There was a smile on Aizen's lips, but there was no trace of smile in his eyes.
As the mastermind who had been lurking in Jingling Court for hundreds of years, his biggest imaginary enemy had always been Captain Yamamoto. However, over the years, he had only seen Captain Yamamoto take action many times, and he could only collect intelligence and information, and then constantly ponder and speculate. But witnessing it with his own eyes now made his heart sink slightly.
Aizen has always felt that the battle between Shinigami is a confrontation between spiritual pressure and spiritual pressure, and in terms of spiritual pressure, he has sufficient confidence in both its strength and the skills of using it, but at this moment his confidence is somewhat shaken.
The flow of spiritual pressure, the operation of spiritual power, and even the reflexes of one's own nerves, all require time. In battle, Captain Yamamoto's overwhelming combat experience allowed him to understand all possible resistances of his opponent without even thinking twice.
Ichigo Kurosaki didn't even have time to react before he was attacked. Aizen estimated that if he were there, the situation wouldn't be much better.
Although Aizen, the mastermind behind the scenes, has fought in many battles, he has always been accustomed to lurking. He lacks experience in fighting to the death with enemies of the same level or higher levels, or being besieged after a conspiracy and needing a Jedi breakthrough. Compared with Captain-General Yamamoto, who alone with his sword and a dozen of his younger brothers, has created a leader in the Soul Society of an era, the gap is objectively existing.
But Aizen's resolute character meant that he would not stay in this meaningless wavering for too long. He immediately thought about how to counterattack, and the result of his thinking was obvious. Either he could improve his combat experience, or he could distort Captain Yamamoto's five senses in advance through the mirror flower and water moon, or he could not fight Captain Yamamoto head-on at all, but win by other methods...
"Oh, that's interesting. Why did Captain Yamamoto suddenly stop?"
Aizen pulled himself away from the thoughts of how to target Captain-General Yamamoto and began to think about this question.
Captain Yamamoto doesn't seem like the kind of person who would pretend to be calm and deliberately hold back, so why did he stop?
"It's the feel. The captain noticed something was wrong and instinctively felt that continuing the pursuit might cause trouble, so he suddenly stopped!"
On the other side, in a place with a wide view, Unohana Retsu was explaining with a gentle smile, and the person she was explaining to was Kenpachi Zaraki, who was wrapped in bandages and looked listless.
Kenpachi Zaraki curled his lips and said, "How boring! If it were me, I would definitely beat him with all my strength and would not care about any trouble."
Unohana Retsu continued to laugh and said, "That's why you are like this now, with multiple fractures all over your body!"
After muttering a few words, Kenpachi Zaraki didn't say anything. In front of other people, even in front of the captain-general, Kenpachi Zaraki was always unyielding and calm. But only in front of Unohana Retsu, his attitude would be obviously different.
Just as Unohana Retsu said, Captain Yamamoto did feel that something was wrong with the "feel".
It didn't look like a flesh and blood body, but more like a volcano. The more he attacked, the more he felt something was wrong, so Captain Yamamoto instinctively stopped.
In the buildings that were smashed through, the air was filled with smoke, and then, Ichigo Kurosaki slowly walked out of them. He was not unharmed, but he was coughing up blood. However, his demeanor did not change at all, and he was still leisurely and enjoying himself:
"That's a really powerful punch. Does this move have a name?"
Captain Yamamoto said calmly: "This move is called Yi Gu!"
As the strongest god of death in the past thousand years, Captain Yamamoto has mastered the combat techniques through thousands of years. Even his white fighting taijutsu is the best in the entire Soul Society. This punch called "Ichibone" is not complicated in terms of principle. It is just to compress and gather the spiritual power as much as possible, and then blast it out with the fist.
But the simplicity of the principle does not mean that the technique is simple. Even his favorite disciples, the talented Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro, are not interested in this move.
The spiritual power is compressed in the direction of materialization in a short moment, and then it is detonated and blasted out. This kind of spiritual power manipulation ability and flesh and blood endurance is simply inhuman.
