Chapter 2555: Chapter 2555: Blatant Arrogance?

"And also... Wyatt Barnes said just now that his wife has already left the secular plane, and it’s impossible for her to ever interfere in matters of the Holy Domain Plane again?"

A lot of humans recalled Wyatt Barnes’s earlier words, and for a moment their faces all turned deathly pale.

"He... has got to be joking, right!"

"I think so too... he should be joking. Even if his wife really has left the secular plane, to the point that she can’t interfere in the Holy Domain Plane anymore, logically speaking, he still shouldn’t be saying it out loud, right?"

"Exactly. After all, with his own strength, he still isn’t enough to defeat that Demon Race Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, let alone drive the Demon Race out of our Holy Domain Plane!"

...

A moment later, quite a few humans’ expressions eased again, all thinking that Wyatt Barnes was just joking.

"Joking? You really think... he needs to joke about something like that?"

"I also don’t think he has any need to joke about this... Since he said it like that, then eight or nine out of ten it’s the truth. It’s just, by saying it, isn’t he giving the Demon Race hope?"

"Exactly! From what that Demon Race Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal said just now, he’s clearly thinking, if Wyatt Barnes’s wife really has left the secular plane and can’t interfere in the Holy Domain Plane anymore, then he has no intention of taking the Demon Race out of our Holy Domain Plane."

...

There were also some humans who felt Wyatt Barnes didn’t look like he was joking, and at the same time only thought that he was far too naive.

Even if everything you said is true, there’s no need to say it out loud, right?

In their eyes:

Even if Wyatt Barnes’s wife had left, he could have totally kept quiet about it, forcing this Demon Race Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal to have misgivings and thus take the Demon Race out of the Holy Domain Plane and roll back to that ’Land of Exile’!

They simply couldn’t understand Wyatt Barnes’s way of doing things.

However, not understanding was one thing, complaining was another; they didn’t dare blame Wyatt Barnes...

After all, Wyatt Barnes stepping up for the human race was him doing them a favor; not stepping up was only his right.

With Wyatt Barnes’s current strength, even if the Demon Race’s势 was overwhelming, he could completely keep himself out of it, quietly wait for the Ascension Force to descend and pull him up to those ’All Heavens Planes’.

The Demon Race still couldn’t affect him.

"You sure are pretty confident..."

Seeing the brilliant smile bloom on Wyatt Barnes’s face, the Demon Race Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, that old man, suddenly narrowed his eyes; the originally turbid pupils instantly shot out two razor‑sharp rays of light, as if they could pierce through everything!

"Since your wife isn’t here... then today, let me witness for myself the might of the immortal treasure in your hand, Wyatt Barnes!"

As the old man suddenly bellowed, surging waves of force blasted out from his body, forcing the seven Demon Race Eight Tribulations Loose Immortals behind him to hurriedly retreat.

They looked as if they were terrified of becoming collateral damage.

Right at this moment, the old man also unleashed, without holding anything back, the full power of his Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal cultivation!

Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

...

On the old man’s body, it was as if a sea of raging flames had ignited. The moment it appeared, the surrounding void trembled violently, and in no time it twisted and warped, splitting open one hideous, terrifying crack after another.

They were clearly cracks in the void.

At this moment, the stretch of space where the old man stood was filled with twisting, roiling void fissures, writhing like a nest of mad snakes—there wasn’t a single intact piece of space to be seen.

Boom!!

And as the old man’s power soared, Wyatt Barnes wasn’t idle either. The auxiliary Divine Ability, the Minor Devouring Technique, erupted; in an instant he seized all the heaven and earth Spiritual Energy in a vast area around him for his own use, boosting his power by a full two levels!

"You’re still not qualified to make me use an immortal treasure."

At the same time, Wyatt Barnes swept the old man a bland glance and spoke unhurriedly.

As soon as those words left Wyatt Barnes’s mouth, the old man’s expression twisted with rage again, and the crowd of onlookers was completely stunned.

When they looked at Wyatt Barnes again, their eyes were like they were staring at a full‑blown egomaniac!

"This Wyatt Barnes is way too full of himself, right? Is he really planning to fight the Infinite Great One without using an immortal treasure?"

"Hmph! If he doesn’t use an immortal treasure, he’s definitely not a match for the Infinite Great One."

"Everyone knows that the only reason he was able to fight the Dragonsmith Clan Chief to a draw back then was because of the immortal treasure in his hand... And now, from the way he’s talking, he actually intends to face the Infinite Great One without using the immortal treasure? And he even seems confident that without using the immortal treasure, he can still defeat the Infinite Great One."

"Arrogant! Way too arrogant!"

...

The crowd of Demon Race onlookers chattered among themselves, unanimously feeling that Wyatt Barnes was nothing but a complete and utter egotist!

And it wasn’t just the Demon Race.

Even the group of humans standing opposite the Demon Race found Wyatt Barnes’s words hard to understand:

"Not using the immortal treasure? Has Wyatt Barnes... lost his mind?"

"Yeah. Who doesn’t know that the only reason he could fight the Dragonsmith Clan Chief to a standstill in the past was because of the immortal treasure in his hand... If he hadn’t had the immortal treasure, the Dragonsmith Clan Chief would have defeated him, even killed him, back then!"

