Legend of Wyatt

Chapter 1980: Maximus Lee’s Speculation

Dragon Warriors, to a certain extent, can be considered as the ’spokesman’ of the Divine Dragon.

To be precise, they are the spokesman of the Divine Dragon that bestowed upon them the ’ability to transform into a dragon’.

A Seven-Clawed Dragon Warrior is the spokesman for the Seven-Clawed Divine Dragon; an Eight-Clawed Dragon Warrior is the spokesman for the Eight-Clawed Divine Dragon; a Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior is the spokesman for the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon.

"Wyatt Barnes is actually a ’Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior’... It seems that in the history of our Martial Dao Sacred Land, a ’Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon’ once appeared!"

"Indeed. For us, the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon is a legendary existence... In the past, we weren’t even sure if a Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon had ever appeared in the Martial Dao Sacred Land! However, since Wyatt Barnes is able to transform into a ’Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior’, it also proves that a ’Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon’ once appeared in our Martial Dao Sacred Land!"

"Wyatt Barnes must have obtained the legacy of the ’Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon’, which is why he has the means to transform into a ’Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior’."

"Wyatt Barnes’s fortune is truly enviable!"

...

The news that Wyatt Barnes is a ’Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior’ spread throughout the Fire Worship Sect.

This news was shocking.

At the same time, they all vaguely realized:

In the history of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, a ’Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon’ had once appeared!

And Wyatt Barnes is the one who obtained the inheritance left by the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon, thus mastering the means to transform into a ’Nine-Clawed Dragon Warrior’.

Apart from this, they couldn’t think of any other possibility.

"Kian Hayden... was forced to death by Wyatt Barnes?"

Meanwhile, at the ’Black Tortoise Altar’, one of the Four Symbols Altar, things were not calm. Many people were shocked to hear about Kian Hayden’s suicide due to Wyatt Barnes’s pressure, and couldn’t accept it for a time.

These people all regarded the former Senior Brother of the Black Tortoise Altar, ’Kian Hayden’, as an idol.

"Hmph! How can you say it was Wyatt Barnes who forced him to death? If Kian Hayden hadn’t wanted to kill Wyatt Barnes, would Wyatt have pressured him? Ridiculous!"

Many Black Tortoise Altar disciples, who knew the ins and outs of the matter, sided with Wyatt Barnes and spoke up for him.

"Exactly! Kian Hayden wanted to kill Wyatt Barnes and even resorted to taking forbidden Pill Medicine. Tsk tsk... what a big move! Unfortunately, even after taking the forbidden Pill Medicine, he was no match for Wyatt Barnes."

Compared to those supporting Kian Hayden, undoubtedly more Black Tortoise Altar disciples sided with Wyatt Barnes.

As the saying goes, ’victors are kings, losers are bandits’!

Plus, Wyatt Barnes was in the right.

Hence, naturally, there were far more people supporting him than supporting Kian Hayden.

"Hmph! I used to regard Kian Hayden as a ’Senior Brother’... yet to think, he was so cruel to his fellow disciples, even going as far as to take forbidden Pill Medicine to kill them! I must have been blind!"

"Me too! I used to idolize Kian Hayden... Now that I think back, it really makes me sick! How could I ever have regarded someone like that as an ’idol’."

...

Many disciples of the Black Tortoise Altar, who once respected Kian Hayden, now turned against him.

Kian Hayden’s actions deeply hurt them.

Of course, a small number of Black Tortoise Altar disciples found the affair of Kian Hayden wanting to kill Wyatt Barnes rather peculiar:

"Logically, the two didn’t even know each other... so why would Kian Hayden want to kill Wyatt Barnes? And even resort to taking forbidden Pill Medicine! Just how deep must the grudge be?"

"If they had a grudge, Kian Hayden wouldn’t have waited until Wyatt was banished to the first mining area of the Four Symbols Altar to make a move on him!"

"That’s true! I also find this whole thing suspicious."

"Do you remember... two days ago, Elder Maximus Lee came to our Black Tortoise Altar residence, and he was looking for Kian Hayden!"

"You mean... the reason Kian Hayden tried to kill Wyatt Barnes was at the behest of Elder Maximus Lee?"

"Shh... Keep your voice down! Are you courting death?!"

...

These Black Tortoise Altar disciples were quite clever, guessing that Kian Hayden’s pursuit to the first mining area of the Four Symbols Altar to kill Wyatt Barnes was mostly related to their Black Tortoise Altar’s first Elder Silver Flame, ’Maximus Lee’.

After all, the conflict between Maximus Lee and Wyatt Barnes was no secret in the Black Tortoise Altar, or even the entire Four Symbols Altar.

However, even if they were aware, they didn’t dare to spread it casually.

If it got out and Maximus Lee found out, they’d be skinned alive! They weren’t Wyatt Barnes and didn’t dare oppose Maximus Lee.

While the Black Tortoise Altar was in an uproar over the affair between Wyatt Barnes and Kian Hayden, the first Elder Silver Flame of the Black Tortoise Altar, ’Maximus Lee’, returned from outside covered in dust.

Upon returning, barely settling in, he too heard the news spread from the first mining area of the Four Symbols Altar.

His source of information was someone he had planted in the first mining area of the Four Symbols Altar.

"Useless waste!"

Upon learning that Kian Hayden had committed suicide and Wyatt Barnes was unharmed, Maximus Lee immediately cursed in anger.

Bang!!

Along with a resounding crash, the newly replaced stone table in the courtyard of Maximus Lee’s mansion was smashed by his palm once again, turning into a scattering of powder.

