Chapter 275: A Smart-Mouthed Natsuba Hanae
Before Natsuba Genryū’s blood and flesh splattered on the ground, a Sanctuary Flame ignited out of thin air and burned all of him, and he was wiped from this world.
After all, a disgusting thing, even if it didn’t splash on Natsuba Hanae, to splash on the flowers and grass on the roadside was quite bad.
And at this moment, Natsuba Rinrei arrived late.
When Natsuba Rinrei had arrived nearby, she had just happened to see the scene of Natsuba Genryū being stomped on by Natsuba Hanae.
A sense of exhilaration naturally arose in Natsuba Rinrei’s heart. She only felt that the air had become fresher, and the heavy shackles on her body had been instantly shattered, and she was feeling a freedom she had never felt before.
And Natsuba Rinrei came to Natsuba Hanae’s side.
Although Natsuba Rinrei’s eyes were filled with reverence for Natsuba Hanae, she couldn’t help but complain,
“Hua… Mother.”
“I don’t mind that you impersonated me. I haven’t been in a battle, and I’m fine.”
“But at least let me give Natsuba Genryū a good punch! That old thing really disgusted me before. And I lost to him.”
“I was originally thinking of getting my face back myself, but…”
“You just killed him like that.”
Natsuba Rinrei looked at Natsuba Hanae’s feet, as if she could still see a trace of Natsuba Genryū’s existence.
However, in reality…
Not to mention a trace, under the burning of the Sanctuary Flame, Natsuba Genryū would not remain a single bit in this world.
And Natsuba Hanae, listening to Natsuba Rinrei’s complaint…
Natsuba Hanae couldn’t help but purse her lips slightly and look at the chattering Natsuba Rinrei. A hint of sternness appeared in her red, glass-like beautiful eyes.
Then Natsuba Hanae said,
“Rinrei.”
Hearing this, the originally constantly talking Natsuba Rinrei was slightly taken aback, and immediately replied,
“Here.”
Hearing Natsuba Rinrei’s reply, Natsuba Hanae continued,
“A daughter shouldn’t meddle in her mother’s affairs.”
“When did you advance to the peak of A-rank? Have you started to master divinity? How much did you improve from yesterday to today? That little Xiao Bai is now about to break through to mid-god level.”
Natsuba Rinrei: “…”
Her head hurt, as if something were about to crack.
Facing Natsuba Hanae’s soul question, the originally complaining Natsuba Rinrei opened her mouth, and she was speechless.
And Natsuba Hanae had severely suppressed Natsuba Rinrei’s complaining air.
A cunning curve appeared on Natsuba Hanae’s lips. Under her own tutelage, her older sister was becoming more and more obedient.
However, the time for Natsuba Hanae to relax was also only for a short while.
Natsuba Hanae saw the ten-fist sword that had emerged from Natsuba Genryū’s head after he had died. Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she walked towards it.
And prepared to take it in her hand.
However, just as Natsuba Hanae had taken a few steps towards the ten-fist sword…
On the ground under the ten-fist sword, an arc of lightning radiance suddenly appeared. The ten-fist sword instantly sank and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this, a strange light appeared in Natsuba Hanae’s eyes.
As expected…
Such a big commotion had occurred outside the main residence, and with Natsuba Genryū’s death, and the golden lightning in his body before, it was probably some of Susanoo’s means.
Natsuba Kouryu and Natsuba Taiga’s deaths, Susanoo had not felt, because at that time, his divinity had not yet revived. And Natsuba Genryū’s death…
Susanoo’s unconscious divinity had revived a small part.
Susanoo must have sensed it.
Once Susanoo had sensed Natsuba Genryū’s death, and knew that the means he had planted in his body had been destroyed, and with a slight perception that his left and right arms had no response…
Susanoo would surely…
Awaken.
Just as Natsuba Hanae had thought of this…
Suddenly…
“—————Rumble!!!!”
The sky, which had already been affected by the pale golden giant and was covered in dark clouds, a thousand thunders roared at once, deafening, and echoed endlessly.
And a rumbling shook this entire area.
And in the next second…
The pale golden giant that was fighting Xiao Bai suddenly froze.
And with a fierce sweep of Xiao Bai’s snake tail, the pale golden giant was instantly dispersed.
But this dispersal was not swept away by Xiao Bai, but was the pale golden giant’s own doing.
After dispersing, countless golden specks of light, like a violent hurricane, wrapped everything and swept towards the dark clouds in the sky, and merged with them.
