Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 1001 ’Steel Inky

Chapter 1001: Chapter 1001 ’Steel Inky

"Camden Taylor must have left from here! If I pursue him... Thinking of returning later would be difficult."

Wyatt Barnes looked at the stone stairway entrance shrouded by a faint light barrier with an unsightly expression.

The light barrier in front of him was formed by a special ’Inscription Formation’.

No matter who it was, once they passed through it, their aura would be remembered without exception, and they could not pass through it in the opposite direction afterward.

Since the ’Inscription Formation’ was crafted by the hands of a Martial Emperor, only a Martial Emperor could forcibly break it.

Otherwise, one could only obediently abide by its ’rules’.

If Wyatt Barnes were to pass through the light barrier formed by the ’Inscription Formation’ in front of him and enter the stairway entrance now,

not to mention whether he could catch up with Camden Taylor,

even if he did catch up, he would very likely lose the opportunity to return to the fourth floor of the Windlifting Hall, let alone reach the fifth floor to search for the body of the Windlifting Martial Emperor and obtain the three ’Fragments of Profundity’ within the Martial Emperor’s body.

The body of the Windlifting Martial Emperor, according to Wyatt’s reckoning, should be on the ’fifth floor’ of the Windlifting Hall, if nothing unexpected happened.

"If I pursue, I might not be able to return, and I might not catch up with Camden Taylor or kill him... If I don’t pursue, then Camden Taylor will definitely be able to leave the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasury’ alive,"

muttered Wyatt Barnes to himself, his expression growing even uglier.

"Once Camden Taylor leaves the ’Martial Emperor’s Secret Treasury’... the three second-rate forces, ’Impermanence Sect’, ’Emerging Cloud Sect’, and ’North Nether Sect’, will definitely find out about my killing Qadir Adams, Riggs Leigh, and Ledger Leigh!"

"Qadir Adams is the foremost youth of his generation in the North Nether Sect and is also the personal disciple of the North Nether Sect Leader... Once the North Nether Sect learns about his death, there’s no way they would let me off the hook!"

"As for Riggs Leigh and Ledger Leigh, they are the two most outstanding disciples of this generation in the Emerging Cloud Sect, with Riggs Leigh being a personal disciple of a Martial Emperor from the Emerging Cloud Sect and Ledger Leigh being the personal disciple of the North Nether Sect Leader... It is inevitable that the Emerging Cloud Sect and I will become irreconcilable enemies!"

"The Impermanence Sect, I may not have directly offended... but once they know I’m the only one remaining on the fourth floor of the Windlifting Hall and possibly ascending to the fifth floor to obtain the three ’Fragments of Profundity’ from the Windlifting Martial Emperor’s body, they won’t let me off either!"

Thinking this, Wyatt Barnes couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

The three second-rate forces of the Northern Desert will undoubtedly target him because of Camden Taylor’s escape, making him face enemies on all sides.

By then, he wouldn’t only have to face a group of ’Void Realm peak experts’ from the three second-rate forces but also the three ’Martial Emperor powerhouses’ from within them.

After all, each of the three second-rate forces had at least one ’Martial Emperor powerhouse’.

For a moment, Wyatt Barnes felt immense pressure.

"Should I chase after him and take a gamble? Perhaps, I can catch up with Camden Taylor!"

"But if I do so, I might also fail to catch him... In that case, not only would I have to abandon the three ’Fragments of Profundity’ within the Windlifting Martial Emperor’s body, but those three second-rate forces would target me just the same!"

Thoughts raced through Wyatt Barnes’s mind until he finally bit the bullet and made a decisive decision.

"Enough! Provoking three ’second-rate forces’ or one ’second-rate force’ makes little difference to me... When the enemy comes, I’ll face him; when disaster strikes, I’ll deal with it!"

Before even entering the ’Windlifting Hall’, he openly admitted to killing the personal disciple of the Emerging Cloud Sect Leader, ’Ledger Leigh’, and then he also took out the leading youth of his generation from the Emerging Cloud Sect, ’Riggs Leigh’.

From that moment on, he had completely offended the ’Emerging Cloud Sect’!

Unless he could kill all the witnesses at that time.

Otherwise, sooner or later, the Emerging Cloud Sect would learn about his killing of the Leigh brothers, Riggs and Ledger.

"I’m not afraid of the Emerging Cloud Sect... so what do I, Wyatt Barnes, have to fear from the North Nether Sect and the Impermanence Sect that are on par with them?!"

With that thought, determination shone in Wyatt Barnes’s eyes.

A powerful self-confidence, unafraid of anything, emanated from him in that moment.

Now that he had figured it out, Wyatt Barnes no longer pondered over Camden Taylor’s escape.

What of the three ’second-rate forces’?

I, Wyatt Barnes, fear none!

Full of confidence, Wyatt Barnes turned and walked back towards the ’Bumpy Road’, easily passing through it to once again enter the ’Central Area’ of the fourth floor of the Windlifting Hall.

In the central area of the fourth floor, a corpse lay quietly there, the very body of ’Qadir Adams’.

Not far from Qadir Adams’s body, a green vine extended from underground, pushing up a section of the floorboard.

