"You must know the contents of the 'trial' better than the others, so even if I am your former vice-captain, I will show no mercy. Are you ready to die by my sword? Kuchiki
.”
The spiritual pressure on Shiba Haiyan's body began to rise, and he made the final confirmation towards Kuchiki Rukia with a serious expression.
"Of course."
The expression on Kuchiki Rukia's face was equally serious. Under the influence of Sode Shirayuki, the surrounding temperature began to drop.
‘Death’ is a word that is frightening just to hear.
She has never experienced such a feeling, and of course no one would want to experience such a feeling.
If possible, it is of course best to defeat the opponent in front of you and pass the 'trial' in one go.
"Then... let's get started!"
Zhibo Haiyan's voice fell, and his entire body disappeared from the spot.
call--
Facing the oncoming attack, Kuchiki Rukia's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Fly, Sode Shirayuki!"
The condensed frost spread mercilessly towards the person in front of you.
The next dance is Bai Lian.
"Too naive, Kuchiki!"
The steps under Shiba Haiyan's feet changed instantly.
He is now an Arrancar, so he can use the "Sound Turn", and the memory of being a Shinigami allows him to also remember how to use Shunpo.
The next moment, his figure appeared behind Rukia Kuchiki.
"Have you forgotten? I am very familiar with your moves. After all, I was the one who accompanied you in your move training at that time! If you really want to defeat me, just use what you have grown during my absence!"
"Of course I know this..."
Kuchiki Rukia did not look back, but slowly waved the blade in her hand as if she was not distracted.
"Forehead?"
Zhibo Haiyan was slightly startled.
Because he found that his body was frozen.
In other words, it seems that he was able to escape the blow and come here completely within this girl's calculations?
"When you were fighting, you became much calmer than before?"
"Of course."
Kuchiki Rukia responded with a smile.
"The First Dance·Yuebai!"
The moves she is using now are indeed moves that everyone is familiar with, but so what? As long as they are used properly and every step is calculated, even the most inconspicuous moves can have the desired effect.
A white halo of light enveloped the two of them, like the white light rising during the full moon, but this light was cold.
In the area marked by 'Moon White', everything except her will be frozen by ice.
Click——
Looking at the frost spreading up from his legs, a faint smile appeared on Shiba Haiyan's face: "Good job! But... it's not enough."
As he spoke, the blade in his hand began to turn.
"The water and sky are rolling in reverse and the flowers are blooming!"
The overturned blade turned into a trident after being released, and the sea ice that had previously condensed where the halberd was swept turned into water.
"Isn't it really that easy?"
Feeling the change behind her, Rukia Kuchiki had some helplessness in her tone. She disappeared instantly and when she reappeared, she had distanced herself from Shiba Haiyan.
"It's really nostalgic..."
She looked at the Zanpakutō in the opponent's hand and sighed slightly.
"So...Master Haiyan, do you...now control the power of both the Shinigami and the Arrancar?"
"You guessed it right, but there is no reward."
Shiba Haiyan chuckled and raised the halberd in his hand, "By the way, I also learned the swastika, which means... your next battle will be harder than you thought before, so be prepared.
Get ready! I'm going to fuck you! Kuchiki!"
"The swastika...and the power of the Arrancar are useless..."
The smile on Kuchiki Rukia's face turned a little bitter, "It looks like it's really not easy..."
Now she has not even mastered swastika. Facing Shiba Haiyan at this moment, it can be said that she has no chance of winning. From this point of view...it seems that it is impossible to pass the level in one life. Then the problem is, with such huge strength
How many lives would it take to make up for the gap? Just thinking about it made her feel desperate.
Wow——
The waves began to surge, and Rukia Kuchiki once again saw the martial arts that were once so familiar to her. The unique posture, relying on one hand as the axis, with the theme of spinning, made people think it was a dancing martial arts, coupled with the halberd.
The waves set off together crush and cut off the enemy. This is a combat technique developed by Shiba Haiyan to match the characteristics of the Zanpakutō.
The raging waves shattered the ice blocking the two people almost instantly. The difference in strength was really too great.
