The hand-painted Sun Father-in-law in the sky has a strange smile on his face and a pair of big curved eyes turning left and right;
Next to the sun, the long-haired moon sister kept opening and closing her mouth, as if she was singing some kind of silent song;
The stars shuttled through the clouds like meteors, hitting each other, but no sound was heard.
These hand-drawn things look full of childishness and give full play to children's wild thoughts, but once they are put together, they look inexplicably chilling.
And at the moment when the arena was formed, whether it was the sun, moon, stars, clouds...
Everyone turned their attention to the ring, with smiles on their faces. The corners of their mouths were pulled upwards, all the way to the ears. The large arc felt as if the corners of their mouths were torn open; there was a sinister look in their innocent eyes.
, it was frightening, and that inexplicable feeling of gaze made Aronillo feel a chill from the depths of his spiritual body.
"Don't be nervous."
On the other side of the arena, Duan Mu said softly: "This is just an ordinary arena. Neither you nor I will get any help here." Duan Mu slowly raised his head and glanced.
With the weird sky above his head, he continued:
"The only meaning of the existence of this space is to completely block the exploration of the outside world. As long as you are in this area, any detection methods, contact technology, and even spiritual pressure fluctuations, breath, etc. will be completely blocked. In other words, your
Death will not be discovered by anyone!"
"Who are you?"
Aaroniro looked at Duan Mu with cold eyes, feeling extremely confused.
It has been two years, and I have stayed in Xuye Palace for two full years.
Two years later, I left Xuye Palace, only to meet this lunatic-like guy again.
Even after searching all his memories, Arronillo didn't find out where he provoked this madman...
Um?
Arronillo turned his eyes and looked at Shiba Iwajiu, who was standing on a stage like a grandstand outside the huge arena. When he saw the ‘Skyfall Collapse Swirl Pattern’ on the Iwajiu’s backpack, his eyes froze.
immediately……
"Rock Vulture? Is that you? Rock Vulture!"
Aaronillo's eyes lit up, and a sunny smile appeared on his face: "I didn't expect you to have grown so big. It's really impressive. I remember that when you were a child, you always pestered me to teach you how to fight. And
One time you and Konghe came together with me..."
Listening to that nostalgic voice, looking at that nostalgic appearance, as well as that very familiar smile and the past events that are constantly being told in his mouth.
Even though Duan Mu had repeatedly emphasized that the other party was not his eldest brother, Yanjiu couldn't help but show hope and murmured in disbelief:
"Brother Hai...Haiyan?"
Is it really you?
Yanjiu didn't dare to say the next words, because he was afraid that the answer he would get after asking would make him despair...
"It's great to see you. After Rukia left, at the moment when my spirit body collapsed, I was still thinking, what will you and Konghe do after I leave?"
There was a hint of sadness in Aaroniello's tone, as if he really was Shiba Haiyan... In other words, this was what Shiba Haiyan was worried about before he died.
He ignored Duanmu who was standing with a knife, but came to the edge of the ring, looked at Shiba Ganjiu in the stands with gentle eyes, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, but looking at your appearance now, Konghe didn't let me
Disappointed." After saying that, he paused slightly and slowly raised his hand to rub his head in the air.
"You have grown up, Rock Eagle."
The gentle voice, full of kind words, and the same temperament completely defeated the Rock Eagle's defense.
"Are you really the eldest brother?"
"Of course it's me. After the spirit body collapsed, my spirit body came to Hueco Mundo. After arriving in Hueco Mundo, I realized that the Hollow was the experimental subject of the boss of Xuye Palace. He was in that Hollow's body.
It is programmed to return to Hueco Mundo and regroup once it is destroyed.”
"After the virtual recombination with my spirit body, I became what I am now. This is all in their calculations, but it seems that it is my spirit that controls the spirit body."
After saying that, Aaronillo laughed very proudly and said: "To put it simply, my iron willpower is beyond their imagination."
Yanjiu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "Then..."
"Have you said enough?"
At this moment, Duan Mu, who had not interrupted, raised his head and looked at Aronillo.
"If all you can relay are these useless words, then there is no need to continue the conversation."
