You Still Say You Don't Know Martial Arts!

"My power..."

Hearing Aizen's words, Barragan's face immediately filled with unwillingness and panic.

But before Barragan could say anything more, Aizen had already extended a finger toward his head.

The next second, a purple beam formed from spiritual pressure pierced straight through Barragan's forehead. With a hole blasted through his skull, Barragan's eyes gradually lost their light, and before his body could fall to the ground, it slowly turned to dust and scattered away.

Having casually killed the former king of Hueco Mundo, Aizen acted as though he had done something utterly trivial. He did not even spare the dead Barragan a second glance.

Instead, he turned to Yoru Machi and revealed his usual confident smile. "Captain Yoru Machi, since you are here now, that means Tosen and Gin have already been dealt with by you, correct?

"Still, this does not surprise me much. If you could not even manage that much, I would be truly disappointed."

Aizen had not cared in the slightest about killing Barragan, one of the top combatants in his own camp.

Leaving aside Barragan's innate rebelliousness, even if he had truly been utterly loyal, Aizen would not have cared if one or two Arrancar Espada died.

They had been tools from the start. Previously, they could still serve as high-level thugs, but now that Aizen had begun merging with the Hogyoku and his level of life had started to evolve, he was about to stand in the heavens. Naturally, he no longer cared about such tools.

Aizen had now passed the Hogyoku's first-stage awakening period and reached the second-stage incubation period.

At this stage, Aizen no longer regarded ordinary Soul Reaper captains as worthy of notice. Even the Captain-Commander had begun to fall beneath his notice.

The main reason he remained fixated on Yoru Machi