The person Maximus was ranting about as a waste was precisely ’Kian Hayden’!

He had originally thought that with the prohibitive pill medicine ’Returning to the Extreme Pill’ he gave to Kian Hayden, Kian could display strength almost reaching the ’Saint Immortal Realm’... to kill Wyatt Barnes, it would be a piece of cake!

Who knew, fate would play such a joke on him!

Even with the prohibitive pill medicine ’Returning to the Extreme Pill’, Kian Hayden was no match for Wyatt Barnes...

Simply because Wyatt Barnes is the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’!

In the final moments of their life-and-death battle, Wyatt Barnes transformed into the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’, only then could he withstand Kian Hayden’s full-force strike after consuming the prohibitive pill medicine ’Returning to the Extreme Pill’, which was his most crucial blow!

Missing that strike meant Kian Hayden had no hope of killing Wyatt Barnes.

"And that Wyatt Barnes... he is actually the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’! What power and worth does he possess to receive the heritage passed down by the ’Nine Claw Divine Dragon’... damn it! Damn it!!"

Whenever Maximus thought of Wyatt Barnes being the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’, his face turned very grim.

"Wyatt Barnes must be removed... he must be eliminated before he grows strong!"

With a deep breath, Maximus spoke through clenched teeth.

In the past, Wyatt Barnes’ displayed talent in Martial Dao and Divine Ability already made him wary.

Now, knowing Wyatt Barnes is the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’, his heart couldn’t help but tremble, becoming even more apprehensive of Wyatt.

If their conflict had only been a ’minor dispute’, considering Wyatt Barnes’ status as the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’, he might have set aside his pride and actively sought reconciliation with Wyatt...

After all, he wasn’t sure if Wyatt Barnes had contacted the ’Dragonsmith Clan’.

Though presently, the Dragonsmith Clan is only overseen by a few Seven Claw Divine Dragons, which makes it just a little stronger than any ordinary first-rate force... yet the foundation of the Dragonsmith Clan made him wary nonetheless!

Even the three major sects, though individually stronger than the Dragonsmith Clan, wouldn’t dare provoke the Dragonsmith Clan lightly.

The Dragonsmith Clan is an ancient and mysterious clan.

This clan has been passed down in the Martial Dao Sacred Land for ages, even longer than the three major sects!

To say such an ancient and mysterious clan has no ’trump card’, who would believe it?

...

Yet, Maximus knew clearly:

Between him and Wyatt Barnes, their conflict had already reached a life-and-death stand, leaving no room for negotiation.

His current course of action was to eliminate Wyatt Barnes before he comes into his own!

Otherwise, once Wyatt Barnes grows strong, Maximus is surely doomed!

"Before Kian Hayden committed suicide, he and Wyatt Barnes exchanged a look... it’s certain that during that time, he communicated many things to Wyatt!"

Although Maximus wasn’t present during the clash between Wyatt and Kian,

he learned clearly about the ins and outs of the encounter, not missing even trivial details, through someone he planted in the Four Symbols Altar’s first mining area.

"Humph! That Kian Hayden definitely ’sold me out’... moreover, if I’m not mistaken, he would surely plead with Wyatt Barnes to help inform the Hayden Family to relocate from their homeland!"

"But did he really think that after he killed Wyatt Barnes, I would spare the Hayden Family? I, Maximus Lee, am not foolish enough to ignore the principle of ’cutting weeds at the roots’!"

With a cold snort, Maximus squinted his eyes, a sinister smile curling the corners of his mouth.

Just the day before, after Kian Hayden entered the Four Symbols Altar’s first mining area, he went to the Hayden Family and wiped out everyone!

The Hayden Family is located in the ’West Region’, not far from the Fire Worship Sect. Maximus traveled at full speed, taking only half a day to arrive, and the annihilation took even less than half a day!

Now, he had just returned from the Hayden Family’s direction.

"That Kian Hayden probably never dreamed... that even if Wyatt Barnes really sent someone to inform the Hayden Family, what awaited them was just a wasteland!"

Muttering to himself at this point, the sinister smile on Maximus’s lips became more pronounced.

"However... the fact that Wyatt Barnes is the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’, and suspected to have acquired the Nine Claw Divine Dragon’s heritage, must be conveyed to the Northern Qi Sect, passed on to ’Russel Yorke’!"

Maximus’s thoughts shifted rapidly, and as he muttered to himself again, he couldn’t help but puzzle over some matters:

"Currently, what’s certain is... since the Martial Dao Sacred Land was split into ’Upper Domain’ and ’Lower Domain’, there hasn’t appeared a Nine Claw Divine Dragon!"

"So it means... even if Wyatt Barnes obtained the Nine Claw Divine Dragon’s heritage, most likely it wasn’t gained in our Martial Dao Sacred Land ’Upper Domain’. It was probably obtained in the ’Lower Domain’!"

"Wyatt Barnes might possibly be a person from the Lower Domain!"

With this thought, Maximus immediately took out an empty Jade Slip, inscribed his conjecture within it, and had it delivered to the first-rate force ’Northern Qi Sect’, to Russel Yorke, the Fifth Elder of the Northern Qi Sect.

Within the Jade Slip, he also advised Sammy Dunn:

If the investigation into Wyatt Barnes’s background in the ’Upper Domain’ of the Martial Dao Sacred Land yields no results, they could appropriately proceed to the ’Lower Domain’ for further inquiry!

Wyatt Barnes would never have dreamt that Maximus Lee could be so astute, deducing that he might be from the ’Lower Domain’ just through the fact that he is the ’Nine Claw Dragon Warrior’!