When Did You Start Under the Illusion That I Was the Soul King?

Upon hearing the word "son, "Yhwach's expression immediately changed. He couldn't believe that someone who could abandon the Quincy and his family could call him "son."

Yhwach retreated, waving his hand in front of him, and shouted with a ferocious expression, "Who are you? You are not the Soul King!"

Not satisfied with questioning, Yhwach drew his Reishi Blade and slashed at the Soul King. Each strike pierced through the Soul King's body, and no matter how he attacked, he could not have any effect on the Soul King.

Even the Soul King's unchanging expression showed a hint of amusement. He moved closer to Yhwach once more, asking, "Is that so? How do you know I'm not the Soul King?"

The Soul King's words completely confirmed Yhwach's conjecture: the person before him was definitely not the Soul King. But why, why couldn't his the Almighty see the whole picture?

Since that's the case, let's strip away his disguise!

Sklaverei!

Yhwach completely disregarded the fate of the Reishi King's Soul King Palace, stripping everything, including the Soul King Palace itself, of its absolute subordination to Reishi, making them the power he controlled, including this so-called Soul King!

Just as Yhwach had guessed, blue Reishi peeled away from the Soul King's body bit by bit, converging towards him.

The person before me is definitely not the Soul King. Just as killing the Soul King requires possessing all four powers, how could the Soul King possibly Quincy's Sklaverei?

The Reishi gradually left the Soul King's body. The Soul King was neither surprised nor angry. Instead, he smiled and looked at Yhwach with a domineering gaze.

"Yhwach, when did you begin to believe that I am the Soul King?!"

The Soul King before him completely transformed into Reishi and gathered on Yhwach's body. The Inner Palace palace before him also changed its appearance. The huge curtain had disappeared, and the palace was filled with a lot of life.

Bookshelves, desks, fireplaces, tea sets—most importantly, the most luxurious throne in the very center of the Inner Palace, where a refined and amiable-looking man sat with his legs crossed, looking down at Yhwach with an arrogant expression.

"Sosuke Aizen!!!"

Yhwach practically spat out one word after another. The moment Aizen appeared, he became a complete clown. His millennia-long plan to become king had become nothing more than a performance before Aizen.

"I've long admired your name, Yhwach. Or should I address you as my son...?"

Yhwach didn't give Aizen a chance to finish his sentence, Aizen and his throne into pieces with a single sword strike.

"It's our first meeting, don't get so worked up." Aizen appeared beside Yhwach and said with a smile. The calmer he was, the more annoyed Yhwach became.

"That person under the Seireitei is not you!" Yhwach's eyes were practically spitting fire. Being deceived once wasn't enough; he'd been deceived twice, and both times it was related to this Sosuke Aizen.

"Of course not me. I've been living in the Soul King Palace for several months now, reading and writing every day, and I'm very happy."

As Aizen's hand moved, Yhwach noticed the household tools tucked away in the corner. Aizen's repeated actions, which repeatedly pierced his heart, caused Yhwach's hand holding the sword to tremble uncontrollably.

"Back then, I fought for the throne of the Soul King for hundreds of years, but I never expected to sit on it in this way. Yhwach, don't you think this is just a cruel twist of fate?"

Aizen opened his arms, closed his eyes, and felt the atmosphere of the Soul King Palace Soul King Palace. After sitting there for several months, looking back at his past self, he realized how ignorant he had been.

The so-called Soul King can actually do nothing about the development of the world; he is merely a mascot to stabilize the world.

Hearing Aizen's somewhat Versailles-like words, Yhwach finally couldn't hold back anymore. Wasn't his desire to unify the Three Worlds and his act of devouring the Soul King also for the sake of seizing this throne?

Now that Aizen has said it, the Soul King's throne has become something as useless as a chicken bone; how can he possibly tolerate that?

"The Great Saint Bow!"

A massive Spirit Bow and Arrows Annihilation materialized and shot straight at Aizen, shattering a Ikkaku of the Inner Palace. Aizen, however, remained standing unharmed as the massive Spirit Bow and Arrows passed right through him.

Aizen ignored Yhwach and instead squatted down in front of Soya Ashirogi, stroking his chin as he said, "A candidate for Soul King? What a clumsy imitation."

Aizen extended a finger, and the disguised Hogyoku, which contained the four powers of Soya Ashirogi, shattered instantly. No one understood the fusion of the Hogyoku better than Aizen.

Without the binding force of the Hogyoku, the four powers within Soya Ashirogi became completely unstable, twisting and devouring each other, ultimately dissipating into countless Reishi within the Soul King Palace.

Yhwach's meticulously prepared blade, aimed at the Soul King, was so easily thwarted by Aizen.

"Aizen Souyusuke! It's just Kyoka Suigetsu! My eyes will surely see you!"

Yhwach realized that it was all Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu that was behind it all. His three pupils twitched, and his spiritual pressure drew the Quincy Cross sword from the ground, slashing towards a deserted corner inside the Inner Palace.

