Legend of Wyatt

"And those two Ten Directions Immortal Lords were precisely the old-generation powerhouses of the Taiyi Immortal Sect. As far back as that time, ten thousand years ago, they had already broken through and become Immortal Kings, then left the Taiyi Immortal Sect..."

"The people of the Taiyi Immortal Sect originally thought they had long since gone to the central lands of the South Heaven’s Borderlands... but unexpectedly, they still remained in the borderlands, silently guarding the Taiyi Immortal Sect."

"Even now, there are still many who believe those two experts of the Taiyi Immortal Sect very likely still remain in the borderlands, merely hiding in the dark, guarding the Taiyi Immortal Sect. Unless the Taiyi Immortal Sect once again faces the peril of total extermination, they will not reveal themselves."

Wyatt Barnes said.

"Because... since they revealed themselves back then, and their cultivation base fell back down to the Ten Directions Immortal Lord level, that already shows there’s a nine out of ten chance they’ve given up the opportunity to advance to Immortal King. Due to the restrictions of that formation that separates the central lands from the borderlands, for their cultivation to drop from Immortal King down to Immortal Lord, to once again achieve Immortal King would be harder than ascending to the heavens!"

"After that incident, the powers of the six southeastern regions rarely had violent conflicts... even when there were conflicts, they wouldn’t escalate to the point of casually wiping out an entire Sect."

"No one knows whether behind a Sect that gets exterminated there might also be a Ten Directions Immortal Lord who abandoned advancing to Immortal King, hiding in the shadows, silently guarding that Sect... a Ten Directions Immortal Lord whose realm was downgraded from Immortal King has a strength far beyond that of ordinary Ten Directions Immortal Lords."

"A Ten Directions Immortal Lord of that kind has enough battle power to easily defeat, even kill, a typical Ten Directions Immortal Lord!"

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, at the life-or-death juncture of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the old-generation powerhouses of the Taiyi Immortal Sect who appeared, those two Ten Directions Immortal Lords, were living examples!"

...

Wyatt Barnes’ string of words also served to inform Leilany of the ’reason’ why the Xuantian Immortal Sect would not lightly make a move against the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

Among them, he also told her about the division between the central lands and the borderlands of the South Heaven’s Borderlands, and about that formation that separates the two regions...

"So that’s how it is."

As Wyatt finished speaking, Leilany took quite a while to digest it before finally coming back to her senses, nodding with a somewhat understanding, somewhat confused look.

"Leilany, let’s rest for a few days first, then we’ll invite Elder Ancestor to go out and stroll around together."

Wyatt Barnes said to Leilany.

Although, after realizing the gap between his strength and that of the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Junior Sect Master Preston Buckingham, what Wyatt wanted most now was to focus on cultivating and raise his own cultivation as quickly as possible.

But he also knew that cultivation was not something that could be accomplished in one stroke.

Moreover, in a month, it will be the ’Pill Tao Grand Assembly’, so he wasn’t in a hurry to go into seclusion to cultivate.

In addition, just now, as they walked all the way through Pill Tao City, he could see that Leilany was full of curiosity toward everything in Pill Tao City, as if she wished she could immediately explore the entire Pill Tao City.

"Okay, okay..."

Sure enough, as soon as she heard Wyatt say that, Leilany’s eyes lit up at once, her gaze filled with expectation.

"Then go back to your room and rest for now."

Wyatt Barnes said with a smile.

A moment later, after Leilany chose a room and went in, Wyatt also entered another room, but instead of cultivating, he took out a top-grade Immortal Artifact pill furnace and began refining top-grade Immortal Pills.

"In a month, it’ll be that ’Pill Tao Grand Assembly’... before that, during this one month, I still need to get more familiar with Pill Tao in practice, so that I don’t perform abnormally when participating in the Pill Tao Grand Assembly."

This was Wyatt Barnes’ current thought.

At the same time.

"Hey! Heard the news? That Junior Sect Master of the Xuantian Immortal Sect stumbled this time!"

"The Junior Sect Master of the Xuantian Immortal Sect? Stumbled? Impossible... who’s that capable, to make him stumble?"

"Heh heh... that’s what you don’t know. The one who made that Junior Sect Master of the Xuantian Immortal Sect stumble was someone from the Taiyi Immortal Sect! And it was that ’Gossips Immortal Lord’ of the Taiyi Immortal Sect."

"The Taiyi Immortal Sect? That Sect from the Desolate Territory? As far as I know, within that Sect, the strongest is only at the Gossips Immortal Lord level, and there’s just that one person... even if it was that Gossips Immortal Lord of the Taiyi Immortal Sect himself, logically speaking he wouldn’t dare to lightly provoke the Junior Sect Master of the Xuantian Immortal Sect, right?"

"But what if it was the Junior Sect Master of the Xuantian Immortal Sect who provoked others first?"

"Then the Taiyi Immortal Sect isn’t simple at all... back in the day, right here in our six southeastern regions, even a powerful Sect that possessed five Ten Directions Immortal Lords in total was ultimately wiped out by the reclusive powerhouses of the Taiyi Immortal Sect!"

"Exactly. After those two reclusive experts re-established the Taiyi Immortal Sect back then, they left again... now, there’s a nine out of ten chance they still remain somewhere within the six southeastern regions."

"I also feel there’s a good chance they’re still in the six southeastern regions. Don’t talk about Ten Directions Immortal Lords— even people like us have endless lifespans. Since they had already given up their chance to become Immortal Kings early on, that shows there’s a nine out of ten chance they’re dead set on staying in the borderlands."

