Legend of Wyatt

The Alchemical Grand Tournament is jointly hosted by the various top powers of the Six Southeastern Regions, held once every thirty years, rotating among the regions.

This time, it just happens to be the Desolate Domain’s turn to host it.

There is an Alchemy City in each of the Six Southeastern Regions, originally built by the top sects of each region for the sake of the Alchemical Grand Tournament.

In Alchemy City, though the marketplace is also considered part of the city center, strictly speaking, it can only be counted as the outer ring of the center.

The true city center of Alchemy City is an enclosed area, normally not open to the public and only opened when the Alchemical Grand Tournament begins.

And the Alchemical Grand Tournament is held in that place.

"Pill Tao Plaza?"

It wasn’t until he went out, preparing to attend the Alchemical Grand Tournament, that Wyatt Barnes learned from Elder Ancestor Taiyi and the others the name of the venue where it was held.

Pill Tao Plaza was precisely that fog‑shrouded area encircled by the marketplace. Back when he was accompanying Leilany on a leisurely stroll, Wyatt had asked Elder Ancestor Taiyi what that place was.

"That’s the venue where the Alchemical Grand Tournament is held. It only opens once the tournament begins, and is normally covered by an illusory formation jointly laid down by the three Immortal Sects of the Desolate Domain."

That was exactly how Elder Ancestor Taiyi had answered him at the time.

Because he hadn’t pressed further, Elder Ancestor Taiyi hadn’t told him that the venue where the Alchemical Grand Tournament was held was called ’Pill Tao Plaza’.

Pill Tao Plaza is an incomparably vast square, and in the very center of the square stands a stone platform. On top of the stone platform are placed some seats, and those seats face toward the four sides of the square.

"Elder Ancestor... with just those seats, it doesn’t seem like there are enough for all the upper echelon members of the top sects of the Six Southeastern Regions who came this time, does it?"

Wyatt looked at the seats on the stone platform in the center of Pill Tao Plaza and asked Elder Ancestor Taiyi.

On the stone platform, there are only eight seats in total, arranged in four directions facing the Pill Tao Plaza around the platform, with two seats facing each direction.

There are twenty‑two top sects in the Six Southeastern Regions. Even if each top sect only had one high‑level representative with a seat there, it still wouldn’t be enough.

"Alchemist Barnes, those seats aren’t for us."

Elder Ancestor Taiyi smiled faintly and said, "Those seats are for the people of the ’Immortal Masters Alliance’."

"Immortal Masters Alliance?"

Hearing Elder Ancestor Taiyi’s words, Wyatt couldn’t help being startled.

The Immortal Masters Alliance was not unfamiliar to him. He knew it was an alliance formed by alchemical immortals and artificer immortals across the myriad heavens.

Moreover, every time an alchemical immortal or an artificer immortal reached a new tier, they could go to the Immortal Masters Alliance to receive a set of immortal master robes corresponding to that tier.

And the people of the Immortal Masters Alliance are generally alchemical immortals or artificer immortals who, without any salary, voluntarily render service to the Immortal Masters Alliance.

Most of the people in charge within the Immortal Masters Alliance are Loose Cultivators.

Yet even if they are Loose Cultivators, no one dares to lightly provoke members of the Immortal Masters Alliance for no reason, because the alliance is not lacking in high‑grade alchemical immortals and artificer immortals.

And those high‑grade alchemical immortals and artificer immortals typically have their own personal networks. If you provoke a member of the Immortal Masters Alliance, you will inevitably offend these high‑grade alchemical and artificer immortals whose networks are powerful.

"That’s right."

Elder Ancestor Taiyi nodded. "Every Alchemical Grand Tournament in the Six Southeastern Regions, we invite people from the Immortal Masters Alliance to come and preside..."

"And those who come from the Immortal Masters Alliance are basically supreme‑grade alchemical immortals, along with some powerful Loose Cultivators who accompany them."

Elder Ancestor Taiyi continued.

"Powerful Loose Cultivators?"

Wyatt was once again taken aback.

"The supreme‑grade alchemical immortals of the Immortal Masters Alliance are, for the most part, Loose Cultivators... and at their side, they are not lacking in Loose Cultivator friends of formidable strength. Whenever they travel far, coming to participate in our Six Southeastern Regions’ Alchemical Grand Tournament, there will always be some powerful Loose Cultivators accompanying them."

Elder Ancestor Taiyi said, "And the Loose Cultivator experts who usually appear at the Alchemical Grand Tournament alongside the supreme‑grade alchemical immortals of the Immortal Masters Alliance are existences that rarely show themselves normally... the strong ones are Ten Directions Immortal Lords, and the weaker ones are all Nine Palaces Immortal Lords."

By the time he said this, Elder Ancestor Taiyi’s expression had also grown heavy.

"Ten Directions Immortal Lords? Nine Palaces Immortal Lords?"

Wyatt was shocked inwardly. He hadn’t expected that in this borderland of South Heaven’s Borderlands, there would still be Loose Cultivator experts of such terrifying strength.

He had originally thought that only some of the top powers within the Six Southeastern Regions would have existences at the levels of Nine Palaces Immortal Lord and Ten Directions Immortal Lord.

Elder Ancestor Taiyi’s words gave him a new understanding of the borderlands of South Heaven’s Borderlands.

