A powerfully built man wreathed in flames stood before him. His voice was deep and resonant, while blue-white flames burned within his crystalline, translucent pupils.
Bulging veins coiled powerfully over his arms. He gripped Ryujin Jakka tightly in his hand, its blade spewing two streams of blue-white fire.
"User... do you intend to challenge me?"
Uchiha Hiko said nothing. The corners of his lips lifted slightly. He had not expected Ryujin Jakka's manifested form to look like this.
It looked decent. At least its physique did not disappoint Uchiha Hiko—an imposing, mature man overflowing with dominance.
The flame-wreathed man looked at Uchiha Hiko, anger gradually rising in his eyes.
He had never been looked down upon by anyone!!!
"Do you intend to challenge me, User?!" the man roared, and the flames in his pupils surged even higher!!!
Uchiha Hiko was jolted awake by his thunderous roar and finally came to his senses.
"Ryujin Jakka, I never expected you to look like a big man."
"I thought you'd be a vermilion bird or a phoenix!!!"
"You are insulting me! User, I will let you taste despair!!!" The man still looked consumed by fury.
Uchiha Hiko's casual expression truly infuriated him.
"Almighty Push, all things reduced to ashes, Ryujin Jakka!"
"Bankai!!!"
The Zanpakuto in the burning man's hand instantly erupted with massive flames that shot straight into the sky.
The heavens and earth changed color in an instant. The azure sky seemed divided up by blue-white flames, and everything around them became a blue-white world.
Even the surrounding grass and trees were scorched dry in that instant, bursting into blue-white flames.
The lush green grassland visibly transformed into a yellow wasteland.
Blazing flames and rolling heat rushed toward him, and even the wind around them shifted direction at that moment.
The man