CHAPTER 1792: CHAPTER 1792: STRANGERS UPON MEETING

"Have you heard him mention an extremely challenging ’divine relic’? Do you know how he escaped from it?"

The Palace Master of Yellow Palace, ’Lachlan Jimenez’, looked at ’Ebba King’ and asked curiously.

An extremely challenging divine relic?

Escape?

’Ebba King’ furrowed her brows, then shook her head, "I haven’t heard him talk about it."

"It seems he hasn’t told you... In that case, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to hear it directly from him."

’Lachlan Jimenez’ nodded and then continued.

As time passed, half a day later, another person was eliminated.

This person was also a disciple of the Heavenly Palace, none other than the strongest among the young generation of the Heavenly Palace besides Wyatt Barnes, ’Ebba King’, and ’Tommy Dunn’—Ewen Price.

Ewen Price was a martial artist at the mid Middle Saint Realm.

However, when he came out, his face didn’t look too good.

Could it look good?

He almost passed the last checkpoint of that intermediate divine relic. At the crucial moment, due to a minor mistake, he was killed by the guardian of the last checkpoint using a divine ability.

As a result, he didn’t get any intermediate divine abilities, only a few basic ones.

After Ewen Price came out, no one else emerged early. It wasn’t until the next day, when the time was up, that three figures came out from the Sacred Martial Secret Realm.

"He’s out."

One of the owners of the three figures was ’Wyatt Barnes’, who let out a sigh of relief and nonchalantly stretched his arms after coming out.

At the same time, he also noticed the two people beside him.

These two weren’t disciples of the Heavenly Palace, yet under his ’Heavenly Eye’, their cultivations were exposed—all of them were at the mid Middle Saint Realm.

"Looks like they are the other two mid Middle Saint Realm disciples in the Mysterious Void Mansion!"

’Wyatt Barnes’ had heard before that in the Mysterious Void Mansion, apart from the Heavenly Palace’s ’Tommy Dunn’ and ’Ewen Price’, there were two other mid Middle Saint Realm disciples, one in the Earth Palace and another in the Mystic Palace.

As for the disciples of the Yellow Palace’s young generation, none were above the mid Middle Saint Realm.

"Hmm?"

As soon as he came out, ’Wyatt Barnes’ noticed the group outside had all their gazes on him.

"What’s going on?"

’Wyatt Barnes’ looked at ’Ebba King’, standing behind the Palace Master of the Heavenly Palace, and asked through voice transmission.

"They all want to know how you escaped from the ’First Divine Relic’ in the Sacred Martial Secret Realm."

’Ebba King’ replied via transmission, "Why didn’t you mention that First Divine Relic before?"

"First Divine Relic?"

’Wyatt Barnes’ was confused, what was that?

"It’s said to be a divine relic of terrifying difficulty. In the history of the Mysterious Void Mansion, no one has ever passed the first checkpoint test of that divine relic."

’Ebba King’ said.

In the history of the Mysterious Void Mansion, no one had ever passed the first checkpoint test of that divine relic?

Upon hearing ’Ebba King’’s words, ’Wyatt Barnes’ first thought was of the ’Abyssal Marsh’!

The first checkpoint test of the Abyssal Marsh was definitely the most outrageous among all the divine relic checkpoint tests he encountered there!

Unless a young expert could rival the strength of a Great Saint Realm existence, there was no way to get through it.

That Savage Beast group was terrifying!

’Wyatt Barnes’ exchanged a few more words with ’Ebba King’, finally confirming that the so-called ’First Divine Relic’ in the Mysterious Void Mansion’s Sacred Martial Secret Realm referred to the ’Abyssal Marsh’.

"In the absence of knowing what divine ability the Abyssal Marsh contains, they unanimously agree that the divine ability recorded there is the ’First Divine Ability’ of the Mysterious Void Mansion’s Sacred Martial Secret Realm?"

’Wyatt Barnes’ never expected that the divine ability he obtained, ’Minor Devouring Technique’, would have such a title.

"But... they all want to know how I escaped from the first checkpoint test of the Abyssal Marsh? So, no one thinks I passed the test and obtained the divine ability recorded there?"

’Wyatt Barnes’ remarked internally.

"If I reveal the news that I obtained the divine ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’ from the Abyssal Marsh... will the Mysterious Void Mansion imprison me and prevent me from leaving?"

Before coming out, ’Wyatt Barnes’ hadn’t considered this possibility.

However, after coming out and recognizing the extraordinary significance the divine ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’ has for the Mysterious Void Mansion, he couldn’t help but have this thought.

Though grateful to the Mysterious Void Mansion for letting him obtain the ’Minor Devouring Technique’, he’d never considered staying permanently.

At the latest, once his cultivation breaks through to the ’Great Saint Realm’, he plans to leave the Mysterious Void Mansion and head to the Upper Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land.

With this thought, ’Wyatt Barnes’ decided not to reveal his acquisition of the divine ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’.

Facing the inquiry from the Palace Master of the Yellow Palace, ’Lachlan Jimenez’, his expression grew slightly serious, and he said, "When there was some disturbance in the surrounding marshland, I felt something was off and chose to retreat straight away... Now thinking about it, if I had been a bit later and waited until the entire Savage Beast group emerged, I probably couldn’t have even escaped."

