Legend of Wyatt

"Thirty-eight sets of materials for refining Rowan Heaven Pills, and you only want a hundred Rowan Heaven Pills?"

Hearing Cain Iron’s words, Wyatt Barnes was briefly stunned.

It wasn’t because he thought Cain Iron was greedy, but because he felt Cain Iron’s request was too low...

Was this looking down on his alchemy skills, or did he think Wyatt couldn’t use thirty-eight sets of Rowan Heaven Pill materials to refine too many Rowan Heaven Pills?

The first time he had refined Rowan Heaven Pills, he’d already succeeded; although only three pills came out, that was just his first attempt. If he refined them again, he was confident he could keep the number of pills at five or more.

Moreover, as he became more practiced in refining Rowan Heaven Pills, he could guarantee an even higher pill success rate.

"Protector Iron."

Although Wyatt Barnes wanted to earn some Rowan Heaven Pills off Cain Iron, he had never intended to fleece him too hard, so he immediately said to Cain Iron, "For thirty-eight sets of materials for refining Rowan Heaven Pills, I’ll give you one hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills."

One hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills.

Hearing Wyatt Barnes’s words, Cain Iron was also stunned.

In his impression, Wyatt’s success rate in refining Rowan Heaven Pills didn’t seem very high. Just last time, when he’d accepted the mission to kill the woman beside the man before him, he’d learned that this man had only produced three pills when refining Rowan Heaven Pills.

So, when he’d just now asked for one hundred Rowan Heaven Pills, it was based on what he’d seen last time.

He had even prepared for the man before him to haggle. The minimum requirement his Sect Leader of the Spiritual Heaven Sect had given him was to bring back at least eighty Rowan Heaven Pills, since their Spiritual Heaven Sect was providing thirty-eight sets of materials needed to refine Rowan Heaven Pills.

Those thirty-eight sets of materials for refining Rowan Heaven Pills were also their Spiritual Heaven Sect’s entire current stock.

He simply hadn’t expected that not only would Wyatt Barnes not haggle, he would take the initiative to add twenty Rowan Heaven Pills on top. This caught him off guard and left him unable to figure out why Wyatt would do this.

If he were in the other man’s place, even if he could guarantee a success of more than one hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills in the upcoming refinements, he wouldn’t take the initiative to offer an extra twenty Rowan Heaven Pills.

Because he’d already said that their Spiritual Heaven Sect only wanted one hundred Rowan Heaven Pills, and anything extra would belong to the other side.

"Alchemist Barnes, are you serious?"

Cain Iron took a deep breath, looked at Wyatt Barnes, and said, "I know the success rate of refining Rowan Heaven Pills is extremely low... a hundred is one thing; can you guarantee a success rate of one hundred and twenty?"

"What? Protector Iron, you’re afraid I won’t be able to produce a hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills?"

Wyatt Barnes smiled faintly. "Protector Iron, since I’ve said it, I naturally won’t speak without basis... as for the hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills, come pick them up in ten days."

Having received Wyatt Barnes’s confirmation, Cain Iron gave him a deep look, then cupped his fists toward him. "Alchemist Barnes, whether or not you can produce a hundred and twenty Rowan Heaven Pills ten days from now... I, Cain Iron, will recognize you as a friend."

Cain Iron was a forthright man by nature. Seeing Wyatt Barnes being so forthright as well, he couldn’t help feeling a kind of mutual admiration.

"Then I’ll be clinging above my station."

Wyatt Barnes smiled slightly.

"Brother Barnes!"

Right at this moment, a familiar voice came from outside the courtyard. Just from the sound alone, Wyatt Barnes could tell it was the voice of the Thirteenth Prince, Crue Dragonsmith.

Before Wyatt Barnes had time to respond to Crue Dragonsmith, Cain Iron had already bid Wyatt a brief farewell and left.

"Alchemist Barnes, I’ll come again in ten days."

As Cain Iron’s voice reached Wyatt Barnes’s ears, his figure seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving no trace behind.

"Come in."

After Wyatt Barnes called out, Crue Dragonsmith outside finally walked in.

"Ares Cooper?!"

Originally, when Wyatt Barnes saw that Crue Dragonsmith had brought someone with him—and that person wasn’t Francis Bushell—he was a bit surprised. But when he saw the face of the person Crue had brought, he was stunned.

"Wyatt Barnes."

Seeing Wyatt Barnes again, Ares Cooper was somewhat excited. "You really are fine... It’s good that you’re fine, it’s good that you’re fine..."

"Ares Cooper, how are you here? Come... sit, sit..."

Wyatt Barnes invited Ares Cooper to sit, and his enthusiasm made Crue Dragonsmith, standing to the side, a bit jealous, since Wyatt had never been this warm toward him.

At the same time, he secretly made up his mind that he had to befriend this Ares Cooper from the Cloud Rock Immortal Kingdom.

He didn’t care much about Ares Cooper’s ’status’ in the Cloud Rock Immortal Kingdom.

The reason he wanted to befriend Ares Cooper wasn’t for anything else, but for the clearly extraordinary friendship between Ares Cooper and Wyatt Barnes.

"Thirteenth Prince, you sit too."

After asking Ares Cooper to sit, Wyatt Barnes then invited Crue Dragonsmith. Even so, Crue didn’t show the slightest hint of dissatisfaction.

Given Wyatt Barnes’s current ’status’, even if Wyatt made him stand, he wouldn’t dare show any temper.

Ares Cooper, on the other hand, was quite shocked to see this.

Although he had previously heard from Kaison Truman that the Thirteenth Prince of the Ascendant Dragon Celestial Nation treated Wyatt Barnes with great courtesy, he hadn’t expected this level of deference, to the point that Crue even seemed a bit in awe of Wyatt.

