Chapter 307: The Advancement Conditions for a Being Above a God!
It could be said that this was a weakness artificially created by Natsuba Hanae.
But it had to be said, it was extremely effective.
All of Natsuba Hanae’s previous attacks were not as effective as this one heavy blow to the soul.
After all, having lost a quarter of its soul and spirit, Amaterasu’s soul and spirit were no longer at a level above a god, but were at the extreme of a peak god, almost at the same level as Natsuba Hanae!
And in a confrontation at the same level, Natsuba Hanae had always been one of the best.
At the same time, Natsuba Hanae saw Amaterasu’s reaction.
Her expression moved slightly, but her heart couldn’t help but feel a little joy.
Indeed, Amaterasu also had a weakness after all.
Honestly, Amaterasu’s terrifyingly peerless regenerative ability, just when used on other controlled puppets, was already extremely tricky.
Whether it was the strange creatures before, or the subsequent Kamishiro Sōshin and Kamishiro Take, if Natsuba Hanae had not possessed the Sanctuary Flame, which was a natural nemesis to Amaterasu’s divinity, and if she herself had not possessed Amaterasu’s divinity, only then could she have used the Sanctuary Flame to devour Amaterasu’s divinity.
Just the strange creatures and Kamishiro Sōshin and the others would have cost her a lot of her divinity.
Probably, before facing Amaterasu directly, Natsuba Hanae would have consumed a part of her power.
And Natsuba Hanae’s own power was already not as good as Amaterasu’s, let alone after consuming a part of it.
In fact, even with Natsuba Hanae’s unsportsmanlike sneak attack, which had forced Amaterasu to this point, Amaterasu could still use its own strength as a being above a god to forcibly fight Natsuba Hanae to a standstill.
Now, as Amaterasu’s divinity was gradually awakening, the regenerative power brought by the divinity was also slowly manifesting on Its body.
Even if Natsuba Hanae’s attacks occasionally hit Amaterasu, with a flash of white brilliance, Amaterasu’s wounds would instantly recover.
Its terrifying regenerative power was even more formidable than Natsuba Hanae’s immortality.
So, Natsuba Hanae had been looking for Amaterasu’s weakness.
The soul-nature attack was also just a tentative attack from Natsuba Hanae.
But she had not expected that this one test had revealed the weakness that Amaterasu itself carried, and this weakness had been magnified by her own previous lucky chance.
That’s right!
Amaterasu’s unparalleled regenerative ability was all based on its physical body.
Amaterasu’s soul and spirit did not inherit this regenerative ability, and were just of an ordinary strength at the level above a god. And after Natsuba Hanae had taken a quarter of Amaterasu’s soul and spiritual power, this ordinary strength above a god had also fallen.
And had become the extreme of a peak god.
And it had also given Natsuba Hanae a visible hope of defeating Amaterasu.
As her thoughts turned, Natsuba Hanae once again threw a punch at Amaterasu. And Amaterasu, having been hit by Natsuba Hanae’s soul attack, its spirit was briefly scattered. By the time It had reacted, Natsuba Hanae’s fist had already come before it.
“Boom——————!!”
A punch squarely on Its face.
Crimson blood flowed down, but the white, dazzling Amaterasu divinity flashed for a moment, and the wound had already disappeared in the next instant.
Amaterasu could not stop this one punch from Natsuba Hanae.
So, It decided to give a taste of its own medicine. When Natsuba Hanae threw a punch at It, and as she approached It, It was also approaching her.
A punch mixed with a wisp of Amaterasu divinity erupted with a brilliant light, and it was aimed at Natsuba Hanae’s abdomen.
If Amaterasu’s one punch with just its physical body could fight Natsuba Hanae’s, which was enhanced with the Sanctuary Flame and crimson divinity, to a standstill, then Amaterasu’s one punch, enhanced with Amaterasu’s divinity, had undoubtedly surpassed that level.
Even with immortality…
Natsuba Hanae could by no means take it head-on. If Amaterasu’s divinity were to pour into her own body, it would surely cause trouble.
But, seeing this, Natsuba Hanae did not dodge.
On the contrary, her originally azure, star-like beautiful eyes had begun to turn a deep blue, vast and boundless. A powerful soul power, almost condensed into a substance, seemed to have transformed into a drill that broke through the heavens.
And it suddenly charged at Amaterasu’s mind.
Natsuba Hanae chose to trade an injury for an injury!
And Amaterasu, before, had not expected that Natsuba Hanae possessed soul power. When Natsuba Hanae’s soul power had erupted, It had been on guard against it.
Its soul and spiritual power had only lost a quarter, not completely disappeared.
For a threat to the soul, It could naturally sense it very clearly.
Almost in the instant Natsuba Hanae had condensed her soul power, It had withdrawn Its right fist and had immediately chosen to dodge.