With a clang, Aizen's figure slowly appeared, his fingers gripping the military knife. Starting from his palm, he changed his posture, a form that Beyond Bankai Dreamlike Collapse.

"The power of the Almighty?" Aizen remained calm and composed. "If I'm not mistaken, your the Almighty and omnipotence cannot see scenes related to the Soul King, right?"

Aizen kept bouncing back and forth on Yhwach's psychological defenses, which made Yhwach grit his teeth and tighten his grip on the sword.

"Where is the Soul King?!"

"Haha!" Aizen laughed heartily. "It seems I was right after all. Three eyes are no match for the Almighty of four eyes."

"I'll ask you one last time, where exactly did you put the Soul King?!"

Dozens of Spirit Bow surrounded Aizen, ready to unleash their Spirit Bow and Arrows Spirit Bow Aizen's answer failed to satisfy Yhwach.

"The Soul King? Shouldn't the Soul King be in the safest place in the world?"

Seeing Aizen's ambiguous smile, Yhwach instantly understood.

"The World of the Living! Sawada Tsunayoshi!"

In the World of the Living, the Tsuna family.

After meeting Haschwalth's Quincy forces, Tsuna disappeared from the battlefield. He didn't go anywhere else, but went straight home.

Growing impatient Tsuna got up and made himself a cup of coffee. Being very hospitable, he not only took care of himself but also asked the guest in the living room, "Soul King, would you like a cup?"

The living room was quiet, and there was no response, Tsuna could only make himself a cup of tea.

Holding a steaming cup of coffee, he walked to the Soul King's crystal, looking out at the world. "Yhwach's the Almighty really aren't that impressive, it's taken him so long to notice you here."

The Soul King had been staying at Tsuna's house for a while now. From the moment he planned to use Kurotsuchi Mayuri's potion and the Enrakyōten to scheme against Yhwach, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto had already agreed to Tsuna's plan to switch people.

Nemu Kurotsuchi was exchanged for Aizen, Aizen was exchanged for the Soul King. The Soul King was placed in Tsuna's house. Apart from the few people who had the meeting in Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's office that day, only Tatsuki knew about this.

That's why Tatsuki looked a little strange when he learned that Haschwalth wanted to stop Tsuna from going to Soul Society to rescue them, because the Soul King had been staying at Tsuna's house for three months.

In any case, the Soul King's existence is only for stabilizing the world, so it doesn't really matter where he is. Instead of going to great lengths to protect the Soul King Palace, it would be better to place the Soul King next to the strongest person.

Because the entire scheme of switching the prince involved the Soul King, Yhwach was unable to see through it immediately. Even when it was Aizen disguised as Nemu Kurotsuchi, he didn't notice the traces of the Kyoka Suigetsu.

This action was solely for the purpose of verifying just how powerful Yhwach's the Almighty and omnipotence truly were.

If Yhwach were truly as the Almighty as he claimed, he should have been at Tsuna's house the moment the Quincy invaded. This is why Tsuna rushed home immediately after not seeing Yhwach near Haschwalth.

The result was obvious: when Tsuna was getting impatient, it meant that Yhwach was currently in the Soul King Palace. He hadn't seen through Nemu Kurotsuchi's disguise, nor had he seen through Aizen's Illusion. His the Almighty and omnipotence weren't so the Almighty after all.

After being repeatedly tricked, Yhwach was panting heavily. He desperately wanted to vent his anger, but his reason told him he couldn't. He couldn't fall into Aizen's trap any longer. What he should do now was find the Soul King.

Yhwach broke free, and the Spirit Bow and Arrows that had been surrounding Aizen was immediately fired back, delaying Aizen's progress towards the World of the Living.

A series of fine cracking sounds rang out as several Kyoka Suigetsu appeared around Aizen, blocking the attack from reaching his body. "I don't think I've said enough yet?"

Yhwach opened his palm, connecting the Reishi arrows surrounding Aizen and forming them into a circular binding, "Ring of Anguish!"

Yhwach no longer wanted to waste words with Aizen, so he used the Ring of Anguish to temporarily trap Aizen, allowing him to leave the Soul King Palace immediately.

"Well!"

A soft sigh beside Yhwach sent chills down his spine. When had Aizen appeared behind him?

"It seems your the Almighty are not only inferior to the Soul King's, but you couldn't even see through the Illusion of ' Kyoka Suigetsu and moon in the water'. When did you develop the illusion that the Ring of Anguish was trapping me?"

Aizen's elegant figure appeared behind Yhwach, his palm gently raised upwards, and he chanted.

"Hadō 90: Kurohitsugi!"

A dense, black spiritual pressure completely enveloped Yhwach. A massive black Kurohitsugi stood above the Soul King Palace, its inner spiritual pressure constantly erupting and bursting forth, all aimed at Yhwach, the key figure in this war Three Worlds.