I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

Almost at the same moment that Kyoka Shuiyue entered battle stance, Kuchiki Hibiki broke free of the last restraint and crashed to the ground with a thud. His heavy breathing gradually turned into an angry roar. In the next instant, a powerful spiritual pressure, which was strangely mixed with a large amount of hellish miasma, suddenly erupted, instantly stirring up gusts of wind within the Blood Burial Seal.

Hmm... he's probably a little stronger than Kensei Hachiko, neither strong nor weak. Considering that Kyoga Kuchiki was actually quite young before he was sealed, this level of strength is already incredibly genius-level.

Then, Kuchiki Hibiki suddenly moved his hands, bracing himself on the ground and lifting his entire upper body up.

He woke up.

However, his expression was slightly ferocious.

It was as if he had just discovered that the chicken leg he bought was actually a piece of ginger shaped like a chicken leg; his facial features were even distorted into strange shapes, as if he had the words "I'm very angry" engraved on his face.

Clearly, it's completely irrational.

"I suppose I'm a peace-loving person," Kyoka Suigetsu yawned, completely unfazed by the situation, and said, "So, could you just lie down obediently and let me cut the chains of hell for you?"

This insincere request for negotiation unsurprisingly failed.

Kuchiki Kyouga stood up, looked around, and then quickly locked his gaze on Kyoka Suigetsu, who was closest to him. Then, he unconsciously waved his hand, and Muramasa, who had been thrown far away and was lying on the ground vomiting blood, suddenly turned into a purple streak of light and appeared in his hand in the form of a Zanpakuto in an instant.

In a sense, this fulfilled Muramasa's wish.

"Aren't you willing to talk?"

Mirror Flower Water Moon closed her eyes and sighed, "That's a real shame, I have no choice but to defeat you."

The only response she received was a fatal blow to the head!

The sound of Muramasa cutting through the air transformed into a sharp whistling sound. With an unstoppable momentum, the incredibly violent Kuchiki Hibiki slashed towards Kyoka Suigetsu's neck. The seven or eight-meter distance was covered in the blink of an eye. Even without reason, his perfectly upright posture perfectly demonstrated his profound swordsmanship.

But Kyoka Suigetsu didn't even glance at him. Just a moment before the blade was about to cut her neck, she lightly took a step back, and Muramasa's blade grazed her skin.

"Close to" is not a descriptive word. If Mima is not mistaken, there is not even a millimeter of gap between the tip of the knife and the skin.

But not a hair on the head was harmed by the illusion of a mirage.

This is no longer a simple matter of dancing on a knife's edge...

Magical skill!

Mi Zhen could only use this phrase to describe this brief step of illusion.

"Given that you lack the rationality to think, I will forgive this offense for now."

The mirror flower and the moon in the water lifted its closed eyelids a crack—and inside shimmered a deep, divine light like ripples on water!

How outrageous!

Mizhen frowned, secretly assessing the difficulty involved.

Dodging, intercepting, or directly defeating Kuchiki Hibiki in one step is not a problem, but dodging with such precision is a completely different matter, the difficulty is on a completely different level.

It should be noted that only about 0.3 seconds elapsed between Kuchiki Hibiki's attack and Kyoka Suigetsu's perfect dodge.

If the two of them had secretly rehearsed many times, it would be understandable, but this was a completely unpredictable and sudden action—even if they knew that Kuchiki Hibiki was going to attack, the method of attack? The angle? The force? The speed? These were all completely unknown factors, not to mention that this guy was completely irrational at the moment and could not be predicted using conventional methods!

Chapter 167: The Terrifying Computational Load

Such precise evasion under these conditions...

Anyway, Mi Zhen can't do it, and none of the people he knows can either.

Even Yoruichi, who is the most skilled in hand-to-hand combat in the Three Realms, is no match for her.

What's even more terrifying is that... Mirror Flower Water Moon seems to have absolutely no fighting spirit whatsoever.

Her movements were nothing like those of someone who had mastered advanced martial arts techniques. Her center of gravity shifted constantly as she walked, and her knife-wielding movements only looked cool. In the realm of close combat, this girl was a complete novice, yet she made exquisite evasive maneuvers that would be difficult for any martial arts master to match.

