Legend of Wyatt

Chapter 2671: Alchemy

Nine Nether County City, County Governor’s Mansion.

In the grand hall, the county governor of Nine Nether County, ’David Tanner’, sat there quietly waiting, seemingly waiting for someone.

Suddenly, as if he sensed something, he abruptly stood up.

"Governor."

A voice came from outside the hall.

In an instant, a bright smile appeared on David Tanner’s face, and he immediately flashed out to stand outside the hall, looking at the purple-clothed youth outside, "Wyatt Barnes, has everything been settled? Is there anything you need my help with?"

"Thank you for your concern, Governor."

The purple-clothed youth standing outside the hall was Wyatt Barnes, who had just returned from the Mullins Family. Upon hearing David Tanner’s words, he smiled slightly and said, "With you backing me, Governor, they cooperated very well."

Although, before he left the Mullins Family, he gave Nathanael Knight a rather exaggerated ’offer’, specifically asking the Knight Family for two hundred thousand top-grade celestial stones, which the Knight Family found hard to come up with.

But, he believed that Nathanael was a smart person and would definitely gather two hundred thousand top-grade celestial stones for him.

Not for any other reason, just because the county governor of Nine Nether County was on his side.

As for the ’reason’ why the county governor was on his side, it was not hard for him to guess:

Surely, he believed Wyatt could win ’first place’ at the martial arts tournament held at King Cooper’s Mansion in the near future, bringing three middle-grade Immortal Pills ’Daai Law Pill’ to the County Governor’s Mansion.

On one side are three middle-grade Immortal Pills ’Daai Law Pill’, on the other a long-standing inner governor elder still at the pinnacle Golden Immortal level.

Even though he was the county governor of Nine Nether County, he knew which was more important.

"That’s good."

David Tanner nodded, then invited Wyatt Barnes into the hall, "Let’s go in and talk."

After entering the hall, David Tanner did not return to the first seat but sat with Wyatt Barnes at a lower seat, and simultaneously, his expression became somewhat solemn.

"Wyatt Barnes, after today, I’m afraid you can no longer stay at the County Governor’s Mansion."

David Tanner sighed.

"I understand."

Wyatt Barnes nodded.

"You understand?"

David Tanner was taken aback, because it was only after coming back that he thought of this issue.

But now, Wyatt Barnes said he understood?

Facing the puzzled gaze of David Tanner, Wyatt Barnes said, "After today, the fact that I, Wyatt Barnes, possess strength close to Daai Law Golden Immortal, will surely spread throughout the County City, and even throughout Nine Nether County!"

"Governor, as the lord of Nine Nether County, you can issue orders to seal the lips, but it’s also hard to silence the gossiping tongues... After all, in the multiverse, there’s no restraint like the ’thunder punishment oath’ found in secular planes. Even if you warn those who know, they can still spread the news secretly."

At this point, Wyatt Barnes paused.

David Tanner nodded.

Indeed, that was the case.

"Once this news spreads across Nine Nether County, it will definitely be transmitted to the other fifteen counties... Once the other fifteen counties learn that Nine Nether County has the presence of someone like me, a Golden Immortal under a hundred years old, they will surely act before the martial arts tournament held in King Cooper’s Mansion starts."

"At that time, the strong ones of each county might not take action directly... But they will certainly spend a large price to invite powerful individuals from outside to come to Nine Nether County to kill me! As long as they are willing, they should be entirely likely to invite someone stronger than you, Governor... Right?"

Wyatt Barnes looked at David Tanner, asking.

"Yes."

David Tanner didn’t expect Wyatt Barnes had thought things through so thoroughly, and in response to Wyatt Barnes’s inquiry, he nodded, "As long as they’re willing to pay enough, it’s not difficult to invite someone stronger than me."

"To them... your existence almost directly secures the ’first place’ at the martial arts tournament held at King Cooper’s Mansion. That is what they don’t want to see. To make you disappear, they might even team up, jointly paying enough to invite someone stronger than me to kill you."

"If the person they invite is weaker than me, it’s as if they didn’t invite anyone at all... In that scenario, with me stationed in the County Governor’s Mansion, no one can harm you, let alone kill you!"

David Tanner said.

"I thought about these things."

Wyatt Barnes nodded, "Precisely because of this, I plan to leave."

"When do you plan to leave?"

David Tanner asked.

"Naturally, the sooner, the better... However, without any accidents, it should be three days later. After all, in the next three days, I have two debts to collect."

Wyatt Barnes said.

"Two debts?"

David Tanner was a little taken aback.

When Wyatt Barnes clarified what those two debts referred to, even though David Tanner was the county governor of Nine Nether County and had seen plenty of storms, he couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.

"You... really are ruthless!"

"A hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones, for the Mullins Family, may not be crippling, but they would have to liquidate some assets to gather it in a short time."

"Two hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones... The Knight Family, I’m afraid, can’t come up with that."

Tyler Andrews said.

"The Knight Family can’t come up with it... But I believe Elder Nathanael Knight is a smart man; he’ll make the Mullins Family share the burden with them."