Then…
In Natsuba Hanae’s sight…
“Boom————————!!!!”
A massive, brilliant golden lightning bolt tore through the dark clouds, and with an unparalleled, vast power, it continuously descended and struck the towering oak tree in the center of the main residence.
In an instant, the entire oak tree was filled with a golden brilliance.
And the lightning strike did not make the oak tree decay or turn into two halves, but all the lightning divinity was absorbed by the oak tree.
The originally numerous yellow leaves all fell.
Then, a new branch appeared, and it took root and sprouted.
The originally extremely tall and large oak tree grew upwards again, and its body became so large that it blotted out the sun. Its branches spread and covered the entire main residence.
In fact, it even covered a large part of the city outside.
And it blocked the sunlight that was projected from the other side of the sky, and enveloped everything below in a shadow.
But the places blocked by the oak tree were not dark or dim.
The light source was filled with lightning light, and it was exceptionally bright.
It was as if a new small world had been created under the tree, and the vastness of the outside sky had been cast aside.
Natsuba Hanae seemed to vaguely understand Susanoo’s thoughts.
Before, Natsuba Hanae had heard from Yamata no Orochi that Susanoo should have been able to advance to a higher level, but had been interrupted by Tsukuyomi.
Now it seemed that Susanoo had not given up on the idea of continuing to advance.
Even in his slumber, Susanoo was using a special method to realize his own vision.
Why had Susanoo been the last to fall into a slumber a thousand years ago? It was highly likely that it had a slight connection with this reason.
And at this time, the oak tree, which had already grown to its extreme, once again underwent a change.
Natsuba Hanae saw that in the middle of the oak tree…
A brilliant and dazzling light cracked open. A pair of black, obsidian-like hands extended from within.
Then, with a fierce tear to both sides…
The center of the oak tree, which had already cracked, instantly tore open a diamond-shaped tunnel.
In the next moment…
A white-haired man in a black and gold cloud robe emerged from within and stood in the air.
On Susanoo’s handsome and extraordinary face, his features were three-dimensional and exquisite. Around his body, lightning, like a snake’s bow, twisted a thousand times, but it did not harm him in the slightest.
In fact, when it got close to Susanoo, the violent, twisting lightning was as well-behaved as a pet.
Susanoo’s pure gold pupils, as if from outside the nine heavens, exuded an indifferent color that was difficult to describe, high and mighty, and he looked down on everything below.
But no divine might came out.
However, in Natsuba Hanae’s eyes, this was the most dangerous situation.
Due to her own reaching the peak of the divine realm, Natsuba Hanae knew very well that the higher the rank of a peak god, before they unleashed their divinity, the more they could restrain themselves, which meant the more extreme their mastery of their own divinity.
And the god before Natsuba Hanae was undoubtedly this kind.
Susanoo crossed his arms, and his pure gold pupils swept downwards. When he saw Natsuba Hanae and her group…
A hint of disgust appeared in Susanoo’s arrogant and indifferent pupils.
And Susanoo’s deep voice, mixed with a lightning-like roar, sounded here.
“To welcome my awakening, why are they all bastards?”
“A bastard should have been killed at birth. How can they still be alive until now?”
“And the head of the family I created? Doesn’t he even know this much courtesy?”
Susanoo looked around, as if he were still looking for the current head of the Natsuba direct descendants, that is, the original Natsuba Genryū.
Unfortunately, Natsuba Genryū had long since been killed by Natsuba Hanae. Not to mention the whole person, but even a single bit of flesh and blood could not be found.
If Susanoo could find him now, that would be a strange thing.
However, Natsuba Hanae now also knew…
From before until now, Susanoo had also been in a slumber. Only that small part of his consciousness was active. So even if Natsuba Genryū had died, the means in his body had also quickly triggered Susanoo’s awakening, and he did not know all the information.
After all, Susanoo’s authority was only lightning.
And was by no means “omniscient and omnipotent.”
Everything that a peak god could master, Natsuba Hanae still knew a little about. After all, Natsuba Hanae herself was at this level. Things Natsuba Hanae couldn’t do, Susanoo had no reason to be able to do.
Back then, when Natsuba Hanae had observed Kamishiro Naraku through her divinity, it was not a so-called small part of her consciousness that had awakened, but all of it.
Even so, if Natsuba Hanae had not focused her gaze on that side at that time, she would not have known this information.
Gods were by no means omnipotent.
Of course, Natsuba Hanae knew that a peak god was like this, but as for Amaterasu, that rank above a peak god, what she was like, Natsuba Hanae didn’t know.
