I Am a Heroic Spirit

Nero caught up with Byakuya Kuchiki, leaped up, and gathered all his strength, striking Byakuya Kuchiki with the primordial fire.

Byakuya Kuchiki could vaguely sense the heat close behind him, so he turned around and slashed back, blocking the primordial fire. Although his sudden defense blocked Nero's attack, he was also pushed by the huge force of Nero's slash, and slid backwards quickly.

“It’s a really good skill.”

Nero leaned forward and rushed towards Byakuya Kuchiki. Byakuya Kuchiki was unable to defend himself and could only watch as Nero slashed down with the flaming sword.

However, Nero's primordial fire only cut Kuchiki Byakuya's arm, while Kuchiki Byakuya himself had already used instant step to retreat to a farther distance.

"but--"

Nero followed closely behind and chased after Byakuya Kuchiki. Byakuya Kuchiki knew that he could not resist Nero in such a disadvantageous position, so he could only keep retreating and use the half-broken Soul-Slaying Sword in his hand to fight against the Primordial Fire that Nero chopped down.

"How many pieces of clothing do you have to continue escaping from me?"

A series of weapon collision sounds continued to ring out. As Nero's complacent words fell, a heavy flame slash hit Kuchiki Byakuya's body, knocking him flying and hitting the ground heavily. He fell more than ten meters before stopping.

Nero did not stop and continued to rush towards the place where Byakuya Kuchiki fell. Although he said it very powerfully, Nero knew in his heart that Byakuya Kuchiki was not so easy to defeat.

This was also demonstrated by Byakuya Kuchiki. The flying dust blocked people's sight, but Byakuya Kuchiki did not let people wait for long. In a blink of an eye, he walked out of the dust with the Soul-Slaying Sword in his hand, and stared coldly at Nero who was rushing towards him.

Apart from a bloody mark on his left arm, Byakuya Kuchiki had no other injuries. At most, he just looked a little embarrassed.

Just a few seconds ago, when Nero's primordial fire slashed towards Byakuya Kuchiki, Byakuya Kuchiki gathered most of his spiritual pressure in his left arm, using it to block Nero's slash. He relaxed his body and used the white fighting technique to let his left arm bear all the damage. Although he lost some of his composure in the end, he did not suffer much real loss.

"What are you talking about running for your life? Do you think you can defeat me just like that? Your shallow and foolish opinion only makes me feel very pitiful for you."

Kuchiki Byakuya's cold voice sounded. Although he seemed to have no emotion, it made people feel inexplicably angry.

Nero's speed became faster, and the primordial fire in his hand drew a line of fire in the route towards Byakuya Kuchiki.

Nero possesses both speed and skill, and his movement trajectory is extremely complex, making it difficult to capture. He can also change his destination at any time. No matter how Kuchiki Byakuya dodges, he is still within Nero's attack range.

Byakuya Kuchiki stood in the ruins, watching Nero approaching coldly. Instead of dodging, he put down his Soul-Slaying Sword and waited quietly for Nero's arrival.

Although Nero felt it was a little strange, she didn't take it to heart. She believed that with all the A-level skills she had acquired at the same time, she could easily defeat Kuchiki Byakuya. It was just a matter of time.

"The fourth of the broken paths! White thunder!"

When Nero was only fifty meters away from Byakuya Kuchiki, Byakuya Kuchiki suddenly stretched out his finger and launched a long-range attack on Nero. Two flashes of lightning shot out from Byakuya Kuchiki's fingertips almost at the same time and shot directly at Nero.

Nero wanted to dodge, but found that no matter where he moved, he would be hit by a bolt of lightning. It was obvious that after observation, Kuchiki Byakuya had already preliminarily determined Nero's trajectory.

Nero hesitated for less than a second, then stopped dodging and directly crashed into the two lightning bolts. Anyway, they couldn't hurt him.

Two bolts of lightning shot at Nero, but naturally did not cause any harm to him, and even failed to slow him down.

"Magic power? A-level, B-level, or C-level?"

Kuchiki Byakuya muttered to himself, but his eyes never left Nero.

"The Eighty-Eighth Breaker! Flying Dragon Strikes the Bandits with the Sky-Shaking Thunder Cannon!"

