CHAPTER 1729: CHAPTER 1729: TWENTY DAYS?

Seeing Wyatt Barnes come out, the one-armed old man initially thought he was seeing things.

Coming back to his senses, he realized that he wasn’t seeing things and that this little guy who entered the ’spirit pool’ twenty days ago had indeed come out.

Faced with Wyatt’s inquiry, the old man didn’t rush to respond, instead entering the spirit pool first.

Upon seeing the empty spirit pool, even though he had lived for almost two hundred years and seen many things, he couldn’t help but tug at the corner of his mouth.

"Senior, what are you doing..."

Seeing the old man not answering him but instead entering the spirit pool, Wyatt was already a bit puzzled. Now seeing the old man come out from the spirit pool again, he couldn’t help but show his confusion.

"How did you do it?"

Walking out from the spirit pool, the old man looked at Wyatt as if he had seen a ghost.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Seeing the old man’s unusual reaction, Wyatt was a bit puzzled. Why hadn’t he noticed this side of the senior before?

"I’ve guarded the Heavenly Palace’s spirit pool for many years. After entering, the fastest anyone has ever come out was after a month and a half, and most people spend two months. Yet you came out in just twenty days... how did you do it?"

As he spoke, the old man looked at Wyatt with burning eyes, as if trying to see through him.

"Twenty days?"

Wyatt hadn’t expected that he had spent twenty days inside the spirit pool. However, listening to the old man’s words, others spent at least a month and a half, with most spending over two months.

For a moment, Wyatt realized that he appeared somewhat prodigious.

"It must be because of my different cultivation technique."

Wyatt replied perfunctorily.

As for whether the old man believed him or not, he didn’t care and briskly took his leave, leaving only a silhouette behind.

"This little guy seems to have quite a few secrets... But regardless of how many secrets he has, as long as he doesn’t harm the Mansion of Azure Clouds, he can do as he pleases. With his talent and strength, he’s sure to become the ’pillar’ of the Mysterious Void in the future! Should he lead the Mysterious Void to its peak, as Lanni Barnes led the Mansion of Azure Clouds to the peak of Martial Dao Sacred Land’s Lower Domain, it’s not impossible!"

The old man murmured to himself, full of confidence in Wyatt.

Of course, Wyatt knew nothing of this.

On the way back, Wyatt encountered several disciples of the Heavenly Palace, whose gaze mirrored the astonishment of the one-armed old man earlier.

Though they hadn’t accompanied Wyatt to the spirit pool, they knew when he had gone.

The spirit pool’s opening time was fixed.

A quick calculation would show that the last time it opened was precisely twenty days ago.

"This seems a bit too high-profile."

Wyatt touched his nose, self-consciously muttering.

However, since he was already out, Wyatt didn’t plan on hiding, swaggering back to his residence. "Now, there are two months left before the Mysterious Void’s ’Sacred Martial Abyss’ opens... These two months I’ll focus on studying and comprehending the ’Supreme Heart Sword’, and spend other times in the Book Collection Pavilion."

"As a quasi-third-rate power, the Book Collection Pavilion in Mysterious Void must be recorded with plenty of things unknown to me in the past."

Wyatt planned out his future for the next two months.

Of course, during this period, he also needed to compete with the forty and under Saint Realm talents in the Heavenly Palace, aiming for the spot in the ’Sacred Martial Abyss’.

Arriving at the Heavenly Palace, aside from benefiting from the spirit pool for cultivation, Wyatt received no other advantage.

However, for him, competing for entry into the ’Sacred Martial Abyss’ was merely a formality.

With his current power, not to mention the under-forty experts of Martial Dao Sacred Land’s Lower Domain, even those of Martial Dao Sacred Land’s Upper Domain, there were likely few opponents.

Full of confidence in his strength, a charming figure appeared in Wyatt’s mind, pouring a cold wave over his overconfidence, making him snap back to reality.

The figure belonged to a woman.

This woman was all too familiar to Wyatt, as she looked exactly like his fiancée, Keer.

"Keer’s sister is from the Fire Worship Sect... I wonder what level her strength is among the younger generation there?"

On that day, although Keer’s sister didn’t make significant moves, even now, thinking back, Wyatt was sure of one point... Keer’s sister was very likely beyond the Great Saint Realm!

After all, on that day, even the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon ’Emperor End’ had to act humbly before her.

As for Emperor End, he must be someone who has surpassed the Great Saint Realm.

