Seeing this scene, even with Aizen's character and acting skills, he couldn't help but let the shock show on his face.
No matter how he collected information, how hard he tried to study, how he imagined how powerful Captain-General Yamamoto was, what he saw and heard at this moment was completely beyond the limits of Aizen's imagination, and even the limits of his understanding.
It was as if hell had come to the world. The earth turned into poisonous molten lava, life and death were reversed, and countless corpses with powerful auras crawled up hideously, baring their fangs and claws as they expressed their hatred for the world.
This army of the undead alone is enough to massacre the entire Jingling Court.
What was even more terrifying was not this army of undead, but the Zanpakutō that Captain Yamamoto casually held in his hand and stuck into the ground. It was completely charred and withered, with only a little smoke rising from it, and it looked as if there was nothing unusual about it.
But in Aizen's sight, the spiritual pressure contained in that Flowing Blade Jakka was so terrifying that it could no longer be described.
It was not as majestic as a downpour, nor as majestic as a mountain range, but rather... the sun falling to the earth!
Even the sight of looking at it will be burned and then completely annihilated and evaporated.
"Is this the difference between the strong and the strongest?"
Even Aizen, who was quite proud of his spiritual pressure, felt deeply the gap at this moment.
There was no possibility of fighting. Just getting a little closer to that Flowing Blade Like Fire would result in being reduced to ashes.
But Aizen was of strong character. He was not shocked for too long, nor was he completely defeated by the seemingly insurmountable gap. He simply erased all the plans for fighting with Captain Yamamoto in his mind, and planned to find a solution other than fighting. For Aizen, one of the top scientists in Soul Society, this was not an impossible thing. It just required some time to think about it.
Aizen's eyes moved slightly, and he remembered some experiments he had done. Perhaps, he could use the Hougyoku to cultivate some Arrancars with special powers to target Captain Yamamoto.
"Is that really Captain-General Yamamoto's Bankai? It doesn't match the information at all!"
Soi-Fong, who was passionately hugging Shihouin Yoruichi, was also very shocked at this moment. As a member of the Shihouin family and also the head of the Secret Mobile and Execution Army, almost all the secret information of Soul Society is open to her, and the information of Captain Yamamoto is naturally among them.
According to the information, Captain Yamamoto's Ryujin Jakka is known as the strongest fire-type Zanpakutō in Soul Society. The power of Shikai is a majestic flame that can burn everything when wielded. The power of Bankai is to converge the flame to the blade, and then create a flaming sword that causes a violent explosion when it touches the enemy!
Frankly speaking, in Soi-Fong's opinion, Captain-General Yamamoto's Ryujin Jakka, which is known as the strongest fire-type Zanpakuto in Soul Society, is actually quite unworthy of its reputation. It is not so much that it is Ryujin Jakka that is strong, but rather it is Captain-General Yamamoto's unparalleled spiritual pressure that has pushed Ryujin Jakka to a position where it does not belong.
It's like a certain ice-type Zanpakutō that is said to be the strongest in Soul Society, but is held in the hands of its young master. Soi-Fong feels that she can let him use one hand and then easily kill him in battle.
But that is not important. The Ryujin Jakka Bankai that she saw with her own eyes completely overturned Soi-Fong's understanding. Shihouin Yoruichi also looked nervous at this moment. She felt very upset. The world had not been completely swallowed by nothingness, but it was completely destroyed by the old man's Bankai. This was really a joke that made people unable to laugh.
At this moment, deep in the Soul Society sky, in the Soul King Palace that existed as an independent space, a fat monk with a full beard looked down and scratched his head:
"Although I knew it a long time ago, but now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I still think it's a bit too exaggerated. If I had known earlier, I would have recruited that little guy Yamamoto to the Zero Squad..."
This fat monk is Ichibei Hyoshubu, the captain of the Royal Secret Service Squad Zero.
