"How could it be them?!"
Ares Cooper, beside Wyatt Barnes, saw the two people stepping through the air and descending toward them, and his face changed drastically as he couldn’t help exclaiming.
Although, among the two before him, he had only seen Felix Campbell before.
But now Felix Campbell was escorting an old man as they appeared here, so it wasn’t hard for him to guess the old man’s identity:
The First Sacrificial Officer of the Nine Nether County Governor’s Mansion, Tony Campbell!
"Wyatt Barnes, that man in front of Felix Campbell... is that Tony Campbell?"
Although he vaguely guessed the old man’s identity, Ares Cooper still couldn’t help sending a voice transmission to ask Wyatt Barnes.
According to what he had learned from Christian Clark:
A year and a half ago, before Wyatt Barnes went into seclusion, after the Nine Nether County Governor made a promise to Tony Campbell, Tony Campbell, for the sake of the mid-grade Immortal Pill ’Daai Law Pill’, had willingly gifted Wyatt Barnes two bottles of low-grade Immortal Pills ’Spirit Essence Pills’ to aid Wyatt Barnes’s cultivation.
Could a re year and a half cause such an earth-shaking change in a person’s attitude, twice over?
The old man descending through the air, surrounded by Felix Campbell, was clearly coming with ill intent.
Most importantly, this old man didn’t feel to him like a ’Golden Immortal’ at all.
Whether it was the old man’s bearing, or the invisible pressure emanating from him, it was as if he was telling the people around him:
He is not a Golden Immortal.
But an existence even stronger than a Golden Immortal!
"It’s Tony Campbell."
Wyatt Barnes replied via voice transmission.
After getting Wyatt Barnes’s confirmation, even though Ares Cooper had been ntally prepared, he still couldn’t help secretly sucking in a breath of cold air. "Didn’t he, a year and a half ago, give you two bottles of low-grade Immortal Pills ’Spirit Essence Pills’, intending to cultivate you so you could shine brilliantly in the Sixteen Counties Martial et?"
"This ti, he seems to be coming with bad intentions... For his attitude to change so much in just a year and a half is way too extre, isn’t it?"
Ares Cooper said via voice transmission.
"He is indeed coming with bad intentions."
If Ares Cooper could see that Tony Campbell ant no good, then Wyatt Barnes naturally could see it as well.
He had even already guessed that those two people from earlier were eight or nine out of ten arranged by Tony Campbell.
"I was careless."
Wyatt Barnes secretly sighed in his heart.
It was also because what those two had said sounded too real, not like a lie at all.
Otherwise, he absolutely wouldn’t have followed them without the slightest guard.
Of course, besides the fact that what those two said didn’t seem fake, it was also because he himself was filled with longing for a ’Profound Rank cultivation technique’.
If he could obtain a Profound Rank cultivation technique to replace his current Earth Rank technique, the Crystal Clear Mysterious Scripture, his cultivation speed would climb to another level!
"Looks like those two were arranged by this Tony Campbell... It’s just, judging from what they said, that business about a Profound Rank cultivation technique doesn’t sound fake."
Ares Cooper said via voice transmission.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At the sa ti, Tony Campbell and Felix Campbell had already stepped through the air and descended, arriving not far from Wyatt Barnes and Ares Cooper.
Both their gazes landed squarely on Wyatt Barnes.
As for Ares Cooper, he was completely ignored by them.
"Sacrificial Officer Tony... what a coincidence, to even run into you here."
Wyatt Barnes looked at Tony Campbell and smiled slightly.
"It’s no coincidence. I’ve been waiting for you for quite so ti."
Tony Campbell looked at Wyatt Barnes with an indifferent gaze.
"Oh?"
Wyatt Barnes’s face showed a look of surprise.
"Wyatt Barnes!"
At the sa ti, Felix Campbell, standing behind Tony Campbell, looked at Wyatt Barnes and sneered. "I really didn’t expect you to be hiding this deep... If I hadn’t gone to Bloodshade City to investigate your ’background’, I would never have thought you were soone who only ascended to Spiritual Heaven two and a half years ago!"
"And... you even ascended through the ’Heavenly Immortal Ascension Pool’ as a Heavenly Immortal ascender!"
By the end, the sneer on Felix Campbell’s face grew even colder.
Swish!
Almost the instant Felix Campbell’s words fell, Ares Cooper, standing at Wyatt Barnes’s side, also had his expression change in an instant.
What Felix Campbell said was sothing he had long since confird.
He just never expected that Felix Campbell not only knew that Wyatt Barnes was a Heavenly Immortal ascender who had only ascended to Spiritual Heaven two and a half years ago, but from his tone, he seed to have completely confird this matter.
At this mont, he also suddenly understood:
No wonder this ’Tony Campbell’, the First Sacrificial Officer of the Nine Nether County Governor’s Mansion, would have such a huge change in attitude toward Wyatt Barnes after just a year and a half.
So it turned out this Sacrificial Officer Tony had learned of the ’background’ that Wyatt Barnes was a Heavenly Immortal ascender who had only ascended to Spiritual Heaven two and a half years ago.
As for why Tony Campbell’s attitude had changed, it wasn’t hard for him to guess either:
It must be that Tony Campbell coveted those extrely profound Immortal thods and Divine Abilities Wyatt Barnes had mastered, which were suspected to have reached the ’Heaven Rank’ level...
In front of Heaven Rank Immortal thods and Heaven Rank Divine Abilities, the mid-grade Immortal Pill ’Daai Law Pill’ appeared utterly insignificant.
"Wyatt Barnes..."
Ares Cooper’s expression changed drastically. After realizing the ’reason’ Tony Campbell had co with ill intent, he imdiately looked toward Wyatt Barnes.
