Kyōka Suigetsu, Dreamlike Empty Blossom
As Aizen finished speaking, the entire world suddenly shattered, similar to the spatial disintegration experienced by others when Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu was dispelled. But this time, the entire world shattered.
The shattered world rapidly reformed. Chun felt himself regain consciousness, looked up, and saw the entrance to the Senkaimon. He took a few steps forward to make room, then looked back...
Haha, everyone's here!
Everyone was dumbfounded, while Jun looked at Aizen. Aizen stretched out his hand, and a pale blue light appeared in his hand, but it lacked a certain texture.
Has it disappeared?
"Ah, but it's alright, the Sword Soul is still there. After all, this is my essence awakening, and I can still explore other solutions."
"Yeah?"
Jun looked into Aizen's eyes, and for the first time, Aizen looked away. Both Jun and Aizen knew that Aizen would not undo the debunking.
Sōsuke Aizen is a liar, but if he can't even be honest with himself, then he's not human. Aizen's charm lies precisely in his unwavering sincerity towards himself.
"Alright, let's talk about something else. What are we going to do? Face that Ruler again? I have no solution."
Just as the two were talking, everyone who had appeared in the Soul King Palace also appeared, including the captains of the Soul Reaper and Kensei Muguruma.
Jun Shikai a single spirit orb, and instantly the scene fell silent. Deactivating the orb, Shikai commanded, "Grimmjow, retrieve a Spirit Pearl Core as quickly as possible."
"Understood!" Grimmjow had vanished before he could even finish speaking.
"Follow me, everyone who wants to go to the Soul King Palace, follow me!" Jun took off Shunpo, rapidly heading north from the location of the Gotei 13. He completed a Shikai on the way, leaving behind his own Spiritual Power imprint.
No one knew Jun's purpose, but they still followed. Jun's destination was his own house in Soul Society, which he instantly razed to the ground upon arrival.
Then, Chun reached the ground and with a single slash, the ground split open into a huge crater. The excavated earth was moved to the surrounding area, and everyone saw another crater within the first, a deep, seemingly endless tunnel.
"A secret passage?" Yoruichi had a new idea.
However, Chun smiled mysteriously and said, "Follow me!"
Then, he unleashed his full power in this Shikai, instantly opening the tunnel to a size of over ten meters, enough for dozens of people to jump down together. Seeing that Chun had already jumped, the others followed suit.
Then the people here discovered that the passage was actually descending downwards. Before they had fallen for long, Grimmjow instantly appeared from above, returning with the Spirit Pearl Core.
Chun took the Spirit Pearl Core, opened a protective shield encompassing everyone, and then said, "We're about to speed things up, everyone! Take your seats."
The Spirit Pearl Core accelerated downwards, and its Shikai also split the passage, causing it to fall rapidly. However, by this time Arrancar had already reacted.
"Is this utilizing the boundaries of space?"
"Exactly!"
Just as everyone was wondering about the spatial boundary, their vision suddenly opened up, and those inside the Spirit Pearl Core could clearly see that the Soul King Palace was not far below them.
Meanwhile, Retsu Unohana, with her better eyesight or perhaps a preconceived notion, lunged at the shield, for she had spotted a battle raging, with one figure engulfed in flames.
"That wasn't Old Man Yama's intention after all! Everyone, give it your all and hold that strange monk down!"
"Learn!!"
"Yoruichi, go straight to the Soul King Palace. Urahara is being controlled by that strange monk's abilities."
"Huh? Oh! Okay!" Yoruichi hadn't reacted yet, because she had been instantly killed and didn't know what was going on.
Ulquiorra! You'd better take good care of your little girlfriend!
"Hey!" Ulquiorra pulled Orihime into his arms. Orihime blushed but didn't resist.
"Two Soul King Candidate! You two better stay far away!"
"Uh, okay," Haschwalth glanced at Tōsen, Tōsen could feel his partner's gaze, and the two shrugged together.
"Now, charge!"
The Spirit Pearl Core successfully penetrated the protective shield, instantly scattering more than fifty people. Dozens of powerful critical Reiatsu erupted in an instant, with the largest concentration naturally occurring on Old Man Yama's battlefield.
"Stop it, all of you! Old Man Yama, calm down too, unless you want to destroy the Soul King Palace again!"
Yamamoto Genryūsai glared at Jun, while on the other side, Ichibē Hyōsube was still smiling as he watched the crowd.
"I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly. We're currently dealing with this monster that can destroy Soul Society, come on over!"
"Together? Together we'll beat you to a pulp, you bastard!? Can you please tell me, the oldest Soul Reaper in Soul Society, how did you manage to create the Ruler!?!"
"What is Ruler?" Ichibē Hyōsube was still feigning ignorance.
"But that's alright, Chun isn't going to give up easily. 'You won't admit it, huh? That's fine, that's not the point. Just like Yhwach couldn't imagine that someone could live from the era of the Soul King to the present day, you can't imagine it either, even though you yourself are one of them, Arturo, wasn't he one of those who followed the Soul King back then!?'"
