Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 438: Strange Mark

Chapter 438: Chapter 438: Strange Mark

"I wonder if Little Gold, after growing stronger by consuming the ’Ghostly Spirit Fruit’, could awaken the inheritance of that elusive ’Soul Technique’."

Through the recollections of the Reincarnation Martial Emperor, Wyatt Barnes learned this.

It was said that descendants of Bilin Heavenly Rat, when they grow to a certain degree, would inherit the legacy of their ancestors.

In this legacy, included was that elusive ’Soul Technique’.

"Soul Technique, is a method of attack utilizing spiritual power, it’s often unexpected...A Demon Beast’s ’Soul Technique’ is generally executed through inherited ’Soul Marks’. Even if a human martial artist was aware of how to use a demon beast’s inherited soul technique, they still couldn’t perform it."

After learning all this from the memory of Reincarnation Martial Emperor, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but sigh.

Just now, he had an idea. Once Little Gold Rat woke up and remembered the ’Inherited Soul Technique’, he would have it teach him.

That way, he would also be able to use spiritual power to perform the ’Soul Technique’!

However, it’s a pity that imagination is beautiful, but reality is brutal.

Immediately after his thought, Wyatt Barnes left the underwater passage and returned to the ’Spirit Cleansing Pool’.

When he swam upward to the upper half of the Spirit Cleansing Pool, he sensed a strong spiritual power sweeping over him...

"Elder Kane!"

At the very first moment, Wyatt Barnes guessed who was the master of this strong spiritual power.

When Wyatt Barnes emerged from the ’Spirit Cleansing Pool’.

Taoi Romero, Winnie Romero, and Elder Kane were already waiting there.

"Brother Barnes!"

Winnie Romero had unmasked her face at this moment, revealing an unparalleled beauty, but right now she looked a bit lost, "I’m sorry... I couldn’t keep an eye on Little Gold. It ran somewhere, but I have no idea where."

Wyatt Barnes was just wondering why Winnie would express such emotion, but upon hearing what she had said, he just shook his head and laughed.

"The little guy is here."

Wyatt Barnes reached out his hand and grabbed Little Gold Rat.

On his way back, he had tied the sleeping Little Gold Rat to the belt around his waist.

"Little Gold!"

Seeing Little Gold Rat, Winnie’s beautiful face lit up, but when she noticed that Little Gold Rat wasn’t moving, she asked anxiously, "Brother Barnes, what happened to Little Gold?"

"It’s fine, it just fell asleep."

Thinking of why Little Gold Rat had fallen asleep, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed.

"City Lord, Elder Kane... Why are you guys here too?"

The closure of the ’Inscription Array’ of the Spirit Cleansing Pool was within Wyatt Barnes’s expectation.

With the appearance of Little Gold Rat, things had already gone beyond his expectations.

The presence of the three in the Spirit Cleansing Pool was even more unexpected.

"After Winnie saw Little Gold Rat run in, she followed it in... Elder Kane and I were worried, so we followed. Winnie was so anxious when she couldn’t find Little Gold Rat’s trail..."

As Taoi Romero spoke, he gave Wyatt Barnes a deep look.

"Winnie."

Looking at Winnie Romero, Wyatt Barnes felt a flutter in his heart. He smiled and said, "I’m sorry for making you worry."

"Brother Barnes, as long as you and Little Gold are fine."

Winnie Romero shook her head, her enchanting smile brightening up the room, "Brother Barnes, where did you and Little Gold actually go? My father, Grandpa Kane, and I searched throughout the Spirit Cleansing Pool and couldn’t find any trace of you."

Taoi Romero and Elder Kane silently looked at Wyatt Barnes.

Wyatt Barnes slowly said, "Beneath the Spirit Cleansing Pool, there is a hidden underwater passage leading to a completely sealed cave mansion...I have been spending the last two days in that mansion. The mansion, seemed to have been previously lived in, and was full of dust. I estimate that the owner is very likely the Inscription Master who had set up the ’Inscription Array’ on the Spirit Cleansing Pool."

As soon as Wyatt Barnes finished speaking.

Taoi Romero and Elder Kane both looked shocked.

"Brother Barnes, are you saying that there is an underwater passage beneath the Spirit Cleansing Pool that leads to the home of the Inscription Master who left this ’Inscription Array’?"

Elder Kane, looking at Wyatt Barnes, was clearly excited.

As an inscription master, he naturally knew the profound mystery of the ’Inscription Array’ that hovered over the Spirit Cleansing Pool. The arrangement of the nine inscriptions, only an inscription master who reached ’Transforming Void Realm’ can set it up.

And now, the home of that inscription master, was right before him?

"It is just my conjecture, it might not be him."

Wyatt Barnes naturally guessed the reason for Elder Kane’s excitement.

"You spent two days in there. Surely, you must have discovered something, right?"

Taoi Romero’s gaze was burning as he looks at Wyatt Barnes.

"Suppose you could say that."

Wyatt Barnes’s wry smile caught the attention of both Winnie and Elder Kane.

Under the gazes of the three, Wyatt Barnes glanced at Little Gold Rat and said slowly: "Three days ago, after I got into the Spirit Cleansing Pool, I began searching for the source of the ’spiritual power’ within the pool...finally, I found that underwater passage. Later, I entered that mansion, and within the mansion, I found a ’Ghostly Spirit Fruit’!"

"Ghostly Spirit Fruit?"

