The Reishi in the air, following the increasingly loud chants of the Combat Souls, had already formed wave after wave like flowing water.
Those waves piled together. Under Azashiro Soya's control, they began undergoing a series of complex transformations and arrangements. As an unbearable heat emerged around him, Asano Kiyoshi knew he had been locked on. No matter what he did, he could not escape this attack.
In fact, sacrificial Kido above Number Ninety all had a locking function. The moment the Kido was unleashed, the person locked onto was basically unable to evade it.
However, the locking ability was not absolute. If the target could disrupt it with powerful Spiritual Pressure or flee beyond its locking range, they could still avoid the damage. But in actual combat, most people could not accomplish that.
Feeling the flames gradually spreading around him and breathing air that was nearly boiling, Asano Kiyoshi rubbed his dry, stinging eyes.
Faced with the changes in his surroundings, Asano Kiyoshi knew that Azashiro Soya intended to use this move to decide the battle.
After roughly estimating the Kido's destructive range, he found that it stopped precisely at the border between the wilderness and Rukongai. It would not harm Rukongai's residents or buildings.
Azashiro Soya really was, at heart, as gentle a person as Jushiro Ukitake.
Even Asano Kiyoshi, who was his enemy at this moment, could not help but silently acknowledge that much.
But acknowledgment was acknowledgment. In battle, Asano Kiyoshi would never hold back.
As Azashiro Soya's Kido was completed, the ground beneath Asano Kiyoshi's feet began to tremble. The next instant, with Asano Kiyoshi's position as its center, the earth within a radius of over a hundred meters turned directly into magma!
In the boiling eruption of pillars of fire, Asano Kiyoshi was completely