Fantasy Library.

Chapter 223 The blocked battle
"Boom..."

It was a sound like water drops falling into water.

When Kuchiki Byakuya chanted the word "Bankai", the Zanpakutō that he was holding upside down in his hand was released, and with such a sound, it sank upright into the ground, causing ripples on the ground.

The ripples spread at a speed visible to the naked eye. Wherever they passed, the space seemed to be dyed black, and the surrounding scenery was replaced by a dark space.

Then, huge blades as big as pillars rose from the ground on both sides behind Kuchiki Byakuya and appeared one by one like an array.

"Senbonzakura Kageyama."

Byakuya Kuchiki slowly called out the real name of his Bankai, causing the huge blades on both sides of his back to spread out one after another and turn into cherry blossom-like petals.

There are so many petals, so densely packed that they are impossible to count. It is as if thousands of cherry blossoms from the trees are scattered in the wind and gathered in this place, making the petals dance and surge like waves.

That scene was like the king of cherry blossoms being embraced by countless cherry blossoms. It was far more gorgeous and beautiful than the previous Shikai.

"Scatter."

Kuchiki Byakuya moved his lips slightly, and the waves of cherry blossoms surrounding him immediately flew out, like a swarm of bees that smelled sweetness, rushing towards Aize one after another.

"Shh!"

Aize used instant step without hesitation, disappearing on the spot and avoiding the incoming wave of cherry blossoms.

"boom!"

The waves of cherry blossoms that fell into the air immediately sank the ground, causing a roar to be heard from there.

The scene was much more exaggerated than the first release, and it made Aize's eyes flicker when he appeared in another direction.

"Just now, the ground was hit by at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of times."

Such an astonishing number of slashes undoubtedly told others that Byakuya Kuchiki's Zanpakutō did not just turn into thousands of tiny blades this time, but at least turned into hundreds of thousands or millions of tiny blades, or maybe even more.

"No need to be surprised."

Kuchiki Byakuya stood in the center of countless cherry blossoms, his white haori fluttering in the dancing cherry blossoms, and his long hair also fluttering with the flowers, making his voice seem distant.

"Bankai is the power to more thoroughly and fully release and utilize the power of the Zanpakutō. It is a secret that only a handful of people among thousands of Shinigami in an era can accomplish."

There was no pride in Byakuya Kuchiki's voice, but every word fully interpreted the emotion called pride.

"When activating Bankai, the Shinigami's spiritual pressure and combat power will have a qualitative leap, and its strength is generally about 5-10 times that of the initial release. If you continue to train and strengthen your Bankai on this basis, you can make the power of Bankai even greater."

"In other words, this is an ability that can bring great power once achieved, and it also has a lot of room for improvement."

"Of course, this is not easy. Even if most Shinigami have achieved Bankai, they still need at least ten years of training to fully control this enormous power, not to mention allowing this power to grow further."

"I haven't mastered Bankai for long, so I can't say I have mastered it completely, but it should be enough to use against you."

The spiritual pressure on Byakuya Kuchiki's body was indeed increasing exponentially, and the magnitude of the increase was completely different from when he used the Shikai.

"When using the Shikai, Senbonzakura splits one blade into thousands of blades, and can launch hundreds or thousands of slashes in an instant."

"When he was in Bankai, Senbonzakura Kageyo dispersed those huge blades. The number of blades could reach hundreds of millions. The number of blades after dispersion was hundreds of millions times more than when he was in Shikai."

"How are you going to deal with these countless blades?"

Byakuya Kuchiki raised his hand and extended his palm towards Aize.

"No matter how fast your flash steps are, how can you possibly escape the pursuit of these endless blades?"

As soon as the words fell, the countless cherry blossoms seemed to have life and flew towards Aize with a roar.

"Swish!" "Swish!" "Swish!"...

Aize immediately launched several flash steps to dodge the incoming cherry blossoms again and again, but the speed of the cherry blossoms was faster than the wind, and there were enough of them to block the entire field of vision, so that every time Aize tried to distance himself, he would be quickly caught up, and sometimes even be attacked from both sides.

"The Thirty-three of the Broken Paths: Blue Fire Falling!"

Aize tried to use the Breaking Path to deal with the wave of cherry blossoms that was rushing towards him, and let the blue flames spurt out from his palms and bombarded it. As a result, it only blew away a small half of the cherry blossoms, and had no effect on the hundreds of millions of tiny blades. He couldn't even block it slightly.