Worried that Nero's resistance to magic was too high, Byakuya Kuchiki directly activated the 88th Hado. Although he gave up chanting, with Byakuya Kuchiki's attainments in Kidō and powerful spiritual pressure, it was already as powerful as the 85th Hado.

A huge sky thunder cannon was fired from the palm of Byakuya Kuchiki, and it crashed into Nero with a huge roar. The path of the sky thunder cannon was all scorched earth caused by the aftermath of thunder and lightning.

The powerful might of the Sky Thunder Cannon made Nero's face change drastically as she was in the attack path of the Sky Thunder Cannon. With her anti-magic ability, she could at best block the No. 60 or 70 Breaking Paths. She couldn't block such a powerful Breaking Path.

Nero's feet shook, and his whole body rose up, actually passing over the sky thunder cannon, easily avoiding the attack of the sky thunder cannon.

However, this was exactly what Byakuya Kuchiki was aiming for. You know, lightning is very fast and it is not so easy to dodge. Byakuya Kuchiki deliberately slowed down the attack speed of the Sky Thunder Cannon, just to see whether Nero needed to dodge the No. 88 Broken Path, Flying Dragon Strikes the Thief, Sky Thunder Cannon.

"Magic Resistance C, or D, can be dealt with as C-rank Magic Resistance."

Kuchiki Byakuya thought for a moment and immediately determined the strength of Nero's magic resistance. Because according to the information about magic resistance, if Nero's magic resistance was B-level, even if he fought hard against the 88th Hado who had given up chanting, he would not suffer any injuries that would affect the battle.

Since Nero dodged it, it means that Nero's magic resistance is below B level or even lower. However, to be on the safe side, Nero's magic resistance must be treated as C level magic resistance.

"Scatter, Senbonzakura!"

At this time, the Senbonzakura had been repaired. Kuchiki Byakuya did not hesitate and immediately released the Soul-Zanking Sword again. A pink light flashed, and countless fine cherry blossom petals fluttered, covering the entire ring.

The cherry blossom petals are extremely scattered, and only the cherry blossom petals near Nero will attack Nero, while the others just slowly drift away.

I think Byakuya Kuchiki is worried that Nero will use the primordial fire to burn Senbonzakura's blade again.

Nero also understood that Byakuya Kuchiki was simply testing him, whether it was the trajectory of his movements or the strength of his magic power. Coupled with the siege of Senbonzakura, Nero dared not delay any further.

After Nero landed, his figure slowly dispersed from the spot. It seemed that he directly used the shrinking technique and tried to kill Kuchiki Byakuya at the fastest speed.

"Thundering chariot, in the cracks of the spinning wheel, this object has light gathering and splitting into six! Binding Path Sixty-One - Six-Staff Light Prison!"

As soon as Byakuya Kuchiki finished chanting the spell, Nero appeared fifteen meters away from Byakuya Kuchiki. The light emitted from Byakuya Kuchiki's fingertips transformed into six light bands and fixed him in mid-air, unable to move.

"how come?"

Nero, who was tied up in mid-air, had a look of surprise on her face. She had never thought that she would be caught while shrinking the earth.

"Don't forget, the Soul-Severing Sword's shape and power are based on the soul of the God of Death himself."

Byakuya Kuchiki raised the Soul Zanpi, of which only the hilt was left, and the cherry blossom petals scattered on the ring flew quickly towards Nero.

Nero immediately understood what Byakuya Kuchiki meant. Byakuya Kuchiki scattered the fragments of the Soul-Zhan Sword all over the ring, which meant that no matter where he went, he could not escape Byakuya Kuchiki's eyes.

As countless cherry blossom petals gathered together again, Kuchiki Byakuya grasped the hilt of the sword and made a slashing gesture. The cherry blossom petals turned into a tornado, spinning into the sky and crashing down to where Nero was.

"Oops!"

Nero's expression straightened, and a powerful spiritual pressure burst out from his body. The six-rod light prison that bound Nero exploded and collapsed into spirit particles.

After escaping from the predicament, Nero did not waste a second and immediately jumped backwards. The second her feet left the ground, the cherry blossom storm burst through the air where Nero was originally, and hit the ground. The spiral sharp blade broke the ground and created a sinkhole several meters deep.

"Don't try to escape!"