What exactly is going on...?

If it weren't for the certainty that Kyoka Suigetsu's ability was complete hypnosis, Mima might have even wondered if she could manipulate time...

But in any case, as long as she can maintain this, Kuchiki Hibiki will probably never even be able to touch the hem of her clothes.

It's like a cat playing with a mouse...

Undeterred by his first strike, Kuchiki Hibiki continued his attack with a second, third, and fourth strike, unleashing a torrential downpour of slashes in an instant. Each strike aimed at vital points, and while the accuracy was lacking, the speed and power perfectly compensated for this slight deficiency.

To do this without thinking, this guy is truly amazing.

However, the depiction of "flowers in a mirror and moon in the water" is entirely metaphysical.

She retreated as Kuchiki Hibiki attacked, her movements languid and lazy. Most of the time, she didn't even glance at him. Yet, with this relaxed, strolling-like attitude, she effortlessly dodged the blades with the shortest distance each time, remaining unharmed. Her graceful movements and precise footwork were enough to shame the entire Shihouin family, renowned for their unarmed combat skills, to the point of contemplating suicide.

"Seriously, aren't you tired?"

After dodging the forty-second strike, Kyoka Suigetsu casually took a step to the side, then raised her hand and gently patted Kuchiki Hibiki's shoulder, sighing, "In my opinion, the gap between us is already quite obvious. Why waste our energy like this?"

If Kuchiki Hibiki were rational and clear-headed at this moment, he would definitely be furious at these extremely insulting remarks that didn't contain a single swear word.

But he was clearly not in a good state of mind at the moment, and all he could think about was killing everything around him that could move.

Since using a knife won't work, let's switch to the demonic path.

Then, Kuchiki Hibiki raised his hand and roared in a hoarse and indistinct voice, "Ice Fang Conquers the Storm!"

Temperature plummeted!

The exquisite Kido, created by Kuchiki Kyouga and comparable to a level 90 or higher Hakudo, surged from his palm like an avalanche, instantly transforming into a pale blue torrent that encompassed Kyoka Suigetsu's entire body within its attack range.

You can't dodge this indiscriminate, wide-range attack with your feet. Besides, even if you could dodge it, if this thing damages the Blood Burial Seal, it would be a huge loss.

How should we deal with illusions and fleeting illusions?

"Tsk..."

She raised her left hand with some impatience, making the same gesture as Kuchiki Hibiki.

It was as if clear water rippled in mid-air.

Colorless, translucent waves surged from Mirror Flower Water Moon's hand, colliding head-on with Ice Fang Conquering Storm.

"This is……!"

Mi Zhen was taken aback.

What Kyoka Suigetsu released was not an attack, but pure, single-element spiritual pressure.

That's right, she simply released her spiritual pressure in one direction.

There was no processing, no aggression; it wasn't like Kenpachi Zaraki or Genryusai Yamamoto who used spiritual pressure as an attack method, but simply released spiritual pressure.

The methods used by both sides clashed violently!

But... there was no sound?

When it touched that spiritual pressure that wasn't even a gust of wind, the Ice Fang Zheng Lan, which was powerful enough to directly crush Dan Kong, instantly "melted" into ordinary spiritual particles with no lethality. They simply scattered in all directions, no matter how hard Kuchiki Xiang He tried to increase the pressure.

Ice Fang's campaign against the Storm ended in failure; he neither killed any enemies nor caused any significant damage to the environment.

Now, Mi Zhen understood the trick.

Kyoka Suigetsu didn't use any special abilities at all. She simply used the most basic common sense that "the spiritual pressure of different people will be rapidly consumed when they come together." The spiritual pressure she released seemed harmless, but in terms of quantity, it was overwhelmingly higher than the spiritual pressure that constituted Hyoga Seiran. This caused the latter to directly consume all its power and eventually revert to basic spiritual particles.

It makes sense in principle, but in practice it is ridiculously difficult.

