Chapter 478

Chapter 478: Unconsciousness
The spirits of the two merged together, draining all of Zhang Mu’s mental energy, which then played a defensive role.
Even so, the remaining spatial ripples directly hit Zhang Mu’s back, sending both of them flying away harshly.
Suddenly spitting out blood, Zhang Mu felt his internal organs burning, his meridians breaking inch by inch, the previous injuries not dissipating at once!
Yuan Rui panicked, kneeling on the ground at a loss, holding onto the continuously bleeding Zhang Mu.
Seeing Zhang Mu so severely injured, Hachikuju erupted all her power, summoning the phantom battle axe and fiercely striking down towards Era Merchant in the sky.
With just a wave of his hand, he was smashed into the ground, creating a massive pit.
The huge axe in Hachikuju’s hand lay across his chest, full of cracks.
After meeting Hachikuju, the King of Warhorses encountered the Era Merchant. It didn’t want Zhang Mu to die like this in its revived state. Zhang Mu was the first person it could sense the will of Khan from after coming back to life.
Zhang Mu could clearly see that the King of Warhorses was immediately blasted away as he approached. With this, his last bit of hope was shattered.
Even at the third-rank peak, he was no match for a fourth-rank opponent!
Thanks to the presence of the Blood Lotus, Zhang Mu’s left arm’s meridians were extremely resilient. Despite the rampant destruction of spatial forces, it remained relatively intact. With a sudden burst of strength, he threw the Obsidian Beetle beside Yuan Rui and struggled to communicate with it through their soul connection.
“Don’t mind me, just take Yuan Rui and go back to Wang Liang! Protect her! Hurry! I command you!”
Zhang Mu urged urgently.
The Obsidian Beetle understood Zhang Mu’s determination and instantly resumed its normal size, ready to take Yuan Rui away.
“I’m not leaving! You promised that you won’t leave me again. We’ll go together, live or die!”
Yuan Rui refused to leave as she held onto Zhang Mu. Seeing Zhang Mu pushing her away, her voice turned hysterical.
Looking up at the sky, the King of Warhorses was covered in wounds, and Zhang Mu gave a cold look to Obsidian Beetle.
Zhang Mu’s gaze made Obsidian Beetle firmly obey his command. With determination, it used its front legs to knock Yuan Rui unconscious, grabbed her body, and was about to fly away.
Seeing Obsidian Beetle’s actions, Era Merchant slapped King of Warhorses in front of him, clenched his fist, and the part of the space where Obsidian Beetle was trying to fly suddenly collapsed.
Obsidian Beetle realized it couldn’t take flight, and the pressure all around it felt like it was about to crush it, causing it to cry out in pain.
The intense pain stimulated Obsidian Beetle. When the space completely collapsed, it would be the end for both Obsidian Beetle and Yuan Rui.
Faced with this life-and-death crisis, the golden patterns on Obsidian Beetle’s head began to clear up, and lightning patterns gleamed brightly.
“Roar!”
Just as Era Merchant was about to deliver a fatal blow to the entangled King of Warhorses, a roar that seemed to come from ancient times made him pause in his actions.
Obsidian Beetle’s body suddenly expanded and grew taller!
Another pair of front legs grew, and huge insect wings spread out behind its back, thin yet powerful.
This is the ancient will inside it, sensing the life-and-death crisis of the Obsidian Beetle.
It revived again!
The attacks of Era Merchant trampled its dignity, the pride of its will made the Obsidian Beetle want to directly attack Era Merchant, but seeing Yuan Rui being carefully held by its front legs, the Obsidian Beetle resisted the ancient will, forcibly kept going, only remembering Zhang Mu’s command.
It must take Yuan Rui out!
It knew that its current state was borrowing the power of the ancient will, it could not last long, it might disappear in the next second.
Breaking free from the collapsing space, even the spatial ripples that Era Merchant sent afterwards could not catch up to the Obsidian Beetle with these wings. After awakening, the Obsidian Beetle vanished with Yuan Rui on the horizon.
“One left?”
Now, for the first time, Era Merchant’s expression darkened. He had not expected to be defeated by a second-rank mutated insect. The will within it was unexpectedly strong!
What are these strange creatures?
Some third-rank beings couldn’t resist, but this peak third-rank mutated horse in front of us could barely withstand its attacks. Even though it can’t fly anymore, after enduring so many attacks, it can still manage to stand on the ground.
An Era Sub-merchant managed to escape, posing a great threat to him.
Fortunately, the most crucial Era Sub-merchant, the ranked 001 Zhang Mu, has been rendered useless by his own spatial ripples.
The meridians are severed!
Mental energy depleted!
What else can you call it but useless?
Only at the initial stage of third-rank, he dares to resist such power. It’s hard to say if it’s his arrogance or human ignorance.
It’s time to understand.
Era Merchant looked at the unconscious Zhang Mu lying on the ground, and he made a decision in his heart.
There was no time to ask about the strange secret of this first-ranked place anymore.
This time, Era Merchant exerted all his strength!
The energy belonging to space around Zhang Mu slowly dissipated, yet Zhang Mu remained unaware, now his soul, his body, were all in a state of complete destruction.
He had lost consciousness.
“If you blame anyone, blame yourself for following No. 37.”
Just as Era Merchant’s spatial annihilation was about to disintegrate Zhang Mu’s body, he suddenly realized that his power seemed to have lost some control over the space at that position.
When he looked, Zhang Mu, who had just been there, suddenly disappeared!
At this moment, the exhausted King of Warhorses bent its front hooves and knelt heavily on the ground, unable to stand up again.
If the nearby Hachikuju was still clear-headed, he would see that behind the King of Warhorses, there were three pairs of large wings and two fluffy small wings sprouting out.
In the recent battle, it gained a bit of understanding and breakthrough in the fourth-rank realm.
It was this little breakthrough that saved Zhang Mu’s life, sending him into the space crack before the attack from the Era Merchant could land on him.
However, the ferocity of the space crack is too much for Zhang Mu to bear, even in his best state. If he is unlucky to encounter space turbulence, it will lead to a tragic end.
Everything depends on fate.
The Era Merchant watched Zhang Mu disappear and knew that the mutated horse had sent him into the space crack.
He was surprised that the King of Warhorses had a breakthrough at this crucial moment, even though the fourth-rank was insignificant in his eyes.
Though entering the space crack is basically a death sentence, the frightening nature of this space crack can be seen from the time needed for recovery after just traversing through it.
Moreover, he has surpassed the fifth rank, while Zhang Mu is just a small third-rank beginner.
But no matter what, without seeing Zhang Mu’s death with his own eyes, he always felt a bit uncomfortable.
Watching the defenseless Hachikuju and King of Warhorses on the ground, Era Merchant ultimately didn’t act.
Leaving the Era Store this time, he had to pay a great price. These two creatures were the top beings in their respective groups, killing them might attract attention from those people.
Not worth it.
With a dark look at the King of Warhorses who had caused him trouble earlier, Era Merchant suddenly disappeared, as if evaporating from the air.
Only the heavily injured King of Warhorses remained here, along with Hachikuju lying in the pit, unconscious and possibly dying.
The land that had been engulfed in the fires of war returned to quietness once again.