He lived from the same era as the Soul King and was even given the real name of "Eye Monk" by the Soul King. He possessed many extremely mysterious powers. For example, he had the authority to name all things, and the three terms Zanpakutō, Shikai, and Bankai were named by him personally. Once named by him, the thing is equivalent to falling into his sight.
Hyoshubu Ichibei is well aware of the power possessed by the Zanpakutō in the hands of every Shinigami in Soul Society. Zanpakutō is the medium that draws out the root power of the Shinigami's souls, so Hyoshubu Ichibei is well aware of the potential that each Shinigami possesses, the extent to which that potential can be realized, and what their ultimate achievements will be in the future.
This is the most important means for Ichibei of the Hyōshubu to monitor the entire Soul Society, and it is also an important way for the Zero Squad to recruit new members.
Those Shinigami whose Bankai possessed the power to shake the three realms would be recruited by Ichibei Hyoshubu, who would use the promise of immortality to lure them into joining the Zero Squad, and then use the blood pact to prohibit them from using their Bankai. In this regard, Ichibei Hyoshubu always thought that he had done a pretty good job.
But they didn't expect to miss out on Captain Yamamoto. Strictly speaking, it's not that they missed out, because even when Captain Yamamoto killed Yhwach, his flaming sword, which was mainly powered by explosions, could not reach the standard of Squad Zero.
What Hyoshubu Ichibei did not expect was that after the establishment of the Seireitei era, Captain-General Yamamoto did not stop growing, and the way he grew was somewhat beyond Hyoshubu Ichibei's expectations.
Strictly speaking, the Bankai of the Zankagi-dachi is not the power that Ryujin Jakka should have. It is just the result of Captain-General Yamamoto's continuous exploration, research, and practice over thousands of years.
From the simple release of flames at Shikai to the convergence of flames at Bankai, focusing on the explosion when it touches the enemy, Captain-General Yamamoto's gaze did not rest on the Zanpakutō, but on the flames carried by the Zanpakutō.
More delicate manipulation, stronger compression, more perfect control, repeated attempts, endless exploration, and endless changes.
Due to his own authority, Hyoshubu Ichibei could also feel Captain-General Yamamoto's attempt, but he was still confused about the specific manifestation of this attempt.
The reason is very simple. It is not that Ryujin Jakka has sublimated into a second-stage Bankai as terrifying as the Zankei-tachi. It is just that Captain Yamamoto relied on his own strength and wisdom to force the Ryujin Jakka to such a level. Even without the Ryujin Jakka Zanpakutō, Captain Yamamoto may not be unable to use the Zankei-tachi!
This relationship of primary and secondary made Ichibei's sense of authority in the Hyoshubu department a little blurred!
But no matter what, for Ichibei of Hyoshubu, Captain General Yamamoto's Zanka-dachi was a huge trouble.
Every second that the Zanka-dachi exists is like the sun falling to the earth. The extreme and continuous temperature will evaporate the moisture of Soul Society bit by bit from near to far, and then burn up the spirit particles, causing serious and irreversible damage to the ecological environment of Soul Society.
Hyoshubu Ichibei considered whether to mediate and stop it, but when his eyes swept over Kurosaki Ichigo, the idea of mediation suddenly stopped:
“Although the fake Spirit King behind him is a weird looking god from nowhere, this little fellow has great potential. Let’s wait and see…”
For Hyoshube Ichibei, who strives to maintain order in the Three Realms, the existence of a successor to the Spirit King is a must. Otherwise, if something happens to the Spirit King who serves as a wedge, the Three Realms will really be doomed.
And Ichigo Kurosaki is qualified to become the successor to the Soul King, so Hyoshubu Ichibei is willing to wait a little longer!
The outside world's disturbances, confusion and attention could not disturb Ichigo Kurosaki, because he had already rushed head-on into the army of skeletons.
The torn air waves exploded with loud bangs, and Ichigo Kurosaki, who was surrounded by brilliant spiritual light, was like a chariot loaded with nuclear engines, crashing and fighting in the army of corpses, and was not able to match his enemy.
