"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Ailin stood still as the fragments of Thousand Blades turned into streaks of afterimages under his mental command and launched an attack on Byakuya Kuchiki.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Faced with such dense attacks, Byakuya Kuchiki had no way to evade them all.
For the moment, he could only use Shunpo to retreat while using the sword formed from Senbonzakura in his hand to slash apart the incoming Thousand Blades fragments. At the same time, he controlled the other half of Senbonzakura's blades with his left hand to intercept the remaining fragments.
"Shhk, shhk, shhk..."
Even so, Byakuya could not defend against every Thousand Blades fragment. Some slipped past his defenses and carved wounds across his body.
Relying solely on the sword in his hand and part of Senbonzakura's blades, it was impossible to block all these attacks.
Thus, after circling Ailin dozens of times and observing his attack pattern, Byakuya Kuchiki came to a stop as well.
He poured spiritual pressure into Senbonzakura's hilt. A massive amount of spiritual pressure was transformed through the hilt into countless blades.
Then, Byakuya Kuchiki gathered those blades into a spherical formation, protecting himself firmly within it.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Senbonzakura's power naturally increased with the number of blades.
The power of one hundred thousand Senbonzakura blades compared to five hundred thousand was at least twice as great.
What was more, Senbonzakura possessed an extremely powerful trait: when Byakuya Kuchiki controlled Senbonzakura with both hands, the blades' speed doubled!
Hundreds of thousands of cherry-colored blades spun around Byakuya Kuchiki, forming an absolute defensive ring more than three meters wide.
In terms of attack power, Senbonzakura's blades truly could not compare to Thousand Blades' sword fragments.
However, when hundreds of thousands of blades formed a rapidly spinning defensive ring,