The Flawed "Song of the Holy Emperor"?

"Me?"

A questioning voice, seemingly carrying a faint chuckle, sounded from Yhwach's blind spot.

Yhwach's expression froze, and he raised his Blut Vene almost on instinct.

"Clang!"

At the instant of collision, it was almost as if an explosion had gone off. Yhwach was blasted backward outright.

"Yhwach, the Seireitei is not a place you can come and go as you please..."

"Especially when you brag next time, remember not to include me!!!"

As Chiba Makoto spoke, he raised his empty hand and pressed it down toward the airborne Yhwach.

The next moment, the wind and clouds changed abruptly!

The enormous Buddha towering across the heavens moved!

As if mimicking Chiba Makoto's motion, the giant Buddha's palm descended toward Yhwach as well...

Except it was not one palm, but thousands of enormous wooden palms, forming several rings like Buddhist halos as they slammed toward the flying Yhwach.

At that moment, Yhwach's entire sky was filled with one enormous wooden palm after another, and then... they came crashing down!

"Boom boom boom!!!"

First Shin'ō Academy, then the Seireitei and the more distant Rukongai, all shook violently as if struck by an earthquake.

Yhwach had instinctively maintained his Blut Vene for defense, but after taking two blows, his body was already covered in spiderweb-like cracks.

This was a sign that Blut Vene had neared the limit of its defenses!

Yhwach's expression changed dramatically on the spot!

Yhwach was naturally not completely unfamiliar with Chiba Makoto's strength.

However, from an observer's perspective, Yhwach's wariness toward such a simple, brutal Bankai as Tree Realm Birth had been far lower than toward Zanka no Tachi's ultimate principle of incinerating all things.

Yet, after personally taking a few slaps, Yhwach finally realized that it carried a weight beyond the limits an ordinary body could endure.

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