The power of this punch was enough to blow up several buildings in an instant. Even with Kurosaki Ichigo's strength, he couldn't help but spit blood after taking this punch head-on. However, he didn't care and just asked expectantly:
"Is there anything more powerful?"
Captain Yamamoto glanced at them disdainfully and said, "You'll know when you come over here!"
"Okay, I'll go over there then!"
With his feet lightly stepping on the ground, Ichigo Kurosaki rushed forward like an arrow. In an instant, the sound was left behind, and the tearing air wave shook away all the dust.
Seeing this supersonic charge that was beyond anyone's ability to react, Kenpachi Zaraki couldn't help but observe carefully, wanting to see how Captain Yamamoto would deal with such an attack. Captain Yamamoto did not disappoint and gave a textbook response. He did not even raise his eyelids, but used his hands to block horizontally and vertically, and with simple movements, he blocked all the continuous fist shadows that Kurosaki Ichigo blasted out at supersonic speed.
quick?
In the old eyes that saw through everything, speed alone was meaningless, because he had already seen through all the possible attack methods of the enemy, because he had experienced too many battles, too many...
Suddenly, Captain Yamamoto clenched his fists and rushed forward together. When he attacked, Ichigo Kurosaki had a flaw due to his body center of gravity and the force of his fist. This flaw was discovered in advance and then decisively seized!
"Double bones!"
The punches were stronger, more powerful and more ferocious than before, and they all hit Ichigo Kurosaki.
Time seemed to be slowed down as the sound of bones breaking rang out continuously. Then, the chest and abdomen felt a deep dent, and then the flesh and blood exploded. Finally, Ichigo Kurosaki was blown away like a cannonball.
The move called Double Bones looks like it's just two fists thrown out at the same time, hitting two bones at a time, but it's actually not the case at all.
Stronger spiritual power compression, more extreme explosions, and more complex spiritual power application techniques make each hand's punch twice as powerful as before, and the linkage of the two fists coordinates the flow of power throughout the body, making the punch twice as strong as before!
The move called Double Bone has at least four times the power of Single Bone!
"Oh, so this is how this move works. If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have been beaten so badly."
When Kenpachi Zaraki saw this move, he remembered his previous training under Captain Yamamoto. At that time, Captain Yamamoto taught him kendo, and then, after a demonstration, Captain Yamamoto told him that holding the sword with both hands is stronger than holding it with one hand, and much stronger.
At that time, Kenpachi Zaraki thought it was nonsense. He thought that if he really could become stronger by wielding the sword with both hands, he would go to Kurotsuchi Mayuri to transplant a few more arms, and they could wield the sword together. He was afraid that the entire Soul Society would be destroyed.
So after a day of kendo training, Kenpachi Zaraki lost interest, but now, he suddenly realized that the skill that Captain Yamamoto wanted to teach him at that time was not the so-called principle that it is stronger to hold the sword with both hands, but to teach him the mystery of his two bones through kendo.
Unohana Retsu shook his head: "In fact, not everyone can learn the One Bone Technique, and the Double Bone Technique is only known to Captain-General Yamamoto in the entire Soul Society. Only he can use it. But that's fine. That boy is the real terror. Maybe it was a subconscious choice, or maybe it was intentional. Facing the Captain-General's Double Bone Technique, he did not resist and even enjoyed enduring it..."
Speaking of this, Kenpachi Zaraki remembered the tender feeling that made him feel creepy, and couldn't help wanting to say something, but the moment he opened his mouth, his expression became blurred. In his consciousness, Fisher, holding chrysanthemums and Vaseline, appeared with the sound of explosive and strange music.
"HI, BOY, don't worry about others, let's just have fun!"
"Fisher, get out of here!!!"
Looking at Kenpachi Zaraki who had lost consciousness but whose face began to become extremely distorted, Unohana Retsu smiled slightly but did nothing, because she noticed that every time Kenpachi Zaraki appeared in this state, his aura was subtly increasing. So Unohana Retsu no longer paid attention to Kenpachi Zaraki who had crashed, but continued to enjoy the battle.
"You seem a little arrogant, kid!"
