Bankai was the deepest manifestation of a person's soul.
Pride, wildness, heaviness, darkness, cheerfulness, courage...
All kinds of different elements would reveal themselves within a Bankai.
As Asano Kiyoshi's voice fell, the eyes of all Soul Society turned toward him.
After all, he was a candidate for the next Captain-Commander. For everyone, seeing a Captain-Commander's Bankai was an exceedingly rare and thrilling event.
One had to know that Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, the current Captain-Commander, had not released his Bankai for a full thousand years!
Even his own disciples had never seen their teacher's Bankai.
It could be said that everyone in Soul Society was immensely curious about the Captain-Commander's Bankai!
However, some people were not looking forward to the Captain-Commander's Bankai at all, such as... Retsu Unohana.
After all, if the Captain-Commander truly released his Bankai, then...
Well, since they could not see the current Captain-Commander's Bankai, they could at least see the next Captain-Commander's, right?
With such thoughts in mind, everyone fixed their gaze on Asano Kiyoshi.
His spiritual pressure was viscous and steeped in sin. Countless black fissures spread across the sky, and those profound cracks were like the gaze of some great existence, making people involuntarily want to kneel before it, to assimilate with it!
Gradually, those fissures filled the entire sky, cutting the moonlit, star-sparse heavens into countless fragments.
And beneath those fragments, spots of deep crimson seeped through.
Bright red, eerie, terrifying, sacrifice, solemnity, worship...
That viscous blood instantly spread across the entire sky. At that moment, the heavens themselves were shrouded in blood.
It flowed down from the horizon and plunged into the earth, sketching the deepest streak of crimson amid the boundless night!
Asano Kiyoshi slowly walked toward the crowd through that sea of blood.
Within the blood, ten palaces beyond description slowly