Byakuya Kuchiki made another upward movement, and the cherry blossom storm that hit the ground quickly flew up from the ground, one turned into two, two turned into four, and four cherry blossom tornadoes came from four directions and chased Nero in the sky together.

Heroic spirits are good in every way except for one thing: they cannot fly. Once they are in the air and attacked by the enemy, they can only sit and wait for death, just like Nero now.

The cherry blossom-like blades cut tiny cracks on Nero's face, hands, and clothes, causing Nero to constantly feel a tingling sensation on his body. The four cherry blossom tornadoes generated extremely strong winds, trapping Nero in the center. Nero, who had no force points, could not escape, and even could not land.

Although the attack power of cherry blossom petals is not strong, if it continues for a long time, small injuries will become big injuries and will still cause fatal injuries.

"Damn it, I wanted to wait until the critical moment to use it." Nero said to himself in anger.

Kuchiki Byakuya is far away

Chapter 269 Close Combat, Ghost Battle

"Hehe, don't forget, this is my world. Although Mary, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth also participated, the foundation was built by me, which means..." Nero put one hand on his waist and placed the Primordial Fire on his shoulder with the other, standing proudly on the highest stone pillar.

"That means that this world is controlled by you, whether it's suppressing the enemy or changing the terrain." Kuchiki Byakuya interrupted Nero and said in a deep voice.

"Indeed, I have sufficient control over this world. I originally wanted to wait for the critical moment, change the terrain, and kill you by surprise, but I didn't expect you to force this move so soon."

Nero had no intention of hiding anything, and since his plan had already been exposed, he told it all.

Byakuya Kuchiki understood what Nero meant. In normal battles, terrain plays an extremely important decisive factor.

For example, when the two were fighting on flat ground, Nero swung his sword to cut Byakuya Kuchiki in the waist, and Byakuya Kuchiki also drew his sword to block. At this time, the ground where Byakuya Kuchiki was suddenly sank, and the position of Nero's Primordial Fire attack would naturally change. Without being prepared, could Byakuya Kuchiki really block Nero's rising slash in time?

"Suffer to death!"

Nero took two quick steps, jumped up from the edge of the stone pillar, and rushed down towards Byakuya Kuchiki from ten meters in the air. The primordial fire burning with flames carried the power to split the space and slashed towards Byakuya Kuchiki.

Byakuya Kuchiki's figure flashed and disappeared from the stone pillar. Nero's slash passed through Byakuya Kuchiki's afterimage, and the heavy sword pressure shattered most of the stone pillar. Countless pieces of stone splashed around, and the impact force like a bullet knocked the surface of the nearby stone pillars into pits. The dust produced by the broken stone pillars covered the entire area of ​​stone pillars.

Byakuya Kuchiki landed lightly on a stone pillar in the distance. The cherry blossom petals that were divided into different corners of the arena by dozens of stone pillars gradually flew towards Byakuya Kuchiki, forming a new soul-slaying sword in Byakuya Kuchiki's hand.

And just the next second when Byakuya Kuchiki's Soul-Slaying Sword recovered, Nero burst out from the smoke. Byakuya Kuchiki swung his sword with his backhand, but was hit by Nero's primordial fire on the weak point of the sword. Byakuya Kuchiki felt his wrist numb, and the Soul-Slaying Sword slipped out of his hand and fell under a stone pillar five or six meters high.

Byakuya Kuchiki has rich combat experience and a quick reaction speed, and these two points are demonstrated when his Soul-Slaying Sword was knocked away.

Having lost his Soul-Zhan Sword, Byakuya Kuchiki did not think about how to retrieve it as quickly as possible, nor did he want to retreat quickly away from Nero. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity when Nero used too much force to knock his Soul-Zhan Sword away, and was unable to retract the sword even after the Primal Fire slashed for the third second, and pointed his finger at Nero's wrist.

"Breaking Path One! Charge!"

A shock wave shot out from Kuchiki Byakuya's fingertips. This was the lowest level of Hado.

It can be said that this move is not a technique at all. It has no special properties and no spells need to be chanted. It is just a simple shock wave that even ordinary people can use. However, compared to the almost imperceptible breeze that ordinary people can only send out, with the power and spiritual pressure of a captain-level Shinigami, the shock wave it sends out is enough to break through a wall.

