Chapter 1389: Recognition
It was an unremarkable, somewhat antiquated tachi, with no flames burning anywhere except at its tip. Yet it appeared before Jiaren's eyes.
And it was this ordinary old tachi that made his heart tremble with deep, instinctive dread!
The viscous, mercury-like space around them was automatically smoothed out by the sword's appearance!
Jiaren immediately lost control over that area.
Bankai?
It was actually Bankai!
The number one Zanpakuto of the Soul Society needed only Shikai to surpass the vast majority of Bankai.
Once it entered Bankai, its power was simply unimaginable!
"Come forth, Great Tengu!"
Amid countless feathers, a figure dressed in a snow-white Miko Robe emerged within the summoning array before Jiaren.
A Shikigami that he could summon in a battle of this level was naturally of the same level of strength!
Unfortunately, just as Great Tengu appeared, a blazing sword aura had already reached him.
The ultra-high temperature capable of turning all matter into plasma erased Great Tengu entirely in an instant.
But thanks to the brief moment it bought, along with the gust of wind Great Tengu bestowed at the last moment,
Jiaren successfully evaded the sword aura that would have erased him as well.
He pressed himself against the protective barrier at the edge of the arena, gasping for breath.
His face was filled with horror.
This was Ryūjin Jakka's Bankai?
It was actually this powerful?
No longer suppressing the high temperature of Zanka no Tachi, Xu Yue himself resembled a humanoid sun, radiating scorching heat outward.
The sustained temperature of tens of millions of degrees was far more terrifying than the instantaneous heat of a nuclear bomb!
The entire arena beneath the inverted shield had become like a furnace.
If the arena had not been made from materials created through spatial settings,