Captain Yamamoto also noticed what had just happened, and even with his temperament, he couldn't help but feel a little angry. Ever since he forged the name of the strongest god of death, in these long thousand years, no one dared to face him with such a careless attitude.
"Sorry, sorry, the heavy history you carry is so attractive to me that I was fascinated by you before I knew it..."
After being blown away, Ichigo Kurosaki crashed into a cliff, but he quickly pushed away the rocks on his body and stood up. The injuries on his chest and abdomen were horrific, and he had basically been hit in the chest and back, but his expression and posture were still so leisurely and calm.
He walked slowly towards Captain Yamamoto. Then, Captain Yamamoto's pupils shrank, because he saw that the horrific injuries on Kurosaki Ichigo's body were recovering rapidly. No, strictly speaking, it was closer to a reorganization than recovery!
"This is a new skill I learned a few days ago, called Soul Reorganization. Apart from other effects, it is extremely effective in recovery. So, I am not resisting out of arrogance, but simply enjoying the communication with you..."
Kurosaki Ichigo's attitude was extremely good, and he explained seriously, but Captain Yamamoto snorted, "Fighting for communication? Kid, this is the first time I've heard such a reason for fighting. So, what do you feel?"
"I feel a lot, old man, you must be in pain..."
Kurosaki Ichigo slowly approached, and said seriously:
"I can feel that you are not a bloodthirsty person. However, the open fighting and the secret plots, one after another, endless battles, fill your life. You have no choice but to cross countless battlefields that I cannot imagine. As the scars on your body increase, your heart gradually grows colder, and even becomes crazy. The bloody will to kill and the combat skills that have been tempered to perfection are witnesses of your past choices and will. I feel all of this deeply..."
Captain Yamamoto remained indifferent, but it brought back some long-lost memories.
A long time ago, about two thousand years ago, he was not called Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, but Yamamoto Shigekuni. At that time, he opened a private school called Yuan Zishu, adopted some children to teach, and planned to carry forward the "Genryu" school that he had summarized his own knowledge!
It is difficult to verify what happened during the thousand years from Yamamoto Shigekuni's youth to middle age!
All we know is that a thousand years later, when the era of killing each other among the nobles intensified and even the Quincies were ready to make a move, the Genjishu Academy had completely disappeared, and Yamamoto Shigekuni added Genryusai to his own name, changing his name to Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni. Then, he led a group of inhumane and vicious killers around him, and like evil spirits, he pursued killing and victory at all costs!
"You have gone through too long a history. Countless choices you made have become shackles on you. I feel the weight you carry from you. Even when you want to swing your fist, you are always subconsciously restrained. You are worried, you are afraid, you are even terrified, not because of the enemy, but because you are afraid of repeating the same mistakes, destroying everything without realizing it, and returning to the past where there is only killing and blood..."
Ichigo Kurosaki's outstanding combat sensibility allowed him to feel the heart of Captain Yamamoto beneath his cruel appearance during a brief contact battle!
Captain Yamamoto's slightly lowered eyes showed the vicissitudes of two thousand years, but in the end, he just raised his head and stared at Kurosaki Ichigo:
"Little devil, if you just want to sway me with words, then you are too stupid and ridiculous, because you are far from the point where I need to throw everything away and fight you!"
"Indeed, we haven't reached that stage yet, but communication is a two-way process. I have already felt your will. Now, let me tell you everything without reservation!"
Ichigo Kurosaki slowly reached out his hand and wiped it on his face!
A ferocious and hideous bone mask appeared on its face. Above the mask, two horns winding backwards were emitting a terrifying cold light.
"It's Hollow! No? That's... such astonishing malice!"
Captain Yamamoto immediately realized that something was wrong. What Ichigo Kurosaki wore on his face was not a Hollow mask, but the dark side of his heart that condensed all the malice and murderous intent, bestiality and appetite!
Everyone has an abyss in their heart that cannot be looked at directly. Even the kindest people will sometimes have some evil thoughts flashing through their hearts. At this moment, Ichigo Kurosaki took out the abyss in his heart and put it on his face, symbolizing that at this moment...
It’s a hunting moment of biting each other!
"Ha, old man, fight with me to your heart's content!!!"
