Chapter 497

Just like Sanae Kochiya.

Behind the Hakurei Miko, behind the Hakurei Miko likewise stands a god——

That Supreme Existence who governs all of Gensokyo.

It's just that……

The circumstances of the two shrines appear similar, but in reality are completely different.

When the Moriya Twin Gods faced the annihilation of their Divine Rank due to dwindling Belief, and finally fell silent in the Outside World; the Dragon God enshrined at the Hakurei Shen She, however, has always maintained a Transcendent Divine Silence.

The former was forced by circumstances, unable to continue manifesting Divine Miracles……

While the latter simply does not appear.

——Does not bestow Divine Blessings.

——Does not answer prayers.

——Does not grant revelations.

But this silence is by no means proof of nothingness.

A god who requires no Belief to sustain them, their very Existence does not rely on the heart-power of Believers. Therefore that Gaze looking down upon all beings is, most of the time, undisturbed like a Mirror Lake.

It's just that……

It's not that they don't care about anything at all.

At least at this Critical Juncture where Gensokyo faces a Great Crisis, the Dragon God's Divine Will has finally cast its gaze.

And among those present, the only Vessel capable of receiving this Divine Will is that lazy Shen She Maiden who always shakes the Offering Box until it clatters.

Although this Red-White is both lazy and money-loving, and has no reverence for gods whatsoever, giving the feeling that as long as the money is enough, she could enshrine Ultraman in the shrine……

But none of this matters to the Dragon God.

A god who does not crave reverence does not care whether the Shen She Maiden holds piety in her heart.

As long as she is this generation's Hakurei Miko, as long as her Soul can bear the weight of the Divine Will——

This is……

Sufficient to initiate Divine Descent……

All Conditions.

……………………

The battle boiled to a White-Hot Battle from the very first clash.

The Shen She Maiden shattered the Moonlight, indifferently using the super-enlarged Yin-Yang Orb to engage in Head-On Confrontation bombardment with the Lunar Mirror Image opposite.

When the Memory of the Celestial Body was Summoned forth, red and white also dragged out a Rainbow Light resembling chaos.

Hard to imagine.

This Red-White Shen She Maiden previously still had to roam the Battlefield, unable to withstand a frontal assault, yet now she is able to engage in Head-On Confrontation with Tsukuyomi.

The most terrifying thing is not Mors Strength.

But that absolute inhuman Sensation.

Golden Pupils are not something Reimu could possess, yet at this moment they appear exactly on her, and even display the faint characteristics of vertical pupils.

Probably also portending——

The Dragon God's gaze is at this very moment penetrating the Realm, pouring power into this mortal Mors Shell.

"Looks like we're not needed anymore……"

Miss Merry waved to the Other People, waving repeatedly: "Go go go, let's leave here first, it's about to collapse……"

"Leave now?"

Yukari Yakumo slightly furrowed her brows, looking at that White-Hot Battlefield with surprise and uncertainty.

It seems even more astonishing than all the previous battles.

The massive Turmoil in the Void Point, it seems vast Information is Flowing, huge energy levels are transitioning.

Those terrifying Remnant Waves fluctuate over, forcing even the Youkai Sage to wave her fan, exerting full strength to delineate a Boundary Line, temporarily Isolating against Stray Bullet Protection.

But obviously it also Cannot Block for too long……

"Of Course leave now, staying would instead hinder her performance…… Tsk tsk, if you'd said earlier you had Strong Reinforcements like this, I wouldn't have had to struggle so much."

The Flower Magician nodded, speaking with great certainty.

"This is our Dragon God, I already said so before……"

Yukari Yakumo sighed: "It's just that no one had any certainty, previously we had the Dragon Palace Messenger try to make contact, but couldn't reach them either."

——That is Gensokyo's Highest God.

——The god worshipped by Humans, Youkai, and indeed all Creatures in the world.

——Usually dwelling in the sea, the Sky, the rain, its Mors Posture has almost never been confirmed.

And since it is the Supreme God, of course it cannot come at call and leave at will; being unable to make contact in Usual times is the norm.

For hundreds of years, it has always been so.

The last time the Dragon God manifested before the world was still when the Hakurei Great Border was established.

At that time, sky-filling thunder almost tore the Sky apart, the pouring rain nearly triggered a flood, in a short time Ten Thousand Things lost color, sun and moon without light, all of Gensokyo enveloped by Darkness Envelopment.

And after that, no one has seen this one again.

After all, the Dragon's movements are not restricted by the Great Barrier, it can Free Movement to any location. Whether the Outside World, Underworld, Heavenly Realm, or Hell, it is said the Dragon can come and go freely.

So, Yukari Yakumo of course also has no way to be certain whether our side's biggest backer would show up.

And when certainty is impossible, it's still best to Consider Tactics according to the Tactical Assumption.

"Alright alright, let's go, staying we can't get a word in edgewise, and would instead Distract your Dragon God……"

Miss Merry clapped her hands, and with her movement, a crisp sound like shattering glass rang out from the Void.

——Tsukuyomi's Divine Realm is accelerating its collapse.

Cracks in the Void radiate outward from the center of the Battlefield like spiderweb cracks.

And the infinitely extending Mirror Surface beneath the Mors People's feet has already collapsed.

It is not a fall, but rather like paper pages torn by formless giant hands, curling and peeling away together with the moonlight, the water surface, and the wreckage of space.

"Walk!"

The Youkai Sage steeled her Determination, gritting her teeth as she spoke.

But her voice was immediately drowned out in the Bombardment of space.

A pitch-black "Fragment" howled down, crashing into the Boundary Line drawn by Yukari Yakumo——

That was not matter, but a Divine Domain Fragment scraped off by the Remnant Wave of the clash between the Red-White Shen She Maiden and the Moon Capital's gods.

