Chapter 3009: A Private Word

"Looks like they all just finished their trials."

At the same time, Wyatt Barnes swept his gaze around, and discovered that from where he stood, he could not only see everything inside the hall he had just walked out of, but also the happenings inside the other halls.

After a sweep around, Wyatt also counted the number of great halls—there were ten in total, and right now there were still three halls where people were undergoing trials.

"Hm?"

However, when he saw the trials those people were going through, Wyatt couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

He noticed that one of them killed seven of the ten war souls, and the remaining three war souls showed no signs of merging, and were eventually killed by him one by one.

The other two had each already killed more than five of the ten war souls.

"This... what’s going on?"

"Why was my trial so much more difficult than theirs?"

Wyatt felt a bit puzzled, and also somewhat disgruntled.

"Wyatt Barnes."

At this moment, as if having seen through Wyatt’s puzzlement, Jalen Bell timely asked, "Did you help someone accumulate their points to ten, and he also entered the Immortal Sovereign Hall?"

Wyatt looked at Jalen in confusion. Although he didn’t know why Jalen suddenly asked this, he still nodded.

Francis Yellow’s ten points had been accumulated with his help.

"Then that explains it."

Seeing Wyatt nod, Jalen continued, "Precisely because you helped someone cheat their way into the Immortal Sovereign Hall, the first trial you face upon arriving in the Immortal Sovereign Hall will have its difficulty increased."

"Before you, there was already someone whose strength was no weaker than mine who died in the very same trial you just faced."

Jalen said.

"Cheat?"

Wyatt frowned. He had never imagined that the lower realm of South Heaven’s Ancient Realm would have such a rule; he had never heard of it before.

However, after thinking it over and recalling that anyone who left the lower realm of South Heaven’s Ancient Realm with ten points would lose all memories from that moment onward, he felt relieved.

In such a situation, even if someone had experienced something similar, they wouldn’t be able to tell others about it.

"Wyatt Barnes."

Meanwhile, a scene that surprised Wyatt unfolded. That genius Loose Cultivator from Eastbright Kingdom, Bruno Fortin, actually took the initiative to greet him and then walked over toward him.

"Bruno Fortin."

Wyatt glanced at Bruno and nodded slightly.

"Could we talk in private for a moment?"

Bruno asked.

"Hm?"

Though he didn’t know why Bruno was asking this, Wyatt didn’t probe further and simply nodded.

"Thank you."

Seeing Wyatt nod, Bruno voiced his thanks, then directly stepped into the great hall Wyatt had just come out of.

Wyatt followed him in.

"Bruno Fortin?"

After hearing Wyatt address him as Bruno Fortin, Jalen felt the name was somewhat familiar. Thinking a bit, he recalled that Bruno was precisely the genius Loose Cultivator that Eastbright Kingdom had recruited!

"Bruno Fortin, a genius Loose Cultivator, has comprehended the power of Law Rules... With a cultivation at the Heavenly Realm of Love Rowan Upper Immortal, he swept through all the Love Rowan Upper Immortals of Eastbright Kingdom!"

By the time Jalen’s thoughts reached this point, Wyatt and Bruno had already entered that great hall.

Jalen and the others could only see Bruno’s back.

Wyatt, however, was facing them, standing face to face with Bruno.

"Just now you said that purple-clothed young man is from the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms?"

At this moment, a middle-aged man among the others looked at Jalen with a face full of curiosity and asked.

The remaining people also turned their gazes to Jalen.

"Yes."

Jalen nodded. "Not only is he from the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms, I’m also from the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms, and the person who went in with him is likewise from the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms."

"However, unlike me, who hails from South Star Kingdom in the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms, those two are merely Loose Cultivators who used the quotas of Autumn Holding Kingdom and Eastbright Kingdom to enter the lower realm of South Heaven’s Ancient Realm."

Jalen explained.

"I really didn’t expect that in this Immortal Sovereign Hall, three people from the Lands of a Thousand Kingdoms would show up all at once..."

The middle-aged man sighed.

"Just now I vaguely sensed... that purple-clothed young man seems to be under a hundred years old?"

At this moment, an old man beside the middle-aged man asked, his expression grave.

When Wyatt had followed Bruno back into that great hall, the old man’s Divine Sense had subconsciously swept out, and he’d faintly probed that Wyatt seemed to be under a hundred years old, though he hadn’t dared to confirm it.

"What?!"

"Under a hundred years old? That purple-clothed young man? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"With strength like that, if he’s under a hundred, doesn’t that mean we’ve all lived our lives like dogs?"

...

Upon hearing the old man’s words, the few people present, including the middle-aged man, all shook their heads in succession, feeling it was impossible.

"He’s right."

Jalen said coolly, "Not only that purple-clothed young man, even that gray-clothed young man is currently under a hundred years old."

"If you don’t believe me... just wait until they come out later, and you can probe them yourselves to confirm that I’m not lying."

Jalen Bell said.

"What?!"

"Those two... are both under a hundred years old?"

"That purple-clothed young man has already comprehended two profundities of the Earth-attribute Law... someone like that, under a hundred? Are you kidding me?"

...

Hearing Jalen Bell’s words, although the few of them still didn’t quite dare believe it on the surface, in their hearts they were already half convinced.