Rukia Kuchiki kept retreating and could only temporarily avoid the sharp attack.
She stretched out her hands and chanted a spell while backing up.
However, Shiba Haiyan opposite didn't seem to give him a chance, and was in front of her in an instant: "It's useless, I said I won't show mercy, do you think I will give you time to use Podou?"
"No, but..."
Rukia Kuchiki said and smiled.
"The Thirty-three of the Broken Paths! Blue Fire Falling!"
She actually doesn't need to chant to use such a broken path, which means that the chant just now is actually a bait.
"!!"
Shiba Haiyan suddenly turned his head, and the blue pillar of flames bombarded past his ears, leaving scorched black marks on his face.
"I see... it's chanting and abandoning. You really couldn't do it before. It seems like this is part of your growth over this period of time? But just like this, it's still impossible to defeat me."
"The fourth way of binding, this rope!"
Kuchiki Rukia did not answer.
She knew the strength gap between her and the person in front of her. If she wanted to win, there was no other way but to try with all her strength. No more nonsense would be meaningless.
"Is it a binding process this time?"
Zhiba Haiyan frowned slightly and looked at the thin rope that restrained him, "It's useless, I can do this kind of binding in a moment..."
"The mask of flesh and blood, the fluttering wings of all things, the one who bears the name of man...the thundering carriage...the gap of the spinning machine...divide this into six with light..."
Kuchiki Rukia still didn't reply, but sang attentively.
Of course she knew that a simple binding path like No. 4 would not be able to trap the person in front of her for long, but that was just to gain time for her to chant for the next ghost path. This technique of ghost path was completely chanted and broken.
The power used after that can be said to be completely different. If you want to fully exert its own power, you still have to chant all the mantras completely.
"Carve the twin lotuses on the wall of blue fire...waiting for the abyss of fire in the distance..."
"!"
Shiba Haiyan suddenly realized something was wrong while listening to the incantation chanted by Kuchiki Rukia.
Because at this moment, Kuchiki Rukia is not simply chanting a mantra, but she is chanting two Kidou mantras at the same time!
"Is it a double chant?"
"You guessed it right, but I don't have a reward to give you."
A triumphant smile appeared on Kuchiki Rukia's face.
"Sixty-one of the Dao of Binding—Six-Stand Light Prison!"
The staggered beams of light instantly bound Shiba Haiyan in place, so that the other Kidō she chanted at the same time could hit her.
"Broken Dao No. 63 - Double Lotus Blue Fire Pendant!"
The blue flame instantly enveloped the bound Shiba Haiyan, and then bloomed like a green lotus.
"..."
Rukia Kuchiki looked nervously at the direction of the flames, because she felt that it would not end so easily.
Sure enough, crisp applause came from the burning flames soon after.
"I have indeed made a lot of progress... If it were me before, I might have been killed by you."
Zhibo Haiyan's voice of relief came from the flames.
Suddenly, the burning flames were torn apart.
The halberd split it in two.
Then, Rukia Kuchiki seemed to see a suffocating wall of despair.
"Overturn the heaven and the earth! Stir up the flowers!"
The waves set off covered the sky and the sun, as if it could overturn the entire world.
She knew that this was probably the swastika of the man in front of her.
puff--
The wave hit Rukia Kuchiki mercilessly.
It made her feel as if she had been cut into pieces by a thousand cuts, as if her whole body had been submerged, smashed, and torn apart by violent waves.
"The first round is over."
Vaguely, she heard a dull sound coming from above the sea, and then her consciousness began to blur.
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"!!"
Renji Abarai, who was half-kneeling on the ground and covered in bruises, suddenly trembled, and the expression on his face became terrifying.
Because he felt that the spiritual pressure that had just risen suddenly disappeared. He was very familiar with that kind of spiritual pressure, because it was Lucia's spiritual pressure.
"Don't look so scary."
Sal Apollo seemed to feel a little bored when he looked at Abarai Renji's unusually ugly expression, "It seems you felt it too? Yes, a burst of spiritual pressure disappeared just now. It was not from our side, so it must be
They are your companions. But actually you don’t have to be so anxious, after all, it doesn’t make any sense at all.”
