Divine Wind intended to switch blades.
Naturally, Naraku, who was floating in midair, saw it too.
But he did not think changing to another blade would change anything.
Before absolute compatibility suppression and the gap in spiritual power, any weapon's edge seemed pale and powerless.
Naraku still wore that calm, effortless smile.
Through his will, he once again controlled the modified Saimyosho around him.
In an instant, accompanied by a skin-crawling buzz of wings, a dense swarm of poisonous wasps swept toward Divine Wind like a purple-black storm cloud.
At the same time, Naraku raised his right hand, his palm aimed at Divine Wind from afar.
The spiritual power within his body resonated with the natural energy around him.
"Lightning Art. Palm Thunder."
Along with Naraku's casual murmur, a ball of spiritual energy roughly three meters in diameter, glowing all over with dazzling white light, took shape before his palm.
Violent blue currents crazily crawled across its surface.
It radiated a heart-stopping aura of destruction.
This was a spell he had developed by combining the Five Elements escape arts of onmyōdō with his own spiritual power, then referencing the various immortal arts he had seen in the Main God Space.
However, the instant Divine Wind's hand touched the hilt of the Sun Blade, Naraku's unruffled heart suddenly gave a violent, inexplicable thump.
That inexplicable tension made him launch the still-charging Palm Thunder
ahead of time, almost on instinct.
[BOOM—]
The raging thunderball turned into a thick blue-white pillar of light.
With overwhelming, crushing force, it blasted straight toward Divine Wind.
Who would have thought that in the very next second, right before Naraku's eyes, it would be split cleanly in two by an extremely brilliant golden slash, dazzling like the sun?
And it was not over yet. The cleaved pillar