Chapter 288: An Utterly Crushing Attack!
In the Sanctuary Flame phoenix head’s sharp beak, a deep black Sanctuary Flame was surging and spreading, and with a full force, it fiercely closed.
And it wanted to crush the Amaterasu consciousness in its mouth.
However, it was as if a jackal were gnawing on a hard bone. It could not be completely crushed in a short time.
Not to mention, the Sanctuary Flame phoenix head was not a jackal, and the Amaterasu consciousness was not a bone.
A powerful Sanctuary Flame surged into Susanoo’s body, and like a maggot on a bone, it coiled and spread.
But this body was extremely strange.
It was Susanoo’s body, driven by Amaterasu’s consciousness.
So, the pain caused to his body, Amaterasu’s consciousness did not feel at all. So she would not lose her judgment due to the pain, let alone have her thoughts affected.
However, this did not mean that Amaterasu’s consciousness would disregard the Sanctuary Flame’s rampage.
After all, the Sanctuary Flame was burning Susanoo’s body. This would undoubtedly greatly damage the body’s functions. With the pain of the Sanctuary Flame gone, the rational Amaterasu consciousness would not let this happen.
In an instant, the destructive power of the lightning fought head-on with the Sanctuary Flame, and they neutralized each other.
Not only that, but Amaterasu’s purification light, though not strong, was also used by this branch-level Amaterasu consciousness, and it dispelled the Sanctuary Flame.
Although it was a small amount, it was extremely effective.
After all, this was a great power from a higher level.
Under the light of the purification light, and with the destructive power of the lightning, the Sanctuary Flame dissolved like a snowflake.
At the same time, in reality…
Amaterasu’s consciousness condensed and spread a powerful arc of electricity from her hands, and with the addition of her body’s functions running at an overload, and without regard to damaging her muscles…
She exerted an unimaginable great force.
“Boom——————!!!”
The Sanctuary Flame phoenix head’s huge bite force, in a brilliant and powerful explosion, was forcibly pried open by Amaterasu’s consciousness.
The Sanctuary Flame phoenix head’s bird beak transformed into a void and disintegrated.
And it let out a pained cry.
“Mwa—!”
And it fell downwards.
Although the phoenix head was almost condensed into a solid form by Natsuba Hanae, it was not a real solid, but a manifestation of her power that had been derived after she had reached the peak god level, and with her own traits.
If Natsuba Hanae could really transform the phoenix head into a solid form, and have flesh and blood…
At that time, her power level would once again soar.
And as the Sanctuary Flame phoenix head let out a painful cry and fell backward, Amaterasu’s consciousness, in her pure, flawless, sun-like pupils, quickly looked to the left.
And there, Natsuba Hanae instantly appeared.
The power of the Old God, like a bomb, suddenly detonated at Natsuba Hanae’s elbow, and it fiercely struck down at Amaterasu’s abdomen!
Seeing this…
Amaterasu’s consciousness had long since sensed it, and had also gathered a lightning force that was as brilliant as the sun, and had swung it at Natsuba Hanae’s elbow!
“Boom——————!!”
The sound was deafening.
The two, like reverse-flying meteors, with long trails of flames, were sent flying in opposite directions by the mutual impact.
But even so…
The attack still did not stop.
In the high sky, in the crimson vertical pupil of the soul phoenix head, an unprecedented soul storm erupted, and it looked at the retreating Amaterasu consciousness.
The phoenix head of the Old God, like a massive meteor crashing down, carried a monstrous fierce great power. A hint of extreme violence appeared in its crimson vertical pupil, and it ferociously shot towards Amaterasu’s consciousness.
Amaterasu’s consciousness saw the violent attack of the phoenix head of the Old God, and her two hands condensed the shining sun and prepared to unleash it.
However, the soul storm ignored distance and speed, and directly acted on Amaterasu’s consciousness.
Her consciousness, which had been in Susanoo’s body, was slightly dazed for a moment, and a pure white outline of a head emerged from Susanoo’s body.
Under the deterrence of the soul phoenix head, Susanoo’s body and Amaterasu’s consciousness were briefly separated.
Naturally, Amaterasu’s consciousness’s original attack, due to the separation of the two, was defeated without a fight, and it turned into countless star dust and dissipated in her palm.
In the next moment, the phoenix head of the Old God, carrying overwhelming power, struck fiercely.
The massive bird’s head fiercely slammed into Susanoo’s body.
In an instant, the blood, which was like a lightning plasma, sprayed out.
Susanoo’s body, which had been forcibly re-fused by Amaterasu, once again showed a state of disintegration. But under the flash of the purification light…
The state of disintegration quickly healed.
