Legend of Wyatt

Chapter 2640: Tony Campbell Returns

"The Immortal Origin power of a Red Sun Golden Immortal is indeed much stronger than that of a Purple Moon Celestial..."

After his cultivation broke through to the level of Red Sun Golden Immortal, Wyatt Barnes could clearly feel the change in the Immortal Origin power within his body.

That sort of change was not something any previous breakthrough at the Heavenly Immortal level could compare to.

"However, I have no idea how much time this seclusion cost me."

Although his cultivation had successfully broken through to achieve the realm of Golden Immortal, Wyatt still didn’t know how long he had been cultivating, because when he cultivated, it was impossible for him to pay attention to time.

"Though I don’t know exactly how long this seclusion took, I can be sure it definitely wasn’t a short time... What’s really strange is: I crippled Felix Campbell’s four limbs and gravely injured him, violating the rules of Dragon Pool, yet no one came to hold me accountable?"

That day, after defeating Felix Campbell, breaking his four limbs, seizing this stone chamber at the deepest part of Dragon Pool that had originally belonged to Felix, and entering it to cultivate, Wyatt had already been prepared for someone to come knocking to demand justice.

After all, he had violated the rules of Dragon Pool.

Moreover, Felix Campbell was the adopted son of the County Governor’s Mansion’s number one Sacrificial Officer, Tony Campbell.

He had simply never expected that, during the process of his cultivation breaking through to Red Sun Golden Immortal, he wouldn’t suffer any disturbance at all, as if that incident where he crippled Felix Campbell’s limbs had never really happened.

"What on earth is going on?"

Filled with doubt, Wyatt left the stone chamber at the deepest part of Dragon Pool and appeared before several young men who had just come out of other stone chambers.

Those few young men also noticed Wyatt the moment he emerged.

"It’s that Wyatt Barnes! He’s come out of seclusion!"

"Half a year later, he finally came out... What’s even more unexpected is that the incident from half a year ago actually just inexplicably ended like that."

"Ended? From what I know, that matter can’t really be considered over... It’s said that Tony Campbell, the Sacrificial Officer, has been in seclusion since half a year ago and still hasn’t come out, so he hasn’t intervened in what happened back then. If he comes out, even if half a year has passed, there’s no way he’ll just let it go!"

"Exactly. Regarding that incident half a year ago, any discerning person can practically see that Elder Christian Clark of the Inner Mansion deliberately took the ’fall’ to protect this Wyatt Barnes... If Sacrificial Officer Tony Campbell comes out of seclusion, he definitely won’t let Elder Christian Clark and Wyatt Barnes off so easily."

...

The few young men watched Wyatt from afar, whispering among themselves.

Although their whispers weren’t loud, they still clearly entered Wyatt’s ears.

For a moment, Wyatt couldn’t help but freeze:

"The incident from half a year ago? You mean when I broke Felix Campbell’s limbs, gravely injured him, and violated the rules of Dragon Pool?"

"That Tony Campbell just happened to be in seclusion? No wonder he didn’t come to cause me trouble... But they said Elder Christian Clark deliberately took the ’fall’ to protect me—what’s that about?"

At this, Wyatt felt utterly puzzled.

"What do you mean by what you were just saying?"

With a flicker of his figure, Wyatt ghosted in front of the few whispering young men, causing their faces to change drastically.

Wyatt asked in a calm tone, "What did you mean when you said Elder Christian Clark deliberately took the blame to protect me?"

The young men had originally thought Wyatt was angry because he heard their whispers and had come to give them trouble, so they couldn’t help but turn pale.

Now, facing Wyatt’s question, and seeing that there was no trace of anger on his face, they finally let out a sigh of relief in secret.

However, in response to Wyatt’s inquiry, they didn’t dare be negligent. They hurriedly, one after another, explained the whole sequence of events to Wyatt, also letting him know that this seclusion of his had lasted for as long as half a year.

In addition, they also let Wyatt know the ’reason’ why, to this day, the incident from half a year ago had remained calm and no one had come looking to hold him accountable.

It turned out everything was because of that Inner Mansion Elder, Christian Clark!

"Elder Christian Clark actually said that it was because he never told me the rules of Dragon Pool that I ended up, without knowing Dragon Pool’s rules, breaking Felix Campbell’s four limbs and gravely injuring him, thereby violating the rules of Dragon Pool personally set by the Nine Nether County’s Lord County Governor?"

After understanding the whole story, Wyatt’s brows furrowed slightly again. "But doesn’t Elder Christian Clark know... that by doing this, he’ll offend that Tony Campbell? Isn’t he afraid Tony Campbell will come after him?"

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt also left Dragon Pool and, following his memories from half a year ago, went to look for Inner Mansion Elder Christian Clark.

"Wyatt Barnes... you’ve come out of seclusion?"

Seeing Wyatt seek him out, Christian Clark was somewhat surprised.

As for the fact that Wyatt hadn’t left that stone chamber at the deepest part of Dragon Pool for the past half year and had been in seclusion the whole time, he had also heard about it.

Precisely because of that, when he saw Wyatt come looking for him, he posed this question.

