Becoming a Saint Seiya since the Age of Mythology

"Huh? Why is that?" Wuxin asked, puzzled.

Pegasus raised his head and forced a smile, saying, "Some time ago, my teacher, Libra Dohko, sacrificed himself!"

"It was from that moment that I suddenly understood."

"Even a powerful Gold Saint can be sacrificed when facing a Specter."

"With my strength alone, it's far from enough to protect the Holy Land and Sasha!"

"Therefore, I must train harder and more focused to quickly improve my skills!"

"Perhaps it's my teacher's blessing from beyond, but my training efficiency has greatly improved during this period, which is why I have achieved the results I have now!"

Upon hearing this, Wuxin finally understood that it was Tonghu's death that spurred Pegasus, causing it to grow faster.

He thought for a moment and then softly comforted her, "There will always be sacrifices in war."

"Even powerful Gold Saints are no exception!"

"Because the enemies we face are not the usual low-level evil minions, but Hades, the god of the underworld, and Hades' powerful Specters."

"I believe that when Lord Dohko put on that Gold Cloth, he was already prepared to sacrifice himself."

"Therefore, we don't need to be saddened by the sacrifices of our predecessors. Instead, we should look forward, follow the direction they pointed out, pass through the darkness, and greet the dawn!"

"Okay, I got it!" Pegasus nodded, his low spirits lifted considerably.

After chatting for a while, Wuxin bid farewell to Tianma and prepared to begin his cultivation.

He walked a long way along the coast and came to the giant rock where he had last comprehended the power of ice.

"Indeed, I still prefer to meditate here!" He spotted the boulder at a glance and had no intention of continuing his search.

Then, facing the sea, he sat cross-legged on a giant rock, closed his eyes, and silently recalled everything Shion had taught him, combining it with the self-experiences shared by the other Gold Saints for enlightenment.

"What is the terror between life and death?" Wu Xin asked himself the first question.

“That’s the fear of death, the instinctive resistance of life to death!” He quickly came to the conclusion.

"But how can I overcome this fear?" Wuxin pondered.

On this point, all the Gold Saints were rather vague, and since each of them grasped the truth in a different way, the answers Wuxin received from them were even more confusing.

Like the little lion Regulus, he told Wuxin that he simply sat quietly in a forest for one night, observing the growth and decay of flowers and plants, and then he gained the seventh sense.

Compared to other Gold Saints, Regulus's process of attaining the Seventh Sense was arguably the easiest.

As for the most difficult and dangerous one, it is Pisces Yapafica.

He told himself that Pisces had a lineage of poisonous blood, and each generation of Pisces used their own poisonous blood to kill the previous generation of Pisces in order to obtain stronger poisonous blood and gain the right to inherit Pisces.

However, in the process of cultivating the poisonous blood, everyone has to go through an extremely painful poison-testing process.

They might even be poisoned to death by the toxins being tested during the cultivation process.

It was during this dangerous process of cultivating poisonous blood that Yapafica experienced countless near-death experiences before finally overcoming his fear of death, which led to an elevation of his will and the attainment of the Seventh Sense.

After comprehensively analyzing all the accounts of gold, a flash of inspiration struck Wuxin, and he involuntarily uttered two words.

"Obsession!"

As soon as he uttered those two words, his previously chaotic and vague thoughts immediately became much clearer.

He murmured to himself, "Obsession gave many of these gold pieces a reason to live, and transformed this powerful obsession into courage, enabling them to ultimately overcome the fear of death!"

An obsession is a persistent thought.

An idea or desire that will never be easily given up or denied.

For example, for Capricorn El Cid, his obsession is to forge a holy sword, to forge his own will and life into a sword, and to make his own blade the sharpest holy sword.

For Regulus the lion cub, his obsession is to follow in his father's footsteps, to converse with the earth, to appreciate the beauty of life, and to protect this beautiful world.

In order to achieve such a belief or goal, they refused to succumb to death and thus rose up in resistance, thereby overcoming their instinctive fear of death and ultimately achieving the sublimation of their will and comprehending the seventh sense.

"Then, what is my obsession?" Wuxin asked himself.

When he first came into this world, his wish was to become a Saint, master the power of Cosmo, and become one of the extraordinary beings.

Now that he has fulfilled his wish and is trying to look at the scenery from a higher perspective, it is clearly not enough to become his obsession.

