Chapter 495

As expected——

When "Tsukuyomi's" Health Bar dropped to two-thirds……

The master of the Divine Realm abruptly tore away her previous stance, seemingly stepping into an even more berserk Second Phase.

——The stirring movement resounding within the Divine Realm also shifted accordingly, transforming into a grand epic aria.

——The booming of orchestra and chime swept across the entire Divine Realm like a tide, every note seemingly striking at the soul.

Although, just like the Health Bar displayed, it was inexplicably baffling, this battle background BGM was equally unfathomable, yet it could indeed stir the blood, boost morale, and ignite fighting spirit.

What's more, this was an exceptionally obvious signal.

Not to mention Kaguya Houraisan, that kind of shut-in who often stays home, plays games all night, and has even tried staying up until she died and resurrected herself, a NEET princess……

Even others who don't understand this aspect, because of such obvious environmental information transmission, keenly perceived that the enemy opposite might be about to transform.

They couldn't help but all tighten their expressions, raising their focus to the utmost.

They had no choice but to do so——

The existence opposite is truly terrifying.

Even when attacked jointly by dozens of Great Youkai and gods, the vast majority of the pressure was borne by those top combat powers.

However……

Merely the dissipated remnant waves were still extremely deadly.

Hard, solidly beating this entire Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto Divine Realm into trembling ceaselessly——

The originally mirror-smooth boundless calm sea, at this moment, under the tearing of energy remnant waves, completely ran wild, transforming into an abyss that devours heaven and earth.

When wave crests crashed down like collapsing firmaments, they emitted a booming roar like stars falling into the sea.

——Merely the dissipated remnant might, a single failure to dodge in time, would be enough to grind many people into mincemeat.

"Mere human realm…… nothing but mayflies!"

The god traversed the calm sea, bare feet crushing wave crests, speaking indifferently.

Her voice was not loud, yet like visible spatial ripples it scoured the entire sea domain, resonating with a rumble in the void.

This was not merely a declaration, but a deadly sonic attack.

In an instant, the incoming magic cannons were shattered, terrifying giant waves stretching for who knows how many li were raised, and even those Gensokyo experts whose cooperation had grown increasingly tacit in battle had to temporarily avoid the edge.

And simultaneously, there were also those who unhesitatingly stepped forward to meet it.

"Miracle——Parting the Sea!"

Emerald long hair flying in the blast wave, the girl clad in a blue-white Shrine Maiden outfit gave a clear shout, the gohei in her hand pointing straight ahead.

Shen Hou her, the illusory shadows of two gods faintly emerged——Yasaka Kanako and Suwako Moriya chose to possess Sanae Kochiya with their divine power, concentrating the power of three gods into one body.

This made this Living Goddess girl leap to become the top combat power on the battlefield.

Especially compared to the red-white Shrine Maiden who, due to being far from Gensokyo and losing the Hakurei Great Border's blessing, could only roam the battlefield's periphery, the current Sanae was already able to charge at the very front lines of battle.

This is the most intuitive gap in strength.

And at this moment——

The power of Miracle poured forth like a torrent, the entire sea domain as if cleaved by an invisible giant blade!

The gohei in Sanae's hand erupted with brilliant divine radiance, transforming into a trajectory of light piercing heaven and earth.

Shen Hou her, the gods' illusory shadows suddenly solidified, like two towering mountains suppressing the void.

——The sea, was parted!

The boundless calm sea shattered with a boom under divine might, towering giant waves like frightened beasts fleeing to both sides, hard, solidly torn open a bottomless chasm.

The still water was compressed and pushed aside by invisible force, forming two water cliffs towering over a thousand zhang, a magnificent scene recreating the myth of Moses parting the sea!

Boom——!!!

The remnant waves of the parting sea transformed into a hurricane of impact, sweeping the entire battlefield, those originally rampaging giant waves hard, solidly crushed to bits.

At this moment, wave crests froze in mid-air, water droplets suspended like stars.

Simply as if the entire sea domain had been briefly frozen.