"He’s way too full of himself!"

"Even if he’s improved again during this time, how long has it been since his battle with the Dragonsmith Clan Chief? In such a short span, you think he can defeat a Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal without using the immortal treasure?"

"Impossible!"

"He’s insane! Completely insane!"

...

The humans present couldn’t help but shake their heads when they looked at Wyatt Barnes.

"Maybe only after he actually suffers a loss will he realize just how conceited he is... Which might not be a bad thing; let it teach him a lesson, let him understand that even with his heaven‑defying monstrous talent, Wyatt Barnes still shouldn’t be so arrogant."

Quite a few humans said this.

Right now, if there was anyone present—aside from Lainey Don—who didn’t think Wyatt Barnes was overestimating himself, it would be that group from the Human Demon Clan who had interacted with him in the past.

"Since Elder Brother Ling Tian dares to say that, he definitely has the strength to back it up!"

The Human Demon Clan’s Sacred Wander Palace disciple ’Cody Yellow’ had a lot of confidence in Wyatt Barnes.

"My master is definitely not someone who overestimates himself."

The Sacred Wander Palace Palace Master ’Vast Johnson’ also believed in Wyatt Barnes.

There were quite a few people from the Human Demon Clan who had interacted with Wyatt back in the Lower Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, so subconsciously they all believed Wyatt really had that kind of strength...

"Just now you said... I’m still not qualified to make you use an Immortal treasure?"

The Demon Race’s Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, that old man, was furious the moment he heard Wyatt’s words, his face twisting drastically. At the same time, as if thinking he’d misheard, he further asked in a deep voice to confirm.

"What? A堂堂 Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, at your age, your ears don’t work anymore?"

Wyatt asked lightly.

"Good, good... very good!"

"Since you’re so damn arrogant... then I really want to see, without using an Immortal treasure, what qualifications you have to fight me!"

The old man’s face kept shifting like storm clouds from being angered by Wyatt. In the end, he suddenly roared, no longer able to hold back.

Bang!!

His figure shook; with a stomp of both legs in the void, he instantly left behind yet another massive crater in midair.

The moment the crater appeared, it split apart, dragging out a hideous, terrifying crack in the void.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

...

As the old man’s figure shot out, his whole person was like a fired cannonball, streaking straight toward Wyatt.

Wherever he passed, the void trembled, shockwaves boomed one after another, and countless spatial rifts tore open in his wake, looking especially ghastly.

Just a single glance made one’s scalp go numb.

Bang!!

A moment later, the old man had already arrived not far from Wyatt. With a tremor of his arms, his vast, boundless power seemed to transform into a terrifying ferocious beast, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws as it pounced at Wyatt.

Its overwhelming momentum made people instinctively feel terror!

"This is all you’ve got?"

And just as the old man unleashed a thunderous full-strength strike, his boundless power surging like a ferocious beast toward Wyatt, Wyatt opened his mouth, unhurried as ever, his tone full of mockery.

"With this level of strength, you’re only about on par with that Dragonsmith Clan Clan Chief from back then... looks like I overestimated you."

Wyatt spoke in a flat tone.

"Such shameless boasting!"

The old man barked coldly, his voice carrying an extreme chill, like being thrown into an ice cellar.

"You’ll know soon enough whether it’s shameless boasting or not."

Wyatt’s tone was still just as calm, but as he spoke again, he finally moved.

Swish!

He lifted his hand, his spine bending slightly into a bow, then suddenly exerted force. His arm swept out like a roaring dragon, stabbing toward the direction the old man was charging from.

The next instant.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

As Wyatt’s arm roared out like a dragon, from his opened palm jets of dazzling white light suddenly shot forth.

They were condensed sword rays!

These sword rays howled out from Wyatt’s palm, and in the blink of an eye turned into hundreds and thousands.

The next moment, those hundreds and thousands of sword rays evolved into tens of thousands, converging into a mysterious ’Sword Array’...

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

Once the Sword Array took shape, it shot out without the slightest hesitation, dragging out over a dozen afterimages.

This was exactly the profundity of the Divine Ability ’Thirteen Swords of the Azure Lotus’ that Wyatt had timely unleashed.

Boom!!

As the dozen or so afterimages of the Sword Array fused with the leading Sword Array, the array’s radiance exploded, and an even more terrifying aura swept out from within.

"Th–this... how is this possible?!"

In that instant, the old man charging in to kill Wyatt clearly sensed the terrifying aura emanating from the Sword Array...

That was absolutely power beyond the level of a Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal!

Under normal circumstances, this kind of power could probably only be unleashed by a ’Golden Immortal expert’ from the myriad heaven planes.

Bang!

In the instant his expression changed drastically with a ’whoosh’, the old man’s body swelled like a balloon, then directly exploded into a cloud of blood mist!

Within the blood mist, one could vaguely see specks of golden light flickering.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

...

At the same time, Wyatt’s Sword Array smashed through the old man’s beast-like full-strength strike like crushing dry weeds.

And it conveniently annihilated the cloud of blood mist that the old man had turned into!