Boom!
In an instant, a mushroom cloud nearly a hundred meters high rose within Las Noches. The entire palace was leveled by the massive explosion.
"Crack, crack..."
The Sky Canopy overhead shattered beneath the powerful shockwave. Vast amounts of sand and gravel rained down from the sky, revealing Hueco Mundo's true heavens.
A gray sky and a pale crescent moon.
Ulquiorra fell from the Sky Canopy along with the sand and rubble, then was buried beneath it.
Grimmjow was in much the same state.
Blasted away by Ichigo Kurosaki's Getsuga Tensho, Grimmjow had managed to keep his life, but he had also suffered severe injuries.
Now, faced with this unexpected disaster, he had no strength left to resist and was directly buried beneath the rain of falling sand and stones.
After a long while, once the aftershocks of the explosion faded, Aizen Sosuke's pupils suddenly contracted.
At the spot where Ichigo Kurosaki had stood, Aizen's Cero had blasted a crater a hundred meters deep.
Yet when that crater reached Ichigo Kurosaki, its force had split in two, leaving a V-shaped gash in the ground.
At the very point of that V-shaped terrain stood Ailin.
Clearly, Aizen's Cero aimed at Ichigo Kurosaki had been blocked by Ailin.
"When?"
"I actually didn't see Captain Ailin's figure?"
Having evolved to this extent, Aizen's own speed was nearly comparable to the speed of light.
Yet he had not even seen Captain Ailin move just now.
Could it be that even after reaching the peak of evolution, he still could not compare to Captain Ailin?
"Impossible!"
"That can't be possible!"
"In this form, I am the strongest!"
"This is the choice the Hogyoku and I made together!"
"Die!"
Enraged, the six fleshy tumors on Aizen Sosuke's wings instantly fired six purple Ceros at Ailin.
"Bzzzzzz..."