NO.0 Appears

"Slash!"

With a furious roar, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, his body engulfed in flames, closed in on Sōsuke Aizen once more. The extreme heat seemed ready to reduce everything to ashes.

"An immortal body? Aizen, then this old man shall reduce every last part of you to ashes and see how you recover!"

In an instant, Karakura Town's temperature, which had been slowly dropping, began to soar once more. Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, like a near-humanoid sun, thundered toward Sōsuke Aizen.

Seeing this, Sōsuke Aizen furrowed his brows and violently tugged at Kyōka Suigetsu in an attempt to sever the chain wrapped around it.

Yet that chain seemed both nonexistent and like some rule forcibly imposed upon reality...

Sōsuke Aizen could clearly sense all sorts of resistance from the chain, but he simply could not cut it directly.

Without Kyōka Suigetsu to block Zanka no Tachi's extreme heat, even Sōsuke Aizen's spiritual body, which had now transcended the level of a Soul Reaper, would be reduced to ashes in an instant.

"Kidō #81: Dankū."

With a raised finger, Sōsuke Aizen cast Dankū before Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni to hinder him slightly, then without hesitation redirected his attack toward Ukitake Jūshirō.

"Hadō #90: Kurohitsugi."

In an instant, another enormous Kurohitsugi abruptly appeared on the battlefield, enveloping an area nearly a hundred meters wide around Ukitake Jūshirō.

Sōsuke Aizen's understanding of Ukitake Jūshirō was second to none. Nearly every form of energy attack would be absorbed by Ukitake Jūshirō's Zanpakuto and redirected at his enemy.

Thus, Kurohitsugi was undoubtedly the best choice for dealing with Ukitake Jūshirō.

However, at the very moment Kurohitsugi formed, Ukitake Jūshirō raised the wooden spear in his other hand and fiercely thrust it forward.

"Crack... crack!"

Kurohitsugi, which had forced even Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni to withstand it using Burning Hell