As they sped along, Chu Mi lamented, “I still have many wishes unfulfilled. It’s a pity there’s no chance to realize them.”

Jiang Wang said, “I also have many things I want to accomplish. One of them is being realized right now.”

“What?” Chu Mi asked.

Jiang Wang severed the connection of the Borrowing a Slope to Get Off a Donkey secret art, charged forward, and with swift, decisive sword strikes, killed the oncoming sea creatures.

Then he said, “Forty-one more.”

“The target for atonement?” Chu Mi put his hand back on Jiang Wang’s shoulder and asked.

“Yes.”

“Commander-level sea creatures?” Chu Mi’s facial muscles twitched. He felt this was rather harsh. “How many do you have to kill?”

“One hundred.”

*Why do I feel like this person, punished so severely, still has backing?* Chu Mi asked himself inwardly. He said aloud, “What kind of mistake did your friend make to require such atonement?”

“Sometimes, punishment isn’t because of making a mistake.”

After speaking, Jiang Wang looked back. He felt the sea creatures’ net was tightening, leaving little room for maneuver.

Chu Mi was silent for a moment, then said, “You’re right.”

He paused, then asked, “So you must also believe I was wronged, right?”

“Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?”

“Of course I want to hear the tr— Damn it!” Chu Mi retorted, “I won’t listen to either! Talking to you is so exhausting!”

“Then save your strength. You can die more gracefully later.”

Chu Mi gritted his teeth. “Thank you!”

But after a while, he added, “However, speaking of which, I do believe you were wronged.”

Jiang Wang said without much sincerity, “Then I thank you too.”

“Sometimes I really envy people like you. This world seems tailor-made for you…”

At this moment, Chu Mi was particularly talkative. But Jiang Wang didn’t reply. Because he found that his final goal seemed impossible to achieve.

That piercing shriek he’d heard before sounded again, incredibly jarring. Yu Siqing had caught up!

This sound was like death’s final knock.

“I really was wronged,” Chu Mi said urgently, then seemed to suddenly accept his fate. “But it doesn’t matter anymore. I’m not a good person anyway. If not for this crime, it would be for another.”

Jiang Wang was clearly not listening to him, talking to himself, “I have to find a way to kill him.”

Chu Mi, of course, knew who “him” was. He breathed with difficulty, “Can you do it?”

Jiang Wang clearly lacked confidence, but his eyes were extremely firm. “Whether I can do it or not, I have to do something, right?”

Chu Mi turned his head to look at this young man. Indeed, he saw a certain radiance in him that was difficult to look at directly. It wasn’t that he was too sharp, but rather the reflection of his past self, who was drifting further and further away, that was truly tormenting!

Jiang Wang didn’t think that much.

Closer now.

With Chu Mi’s cooperation, he had fled with all his might. But the sound grew more intense, and the enormous Sea Lord’s true form was already visible to the naked eye.

And he gripped his sword, turning back.

In his final maneuver, he desperately shifted towards areas with fewer sea creatures, struggling to carve out space for his final battle.

So, it was now.

He would test the strength of the strongest high-level commander-level sea creature in the Dingwei region.

And fight a life-or-death battle with him!

Just as Jiang Wang’s fighting spirit was boiling.

A sound suddenly echoed.

Listening closely, it seemed to be silent.

A feeling of nausea welled up in his heart. This discomfort was sudden, but it quickly subsided.

Jiang Wang realized that the feeling did not originate from within him, nor was it confined to him. The entire environment had undergone some kind of change.

“Look!” Chu Mi’s voice was filled with surprise.

Less than ten *li* ahead of them, a surging band of five-colored light appeared. That was broken time and space, collapsing rules, a hundred-foot-long boundary river!

At their most desperate moment, the Maze Realm had shifted!

Within the inverted and chaotic Maze Realm, the boundary rivers were constantly changing. This change was almost without pattern. What was here today might be there tomorrow, or it might remain unchanged for several months.

This was why neither the human nor the sea race built permanent fortifications in front of the boundary rivers. No matter how much they invested, it could lose its meaning overnight.

Upon discovering this boundary river, Jiang Wang immediately changed direction. Stepping on the Green Clouds, he rushed away.

If death was inevitable, then before he died, he would make his opponent pay a sufficient price.

But if there was a chance to escape, of course, his priority was to escape!

Another Eight Sounds Burning Sea was left behind to block the way, and Jiang Wang sped away, already close to the boundary river. From his storage ring, he took out a crystal-clear small bridge and directly “erected” it over the boundary river.

A crossing bridge made of maze crystal!

As the small bridge met the wind, it grew larger, spanning the boundary river. The five-colored brilliance surging beneath the bridge suddenly stilled. That was the fragmented rules being suppressed for a short time, and new rules emerging and briefly remaining.

On the five-colored boundary river, the colorless, transparent crystal bridge was precisely the embodiment of normal rules.

Allowing passage!

Under the secret art connection of Borrowing a Slope to Get Off a Donkey, Jiang Wang and Chu Mi flew towards the crossing bridge simultaneously.

But while they sensed the shift of the Maze Realm and were fortunate enough to see the boundary river appear nearby, the approaching Yu Siqing had, of course, also seen this scene.

He directly surged with the black tide, crashing into the Eight Sounds Burning Sea dao art, and tore downwards with a distant claw!

Jiang Wang’s danger senses flared. He stopped abruptly, freezing in mid-air.

And less than two meters in front of him, a terrifying claw wind directly pierced through space.

If he hadn’t stopped just now, both he and Chu Mi would have been torn in half.

Yu Siqing’s claw strike had predicted his position based on the speed he had shown.

However, now that he understood Yu Siqing’s special methods, Jiang Wang, in turn, also predicted Yu Siqing’s attack.

It seemed he had won half a move, but at the same time he was forced to stop by a claw, a terrifying figure with six wings on its back and eighty legs had already blocked the newly formed boundary river.

It was Shui Yingrong!

As the second fastest expert in this sea creature army, second only to Yu Siqing, he had chased after Yu Siqing the moment the latter found his target. And in his Sea Lord true form, he blocked the way at this moment.

Jiang Wang knew Shui Yingrong’s strength well and knew he had no possibility of instantly killing him right now.

But at this moment, there could not be a single moment of hesitation.

Because the even more terrifying Yu Siqing was right behind him!

So after stopping for a moment, Jiang Wang advanced directly, facing his opponent, exuding terrifying killing intent.

In the second Inner Mansion, frost light flickered.

Misdirection activated!

Meanwhile, Shui Yingrong had rushed over at extreme speed and blocked the newly formed boundary river.

He certainly wanted to prove himself, but seeing the young man charge at him without the slightest hesitation, he suddenly remembered the scene where six of his comrades were killed one after another when they surrounded him nine to one.

A thought arose in his mind – *I will be instantly killed!*

He couldn’t help but think: *With Yu Siqing here, this person won’t escape. My bloodline is noble, why should I be buried with him? It’s better to avoid his sharp edge first.*

So, at the critical moment of the confrontation, he suddenly flapped his wings and retreated from his position. He also gave way to the crossing bridge behind him!