Because this No. 1 Broken Path is a kind of ghost path that is not considered a ghost path, Nero, who possesses C-level anti-magic power, has no defense against Kuchiki Byakuya's attack. The sudden pain in his wrist makes Nero unbearable, and his palm can't help but loosen. The original fire, which was originally in a fierce slashing state, burst out at the same time Nero let go, breaking a stone pillar in the middle.

"Let's get on with it, it's fair game."

Kuchiki Byakuya said calmly, although they all lost their weapons, it was still hard to say whether it was fair or not.

Byakuya Kuchiki clenched his left fist and hit Nero in the stomach. Nero raised his right arm to block it, and then hit Byakuya Kuchiki with his left hand. Byakuya Kuchiki stretched out his hand and spread his five fingers, grabbing Nero's fist, and hitting the target with one blow. He held Nero's fist in his hand, but his body suddenly shook. If his palm had not been tightly grasping Nero's fist, he would have been knocked back by Nero's huge force.

Although they had lost their weapons and were unable to launch powerful attacks or cause devastating damage, the battle scene between the two was no weaker than before.

Byakuya Kuchiki can be said to be an almighty Shinigami. Among the four major Shinigami skills, he has practiced the slashing technique with his grandfather since he was young. He can even forgo chanting the Kidō dō above the 80th level. He learned Hakuba and Shunpo from Shunshin Yoruichi, who is the best at Hakuba and Shunpo in Soul Society. His attainments in almost every aspect are above those of an ordinary captain.

After losing his weapon, Kuchiki Byakuya used all his strength to perform Hakuto. No matter his arms, legs, even his back and head, they all became Kuchiki Byakuya's attack methods. Although he lost some grace, his aggressiveness was extremely strong. Every punch and kick, hitting the stone pillar, could create a big hole.

Although Nero is not proficient in fighting, the emperor's privileges allow her to have sufficient close combat skills. Combined with her extraordinary strength, every attack can bring a fatal sense of crisis to Kuchiki Byakuya.

The two men fought as they moved forward. In a few minutes, they had passed more than ten stone pillars. After they left, each stone pillar became a mess, as if a plane had crashed on it, and its height dropped by nearly one meter.

Gradually, Nero, with his strength far exceeding that of Byakuya Kuchiki and fighting ability that was not much worse than Byakuya Kuchiki, steadily overwhelmed Byakuya Kuchiki. Under Nero's fist that was strong enough to break half of a stone pillar with one move, Byakuya Kuchiki was caught in a dilemma and did not dare to take Nero's punch head-on.

After just over ten minutes, hundreds of punches and kicks were over, and Byakuya Kuchiki's movements began to become sluggish. Nero seized the opportunity and hit Byakuya Kuchiki in the stomach with a flaming uppercut, directly knocking him into a spiral shape and soaring into the sky.

Nero bent his body and was about to jump up to chase, but he suddenly felt a pain in his head and his legs suddenly went weak. His body tilted forward and he almost fell off the stone pillar.

"Well……"

Half-kneeling on the edge of the stone pillar, Nero's face was distorted with pain. She covered her head with her hands and was unable to get up for a while, which made her lose the best opportunity to attack.

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come alone. When the headache attacked, Nero's skills such as bravery, emptiness, and fighting also disappeared. For a time, Nero fell into the worst situation. The Nero here could be easily defeated even by the vice-captain-level Death God.

"What happened to the Emperor?" Yachiru Kusaka sat on Kenpachi Zaraki's head, looking at Nero kneeling on the stone pillar, and asked curiously, "Was he injured by Bai Jun?"

"Is he injured? It seems not." Unohana Retsu looked at Nero's body in confusion, but did not find any fatal injuries.

"Captain Kuchiki didn't inflict any fatal attack on Emperor Nero just now," Soi Fong concluded.

As the commander of the Criminal Army, Soi Fong's vision is naturally convincing, but it also makes everyone more confused.

"Could he be ill? Emperor Nero looks a bit similar to the last time Jushiro suddenly fell ill and almost died." Kyoraku Shunsui guessed while stroking his beard.

"Is Emperor Nero sick?" Unohana Retsu asked doubtfully. Although she was the captain of the medical team, she relied entirely on Huidao to treat illnesses. She didn't know any medical skills like observation, listening, questioning and palpation, so naturally she couldn't tell Nero's condition.

