Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 471: Whose Bones

Chapter 471: Chapter 471: Whose Bones

"Little Gold, what’s wrong?"

Wyatt Barnes looked at the golden mouse on his shoulder, his voice laden with curiosity.

"Squeak squeak~~"

The golden mouse lifted its small head, looking into the distance to its right.

Barnes followed the mouse’s gaze, seeing nothing but a thick, black fog.

"Did you find something?"

Barnes extended his own mental strength toward the mouse’s direction. It was like dropping a stone into the ocean, he felt no additional discoveries.

"Brother Wyatt, can’t you feel it? The aura emanating from there is terrifying..."

The golden mouse’s voice, innocent and childish, reached Wyatt’s ears, filled with a hint of terror.

"No."

Wyatt Barnes shook his head, then curiously started walking towards that direction, his entire figure disappearing into the dark fog.

Navigating through the black fog, Wyatt Barnes found his vision obstructed, relying on his mental strength to provide a path ahead.

However, mental strength wasn’t as precise as the eyes. It could only tell Wyatt Barnes if there was a marshland ahead, it couldn’t guide him on direction.

"Brother Wyatt, to the right."

Luckily, the voice of the golden mouse came in time, allowing Wyatt Barnes to no longer flounder blindly.

Guided by Little Gold, Wyatt Barnes found a strange ’giant pit’.

The pit, shrouded in black fog, was bottomless, its depths impossible to see.

"Hey!"

Wyatt Barnes shouted into the pit and, after several breaths, his echo finally returned.

It’s so deep!

Wyatt Barnes felt his pupils contract.

"Brother Wyatt, it’s...it’s inside."

The golden mouse spoke, its voice trembling with fear.

"That terrifying aura which scares you, it comes from inside this giant pit?"

Wyatt Barnes looked at Little Gold, furrowing his brows, "Little Gold, you sure you’re not wrong?"

Little Gold shook its head, "No...it’s in there. Brother Wyatt, if you don’t believe me, I’ll take you down to see."

After speaking, the golden mouse transformed into the size of a small hill.

"Okay."

Wyatt Barnes nodded his head. The golden mouse’s words piqued his curiosity. He also wanted to know what was inside this giant pit, what could cause the fearless golden mouse to be afraid.

In his eyes, this was something unimaginable.

The pit was large enough to fully accommodate the giant size of Little Gold.

Carrying Wyatt Barnes, the golden mouse slowly descended into the pit...

"Are we there yet?"

After a quarter of an hour, Wyatt Barnes, noticing the golden mouse’s continued descent, could not help but ask.

"Nearly there."

The golden mouse’s voice was firm and certain.

Finally, after a dozen or so more breaths, the golden mouse’s speed finally slowed, "Brother Wyatt, look!"

With the golden mouse’s guidance, Wyatt Barnes looked down.

At a glance, within the murky pit, he could see an entrance of a cave on the side wall of the pit, large enough for an adult to use...

More accurately, it was a cave passage.

"Huh."

Soon, a flower by the entrance of the cave passage caught Wyatt Barnes’s attention.

It was a flower as black as ink. Due to its color, it nearly blended in with the wall of the giant pit. Wyatt Barnes missed it earlier due to its distance.

Now, as the golden mouse stopped, Wyatt Barnes stood directly across from the entrance of the cave passage, giving him a clear view of the silhouette of this ’black flower’.

From his memories of the past Martial Emperor’s reincarnation, Wyatt recognied this flower.

"Abyss Flower!"

Wyatt Barnes’s pupils contracted, it was hard for him to believe that this was the ’Abyss Flower’.

The Abyss Flower, although this was his first time seeing one, it wasn’t the first time he’d heard of it.

Years ago, his mother Christina Lee had mentioned it to him.

More than two decades ago, his so-called ’old dad’, Lanni Barnes, had ventured into the deadly marshlands in search of the ’Abyss Flower’... and has since disappeared without a trace.

Now, twenty years later, he stumbled upon an ’Abyss Flower’.

"What a coincidence..."

Wyatt Barnes showed a bitter smile, then plucked the Abyss Flower.

The Abyss Flower, was an incomparable precious medicinal herb.

Priceless!

Many special Pill Medicines required it for their concoction.

Exhaling!

Wyatt Barnes observed the entrance of the cave passage for a while. After confirming that there was nothing else, he moved into the cave passage.

At this point, the golden mouse changes back into its original size. Jumping into the cave passage, it landed on Wyatt Barnes’ shoulder.

"What kind of place is this?"

As Wyatt ventured into the cave passage, the interior got increasingly darker, one could barely see their hand in front of their face.

Shh!

He waved his hand, a blazing flame emerged, lighting up the entire cave.

Following the cave passage, he walked for a whole hour, Wyatt Barnes was becoming impatient, "What the hell is this place?"

As he proceeded, Wyatt Barnes could sense that the altitude was continuously decreasing.

He initially estimated that they were approximately a kilometer beneath the surface of the ground right now.

"Brother Wyatt, the aura is getting closer..."