Natsuba Hanae wanting to trade an injury for an injury was entirely because from Natsuba Hanae’s standpoint, it was a gain.
But from Amaterasu’s standpoint, this was clearly a losing trade.
An attack on the soul, It could not recover from. It was permanent, and needed time to recover. It was naturally a loss.
Not to mention, It Itself had already lost a quarter of Its consciousness and spirit.
Once Its soul was injured again, and Its soul strength was lower than Natsuba Hanae’s, that would be truly bad.
Amaterasu’s strength was slowly recovering. When Its divinity had recovered a large part, It would have the ability to defeat Natsuba Hanae. There was no need to let Its soul power be below the other’s, and for this weakness to appear.
Facing the soul power that was still attacking It as It retreated…
From Amaterasu’s waterfall-like, brilliant golden long hair, two strands of hair shone with a faint, dazzling light, and they danced and fiercely swung forward.
“Boom——————!!”
Invisibly…
The deep blue soul power instantly exploded.
And it transformed into a tide that spread out in circles.
Yes, Amaterasu was weak against soul power, but this did not mean that It couldn’t use a means to destroy it before the soul power attack came.
Affected by this, the two finally separated from their continuous attacks, and could both take a slight breather.
However, even so…
Natsuba Hanae was not idle. In her mind, she was thinking about the subsequent battle plan. And after she had come to the main world, she was even more frantically controlling the crimson vertical pupil, to further suppress the Yōbi.
And the Mother Tree under the Yōbi.
To shine the crimson brilliance on the Mother Tree as much as possible. Under the cover of the crimson brilliance, fine Sanctuary Flames emerged from her body, and invisibly, they merged into the air.
When the crimson brilliance had shone a little on the Mother Tree…
The Sanctuary Flame also slowly entered.
However, the Sanctuary Flame was only lurking, and did not erupt.
Natsuba Hanae had already sensed that Amaterasu’s recovery of power was clearly unstoppable, and sooner or later, It would completely recover to the true level of a being above a god.
Since it was unstoppable, she could only use a hidden move.
From Amaterasu’s behavior just now, Amaterasu clearly wanted to accelerate the recovery of Its own divinity and to increase the amount of its divinity by absorbing the Mother Tree’s Amaterasu divinity.
And since Amaterasu so wanted to absorb the Mother Tree’s Amaterasu divinity, Natsuba Hanae would add some ingredients to the Mother Tree.
And let Amaterasu absorb it well.
A barely visible faint smile appeared on Natsuba Hanae’s lips.
Right now, she had to stall for enough time. After all, if the Sanctuary Flame were to split too much at once and merge into the Mother Tree, it would surely be observed by Amaterasu.
She could only slowly merge it wisp by wisp.
And the more it merged, the greater the effect would naturally be when it was completely detonated.
Not only that, but if at that time, the divinity that Amaterasu used contained a wisp of the Sanctuary Flame, she could also effectively reduce Amaterasu’s attack.
Otherwise, if Amaterasu were to use an attack above a god, she couldn’t take it too many times.
Moreover, Natsuba Hanae had calmed her mind.
And was carefully sensing the Sanctuary Flame that had previously hidden in Amaterasu’s body. With the cooperation of a part of the crimson divinity, it was wandering in Amaterasu’s body, secretly searching for the factor that had caused Amaterasu’s injury.
And she hoped to find a remnant.
The next moment…
A wisp of a filthy aura spread out, and was sensed by Natsuba Hanae.
Instantly, she was slightly surprised, and a thousand thoughts swirled in her mind.
“This is…”
“The filthy aura of Tsukuyomi?”
Natsuba Hanae almost instantly thought of this.
But then, after thinking about it carefully, she had rejected this judgment.
This could by no means be the power of Tsukuyomi.
Because, at this moment, Amaterasu’s entire body was full of the aura of Amaterasu’s divinity, and had not been tainted with a single bit of Tsukuyomi’s aura.
Not to mention, the current Amaterasu was wholeheartedly focusing on reviving Its divinity, and would by no means do the extra act of converting Amaterasu’s divinity into Tsukuyomi’s aura.
To do this, wouldn’t it slow down Its revival of Amaterasu’s divinity?
Undoubtedly, this was not worth the loss.
And most importantly, Natsuba Hanae had sensed the difference in this filthy aura.
Yes, this was not the filthy aura of Tsukuyomi’s power at all, but the filthy aura of the Old God’s power!
If it were not Natsuba Hanae, but another god, or even a being above a god, they would probably not be able to sense the subtle difference between Tsukuyomi’s power and the Old God’s power.
After all, before obtaining Tsukuyomi’s power, even Natsuba Hanae had felt that these two filthy powers were the same and had no difference.