"In that case..."

Aize released his spiritual pressure, raised his Zanpakutō high, slashed out with golden sword pressure, and slashed at the incoming wave of cherry blossoms, causing a loud noise and explosion.

This did slightly hinder the approach of the wave of cherry blossoms, but soon more cherry blossoms flew over and continued to attack Aize.

"Can't even the sword pressure solve it?"

Aize could only use Flash Step again to keep distance from the incoming wave of cherry blossoms.

"it's useless."

Byakuya Kuchiki stretched out his hands and personally controlled countless cherry blossoms, causing their speed to increase dramatically.

"Your spiritual pressure is indeed very strong, which makes your sword pressure very powerful."

"But, it was just sword pressure after all."

"It is simply wishful thinking to think that you can compete with Bankai with sword pressure alone."

Kuchiki Byakuya then distracted himself by manipulating the numerous cherry blossoms, causing them to split into several strands and surround Aize from all directions.

Aize noticed this, looked at the countless cherry blossoms besieging from all directions, narrowed his eyes, and suddenly looked at Kuchiki Byakuya.

"Shh!"

The next second, Aize suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of Byakuya Kuchiki. The Zanpakuto in his hand slashed down like cold moonlight, so fast that it could not be seen clearly.

"Don't think about it!"

It seemed as if Byakuya Kuchiki had already anticipated what Aize would do. Suddenly, a large group of cherry blossoms flew out from behind him and blocked his way.

"Oh!"

Aize's Zanpakuto chopped on the numerous cherry blossoms, causing them to fly everywhere.

"If you can't deal with Senbonzakura Jingyan, then just deal with me, the controller. Do you think I can't guess such a simple plan?"

As soon as Kuchiki Byakuya moved his hand, large pieces of cherry blossoms immediately fell from the sky like a waterfall, attacking Aize.

"Shh!"

Aize activated his flash step, dodging the cherry blossoms falling from the sky, and appeared behind Byakuya Kuchiki, slashing him down again.

This time, he also used the sword pressure, so that a golden spiritual pressure suddenly rose on the blade of his Zanpakuto, as if wrapped in a golden airflow, and with great momentum, it slashed towards Kuchiki Byakuya.

"boom!"

With a loud roar, a large group of cherry blossoms appeared behind Byakuya Kuchiki, forming a wall of cherry blossoms. The wall blocked the Zanpakutō that was carrying the golden airflow, and had a fierce conflict with it, causing the golden spiritual pressure and countless cherry blossoms to fly around randomly.

The shock wave rolled up with Aize's sword pressure, and then rolled out like a hurricane, carrying a large amount of dust and gravel, spreading in all directions.

Faced with this incredibly powerful attack, although Byakuya Kuchiki avoided being hit directly, he was still blown away by the aftermath.

"It's not over yet!" At this time, Aize moved again, and with the amazing speed of Flash Step, he instantly caught up with Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Shh!"

Aize's figure appeared on the left, causing Kuchiki Byakuya to immediately turn towards that side.

"Shh!"

Aize's figure suddenly appeared on the right again, startling Byakuya Kuchiki and he quickly looked to the right.

"Shh!"

Immediately afterwards, Aize's figure appeared behind Byakuya Kuchiki, causing his pupils to shrink.

"Ugh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!"...

After a while, countless Aize appeared around Byakuya Kuchiki, running at high speed and surrounding him.

"What……?!"

Kuchiki Byakuya's stern expression immediately collapsed.

"Do you think I can escape the pursuit of these endless blades this time?"

Aize's half-smiley voice suddenly came from all directions, making Kuchiki Byakuya's expression turn a little ugly.

“Don’t be so complacent…!”

Kuchiki Byakuya then controlled all the cherry blossoms and hundreds of millions of tiny blades, making them flow around like a torrent, with himself as the center.

All the afterimages of Aize that appeared around Byakuya Kuchiki were immediately swallowed up by the large amount of cherry blossoms that rushed in like a torrent, and instantly suffered hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of attacks, causing the atmosphere to explode.

Unfortunately, none of the afterimages that were chopped into countless pieces splattered blood.

"Seventy-five of the Binding Dao: Five pillars of iron!"

At this time, the sound of Aize chanting the ghost way appeared, and five huge iron pillars appeared out of thin air above Kuchiki Byakuya's head and fell straight down.

