CHAPTER 88: CHAPTER 88: ANXIOUS AS IF SET ON FIRE

After the two parents finalized the engagement between Wyatt Barnes and Jovie Lee, they had dinner together that evening.

After dinner, Wyatt Barnes sent the grandfather and granddaughter duo home.

The elder wisely retreated to his room first.

"Jovie, from today on, you are my fiancée..."

Wyatt Barnes said with a sly grin.

"Psh! It’s just an engagement, I haven’t married into your family yet."

Jovie Lee gave Wyatt Barnes a disdainful glare.

"Grandpa said that in two years, when I turn eighteen, we’ll get married. Jovie, what if I stayed over tonight?"

Wyatt Barnes eyed Jovie Lee’s enticing figure, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, greedily proposed.

"In your dreams."

A vigilant look on her face, Jovie Lee swiftly retreated into her room and slammed the door shut.

Wyatt Barnes could only leave with a bitter smile.

Upon returning home, Wyatt found that Keer was still waiting for him.

"You silly girl."

Wyatt Barnes extended his arm, hoisting Keer up by her waist, and brought her back to her room.

"Young Master."

Just as Wyatt Barnes was about to depart, Keer softly called him.

"What’s the matter?"

Wyatt Barnes asked, looking bemused.

"Young Master, can you stay with Keer tonight?"

Keer pleaded pathetically.

"Silly girl, what’s wrong?"

Stripping off his outerwear and climbing into bed, Wyatt Barnes held Keer in his arms, asking softly.

"Young Master, would you abandon Keer when you marry Sister Jovie?"

The young girl voiced her worries.

"You silly girl, remember this, you are mine for life, no one can change that... no one can take your place in my heart, understand?"

Wyatt Barnes comforted the young girl gently, holding her without any lewd intentions for once.

"Young Master."

The young girl held Wyatt Barnes tightly, sinking into a deep slumber.

The next morning, at breakfast.

"Mom, Keer, I have to leave for a few days, don’t wait up for me these nights, go to sleep early."

Wyatt Barnes notified them in advance.

"Be careful."

Christina Lee nodded her head.

Although Wyatt Barnes hadn’t mentioned what he would be doing, she knew there must be something important.

Her son had grown up, no longer the fledgling who used to hide under her ’wings’.

"Young Master, when will you be back?"

Keer asked.

"In about four days... If Jovie looks for me, let her know."

Wyatt Barnes pondered for a moment before responding.

He was planning to visit Victory City on this departure.

Although he had secured his position in the Lee family now, and even gained the protection of the only level-eight Artifact Refiner in the Lee family, it didn’t mean he would be spared if the King family of Victory City decided to investigate the ’one that got away.’

However, he didn’t want to expose himself to the King family.

Once exposed,

The Lee family could protect him for a while, but not forever.

It was best to nip the problem in the bud, and avoid future troubles!

After leaving the Lee residence, Wyatt Barnes removed the Lee family badge from his clothes and stowed it in the ’Storage Ring’.

The ’Storage Ring’ had been coated with a layer of dark grey metal using his Artifact Refining techniques. Now unrecognizable, it looked like a common ring which he wore on his hand, extremely convenient.

After buying a horse and some dry food for the road at the market, Wyatt Barnes set off from Aurora City.

Aurora City, Victory City, and Foggy Water City formed a triangle enclosing the Mystical Fog Forest.

The distance from Aurora City to Victory City was not shorter than a round trip from Aurora City to the Mystical Fog Forest.

Even if he rode fast to Victory City, it would still take eight to nine hours.

Wyatt Barnes left early in the morning, passed through the Mystical Fog Forest at noon, and headed toward the other end of the road.

By evening,

The silhouette of Victory City appeared before Wyatt Barnes’ eyes.

Stirred by emotions, he spurred his horse to accelerate, galloping forward.

"Hyah!"

"Hyah!"

At that moment, Wyatt Barnes heard two voices from behind him, a male and a female.

Turning his head, he saw a young man and a young woman galloping towards him, faster than his horse.

The young man and woman seemed to be around seventeen.

Their clothes were luxurious, obviously from noble origins.

"Sweat-Blood Steeds!"

Wyatt Barnes’ gaze quickly landed on the magnificent horses beneath the two.

The two horses were drenched in sweat as they galloped.

In terms of speed,

It was something his horse could not match.

"Sweat-Blood Steeds, worth tens of thousands of gold, but priceless on the market..."

Wyatt Barnes considered in his mind.

Tens of thousands of gold, equivalent to tens of thousands of ounces of gold.

In the Cloud Skies Continent, one ounce of gold was worth a hundred ounces of silver.

In other words, a Sweat-Blood Steed is worth one million ounces of silver.

Even the clan chiefs of the three big families in Aurora City wouldn’t be so lavish.

One could guess that this pair of young man and woman didn’t come from any of the three cities surrounding the Mystical Fog Forest.

"Could they be from County City?"

Crimson Heaven Kingdom was divided into eighteen counties, each with a County City, second only in size to the Imperial City.

Below each county were eighty-one small cities.

Aurora City was one of the thousands of small cities within Crimson Heaven Kingdom.

"Hyah!"

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt Barnes steered his horse to the side of the road.

He didn’t want any trouble.

However, sometimes, even if he didn’t want trouble, it didn’t mean others wouldn’t cause trouble.