A trace of fear flashed in Aaroniello's eyes when he heard this, but he laughed casually: "I finally understand why you are so hostile to me. I think you must have misunderstood something. I am really Zhibo."
Haiyan, last time it was just because you suddenly attacked me that I reacted so violently."
After Yaroniro said that, he smiled bitterly: "After all, I can't let you kill me without knowing who you are. If you told me that you knew Konghe and Yanjiu, how could I possibly
Be your enemy."
"You may not know that the reason why I chose to stay here is to wait for an opportunity to get rid of the monster behind Xuye Palace. If I don't get rid of him as soon as possible, it will definitely endanger Soul Society."
Zheng
Duan Mu did not speak, but casually drew out the long knife and threw the bag aside.
With a 'crash' sound, almost the moment the long cloth bag touched the ring, it burned from the inside out and turned into ashes in an instant.
"Life and death."
Duan Mu swung the long knife in his hand, creating a circle of sparks on the ring.
"Any game has its rules, and the rules of the Life and Death Arena are as the name suggests. As long as we step into this arena, one of us must die."
"During the fight, as long as the spiritual pressure does not exceed mine by too much, no one can break into the ring, and neither of us can leave. Moreover, because I do not have complete control over this space, once it is generated,
Even I, the master, cannot remove it before the game ends."
The smile on Aaroniello's face froze.
Duan Mu continued: "There is only one way to leave this arena, and that is to follow the rules of the game."
"One more thing..."
clatter
Duan Mu took a step forward: "I think you should have discovered that this arena is constantly swallowing you and my spiritual pressure. It can be said that it is maintained and repaired by you and my spiritual pressure; when the two of us
All the spiritual pressure is exhausted, and if there is no winner yet, the devoured spiritual pressure will erupt in the form of fire, killing everyone in the ring, including me, the master."
"The rules of the game..."
Buzz
Arronillo's pupils shrank and he almost instinctively drew out his Zanpakutō.
"Explanation completed!"
With the whisper, Duan Mu appeared in front of Aaroniro out of thin air, and slashed down with the long knife in his hand.
摪——!
The crisp sound of gold and iron clashing was heard, and Aaronillo felt a huge force coming from the blade in his hand, and his whole body retreated backwards uncontrollably.
Becoming stronger!!
Compared to the battle two years ago, the opponent has become stronger again.
Even so strong...
Just one strike of the knife caused the jaw of his right hand to break apart.
"Eat him up, Naxu!"
The experience of almost dying at the hands of the opponent last time made Arronillo dare not show any contempt and killed him without hesitation.
boom
The terrifying spiritual pressure formed into substance and exploded like a whirlpool.
When Duan Mu saw this, he twisted around and swung the knife to remove the impact. At the same time, arcs of electricity flashed all over his body.
"roar."
The roar of thunder was deafening.
——Instant coax!
Almost as soon as he entered the state of instant coax, Duan Mu appeared above the whirlpool, slashing down with the long knife in his hand.
A sharp and sinister aura filled the air and enveloped the entire arena.
The thunder was rolling, and the hand-painted clouds in the sky turned into dark clouds at this moment. Electric arcs flashed among them, and the stars galloped and collided excitedly.
The vortex disperses.
The fluctuations coming from the top of his head caused Aronillo's spirit body to tremble instinctively, causing him to burst out all his spiritual pressure without hesitation.
But instead of concentrating his spiritual pressure on the trident like last time, under the threat of life and death, he condensed all the tentacles in his lower body into a ball and faced Duan Mu's sword like a long whip.
Outside the ring, Yanjiu watched the battle on the ring without saying a word.
He thought about stopping it, but after hearing Duan Mu explain the rules of the game, he chose to remain silent.
Or rather...
I chose to believe Duan Mu, because Duan Mu said that the other party only had the memory and body of his elder brother, and he was not the elder brother!
And Aaronillo, who returned to the sword, made him even more convinced of this!
next second
The long whip composed of tentacles collided with the long knife, and the impact visible to the naked eye was like a finger pointing on the water, spreading out in all directions.
But after the impact reached the edge of the ring, it seemed to have hit an invisible barrier and dissipated without affecting anything outside the ring.
As for the arena above, it was inevitably cut down by several meters. However, for a arena consisting of a high platform, these few meters did not have the slightest impact other than making the surface of the arena pitted.