During the fierce battle, Ichigo Kurosaki's face was full of enjoyment, but gradually, his expression changed.
It's not just because these undead aren't strong enough in fighting, on the contrary, their combat effectiveness is quite remarkable. They are quite intelligent in fighting, and can use some of their unique skills from their previous life. Moreover, they are manifested through the power of Captain Yamamoto, and every move they make is accompanied by overbearing fire power. To be frank, if these undead were still alive, they might not be able to defeat themselves who have turned into undead.
What really prevented Ichigo Kurosaki from continuing to enjoy himself was the miserable screams of the dead.
They were killed by Captain Yamamoto, and that should have been the end of everything, but now they are bound and cannot be freed even in death. They can only be Captain Yamamoto's accomplices, sinking in endless eternal suffering.
These corpses vented their own pain wantonly and fought frantically, either to make the enemy become their own minions, or to be freed by the enemy's hands!
Feeling all this, Kurosaki Ichigo gradually lost interest in the battle. He retreated and escaped from the encirclement of the army of dead bodies. He looked at Captain-General Yamamoto and said in a slightly compassionate tone:
"Old man, you are the god of death, but you torture the dead souls like this. The era you created and maintained with your own hands is based on such crazy scenery. It is really unbearable to watch!"
Captain Yamamoto raised his eyes slightly and stared at Kurosaki Ichigo. His voice also became more sonorous like the sound of metal clashing under the burning heat:
“Little ghost, is this the extent of your awareness of becoming the strongest? If you want to protect everything within your sight, you can’t be bound by good and evil, because good and evil are meaningless in the face of power. Just like me, in order to protect the Jingling Court and this era, I have paid everything I can to gain everything I can, even if I have become an evil ghost, even if I am full of sins, I have never given up. This is the karma and result that I bear!”
The world of death is not a fairy tale world, and Yamamoto is not a prince charming. After he created an era with his sword, more difficult challenges slowly unfolded. The various conspirators lurking in the three realms, the endless ambitious people among the nobles, and the various crises coming from all directions made him deeply feel what it means to be difficult to build an empire, and even more difficult to rule it.
The enemies he has to face are no longer a few, dozens, or even hundreds, but the aristocracy, the Quincy clan, the countless Hollows in Hueco Mundo, and all kinds of unexpected major crises that could affect the entire world once they break out.
In order to cope with all possible challenges, he must become stronger, stronger than anyone else. To this end, he chose to further pursue the path of power.
In order to deal with the enemy's army, he turned the killed enemies into ghosts. In order to deal with various crises affecting the whole world, he pushed the power of Liu Ren Ruo Huo to the realm of world destruction!
Captain-General Yamamoto made himself the nuclear weapon of Soul Society, using his bloody butcher knife to suppress all the evil spirits in the three realms.
This is his path to becoming the strongest, and the belief he has held on to for thousands of years!
But this also comes with a price.
Those undead that he bound were the source of his power, but also the wounds permanently engraved on his body that could never heal. Captain Yamamoto was torturing those undead all the time, and those undead were gnawing at everything he had without beginning or end.
The God of Death is an immortal species, and as the strongest God of Death, Captain Yamamoto has aged beyond recognition over the past thousand years. This is the price he paid for becoming the strongest!
Kurosaki Ichigo listened to this and was silent for a while. He met Captain-General Yamamoto's firm and unwavering gaze and finally said:
"I can sense your faith, it's very pure, but there's one thing I must tell you, I'm different from you, I embarked on the path of the strongest just to not have to make choices, next, I will go all out and completely defeat your crazy karma and consequences!"
"Little devil, stop talking nonsense, cross the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and blast everything you have at me like a man!"
The roar, a mixture of indifference and madness, witnessed the passion of Captain Yamamoto that had been ignited after a thousand years, and in the passion, there was a hint of indescribable joy!