"Sister Valentina, see that peasant up ahead? He saw us and was scared into hiding by the side of the road..."

The galloping young man laughed heartily.

"He must be afraid of being flung away by our Sweat-Blood Steeds."

The young woman also chuckled.

"Sister Valentina, shall we have a race?"

The young man’s eyes flashed as he made the proposition.

"How do we compete?"

The young girl was intrigued.

"Let’s see who can reach the peasant first and strike him off his horse with our horsewhips, how about that?"

The teenager quipped, "Well done! Go!"

Following the girl’s assenting voice, the whip hit the sweaty treasure horse.

Immediately, the horse ran at full speed, like the wind.

"Sister Valentina, that’s cheating!"

The boy yelled in alarm and pursued suit.

Wyatt Barnes naturally did not understand their exchange.

He observed from afar as the boy and girl sped towards him. He planned to proceed only after they had passed in order to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Unexpectedly.

Whoosh!

The girl, leading the path, passed him with the force of a gale.

Suddenly, Wyatt’s complexion shifted.

For he saw that in the girl’s hand, the whip rose imbued with the Origin force, to strike directly at his face ...

Above the girl’s head, two ancient giant elephant illusions began to form.

Seventeen years old, on the first level of the Condensed Pill Realm!

Swish!

Before the whip even reached, he felt a strong gust hitting his face, causing intense pain.

Wyatt’s face darkened,

Amid flashes of lightning, he reached out to catch it.

Releasing the power of nearly three giant ancient elephants all at once.

Two ancient giant elephant illusions formed over Wyatt’s head ...

Pop!

Without any effort, Wyatt caught the horse whip.

The girl did not expect Wyatt to catch her whip. Shocked, she tried to pull the whip out of Wyatt’s hand.

"Hmph!"

Wyatt’s eyes chilled, he applied force.

Boom!

The exhausted treasure horse continued to run rampantly, throwing the girl off its back with a cry.

"Sister Valentina! ~~"

The boy chasing from behind changed color, alighted from his horse, and rushed over to the fallen girl to help her up.

"Third Elder Brother, it hurts."

The girl’s face turned pale.

"You lowlife, do you know who we are?"

The boy’s face darkened, his voice icy cold.

"I don’t know and I have no interest in knowing,"

Wyatt replied blandly.

"You’re courting death!"

The boy’s face turned hostile, he lunged himself forward.

In just an instant, four ancient giant elephant illusions appeared above the boy’s head, showing his cultivation level.

Third level of the Condensed Pill Realm!

Wyatt was slightly taken aback.

About seventeen years old in the third level of the Condensed Pill Realm...

This talent is even more monstrous than Remi Sinclair’s!

Boom!

The boy charged forward, as fast as lightning, with a palm strike hitting Wyatt’s horse.

Wyatt’s face changed, he hopped off the horse.

With a scream, the horse flew out and all went silent.

Dead.

"Die!"

The boy’s cold gaze fixed on Wyatt.

Whoosh!

Moving like the wind, he struck out another palm.

More than ten palm shadows sealed into one in the void, screaming down towards Wyatt.

"A perfected realm high-ranked Profound Level martial arts technique!"

Wyatt was taken aback. The opponent’s martial arts technique was no weaker than Remi Sinclair’s ’Cosmo Within the Sleeve’.

Furthermore, the boy’s cultivation level was one level higher than Remi’s.

Even Remi would struggle to counter his palm attack.

"Unlucky you for meeting me!"

Wyatt’s eyes turned cold, he advanced a step, confronting him.

Unleashing the power of nearly five ancient giant elephants...

Sword Drawing Technique!

Swish!

A dark purple sword light chased him as he moved...

"Ah!"

With a scream, the boy flew out and fell clumsily far away, rolling in pain.

An arm that broke at his shoulder fell to the ground...

"Third Elder Brother!"

The girl was stunned.

"Grandpa Damari!"

The girl screamed, the sound traveled afar.

Just like that, Wyatt clearly saw an old figure running from the far distance behind the grand road...

In Wyatt’s line of sight.

The figure started out as small as an ant, became as big as a fist, and still continued to magnify...

Getting closer and closer!

"Not good!"

Wyatt’s face changed when he realized how strong this person was. He got up and mounted the boy’s sweat-soaked horse.

Escape!

With a squeeze of Wyatt’s legs, he fled, thundering like a storm.

With a glance at Victory City not far away, and another look at the man getting closer, Wyatt’s face turned solemn.

Now, he could only hope that the old man would first attend to the boy’s wounds and reattach the boy’s severed arm.

Otherwise, he was undoubtedly going to die!

This old man was definitely more speedy than Jonathan Lee, the grand elder of the Lee family.

In fact, he was not much slower than Greyson Ho, the supreme elder of the Ho family in Foggy Water City.

Clearly, this was a warrior of the Original Infant Realm.

As Wyatt galloped forward, his heart was filled with apprehension and unease. He dreaded most that the old man would forsake the boy to chase after him...

Given the old man’s strength, once he catches up to Wyatt, there will be no chance for Wyatt to survive.

"Faster, Faster!"

Wyatt kept urging the blood-soaked treasure horse, his heart was burning with anxiety.

Even though, the horse was twice as fast as his previous horse...

However, at this moment, he still felt it was too slow!