Hadō #99: Five Dragons Reaching Extinction

"Bankai: Tree Realm Birth."

The next instant, the black coffin that resembled a black hole visibly swelled from within before shattering with a thunderous crash, revealing something it was utterly incapable of containing.

It was a Wooden Giant Buddha, seated cross-legged in the sky, one hand pointing to heaven and the other to earth, with what seemed like countless Buddha hands behind it forming ring after ring of wooden halos.

Moreover, the Wooden Giant Buddha continued to expand at a mad pace, surpassing the withered tree NO.0 had once transformed into in almost an instant...

Before long, the Wooden Giant Buddha itself had completely surpassed the entirety of Seireitei in size!

Its head pierced into the very end of the clouds, while the area occupied by its seated lower body seemed to exceed Seireitei itself.

Given the vastness of the Soul Society, every resident of Rukongai witnessed the existence of the Wooden Giant Buddha at that moment.

Even though every Soul Reaper knew it was Vice-Captain Chiba Makoto's legendary Bankai, Tree Realm Birth, it instantly triggered an instinctive fear of colossal things in all of them.

It was too big!

So big... there was no end in sight. It seemed as though a single movement from the Wooden Giant Buddha would be enough to erase all of Seireitei without a trace.

Before such a majestic being, every obstacle and every enemy seemed utterly meaningless.

Sōsuke Aizen, whose presence still plunged all of Seireitei into despair, seemed like nothing more than a somewhat conspicuous speck of dust before the boundless Wooden Giant Buddha.

The next moment, Aizen Sōsuke's disbelieving, rattled voice rang out as his body slowly retreated beyond his control.

"H-how could such power exist?"

"No, I refuse to believe it!"

"You're merely a Soul Reaper! I have already become