The moment the question was asked, the entire arena erupted. Arturo and Zegrod stepped forward; Zegrod frowned, while Arturo grinned.
"You're clearly a dead person, how did you manage to survive until now!?"
But Ichibē Hyōsube didn't care. "You want to use the nonsense of two Arrancars to accuse me? Are you kidding me!? Do you think anyone would believe what you order two Arrancars to say!? Jun Shimizu! Do you have some misunderstanding about me?"
"Why all the nonsense? Just kill him, and that'll be the end of it!"
"No, no! Lord Nobunaga! Killing him is easy, but getting something back from him, and actually killing him, is not so easy."
Upon hearing Jun's words, although Ichibē Hyōsube still smiled, everyone's gaze towards him changed. In the current situation, Jun's credibility was slightly higher than Ichibē Hyōsube's.
"It's really not easy to kill him? What do you mean?"
"That's right, why don't you try killing him once?"
What are you doing?
Ichibē Hyōsube's abilities were indeed quite good, but he wasn't up to the task of fighting someone Transcendent Level his level. He was easily killed by Lord Nobunaga, and, to verify certain things, Lord Nobunaga demonic fire to burn the fat monk to ashes.
But in the next moment, Jun uttered a name, "Ichibē Hyōsube!"
The fat monk appeared out of nowhere, as if he had never died.
"I want to ask, how did you survive?"
"This is the power of my Zanpakuto!"
"Oh~ the power of your Zanpakuto, Ichimonji erase and rewrite other people's names, and even erase their existence. It's truly a powerful Zanpakuto. And it can even revive you by writing your own name down and having others pronounce it, is that right?"
Chun chuckled as he spoke of the Zanpakuto's abilities, "Right? His real name is Monk? I know the name of every Zanpakuto, so I might as well just call myself 'Layman' (a Buddhist monk)."
"Now, please let Abbot Zhenming answer Layman Zhenming's question directly, please!"
The fat monk reluctantly said, "It's exactly as you said, so what?"
"Is that what I said? But do you know there's a very dangerous person here? Kōga! Tell your Muramasa to pull his knife out for me!"
"Such a dangerous knife! Jun Shimizu, how could you let him..."
"Shut up!" Jun glared fiercely at the fat monk. "I've been wondering who said Muramasa was dangerous, and now I realize it was you, you bastard!"
Muramasa had already appeared, and Lord Nobunaga was guarding the fat monk's side. He had no chance to resist. Jun continued...
"Muramasa's abilities won't interfere with anyone, except you! Only you will be exposed! Because Ichimonji isn't your sword at all! Of course, Kōga is unlikely to meet you face-to-face, and unlikely to materialize your sword, but you can't tolerate any possibility."
Muramasa pointed his hand at the fat monk, and the next moment, a frail-looking scholar appeared on the platform. He nodded to Jun Muramasa and began to speak.
"As Shimizu-san said, I am not this person's ability. My master has been dead for thousands of years."
Ichibē Hyōsube's demeanor changed instantly. He suddenly unleashed a palm strike, but a monster was beside him, and Lord Nobunaga's demonic fire suppressed him completely, rendering him unable to move.
"Muramasa, materialize all his abilities for me. You have the ability, I believe in you."
"Yes, Mr. Shimizu!"
Muramasa unleashed his full power, Kōga was also providing his partner with Spiritual Power. The next moment, a burly monk, over two meters tall, appeared, followed by two quiet young women carrying books. As soon as the women appeared, the scholar and the woman embraced.
"Ichimonji ~"
"Yamo ~"
Muramasa stopped using his powers. "Teacher, there are only these three."
At that moment, everyone noticed that the fat monk was no longer wearing his prayer beads and cloak.
The robust monk bowed to Chunhe Muramasa, saying, "Thank you both for your help. My name is Foquan, and the fist technique used by this thief is my own skill."
The frail woman also tearfully recounted, "My name is Yamo. My master and the master of Ichimonji were husband and wife. Both of them passed away many years ago, and he took us in as his own."
Do you know what bad things he's done?
The three men exchanged glances, shook their heads, and the Foquan monk clasped his hands together, saying, "If we disregard the harm he did to us, this person has committed no evil deeds."
Ichibē Hyōsube laughed, and Jun also laughed. "That's right, asking you won't do any good. Ichimonji- san, could you please go to the Soul King Palace and release the one whose name you erased a while ago?"
"Understood. This is the combined ability of Yamo and me. Let's head over now."
Thank you.
Jun continued to smile at Ichibē Hyōsube, "You think you're invincible? No problem, I have plenty of time, and plenty of information you don't know."
"You think you're so great? You think you can even claim your rebirth ability is Original Source Awakening? Fine! Ulquiorra! You protect Orihime! Then bring Orihime here!"
Finally, Ichibē Hyōsube's face turned ugly.