At this moment, two figures in the center of the arena quickly retreated towards the rear.
Duan Mu's feet sank into the floor of the ring, and after two ravines of nearly ten meters were outlined, he stabilized his body.
On the other side, Aaroniro's huge, bloated body was like a cannonball. With a dull whistling sound, he hit the invisible barrier of the ring with a bang.
puff
The huge impact caused blood to spurt out of Arronillo's mouth, and his body was even more miserable. A huge knife edge appeared on his octopus-like lower body, and the blood stained the ring beneath him in the blink of an eye.
Why……
Aaroniro looked at Duan Mu with eyes full of disbelief and fear.
It's only been two years, why has the other party become so strong?
Although he lost the battle two years ago, the strength of the opponent's spiritual pressure from beginning to end...even the last blow that almost killed him, the spiritual pressure carried by him was still far inferior to his own.
Therefore, he has always been confident that if he meets Duan Mu again, as long as he does not underestimate him and uses all his strength from the beginning, he will definitely win in the end.
But why?
Why did his spiritual pressure increase so much in just two years?
will die...
If you continue to fight him, you will die!
The fear that had been suppressed completely broke out at this moment. Arronillo seemed to have thought of something, as if he had caught a savior, and looked at the rock eagle outside the ring with a pleading look on his face.
"Yanjiu, save me, I'm your big brother."
Voices filled with fear and pleading echoed in this space.
In the hand-painted sky, the sun, moon, stars... there is a sarcastic smile on the face, as if a child is expressing his disdain.
However, Aaroniro didn't care to look at these now. He looked at the rock vulture with a hopeful look on his face and yelled: "I am really your big brother. You ask him to stop first. I can prove myself."
identity."
Judging from the black-haired young man's previous behavior, he must have some relationship with the Shiba family.
As long as he convinced Yanjiu, he would definitely be able to persuade the black-haired young man to let him go. As for the rules of the game that Duan Mu said before, he didn't believe it at all.
Because he possesses all the memories of Shiha Haiyan, he knows very well that the Zanpakutō will never resist his master, let alone kill his master as Duan Mu said.
What he said before was probably just that he didn't want Shiba Ganjiu to interfere.
However……
What disappoints Aronilo is that his words did not make the Rock Vulture come forward to stop him, but instead made the Rock Vulture look at him with colder eyes, full of murderous intent.
"You are not my elder brother!"
Yanjiu said in a cold tone: "My eldest brother will never be like you, begging my younger brother to save him, let alone show the expression you have now..."
"Don't do such disgusting behavior in front of my elder brother!!"
"The rock eagle is a bit stupid."
Aaroniro's pupils shrank, his neck was like a puppet, and he turned his head stiffly.
Only then did he realize that Duan Mu had appeared beside him at some point.
"But he's not stupid."
Slowly raising the blade in his hand, Duan Mu looked at Aaronillo with extremely cold eyes.
"The reason why he thought you were his big brother for a moment was simply because he hoped in his heart that you were really Shiba Haiyan."
Boom!
The dazzling lightning and spiritual pressure were mixed together, all pouring into the long sword held high above his head.
buzz buzz
The void trembled, and the hand-painted sky rippled, as if it was about to be torn apart.
Before this sword fell, the result was already determined!
However……
"Don't kill Arronillo!"
Just as Duan Mu slashed with his long sword, an anxious voice suddenly came from the depths of his soul. That was Tiruti's voice.
…
One minute ago, the three-digit area of Xuye Palace was located.
In the vast space, three people, two men and one woman, sat scattered, and one of them was Tiruti.
"After Tiruti came here, among our first generation Ten Blades, only Aronillo is left, right?" one of them said with a bitter smile.
This is a male Arrancar with an orange afro, an eyepatch-like virtual mask with a star-shaped mark on his forehead, a beard on his chin, and a strong build.
"If you don't count the former king."
Another middle-aged man with a mask in the shape of a forehead protector, a beard, and an earring pierced his right ear laughed strangely, then shook his head and said: "But thinking about it, Tiruti should be the last one to be eliminated here.