Although Amaterasu’s consciousness’s ability did not have super-speed regeneration, now Susanoo’s body could not be generalized with a normal peak god.
The purification light was just to forcibly heal it, and to use Susanoo’s body without regard to the loss.
Although Amaterasu’s consciousness’s residual memory told her…
The main body needed Susanoo’s strength after he had grown up to be completely fed back to itself, to enhance and supplement the power of the main body.
But according to the current situation…
If Amaterasu’s consciousness didn’t deal with the enemy before her, she simply couldn’t take Susanoo’s body back. What about the excessive use of power?
Not only that…
Just a single branch of Amaterasu’s consciousness’s power was extremely limited. If she didn’t deal with the other in a short time, and if it dragged on for a long time, whether it was Amaterasu’s consciousness’s power or Susanoo’s power, both would be completely consumed.
She had to act quickly.
Her consciousness returned to her body.
She could not immediately recover her combat power, but Amaterasu’s consciousness had other means.
In Amaterasu’s pure white beautiful eyes, a brilliant light, like the sun, and a vast power, like a lightning light, emerged, and it boiled and shone like molten lava, and a golden light overflowed.
“Beckon.”
Amaterasu’s consciousness said softly.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble————————————!!!”
A loud sound, as if the sky were shaking, appeared here.
In the next moment, at the peak of the lightning giant tree, the lightning great sun that hung from the nine heavens erupted with layers of dazzling halos, and it leaped on the surface like a solar flare.
A powerful lightning plasma dripped down.
And after dripping, it fiercely transformed into a coiling, twisting, massive lightning dragon, and it radiated an extremely dazzling and blinding light. With a single move, it leaped a thousand miles and instantly charged at the phoenix head of the Old God.
“Boom——————!”
The lightning dragon collided with the phoenix head of the Old God. Although it did not send the phoenix head flying, it only moved it a little.
But for Amaterasu’s consciousness, this was completely enough.
And the consciousness took this opportunity to escape from the battle.
In the next moment, a sound of a lightning explosion shook Amaterasu’s consciousness’s eardrums, and it was deafening.
But this lightning explosion was not from Amaterasu, but…
—Natsuba Hanae!
Her entire body was surrounded by a powerful and boiling lightning arc. Natsuba Hanae’s speed had soared to a new level.
Especially with the buff of the summoned phoenix head of lightning, her current speed was even higher than Susanoo’s at his peak.
In Natsuba Hanae’s right fist, a lightning light spread and boiled, and it carried an endless power, an unparalleled speed, and she fiercely struck at Amaterasu’s consciousness.
With her own way, she returned it.
Although Susanoo was no longer the same as before, for Natsuba Hanae, there was not much difference.
After all, the face was still the same, and the enemy was still the enemy.
Natsuba Hanae only felt sorry for Susanoo for being whipped even after he had died.
But to control with Amaterasu’s consciousness, and with the buff of Amaterasu’s divinity, and with Susanoo’s own lightning authority, and with Amaterasu’s consciousness overdrawing Susanoo’s physical strength…
Facing Natsuba Hanae’s lightning-fast blow, Amaterasu’s consciousness had also reacted quickly.
The consciousness’s right hand shone with a dazzling light, and it slightly affected Natsuba Hanae’s vision. Then, with a fist that was also filled with a powerful lightning might, it fiercely smashed it against Natsuba Hanae’s fist!
“Boom——————!!!”
With a single blow, the wind rolled up the clouds.
With the two of them as the center, the air waves rolled far away.
And this was just the beginning.
One punch after another, their attacks were like a storm, and they were endless, and they were like falling raindrops, and they were powerful and destructive.
The power Natsuba Hanae had gathered was one punch stronger than the other. Her lightning power was mixed with the power of the Old God.
Amaterasu’s consciousness was by no means to be outdone.
Although in terms of power, the consciousness couldn’t compare to Natsuba Hanae’s dual composite of the Old God’s power and the lightning power, it didn’t care about the pain. Even if its skin was torn and its bones were exposed, and its golden lightning plasma blood shot out, it continued to smash.
And from time to time, the consciousness would use the power of the shining sun to also inflict trauma on Natsuba Hanae.
However, this level of trauma, under Natsuba Hanae’s slight covering of her immortality, was instantly healed.
Not only that, but Natsuba Hanae also controlled her other phoenix heads, and continuously attacked the lightning giant tree, and plundered and absorbed the power within it.
As time passed…
Amaterasu’s consciousness’s power began to decline, and it was no longer as powerful as it was at the beginning.
