Chapter 153: Iote Breaks Free

Although the ancient Dohko shifted his gaze, his sixth sense remained firmly locked onto Io.

Just as he was about to step in and stop him, a brilliant pillar of golden light shot straight up into the sky from the sea in the southwest, and then descended with the speed of lightning.

In an instant, tens of thousands of miles of the ocean were parted, like a sharp blade intending to cleave the entire world in two.

In the blink of an eye, it was right before them.

"Master!"

Upon seeing this, Mu immediately cast a plea for help toward the old man.

That brilliant golden light contained an intensely sharp aura, and he instantly recognized it as the lance radiance unleashed by Krishna, the Sea General guarding the Indian Ocean and Marina Prince.

Even at the peak of his powers, he would not dare to take it head-on, let alone now while he was injured; blocking that razor-sharp edge was completely out of the question.

While he could have taken Yin Shiqi and the other person and escaped, that lance radiance stretched endlessly into the distance, immeasurably long. If it were allowed to crash down upon the earth, countless innocent lives would undoubtedly be lost.

Guessing what was on Mu's mind, the ancient Dohko immediately abandoned his pursuit of Io. Moving forward with a pace that seemed slow yet was extraordinarily swift, he let out a cold snort and threw his right punch directly at the descending, colossal lance radiance.

"Insignificant trick, how dare you display your clumsy skills before an expert!"

"Rozan Rising Dragon Fist!"

Instantly, a cyan sacred dragon materialized and soared from his fist, charging straight toward the golden lance radiance.

Boom!

The cyan sacred dragon collided with the golden lance radiance, but the result was the same as the previous time.

The lance radiance pierced through the dragon and continued downward to strike the four figures on the ground.

However, this time Dohko exercised deliberate control. After being pierced by the lance radiance, the cyan sacred dragon did not chase back into the sea along the source of the lance; instead, it wrapped itself tightly around the lance radiance, continuing to neutralize the Cosmo energy contained within it.

Meanwhile, Sea Dragon Kanon in the North Atlantic was also closely monitoring the battlefield situation.

The moment he saw the ancient Dohko being held back by Krishna, he locked onto Io's location and spread his five fingers wide toward the front.

"Galaxian Explosion!"

Cosmo energy converged, and the space suddenly rippled like the surface of a calm lake that had been disturbed.

Then, a spatial tunnel was forged by him, connecting directly to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, right beneath Io's feet.

Io, who was hurriedly retreating toward the ocean, had never anticipated that the space beneath his feet would be opened up, and he instantly plummeted downward.

On the shore, although the lance radiance continued to descend, it grew increasingly dim due to the relentless wrapping and counteraction of the sacred dragon. By the time it reached the top of Dohko's head, only a phantom shadow remained.

Yet, even as a mere phantom shadow destined to vanish at any moment, it still chopped resolutely toward its target.

Crack!

A tiny tear was sliced into the bamboo hat worn by the ancient Dohko.

"Master, that fellow is gone!" Gazing at the spot where Io had just been standing, Mu's expression turned grave.

Because Krishna's lance radiance was so blinding and completely blocked his path, he had not dared to risk pursuing Io. By the time the lance radiance dissipated, he discovered that Io had vanished without a trace.

Logically speaking, having been severely injured by Master Dohko's attack, Io should not have been able to escape very far.

However, when he projected his sixth sense to scan the surrounding sea, he could no longer find any trace of Io.

The ancient Dohko looked toward Io's former location and frowned, saying, "It seems that troublemaker Kanon must have rescued him!"

"Just now, while blocking that burst of lance radiance, this old man sensed spatial fluctuations."

"Aside from him, there couldn't be anyone else!"

Because of the previous punitive expedition to North America, where Shaka and the other had been intercepted on the east coast of the Atlantic, the entire Twelve Temples had learned the news that Kanon was still alive and had even betrayed the Sanctuary to pledge allegiance to the Sea Emperor.

Moreover, people who could flexibly wield spatial abilities were rare; even within the Twelve Temples, only the Virgo and Gemini Saints excelled at it.

Coincidentally, Kanon, once the dark star of Gemini, was one of them.

Hearing the old man mention Kanon, Mu was suddenly enlightened.

Yet, following this realization, a boundless wave of melancholy welled up in his heart.

"Master, if the Sanctuary goes to war with the underwater realm and we are forced to cross swords, how should we deal with Kanon?" Mu asked with a trace of sorrow.

The ancient Dohko gazed far off toward the west, his profound gaze seeming to span across Asia and Europe to arrive above the Atlantic.

After a brief silence, he sighed helplessly.

"I don't know. We'll talk about it when the time comes!"

This generation of Gold Saints had all been trained by him and watched by him as they grew up.

Yet, never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that those children he had personally taught would turn into such strangers.

He felt he had failed the trust of the previous generation of Goddess.

He had failed to fulfill the proper guiding responsibility of an elder.

Perhaps, if he and Shion had put a little more effort into it, things would not have turned out this way.

Immediately afterward, the old man shifted his gaze back to Yin Shiqi and the other inside the crystal wall, saying earnestly, "Those two little fellows are severely injured. Bring them both up to the Five Old Peaks!"

"It is very quiet over at my place, making it an ideal place to recover from injuries!"

The two of them lay limp on the ground like earthworms; without even guessing, one could tell that probably all the bones in their bodies were broken.

One could only wonder what on earth the three of them had encountered.

Seeing the ancient Dohko bring up the two juniors, Mu seemed to remember something and hurriedly expanded the crystal wall enclosing the two, pulling them into its protection as well.

"Mu, what are you doing?" Noticing his action, the old man was somewhat baffled.
Initially, he thought Mu had sensed hidden enemies in the surroundings and wanted to prevent a sneak attack, but after a careful search, he found no one around.

If even his level of strength failed to detect any lurking enemies, it was even less likely for Mu to have found any.

"Master, I have some very important intelligence to report to you!" Mu communicated solemnly to the old man via telepathy.

Upon receiving the telepathic message, the ancient Dohko's expression immediately turned serious.

For Mu to deliberately use a crystal wall for isolation and communicate through telepathy—such rigorous precautions meant he must have discovered something extraordinary.

"Speak!" The old man replied using telepathy as well.

Mu glanced at the unconscious, handsome youth on the ground and said earnestly, "His name is Shun, and he is a disciple of Daedalus, the Silver Saint of Cepheus."

"I took him to the Pacific underwater realm to help gather orichalcum ore, but later, we were driven by a Sea General into the ruins of the underwater continent of Mu, where we encountered an extremely terrifying enemy."

"Right at the edge of life and death, an intensely terrifying power surged from within Shun's body!"

Hearing this, the ancient Dohko's wrinkled face grew even graver.

Power capable of astonishing even Mu, a Gold Saint, must undoubtedly be formidable.

Yet, no matter how he looked at it, that grass-green haired youth was merely a little fellow who had barely reached the sixth sense realm.

Such an anomaly could only have one explanation.

"Could this little fellow be the reincarnation of some deity?" He asked Mu seriously.

"The enemy we encountered referred to him as 'Hades'!" Mu replied, pronouncing each word distinctly.