He was still charging at supersonic speed, but his posture was extremely ghostly, like a beast or a demon, and the trajectory of the charge was unpredictable. As soon as he made contact, Captain Yamamoto noticed something was wrong. Before, Kurosaki Ichigo only relied on his speed and repeated rapid punches without any skills. Even his strength was only for speed, and there was no change. But at this moment, his natural killing skills were so superb.
Fists, palms, fingers, feet and legs, every part of Ichigo Kurosaki's body turned into a killing machine with extremely amazing efficiency!
Lions and tigers don't need to learn how to hunt and bite; instead, it's engraved in their genes and matures naturally as they grow. The same is true for Ichigo Kurosaki; everything is already included in his blood; he just needs to dig it out and use it!
Of course, some appropriate improvements have been made. As Captain Yamamoto was fighting, he inexplicably had a sense of déjà vu. In a flash, he even had an illusion that he saw a ferocious and enhanced version of Kenpachi Zaraki, attacking him with his weapon.
The illusion passed in a flash, but Captain Yamamoto already knew that Ichigo Kurosaki had absorbed enough nutrition from the battle with Kenpachi Zaraki.
Ichigo Kurosaki's speed is getting faster and faster, and his attacks are becoming more and more ferocious!
Then, at a certain moment of attack and defense, Kurosaki Ichigo stretched out his hand and grabbed like a claw. Captain Yamamoto naturally blocked it, but he did not expect that a black and red crescent-shaped energy suddenly burst out from the fingertips of Kurosaki Ichigo!
Five black and red energy energies grew from small to large. In an instant, five claw energies like raging waves swept across with the momentum to tear the sky and split the earth!
What shocked Captain Yamamoto was not the Shiba family's signature Crescent Moon Sky Strike, but the subtlety of the double-bone secret that could be vaguely seen when Kurosaki Ichigo used this move.
58. Captain Yamamoto's Assassination Skills
After one claw, blood splattered and Captain Yamamoto flew back.
His exposed upper body was covered with five huge claw marks extending from his shoulders to his abdomen, and blood continued to flow out. However, the injuries did not last long. After a tremor, Captain Yamamoto's strong muscles, combined with the circulation of spiritual power, the wounds closed spontaneously, stopping the bleeding, and finally no signs of injury were visible.
That overwhelming combat experience is not only reflected in attacking. When it comes to how to deal with injuries, his experience is so rich that it is frightening, and he has even naturally formed some special skills.
“Hehe, just by manipulating the body and spiritual energy, one actually possesses the power equivalent to super-speed regeneration. This is really pleasing. Come, let’s communicate more enthusiastically…”
The figure of Ichigo Kurosaki rushed over along an irregular route like a ghost, his whole body already surrounded by an ominous black and red spiritual pressure. He waved his hands, and ten crescent-shaped sky strikes burst out from his fingertips, but they were not cut out. Instead, they solidified at the fingertips, then took shape, spreading outwards, forming ten soft and strange black and red air blades.
The eerie black and red blade turned into an irregularly rotating vortex as his figure flickered, making it impossible to guess where his attack would land.
"Humph, what a disgusting attitude!"
The captain-general snorted coldly at Ichigo Kurosaki's hollow posture, but at the moment when the black and red strange blade was about to hit him, his figure suddenly disappeared. When he appeared again, he was already in a blind spot on the side of Ichigo Kurosaki. At this moment, Ichigo Kurosaki's pupils suddenly contracted.
Captain General Yamamoto's instant step is very unique. It is not as elegant and precise as Byakuya Kuchiki, nor as fast and agile as Yoruichi Shihouin.
During the two thousand years of wars, Captain Yamamoto's instant step was completely transformed into a technique specialized in fighting. He would take a step, but get stuck in the gap between the enemy's thoughts, making it so that even though he was watching, he couldn't react in time. Then the landing point of his instant step was also in the enemy's most uncomfortable blind spot.
Ichigo Kurosaki turned around instinctively, but at the moment he turned his head, he found that a finger had quietly reached out and touched between his eyes!