Transmission Start.

In the Final Glimpse, the Mors People saw the Red-White Shen She Maiden suspended beneath the collapsing Giant Construct Device.

"Her" body was nearly Transparent, only those Dragon Eyes burned like molten gold, the Yin-Yang Orb held in her palm having swollen to Mountain-Sized Yin-Yang Orb, the Chaotic Rainbow Light flowing on its surface colliding with the Mirror Image of the moon's surface.

Every collision caused new Cracks to collapse into space.

And the Divine Dragon Phantom behind her was instead becoming increasingly substantial, its breath transforming into countless Storms and Thunder.

Next Moment——

A massive Space-Time Barrier crashed down, it was the entire peeled-away "Battlefield Space-Time", like a mural violently torn off.

It stretched across between the Mors People's line of sight and the center of the Battlefield, completely isolating the lingering shadows of the battle.

Battle End……

——————

The location transmitted out to was not on the Moon's surface.

But on the Youkai, at the lakeside of Lake Suwa.

However many people went before, that many returned now, Even More Returned.

Without a doubt, this was a Military-Grade Transmission led by Toyohime, relying on the Gap Coordinate opened by Yukari Yakumo, she had the ability to bring everyone from the Moon to the Ground in an Instant.

Night Wind Blowing, All Sounds Silent.

Insects chirped happily in the Grass.

Just looking at this scene, it was simply Peaceful Times of Peaceful Leisure.

Probably because the Huge Contrast was too great, to the extent that for a while many people couldn't React, wearing Trance expressions.

Was everything that happened before real?

Did we really go to the Moon and fight a powerful god?

"Won't there be a problem?"

Yukari Yakumo, in the First Time after returning to the Ground, looked toward the Sky.

Without the Youkai Wind's concealment, and with the False Moon's disguise withdrawn, the bright moon in the Clear Night Sky was undoubtedly real.

"Looking like that you can't tell anything, that Giant Construct Device is far more solid than anything you can Imagine."

Merry shook her head: "Tsukuyomi's Divine Realm collapsed, the Moon's Main Body won't have too much damage either, the Optical Camouflage Force Field outside hasn't closed either, just looking at the Surface you probably can't see any Abnormality."

"So we can only wait here now?"

Sighing, the Golden-Haired Great Youkai wasn't too satisfied with this situation.

She actually still had a Move, a deeply hidden Trump Card, would be even more……emmmm, even more effective than the Dragon God's Divine Descent.

Although possibly not everyone is Willing, but before such a Major Event, the Youkai Sage also recovered her usual Scheming and Ruthless nature, not Considering this aspect at all.

Willing or not, fundamentally not important.

Whether we can get past this hurdle, that is most important.

"Also don't need to wait long, I can announce the result to you right now……"

Merry spoke with a grin, hands behind her back, selling a cliffhanger very Cutely.

"Hm?"

Yukari Yakumo raised an eyebrow, then Thoughtfully stared into the other's eyes, she had almost forgotten, this Magician's eyes.

Other People also all looked over.

"Will win."

Merry directly gave the conclusion, then deliberated: "But Tsukuyomi has already become a UO, so can only destroy her body, she will eventually still Revive……"

"Tsk tsk, so this is the Moon King's script, always having body destroyed, then waiting for opportunity to descend again."

Speaking here, this Bad Taste Magician also tsked audibly——

"So to speak, that name Zhu Yue is really unlucky enough."

Zhu Yue?

That Crimson Moon?

Yukari Yakumo and the others all Subconsciously recalled information about this name, seemingly related to the Second Phase Tsukuyomi displayed at the time.

However……

Before they could ask……

A faint, yet undeniable awe-inspiring Divine Might Quietly appeared at the Scene.

"……!!"

Everyone felt a suffocation.

Red and white butterflies fluttered over, appearing at the Scene as if Naturally, the Night Wind also Gently blowing the Shen She Maiden's black-silk-like Long Hair.

Only, the usually lazy Reimu, at this moment gave an extremely Indifferent non-human feeling.

Those golden vertical pupils clearly showed that she was still... "her" right now.

"..."

"..."

Marisa Kirisame and Remilia Scarlet and the others pulled at the corners of their mouths, the designated titles that subconsciously almost blurted out were forcibly swallowed back down.

But deep in their inner hearts, a very strong sense of discord still arose.

After all...

That is Reimu, ah...

Clearly such a lazy ten-thousand shrine maiden, yet at this moment she was like some kind of ancient sacred existence born before heaven and earth.

That indifference, that transcendence, that unreal aura and temperament...

It really was extreme discomfort.

"Dragon God Lord!"

Yukari Yakumo did not have that kind of feeling, decisive step forward.

Youkai are not members of the appearance association; compared to pure appearance, they identify a person more by relying on aura, wavelength, presence and other identity characteristics.

The red-white shrine maiden did not speak, merely calmly directly staring at a certain direction.

There, Eirin Yagokoro and Toyohime Watatsuki were supporting Yorihime Watatsuki, whose condition was clearly very poor.

"..."

"..."

This indifferent gaze was too direct.

In this instant, the lunar sage's expression changed slightly, decisively gripping the longbow, protecting her disciple behind her.

This subtle atmosphere change was immediately read by the surrounding crowd.

For a moment, the air froze solid.

Faintly, a sense of swords drawn and bows bent, about to erupt into internal strife, spread out.

"Dragon God Lord... what business do you have?"

The lunar sage was fearless, cold voice speaking, directly staring at the red-white shrine maiden.

"She also connects to that outer god's foreign power..."

The red-white shrine maiden calmly responded, as if naturally giving an answer, or rather giving a proclamation—

"Must purify!"

(Chapter End)