Saying this, ’Wyatt Barnes’ breathed a sigh of relief, a look of lingering fear on his face.

"So that’s how it was... you really have good luck."

Regarding Wyatt Barnes’ answer, Lachlan Jimenez had no doubts.

And the others felt the same, as they didn’t believe Wyatt Barnes could pass the first trial of the Divine Ability segment.

"Hmph! Afraid of dying... running away before the Savage Beast even appeared."

At that moment, a discordant voice emerged. It was none other than ’Tommy Dunn’.

"Afraid of dying, but still better than some who were eliminated in just three days!"

Faced with Tommy Dunn’s sarcasm, Wyatt Barnes responded with a faint smile.

As soon as Wyatt said this, it drew involuntary reactions from many present.

This Wyatt always knows where to hit where it hurts!

But they felt it wasn’t Wyatt’s fault.

Blame fell on Tommy Dunn for speaking out of turn first, otherwise Wyatt wouldn’t have exposed his ’wound’ like this in public, smacking his ’face’?

"You..."

Hearing Wyatt’s words, Tommy Dunn’s face changed dramatically, opening his mouth wanting to speak, but his father Atlas Dunn reminded him through sound transmission, causing him to close his mouth and reply to Wyatt through sound transmission: "Wyatt, between the two of us, there can be no peace! In the Mysterious Void Mansion, it’s either you or me!"

"It will definitely be without you."

Wyatt calmly replied through sound transmission, seemingly unaffected by Tommy Dunn’s threats.

"Hmph! We’ll see!"

Tommy Dunn coldly snorted through sound transmission but said nothing more, though his eyes shot fire toward Wyatt Barnes.

Atlas Dunn, beside Tommy, said nothing, but there was a chilling gleam deep within his eyes as he gazed at Wyatt Barnes.

If looks could kill, Wyatt Barnes would have been murdered a thousand times over!

Wyatt noticed the sinister stares from the Dunn duo but paid them little mind.

Back atop the Heavenly Palace, after slapping Tommy Dunn twice, he mentally prepared himself to stand opposed to the Dunn family line.

For that reason, when he later encountered Tommy Dunn in the Saint Martial Secret Realm, he immediately killed Tommy’s avatar and knocked him out.

He had already offended them, further offending wouldn’t make much difference.

"Hm? Who is this?"

Suddenly, Wyatt noticed an unfamiliar gaze upon him, and turning around, saw a gaunt old man standing quietly in the distance, watching him.

This old man he had never seen before, wasn’t part of the usual Mysterious Void Mansion’s higher-ups.

"Elder Withered, you’ve now seen him... according to what you mentioned earlier, should you not leave?"

’Oliver Watson’, Heavenly Palace Master, looked at Withered, speaking mildly.

"Elder Withered?"

Wyatt’s eyes revealed surprise; it seemed this old man wasn’t from the Mysterious Void Mansion. Otherwise, Oliver Watson, the Heavenly Palace Master, wouldn’t speak to him this way.

Simultaneously, Wyatt noticed a look of disappointment in the old man’s eyes as he gazed at him.

"What is he disappointed about?"

Wyatt was perplexed; he was meeting the old man for the first time, what could make the old man feel disappointed in him?

What Wyatt did not know was that the old man standing before him was none other than one of the two close aides of his cheap father ’Lanni Barnes’, Withered.

Withered looked disappointed because he saw Wyatt was not in disguise, "Not the Junior House Master!"

Withered had seen Wyatt Barnes’ portrait, comparing now, Wyatt was not the Junior House Master he was searching for.

However, Withered couldn’t have known the young man in front of him was indeed the Junior House Master he sought.

Yet, the Junior House Master disguised himself using a secret technique in such a way that left no traces, thus presenting this look without any signs of disguise.

"House Master Morgan, I take my leave!"

Faced with Oliver Watson’s aggressive manner, Withered ignored him entirely, instead addressing the Mysterious Void Mansion’s House Master ’Ryatt Morgan’ in the distance, bidding farewell before departing.

Elder Withered vanished from the eyes of most present as if into thin air.

Among those present, only Ryatt Morgan could clearly perceive the figure of Withered as he left.

"What speed!"

The faces of the Mysterious Void Mansion’s senior personnel looked heavy, now having a renewed understanding of the strength of Mansion of Azure Clouds’ powerhouse ’Withered’.

Withered’s strength far surpassed theirs!

Following that came the ’reporting achievements’ segment.

Aside from Wyatt Barnes, who planned to keep some things hidden, everyone else reported their achievements.

The number and level of Divine Abilities obtained would influence their future ’status’ within the Mysterious Void Mansion.

Those who obtained higher-level Divine Abilities would naturally receive focused training from the Mysterious Void Mansion.

"High-level Divine Ability?!"

When it was Ebba King’s turn to report, she mentioned she obtained a high-level movement Divine Ability, ’Thousand Phantom Shades’, which surprised everyone present.

All eyes gathered upon Ebba King, turning her into the focal point of the gathering.