CHAPTER 1730: CHAPTER 1730: MAIN MANSION

Ebba King remembered everything clearly.

It was twenty days ago, the day she followed Wyatt Barnes to the spirit pool. Naturally, she just wandered around outside; only Wyatt, who had received permission, could enter the spirit pool.

She had also learned about the spirit pool of Xuan Kong Mansion.

There are four spirit pools in total in Xuan Kong Mansion, with the one in the Heavenly Palace being the best.

However, even with the Heavenly Palace’s spirit pool, an ordinary person would need about two months to absorb all the spiritual energy stored within it.

Only those with extraordinary talent could do it in at least a month and a half.

Yet, Wyatt Barnes managed to come out of it in just twenty days. "Could it be that he left without absorbing all the spiritual energy?"

Of course, as soon as this thought arose, Ebba King dismissed it.

Thinking about it, it made sense.

The opportunity to enter the spirit pool is so rare and with no time limit, and there’s still a long time before the ’Saint Martial Secret Realm’ opens. Unless one is a fool, they wouldn’t rush to leave the spirit pool.

And is Wyatt Barnes a fool?

Ebba King herself first denied this possibility.

"No matter, I’ll just go find him and ask."

With this thought, Ebba King left her quarters to look for Wyatt Barnes.

However, when she arrived at Wyatt Barnes’ residence, she found that he wasn’t there, as if he’d already hidden away, which made her stomp her feet in frustration, "That damn guy, he’s hidden himself away so quickly... But does he think that just because he hid, this lady won’t find him?"

It’s a good thing Wyatt Barnes didn’t see this scene, otherwise he would surely be at a loss.

Today, he intended to study and comprehend the Supreme Heart Sword, but because he had just broken through to the Middle Saint Realm, his excitement made it difficult to calm down.

Therefore, he temporarily put aside his comprehension of the Supreme Heart Sword and went to the Book Collection Pavilion of Xuan Kong Mansion.

The Book Collection Pavilion of Xuan Kong Mansion is divided into five places.

There is one in each of the four palaces: Heavenly, Earth, Mystic, and Yellow. Then there is the pavilion on the floating island at the center of these four palaces, which is also the largest Book Collection Pavilion in Xuan Kong Mansion. It includes all sorts of recordings, except for some ’secrets’ of Xuan Kong Mansion; everything that can be known at the level of Xuan Kong Mansion is documented there.

Wyatt Barnes wanted to further understand some things he didn’t know before, and the Book Collection Pavilion on the floating island was undoubtedly the best choice.

The floating island, aside from being the dwelling place for Xuan Kong Mansion’s high-ranking officials, is also filled with the outstanding disciples of Xuan Kong Mansion. Anyone who can break into the Mystic Void List set by Xuan Kong Mansion can establish themselves on the floating island and get their own training space.

Generally, those who can break into the Mystic Void List are almost all above the Great Saint Realm!

Those above the Great Saint Realm are generally nonexistent in sixth-rate powers, and even in fifth-rate powers, they are high-level figures.

In fourth-rate powers, although their status might not be high, it still holds some significance.

In a quasi-third-rate power, however, it’s not enough, because there are many powerful beings within them that surpass the Great Saint Realm. Some outstanding disciples, once they reach a certain age, can smoothly advance to the Great Saint Realm.

Because of this, in a quasi-third-rate power like Xuan Kong Mansion, the Great Saint Realm is not significant.

"Disciples of Xuan Kong Mansion, aside from those on the Mystic Void List, can only enter the Main Mansion once every three months!"

The Main Mansion refers to the central floating island stationed at the base of Xuan Kong Mansion.

This time, Wyatt Barnes planned to use his once-every-three-month opportunity to enter the Book Collection Pavilion in the Main Mansion and broaden his knowledge.

As for other things in the Main Mansion, they held little appeal to him.

The only part of the Main Mansion that’s better is the training environment.

However, the training environment inside his Jewel Tower far surpasses that of the Main Mansion of Xuan Kong Mansion, so for Wyatt Barnes, whether or not to enter the Main Mansion doesn’t really matter.

Whoosh!

Accompanied by the sound of wind, a ghostly figure approached the floating island at the base of Xuan Kong Mansion.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

However, before this figure could get near the floating island, they were stopped by several swift figures.

These figures belonged to a group of Xuan Kong Mansion disciples dressed in specific attire.

In Xuan Kong Mansion, only the patrolling disciples wear specific uniforms.

Ordinary disciples typically just need to carry their identity token.

"Are you a disciple from the Heavenly Palace?"

The group of swiftly appearing patrolling disciples from Xuan Kong Mansion was led by a stern-looking middle-aged man. His sharp eyes moved from the approaching person’s body to the identity token hanging at their waist, which was marked with the character ’Heavenly.’

"Heavenly Palace disciple ’Wyatt Barnes,’ greets fellow senior apprentices."

The person who had arrived was none other than Wyatt Barnes, who came from the Heavenly Palace.