In another spot, where the floorboard was lifted, there stood a podium with an exquisite little box placed on it, presumably containing the ’golden key’.

"You could say you’ve saved my life."

Wyatt Barnes moved, vanishing on the spot, and when he reappeared, he was in front of the podium holding the little box, reaching out to pick up the box.

Click!

As Wyatt Barnes opened the little box, a gold, crescent-shaped key appeared in front of his eyes.

This golden key, like the silver key and the copper key he held, was identical except for the color.

"Three keys, now I’ve gathered them all..."

Wyatt Barnes’s heart stirred as he took out the other two keys and stacked all three together.

Gold, silver, and copper, the three crescent-shaped keys together allowed Wyatt Barnes to distinctly sense the fluctuation of the ’Inscription Formation’, coming directly from the keys.

"These three keys also have an ’Inscription Formation’ on them?"

Wyatt Barnes’s mouth twitched slightly.

When the three keys were combined, he realized he had activated the ’Inscription Formation’ of the keys.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

...

Immediately after, a succession of thunderous noises came from above Wyatt Barnes’s head, drawing his gaze upward.

Looking up, he clearly saw it.

The ’ceiling’ above the central area of the fourth level was now slowly moving, opening up, revealing the ’gateway’ to the fifth level of the Qingfeng Hall.

But that wasn’t all.

Boom!

Under Wyatt’s watchful eye, after the ’gateway’ to the fifth level opened, a massive box plummeted down and landed heavily not far in front of him.

It was an unassumingly plain black box, yet it imparted an extraordinary sensation to Wyatt.

"Is this... Steel Inky?"

When Wyatt saw the box, his pupils involuntarily shrank, and he said in shock, "Isn’t this a bit exaggerated? The entire box is made of ’Steel Inky’?"

"Extravagant! This is just too extravagant!"

Steel Inky was a ’crafting material’ for artifacts that Wyatt learned about from the memories of the Martial Emperor.

Without the memories of the Martial Emperor, he would have been unable to recognize ’Steel Inky.’

Steel Inky, a material that could be used to craft ’Emperor Grade spirit swords’ or even higher, was extremely tough.

If a ’Grade One Artifact Refiner’ was to handle it, they would need ’Grade One flames’ to soften the Steel Inky slightly after a full month of burning.

It would take three months to turn the Steel Inky into a puddle of liquid.

From this, one could understand how tough Steel Inky really was.

"My current strength might be formidable... but it’s nearly impossible for me to damage this ’Steel Inky’!"

Shaking his head, Wyatt examined the box carefully, it was completely forged from Steel Inky and was tightly locked, with three identical keyholes in a row exposed on the outside.

"Could these be the ’keyholes’ for these three keys?"

Seeing the three keyholes on the box, Wyatt couldn’t help but glance at the three ’keys’ in his hands, his breath momentarily quickening.

Obtaining these three keys had taken quite an effort.

Especially on the fourth level of the Qingfeng Hall, he nearly lost his life to ’Qadir Adams’ and ’Camden Taylor,’ risking his life for the ’golden key.’

"A box that requires these three keys to open, and one extravagantly made from ’Steel Inky’ at that... I wonder what ’treasure’ lies within."

With his heart full of excitement, Wyatt inserted the three keys into the three ’keyholes’ on the box one by one.

Click!

A soft click sounded, and as Wyatt watched without blinking, the box opened.

In an instant, everything inside was fully exposed before his eyes.

Within the box lay a thin, fire-red soft sword as delicate as a cicada’s wing.

Unlike the common three-foot length of swords, this fire-red soft sword was a full five feet in length, and it flickered with a faint red light around it.

It was evident at a glance that this was no ordinary object.

"This sword..."

Just one look at it, and Wyatt felt a familiar sensation from the ’fire-red soft sword’ before him.

Yet he was almost certain that it was his first time seeing this ’sword’!

"Could it be that it is the Martial Emperor who is familiar with it, not me?"

With that thought, Wyatt commenced scouring the Martial Emperor’s memories.

It wasn’t long before he found the answer he was looking for.

"It turns out, this fire-red soft sword was personally crafted by the Martial Emperor himself... Like the sword in my hand, it is also an ’Emperor Grade spirit sword’!"

Knowing the ’origin’ of the fire-red soft sword before him, Wyatt couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

"Young man, congratulations on gathering the three ’keys’ and obtaining the ’weapon’ that this emperor came by chance in his time... This weapon is more potent than a ’Grade One spirit sword,’ able to amplify your strength by an ’entire fold’!"

At the same time, the ’Sound-Gathering Array’ within the box was activated, and a voice reached Wyatt’s ears.

It was the message left by the Qingfeng Martial Emperor, his tone filled with solemnity.

From the Martial Emperor’s tone, one could tell he treasured this ’Emperor Grade spirit sword.’

"That Qingfeng Martial Emperor probably never dreamt that... years later, the person who would obtain his left-behind sword wouldn’t care for it at all."

Gazing at the fire-red soft sword inside the box as thin as a cicada’s wing, Wyatt sighed.

He already possessed an Emperor Grade spirit sword.

Having another was of no help to him whatsoever.

"In the eyes of the current me... this box is more valuable than the ’sword’ inside."