As soon as the two sides clashed, Shunsui felt the difference compared to past battles.
This half-human, half-horse monster had a fighting style that was completely different from a Shinigami or even a Hollow.
It was normal to cover a blade with spiritual pressure for combat, but this guy's spiritual pressure was extremely strange. Once applied to the blade, it not only made the strike heavy and powerful but also carried a faint mental impact!
As the blade swung down, it even carried black lightning?!
"Hado No. 78: Zangerin!"
Shunsui let out a low shout and directly released Hado Number 78. Although he didn't use an incantation, its power was still not to be underestimated.
Sword qi like a halo of light spread from his blade. As he confronted Bakotsu, white spiritual pressure collided with black lightning, scattering everywhere!
"!"
Soi Fon, standing to the side, couldn't help but change her expression upon seeing this. The spiritual pressure of these two guys was so strong.
In reality, Shunsui wasn't particularly skilled at this kind of melee combat. His strength lay in using treacherous games to toy with his enemies, utilizing the rules of the game to inflict fatal damage.
Many people thought his ability was just playing games and underestimated his aggressiveness; in fact, Katen Kyōkotsu was a Zanpakuto with very powerful destructive force.
If one lost within the game of Katen Kyōkotsu, it would truly be a fatal matter!
"That strange horse has already been stopped by Shunsui."
Tenth Division Captain Shiba Isshin looked at the giant Gyūki before him and breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, the direction Bakotsu was charging was toward the Tenth Division's position. If no one had blocked it, his Tenth Division might have suffered.
"This guy... is a bit strange."
Beside him, Aizen took the initiative to analyze: "He's released an invisible force field that is restricting our movements."
Gyūki's abilities specialized in using poison, but it could also apply invisible telekinesis. This telekinesis could launch attacks at enemies or forcibly immobilize them.
At this moment, he released this telekinesis, 'pinning' Aizen to the spot.
Shiba Isshin could also feel this telekinesis, but a terrifying spiritual pressure erupted from his body, directly breaking through the restraint!
Getsuga Tensho!
He slashed directly at Gyūki with this strike!
After release, his Engetsu possessed extremely terrifying destructive power.
Of course, it was mainly because Isshin's own strength was great enough!
Despite not being a captain for very long, his strength ranked among the top even among the historical captains of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads.
His blade burned with flames as it slashed into Gyūki's body without any resistance!
Gyūki hurriedly released stronger telekinetic force. This force slammed into Isshin's head, snapping it back and even causing a trace of blood to leak from the corner of his mouth.
But he still swung the blade down, and the scorching flames instantly exploded on Gyūki's body!
Boom!
Gyūki's body seemed to explode directly!
Engetsu was different from Zangetsu. Zangetsu's Getsuga Tensho released dense Reishi in the form of a slash, turning into a long-range crescent-shaped shockwave.
Engetsu's Getsuga Tensho, however, attached flames to the blade, applying a close-range slash to the enemy.
If truth be told, Engetsu's characteristics were actually stronger in the world of Bleach.
Because in the world of Bleach, long-range light waves basically couldn't kill anyone, while close-range melee slashes were the killing moves that often took an enemy's life!
Isshin attached the light wave to the blade's edge, and the lethality against Gyūki was obvious at this moment.
Taken out in one hit?
Seeing how powerful that Fengxi's defense was, where even Kenpachi couldn't even break through after two slashes; he had thought this Gyūki would be similar.
But he didn't expect to blow it apart with a single slash?
Isshin looked in other directions; the captains had basically started fighting the Gorosei.
Only two people hadn't moved!
One was the Third Division Captain Ichimaru Gin. No one knew what he was thinking, as he sat on the roof of a distant building, watching the battle with great interest as if he were watching a play.
The other was the Twelfth Division Captain Mayuri. He didn't sit down but stood in the distance, watching the battle as if he were recording something.
These two guys—
Isshin was about to complain in his heart when he suddenly heard Aizen's voice!
"Watch out!"
?
Watch out? Watch out for what?
Isshin regained his guard, only to discover in shock that the Gyūki whose body he had blown apart—
Had actually recovered at this moment?!
"What?!"
Isshin was greatly shocked. The next moment, he saw the recovered Gyūki thrust a sharp spike forward!
He hurriedly swung his blade to block, but caught off guard, Gyūki's strike still sent him flying!
Pui!
Another poison bomb was spat from Gyūki's mouth, blasting toward the flying Isshin!
With a boom, the poison bomb exploded beside Isshin!
That powerful force caused Isshin to break into a cold sweat. He stood up again, looked at the scene of the explosion nearby, and couldn't help but say to Aizen, "Thanks, Aizen."
It was obvious that Kyōka Suigetsu had just been used.
Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu was a water-type Zanpakuto, skilled at using the chaotic reflections of mist and water currents to confuse the enemy. Although its direct combat ability was average, it was a very strong crowd-control support ability.
If Aizen hadn't used Kyōka Suigetsu to interfere with Gyūki just now, causing the poison bomb it spat to miss, Isshin would have definitely been heavily injured.
"It's nothing. The most important thing now is to subdue this monster before us."
Aizen pushed up his glasses and said, "These monsters are of different types. That boar-like fellow has powerful defense, while this strange spider can spit out highly powerful poison bombs."
"The other monsters also have their own strengths, but they all seem to share one unified ability."
"Yeah—"
Shiba Isshin returned to the battlefield. Looking at the Gyūki that had already recovered to its original state, he couldn't help but marvel: "Truly terrifying. Although Hollows also have the ability of High-Speed Regeneration, can they really recover after being turned into that state earlier?"
"Isn't this a bit much?"
Most of a Hollow's High-Speed Regeneration is for regrowing limbs; even damage to internal organs is rarely something a Hollow can regenerate from.
Yet his slash just now had landed directly on Gyūki's chest, causing that area and the parts above it to explode due to Engetsu's power!
With such a horrific injury, this guy could still recover?!
Aizen said in a deep voice, "I think it's probably not as simple as High-Speed Regeneration."
"? You mean—?"
Aizen looked at the other battlefields, where similar scenes had also appeared.
The flames reflected by Ukitake Jūshirō had pierced through the firebird flying in the sky, but that piercing wound had also recovered instantly. He then said, "Perhaps, it is Immortality."
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