Facing the group of patrolling disciples before him, Wyatt Barnes greeted them with a smile, "I am here to visit the Book Collection Pavilion in the Main Mansion."

"Wyatt?!"

However, the words that followed from Wyatt Barnes were not heard by the group of patrolling disciples, as their attention was entirely focused on the first sentence he uttered.

Wyatt!

This name was not unfamiliar to them.

In fact, it had twice brought shocking news to their ears.

Wyatt, a new disciple of the Mysterious Void Main Mansion, a disciple of the Heavenly Palace, had barely joined the Heavenly Palace when he fought to a draw with ’Lumi Clifford,’ a late-stage Middle Saint Realm disciple of the Heavenly Palace, whose strength ranked in the top three among such disciples.

This was the first time they heard the name ’Wyatt.’

At that time, they were filled with shock; a mere Saint Realm prodigy under forty years of age already demonstrated such astonishing strength. How formidable would he become after further growth?

As for the second time Wyatt’s name was mentioned, it was today.

Wyatt entered the Heavenly Palace’s spirit pool twenty days ago and emerged today. It was suspected that he had completely absorbed the liquid spiritual energy within the pool in just twenty days.

This news might not have made much of an impression on the newcomers to the Mysterious Void Main Mansion.

But any ’veteran’ of the Mysterious Void Main Mansion knew how astonishing this feat was.

In the history of the Main Mansion, there had never been a disciple below the Great Saint Realm who could completely absorb the spirit pool’s spiritual energy in just twenty days, let alone the best ’Heavenly Palace spirit pool’ among the four pools.

The past record of the Main Mansion was someone absorbing the spiritual energy of a spirit pool in a month and three days.

However, that was the Yellow Palace spirit pool, quite different from the Heavenly Palace spirit pool.

This time, a new disciple who joined the Main Mansion not long ago took only twenty days to completely absorb the Heavenly Palace spirit pool’s spiritual energy. To them, and the entire Main Mansion, this was undeniably earth-shattering news.

"Are you the Wyatt of the Heavenly Palace?"

The leading middle-aged man was the first to recover, with his eyes flashing with brilliance, staring at Wyatt Barnes.

"Hmm?"

Usually, being stared at wouldn’t matter, but Wyatt noticed that the middle-aged man’s gaze carried not only a faint astonishment but also a trace of hostility.

This puzzled him, "This is my first time meeting him, why is he so hostile to me?"

At the same time, the group of patrolling disciples behind the middle-aged man also regained their senses and noticed the tense confrontation between the middle-aged man and Wyatt.

In that moment, they began to whisper among themselves:

"I almost forgot, Brantley Yellow’s brother was humiliated by Wyatt not long ago and went into seclusion... It’s said that he vowed not to emerge until he reached the late-stage Middle Saint Realm!"

"I heard Garrett Yellow went to provoke Wyatt and ended up with his head shaved clean."

"This incident spread not only in the Heavenly Palace but also in the Earth Palace, Mystic Palace, and Yellow Palace. Garrett Yellow has become a laughing stock among everyone... He is Brantley Yellow’s only brother; how could Brantley not be angry after such humiliation?"

"Indeed, it was one thing if Wyatt didn’t appear before Brantley, but now that he’s here, Brantley can’t seek revenge openly for the sake of face. But if Wyatt walks right into the lion’s den, Brantley must do something, or people might say he’s timid and can’t even stand up for his brother!"

...

Although the whisperings of the patrolling disciples were not loud, they were clearly heard by Wyatt Barnes.

Brantley Yellow?

Garrett Yellow’s brother?

At this moment, Wyatt suddenly realized why Brantley harbored hostility towards him; he was Garrett’s brother.

As for Garrett, Wyatt naturally remembered him.

About a month ago, a group of Heavenly Palace disciples, unhappy about him getting the opportunity to enter the spirit pool, blocked his door, with Garrett and two others trying to break in. They failed because he appeared in time.

Even though they didn’t succeed, they still brazenly provoked him.

Subsequently, Garrett went as far as to challenge him actively.

Recalling Garrett’s rudeness, Wyatt angrily shaved all his hair off.

To him, he had already shown restraint.

He has always believed in "you respect me an inch, I return a mile," just like Lumi Clifford, who treated him politely; he reciprocated in kind, and although he could easily defeat Lumi, he deliberately fought to a draw to save Lumi’s face.

This is Wyatt Barnes’ way of life!

So, upon learning that Brantley was Garrett’s brother, Wyatt merely looked calmly at Brantley, feeling only a bit surprised without other emotions.

He was not worried about Brantley’s revenge.

With his current power, not to mention a patrolling disciple like Brantley in the Mysterious Void Main Mansion, he wasn’t afraid of even the typical high-ranking members of the Main Mansion.

With his current strength, fully unleashing the ’Splendid Fairy Sword,’ he was confident in slaying over ninety percent of Great Saint Realm powerhouses!

"Did you hear what they said?"

Brantley looked at Wyatt, asking indifferently.