As for the reason Wyatt had come, he could naturally guess a thing or two.

"Yes."

Wyatt nodded, then couldn’t help but sigh. "I truly didn’t expect that a casual seclusion would end up taking a full half year..."

"That’s how cultivation is."

Christian Clark smiled and said, "And yours was only half a year... I once went into seclusion for over ten years in a single stretch. As the saying goes, ’there are no years in cultivation.’"

"What I didn’t expect even more was... that half a year ago, Elder Christian, you actually took that ’fall’ for me."

When Wyatt spoke again, he looked at Christian Clark with a grave expression and said, "Elder Christian, I know you did that with good intentions... but did you not consider that once Tony Campbell comes out of seclusion and learns what happened half a year ago, he might come after you?"

"Wyatt Barnes, do you think that... half a year ago, when I took the blame for you, it was to repay the favor I owed you on the way from Bloodshade City to the County City?"

Christian Clark asked.

"Wasn’t it?"

Wyatt countered.

"Of course not!"

Christian Clark shook his head and said, "After you arrived at the County Governor’s Mansion, I already told you... I would ask Lord County Governor, when Tony Campbell the Sacrificial Officer insisted on taking you as his direct disciple, to give you a hand so you wouldn’t suffer Tony Campbell’s persecution. Doing that would be considered paying back the favor I owed you."

"You could say that... from the moment I sent you to Qianlong Abyss, the debt of favor between you and me was already cleared."

Christian Clark continued.

Only then did Wyatt remember that, back then, before Christian Clark went alone to find the Nine Nether County’s County Governor after settling him and Ares Cooper into this courtyard, he had indeed said something like that to him.

"Since the favor between us has already been cleared... Elder Christian, then why did you take that blame for me?"

Wyatt grew all the more puzzled in his heart.

He kept feeling that this matter wasn’t that simple...

This Elder Christian, when he didn’t think he still owed him a favor, should not have risked offending Tony Campbell to help him escape the crisis and get out of trouble.

After all, he and this Elder Christian could only be considered casual acquaintances at best.

"I can tell you that in a bit..."

Christian Clark gave Wyatt a deep look and asked, "What I’m more curious about is... why, after you learned the rules of Qianlong Abyss, you still insisted on crippling Felix Campbell’s four limbs, gravely injuring him and violating Qianlong Abyss’s rules?"

"You should know... by doing that, you didn’t just offend Felix’s adopted father, our Nine Nether County County Governor’s Mansion’s first Sacrificial Officer, ’Tony Campbell’, you also offended Lord County Governor who set the rules of Qianlong Abyss!"

"By doing that, you were basically playing with fire!"

"I really want to know... why did you do that? Did you not think about the consequences at all?"

Christian Clark’s words, by the end, pressed him further.

"Why did I do that?"

Hearing Christian’s words, Wyatt narrowed his eyes, a sharp, icy light flashing through the slits. "I did that only to treat him the way he wanted to treat me... if Felix hadn’t said he was going to cripple my four limbs, I wouldn’t have been interested in crippling his!"

"That... that’s all?"

Christian Clark stared at Wyatt in disbelief. "You... you crippled his four limbs and gravely injured him just because of that one threat he made at the time?"

"A mere threat?"

Hearing Christian’s words, Wyatt let out a cold laugh. "Elder Christian, that’s only because my strength on that day happened to be greater than his... if my strength had been inferior to his, I can say for sure that the one whose limbs were crippled that day wouldn’t have been him, but me!"

"Even so, you were far too impulsive!"

Christian Clark shook his head and said, "According to the rules of Qianlong Abyss, the challenger cannot gravely injure the challenged, while the challenged, however, is allowed to gravely injure the challenger... in other words, he can cripple your four limbs without actually destroying them. But you were not allowed to do that!"

"In that situation, I couldn’t bother with all that."

Wyatt said indifferently.

In his words, Wyatt completely painted himself as a reckless brute who didn’t think about the consequences.

But was that really the case?

In truth, when he struck out to cripple Felix Campbell’s four limbs and gravely injure him, he had already thought through a series of "consequences".

Yet, he still did it.

As for why he did it, it was precisely because he had thought of a "way" to protect himself in front of Tony Campbell, and in front of the Nine Nether County’s County Governor.

Just as Wyatt came knocking to speak with Christian Clark...

Tens of thousands of miles north of the Nine Nether County’s County City, an aged and decrepit figure cut through the sky; with a flicker, his body seemed to shrink the earth into inches, leaping across a huge stretch of distance.

This figure grew closer and closer to the Nine Nether County’s County City, clearly heading straight for it.

"That Wyatt Barnes who gravely injured Felix... he’s someone from Bloodshade City?"

As the old man rushed along, his eyes shot out a fierce light. As he muttered under his breath, his tone was icy, as if it caused the surrounding air to drop several degrees.

"And that Christian Clark... he actually dared to take the blame for that brat named Wyatt Barnes. He’s simply courting death!"

From this old man’s muttering, his identity was practically self-evident:

Tony Campbell!

The Nine Nether County County Governor’s Mansion’s first Sacrificial Officer!

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