Currently, Wyatt Barnes is unaware that his father, Lanni Barnes, has already arranged a duel for him... That duel will be against Emperor End. If he wins, he can enter the Dragonsmith Clan’s Holy Land, the Dragon Washing Pool!

And that duel is now less than three years away!

It’s worth mentioning, since breaking through to the Middle Saint Realm this time, thinking about his various skills, Wyatt’s confidence has greatly increased, feeling almost invincible among the younger generation in the Martial Dao Sacred Land.

However, when he thinks of Keer’s sister, he becomes completely clearheaded again.

If Keer’s sister were here, even if he were to fully wield the Splendid Fairy Sword, he might not be able to defeat her.

"Fire Worship Sect..."

This is why Wyatt feels even more burdened.

Even a young disciple of the Fire Worship Sect is so formidable; how powerful must the higher-ups within be?

At that moment, Wyatt felt an overwhelming pressure arise.

Of course, even with such pressure, it does not change his resolve to go to the Fire Worship Sect to find Keer.

No matter how difficult the path ahead may be, he will go to the Upper Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, to the Fire Worship Sect, to rescue Keer and their child, and reunite their family.

Taking a deep breath, after a while, Wyatt finally managed to shift his focus slightly.

Once he shifted his focus, he took out the ’Splendid Fairy Sword’, delving further into the profound Sword Dao principles of the Supreme Heart Sword contained within it.

Wyatt’s goal is the third realm of the Supreme Heart Sword.

Along the way, Wyatt learned many things, but after obtaining the Supreme Heart Sword, he devoted all his energy to it, putting other martial arts techniques aside for now.

Perhaps those martial arts techniques he practiced in the past were very helpful to him before, but now, with the Supreme Heart Sword in possession, those techniques seemed somewhat ’obsolete’.

The Supreme Heart Sword, as the ultimate Sword Dao mental technique, contains mysteries that not only can be applied to attack but also to defense and even speed.

Wyatt sat silently in his room, comprehending the Supreme Heart Sword, unaware that outside, things had become lively and bustling again because of him.

"Wyatt, entered the ’spirit pool’ twenty days ago, and came out today!"

"No way, right? It’s only been twenty days, could he have absorbed all the liquid Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool?"

"If it were before, I would’ve thought it impossible. But the fact is, today I saw with my own eyes him coming back from the direction of our Heavenly Palace’s spirit pool... When I saw him, I double-checked the time the spirit pool had opened last time, exactly twenty days ago."

"Only took twenty days to emerge from the spirit pool... Wyatt’s cultivation speed is indeed remarkable!"

"No wonder he can, at less than forty years of age, have the cultivation of the later stages of the Middle Saint Realm. It turns out his talent is astonishing to such a degree... I wonder if, after coming out from the spirit pool, he has already broken through to the peak of the Middle Saint Realm!"

...

The Heavenly Palace was buzzing with activity, with disciples discussing Wyatt, thinking it overwhelmingly extravagant that Wyatt only took twenty days to emerge from the spirit pool.

Of course, some find it extravagant, and others think it impossible.

"Impossible! No matter how strong his talent is, it’s impossible to have absorbed all the liquid Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool within just twenty days... In my opinion, he must have emerged without fully absorbing the Spiritual Energy."

"That’s quite possible. But honestly, if it were you, would you come out without absorbing everything in the spirit pool?"

"Exactly! Would you come out if you were in his position?"

...

Regardless, more people tend to believe Wyatt did indeed absorb all the Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool within twenty days.

Even though such a feat seems monstrous and defying the heavens, other possibilities simply don’t hold water.

They naturally do not know that under normal cultivation, even with Wyatt’s ninety-nine Saint Veins, it would still take a month to absorb all the liquid Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool.

However, after Wyatt spent twenty days absorbing enough Spiritual Energy for a breakthrough, thanks to Elder Fire’s guidance, he used a special method to condense the prototype of the ’Golden Crow Wings,’ and in just a few breaths, swallowed the remaining Spiritual Energy at once with a ’whale swallowing’ stance.

So, in the eyes of others, it seems Wyatt took only twenty days to absorb all the Spiritual Energy in the spirit pool.

Of course, the truth is known only to Wyatt and Elder Fire.

Others wouldn’t imagine this aspect.

"He’s out?"

Upon learning that Wyatt emerged from the spirit pool, Ebba King was also astonished, "I recall... it was just twenty days ago when he entered the spirit pool, right? How can he come out so quickly?"