought surfaced in Wyatt’s mind:

His adopted father, in the twenty years since his departure, probably wasn’t in the Cloud Skies Continent.

Otherwise, where did that ’Taoist Talisman’ come from?

The Taoist Talisman was clearly not an item from the Cloud Skies Continent.

"Could it be that dad took mother and Valentina away from the Cloud Skies Continent, leading them to another continent overseas?"

At this thought, the corners of Wyatt’s mouth twitched violently.

"No wonder, even in the memories of the Martial Emperor through two lifetimes, there’s no record of this ’talisman’. It turns out it’s not something from the Cloud Skies Continent at all."

Suddenly, Wyatt’s gaze fell on the ’Taoist Talisman’ in his hand, and a faint bitter smile emerged on his lips.

In the past, in his view,

merely standing at the summit of the Cloud Skies Continent was enough to dominate the heavens and earth and to look down on all creation.

But now, it seemed that even if he reached the peak of the Cloud Skies Continent as the Martial Emperor once did, in those deep sea territories and the other continent overseas, there were still many existences stronger than him.

"It seems that the older generation of Martial Emperor strongholds from the Cloud Skies Continent, just as the Martial Emperor postulated, might really have gone to another continent overseas... That’s the place with ’Mortal Realm Martial Artists’, ’Taoist Cultivator Entering the Saint Realm’, and even ’Taoist Talismans’."

Wyatt Barnes thought quietly.

"If father really took mother and Valentina to another continent overseas... his current strength must also be far beyond that of an ordinary ’Emperor’."

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt Barnes murmured solemnly.

"Now I can almost confirm... that time above the Imperial City of the Crimson Heaven Kingdom, when I and Peak Master Kinsley Cooper faced Matias Dunn and the three Protectors from the Green Forest Tri-Sect, that deliberately lowered, hoarse voice, was father’s voice!"

"Father, he indeed was that ’mysterious powerhouse’ hiding in the Crimson Heaven Kingdom!"

Although Wyatt had speculated this in the past, he hadn’t dared to be completely certain.

Now, he could be absolutely sure.

That ’mysterious powerhouse’ was his foster father, an entity who even within the Imperial City of the Crimson Heaven Kingdom could easily suppress three Martial Artists who had entered the Void Realm.

That capability was something even Wyatt couldn’t manage now.

"Father’s strength, perhaps even stronger than the Martial Emperor at his peak... It’s unimaginable what he went through during those twenty years of absence that granted him such terrifying power!"

"Compared to father... my own adventures, such as merging memories from two lifetimes of the Martial Emperor, and all subsequent encounters thereafter, seem insignificant."

With that thought, Wyatt Barnes smiled self-deprecatingly.

"However, if father is truly a powerhouse from another continent overseas... why would he take mother, Valentina, Irene, and Helen Sinclair away, but not take me as well?"

Regarding this, Wyatt Barnes was entirely baffled.

No matter how one put it, he was still the biological son of his so-called father.

Logically speaking, his adoptive father should not have just left him in the Cloud Skies Continent to fend for himself.

"Perhaps, Dad didn’t take me with him for some other reason," he thought.

Now, that was the only way Wyatt could rationalize it.

After all, no parent would wish for their children not to stay by their side.

At the same time, an idea struck Wyatt as if he had remembered something.

With a raise of his hand, he took out a jade box, the very "Exquisite Jade Box" left to him by his adoptive father, Lanni Barnes.

Looking at the Exquisite Jade Box in his hand, the message from the sound jade piece his father had left played back in his mind:

"Besides those three ’talisman’, I have left you an ’Exquisite Jade Box’, when you have the capability to open it one day, you will know where your mother and I are."

These were the original words from his adoptive father Lanni Barnes.

"With my current strength, even without using the Emperor-grade spirit sword, equating to the force of over two thousand ancient Horned Dragons... I should be able to open this ’Exquisite Jade Box’, right?" he wondered.

The origin force surged as Wyatt placed both hands on the jade box, with four ’realms’ following like shadows.

A moment later, above Wyatt’s head in the void, the force of heaven and earth stirred, eventually coalescing into the phantom of two thousand two hundred ancient Horned Dragons, winding down in life-like detail.

Originally, Winnie Romero found it strange to hear Wyatt muttering unintelligible words from time to time.

However, although she found it peculiar, she wisely chose not to disturb Wyatt.

Now, seeing the celestial phenomenon appearing above the void over Wyatt’s head, her pretty face couldn’t help but change slightly.

She had never anticipated that.

Her Brother Barnes had, as of today, possessed such immense power!

"Back then, in the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure’, outside the Qing Wind Hall, Brother Barnes fought with the current generation’s number one youth of the Emerging Cloud Sect, ’Riggs Leigh’, and, relying on a spirit weapon, exerted his full strength, his power only comparable to one thousand six hundred ancient Horned Dragons."

"And now, without using any spirit weapon, just by invoking his Origin Force and ’realms’, he has displayed a power equivalent to two thousand two hundred ancient Horned Dragons!"

Winnie Romero secretly gasped, momentarily stunned by the strength Wyatt now displayed.

Now, she finally understood.

She realized why her Brother Barnes was confident in safely guarding her and Brian Graham on their way back from the Northern Desert to the Great Turdo Dynasty.

It turned out that Brother Barnes had already possessed such formidable power.

"It seems that Brother Barnes’ extraordinary encounter within the Qing Wind Hall was indeed extraordinary," Winnie thought.

After leaving the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure’, she had not left Wyatt’s side.

Therefore, in her opinion, the reason for the significant improvement in her Brother Barnes’ strength must have been due to some enviable extraordinary encounter in the Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure.

"Still can’t open it."

Soon, Winnie heard Wyatt’s sigh, and only then did she realize that Wyatt had just utilized the force of two thousand two hundred ancient Horned Dragons merely to try to open that exquisite jade box in his hand.

But, from what her Brother Barnes implied, even using the force of two thousand two hundred ancient Horned Dragons, he still couldn’t open the jade box?

"What kind of jade box is this that even two thousand two hundred ancient Horned Dragons couldn’t open it?" she wondered, her pretty face changing slightly again.

Before she could react, she saw Wyatt raise his hand, and in it appeared a sword, one that emitted a daunting aura.

It was Wyatt’s ’Emperor-grade spirit sword’.

With the spirit sword at the ready, another eight hundred ancient Horned Dragon phantoms appeared above the void.

Whoosh!

With a flick of his hand, Wyatt stabbed the sword, containing the force of three thousand ancient Horned Dragons, lightning-fast toward the clasp of the Exquisite Jade Box, attempting to pry it open forcefully.

Clang!

However, with a soft sound, the Exquisite Jade Box remained immovable.

The clasp didn’t even bear a trace of a mark from the stab.

"What is this Exquisite Jade Box made of? It’s so incredibly hard," Wyatt muttered.

In the end, Wyatt had no choice but to give up and put away the ’Emperor-grade spirit sword’, sighing once more, realizing that with his current power, he was still unable to open the Exquisite Jade Box.

"Dad is really becoming more mysterious..."

Coming to his senses, Wyatt couldn’t help but smile wryly as he put away the Exquisite Jade Box.

"Brother Barnes, what kind of jade box is that? Your sword, containing the force of three thousand ancient Horned Dragons, not only didn’t open it but didn’t even leave the slightest mark on it," Winnie remarked, having witnessed everything in shock.