Wyatt Barnes said faintly, "With the Mullins Family’s resources, coming up with another hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones is no big deal."

"Two hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones... Even for the Mullins Family, they’d probably have to sell off quite a few assets, if not bleed dry."

Tyler Andrews sighed, "Originally, I planned to give you some immortal stones if you left... But now, it seems unnecessary. With three hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones, you won’t lack for stones anytime soon."

"However, as you leave this time... don’t forget about the ’Sixteen Counties Martial Arts Tournament’ held by King Cooper’s Mansion."

Tyler Andrews suddenly turned serious, looking at Wyatt Barnes as he said, "The Sixteen Counties Martial Arts Tournament, I will handle the registration for you... You only need to show up when it starts. By then, even if people from the other fifteen counties want to kill you, with people from King Cooper’s Mansion present, they wouldn’t dare act recklessly."

"That’s what I was thinking too."

Wyatt Barnes nodded.

After a moment, Wyatt Barnes bid farewell to Tyler Andrews and left.

Before leaving, he still had a lot to do.

First and foremost, he needed to attempt refining the low-grade Immortal Pill, the ’Spirit Essence Pill’.

Now, he already had the materials for the Spirit Essence Pill, and quite a few of them at that.

"Since the Mullins Family elder I killed, Franco Mullins, was their low-grade alchemy master... his Storage Ring must have a medicine tripod."

Upon returning to Dragon Scale Abyss, to his cultivation chamber, Wyatt Barnes took out another Storage Ring from his own, the very one he had collected from Franco Mullins after killing him that day.

"Sure enough, it’s there!"

After recognizing the Storage Ring from Franco Mullins, Wyatt Barnes easily found the medicine tripod inside and also discovered some medicinal materials and several pill recipes.

As for the pile of immortal stones to the side, Wyatt Barnes didn’t so much as glance at them.

Even though there were many immortal stones in Franco Mullins’ Storage Ring, compared to the thirty thousand top-grade immortal stones he was about to obtain from the Mullins Family and the Knight Family, it was insignificant.

"These pill recipes are all for low-grade Immortal Pills... Hmm? This is the recipe for the low-grade Immortal Pill ’Hidden Pill’?"

Among the few pill recipes inside Franco Mullins’ Storage Ring, the only one that caught Wyatt Barnes’ eye was the recipe for the low-grade Immortal Pill ’Hidden Pill’.

This Hidden Pill was what the Nine Nether County Governor had given him previously, prompting his cultivation level to surge within a year and a half, directly achieving the status of ’Yellow Sun Golden Immortal’.

When he broke through to Yellow Sun Golden Immortal, he just happened to use up the Hidden Pills.

"No wonder the Hidden Pill is so rare and scarce... It turns out, aside from requiring a rare medicinal ingredient, the Hidden Pill also demands very high alchemical skills from the alchemist, with an extremely low success rate."

After reviewing the recipe for the Hidden Pill, Wyatt Barnes finally understood why the Hidden Pill was so much rarer than the Spirit Essence Pill.

"I should try refining the Spirit Essence Pill first... I wonder if the portion of the gray flame I extracted from that broken iron shard can successfully refine pill medicine, or refine an Immortal Artifact..."

Taking a deep breath, Wyatt Barnes began to circulate the method for igniting celestial fire, manipulating the gray flame within the broken iron shard, but as before, he could only extract a small portion of the gray flame from it.

"Let’s give it a shot."

Meanwhile, Wyatt Barnes set up the medicine tripod, then took out a set of materials for refining the Spirit Essence Pill, and began attempting the refinement with the small portion of gray flame under his control.

On the first try, as soon as the materials touched the small portion of gray flame Wyatt Barnes controlled, they were completely incinerated.

"Ruined!"

Wyatt Barnes chuckled bitterly, knowing it was due to his lack of fire control from not having refined pill medicine in a long time.

"However... this small portion of gray flame is indeed quite powerful. At least, it feels no less potent than the standard low-grade celestial fire recorded in those memory immortal talismans."

Realizing this, Wyatt Barnes felt a bit more confident and began a second attempt at alchemy.

On his second attempt, Wyatt Barnes adjusted his control slightly, but the materials only held out for a moment before being incinerated, directly failing!

"Again!"

Immediately after, Wyatt Barnes tried a third, fourth, fifth time...

Batch after batch of materials for refining the low-grade Immortal Pill, ’Spirit Essence Pill’, was wasted as if money were no object.

Fortunately, there was no one else here.

If anyone else saw this, they would surely feel heartbroken, thinking Wyatt Barnes was too wasteful!

Finally, on the thirteenth try, Wyatt Barnes successfully used the gray flame to turn the materials into medicinal liquid, allowing it to enter the medicine tripod for the next step...

This step went smoothly at first.

But at the climax, when Wyatt Barnes was about to coagulate the pill, the medicine tripod suddenly began to tremble.

Immediately afterward, a cloud of thick smoke emanated from the medicine tripod, and Wyatt Barnes instantly smelled a burnt scent.