Clearly, just a single branch of Amaterasu’s consciousness’s power from the ten-fist sword was simply not enough for a protracted battle.
Not to mention that Amaterasu’s main body was still in a slumber and could not lend it power.
However…
It was about enough.
A hazy thought flashed in Amaterasu’s consciousness’s mind.
It just needed to stall for a little more time.
In Susanoo’s shell, Amaterasu’s consciousness glanced at the lightning shining sun at the top of the canopy.
Of course, Susanoo’s expression did not show any artifact, and there was no turn of his head or strange color. He was directly facing Natsuba Hanae.
However, with its current power, the consciousness could no longer use its power to continue to stall.
Thinking of this…
Amaterasu’s consciousness spoke again.
“Outsider… you’ve grown to this level.”
“It’s beyond my expectations.”
“From the information I received from Ebisu, you should have just entered a high-level god not long ago.”
But the current Natsuba Hanae had almost grown to the extreme of a peak god.
If not for the fact that in this world, there was no way to give birth to an existence above a god, probably when its main body was sleeping, a same-level existence would have appeared.
In that case, it would be bad.
While it was sleeping, it had forced all the gods to sleep with it, precisely to prevent the appearance of a power beyond its expectations.
Because as a “fruit” born from the mother tree, in theory, these gods had a part of its essence. When they reached the peak of a peak god and approached the extreme level…
They could glimpse a part of the method of advancing to a higher level.
But it had not expected that an accident would still happen.
However, the accident did not come from its own “fruit” god, but from an outsider.
An outsider meant that Natsuba Hanae had a mastery that was beyond its own silk threads.
Of course, an outsider also could not, at the extreme of a peak god, glimpse the reality of a higher level. This was a restriction on the outsider’s path to advancement.
And now, its clone consciousness had already awakened.
The outsider would no longer have a chance to learn about the path to advancement.
And besides, in its own world, to achieve the conditions for advancement was simply impossible. The conditions were too harsh.
However, no matter what, even if the outsider could not advance, the hidden danger had to be eliminated.
The “fruit” that had touched the extreme of a peak god had to be eliminated, let alone an outsider.
Thinking of this, Amaterasu’s consciousness prepared to speak again.
“In just a short time………”
However, before Amaterasu’s consciousness could finish speaking.
Natsuba Hanae’s red, glass-like beautiful eyes swirled. Her eyes were filled with a brilliant, strange color, and with her perception fully open, she was observing everything around her.
Natsuba Hanae’s lips pursed slightly, and she said softly,
“Are you stalling for time?”
“To use such meaningless words to stall for time, but not to release a single bit of valuable information. Do you think I’ll just stand here and listen to you?”
Natsuba Hanae’s lips curled into a faint smile. As she spoke, her hands were completely merciless.
Several powers were now gathered and harmonized in her hands. The great power of the eight phoenixes instantly bloomed from this, and the myriad of phenomena were reversed. A sound like a tearing of space was heard.
Although it was simple and unadorned, this was Natsuba Hanae using the eight powers to become one, a simple and crude, pure power.
Precisely because it was simple, Natsuba Hanae could completely gather this power in her fist, without a single bit of leakage.
In the next moment, Natsuba Hanae threw a punch.
All kinds of colors shone at the same time, powerful and magnificent, surging.
Like a black hole that devoured everything, deep and awe-inspiring to the soul, deathly still and filled with a destructive and catastrophic power.
“Boom!”
The sound was faint, but its killing power was astonishing.
Susanoo’s body, as if it were made of paper, was instantly destroyed, and transformed into countless lightning arc light points, which spread and leaped, and gave off a crystal clear, bright light.
But it was instantly and completely devoured by Natsuba Hanae’s Sanctuary Flame.
And a pure white outline phantom, with only Amaterasu’s consciousness left, was left.
And with its not-so-much power consumed, the pure white outline phantom was much dimmer than before, and no longer blinding.
Natsuba Hanae’s right hand quickly grabbed the phantom’s neck.
The residue of Natsuba Hanae’s previous eight powers still gathered in her hand, and could be used again. She suddenly squeezed.
“Boom————————!!!”
The phantom’s neck instantly exploded, and its head was separated.
However, that pair of open pure white beautiful eyes did not disappear, nor did they close.
In its pupils, which should have been without emotion, a look of relief appeared. It said faintly,
“It’s done.”
In an instant, at the peak of the lightning giant tree, which was about to collapse, that one great sun, which was condensed with lightning.
From it, a brilliant beam of light suddenly shot out.
And it shot straight into the distance!
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