"Who's there!"
Poseidon's pupils trembled violently; if that shot had been aimed at him, he wasn't entirely sure he could have blocked it!
"You don't know who I am? Then how did you have the audacity to initiate the destruction of the world!"
Hearing that voice, Hyoga's eyes lit up. He looked up at the sky, vaguely discerning a man in a Gold Cloth, standing in mid-air above the sea.
"Master... Master!"
Hyoga cried out in surprise and joy!
The Sea Dragon Fighter's pupils contracted violently. Hyoga's master... was the man known as the strongest Saint of his era!
It was said that he had single-handedly suppressed Saga back then and imprisoned him in the Sanctuary prison for ten years!
Wasn't he dispatched by Athena to investigate the Tartarus Abyss? Why would he suddenly appear here? Could all of this be another one of Athena's schemes?
Damn it... The Sea Dragon Fighter clenched his fists, feeling quite indignant!
I specifically chose this moment to act!
It doesn't matter, he's just a mortal. No matter how strong he is, he can't be stronger than Sea Emperor Poseidon!
The man above the sea surface said coldly.
"Hyoga, you've disappointed me greatly!"
"You can't even break a rotten pillar. It seems you still misunderstand the power of Absolute Zero!"
"Watch closely, I'll only demonstrate it once!"
Boom!
Above, the ice-blue dome of the endless deep sea, maintained by an invisible divine power, suddenly split open with a dark chasm without warning!
This gap was as if the entire deep-sea space had been forcibly torn open by some irresistible force, leaving a scar!
At the edge of the chasm, shattered spatial fragments solidified like frozen ice shards!
Immediately after, a terrifying chill that could freeze all things and extinguish all life erupted suddenly from that figure with an incomprehensible speed!
Absolute Zero, Extreme Ice Pillar!
There was no process of diffusion, no sign of spreading.
The moment the domain unfolded, this ice pillar had already covered the entire Life Pillar and a hundred-meter radius around it!
The entire world turned into a black and white photograph!
Ice-blue, pure, ultimate ice-blue, centered around that golden figure, instantly permeated everything in sight, like a drop of ink spreading in clear water!
Time was stripped of its meaning!
Sound waves were frozen mid-air!
Bubbles stirred up by energy floated in mid-air, their surfaces covered with fine ice crystals!
This ice pillar, carrying infinite power, directly pierced through the entire city of Atlantis, freezing the Life Pillar, along with Saori Kido!
The ice pillar's momentum was not exhausted; it branched out into seven sub-pillars, spreading at the speed of light, directly freezing the Pillars of the Seven Seas as well!
On the Earth's coastlines, at the very instant the tsunamis were about to fully descend, they suddenly solidified at a visible speed!
Finally, before everyone's eyes, the Seven Seas completely froze, forming a spectacular sight of lifelike tsunami ice sculptures!
Saga, far away in the Sanctuary, felt Li Yu's domineering and cold Cosmo, and a slight smirk played on his lips.
"Hmph, he truly doesn't appear until the last moment! Li Yu, you scoundrel..."
The scrawny old man on Five Old Peaks sat back down under the great waterfall. He wiped some sweat and grumbled.
"Damn it, none of them are reliable. I was almost forced to come out of seclusion. Luckily, this kid is still around!"
In Atlantis, Saints and Marines alike, without exception, all widened their eyes, shocked to the point of tingling scalps.
At this moment, they had only one thought.
"Is... is this truly a power that humans can possess?"
Hyoga clenched his fists, staring intently at the figure within the ice pillar, his reverence reaching its peak.
It was Master's Cosmo, no doubt... but that power... that might that froze everything and reigned supreme... it far surpassed his understanding of the greatest arcanum of the path of ice, Aurora Execution, by billions of times!
After a few days, Master had grown even stronger!
Hyoga murmured to the ice sculpture of Isaac next to him.
"Senior Brother, in front of Master, do you still dare to say you're stronger than him?"
Isaac, completely frozen, his eyeballs darted left and right. He only regretted that he couldn't shake his head now... Seiya felt his whole body stiff. The biting cold didn't just affect his skin; even his boiling hot blood and burning Cosmo were forcibly cooled and frozen!
He looked at the figure standing at the center of the absolute freeze, his heart filled with nothing but ecstasy.
"Is... is Hyoga's Master here? That's great! Saori-san is saved!"
Shiryu's dragon tattoo on his back gradually dimmed, and the power of his black Cloth was also completely suppressed by this omnipresent cold.
He looked at that figure, his eyes filled with the wild joy of escaping despair and the awe of ultimate power.
"Too strong, Hyoga's Master is too strong... How wonderful would it be if Master Dohko were also as powerful as him?"
Sea Emperor Poseidon's expression was solemn. He did not act rashly but gripped the trident in his hand, his voice piercing through the sea.
The newcomer's strength made even him, as the Sea Emperor, somewhat wary... He clearly felt that the water he controlled with his divine power, which enveloped the entire city of Atlantis, completely lost contact the moment it entered that ice-blue domain!
It was as if the physical rules of that area had been forcibly erased!
Water molecules ceased all microscopic movement!
Even the faint blue glow emanating from the Life Pillar itself, brimming with vitality, was completely frozen!
His powerful divinity and Cosmo were enough to withstand the cold itself.
But his authority, which he relied on to control this deep sea, was nullified within that domain!
It was overridden by a more domineering freezing law!
He could confirm that the opponent's ability was not ordinary freezing power, but a fundamental modification of physical laws. The opponent's power far exceeded the Absolute Zero of the previous Aquarius Saint!
Hearing Hyoga call him Master, a hint of doubt flashed in Poseidon's eyes. The Sea Dragon Fighter whispered in his ear.
"The newcomer is the strongest Gold Saint of this era, Aquarius Li Yu!"
Aquarius?
Poseidon was quite surprised. If this one above was an Aquarius Saint, then who was lying over there?
How could there be two Aquarius Saints in this generation?
Among the Gold Saints, wasn't it only Gemini that could have two Saints?
Have the Gold Saints started competing for positions during my years of slumber?
Too cutthroat!
Waking up suddenly after a long slumber, Poseidon sighed, feeling that he might be a bit out of touch with the times.
Unable to figure it out for the moment, Poseidon cast his doubts aside. He raised his head and said loudly.
"Is that Li Yu? Why don't you come down for a chat!"
Clink! Clink! Clink!
The sound of metal footsteps striking ice echoed, and a golden, slender figure slowly descended along the central ice pillar, his white cape fluttering behind him!
Only then did everyone notice that when the Pillar of Death Ice formed, a spiral staircase had been left in the middle!
Upon seeing this, Shura and Aphrodite couldn't help but smirk, a relaxed and relieved smile on their faces.
"Hmph, it's him, alright. Always so showy, no matter where he goes!"
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