But then he discovered:
In the face of Felix Campbell’s sneering taunts, Wyatt Barnes’ expression remained calm from start to finish, as unruffled as drifting clouds and a light breeze, as if even Mount Tai collapsing before him wouldn’t make him change color.
"You really put in so effort... you even managed to dig all that up."
Wyatt swept Felix a faint glance, clicked his tongue with a chuckle, and said with open disdain, "Felix, if you could spend this kind of effort on cultivation instead, you wouldn’t have been so pathetically crushed by ."
Wyatt’s words were no different from tearing open Felix’s ’scar’, making Felix’s face change greatly.
"Wyatt Barnes, what are you so smug about?!"
Felix’s face twisted as he glared angrily at Wyatt, roaring, "If it weren’t for the Heaven-rank Immortal thods and Heaven-rank Divine Abilities you’ve mastered... how could you possibly be a match for , Felix Campbell? In my eyes, you’re nothing but a lowly flying ascendant who got obscenely lucky!"
"A lowly flying ascendant?"
Wyatt laughed. "You say I’m a lowly flying ascendant... then what does that make you, the one whose limbs were snapped in a single exchange by this ’lowly flying ascendant’?"
"Trash? Garbage?"
By the end of his questioning, the smile on Wyatt’s face grew even brighter.
Faced with Wyatt’s counter, Felix’s face went through several changes, yet he didn’t know how to refute.
After all, he truly wasn’t Wyatt’s match, and the gap was enormous—Wyatt could defeat him in just one move!
"Wyatt Barnes, I won’t stoop to a war of words with you!"
Felix barked in a low voice, "Anyway, after today, you’ll be nothing but a dog in my foster father’s cage... when he tells you to go east, you won’t dare go west; when he tells you to go south, you won’t dare go north!"
"If you obediently cooperate and hand over the Immortal thods and Divine Abilities you’ve mastered, you might manage to live a few years longer... but if you’re not obedient, we’ll make sure you taste a fate worse than death, until you’re willing to obediently hand over all the Immortal thods and Divine Abilities you’ve mastered!"
By the end, Felix’s face was full of cold smiles, and his eyes shone brightly, as if he could already see scene after scene of Wyatt being imprisoned by his foster father Tony Campbell.
"Is that so?"
Wyatt laughed, still laughing just as brilliantly, without revealing the slightest trace of fear from beginning to end.
As if he wasn’t afraid of Tony in the least.
"While you can still laugh, you’d better laugh your fill... once my foster father makes his move, even if you want to laugh, you won’t be able to!"
Felix sneered.
"Wyatt Barnes!"
At the mont Felix’s voice fell, Tony Campbell, who had remained silent all this ti, finally spoke.
He looked at Wyatt, and his originally turbid eyes suddenly lit up with a chilling gleam. "I really didn’t expect that you’ve only ascended to Spiritual Heaven for two and a half years... if I’m not mistaken, you’re still just a ’Heavenly Immortal’ right now, aren’t you?"
"If I say I’m not... Sacrificial Officer Tony, would you believe ?"
Faced with Tony’s question, Wyatt asked back instead.
"Hmph!"
Before Tony could speak, Felix, standing behind him, had already snorted coldly, saying disdainfully, "Wyatt Barnes, who do you think you are? In a re two and a half years, you—a flying Heavenly Immortal—still think you can break through and beco a ’Golden Immortal’?"
"Ridiculous!"
"If it weren’t for all those Heaven-rank Immortal thods and Heaven-rank Divine Abilities you’ve mastered... I, Felix Campbell, would only need one finger to crush you to death!"
By the end, Felix looked at Wyatt with eyes full of contempt.
However, no matter what Felix said, Wyatt never spared him a single glance from beginning to end, completely ignoring him and simply locking eyes with Tony.
As if only Tony, the County Governor’s Mansion’s number one Sacrificial Officer, was qualified to enter his sight.
Felix Campbell didn’t deserve it!
"Wyatt Barnes!"
Being utterly ignored by Wyatt, Tony was naturally seething with sha and rage, his eyes almost splitting apart.
If a gaze could kill, Wyatt would’ve been slaughtered by him who knows how many tis already.
"Whether I believe it or not... today, you’re destined to beco a prisoner under my hand, at my rcy!"
Tony’s gaze turned cold as he spoke with full confidence.
"Sacrificial Officer Tony."
Even as Tony bared his ’fangs’, Wyatt’s face remained calm. In an utterly casual tone, he asked, "If I’m not mistaken... those two who lured Ares Cooper and out of the County City just now were arranged by you, weren’t they?"
"That’s right."
Tony replied flatly.
As for Wyatt still being able to remain so composed, he didn’t care in the slightest.
He and his adopted son Felix both felt that Wyatt’s continued calm was nothing but putting on an act!
"I’m very curious... when they ntioned that ’Profound-rank cultivation thod’, how could they make it sound so real, not fake in the slightest?"
Wyatt asked again.
"That’s because... everything they said was sothing I personally experienced a year and a half ago. A year and a half ago, I received news regarding a ’Profound-rank cultivation thod’ and even went out of Nine Nether County specifically for it."
When he spoke of this, a barely noticeable look of regret flashed across Tony’s face.
"Looks like... that Profound-rank cultivation thod has already fallen into soone else’s hands. What a pity."
Although the regret on Tony’s face vanished in a flash, Wyatt still saw it clearly and directly laid it bare in his words.
"It’s not a pity."
Brilliance flickered in Tony’s eyes as he stared at Wyatt and said, "Compared to a re Profound-rank cultivation thod... I, Tony Campbell, am far more interested in the various Heaven-rank Immortal thods and Heaven-rank Divine Abilities on you!"
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