A Strike That Split the World Apart

However, just as Ishida Uryū and Chad Yasutora rushed into the palace.

"Respira! Arrogante!"

A furious voice echoed from the palace entrance.

The next moment, black mist embodying decay rose and spread outward from Barragan. On the skull head of Barragan, who had risen again after releasing his Resurrección, there was a fresh slash wound so deep that bone was visible.

Clearly, when Barragan had been overconfident just now, Kurosaki Isshin had managed to leave a wound on him.

Barragan, having just released his Resurrección, immediately noticed the two insects who had barged into the palace. Rage seemed to rise within his hollow eye sockets as his skeletal hands swept separately toward Chad Yasutora and Ishida Uryū.

"Death Sigh."

An invisible sigh of death was exhaled, and the decaying black mist rapidly surged toward Ishida Uryū and Chad Yasutora.

Ishida Uryū flashed away with Hirenkyaku beneath his feet, quickly widening the distance from the decaying black mist. But when he turned his gaze, he discovered that Chad Yasutora, being human, was already about to be caught.

"Damn it!"

Ishida Uryū's expression darkened. He understood the terrifying nature of the decaying black mist—it was a dreadful power capable of reducing all tangible things to ruin.

No matter how tough Chad Yasutora's body was, he could not possibly withstand it.

In the next instant, Ishida Uryū moved both hands and swiftly fired hundreds upon hundreds of Reishi Arrows at the decaying black mist pursuing Chad Yasutora.

Realizing that the distance between them was constantly shrinking, Chad Yasutora stomped fiercely against the ground, twisted his waist, and swung his Giant's Right Arm violently toward Barragan. A torrent of energy resembling a Cero instantly formed at his fist and blasted forth.

"Giant's Strike!"

Seeing this, Barragan brought together the skeletal hand he had pointed