Hearing Arlo Drake’s words, Long Drake was first stunned for a moment, then he pushed Arlo aside, asking with a dark expression, "Arlo, what exactly happened? Is it true that your innate talent root is gone?" "Brother, it’s true! My innate talent root is indeed gone!" Hearing Long Drake’s words, Arlo Drake seemed to be touched at a sore spot and spoke with a mournful expression. "That’s an innate talent root, how can it just disappear like that! And... you just asked me to avenge you? Avenge for what?!" Long Drake frowned with a confused look. According to what that earlier Elder Bronze Flame said, even his own cousin didn’t know how his innate talent root disappeared. If that’s the case, how can there be talk of revenge? "Brother, I suspect that my innate talent root was destroyed by Wyatt Barnes! However, I have no evidence, so I can’t be 100% sure it was him... But, if it wasn’t him, I really can’t think of how my innate talent root could just disappear!" Faced with Long Drake’s inquiry, Arlo Drake explained everything about the conflict between him and Wyatt Barnes, and what happened when he interacted with Wyatt. "I still believe he is the most suspicious! I have a very strong premonition... the disappearance of my innate talent root is definitely related to him!" After finishing, Arlo Drake clenched his fists, his face twisted, almost speaking through gritted teeth. "Expand the field, block the view of others... Hearing you say so, the disappearance of your innate talent root is ten to one caused by him!" Long Drake’s eyes flashed coldly, pondering for a moment, he guessed to himself, "He must have mastered some unimaginable means that can remove a person’s innate talent root without damaging their soul..." "However, to ordinary people, even a Saint Immortal Realm expert couldn’t possibly remove someone’s innate talent root without damaging their soul! That’s why no one has suspected him." Towards the end, a chilling murderous intent erupted from Long Drake, seemingly chilling the surrounding air. If Wyatt Barnes were here now, hearing Long Drake’s words, he would surely be shocked. Although Long Drake didn’t guess completely right, he was close to the truth. "There is a great possibility! But a month ago, faced with a Thunder Punishment oath, I dared not ’gamble’... I feared that if it wasn’t him, I would be struck dead by Thunder Punishment! Brother, does that make me cowardly? Are you disappointed in me?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✶𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲✶𝗻𝗲𝘁 In front of Long Drake, Arlo Drake seemed like a ’child’. "No! Arlo is not cowardly. Arlo did so to be cautious... Arlo did the right thing!" Hearing Arlo Drake’s words, Long Drake immediately shook his head. In a flash of lightning and thunder, a chilling light flickered deep in his eyes, ready to consume someone. Of course, such a chilling light was not directed at Arlo Drake. It was directed at the ’Wyatt Barnes’ whom he had yet to meet! "Brother... I want Wyatt Barnes dead!" Long Drake’s arrival swept away Arlo Drake’s despondency, his eyes brimming with cold light, murderous intent, and his face contorted, as if Wyatt had some deep-seated hatred against him akin to the murder of a father or the theft of a wife. "Rest assured, he won’t live!" Long Drake spoke coldly, as he casually changed into the dedicated attire for Black Tortoise Hall disciples given by that Elder Bronze Flame. Putting on the dedicated attire of a Black Tortoise Hall disciple meant he had officially become a member of the Fire Worship Sect. To be precise, he had become a ’Black Tortoise Hall disciple’ within the Fire Worship Sect! "Brother, the rules within the Fire Worship Sect are strict. We need to carefully think of a method to resolve Wyatt Barnes that doesn’t violate the sect’s rules and can settle the matter once and for all! It wouldn’t be worth sacrificing ourselves for him." With a deep breath, Arlo Drake spoke with a cold demeanor. "There’s no need for that!" However, hearing Arlo Drake’s words, Long Drake flatly denied them. Seeing Arlo Drake look over, confused by his denial, Long Drake calmly said again, "Arlo, don’t forget, your brother’s innate talent root is a ’green root’... Even if I violated the Fire Worship Sect’s rules by killing Wyatt, do you think they would demand your brother’s life for a mere disciple with a ’yellow root’?" Without even thinking, Arlo Drake confidently shook his head. A genius with a ’green root’ could never be compared to a mediocrity with a ’yellow root’! Even if the former killed the latter, the Fire Worship Sect, desperate for talents, wouldn’t ruin the former because of the latter, at most they’d symbolically punish the former... A genius with a ’green root’, once matured, would surely be among the top ranks of ’Saint Immortal Realm’, becoming an ’Elder Silver Flame’ in the sect, and potentially even moving up to ’Elder Gold Flame’. Among the current Elder Gold Flames in the Fire Worship Sect, three of them have innate talent roots that are just ’green roots’. Would the Fire Worship Sect ruin a future ’Elder Silver Flame’, or potentially even an ’Elder Gold Flame’, for a