Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 971 Being Framed

Chapter 971: Chapter 971 Being Framed

Having broken through in his cultivation and comprehended the "Triple High-Level Wind Realm," Wyatt Barnes, transformed into lightning, moved swiftly, with an extraordinary phenomenon of heaven and earth above his head following him like a shadow.

Below Wyatt’s feet, earthy yellow Origin Force rolled like waves, as if resonating with the earth. With a single step, he had already crossed several caverns.

Around the earthy yellow Origin Force, besides the rampaging purple lightning that shot through the air, there were also strands of solid cyan energy winds that followed, as if tethered to him.

Not only that, but when Wyatt soared through the air, there was a faint layer of energy scouting ahead of him. Upon closer inspection, it was a solid, sword-shaped energy.

Above the soaring Wyatt, there loomed the spectral forms of ancient Horned Dragons, moving ferociously through the heavens.

Because of the incredible speed, it was difficult to discern just how many of these ancient Horned Dragon specters there were.

Only when Wyatt halted did the heavenly phenomenon above become fully visible, revealing a total of one thousand one hundred and fifty ancient Horned Dragon specters.

At the third order of the Transforming Void Realm, his full burst of Origin Force was comparable to the strength of four hundred ancient Horned Dragons.

The Triple High-Level Wind Realm, in the same way, was comparable to the strength of four hundred ancient Horned Dragons.

The other three Ninth-Order Void Realms, when added together, were comparable to the strength of three hundred ancient Horned Dragons.

All combined, that’s the strength of one thousand one hundred ancient Horned Dragons!

As for the extra fifty ancient Horned Dragons’ strength, that was what Wyatt harnessed by resonating with the "Earth Mystique" and the earth, lending him the "Force of Earth," which was half as powerful as the "Earth Mystique" itself.

Propelled by the strength of one thousand one hundred and fifty ancient Horned Dragons, Wyatt was as swift as the wind, and as fast as thunder, his speed was so great that many warriors could not discern his movements.

"Hm?"

After some time, Wyatt stopped abruptly, his expression somewhat unsightly.

"Noel Walton!"

Looking down at a body lying on the ground, Wyatt’s eyes revealed a chilling coldness, as if choosing its prey.

Noel Walton was not a stranger to him.

Indeed, Wyatt had known Noel even before joining the Five Elements Sect.

Although their first encounter had not been pleasant, it was because Noel had been deceived by his own younger brother.

Noel himself, however, was quite to Wyatt’s liking.

Before entering the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure,’ Noel had been alive and kicking, but now, he had turned into an ice-cold corpse and had obviously been dead for several days.

Bang!!

Suddenly, with a gloomy face, Wyatt stamped his foot on the ground.

Rumble! Rumble!

...

Instantly, at the spot where Wyatt’s foot fell, a ferocious crack split the earth, extending all the way beneath Noel’s body, causing it to drop in.

As Wyatt lifted his hand, Origin Force combined with the "Force of Earth" surged and struck one side of the cavern wall, sending showers of stones and rubble tumbling down.

Whoosh!

Wyatt lifted his hand again, and the dust and debris were drawn by his power, filling the crevice that had buried Noel’s body, allowing Noel to quietly rest beneath the ground.

"Rest in peace."

Looking down at the now-filled crack, Wyatt murmured to himself.

"What is he doing?"

"I arrived quite early, just in time to see... it looked like he was burying a body."

"It must be a fellow sect member who was on good terms with him."

...

Unaware of when it had started, the commotion Wyatt had caused drew the attention of many onlookers, who stood at a distance, whispering among themselves.

Wyatt frowned and prepared to leave.

"It’s Wyatt Barnes!"

Just as they entered the cavern and joined the onlookers, two people spotted Wyatt and couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

At the sound, Wyatt turned to look.

With a single glance, he recognized the two, who were lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple.

He did not know these two individuals, but had some impression of them.

Wyatt nodded to them, acknowledging the fate that had brought people entering from the same entrance to meet here.

After nodding to greet them, Wyatt made to leave again.

However, before he could move, he found himself surrounded by three figures that had shot out like lightning. Once they had encircled Wyatt, their eyes glowed with greed as they stared at him.

As if he were some kind of rare treasure!

"Are you Wyatt Barnes?"

"The top figure among the young generation of the ’Five Elements Sect’ to the east of the Northern Desert?"

"I heard you obtained an ’Artifact Fragment’?"

After surrounding Wyatt, one after another began to speak, their voices punctuated by hurried breaths.

"Right! How could I forget. Wyatt Barnes, Wyatt Barnes... I heard some time ago that he acquired an ’Artifact Fragment’."

"I’ve heard too. Wyatt Barnes, the first among the young generation in the Five Elements Sect, recently obtained an ’Artifact Fragment’."

"So he is that Wyatt Barnes!"

...

At that moment, except for a change in the expressions of the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple,

the other onlookers stared at Wyatt with covetous eyes, wishing they could simply kill Wyatt on the spot and seize the ’Artifact Fragment’ he held.

"Hmm?"

Wyatt Barnes furrowed his brows upon hearing the surrounding discussions, and immediately looked at the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple.

