"Upon hearing his angry shouts, Kaido sneered, "She simply made the optimal decision, which is very wise, unlike your stupidity."
Susanoo, no longer concealing his brutal divine nature, also unleashed the true nature of a **Godslayer**.
The blood in his entire body began to boil, and his spirit soared to its peak, as if an ordinary person had taken a stimulant, with his body and five senses in an extreme state.
"You're just a crybaby who's a mama's boy, how dare you consider yourself my enemy?"
The excessive taunting made Susanoo's beard bristle and his eyes widen, looking like a comical character from a movie or animation.
The hurricane whipped the ground around Kaido, and the chaotic air currents, mixed with the pouring rain, made visibility difficult. At that moment, Susanoo, standing above the clouds, charged directly towards Kaido.
The strategic provocation achieved a rather perfect effect. **Heretic gods** are inherently agglomerations of madness, so they are easily swayed by emotions.
The ground beneath his feet cracked as Kaido moved, and the black-haired youth swiftly darted away from his original position.
"Rumble—!"
Susanoo, transformed into a human bomb, slammed into the earth, kicking up a thick curtain of dirt. The powerful impact even shattered the incessantly falling raindrops.
"Boy, stop dodging! If you're a man, fight me with honor!"
His white beard swayed with the tremor of his **authority power**. After blasting open a giant crater thousands of meters wide, Susanoo quickly leaped out. Although his body was brimming with muscular beauty, his speed did not decrease at all.
The aura of a **heretic god** shone like a beacon, and invisible wind blades surged from his palms, covering almost a 180-degree range in front of him.
Feeling the piercing aura, Kaido's pupils constricted. The **authority power** rapidly condensed, forming a barrier in front of him, and the power of the Desert God spread throughout his body.
"Clang—!"
The wind blades impacted the **authority power** shield, emitting a metallic sound. Under the onslaught of hundreds of wind blades, Kaido's defense also fractured.
But that was enough.
He soared into the air, raising his right hand, and an anthem of **enchanted words** resonated in the sky.
"Immortal sun, send me the swift luminous horse!"
"Miraculous swift horse, come and bring the halo before your master!"
The **authority power** shook the atmosphere and the sky.
The cloudy **Underworld** was torn open at one corner by the light, and a dazzling radiance emerged from the opening.
A blazing sun with fierce golden flames was seen rapidly falling from the sky.
The rainwater instantly evaporated, forming a mist around the sun.
As it approached, Susanoo realized that it was not a sun at all, but a White Horse burning with fierce flames.
Its entire body was pure white, and only the mane on its neck appeared golden.
Even from thousands of meters away, transparent beads of sweat still seeped from Susanoo's skin.
Contemplating the sky-burning White Horse, Susanoo's violent divine nature was slightly encroached upon by reason, and an emotion called fear spread within his heart.
His long years of seclusion had left him lacking the most important fighting spirit, but then in his irrational emotions, he shifted from fear to anger at his own cowardice.
Violent emotions once again took the lead.
Then, a solemn and surging **authority power** was released from his right hand. It instantly took shape, converging into a long sword.
[Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi]
This was the weapon Susanoo obtained after cunningly intoxicating the Yamata no Orochi and then using the Totsuka no Tsurugi to cut off the Yamata no Orochi's tail.
The Yamata no Orochi, a legendary beast in Japanese mythology, represents the indigenous deities of ancient times. Susanoo's victory over this monster and the acquisition of the holy sword **Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi** signified the establishment of the conqueror's dominion over the existing powers of the region.
In other words, **Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi** is a symbol of "conquest."
This is one of Susanoo's authorities, and possibly his strongest power.
The steed galloping in the sky shone with dazzling radiance, and the world resonated with the clear neigh of the White Horse. The surging closeness of the authority brought with it extremely high temperatures, instantly evaporating the rain-soaked trees, which then turned into torches and gave birth to fierce flames.
"Sword of Ame no Murakumo! I beg you to take my body as a sacrifice to quell your inexhaustible power. Not even a fierce god can cross a barrier! I have no regrets in this moment!"
"It was in this place that Susanoo led a thousand rebellious deities in a rebellion, intending to seize this country!"
Susanoo knew that he couldn't escape the White Horse's attack, so he simply stopped dodging and chanted the **enchanted words** of **Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi**.
Finally, the White Horse and Susanoo, holding the divine sword high, collided with the utmost ferocity.
A semi-circular ball of light appeared in their vision.
The instant, scorching temperature first completely evaporated the sky and then the earth, and the surging flames turned the surrounding thousands of meters of land into a fiery purgatory.
The ground melted, and even the rocks buried in the earth could not withstand this instantaneous high temperature, becoming soft like silt, and finally turning into crimson magma.
"Wind, rain, and sea, drown these blazing flames for me!"
In this chaotic situation, Kaido heard these **enchanted words** in a sharp tone.
The **authority power** was building up, the wind and rain became more turbulent, and in the nearby void, infinite quantities of blue seawater suddenly surged forth.
Water and fire are inherently the most incompatible pair.
Therefore, upon contact with the flames caused by the White Horse, the evaporated water turned into steam, making visibility difficult. Although it was not an ordinary fire, it was gradually extinguished under the continuous watering of seawater.
This authority originated from Susanoo's original divine nature.
Besides being a god of destruction, a god of war, a dragon hunter, and a god of theft, Susanoo was also the deity in charge of the ocean in the Shinto pantheon.
His elder sister, Amaterasu Omikami, controlled the sun, while his younger brother, Tsukuyomi, was the god who ruled the night.
As a sea god, he not only possessed the art of summoning wind and rain but could also stir or calm the raging sea, so summoning seawater was also quite simple.
"Oh?"