mediocrity with a yellow root? The Fire Worship Sect would never commit such an act! "If I don’t wear the dedicated attire of a Black Tortoise Hall disciple and kill Wyatt Barnes, the nature is entirely different; it’s akin to an outsider challenging the dignity of the entire Fire Worship Sect... I would surely die!" "Now, wearing the dedicated attire of a Black Tortoise Hall disciple, even if I kill Wyatt Barnes, it would just be a conflict between fellow students, merely violating the sect’s rules." Long Drake continued, "As long as I showcase my worth, the Fire Worship Sect won’t demand my life for Wyatt Barnes... at most, they’ll symbolically punish me!" Long Drake’s words carried immense confidence. "Arlo... which Beta House does Wyatt Barnes reside in?!" When Long Drake spoke again, he turned and stepped into the air, his gaze cold and ruthless, sweeping over the thousands of ’Beta Houses’ around him. "Is this person also a disciple of our Black Tortoise Altar?" Although some disciples of the Black Tortoise Altar in the distance did not hear the conversation between Long Drake and Arlo, they could see that the relationship between the two was very unusual. Furthermore, Long Drake changed into the exclusive clothing of their Black Tortoise Altar disciples right in front of them. "Never seen him before!" "Could he be someone who just joined our Fire Worship Sect?" "Just joined our Fire Worship Sect? Wouldn’t that mean he entered our sect exceptionally... It is said that only Martial Dao geniuses with talent roots of ’Green Root’ or above have such privileges!" "Could it be this person is a Martial Dao genius with a ’Green Root’?" As some disciples of the Black Tortoise Altar started discussing, their eyes became intensely heated and fell upon Long Drake, who was stepping into the air. At the same time, they clearly felt the murder intent emanating from Long Drake. "What does he intend to do?!" Many disciples of the Black Tortoise Altar felt a chill in their hearts, frightened by the murder intent from Long Drake’s body. "Brother, that room!" Right after, the eardrums of the disciples of the Black Tortoise Altar trembled, as they heard Arlo Drake’s voice. Simultaneously, they saw Arlo Drake also step into the air following Long Drake, pointing to a distant ’Beta House’. "Isn’t that Beta House where Wyatt Barnes lives?" Immediately, many recognized the Beta House pointed by Arlo as the residence of Wyatt Barnes, and realized that the murder intent from Long Drake was directed at Wyatt Barnes. "Arlo called him ’Brother’?" "Is he Arlo’s brother?" Soon, the attention shifted to Arlo’s address to Long Drake, causing another uproar. No matter what they thought before, they never expected this person to be Arlo’s brother! At the same time, inside the Beta House that Arlo pointed to, a figure suddenly appeared... it was Wyatt Barnes, just having left the fourth floor of the Seven Treasures Jewel Tower! "Elder Fire said... someone outside intends to harm me?" Wyatt Barnes had already heard the warning from Elder Fire, which made him stop training promptly and leave the Seven Treasures Jewel Tower. After putting away the Seven Treasures Jewel Tower, Wyatt Barnes directly pushed the door open and stepped out. As soon as he stepped out, he clearly sensed two cold gazes piercing through the air, filled with extreme murder intent directed at him. "Is it Arlo and Maximus again?" This was Wyatt Barnes’ speculation before he even lifted his head. As he lifted his head and saw the owners of the two gazes, he found: One of them indeed was the ’Arlo’ he speculated, but the other was not ’Maximus’; it was a disciple of the Black Tortoise Altar with a long knife on his back. At this moment, the murder intent from the Black Tortoise Altar disciple was shifting from the Beta House behind him to Wyatt Barnes. Clearly, the target was him! Seeing the Black Tortoise Altar disciple standing with Arlo, Wyatt couldn’t help but look puzzled. "Brother, it’s him! He’s Wyatt Barnes!" At the same time, Wyatt Barnes heard the angry voice of Arlo, who was talking to the disciple of the Black Tortoise Altar with the long knife. At once, Wyatt Barnes came to a realization. So this Black Tortoise Altar disciple was Arlo’s brother, which explained why he was so hostile to Wyatt. "But... Arlo actually has a brother in the Black Tortoise Altar?" Wyatt Barnes assumed that Arlo’s brother had long been a disciple of the Black Tortoise Altar, never thinking that Arlo’s brother had only arrived today at the Fire Worship Sect, at the Black Tortoise Altar’s entrance. He hadn’t expected Arlo’s brother to be a Martial Dao genius carrying a ’Green Root’! "Are you Wyatt Barnes?" Almost at the moment Arlo’s words fell, Long Drake’s gaze thoroughly locked onto Wyatt Barnes, and he asked in a cold, low voice. Detecting Long Drake’s murderous intent directed at him, Wyatt Barnes did not treat him politely, and replied indifferently. "Indeed, quite arrogant!" Long Drake’s face sank, and with a cold laugh, he raised his hand with lightning speed, and the long knife behind him came out of its sheath with a ’clang’. "I want to see, do you have the means to back up your arrogance!"