So, aside from the various top sects of the borderlands, the Loose Cultivators were also hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Just as Wyatt was about to further ask Elder Ancestor Taiyi how many supreme‑grade alchemical immortals the Immortal Masters Alliance usually sent here,

a disdainful voice timely rang in Wyatt’s ears:

"With that shabby Void‑Breaking Box of yours, you want to trade for a Monarch Level Immortal Method or Divine Ability? You must be out of your mind!"

Wyatt cast his gaze over and saw that the speaker was a rugged‑looking middle‑aged man.

The man was speaking to an old man.

The old man was short in stature, holding a tightly closed, ancient‑looking box in his hand.

Faced with the middle‑aged man’s provocation, he said calmly, "This box was obtained by my grandmaster in a minor world left behind by an Immortal Sovereign powerhouse. It’s not an ordinary box."

"Hmph!"

Hearing the old man’s words, the look of disdain on the middle‑aged man’s face grew even stronger. "My Divine Sense can easily pass through the box in your hand and clearly see there’s nothing inside... you really take me for a fool?"

"If I open this box and there’s nothing inside... will you give me ten thousand lower‑grade Immortal Crystals?"

As he spoke, the middle‑aged man let out a cold laugh.

"If you can open this box, I’ll give it to you for free."

Hearing the middle‑aged man’s words, the old man continued, his tone still flat, "Before my grandmaster left the Eastern South Six Regions and set off for the central lands of the South Heaven’s Borderlands, he was an ’Immortal Lord of Gossips’... yet even he couldn’t open this box."

"This crappy box of yours, I wouldn’t want it even if you gave it to me for nothing... Still, since you’re willing to let me try to open it, I’ll open it and let you see!"

After taking that simple ancient box from the old man’s hands, the middle‑aged man tried to open it...

But after exhausting himself for quite a while, the box remained tightly shut, without the slightest sign of loosening.

"How is that possible?!"

At once, the middle‑aged man’s face flushed red, full of unwillingness, yet utterly helpless.

Because he truly couldn’t open the box.

"It really is an empty box..."

"My Divine Sense can easily pass through this box; I can confirm it’s an empty box."

"But then, how could a box that our Divine Sense can easily penetrate be this hard to open? Just now, when that person tried to open it, from the Immortal Origin fluctuations he revealed, you could tell he was at least an Immortal Lord‑level expert!"

"This box is truly strange. There’s clearly nothing inside, yet even an Immortal Lord‑level expert can’t open it."

...

The argument between the middle‑aged man and the old man not only drew the attention of Wyatt Barnes and his group who had just stepped onto Pill Tao Plaza; many other people were drawn over as well.

Their Divine Sense extended out, enveloping the box in the middle‑aged man’s hand, and once again they could clearly probe that the inside of the box was empty.

"It really is an empty box."

Beside Wyatt’s ear, the voice of the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi sounded; clearly, out of curiosity, he too had probed the box with his Divine Sense.

Hearing this, Wyatt also extended his Divine Sense toward the box.

He had thought he would encounter some resistance, but unexpectedly it was smooth and unobstructed all the way, and he easily probed the box’s true condition inside.

"It really is empty."

This was the feedback from Wyatt’s Divine Sense.

"Let me try."

Curious, the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi stepped out and walked toward the middle‑aged man.

"That’s Beckham Ho, the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi Immortal Sect!"

And as the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi stepped out, many among the onlookers immediately recognized him.

"He’s the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi Immortal Sect?"

"Over twenty days ago, I saw him outside Taiyi Immortal Sect’s shop... He really is the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi Immortal Sect!"

"Since the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi is here... Alchemist Barnes of Taiyi Immortal Sect must have come as well, right?"

"There he is!"

"That’s Alchemist Barnes!"

"He’s Alchemist Barnes? Really under a hundred years of age! A monster! Truly a monster!"

...

Once the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi was recognized, people very quickly spotted Wyatt Barnes, and for a time the crowd of onlookers stirred noisily.

However, what drew the most attention now was still the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi, who had taken the simple ancient box.

The gazes of the crowd swiftly shifted from Wyatt to the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi.

More precisely, onto that simple ancient box in the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi’s hand.

"May I give it a try?"

The Elder Ancestor of Taiyi looked toward the box’s owner, that old man, eyes narrowed as he asked, "Just now you seemed to say... that even an Immortal Lord of Gossips couldn’t open it?"

"Yes, Senior Beckham Ho."

After learning the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi’s identity, the old man no longer dared be negligent and answered repeatedly, "I know you are an Immortal Lord of Gossips, Senior Beckham Ho... For you to be willing to attempt opening this box in public is my honor, and it can also serve to prove that everything I’ve claimed is true."

"Mm."

With the old man’s consent, the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi immediately gathered his strength, exerting force, trying to open the simple ancient box in his hand.

At the same time, the crowd of onlookers stared fixedly at the box in the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi’s hand.

The Elder Ancestor of Taiyi being an ’Immortal Lord of Gossips’ was no secret.

Now, what everyone was curious about was:

Could this Elder Ancestor of Taiyi, this Immortal Lord of Gossips, open the simple ancient box that the old man had praised to the heavens?

"Kid, there’s a good item inside this box... you must make sure to get it. When the Profound Chaos Divine Flame wakes up later, I’ll join hands with it to help you open it. Otherwise, only existences above Immortal Sovereign level would have the ability to open it."

Just as the Elder Ancestor of Taiyi was trying to open that simple ancient box, an aged, time‑worn voice suddenly echoed from within Wyatt’s body.

"It’s the voice of the ’Profound Chaos Divine Flame’!"

Wyatt’s heart gave a violent tremor.

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