Ten blades, after all, although that guy Aroniro is a waste, he is very useful to Aizen-sama, and his ability can also make him continue to become stronger."
"The ability to evolve infinitely? It's really a ridiculous ability!" The orange afro sighed.
Tiruti did not interrupt at the side, or in other words, her mind was not on talking to the two at this time, but on how Duan Mu's plan was going and whether there were any surprises.
"In addition to infinite evolution, the abilities he devoured are also very important in Lord Aizen's opinion."
The middle-aged man shook his head: "If I remember correctly, he also has an ability called 'synchronized cognition', which can transfer all the intelligence and battle processes of the enemies who fought him after Yaronillo's death.
, can be transmitted in time to... all Arrancars including the Ten Blades through this ability."
"Although for Ten Blades, this ability is completely impossible to come in handy..."
"Dorudoni, what did you just say!?"
Tiruti, who was distracted, changed her expression drastically.
"Ah? I'm talking about Aaronillo's synchronized cognition..."
Tiruti didn't wait for him to finish speaking, stood up suddenly, turned around and walked outside.
Too bad
She completely forgot about this.
When Duan Mu originally planned to kill Arronillo, she didn't remember this at all, because no one had ever thought that Ten Blades would die in the hands of outsiders.
Although Aizen-sama once gave Aroniro the task of completely sharing enemy information with all Arrancars, because death is the activation condition, neither Aroniro himself nor the other Ten Blades have forgotten this ability.
To the back of the head.
If Dorudoni hadn't mentioned it, Tiruti would have completely forgotten about it.
…
"Don't kill Arronillo!"
The words that came to his mind caused Duan Mu to pause slightly in his hand movements.
But the next second...
This knife cut down again.
The rules he told Arronillo before were not lies.
The only thing that Aaronillo didn't know was...
He has developed spiritual patterns on his body, and if it is continuously consumed, his spiritual pressure can be sustained for much longer than the strength of his spiritual pressure.
so……
The difference between life and death is an iron law.
At least until Duanmu fully masters the Zanpakutō, he cannot actively eliminate the existence of this space. He can only complete the game, or someone with stronger spiritual pressure than Duanmu can forcefully break this space.
Buzz
It was silent, and the sword slashed down without causing any ripples.
The long knife in Duan Mu's hand was hanging in the air, only a few centimeters above the ground, while Aaroniro seemed to be stunned, staying in place motionless.
Kakaka
At this moment, a strange cracking sound was heard.
Aaroniro's head twisted, Shiba Haiyan's face disappeared, replaced by a cylindrical tank filled with liquid, and the cracking sound came from the tank.
A crack appeared in the center of the tank.
No……
More strictly speaking, there was a crack in both the tank and the center of the body.
Split into two!
Bang bang
There were two muffled sounds in succession, and the body split in two fell to the ground. The two masks in the tank wailed at the same time, and gradually shriveled up with the wailing.
"Synchronous cognition, Yaroniro has the ability of 'synchronous cognition', which can share all the enemy's information to all arran..." The words coming from his mind became smaller and smaller at the moment of death.
, and finally shouted anxiously:
"I'll find a way to hold you back and run away!"
Synchronized cognition?
Duan Mu's face suddenly darkened, and for the first time, panic appeared in his heart.
bang
The space they were in collapsed instantly, and Duan Mu and Yanjiu returned to the Hueco Mundo space.
Without asking, Duan Mu pointed his finger at the void almost at the same time as he released the initial solution.
buzz buzz
The space tore open, and before it could fully open, Duan Mu grabbed the rock vulture and rushed into it.
However……
Uh-!
The space shook, and the torn black cavity suddenly closed like a big mouth, with sewing marks appearing up and down.
Space blockade!
No matter how hard Duan Mu was torn apart, there would be no ripples in the space he was in.
"how……"
Yanjiu looked at Duan Mu with some confusion.
But before he could finish speaking, his whole body was pulled up into the air, so fast that Rock Eagle couldn't even open its eyes.
After an unknown amount of time, the hand holding him behind his back suddenly exerted force and threw him to the ground.
The entire body of the rock eagle was instantly covered by the white sand. Duan Mu lowered his head and glanced at the white sand that had returned to its original shape, turned around and galloped out in the other direction.