If the cost of Rotting Wood River is 1, then the cost of Mirror Flower Water Moon is 10 or even 20. The price paid by both sides is not equal at all. It is like using the king's cloak to extinguish the burning of wild grass, which is not worth the effort.

Therefore, it is evident that the Mirror Flower Water Moon probably really has no offensive capabilities.

While normal people would choose to use money (spiritual pressure) to buy weapons (which are then converted into abilities or Kido) for combat, Kyoka Suigetsu simply uses bundles of money as bricks to smash people (directly releasing spiritual pressure). Mima had never seen such a simple and unpretentious display of wealth in his two lifetimes combined; it was truly amazing.

Furthermore, the asymmetry isn't just about the energy consumption; the operational difficulty of the two is also on completely different levels.

The spiritual pressure released by Kyoka Suigetsu is all loose "raw material". In order to counter the "product" made by Kuchiki Kyoga using Kido, one must use exquisitely insane manipulation skills to restrain the form of the spiritual pressure so that it will not dissipate like a castle on the beach.

The mirror image not only achieved this, but also ensured that the clash between the two did not produce the slightest aftereffect.

The precision of its capabilities is so high that it is almost incomprehensible to most people.

But this is still not cost-effective at all.

No wonder Aizen disliked Kyoka Suigetsu... His unparalleled mana bar was matched with a skill set that had zero output. Who wouldn't feel frustrated using it?

Putting aside everything else, given Aizen's spiritual pressure, even if you gave him a catfish, he could probably turn it into a destroyer of the earth...

Wait a minute... So it seems he knows how he did it before with the "Mirror Flower Water Moon" technique.

The answer has actually been revealed by her own words: "calculation".

She perfectly calculated the distance and speed of each of Kuchiki Hibiki's attacks and used the minimum dodge distance—it was that simple.

For something as illusory as a mirage, this is not a fantasy.

It's important to understand that the ability of "Mirror Flower Water Moon" is not as simple as "Reversal of Touch." "Completely manipulating the five senses of others" must be supported by unimaginably powerful computing power. Because the real world is complex, a perfect illusion that is flawless in terms of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell cannot be created by simply thinking about it. The senses of masters are all incredibly sharp. To perfectly deceive them, you cannot reveal the slightest flaw.

Even today, top-of-the-line computer graphics cards would take hours or even days to render a few seconds of high-definition footage, while Mirror Flower Water Moon could create a flawless virtual reality with zero time difference. With this computing power, Kuchiki Echo River's movements would probably be many times slower than a tortoise crawling, making it easy for him to perfectly dodge attacks.

This computing power couldn't possibly belong to Aizen. If his brain were that sharp, he probably would have already ascended to the Soul King and gone to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.

In other words... the Zanpakuto that can do this is Kyoka Suigetsu.

“How terrifying…”

Mima sighed inwardly, "This isn't a Zanpakuto; it's more like a supercomputer with a unique shape."

After figuring this out, Mima was completely relieved.

There's not much to say. Can a human fight a supercomputer? I bet the moment Kuchiki Hibiki bent over, Kyoka Shuigetsu would already know whether he was going to have a good or bad fight—the latter, while not having any real killing power, at least had a knife in his hand. If it really came down to a fight, the former wouldn't be a match for her.

But she clearly has some unique ideas.

Why be so stubborn?

Mirror Flower Water Moon leaped back a step: "Hurting people is something I find very difficult to accept, please don't force me, okay?"

You're talking nonsense.

It's only because Muramasa has turned back into a sword that he's protesting so fiercely...

Kuchiki Hibiki naturally ignored this advice and released another fireball. However, this one was much weaker than Ice Fang's Storm, so it wouldn't cause any damage to the seal. Therefore, Mirror Flower Water Moon simply turned her body slightly to dodge it.

"Alright, I understand." She weighed the hilt of the knife in her hand, looking somewhat distressed. "Looks like I can only give you a little blow."

She dodged another attack from Kuchiki Hibiki, and then her whole body suddenly rippled like water.

The next moment, a black-haired woman dressed in aristocratic robes appeared there.