Stage Three: Divine Punishment

Lille Barro didn't care to understand what Gin Ichimaru Gin Ichimaru saying. All he wanted to do was kill him. With a fierce look on his face, Lille Barro used his wings as blades to slash at Gin Ichimaru. Since he couldn't use the long-range All- All-Piercing, he would use the close-range All-Piercing!

Gin Ichimaru merely altered Lille Barro's perception of distance, preventing the projectile capable of All-Piercing from being fired, but this does not mean that the ability to All-Piercing has become ineffective.

Lille Barro's eight wings can still pierce through anything; if you are hit by his wings, Gin Ichimaru will die!

"Huh? Are you angry?"

Gin Ichimaru jumped aside with a sarcastic tone. If it came to guns, the two of them might have the upper hand, but when it came to swords, ten Lille Barro wouldn't be a match for one Gin Ichimaru.

"Hateful!"

Like a madman, Lille Barro kept swinging his sword at Gin Ichimaru, while Gin Ichimaru leisurely strolled through Lille Barro's forest of swords.

"Hey, Gin Ichimaru, stop playing around. If we finish here, we still need to go to other worlds to provide support." Kirinj's voice came from afar.

"Sorry, it seems this battle has to end here." Gin Ichimaru spread his hands, feigning helplessness as he spoke to Lille Barro.

Lille Barro had completely lost his mind, only wanting to relentlessly unleash his attacks on Gin Ichimaru. Gin Ichimaru's gaze gradually became indifferent, and he said in a completely flat tone, "This is no fun."

As the white snake beside Gin Ichimaru slithered through the gaps in Lille Barro's feathers, it opened its mouth wide and lunged to bite Lille Barro's shoulder.

With his shoulders restrained, Lille Barro twisted and turned, trying to break free from the white snake's control, and slashed at the white snake with all eight wings at once.

Just then, a chilling sensation suddenly washed over Lille Barro. There was no time for him to react. He looked down and saw a short knife protruding from his chest. Gin Ichimaru had silently appeared behind Lille Barro.

"You..."

Lille Barro wanted to turn around and say something, but he couldn't utter a single word. As his body collapsed, his vision gradually darkened, and he saw Gin Ichimaru's indifferent eyes.

It was poison. The instant he was stabbed, Lille Barro had already thought of using the power of All-Piercing to expel the poison. But when he activated the All-Piercing, he found that there was nothing in his body that could be considered a foreign object.

It's about cognition again.

As his eyelids gradually closed, Lille Barro realized what was influencing him: it was Gin Ichimaru's cognitive rewriting ability. At some point, Gin Ichimaru had rewritten Lille Barro's cognition, making Lille Barro's Vollständig ability regard his power as part of his body.

Therefore, the power that All-Piercing failed to expel Gin Ichimaru's toxins, Lille Barro's body became the stage for Gin Ichimaru's abilities.

The toxins erupted completely, and Lille Barro's body could no longer hold on. His life was rapidly fading away, and in his gradually darkening vision, he saw Gin Ichimaru's merciless back.

"Is that all?" Kirinj asked as he stepped forward.

"Probably not yet?" Gin Ichimaru said helplessly. Only after learning about Lille Barro's information could he realize how difficult he was to kill.

As soon as Gin Ichimaru finished speaking, an even more magnificent pillar of spiritual pressure suddenly bloomed behind him, accompanied by an inhuman, synthesized voice.

"Don't think that mere poison can kill you. Messenger of God, you sinners will be powerless before the messenger of God!"

A broad golden light instantly swept towards Gin Ichimaru Gin Ichimaru his companions, engulfing them in an instant and leaving a bottomless crater in the ground of Hueco Mundo.

"This is the power of God's messenger; this is divine punishment!"

The owner of the electronically synthesized voice slowly flew down above the pit, with human upper limbs, four limbs like a wild beast, a snake-like neck, and an owl-like head. Several unidentified tentacles appeared on his waist, and behind him were still eight wings with holes.

He was still Lille Barro. In the moment when his body was close to death, the last power of his Vollständig appeared, allowing him to complete the true divine punishment, but also turning him into a non-human form.

Lille Barro harbored no resentment whatsoever; his faith in Yhwach reached its zenith, for only Yhwach could save his life when he was on the verge of death.

"Divine punishment? How terrifying!"

Behind Lille Barro, Gin Ichimaru's emotionless voice rang out again Lille Barro. With a clang, Gin Ichimaru's Zanpakuto was embedded in Lille Barro's body, just a hair's breadth away from piercing through.

Lille Barro has learned his lesson. The moment something unusual happens around him, he doesn't turn around to look, but immediately uses his Blut Vene for defense.

"Having barely escaped with their lives, they still have to show themselves; they really don't cherish their lives."

Lille Barro didn't even need to turn around; he could see Gin Ichimaru and the three people beside him Kirinj, simply by twisting his long neck.

