Chapter 145: The Two-Pronged Attack (Part 2)

"You escaped this time, but you won't be so lucky the next time, Aries!" Baian reunited with Io, sneering as he looked at the bleeding, hollow scar on Mu's shoulder.

Mu gently executed a backflip, landing in front of the Crystal Wall, and said to the two of them nonchalantly, "Who can truly know the future?"

Meanwhile, he quietly communicated with Yin Shiqi using telepathy.

"How much orichalcum ore have you loaded into that mining basket?"

Unexpectedly, Mu still had the mind to care about the mining progress at a time like this. Yin Shiqi was slightly stunned before replying telepathically, "It's about ninety percent full."

Taking advantage of the protection provided by the Crystal Wall, he had seized the time to mine quite a bit more orichalcum ore.

"Ninety percent, you say?"

Mu thought for a moment and sighed, "Ninety percent will have to do!"

"I somewhat underestimated the suppression of this Poseidon's barrier; even holding off their joint assault is a stretch."

"Prepare yourself well, and the moment the opportunity arises, take Shun and leave. I will personally hold the rear for you."

With that, he secretly deactivated the Crystal Wall enveloping the two of them.

While the Crystal Wall could indeed grant them formidable defensive capabilities, it was also a disguised form of mandatory imprisonment that would hinder their escape route.

"Lord Mu... please be sure to take care!" Down on the ground, the weak Shun reminded him telepathically.

The two hadn't deliberately concealed their telepathic exchange from him.

"Don't worry, it won't be so easy for the two of them to kill me!" Mu replied with a forced air of ease, though he knew very well in his heart that here in the realm of Poseidon, the joint efforts of those two Marina generals indeed made it possible to kill him.

Although the probability was not particularly high, if another mistake like the previous one occurred, it could easily lead to fatal consequences.

Mu's action of dismantling the Crystal Wall did not escape the notice of the two Marina generals.

Scylla Io was startled for a moment, and as if realizing something, shouted, "Oh no, they are trying to escape!"

Without the protection of the Crystal Wall, those two young Sixth Sense Saints would have died countless times over.

Yet, Mu's sudden removal of the Crystal Wall, exposing the two to their eyes, was certainly not an act of suicide.

Therefore, it could only be to let the two of them escape.

Hearing this, Sea Horse Baian immediately prepared to intercept them.

With those two dead weights around, dealing with Mu would become much easier for them.

In any case, they could not let those two dead weights escape first.

Unfortunately, Mu had long since planned out his every step, secretly building up his Cosmo even before dissolving the Crystal Wall.

Seeing Io see through his plan, Mu immediately opened his arms wide, palms facing outward, as dazzling golden light shone brightly once again within his palms.

"If you want to stop them, you must get past me first!"

"Starlight Extinction!"

In an instant, beam after beam of golden light poured down upon the two like a torrential rainstorm.

Seeing this, Yin Shiqi immediately hoisted the mining basket onto his back, lifted Shun onto his shoulder, and charged straight up toward the sky overhead.

That was the shortest path out of Poseidon's realm.

If they took the side route and left through the barrier in the shallow sea area, goodness knows how much time it would take, and the probability of being pursued and caught would be much higher.

"I'll hold them off for a while, go stop those two fellows!"

On the other side, Baian made a decisive choice, charging alone straight against the golden light.

They had to keep those two young Saints here; they could not let Mu tie them both down entirely.

"Gale Roaring Wave!"

He unleashed his ultimate technique against the torrent of golden light.

In a flash, a hundred-meter-tall giant wave rose from the flat ground, wrapping around a violent hurricane as it surged upward.

Regrettably, having launched his move in haste, he had not fully unleashed the power of this technique, compounded by the fact that Mu's strength already faintly suppressed his own.

Facing the terrifying golden light beams one after another, his hurricane and massive waves instantly lost the upper hand, on the verge of being annihilated within the golden radiance.

Knowing that battle opportunities are fleeting, Io did not stand on ceremony with him. He immediately circled around from the side, avoiding the coverage of the golden light, and charged directly at the two attempting to flee the realm of Poseidon.

"Not good!"

Mu was abruptly startled upon seeing this.

He had never expected that Sea Horse Baian would be willing to risk severe injury and withstand his attack alone, all to create a tactical opportunity for Scylla Io.

It was just unfortunate that he was locked in a deadlock with Baian and completely lacked the ability to intercept Io.

If he were to withdraw his hand rashly, Baian's hurricane and giant waves would backlash, and he himself would likely be injured by the opponent. By then, the outcome would surely be even worse.

Now, he could only pray that Yin Shiqi could break through the barrier overhead before being intercepted by Io.

Alas, Mu's wish fell through.

Yin Shiqi was currently moving at barely thirty thousand times the speed of sound, which was simply inadequate when facing Io's speed of light.

Io's speed was at least three times his own.

Just as they were a mere ten meters away from breaking through the barrier, Yin Shiqi felt a figure flash before his eyes. Io, clad in dark golden scales, hung at the dome, blocking his path forward.

"Get lost!"

Angry and anxious, Yin Shiqi immediately raised his hand into a blade and slashed downward straight ahead.

"Excalibur Slash!"

The silver sword Qi carried his ultimate resentment and fury as it hacked toward the Marina general blocking his way.

"Overestimating your own capabilities!"

Io sneered and similarly threw a punch.

"Big Tornado!"

The power of his Cosmo transformed into a giant eagle, flapping its wings and extending its claws toward the target below.

Whoosh!

The previously invincible silver sword Qi left only a shallow scratch upon the eagle's talons. The sword Qi shattered, and the lethal eagle talons continued their descent.

In this critical moment, Yin Shiqi had a flash of inspiration. He channeled his Cosmo into the pickaxe and held it horizontally across his chest.

"What use could a mere broken pickaxe possibly be?" Io sneered continuously at the sight.

Bang!

The eagle talons collided with the pickaxe, but the scene Io had anticipated—the pickaxe snapping in half—did not happen.

Instead, it stubbornly withstood the attack of the eagle talons, and together with the two Saints, was knocked plummeting downward.

"How is this possible?" Io was struck dumb with astonishment.

That pickaxe looked entirely ordinary, yet it had taken a direct attack head-on and suffered only slight deformation; it was simply incredible.

On the ground, facing Mu's full-power assault, Sea Horse Baian lacked the strength and had been inadequately prepared, quickly losing the upper hand in their stalemate.

With a miserable scream, he was swallowed up by the terrifying golden starlight.

Boom!

Yin Shiqi and Shun were knocked down by the giant eagle, crashing heavily onto the ground and plunging into a deep crater, while the ground within a radius of dozens of meters was fractured into countless fissures by the aftershock of that single blow.

"Are the two of you alright?" Having defeated Baian, Mu rushed over hastily, pulling the two out of the crater.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Yin Shiqi covered his chest and coughed a few times, blood staining the corner of his mouth as he smiled bitterly and replied, "If not for the pickaxe you gave me, I'd probably be either dead or on my last breath by now."

The gap between the Seventh Sense and the Sixth Sense was simply too vast. Even with his sword Qi dampening a portion of the power, compounded by the pickaxe—which possessed hardness comparable to a Gold Cloth—blocking the blow, he had still been severely injured by Io's single strike.

"Shun, how do you feel?" Mu looked toward the grass-green-haired youth beside him.

Shun replied weakly, "The destructive power of that blow was mostly blocked by Senior Yin Shiqi; I wasn't affected much."

If Yin Shiqi hadn't shielded him, taking another hit in his heavily wounded state would have turned him into a corpse right then and there.