Just now, when Wyatt Barnes invited him to sit, he had glanced at Crue Dragonsmith and hesitated a little.

In the end, he still sat down first and deliberately watched Crue Dragonsmith’s reaction.

He had originally thought that no matter how polite Crue Dragonsmith was to Wyatt Barnes, if he saw Wyatt greet Ares Cooper and invite him to sit first, he would definitely feel somewhat displeased. After all, his own ’status’ amounted to nothing in front of Crue Dragonsmith.

Yet unexpectedly, not only did Crue Dragonsmith show no trace of displeasure, he even seemed to feel that this was only natural.

He even discovered that when Crue Dragonsmith looked at him again now, his gaze had become much gentler, with even a hint of ingratiation in it...

This shocked him greatly.

He even had the feeling that it was as if he were meeting Wyatt Barnes for the first time...

He was very curious. After Wyatt used that ’Void Escape Shadow Talisman’ to leave King Cooper’s estate, just what had he gone through, that not long after he could gain the awe of the Thirteenth Prince of the Ascendant Dragon Celestial Nation.

To Wyatt Barnes, Ares Cooper counted as his first friend after he came to this heavens plane, ’Spiritual Heaven’.

Although he now also regarded Crue Dragonsmith as his friend.

But between him and Crue Dragonsmith, there was ultimately an element of interest involved; it was entirely different from the friendship between him and Ares Cooper.

In his heart, compared to Crue Dragonsmith, Ares Cooper undoubtedly weighed heavier.

"Ares, you still haven’t told me: how come you’re here?"

Wyatt Barnes asked.

"I came following my uncle, and came together with His Majesty the Emperor of the Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom... This time’s ’Desolate Territory Grand Competition’, Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom has thirty slots. Two of those slots are in our King Cooper’s estate. You know them both—they’re precisely ’Kaison Truman’ and ’Julian Yorke’."

Ares Cooper said.

"So that’s how it is."

Wyatt Barnes nodded, then asked again, "Then how did you know I was here?"

Ares Cooper being able to find this place gave Wyatt Barnes some surprise.

"Speaking of which, it’s all thanks to ’Kaison Truman’."

As Ares Cooper spoke, he told the entire sequence of how he had learned of Wyatt Barnes’s ’whereabouts’ and then found this place, without hiding anything. He also included the matter of learning that it was someone by Wyatt Barnes’s side who had killed the Sixth Prince of Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom.

"Wyatt Barnes!"

In the end, as if recalling something, Ares Cooper lifted his hand, took out a scroll painting, unfolded it, and laid it on the stone table in front of him.

"This is..."

Seeing the portrait, Wyatt Barnes’s pupils suddenly shrank, because he had not expected Ares Cooper to have a portrait of Leilany.

The woman in the portrait was precisely Leilany’s true face—peerless and unmatched, flawless and perfect.

Even though it was only a painting lying there, the charm of the person in the picture seemed enough to make everything around it lose its luster...

"This..."

On the other side, Crue Dragonsmith was completely stunned.

The woman in the portrait was painted vividly lifelike. That perfect, peerless countenance caused even someone like him, who usually kept his distance from women, to feel ripples stirring uncontrollably in his heart, and once his emotions were stirred, he could no longer control them.

In his entire life, this was the first time he had seen such a beautiful woman—so perfect it made one’s heart tremble, as if she had been favored by a Divine Being and given the most beautiful face in the world.

"How do you have this portrait?"

Wyatt Barnes’s expression grew somewhat grave. The reason he had Leilany usually wear a veiled hat and veil was precisely because he didn’t want her true face exposed before others—that would inevitably attract no small amount of trouble.

Not long ago, the reason he had Leilany kill the Sixth Prince of Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom and the other two was also because he was worried that the floating shadow image recorded in that Floating Shadow Pearl they held, which contained Leilany’s true appearance, would be exposed to the public.

He had thought that once he retrieved that Floating Shadow Pearl, all future trouble would be cut off at the root.

He hadn’t expected Ares Cooper to take out a portrait of Leilany...

Wyatt Barnes could well imagine:

Once this portrait was exposed before the people in the City of Grand Unity, it would definitely bring a great calamity down upon Leilany!

Now then, what kind of people were gathered inside the City of Grand Unity?

Besides people from the various Immortal Kingdoms, there were also people from the three great Immortal Sects of the Desolate Territory, among whom were many high-level figures of the three great Immortal Sects. Those high-level figures of the Desolate Territory Immortal Sect were each and every one of them Immortal Lord‑level powerhouses.

Among them, there were surely quite a few men obsessed with women.

"This portrait..."

Seeing Wyatt Barnes’s expression grow grave, Ares Cooper promptly told the truth about how this portrait had already spread throughout Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom long ago.

By the end, he added another line, "Now, our Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom’s Emperor should also have already confirmed... that the woman by your side wearing a veiled hat and veil is this woman in the portrait."

"The woman in this portrait is Miss Leilany?!"

Crue Dragonsmith, who had finally managed to tear his gaze away from the painting on the table, heard Ares Cooper’s words and his pupils suddenly shrank. His face showed shock and disbelief, and he stared blankly at Wyatt Barnes, as if waiting for Wyatt’s confirmation.

"That Damon Stone is truly a ’madman’!"

Wyatt Barnes’s face was extremely unsightly.

He never in his wildest dreams would have thought:

That Sixth Prince of Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom, ’Damon Stone’, had actually displayed Leilany’s true appearance through a portrait and spread this painting throughout the entire Cloudrock Immortal Kingdom!