The invisible impact came quietly. At that moment, Ichigo Kurosaki felt his whole body limp and powerless. His vision gradually became dim, and he couldn't even maintain his virtuality. Then, a terrifying premonition of crisis suddenly emerged in Ichigo Kurosaki's mind.
The invisible spiritual blade has been slashed out at some point without anyone noticing!
The force was so sharp that with just one strike, Kurosaki Ichigo's body was almost split in two, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
This is not an injury that can be ignored, but Ichigo Kurosaki noticed everything but was unable to react. His body had clearly suffered injuries that were fatal, but his brain and nerves were heading towards a state of strike and fainting!
"Tsk, a thousand years have passed. The old man seems to have started to cultivate his character, but in the end he hasn't given up his former skills at all."
In the distance somewhere else, Shifengyuan Yoruichi was watching the battle in amazement.
Captain Yamamoto of a thousand years ago would do anything to win. Ambush, kidnapping, sneak attack and assassination were naturally his specialties. But unlike those traditional villains, Captain Yamamoto's skills in this area could be called art.
His tenacious patience and powerful information insight, coupled with his equally powerful tactical formulation and execution capabilities, ensured that every ambush and kidnapping he carried out was a sure hit, with almost no misses. Even Yhwach was defeated because of this.
The instant step that accurately stepped on the psychological and visual blind spots, making it impossible for people to react even if they saw it; the method called "Weimian", which actually used extremely small spiritual pressure and extremely precise operations to impact the enemy's brain and nerves, making them lose consciousness; and the extremely fast slash called "Fushan", which made people unable to see clearly and react, all witnessed the sneak attacks and assassinations of Captain-General Yamamoto.
Thousands of years ago, countless people were on patrol or on guard when they suddenly lost sight of the situation and died silently. Only when their heads fell to the ground could they see a tall figure flash by in the corner of their eyes, like an evil spirit in a ghost story.
Captain Yamamoto of a thousand years ago was the true king of killers. He earned the name of the evil spirit in Soul Society because of this!
But after the establishment of the Gotei 13, times have changed. After a thousand years of self-cultivation, the captain-general has become "gentle". Perhaps he himself knows that no one likes to see a killer king who appears out of nowhere and kills people silently.
Shifengyuan Yoruichi had always felt that the captain-general had indeed changed, but what he saw now was assassination skills that were even more sophisticated than a thousand years ago.
This made Shihouin Yoruichi feel that the evil spirit that once intimidated the entire Soul Society had never left, but just like every time it took action in the past, it quietly escaped from everyone's attention, and in the blind spot of no one's mind and vision, it had been watching everyone for the long thousand years, waiting for the opportunity to strike.
And Soi-Fong, who was next to Yoruichi Shihouin, also said: "But this method is indeed very useful against Ichigo Kurosaki."
Soi-Fong has been Yoruichi Shihoin's personal maid since she was a child. After Yoruichi Shihoin defected, she was nominated by the Shihoin family to take over the duties of captain. During her time as captain, she also honed her excellent vision, and at this moment she pointed out the truth incisively.
Ichigo Kurosaki's spirit particle reorganization and recovery ability are too exaggerated. Let him lose consciousness and then kill him when he is free. This is a tactic worth trying, and the effect is very good at the moment.
Yoruichi Shihouin also agreed with what Soi-Fong said, but there was one thing she didn't quite understand:
"Sui Feng, this place is so spacious, why are you always sticking to me? Aren't you hot?"
"I'm worried that you'll abandon me again, Master Yoruichi."
Soi-Fong, who was standing close to Shihouin Yoruichi, had a blush on her face and then she moved closer.
Leaving aside the beautiful scene of the maid and the young lady, on the battlefield, changes suddenly occurred.
After being slashed, although Ichigo Kurosaki had not completely died, he had lost consciousness, and even the hollow mask on his face began to collapse. His body slowly fell down. Captain Yamamoto drooped his eyes slightly, and a murderous intent flashed across his face.
He had no habit of holding back, and he had no intention of doing so at this moment.
Use your hand as a knife and move forward steadily.
A move called will-o'-the-wisp that can pierce through enemies at lightning speed!