Although Captain-General Yamamoto has been keeping an eye on Ichigo Kurosaki these days, the undercurrent changes in the Seireitei had already been conveyed to his ears through the reports of secret spies.
After a thousand years of watching, he was too familiar with every aspect of Jingling Court. Even though he had never met Mo Yu, he was just observing the turbulent changes behind the scenes. Especially when he noticed that Mo Yu was making more arrangements with the small nobles, he could vaguely infer Mo Yu's intentions.
In fact, Captain Yamamoto was no stranger to Mo Yu's methods. He had tried them a thousand years ago. After all, in that era, even with unparalleled power, it was not so easy to make those arrogant nobles compromise and jointly build the Jinglingting era.
Those small nobles who were eager for change were eventually subdued by Captain-General Yamamoto and became his political base. They pushed for the arrival of the Seireitei era from the bottom up within the aristocratic system.
As the thousand years passed, those petty nobles, if not completely extinct, basically became middle-level nobles. Then, a new batch of petty nobles were born, and then everything followed the cycle.
But that is no longer important. When Captain Yamamoto discovered that Mo Yu's fundamental intention was to subvert and reshape the order of the Three Realms, he had already thought a lot in his mind.
Captain Yamamoto once thought that with his reputation as the strongest god of death, if he chose to surrender, he would definitely have a place in the blueprint of the new world, because the Soul King was magnanimous. The five founding nobles who betrayed Him back then also enjoyed all the wealth of the three realms and left behind the Five Veins inheritance that lasted for millions of years.
However, when this thought came to his mind, the unwillingness in his heart was so obvious.
Every stubborn old man instinctively resists change. What's more, this era carries his two thousand years of grievances and hatreds and has witnessed all his passion and madness.
This thickness and weight are so hard to let go.
So, Captain Yamamoto plans to wait and make a decision.
Finally, he waited for Ichigo Kurosaki!
He created an era with his own hands, but was changed by the era. He became old and decadent. Then he waited for a young man who was similar to himself, but completely different, and was about to create a brand new era. He was full of vigor and vitality!
Captain Yamamoto seemed to see the cycle of time and the continuation of fate.
It was at this moment that Captain Yamamoto decided to abandon all his concerns and fight with all his might, even at the cost of his life.
His blade was the test, and if he could cross it, it would prove that this boy had the potential to go further and better than he did.
In the era he created with his own hands, the nobles of the Jingling Court and most of the death gods submitted not to justice, but to powerful force. His own defeat would become the best stepping stone for them to reach the top and help them achieve greater fame.
The transition from the old era to the new era will be less bloody and more likely to be a smoother transition because of this stepping stone.
This is the last contribution that an aging old man can make to this era that he created with his own hands.
At present, the prerequisite is that the boy can overcome such a trial!
Captain Yamamoto raised his sword and swung it forward, and the army of undead followed his will and rushed towards Kurosaki Ichigo.
"As you said, I will come!"
Ichigo Kurosaki reached out and gently pressed the bull-head mask on his face. The next moment, the mask shattered.
Pillars of brilliant spiritual light burst out from his body, shaking the sky and forming vortex clouds above the Jingling Courtyard. The shattered bone mask turned into liquid, covering his body and transforming into a pure white battle robe. The pitch-black horns grew in a winding manner, like a crown!
In the pupils, the cross star shines brightly, condensing the sacred solemnity.
The second-stage transformation that Ichigo Kurosaki had displayed so brilliantly when he was fighting Fisher reappeared. Facing the endless army of zombies that was attacking him, Ichigo Kurosaki took a light step.
"Absolute Domain 40% - Endless Heavenly Fist, break it!!!"
Ichigo Kurosaki rushed forward and punched, and at the same time, countless phantoms of Fisher appeared, roaring and punching at the endless army of corpses.
The army of undead was blasted out a path by Fisher's army of phantoms!
