Clang—!
Yhwach drew the Quincy Cross at his waist. After smashing apart the incoming slash with a single strike, he held the blade horizontally before him.
The clash of metal rang out, and waves of illusionary ripples spread between the two. Wherever they passed, the gray mist domain below churned violently. Yet with Duan Mu's uninterrupted Spiritual Pressure replenishment, it stubbornly held together.
This also meant...
The Quincy and Sternritter members trapped within the domain suffered no harm whatsoever.
Duan Mu had never intended to protect them. It was simply that if the domain collapsed, the Sternritter members' rules would become troublesome for him.
Although he could analyze rules, he could not spare the attention to do so while fighting Yhwach.
Strictly speaking...
Even without Yhwach, Duan Mu could not analyze so many rules simultaneously. He could only focus on a few, while avoiding or forcibly resisting the rest by various means.
Therefore, Duan Mu had to continuously maintain the Shikai domain of Juumetsu with his Spiritual Pressure. Though, with the Spiritual Void Crest operating at full power within his body, the domain's consumption was insignificant to him.
Duan Mu and Yhwach stared at each other across their blades. In that instant, strange and terrifying waves of energy surged around them!
Above the two, a pair of purple eyes hung like the sun and moon, looking down upon them.
Booming sounds echoed between them. Their two utterly different blades trembled faintly, and for a time, the battle fell into a stalemate.
This war had reached its climax from the very beginning!
Feeling the pressure and inexplicable rule coming from the blade, killing intent filled Yhwach's eyes. He suddenly swung his free left hand forward. A massive spirit-particle bow appeared above them, with several arrows shaped like enormous spears emerging upon