"What are you talking about!?"
Renji Abarai's tone was full of anger.
Rukia is probably dead, and this guy in front of him actually tells him that it's useless and makes no sense?!
"Don't get excited, it doesn't matter if you don't understand me."
Sal Apollo's interview was extremely gloomy, "Soon you will understand that 'death' is meaningless to you lucky guys..."
"Asshole! Are you trying to say that there is no difference between us alive and dead!?"
Abarai Renji roared angrily, stood up and swung the sharp blade in his hand. Shebimaru's blade extended, and the sharp blade moved towards Sal Apollo's head mercilessly.
"Is this how you understand it?"
Sal Apollo calmly raised his hand, and the steel skin on his arm easily blocked the Shebimaru that was beginning to release.
"Sure enough, human beings are lowly creatures. With your brains full of muscles, it seems to be quite troublesome for me to explain... Anyway, I'm almost tired of this stuff, so I'll let you die once. In this case
... You should be able to understand, right? How 'lucky' you are."
"The damn person...is you!"
Renji Abarai angrily dragged the handle of the knife in his hand, and the sharp blade extended by Shebimaru dragged back like a saw tooth.
呲——
A harsh friction sound sounded.
Sparks were flying on the steel skin of Apollo's arm, but his face remained expressionless: "Fearless struggle, I have said it many times, you who cannot understand the swastika, just rely on the power of the swastika, even
You can't even hurt me. I don't want to lose my life in this boring farce, so... please keep this state indefinitely - go to hell?"
puff--
Blood drops spattered on the wall.
Renji Abarai lowered his head and looked in disbelief at the several sharp blades that pierced him from behind.
I don't know when several figures suddenly came from behind and penetrated his body in an instant.
The blood continued to drain, and he finally fell to the ground, and he could clearly feel that his consciousness was gradually becoming blurred.
Not far away, Sal Apollo was still standing expressionlessly looking down at him.
In Sal Apollo's view, it was undoubtedly stupid to participate in this boring 'trial'. He didn't want to die at all, so he controlled Renji Abarai's power to the minimum range, so that
It can't hurt him at all.
Of course, just because of this, he still felt uneasy, so he didn't even want to take the risk of doing it himself, but asked his lieutenants to do it.
Every Ten Blades is qualified to have an adjutant, and because he is a researcher, he needs a lot of helpers whether to assist in research or as materials, so he selected many adjutants, which just come in handy now.
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"!!!"
Kurosaki Ichigo, who was walking on the road to the depths of Xuye Palace, suddenly stopped.
"Rukia? Renji?"
The expression on his face became extremely ugly.
Because in his perception, the two rising spiritual pressures suddenly disappeared as if they had been extinguished.
"You can detect the loss of spiritual pressure. It seems... you have not grown at all compared to when you were in this world?"
An indifferent voice came.
Kurosaki Ichigo looked back warily.
Da da da--
From the doorway above the steps he just passed, an indifferent figure came slowly.
"Who are you……"
Kurosaki Ichigo looked nervously at the Arrancar looking down at him, "Ulquiorra!?"
"Do you still remember my name? Death."
Ulquiorra walked down the stairs calmly.
He remembered that he didn't introduce himself, but that guy Grimmjow called his name in front of this group of people.
"It's a pity that I have forgotten your name."
"You guy...it doesn't matter, if you don't remember...I can make you remember it again!"
Hearing this, Kurosaki Ichigo stretched out his hand to touch the Zanpakutō behind him and felt a little angry, "But before that, I have a question to ask you."
"You want to ask, after they die, will they be resurrected like you were after being killed by Dorudoni?"
Ulquiorra's deep green eyes seemed to penetrate Kurosaki Ichigo's thoughts, and he said calmly, "I have no obligation to answer your question."
"Is this so..."
Kurosaki Ichigo frowned slightly, loosened his grip on the handle of the knife, turned around and prepared to leave, "Then I'll confirm it with my own eyes."
"Didn't you say you wanted to remind me of your name first?"
Ulquiorra asked calmly as he watched Kurosaki Ichigo passing in front of him.