Seeing this, Kaido let out a sound of surprise.
The [White Horse] is the most destructive authority among the ten incarnations; if developed to its extreme, even a city could be easily annihilated by it.
But water is, after all, fire's nemesis.
As a sea god, Susanoo had the best compatibility with the White Horse.
When all the flames were extinguished, the seawater had completely submerged the **Underworld**, turning it into a boundless ocean.
Susanoo remained panting in the depths of the sea, his clothes burned and his hair and skin singed.
Although he had won the fight against the White Horse, he was now utterly exhausted.
Kaido*s strength had "slightly" exceeded his original calculations.
The White Horse had already posed a life threat to Susanoo, and he still had many powers he hadn't used.
"...What the hell is wrong with this guy?"
Even if he were truly to face Luo Hao or Voban, Susanoo would have the confidence to win, and he certainly wouldn't be as disheveled as he was now.
The flames were extinguished, and the land of the **Underworld** turned into a vast ocean.
The surging waves transformed into tentacles and attacked Kaido.
"..."
The True Longinus spun, cutting through the hundreds of tentacles formed by the seawater.
However, as these were cut, even more attacks surged forth.
They transformed into tentacles and coiled around Kaido's pants, attempting to drag him into the sea.
They condensed into forms of sea creatures, transforming into whales, octopuses, and other elements, leaping out of the seawater, opening their deep blue jaws, wanting to swallow his body.
A Yamata no Orochi, transformed from seawater, roared at him, emitting deafening growls.
"Are you going to hide there and not dare to come out?"
Kaido frowned, his eyes fixed on the waves.
Susanoo, as the guardian deity of the ocean, had already merged with the seawater.
The continuous attacks were controlled by Susanoo from the bottom of the sea; he had decided to exhaust Kaido here.
In other words, the enemy Kaido was currently facing was the entire ocean.
The next second, the look in his eyes became clear.
He concentrated completely, raising his defense power against the authority to the extreme.
"Since you don't dare to come out, I'll drag you out."
Golden armor covered his body, and the cross in front of him radiated dazzling golden light.
Facing the seemingly endless attacks, as if a statue stepping out of a painting, the golden warrior locked onto Susanoo's aura and charged into the ocean.
"Young man, you're quite bold!"
Susanoo's deafening voice came from his ear.
Immediately, he summoned an even fiercer tsunami. Seawater and **authority power** transformed into thousands of wind and water blades, transparent or invisible impacts, like agile birds, rushing towards Kaido from all directions.
A large-scale, unavoidable attack, even with a **Godslayer**'s physical body, would be shattered.
However, in the face of such terrifying attacks, Kaido's face showed no fear. His gaze remained firm, while an immense amount of **authority power** hovered around his body.
"Screech—!"
A series of piercing sounds were heard, and Susanoo's attacks were shattered by Kaido's bare-handed combat.
He didn't use any authority, any technique, he simply poured infinite **authority power** into the True Longinus, then raised his hand to swing it, making a vertical cut and a horizontal cut, using his own strength and speed to destroy all impacts.
A golden aura surrounded Kaido, increasing his **authority power**, and his attack speed, breaking the sound barrier, caused a white ring to form in the surrounding space.
Susanoo desperately used his authority to create puppets and water blades, but the opponent shattered everything.
Susanoo was shocked and horrified in his heart, thinking: *Are you even human?*
*Even when I killed Yamata no Orochi back then, I didn't dare to be so fierce!*
And in that moment of his daze, Kaido seized the gap in the attacks and plunged into the depths of the sea.
"Found you."
His body transformed into a stream of golden light, rapidly advancing at the bottom of the sea. Amidst the piercing sound of the waves breaking the sound barrier, Kaido, with a sneer, aimed the True Longinus in his hand at Susanoo's chest.
Looking at the terrified Susanoo, Kaido scoffed, "Show me some real skill. As one of the Three Great Gods of the Shinto pantheon, is this all you've got?"
The **authority power** formed an autonomous space around him, allowing him to speak freely.
"Because I am the strongest among the strong! Truly, I am the one who upholds each and every victory. I don't care who challenges me, man or demon... I can face all my rivals and enemies! Whatever the cost, I will crush all those who stand in my way!"
Chanting a new set of **enchanted words** at high speed, countless invisible energies spread from his hands, and the god-slaying True Longinus spun rapidly in True Longinus's hand.
The magic power of the [Bull] Authority continued to merge with the [Lord of Power] authority.
"Boom!"
The seawater scattered wildly like a mouse being hunted by a cat, forming an almost empty area around him.
And with Kaido's instant burst of power, the brilliant **Holy Spear** immediately transformed into a golden dragon, firing and destroying everything in its path with overwhelming force.
The fierce energy even surged towards the sky, splitting the great sea in two, all the way to its end.
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In the face of such a terrifying blow, how could Susanoo dare to hold back?
"Hmph!"
He let out a furious roar, and gigantic waves surged towards him like sharks smelling blood.
He agitated his divine nature and authority, concentrating all his power into one point, raising the **Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi**. A deafening sound resonated in his ears, releasing a thunderous roar.
"Boom, boom, boom...!"
Deafening waves and widespread white foam, coupled with the heat generated by the collision, evaporated the seawater, forming a white mist that obscured their vision.
However, the obscured vision could not block the consciousness of the two.
When their weapons collided, their respective **authority powers** also roared and clashed with each other.
"Isn't this much better?"
Just as Susanoo gritted his teeth and held on, a large golden hand suddenly shot out from the white light, amidst a series of violent crashing noises.
It actually broke through the **authority power**'s defense, ripped open the surging aura, and revealed Susanoo's utterly shocked face.
"Pfft—!"