Aizen Sōsuke narrowed his eyes as he looked at Chiba Makoto, whose brows were slightly furrowed and whose hands were gathering vast amounts of solidified reishi. He raised one hand toward the surging "black" tide.
"Kidō #81: Dankū, Consecutive Performance!"
Massive invisible barriers appeared one after another before Chiba Makoto and Aizen Sōsuke, like city walls standing against a world-ending tsunami.
"Boom!"
Yet beneath that terrifying "black," the barriers formed by Dankū were overwhelmed and obliterated almost instantly.
However, within that instant, Aizen Sōsuke formed no fewer than ten Dankū barriers before him, buying Chiba Makoto a single breath of time!
"Nicely done!"
Chiba Makoto praised him for their unspoken coordination.
Although the reishi in the World of the Living was incredibly sparse, and the location Hyōsube Ichibē had transferred them to was far from any Spiritually Dense Land.
This greatly reduced the amount of reishi Chiba Makoto could control, but with that brief buffer, it was enough for him to forcibly gather all the reishi within a hundred li.
The next moment, the reishi in Chiba Makoto's hand rapidly formed a hundred-meter-long, ultra-dense Reishi Great Blade, which he swung toward the black tide that had broken through ten layers of Dankū.
"Boom!"
Two utterly different powers collided, unleashing an earthshaking roar.
The blade fell, and the tide split!
That slash, containing even the finest Zanjutsu techniques, seemed capable of parting the sea itself as it cleaved the surging black tide before him in two.
Yet Hyōsube Ichibē was concealed behind that divided black tide.
Just as Chiba Makoto, whose control over reishi had been greatly weakened, had no choice but to devote his full strength to the "black" tide, Hyōsube Ichibē swung his brush-like Zanpakuto at him.
At that moment, Chiba Makoto was caught in a minute opening. He