The voice of Little Gold came through, letting Wyatt Barnes breathe a sigh of relief, finally, there was hope.

Half an hour later, Wyatt turned a corner and noticed a white point of light ahead...

"Is that the exit?"

Wyatt’s heart pounded, and he quickened his pace.

Eventually, the white point of light began to enlarge, and Wyatt finally emerged from the cavernous tunnel into a space as bright as day...

To be precise, it was a space similar to a grand palace.

The hall was grand and opulent, like an underground palace inlaid in the earth.

On the ceiling, nine large Night Pearls were embedded, their brilliance illuminating the hall.

"Any one of these Night Pearls is more than twice the size of the one presented to me by the Clan Chief of the Fleming Family in Phoenix Perch City! Any one of these Night Pearls is priceless."

Wyatt gasped, his eyes gleaming.

Finally, Wyatt’s gaze moved from the nine Night Pearls and settled in the hall.

A skeleton lying on one side of the hall drew Wyatt’s attention.

The skeleton was clad in a piece of clothing that had been worn down by the ages to a state of disrepair.

The robust frame of the skeleton suggested it belonged to a man. "Who could this be? How did it end up here?"

Wyatt was intrigued and began to inspect it closely.

Soon, he noticed that the breastbone of the skeleton was shattered, as though it had been smashed by a palm strike...

"Brother Leandro, what’s this?"

The Origin Force sound wave of Little Gold timely reached Wyatt’s ears.

Only then did Wyatt notice that Little Gold had somehow left his shoulder and was now beside the skeleton. The little creature was removing a dusty token from beneath the skeleton...

Upon seeing this token, Wyatt’s complexion changed drastically.

On the front of the token, the character ’段’ was clearly engraved.

"It’s a Barnes Family token!"

Wyatt grabbed the token, took a deep breath, and turned it over.

The character ’嫡’ was prominent on the back.

This indicated the legitimate lineage of the Barnes family.

Wyatt had seen this type of token before - ’Firey Barnes’, the Clan Chief of the Barnes family, the Grand Elder ’Vibe Barnes’, and the Fourth Master of the Barnes Family ’Swany Barnes’ all carried one.

This token was universally worn by a legitimate descendant of the Barnes family!

"Could it be..."

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt’s heart rate suddenly accelerated, his gaze once again falling on the skeleton.

Could this be his good-for-nothing old father, ’Lanni Barnes’?

For a moment, a bitter smile arose at the corner of Wyatt’s mouth.

If this skeleton really was his good-for-nothing father, he wouldn’t be heartbroken, but he couldn’t help but feel a bit lost...

After all, his mother had always believed that his good-for-nothing father was still alive.

"Squeak~~"

At that moment, Little Gold let out a call.

"Brother Leandro, A Storage Ring...it’s a Storage Ring."

Upon hearing the Origin Force voice of Little Gold, Wyatt’s gaze landed on his right-hand, where a dark, bronze-colored ’Storage Ring’ sat.

Taking off the Storage Ring, Wyatt dripped his blood on it to claim ownership.

"I hope this Storage Ring contains something that proves the identity of this skeleton..."

Wyatt’s heart skipped a beat as his mood fluctuated.

His greatest fear right now was that this skeleton really was his good-for-nothing father. If this was confirmed, his mother would be heartbroken.

"Even if it’s confirmed that this is my good-for-nothing father, I must keep this secret to myself!"

Wyatt took a deep breath and resolved.

He didn’t want his mother to be upset.

At least for now, his mother still had a glimmer of hope.

To let this glimmer of hope accompany his mother throughout her life might be the best choice.

With this thought, Wyatt began to examine the contents of the Storage Ring.

Soon, his eyes brightened, "A letter! There’s a letter in this Storage Ring ... Whether the letter is written by or for the owner of the Storage Ring, there must be a ’signature’!"

Wyatt grabbed the letter that suddenly appeared in his hand.

The letter had already been opened.

"It should be written by someone to the original owner of the Storage Ring."

Wyatt opened the letter and began to read.

The opening line was someone addressing the original owner of the Storage Ring...

"Toury Barnes?"

When Wyatt’s eyes fell on the words ’Mr. Toury Barnes’ at the beginning of the letter, he froze.

Toury Barnes!

A legitimate descendant of the Barnes family.

"Could this be the ’Semi-void Realm Martial Artist’ from the Barnes family who came to the ’Marshland of Death’ to find my good-for-nothing father years ago?"

This idea rose in Wyatt’s mind for the first time.

Believing more firmly as soon as he conceived the idea.

"Whether or not it is him ... I can be sure of one thing, this skeleton doesn’t belong to my good-for-nothing father."

Wyatt sighed in relief, somewhat thankful.

Although he didn’t know what kind of trouble his good-for-nothing father had encountered, not seeing the body meant that he might still be alive...

Of course, it’s also possible that he was swallowed by the marshland.

But that was merely a possibility.

"Little Gold, is the terrifying aura you sensed coming from here?"

Suddenly remembering why they had come here, Wyatt looked at Little Gold and asked.