Suddenly, the complexion of the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple changed drastically, and in a panic, they shook their heads and said, "Wyatt Barnes, I didn’t know about you obtaining the ’Mystique Fragment.’

"Yes, if we had known that the news of you obtaining the ’Mystique Fragment’ had spread, we definitely wouldn’t have revealed your identity just now!"

The words of the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple were laced with panic and disarray.

They had witnessed the strength of Wyatt Barnes.

If Wyatt Barnes were willing, it would only take a single encounter to annihilate the two of them!

The frown on Wyatt Barnes’s face deepened.

He was not blaming the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple for exposing his identity, but he was puzzled as to how others came to know of his acquisition of the ’Mystique Fragment.’

Most importantly, aside from never having seen him, these people knew his name and his origins.

"When I initially obtained that ’Seventh-Order Emperor Realm Earth Mystique Fragment,’ I even extended my spiritual force to explore the surroundings... apart from me, there definitely wasn’t a second living person who knew I acquired the ’Mystique Fragment!’"

As Wyatt Barnes recalled the scenes when he had obtained the ’Seventh-Order Emperor Realm Earth Mystique Fragment,’ he was absolutely certain of this fact.

There wasn’t a second living person who knew of him obtaining the ’Mystique Fragment’!

Thus, there was only one possibility.

"Someone is deliberately framing me, intending to make me the public enemy of the group of young powerhouses entering the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure’...they want me dead!"

With this thought, Wyatt Barnes easily confirmed this point, and a trace of blood-red flickered in his eyes.

For a moment, his heart couldn’t help but surge with anger.

What he most wanted to do now was to find the person spreading the rumors and kill him.

Although he wasn’t worried about the impact of this ’rumor’ on him, the fact that his opponent was hiding in the shadows and scheming against him was extremely vexing.

Regaining his senses, Wyatt Barnes noticed something else.

Apart from the two lay disciples from the Cloud Sky Temple standing in the distance, trembling with fear, apart from the initial three who surrounded him, four more had joined the encirclement.

Seven people had him completely surrounded.

At this moment, Wyatt Barnes could also see.

Aside from the initial three who were together, among the four others were two small groups, each group consisting of two people.

In other words, these seven people were from three different powers.

There were a total of six major powers that came through entrance number two.

Apart from the twenty disciples of Grimm Wolf Fortress who all died at his hands, he recognized or at least had some impression of the others from the five major powers.

But he had no recollection of these seven individuals before him.

"Are you disciples from the Impermanence Sect, Emerging Cloud Sect, and North Nether Sect?"

Facing the seven young powerhouses whose Origin Force surged and realm followed like a shadow, ready to strike at any moment, Wyatt Barnes’s eyes grew sharp and he asked in a deep voice.

"That’s right!"

"What? Are you scared?"

...

Upon hearing Wyatt Barnes’s words, several of the young powerhouses surrounding him revealed smug smiles.

Facing a disciple from a third-rate power like the Five Elements Sect, they, as second-rate power disciples, felt an innate sense of superiority.

"It seems that this ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasure’ is very likely to only have two entrances... The people from Impermanence Sect, Emerging Cloud Sect, and North Nether Sect all came from entrance number one, while myself and the others came from entrance number two."

"Up to now, I haven’t encountered anyone from a third entrance."

Wyatt Barnes murmured to himself, subtly confirming this point.

"Who are the Impermanence Sect disciples?"

Facing the encirclement of the seven, Wyatt Barnes showed no sign of fear, and inquired slowly.

At this moment, Wyatt Barnes’s gaze was calm, with an air of composure as if unaffected even if Mount Tai were crumbling before him.

"We are disciples of the Impermanence Sect."

As soon as Wyatt Barnes finished speaking, a young man and a young woman from the sect responded indifferently.

The young man had a cold expression, his eyes greedily fixed on Wyatt Barnes.

The young woman’s face was calm, showing neither joy nor anger.

"Considering my acquaintance with Rey Jones... I suggest you step back," Wyatt Barnes said, giving the two Impermanence Sect disciples a faint glance. His tone was calm, devoid of any emotion.

Rey Jones, the Impermanence Sect disciple he had met previously, had a cultivation at the ’Transforming Void Realm Third-Order’ and was formidable in strength.

Back then, although his interaction with Rey Jones was merely a mutually beneficial transaction, he couldn’t help but have a favorable impression of Jones’s forthrightness.

Now, knowing that the two before him were disciples of the Impermanence Sect, he thought of Rey Jones and was willing to spare them this once.

Otherwise, he would not have wasted his breath.

"You know Senior Brother Rey Jones?"

The ever-calm female disciple of the Impermanence Sect couldn’t help but exclaim softly.

"I do," Wyatt Barnes nodded.

Upon hearing this, the female disciple of the Impermanence Sect nodded and stepped back, "Senior Brother Rey saved my life. Since you are his friend... today, I will not make things difficult for you."

"Hmph! Even if you know Senior Brother Rey, what of it? The ’Mystique Fragment’ on your person, I have decided it’s mine!"

The other male disciple of the Impermanence Sect, however, showed no appreciation.