Until she had tried to fuse these two powers, but had found that they could not be fused at all, and were filled with a faint repulsion. After careful observation, she had discovered the difference between the two.
If Tsukuyomi’s power was another form of transformation of Amaterasu’s divinity, and its essence was similar…
Then the essence of the Old God’s power was completely different, just like Natsuba Hanae’s fierce wind and soul, lightning and blood, were completely different.
However…
Strangely, the effects of the Old God’s power and Tsukuyomi’s power were somewhat similar.
If one had to say, Tsukuyomi’s power was like a forced derivation of Amaterasu’s divinity, mixed with some of Amaterasu’s divinity’s true nature, and was an existence that imitated the Old God’s power.
And at this moment, what Natsuba Hanae felt in Amaterasu’s body was precisely the power of the Old God!
This was an unbelievable scene.
This made a guess arise in Natsuba Hanae’s heart.
“Could it be that the one who had seriously injured Amaterasu back then was the so-called Old God?”
“But, in the previous fight against the Mother Tree’s consciousness, the power of the Old God didn’t seem to have any restraining effect on the Mother Tree’s consciousness.”
If there was no restraining effect, but it had caused essential damage to Amaterasu…
Then there was only one possibility left…
—Amaterasu’s enemy back then was precisely an Old God above a god!
But, in this world, a being above a god could not be born.
Then how did the Old God above a god appear, and how did it fight with Amaterasu and injure It?
Soon, Natsuba Hanae thought of another point.
The Otherside.
As far as she knew, whether it was the power-type Old God back then, or the wisdom-type Old God, they both possessed the existence of an Otherside.
And among all the strange creatures, although there were many non-Old God strange creatures that had created an Otherside…
But all the Old Gods had created an Otherside.
Did this mean that the Old Gods’ genetic memory told them that an Otherside was a safe place?
Not only that, but the strange creatures that Amaterasu had controlled also seemed to be all strange creatures without an Otherside. Those strange creatures in an Otherside, in the report of Chikari Yatsukasa and the others in those few days, still existed.
This showed that even the unawakened Amaterasu back then could not summon the strange creatures in an Otherside to be used by It.
And for other non-Old God strange creatures, why some had created an Otherside, and some had not, was highly likely also the filthy influence of Tsukuyomi’s power.
Tsukuyomi’s power imitated the Old God’s power, but it was not a complete imitation. It was a filthy power unique to Amaterasu.
And it had an unstable nature.
So, it had led to some strange creatures possessing a part of the Old God’s genetic memory, and had created an Otherside, and had understood that this was a safe place. And others had not, and even if their strength had reached the condition to create an Otherside, but they simply didn’t know how to create one.
And a part of the strange creatures, their genetic memory knew to enter an Otherside, but didn’t know how to create one, so they had entered the Otherside of other strange creatures.
As for why an Otherside was a safe place…
This point, Natsuba Hanae had had some guesses before, but now she was gradually confirming it.
Of course it was because an Otherside could slowly transform from an existence attached to the main world to a world independent of the main world.
The opportunity to advance to a level above a god was indeed in an Otherside!
But Natsuba Hanae, before, in an Otherside, had also felt that she couldn’t advance to a level above a god.
Or rather, it was not that she couldn’t advance.
But that the Summer Harvest Mountain Otherside could not accommodate her, who was above a god.
Once she had forcibly advanced, the Summer Harvest Mountain Otherside would be on the verge of collapse, as if it were about to shatter.
Natsuba Hanae knew that a crucial condition was still missing.
And now that the information was gradually being completed, she understood.
Because her Otherside was not yet independent of the main world, and was not yet a real world.
And a being above a god could not be born.
And a half-Hell-level Otherside could not accommodate a being above a god. Then what level of Otherside could accommodate one was obvious.
—A Hell-level Otherside!
But to want to advance an Otherside to a Hell-level, perhaps she still had to get some information from Amaterasu.
Soon, she would be able to complete it.
At this moment, Amaterasu naturally did not know that Natsuba Hanae knew so much information. It also wanted to stall for time and wait for Its own power to recover.
The two each had their own thoughts.
Not only that, but Amaterasu was now desperately searching for a quarter of Its own consciousness and soul. This lack of consciousness and soul was ultimately a weakness.
However, no matter how It sensed, It simply couldn’t feel it.
It had originally thought that Natsuba Hanae was a being above a god, which was why she had killed the Mother Tree’s consciousness. But now that the other was just at the extreme of a peak god, even if the Mother Tree’s consciousness was not her match, it should have been able to escape.
Moreover, the Mother Tree was now also present and had not been destroyed. Why was the Mother Tree’s consciousness gone?
Its pure white eyes were filled with an indifference, and It couldn’t help but look at Natsuba Hanae and said,
“Was it you who killed a part of my consciousness?”