"Bang!!!"

Kuchiki Byakuya only had time to open his eyes before his body was hit by five huge iron pillars.

The attack power of the iron pillars was not strong, it could even be said to be almost non-existent, but they were connected to each other with iron chains, and they hit Kuchiki Byakuya's head and limbs respectively, making him unable to move.

Aize's figure then appeared in front of Kuchiki Byakuya.

"Broken Dao No. 88: The flying dragon strikes the thief and the sky-shaking thunder cannon!"

He stretched out his hand forward, and the surging spiritual power turned into violently fluctuating flashes of light, appearing in the shape of a dragon, roaring as he rushed towards Kuchiki Byakuya.

The 88th Broken Dao, this is the Broken Dao that Aize had learned before he became the captain. Its power is so strong that it can almost be called the best, excluding the super high-level Ghost Daos above No. 90. Even the Double Lotus Blue Fire Pendant that Aize had used before is not as powerful as it.

At that time, Aize was not able to abandon the chanting of this level of broken way, but now he can do it easily. Although the power is greatly reduced, the dragon-shaped flash that is still not to be underestimated bursts out and hits Kuchiki Byakuya under the five connected iron pillars.

"boom!!!"

The destructive power of the Flying Dragon's Thunder Cannon was revealed in an instant. It first caused a deafening roar, and then blew up the ground within a radius of hundreds of meters. Even the five iron pillars were easily torn and destroyed, as if they were not iron pillars of astonishing height at all, but five building blocks, fragile and embarrassing.

The storm formed by the shock wave also contained cherry blossom-like petals. They could no longer fly around as freely as before, but were swept around by the astonishing shock wave and could not break free at all.

As for Kuchiki Byakuya who was crushed under the five iron pillars, he had long disappeared, as if he had been shattered to pieces in the explosion, leaving no trace at all.

The dragon-shaped flash of light surged and undulated, displaying overwhelming destructive power.

"boom!"

Until a certain moment, a storm formed by a large number of cherry blossom petals flew violently, blowing away the dragon-shaped flash.

"Shh!"

With his Shinigami suit in tatters, Byakuya Kuchiki appeared with a flash step, holding a pink sword made of cherry blossom petals in his hand, blood flowing from his forehead. He rushed towards Aize like a devil and slashed at him with his sword.

Aize's eyes were bright, and he was not willing to be outdone. He raised his Zanpakuto, condensed a huge spiritual pressure, and let the golden spiritual pressure turn into the rise and fall of sword pressure, slashing towards Kuchiki Byakuya.

The two captains who stood at the top of Soul Society and took office at the same time simply abandoned their defense and slashed straight at the opponents in front of them.

If this attack hits the opponent, it will undoubtedly cause fatal injuries.

"Ugh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!" "Uh-huh!"...

Just when Aize and Kuchiki Byakuya's swords were about to hit each other, accompanied by a series of sounds of breaking through the air, figures appeared around the two of them.

They were captains wearing white haori.

"stop!"

They shouted in unison, appeared together, and stopped Aize and Kuchiki Byakuya.

The ones who stopped Aize were Soi-Fong, Komamura Sajin and Shiba Isshin.

The ones who stopped Kuchiki Byakuya were Kyōraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro.

A total of five captains appeared here at the same time. Some grabbed the hands of Aze and Byakuya Kuchiki who were swinging their swords, some held them from behind, and some even drew their Zanpakuto to block the swords of Aze and Byakuya Kuchiki who were about to swing down, stopping them halfway through.

At the same time, several captains seemed to be rushing over here, but before they could catch up, Aize and Kuchiki Byakuya were unable to see their faces, and were controlled by the five captains present.

"What are you doing?"

Soi Feng spoke coldly.

"Why are we fighting here?"

Shiba Isshin also spoke with a frown on his face.

"As a captain, this behavior is too inconsiderate."

Komamura Sajin's voice came from under his iron-like mask.

As for Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro, they each held the hands of Aize and Kuchiki Byakuya and stood in front of them, one with a helpless look and the other with a serious look.

"You guys, come with us."

Kyoraku Shunsui said with a sigh.

"Go to the captain."

Ukitake Jushiro eliminated the resistance of the two with just one sentence.

The two of them just looked at each other, then silently put away their swords.

The captains then escorted the two men to the first squadron's barracks.

(End of this chapter)