And at the end of that rift abyss, Sanae's figure stood within.

Blue-white Shrine Maiden outfit fluttering wildly, emerald long hair burning like flames under the surging of divine power, precisely like the sea-splitting bright deity in an Age of Gods scroll.

Where divine might reaches, is the extreme of resonance between Living Goddess and godly power!

——And the divine might of parting the sea had not yet dissipated.

——The experts on the battlefield had already pierced in like sharp swords!

In the very instant Sanae's gohei cleaved open the calm sea, Yukari Yakumo's gaps had already unfolded on both sides of the rift abyss, countless eerie eyes peering from the deep cracks.

Yuuka Kazami's parasol spun lightly, the magic cannon's radiance like a meteor shower piercing through the channel, plowing scorching trajectories through the parted sea abyss.

And——

The phoenix's flames……

The power of history revision……

The wine bowl thrown by the Oni Heavenly King……

"Boom——!!!"

This entire sea channel, under the empowerment of dozens of powers, hard, solidly transformed into a deadly corridor piercing the Divine Realm.

At the end, "Tsukuyomi's" indifferent pupils seemed to also flash a trace of fluctuation——these "ants" actually, with the power of a human realm, tore the god's domain into a battlefield for them to gallop across!

However……

That's as far as it goes.

Facing the experts' onslaught, the god lowered her eyes.

The next instant, a crisp sound like shattering glass came from the firmament.

"Look up."

This was not a voice, but a will that ground directly into the soul.

Everyone, uncontrollably or rather subconsciously, tilted their heads back, gazing at the sky——

Only to see that mysterious giant moon suspended at the pinnacle of the Divine Realm, at this very moment, was actually being frantically eroded by spiderweb-like blood-colored cracks.

Crack, crack crack crack——!

The sound of the cracks spreading resembled something molting; viscous crimson Moon Essence seeped from the Celestial Body, dyeing the entire body the same glaring crimson in an instant.

Tangible-seeming Red Light scattered down, as if moonlight from Another Universe.

——"Night Food Origin and Moon Deity·Crimson Moon (Aspect???)"

——"HP Unknown (???)"

Quietly, the BOSS name floating in everyone's Vision underwent some kind of change.

The Deity's Second Phase, had Arrived.

Undoubtedly, this is the true Second Phase!

The previous elegant posture shattered like glass, replaced by a more violent Divinity Liberation!

"Witness it."

"The Moon Law of Another Universe!"

Still not a voice, but a will that ground directly into the soul.

In a trance, "Tsukuyomi's" appearance also seemed to undergo some kind of change.

A head of long hair brilliant as gold, pupils turned so red, so red.

"This is——"

Under the mutated form of golden hair and crimson pupils, the Deity raised a hand to grasp the void, the brittle sound of the Blood Moon shattering becoming a world-ending overture.

"The Moon King's Final Calculation."

The instant the will thundered across the soul.

That Blood Moon also, with the absolute mass of a falling Celestial Body, plummeted violently downward!

Boom——!!!!

The instant it fell, the still sea surged with an apocalyptic frenzy.

This was no illusion of light and shadow, but Materialized Universe Law——a true Celestial Body falling, possessing equal tremendous physical Mass and scale of Existence.

The most terrifying thing was not the scale of Destruction, but the process of "Existence" being Denied!

The falling moon dragged a crimson tail flame ten thousand li long; if in Reality, the Atmosphere would likely burn from friction, vaporizing the Cloud Layer into boiling blood mist.

Space itself emitted a groan of unbearable burden.

With every inch the Blood Moon sank, the Divine Realm collapsed an inch.

The horizon twisted and snapped in the collapse, shattered edges like biscuits gnawed by a Formless Giant Mouth, rippling with jagged pale light traces.

As if the entire Space was being dragged falling toward an even more terrifying dimension.

Despair……

Nothing could be more despairing than this moment.

Even those who thought they were Prepared probably never imagined it would become like this.