"It seems to be a headache, but I haven't seen this in the information about Nero." The experienced Ukitake Jushiro quickly saw Nero's signs.

"Perhaps it wasn't recorded. After all, this emperor's life was always accompanied by poisoning, conspiracy, and power struggles. His mother, in particular, was one of the most famous poisoners in ancient times. Who knows if the queen poisoned Nero for power? You know, Nero and her mother had a very bad relationship, and her mother had poisoned her husband twice." Kyoraku Shunsui recalled the information he had read and couldn't help but sigh for the famous poisonous woman.

While the captains were discussing, Byakuya Kuchiki also fell vertically from the sky and hit a stone pillar hard. The strong impact made Byakuya Kuchiki feel pain all over his body, and it took him a while to recover.

At this time, Byakuya Kuchiki also noticed Nero's abnormality, but since there was no information about this in the intelligence, and he was sure that he had not caused any fatal injuries to Nero, Byakuya Kuchiki hesitated.

Although he hesitated for less than ten seconds before Byakuya Kuchiki was about to test Nero, in those ten seconds, Nero had already returned to normal...

Only then did Byakuya Kuchiki confirm that Nero was not pretending to lure him closer, but something really went wrong. It was just too late for him to confirm it.

After returning to normal, Nero immediately set off and chased after Byakuya Kuchiki. Knowing that he was no match for Nero, Byakuya Kuchiki immediately used Shunpo to escape, intending to use Bankai after obtaining the Soul Zanken Sword.

However, Kuchiki Byakuya still failed to achieve his wish. Just when he was about to approach the place where the Soul Zanking Sword fell, stone pillars suddenly rose from the ground and surrounded the Soul Zanking Sword. One of them almost hit Kuchiki Byakuya's chin.

Nero, who had just stopped to transform the terrain, chased after Kuchiki Byakuya again.

After Kuchiki Byakuya stood firmly on a stone pillar, he began to quickly judge the current situation in his mind. The situation was very unfavorable to him and he had to get the Soul Zanken Sword. However, in order to get the Soul Zanken Sword, he had to prevent Nero from changing the terrain. In order to prevent Nero from changing the terrain, he had to get the Soul Zanken Sword Bankai. No, that's not right. It should be to interfere with Nero so that she has no time to change the terrain.

"O Lord, the mask of flesh and blood, the myriad phenomena, soaring high, the thing bearing the name of humanity, the thundering chariot, the cracks in the spinning wheel, this thing gathers light and splits into six, carving twin lotuses on the wall of blue fire, waiting in the distant sky for the abyss of fire, the sixty-first to bind the way, the six-foot light prison. The seventy-third to break the way, the twin lotuses fall in blue fire."

Kuchiki Byakuya moved quickly while chanting the spell, using the double chanting technique to release two completely different types of ghost arts at the same time: attack and restraint.

Nero leaped onto the stone pillar of the arena and chased after Byakuya Kuchiki. Facing Byakuya Kuchiki's double chant, he first leaped sideways to avoid the powerful blast of the Twin Lotus Blue Fire Drops, then wrapped the flames of the Demon Seed Demon around his arms and punched the six-foot light prison, smashing it to pieces.

"Binding Method Twenty-one! Red Smoke Escape!"

While Nero was dealing with the Six-foot Light Prison and the Twin Lotus Blue Fire Drop, Byakuya Kuchiki used the Red Smoke Release. Although it was a low-level binding technique, in Byakuya Kuchiki's hands, it exerted a power comparable to that of an intermediate-level binding technique.

For a moment, light red smoke spread out, covering half of the arena, greatly reducing people's vision.

"Ok?"

Nero stopped on a stone pillar, looked around, and found that he could no longer see Byakuya Kuchiki, so he once again used the emperor's privileges to gain new skills.

"Roar!"

A burst of ultrasonic waves spread out in all directions with Nero as the center. After obtaining Elizabeth's Dragon Breath Blowing skill, 4.0 Nero planned to use ultrasonic waves to determine the location of Byakuya Kuchiki.

"Blue Fire Pendant!"

A faint voice came from nowhere.

“Bang bang bang!!!”