After the gap in the net of the crystal shield became big enough to contain his shoulders, Money Body stuffed his head into it. Then he pushed himself deeper into the gap.
The crystal shield was very thick this time around, so even when Money Body’s entire body entered it completely, he still hadn’t reached the other end.
With his entire body inside the crystal shield, he sent a message to the three of them through the divine constellation, saying, "Follow me. Go according to your strength."
The three of them quickly obeyed the order, so Nether Flame immediately entered the hole in the crystal shield. Ant Hill went after Nether Flame. Then Loki followed behind them.
He went last even though he was not the weakest. But the fact that he wasn’t the weakest one among the four of them was information that only he knew, and he intended to keep things that way.
By the time all of them had entered the crystal shield, Money Body still hadn’t come out from the other side. Money Body was still struggling and pushing his way out.
Even though Money Body was doing the brunt of the work, the three behind him were not having a good time. This was because the net was still vibrating and still attacking everything that touched it.
The net might not be able to damage Money Body anymore, but it was still dangerous to them. Fortunately, Money Body had weakened the overall power of the net. Plus, the resistance of the net is directly proportional to the power of the intruder trying to force their way through.
In a normal situation, the resistance of the net should be enough to shred their bodies into pieces. But thanks to the Money Body Metac, the resistance of the net had now become too weak to kill them.
The net could only damage their bodies. This level of injury was something they could heal without spending much of their lifespan. So while passage might be difficult, it was no longer deadly.
To this, Loki thought, saying, ’Praise Money Body.’
He was partly sarcastic and partly sincere. The undeniable truth was that without Monarch Money Body’s actions, entry into this world would either have killed them outright or would have left them at death’s door, even if they managed to pass through it.
But since this was Monarch Money Body’s job, and Money Body had taken a few years of their lifespan just earlier with the Golden Light Metac, Loki was not in the mood to praise him.
After ten minutes of struggling and pushing, they finally passed through the crystal shield. When Loki finally entered the world, the great serpent was gone. So he didn’t see what Money Body had been fighting all along.
However, he didn’t think about the missing enemy for now. Instead, he was thinking about how difficult it had been to pass through the crystal shield.
So he looked up at the sky as he thought to himself, ’I hope leaving this world wouldn’t be as difficult as entering it, or escaping urgently and quickly will be impossible.’
As he watched, the gap in the sky was healing and closing. This created a sense of slowly being trapped in this world.
Meanwhile, Money Body was looking down below and searching for the great serpent. When he didn’t find it, he became regretful.
His tone was regretful as he said to them, "The world king has escaped. It seems he realized that he was no match for me. So he is definitely going to resort to tricks."
"I would like to pursue him, but that’s not our goal here. Our goal is to set up an outpost. So we won’t pursue him and let him lead us around by the nose."
"But before we get to work building the outpost, we must secure our exit. So we should find one of the lost shield breakers and use the two of them to set up a channel through the crystal shield. That way, we will be able to escape if something goes wrong."
After he said this, they got to work. Loki was the only one with a copy of the shield breaker, so he was the one who initiated the plan to secure their exit.
He started by activating the shield breaker in his hands. Then he used the copy in his hand to link up with the nearest shield breaker. This caused a pillar of energy to form between the two copies.
The four of them followed the pillar of energy to its other end. This journey took them to a whale. The whale had swallowed the homunculus that was holding the shield breaker.
During the journey, every creature they came across attacked them. From shrimp to fish and to whales, the whole world attacked them. And the scope of the attack was only increasing over time.
At first, it was only the creatures that saw them that attacked them. But after a while, even creatures that had never seen them came looking for them. And when these creatures traveled to meet them, they always came with ill intentions.
For a while, only creatures within the range of a hundred meters came looking for them. But this range of enmity quickly spread far and wide across Oceania. So it only took a few minutes for a stampede to happen in the ocean.
Thousands and thousands of creatures of various kinds rushed at them to kill them. Because there wasn’t enough space around them, these creatures got in each other’s way and formed a wall of agitated beasts who came to kill the intruders.
The agitated creatures didn’t care about their cultivation at all. They didn’t care that they were at most rank 5 creatures, while the intruders were at least rank 6.
They didn’t care about the vast gap in power between them and the intruders or care about their lives. All they cared about was killing the invaders at whatever the cost.