Right, they indeed knew the Enemy might have a Second Phase, would become more troublesome…… but never imagined it would be to the extent of directly ending the match like this.

"Toyohime! Take Master and them away……"

Amidst the Blood Moon collapsing, the Divine Realm collapsing like an ancient giant fortress on the verge of toppling, in this desperate dead end, it was as if the shadow of the apocalypse shrouded Heaven and Earth beneath a Dead Silent haze.

The Astral Dress worn by Yorihime of the Cotton Moon, in a split second, like a suddenly exploding supernova, erupted with Divine Might that pierced Heaven and Earth, seemingly able to tear Chaos.

Light swept wildly outward in all directions like surging angry waves.

In the previous battle, she seemed like a trapped beast in a cage, timid at every turn, every action carrying hesitation and Hesitate.

However at this moment, her gaze suddenly became incomparably firm, as if she had resolved to die, that expression revealing a Realization after enduring hardships, yet also like the relief of setting down all heavy Burdens.

"I'll hold the rear!" Her voice resounded across this shattered Heaven and Earth, carrying an indisputable resolve.

"Yorihime!"

Toyohime let out a terrified cry, that voice full of anxiety and Panic, yet too late to Block.

Only to see a Deity's phantom rise from behind the sword-wielding girl, instantly reaching the height of the sky.

That Divine Might condensed as if tangible, forming a blazing white corona, within which a microcosm of a Guo Du seemed to float.

The next moment, Yorihime swung her Sword, cleaving at the falling moon.

Simultaneously, that unknown Deity phantom also moved in Synchronization, swinging its sword like a sky-pillaring giant pillar, with mountain-toppling sea-overturning momentum.

Where the blade passed, Space was fragile like a piece of fine pottery, instantly cracking open, deep Cracks spreading, Exposing the phantom of two same-origin Divine Powers clashing.

In that phantom, light Flashed, Thunder roared, as if two Worlds were fiercely colliding and merging.

And it was precisely this Strike that actually briefly held back the Celestial Body's descent!

"What——!!"

Distant Eirin Yagokoro's pupils also violently contracted.

The Moon Sage could not describe her current vexation and regret, a self-blame deep to the marrow, making her body tremble slightly.

Probably because she had to focus entirely on facing the terrifying pressure like a surging Tsunami from an old Good Friend, to the extent that she completely failed to Pay Attention to her own disciple's situation.

Yorihime actually also grasped that world-shaking Divine Might-like tremendous power!

But……

Like a baby elephant growing into an adult elephant, snapping the iron chain binding itself would be effortless, but it never thought to do so again.

——In Yorihime's heart, that iron chain was also unbreakable.

—Facing her mother, she had neither the courage nor the fighting spirit to struggle against fate.

—The result was that in the previous battle, Yorihime's strength was completely unable to be exerted or manifested……

Only now, in this desperate situation, did she resolve to sacrifice herself, like a moth flying into a blazing flame, burning all her strength.

This terrifyingly vast power that erupted was only then known to the Mors People, like gorgeous fireworks suddenly blooming in the night sky.

Eirin Yagokoro at this time no longer had the thought of criticizing her disciple's stupid idea.

She merely gritted her teeth, frantically thinking of how to save Yorihime's life that was about to burn out,

"My my, this won't do……"

A voice appeared as if in a dream, and in this heaven-collapsing earth-shattering world-destroying chaotic scene, it was also clearly heard by every single person.

"But fortunately I finally made it in time!"

As the words fell——

That falling blood-colored celestial body abruptly stagnated.

Immediately, it exploded with a boom!

Or perhaps it cannot be called an explosion, but should be said to be "unfolding".

The shattered moon shell suspended like peeled eggshells, revealing an internal infinitely nested gear structure.

Each gear was a mirror image of another moon, and in each gear tooth flowed moonlight from different spacetimes.

When tens of thousands of lunar mirror images completed reorganization in the gear meshing, the entire Divine Realm's sky had already become a giant construct device that crushed reality.

(Chapter End)