They felt that Jalen Bell had no reason to lie.

After all, just as Jalen Bell had said, once those two came out, they would be able to easily probe with their Divine Sense whether they were under a hundred.

Of course, if they wanted to know right now, they could also follow them into the great hall to probe.

But the moment they thought of that purple-clothed young man’s terrifying strength, they either dispelled that notion, or didn’t even dare let the idea arise.

Though all of them were fairly strong, they had only comprehended a single Law Rule profundity, and their strength was far inferior to that purple-clothed youth.

Inside the great hall.

"You need something from me?"

Wyatt Barnes looked at Bruno Fortin and asked.

Although he had no idea why Bruno Fortin had asked him to step aside to talk, he couldn’t help feeling a bit curious.

"Wyatt Barnes, do you know Ernest Summer?"

Bruno Fortin looked at Wyatt Barnes and asked.

"Ernest Summer?"

Facing Bruno Fortin’s question, Wyatt Barnes’s pupils shrank slightly, and at the same time waves of shock surged up in his heart.

Ernest Summer.

That name was anything but unfamiliar to him.

He could even be said to have a deep impression of it.

Because Ernest Summer was Keer’s third uncle in her previous life, and had once saved his life in a mundane plane, even giving him a first-form Taixuan Divine Gold and a Heaven-Realms Divine Sword.

"The Ernest Summer you’re talking about—what kind of person is he?"

Drawing a deep breath, Wyatt Barnes asked in return.

He found it hard to imagine how Bruno Fortin, a mere Love Rowan Upper Immortal, could possibly know a being like Ernest Summer.

Ernest Summer’s strength surpassed that of the Heavenly Emperors of the Heaven-Realms, and he was someone from one of the God-Realms—the Divine Ruin Lands.

"Divine Ruin Lands, third master of the Summer Family, Ernest Summer!"

Bruno Fortin enunciated each word clearly.

And the moment Bruno Fortin uttered the four words "Divine Ruin Lands," Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but feel his heart tremble, and he immediately confirmed that the Ernest Summer Bruno was asking about was indeed the very same Ernest Summer he knew.

"This Bruno Fortin... a mere Love Rowan Upper Immortal—how could he possibly know Ernest Summer? How could he know about the Divine Ruin Lands?"

Wyatt Barnes’s heart was full of confusion; he simply couldn’t figure out how Bruno Fortin, a mere Love Rowan Upper Immortal, would know of the existence of the Divine Ruin Lands.

"How do you know that I know him?"

Sucking in a cold breath inwardly, Wyatt Barnes focused his gaze and asked in a deep voice.

"Because the Top-grade divine artifact ’Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword’ in your body was originally supposed to be in his hands... Since it has appeared on you now, I assume he handed the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword over to you."

Bruno Fortin said.

Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword!

Hearing that it was the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword in his body that had exposed him, Wyatt Barnes suddenly saw the light, then looked at Bruno Fortin again with a face full of wariness. "Just who are you?"

"I come from the Divine Ruin Lands."

As though he had long anticipated that Wyatt Barnes would ask this, Bruno Fortin said very forthrightly, "To be precise, I come from the Fortin Family of the Divine Ruin Lands, a Hidden Clan in the Divine Ruin Lands that keeps to itself and shuns worldly disputes."

When he mentioned the "Fortin Family," Bruno Fortin’s fists clenched tight, his eyes reddened, and waves of chilling killing intent surged from his body.

"Our Fortin Family, while not as renowned as the Summer Family, and with a strength slightly inferior to the Summer Family... in the past, however, the Fortin Family once possessed glory no less than that of the Summer Family!"

By the time Bruno Fortin reached the end of his sentence, his voice had grown somewhat cold, giving others the feeling of plunging into a frigid winter.

"Does he hate his clan?"

"Or perhaps... something happened to his clan?"

Although Bruno Fortin didn’t continue, Wyatt Barnes still sensed Bruno’s hatred from the killing intent radiating from him.

It was an extremely intense hatred, likely the sort of irreconcilable blood feud.

"You asked me to step aside to talk... just to tell me this?"

Wyatt Barnes asked.

Ever since they’d entered the great hall, aside from the first sentence Wyatt Barnes had spoken, all subsequent words between Wyatt and Bruno Fortin were via voice transmission.

"No."

Bruno Fortin shook his head, then continued via voice transmission, "I sought you out to discuss something... I want my elder sister to become the Sword Spirit of the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword in your body!"

Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword?

Sword Spirit?

Wyatt Barnes’s gaze tightened once more. "What do you mean by that?"

"That elder sister of mine was originally the Artifact Spirit of a Top-grade divine artifact, and that Top-grade divine artifact was my eldest sister’s personal weapon... Later, my eldest sister fell, and that Top-grade divine artifact was taken away. My Artifact Spirit sister seized the opportunity, while that Top-grade Immortal Artifact had yet to be recognized by a new master, to detach from it at the cost of severe injury, and she has been temporarily residing within my sea of consciousness."

Bruno Fortin said, "Once she becomes the Sword Spirit of the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword, her life will be completely controlled by you. You needn’t worry that she’ll be detrimental to you."

"So long as you remain the master of the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword, you will remain her master... While the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Sword has a master, she cannot separate herself from it!"