"It’s said... not just the Taiyi Immortal Sect, even other Sects in the six southeastern regions very likely have reclusive powerhouses. Precisely because of this, even when contradictions between the various Sects of the six southeastern regions get serious, they still won’t escalate things to casually exterminating an entire Sect."

...

As the saying goes, ’Onlookers never fear things getting too big.’ The conflict between the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Junior Sect Master Preston Buckingham and Wyatt Barnes’ group very quickly spread through the entire Pill Tao City, so that now everyone present in Pill Tao City knew about that matter.

"Damn it!"

When the news from outside reached the ears of the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Junior Sect Master Preston Buckingham, he immediately flew into a rage. "Are those people all so free they have nothing better to do? Why are they all fixated on me, Preston Buckingham, and won’t let go?"

"And those people from the Taiyi Immortal Sect... I won’t let them off! I absolutely won’t let them off!"

In Preston Buckingham’s eyes, a cold light burst forth, like a beast choosing someone to devour.

"Father!"

After taking a deep breath, Preston Buckingham could no longer hold himself back, left his own residence, and went to find his father, who was the current Sect Leader of the Xuantian Immortal Sect.

This time, the group from the Xuantian Immortal Sect that had come to this Pill Tao City in the Desolate Domain was led by the Sect Leader himself.

And this was almost a ’Pill Tao Conference’ tradition.

Among the major top sects of the Six Southeastern Domains, unless the top experts of the sect personally led people to participate in the Pill Tao Conference, under normal circumstances, it was the Sect Leaders of each sect who personally led the teams.

"Novah, you’ve come just in time."

The Sect Leader of the Xuantian Immortal Sect was a middle-aged man of medium build and ordinary appearance, yet he did not lack authority.

Seeing Preston Buckingham seek him out, his brows, however, furrowed slightly as he asked in a deep voice, "What’s going on with those rumors outside? When you had nothing better to do, why did you go provoke people from the Taiyi Immortal Sect?"

"And also... why did you abandon the Red Lightning White Tiger and the three Tong brothers and leave? At that time, the people from the Taiyi Immortal Sect had already left, hadn’t they? It seemed they couldn’t threaten you, could they?"

"Besides, if that Gossips Immortal Lord of the Taiyi Immortal Sect had really wanted to kill you, you wouldn’t have had any chance to leave."

As he spoke, the tone of the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader became increasingly gloomy:

"Do you have any idea... right now, besides saying you ran into a hard wall this time, people outside are mostly saying you’re cold-blooded and heartless!"

"The three Tong brothers were injured because of you... and that Red Lightning White Tiger, that was a gift from your Martial Grand-Uncle on your two-hundredth birthday. If he finds out you threw the Red Lightning White Tiger away in the middle of the street, what do you expect him to think?"

The gaze of the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader towards Preston Buckingham suddenly turned razor-sharp, like a blade or a sword.

"Father, I..."

Preston Buckingham had not expected that the moment he came looking for his father, before he could even speak, he would be scolded so harshly. He was immediately somewhat speechless and aggrieved.

"You what?"

The Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader swept a cold glance over Preston Buckingham and said, "If I’m not mistaken, you’ve come looking for me mainly because of that little ’mess’ between you and those people from the Taiyi Immortal Sect, right?"

"Father is wise."

Preston Buckingham took a deep breath, then said, eyes gleaming with ferocity, "Father, that Gossips Immortal Lord from the Taiyi Immortal Sect knew full well that I’m your son, yet he still refused to give me the slightest bit of face... He’s not just disrespecting me, he’s disrespecting you as well!"

"I think..."

Before Preston Buckingham finished speaking, he was interrupted again by the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader:

"You think what?"

The Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader glared at Preston Buckingham with a ’hate iron for not becoming steel’ expression and said, "Don’t tell me you still want me to stick up for you and make a move against that Gossips Immortal Lord of the Taiyi Immortal Sect?"

"Father, if you do nothing at all... it will damage your reputation."

Preston Buckingham added.

It was obvious that before coming, Preston Buckingham had already done his ’homework’, intending to drag his father into the water and make him share his enmity towards that Gossips Immortal Lord of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.

"As long as Father is willing to help me deal with that so-called Taiyi Elder Ancestor of the Taiyi Immortal Sect... the rest are of no concern! By then, that woman who is perfect and flawless will become my plaything!"

Thinking of this, Preston Buckingham’s heart burned with heat once more, as if he could already see scenes of that perfect, peerless beauty being pulled into his arms.

"Damage my reputation?"

The Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader laughed. After laughing for a moment, his smile suddenly turned cold, and his gaze towards Preston Buckingham also chilled a few degrees, giving Preston Buckingham a sense that the deep winter had arrived, making his heart involuntarily tremble.

Seeing the cold smile on his father’s face and sensing the cold light in his father’s eyes, Preston Buckingham knew:

This matter—it would be very difficult to drag his father into the water.

"If you truly cared about my reputation, you would’ve shown some restraint outside!"

The Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader said in a deep voice, "In the past, you relied on my name, on the name of the Xuantian Immortal Sect, and no one dared provoke you. Even if you took the initiative to provoke others, they could only endure it... Back then, why didn’t you say it would damage my reputation?"

"You felt... that was something to be proud of?"

"Now that you’ve suffered a loss outside, you suddenly remember my reputation?"

As he spoke, the tone of the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s Sect Leader turned even colder:

"Remember this... the grievances and conflicts between you and the people of the Taiyi Immortal Sect end here!"