Chapter 174 The Three Reunite

"Is it about climbing step by step to the summit, trying to stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods?" Wu Xin asked himself again.

However, he quickly dismissed this guess.

I do have a desire to become stronger, but I'm not so fixated on it that I absolutely must.

"So, what exactly is the obsession hidden deep within my heart?" Listening to the sound of the waves crashing against the boulders beneath him, Wuxin fell into deep thought.

This is a process of seeking one's true self and exploring one's inner self.

It focuses more on comprehension than on the usual cultivation and accumulation.

Perhaps he'll understand in the next moment, or perhaps he won't have a clue for a year or two.

This is also why, despite having many Saints in the Sanctuary, some people spend their entire lives cultivating but only ever possess a sixth sense.

In the Italian Forest Cathedral, now known as Hades, in a studio deep within the cathedral, Aaron is diligently painting on his canvas, but whenever he thinks of the past, he can't calm down.

After struggling to make another stroke, he became quite impatient and scribbled a furious stroke in the center of the canvas, ruining the nearly completed painting.

Then, he threw down his paintbrush and strode out of the studio.

Tianbaoxing, who was guarding the entrance to the art studio, immediately stood up and prepared to follow, but Aaron raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't follow me, I want to go for a walk by myself!"

Having said that, Aaron took a step forward and disappeared into the void.

In the Sanctuary, atop the sacred mountain, Sasha gazes at the starry sky, contemplating the Sanctuary's next course of action.

Suddenly, she sensed an extremely powerful cosmos rapidly approaching the Holy Domain.

"Everyone, stay on high alert!"

She shouted a warning and gripped the golden scepter tightly in her hand.

Behind them, Pope Sage and Sagittarius Sisyphus were somewhat puzzled, but they still perked up.

Soon, they also sensed that a powerful microcosm in the void was approaching the summit of the sacred mountain.

Under normal circumstances, with their strength, they would not be able to sense the existence of the microcosm across the dimensional void, but this time the situation is different.

This microcosm was exceptionally powerful, and its owner made no attempt to conceal it, instead releasing its aura without restraint.

Therefore, even across the dimensional void, their strength allowed them to sense the existence of that powerful microcosm.

"Who is that? Is it a god?" Sisyphus immediately had a guess.

Such a powerful microcosm could only be imagined by a god.

"It's Hades!"

Sage's expression was serious as he stared intently at the void ahead.

Although more than two hundred years had passed, Hades' terrifying cosmos was still fresh in his memory, so he recognized him immediately.

"Pluto?"

Sisyphus was horrified.

He never expected that it would be Hades himself who came.

Before he could figure it out, the void in front of him suddenly cracked open, and a young man dressed in a black robe walked out and landed on the summit of the holy mountain.

"Lord Sasha, be careful!"

Sage and Sisyphus didn't have time to think too much and immediately rushed over to stand in front of Sasha.

"We've finally met again!"

Aaron didn't even glance at Sage and the other two, his gaze falling directly on Sasha behind them. He then asked, "But I'm curious, are you Sasha now? Or Athena?"

"Of course I'm Sasha!"

Sasha looked serious and asked in return, "And what about you?"

"Should I call you Brother Aaron, or Hades, the King of the Underworld?"

She is the reincarnation of Athena.

She is Athena, but she is not Athena.

To be precise, she is only a part of Athena.

However, as Athena's true self fully awakens, they will merge into one and become the real Athena.

And so it is with Aaron, who is the reincarnation of Hades, the god of the underworld.

However, she was not quite sure to what extent Hades had awakened.

Aaron smiled slightly but did not answer.

Suddenly, he glanced around and said to himself, "It's a rare gathering of old friends, but Tianma isn't here. That's such a pity!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and waved it, and a dimensional portal immediately opened in front of him.

In the rocky area by the sea, Pegasus was training hard when he suddenly saw a dimensional portal open in front of him and was a little confused.

However, upon sensing the familiar presence emanating from the other end of the passage, he immediately shouted and rushed inside.

"Aaron—"

Stepping into the dimensional passage, he felt a blur before his eyes and found himself at the summit of the sacred mountain.

Upon closer inspection, they saw Aaron standing there, confronting Sasha and the others.

"It really was you, Aaron!"

"You still owe me a punch!"

Without hesitation, Pegasus accelerated and pounced forward, throwing a powerful punch.

However, Aaron simply smiled, casually raised his right hand, and easily blocked Pegasus's punch, sending it flying back.