Gin Ichimaru silently retracted his extended Shinsō, his narrowed eyes fixed on the spot where he had just attacked. He noticed a barely perceptible dent on Lille Barro's body.

His Blut Vene wasn't invincible; in just a moment, Gin Ichimaru made his judgment.

Lille Barro also deduced that the influence of Gin Ichimaru's perception on him was still ongoing, which was why he made the wrong judgment about the location of Gin Ichimaru and the others.

But it doesn't matter. Since we can't determine the location, let's not try to determine it. Lille Barro flapped his wings and flew into the sky, and two more bird heads grew on his long neck.

With its three heads back to back, Lille Barro planned to launch an all-around attack. The God's Trumpet, with each bird head capable of spreading out a 120-degree attack, would completely cover all directions with its three heads.

In this way, Lille Barro doesn't need to worry about whether Gin Ichimaru has affected his perception of position.

Just now, Lille Barro had already tried it; Gin Ichimaru's influence on his All-Piercing perception was limited to the wings and had no effect on the bird's head's cries.

Of course, from Lille Barro's perspective, how could Gin Ichimaru, a mere mortal, possibly influence the power of God's Trumpet?

This is a move that needs to be taken head-on. Gin Ichimaru hasn't affected Lille Barro's God's Trumpet yet; I wonder if he can withstand it?

Just as Lille Barro grew three heads, a golden arm appeared before Gin Ichimaru.

"Prepare your counterattack, junior. We didn't come here for nothing." Shutara Senjumaru appeared gracefully in front of Gin Ichimaru, holding an umbrella.

Beside Senjumaru, Kirinjī Tenshirō and Yachiru Unohana also wore smiles. They weren't just staying there for treatment; after discovering Lille Barro in Hueco Mundo, they resolutely decided to stay.

Protecting the younger generation is what these seniors should do.

A brilliant golden light illuminated the heavens and the earth, and Lille Barro's God's Trumpet enveloped the entire region.

Just as the energy of the God's Trumpet was about to reach Senjumaru and the others, Senjumaru calmly held up his umbrella to shield himself.

Even if Senjumaru weaves a beautiful pattern with just one umbrella, it still wouldn't be able to withstand the damage from the God's Trumpet. But Senjumaru have more than just this one umbrella.

With a whoosh, three blood blossoms spilled inside the umbrella as Senjumaru, Kirinj, and Yachiru Unohana unhesitatingly plunged their Zanpakuto into their own throats.

"Let's hope our guess is right, the Soul King's bird!" Kirinj grinned menacingly. "Come, offer up our blood and bones, and our power will be equal to that of the Soul King!"

Guided by Kirinj, the three of them transformed into three balls of spiritual pressure and merged into the thin umbrella. The next moment, the umbrella seemed to become something indestructible. No matter how loudly the voice of the God's Trumpet rang out, it could not break through the thin layer of the umbrella.

According to Tsuna and Urahara's deduction, Lille Barro is a part of the Soul King, so no matter how powerful Lille Barro's abilities are, they cannot exceed the Soul King's power.

In other words, as long as Kirinj use the same power as the Soul King, they will be able to defend against Lille Barro's attack.

All members promoted to the Zero Squad will receive the baptism of the Soul King's Power, helping them to forge their bodies into the King's Key. Now, Kirinj and the other two are transforming their own blood and bones back into the Soul King's Power and integrating it into Senjumaru's umbrella as a means of defense for Gin Ichimaru.

In this golden world, a small blind spot appeared. No matter how hard Lille Barro exerted himself, his power could not break through the barrier of this small area of Soul King's Power.

Watching the three members of Kirinj disappear before his eyes, Gin Ichimaru had no time to show any emotion. His Shinsō had already been habitually hidden in his sleeve. The moment the light of the God's Trumpet dimmed slightly, a cyan blade, like a venomous snake, bit towards Lille Barro's head.

Lille Barro also noticed the flaw in the golden God's Trumpet. The moment its power weakened, he immediately covered his body with Blut Vene to defend against the unknown danger.

However, the divine Shinsō shot by Gin Ichimaru was not a simple slash; a blue fang hung from the tip of the blade. One of the fangs behind Gin Ichimaru had disappeared and was used for this attack.

The power of this fang is very simple and unadorned: it is the most extreme poison, surpassing even Gin Ichimaru after his Beyond Bankai. The Zanpakuto can exert dozens of times more lethal poison than before.

The cyan blade tip touched the Blut Vene on Lille Barro's forehead, piercing through it as easily as piercing a sheet of paper. In an instant, the blade exploded, the poison bursting forth, and Lille Barro's other two heads withered away rapidly as well.

The Fox Venom's Blooming Fang, the most extreme poison blooms, even the most refined Blut Vene can be instantly corroded by the poison. In a sense, this belongs to Gin Ichimaru, the poison that All-Piercing!