Kurosaki Ichigo rushed towards Captain Yamamoto without reservation along this road. Seeing this, Captain Yamamoto just uttered a few words:
"Zanka no Tachi - West - Zanri Prison Uniform, feel the cruelty of 15 million degrees!"
An endlessly powerful spiritual pressure exploded, transforming into a 15 million degree flame that covered its body, forming an absolute defense that would completely turn anyone approaching into ashes!
Seeing this scene, Aizen, who was still thinking about what kind of Hollow with special powers he should cultivate to target the captain, almost came to a standstill in his thoughts again.
As the unofficial folk scientist of Soul Society, Aizen couldn't help but tilt his head at this moment, feeling that this scene was really unscientific.
Using spiritual power to simulate flames with temperatures comparable to those of real stars, and then turning them into clothes and wearing them on the body, is this really something a human being, oh no, is it something the god of death can do?
What level of spiritual pressure is needed to produce a flame of such extreme temperature, and what kind of control power is needed to drape it on the body? If it weren't for being evaporated in an instant, it would have been treated equally.
Even a crazy scientist like Kurotsuchi Mayuri doesn't dare to make such an assumption. If he had such a wild imagination, he would definitely hold on to the captain's thigh and shout, "Moves like the Sun and Star Clothes are too trivial for you, old man. You should develop more exciting moves like the Black Hole Destroying Fist and the Big Bang Sling Kick!"
Facing this star-like robe, Aizen put himself in the shoes of Ichigo Kurosaki and felt that if he were Ichigo Kurosaki, he would have to avoid its edge first, because such power was destined to be impossible to sustain.
But the next moment, Aizen was stunned, because he saw that Ichigo Kurosaki had no intention of retreating, but rushed straight towards Captain Yamamoto and then punched him fiercely.
The flaming coat with a temperature of 15 million had already annihilated the flesh and blood on Kurosaki Ichigo's fist as it approached.
But Ichigo Kurosaki didn't care and continued to punch forward recklessly.
After the flesh and blood were destroyed, the bones also melted and then turned into black ash!
However, Ichigo Kurosaki did not stop his punches, but continued to approach and maintain the advance of his punches. Aizen felt extremely confused, the part below his elbows was completely annihilated by the high temperature. What was Ichigo Kurosaki doing?
The next moment, Aizen realized that his purity was too low.
Captain Yamamoto's face was suddenly hit by an invisible impact, and he leaned back a little with a look of surprise on his face.
Who says that you can’t punch someone without an arm? The purity of a fighter is not such an inconvenient thing.
Then, Ichigo Kurosaki shrank his shoulders, and the arm that was a little lower than the shoulder retracted back, and he blasted out the other intact hand towards Captain Yamamoto.
The high temperature of 15 million degrees blocked all material attacks, but it could not stop the fighter's will at all.
Ichigo Kurosaki has been wandering around these days and has been to the battlefield of Ishida Uryu. Then, by tracing and sensing the breath, he witnessed the desperate battle between Ishida Uryu and Kurotsuchi Mayuri with his own eyes.
And Ichigo Kurosaki learned something from it!
The fighter's thoughts driven by unparalleled fighting spirit are just as powerful, or even more powerful!!!
The other hand was also annihilated and evaporated by the high temperature of 15 million degrees, but the invisible fist of thought still ignored all obstacles and hit Captain Yamamoto hard.
The price Ichigo Kurosaki paid for close contact with the 15 million degree high temperature was not only that his arms were evaporated, but the skin, flesh and bones on his face and body were also gradually evaporated because they were too close. However, his eyes, without the cover of his eyelids, were fixed on Captain Yamamoto.
What Ichigo Kurosaki showed at this moment was a determination that was in no way inferior to that of Captain-General Yamamoto. He risked his own life and used his mind to beat fiercely.
Even using the mind and soul to inflict more, stronger, and endless beatings!
61. Absolute Domain 80% Burnout
