Chapter 496

As the lightning swamp, formed by the endless electricity radiating from the God Emperor, converged upon Izanami.

The Yellow Springs water beneath Izanami’s feet seemed to encounter its nemesis, with nearly half of it being evaporated by the endless lightning.

Izanami was also struck by this sudden attack from the God Emperor, causing her to let out a soft groan.

Then, Izanami gently extended her palm, and after she clenched it tightly, an endless aura of death erupted from her hand.

The terrifying lightning swamp surrounding her seemed to encounter something dreadful and fled in all directions.

Some unlucky gods were struck by the fleeing lightning and were directly severely injured.

In truth, if the God Emperor and Izanami were to engage in a genuine head-on battle, even if Izanami’s cultivation were inferior to the God Emperor’s, he would absolutely be unable to injure her with a single strike.

The reason Izanami was struck by the God Emperor was precisely because she had never imagined that he would launch an attack on her under such circumstances.

After neutralizing the God Emperor’s lightning attack, Izanami looked coldly at the God Emperor, who sat directly in front of her, surrounded by infinite light orbs as if countless people were worshipping him.

Then, Izanami extended her hand and slowly passed it over the spot where she had just been injured by the God Emperor.

As her hand passed, infinite Yellow Springs water representing death appeared around Izanami.

Unlike the expression the other gods had when seeing the Yellow Springs water, this water, which would bring misfortune and death to gods and mortals alike, was like a fountain of life to Izanami.

Radiating a very dense life force, the water flowed around Izanami, and in a fleeting moment, the injuries caused by the God Emperor were completely healed.

Furthermore, the aura around Izanami was now even more powerful than it had been before the God Emperor’s attack.

This was the power of possessing the authority of the Yellow Springs, which represents death.

To be born from death; the more one is injured, the stronger one becomes!

"Was it you who did it!!!"

Izanami’s eyes stared fixedly at the God Emperor sitting on the clouds, as if they were releasing flames.

Seeing Izanami’s current state, the God Emperor did not intend to continue fighting her head-on.

After all, fighting Izanami held no benefits for him at the moment.

"My attack on you just now was merely a punishment for your disrespect toward me."

"As for Amaterasu’s matter, it has nothing to do with me."

"Back then, it was precisely in this Hall of the Gods that I announced the question of who wanted to go to the Central Plains to complete the mission for our Kingdom of the Gods."

"And Amaterasu was the one who took the initiative to accept the mission."

"If you, the Goddess of the Yellow Springs, Izanami, still do not believe me, you can use your great divine powers here to sense what happened that day through the hearts of the gods."

Upon hearing the God Emperor’s words, Izanami, the goddess who held the authority of the Yellow Springs, could not help but bite her lower lip.

Then, she closed her eyes.

The moment Izanami closed her eyes, Yellow Springs water, as if capable of filling the entire world, appeared around her.

And in a very short time, it completely enveloped Izanami in water that resembled a vast ocean.

Then, waves of power representing decay and the aura of death rapidly extended toward the gods within the Hall of the Gods.

At this moment, except for the God Emperor and the few peak gods at the very front of the Hall of the Gods, the inner thoughts of all the other gods were peered into by the Goddess of the Yellow Springs, Izanami, using special means.

In just a short time, the Goddess of the Yellow Springs, Izanami, had completely grasped what had happened that day.

This even included the images the God Emperor had previously shown the gods, depicting the Shao Shao Siming killing the three Ninja Gods and that incomparably terrifying divine dragon transformed from Tong Bo.

After Izanami checked repeatedly, she indeed discovered that the God Emperor had not made any secret arrangements regarding the events of that day.

Yet, even so, Izanami remained deeply suspicious of the God Emperor in her heart.

Izanami felt that Amaterasu’s death must have some connection to the God Emperor.

After all, in this region of the Land of the Rising Sun, especially within the Kingdom of the Gods, she and her husband, Izanagi, had always been a thorn in the God Emperor’s side.

This was something many people knew, so now that Amaterasu had fallen, Izanami’s first instinct was to believe that this must have been the God Emperor’s secret doing.

After nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, the Yellow Springs water, radiating a dense aura of death, gradually flowed back beneath Izanami’s feet.

When Izanami’s body was fully exposed to the perception of the gods, she still stared at the God Emperor with a hostile expression.

"Then I shall believe you for now."

"I am heading to the Central Plains now. If I find out that you were behind Amaterasu’s fall, then even if you are the God Emperor sitting high on the throne, Izanagi and I will drag you down from it!"

"Do not think that because you have lived a peaceful life for so many years, you are truly invincible. Do not forget that if it weren't for Izanagi back then, your divine heart would have long since been shattered by that person!"

Having said this, without waiting for the God Emperor to react, Izanami stepped on the sky-filling Yellow Springs water and rushed out of the Kingdom of the Gods.

After hearing Izanami’s words, the God Emperor’s face gradually became incomparably gloomy.

Countless lightning bolts representing the power of destruction surged back and forth across his massive body.

Izanami’s words reminded the God Emperor of those days of humiliation and panic.

It took about half a day for the God Emperor to slowly recover from that terrifying state.

Then, the God Emperor looked in the direction Izanami had left with an extremely cold gaze.

"Hmph, even if you go to the Central Plains now, you will likely die under that sword strike!"

"Just wait. When the time I desire arrives, I will directly devour you and Izanagi while you are heavily injured!!!"

"And then I will settle the score with the Eight-Headed Serpent!"

"As long as I devour you all, I will become the strongest god in the entire Kingdom of the Gods—oh no, the entire Nine Provinces region!!!"

"And the only god!!!"

The God Emperor roared in his heart, and for a moment, the divine light radiating from his body instantly illuminated every inch of the Land of the Rising Sun.

The reason the God Emperor was so certain that Izanami would return from the Central Plains with heavy injuries was precisely because he had indeed released something extra on Amaterasu back then.

However, that tiny bit of something was not anything that could harm Amaterasu, but a very secretive power of perception that allowed the God Emperor to sense everything around her through her body.

Therefore, when Ying Ying Ziyu swung that terrifying sword strike capable of shattering the world at Amaterasu, the God Emperor, far away in the Kingdom of the Gods, had actually sensed it.

Even the God Emperor felt like an ant when facing that sword strike, so he believed that if Izanami, whose cultivation was inferior to his, faced it, she would inevitably meet her death!

On the other side, the people of the Land of the Rising Sun, seeing such a miracle performed by the God Emperor, knelt down one after another, releasing endless power of faith toward him.

"Almighty God Emperor, thank you for your gift!!"

"God Emperor, we hope you can continue to protect the safety of our Land of the Rising Sun!"

Infinite power of faith converged toward the God Emperor, making his aura even more formidable.