Not only that, when Natsuba Hanae heard Susanoo’s words, her red, glass-like beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and her heart was a little unhappy.
And between Natsuba Hanae’s lips, it was as usual, a gentle and faint smile.
Facing Susanoo, Natsuba Hanae said,
“Courtesy?”
“Has no one ever taught you that you should stand on the same ground as a person to speak? That is what is called courtesy.”
“Oh, I almost forgot. A person with no mother, a bastard who just grew out of a tree, how could anyone teach him what courtesy is?”
Natsuba Hanae’s one sentence, although it seemed to be a counterattack and a fierce mockery of Susanoo…
In reality, it was indeed a fierce mockery of Susanoo.
However, besides this, Natsuba Hanae was also using this to verify the truth of what Yamata no Orochi had said before.
The so-called mother tree giving birth to all the nascent gods, was this true or not?
If Susanoo didn’t deny it, then it would be confirmed.
And when Susanoo heard Natsuba Hanae’s sentence, his originally indifferent expression immediately showed a hint of a slight anger.
Susanoo’s pure gold pupils stared at Natsuba Hanae, and Susanoo said,
“To insult me, you should receive the punishment of heaven!”
In an instant…
On Susanoo’s black, obsidian-like arm, a golden marking flashed, and it filled his dark arm, and it coiled and twisted.
Until it gathered in his palm…
And a thousand lightning powers shone within, and condensed into a lightning spear.
And Susanoo fiercely clenched it.
In an instant, under the oak tree, the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon swirled. In the interchange of the lightning light, the sun and the moon reversed, and it triggered this celestial phenomenon.
With just the power of his pure arm, Susanoo fiercely threw it.
And it came at Natsuba Hanae like a flash of lightning.
However, after Susanoo had thrown it, he squeezed his fist. A slight confusion appeared in Susanoo’s pure gold pupils. Susanoo only felt that his arm’s strength was much less. He should have been able to exert an even more powerful force.
And if Natsuba Hanae knew Susanoo’s thoughts, perhaps she would have new taunts.
After all, the divinity and power that Susanoo’s two arms lacked…
Were naturally devoured by Natsuba Hanae.
Therefore, there was no feedback to Susanoo’s body. However, because Natsuba Hanae had devoured his divinity completely, Susanoo could not get any memories from the escaping divinity.
At the same time, Natsuba Hanae also got the truth of the mother tree’s news.
And Natsuba Hanae had also, from Susanoo’s words, understood other things.
For example…
Back then, the pseudo-Susanoo had often used lightning punishment. This was very normal.
And the current true Susanoo’s so-called punishment of heaven was extremely interesting.
It was no longer said to be a punishment of lightning. Susanoo was now representing heaven to punish Natsuba Hanae.
And with his emergence from the oak tree, this made Natsuba Hanae think a lot.
Susanoo’s actions this time were clearly imitating Amaterasu, and he had constructed the world under the oak tree into his own world.
To advance to a higher level.
Thinking of this, a crimson color flashed in Natsuba Hanae’s red, glass-like beautiful eyes, and it transformed into a vertical pupil, and it became brilliant and dazzling.
And Natsuba Hanae felt that she had a high chance of obtaining some information about advancing from Susanoo’s body, and to let herself also march towards Amaterasu’s rank!
However, Natsuba Hanae was not the protagonist of a novel or an anime. Natsuba Hanae couldn’t use her eloquence to make Susanoo tell her everything, and to let her also get the method of advancing.
Then Natsuba Hanae could only use violent means, with her fists, to make Susanoo talk.
Not only that, but because Natsuba Hanae’s soul power had also become one of her phoenix heads, and its power had greatly increased, even if it was a peak god, even if Susanoo couldn’t speak, to beat him to near death, and then to use her soul power to forcibly search his memory, Natsuba Hanae could also get some gains.
Natsuba Hanae said,
“Punishment of heaven?”
“Just this little bit of a heaven, and you have the nerve to say such a thing. Your skin is thicker than the mother tree’s bark.”
Susanoo, although he was a god from a thousand years ago, and had fought countless battles…
But a thousand years ago, there was very likely no such fighting style of enraging the enemy. From the last time, the so-called enraging method might be effective.
So, Natsuba Hanae constantly taunted him.
Not only that, but her body’s peak god’s power began to erupt from her body. The Sanctuary Flame and her divinity intertwined, and it rendered Natsuba Hanae’s crimson vertical pupil to a black and red evolution.
And a great power was powerful and magnificent!