Upon hearing Wyatt Barnes’s words, Winnie Romero had no particular reaction, but both Taoi Romero and Elder Kane instantly went pale.

Especially Elder Kane.

As an inscription master of his level, with his strong soul, even if he consumed a ’Soul Changing Fruit’, it would offer him only limited help...

However, that ’Ghostly Spirit Fruit’ is a rare spirit fruit, a notch higher than a Soul Changing Fruit.

Even if he had consumed it, it would have at least increased his soul level by two or three folds.

"You... ingested the Ghostly Spirit Fruit?"

Older Kane stared at Wyatt Barnes, a flash of envy flickering in his cloudy pupils.

Upon hearing about the preciousness of the ’Ghostly Spirit Fruit’ from Taoi Romero, Winnie Romero turned to Wyatt Barnes with a smile. "Congratulations, Brother Barnes."

"I didn’t consume the Ghostly Spirit Fruit."

Wyatt Barnes shook his head and couldn’t help but glare at Little Gold, who had fallen asleep in his hand.

Taoi Romero and the others all looked at Wyatt Barnes, their faces filled with confusion.

"Three days ago, I found the Ghostly Spirit Fruit..."

Wyatt Barnes sighed and explained the entire situation.

These were not secrets.

After listening to Wyatt Barnes’ words, the eyes of Taoi Romero and the others fell on the tiny golden mouse in Wyatt’s hand, filled with astonishment.

"What a waste! What a waste!"

Taoi couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing, "Had I known that little creature would seize your ’fortune’, I should have kept an eye on it from the beginning and prevented it from coming in."

"Brother Barnes, I’m sorry, I didn’t watch Little Gold properly and it stole the spirit fruit you planned to consume."

Winnie expressed a face full of remorse, looking pitiful and close to tears.

"No harm done."

Wyatt Barnes smiled nonchalantly, patting Little Gold in his hand. "Little Gold ingesting the ’Ghostly Spirit Fruit’ is a stroke of luck for him."

"Your magnanimity, Brother Barnes, is admirable."

Elder Kane could not help but respond, his eyes lighting up. "Brother Wyatt, you..."

"Elder Kane. If you are interested in the cave which seems to have been left by the Inscription Master, I can take you to have a look."

Before Elder Kane could finish speaking, Wyatt Barnes cut him off, put Little Gold aside, and reentered the ’Spirit Cleansing Pool’.

This time, not only Elder Kane followed, but Taoi Romero and his daughter Winnie did as well.

"This underwater passage, hidden under the water-weeds... no wonder I didn’t discover anything. Initially when I explored with my spirit force, I deliberately avoided these water-weeds, little did I know the least noticed things were secretly significant."

Watching Wyatt Barnes part the water-weeds to enter the underwater passage, Elder Kane communicated telepathically with Wyatt.

Wyatt Barnes lifted an eyebrow. He too would have missed the underwater passage had he not been careful.

Finally, led by Wyatt Barnes, Elder Kane along with Taoi Romero and his daughter arrived inside the cave.

Once Elder Kane reached the cave, he began searching around.

To begin with, Wyatt Barnes thought Elder Kane was making a futile effort.

However, who would have guessed?

"Brother Barnes, come quickly and see this!"

The shout from Elder Kane reached the ears of Wyatt Barnes and startled both Taoi and Winnie Romero.

The three of them walked over.

Low and behold, as Elder Kane slapped the cave wall, dust fell revealing an array of dense glyphs in front of the three of them.

"These are... Inscription Techniques?"

At a glance, Wyatt Barnes recognized what the inscriptions on the cave wall recorded: the lifelong understanding of inscription techniques left by an Inscription Master.

"It seems, just as Brother Barnes hypothesized, this cave was indeed left by the inscription master who created a ’Inscription Array’ above the Spirit Cleansing Pool... This inscription master was a powerful practitioner in the Cave Void Realm!"

Elder Kane stared at the glyphs on the wall, lost for words and muttered to himself.

The glyphs on the wall were the lifelong understanding of Inscription Techniques left by an expert who had ascended to the third void realm, the ’Cave Void Realm’. For inscription masters, they were an unparalleled treasure.

However, they were of no value to Wyatt Barnes.

"The Inscription Techniques left by that Inscription Master can’t be compared with the Inscription Techniques in the memory of the Reincarnation Martial Emperor! These Inscription Techniques might be beneficial for Elder Kane, but for me, they are of no use."

Wyatt Barnes merely glanced at the Inscription Techniques on the cave wall before quickly losing interest and shifting his gaze elsewhere.

Previously, he hadn’t noticed the glyphs on the cave wall at all.

"There are some over here as well."

Winnie’s voice rang out and Wyatt realized that the other cave wall was also densely covered with glyphs.

"Huh. What is this?"

Initially, Wyatt Barnes was equally uninterested in the glyphs on the other wall. However, Winnie’s murmur still managed to grasp his attention.

Wyatt walked over.

"Brother Barnes, look here... Is this an ’Inscription’?"

Winnie pointed at a spot on the wall and spoke to Wyatt Barnes.

Wyatt looked over.

Besides the dense inscription techniques on the wall, there was another strange mark hidden behind a faint layer of dust.

This mark didn’t seem to be carved into the wall.

Behind the dust, there seemed to be a touch of gold...

"It looks a bit like an Inscription, but it seems not... "

Out of curiosity, Wyatt reached out intending to wipe the dust covering the mark.