The End of the Illusion Showdown

The newly emerged Aizen doesn't have Zanpakuto, nor does he intend to use Zanpakuto. Even without Zanpakuto, he can still stand at the pinnacle of Soul Society.

"Bakudo Thirty-Nine: Bakudō #39: Enkōsen." A circular protective shield appeared in front of Aizen.

Human Path Tsuna, imbued with black fighting spirit and unstoppable momentum, brandished his staff, which was covered in sharp earth mist, and thrust it towards Aizen.

As expected, Tsuna easily pierced the Bakudō #39: Enkōsen, and Aizen, behind the defense, was skewered like a barbecue skewer by the spikes extending from the Mist Staff.

However, Aizen did not collapse. He raised his palm and chanted to Tsuna, "Hadō 63: Thunder Roar Cannon."

A massive bolt of lightning was unleashed at close range. In this spiritual world, Aizen used himself as bait and perfectly struck Tsuna, number five. Tsuna was forced to defend and was pushed back hundreds of meters by a powerful bolt of lightning.

As for Aizen, after unleashing his Kido, countless Kyoka Suigetsu covered his wounds, and in no time, not a trace of injury could be seen.

Tsuna immediately mobilized the power of the other four paths. The Hell Realm once again transformed the world, and the Lava Hell appeared, from which countless Chains demons awoke. The Animal Path summoned all kinds of poisonous creatures, with venomous snakes being the most numerous.

In an instant, the Heavenly Path controlled all the demons and poisonous mist, their eyes turning bloodshot. Finally, the Kido manipulated the powers of those it possessed, and countless enemies surged towards Aizen.

"This is truly spectacular," Aizen remarked casually. The scene of enemies on all sides only elicited a slight sigh from him; his emotions remained completely unmoved.

The two Aizen stood back to back, ripples spreading across their backs. They merged together. This Aizen was not the original; his spiritual pressure was limited. The next move would force Aizen to withdraw all of his spiritual pressure.

"Bakudo Seventy-Three: Tōzanshō"

Sensing something was wrong, Tsuna quickly retreated. The next moment, a huge inverted triangular cone filled the entire space, accommodating the other five Tsuna along with the demons and poisonous creatures.

No wonder Aizen had to withdraw all his spiritual pressure. This Kido that filled the entire space was already the limit of his spiritual pressure. If Tsuna had been even a little slower, he would have been sealed inside the Tōzanshō by Aizen.

However, this didn't solve the problem. Tsuna's attack was also sealed inside, and Aizen was also trapped within the Tōzanshō. What was the purpose of using this Kido to forcibly change the location at this point?

Inside the Tōzanshō, Aizen, wielding the Kyoka Suigetsu, Water Moon, swiftly exchanged blows with Tsuna of the Asura Path and Human Path. His body had been bitten by numerous poisonous creatures, yet his expression remained smiling; the situation was still under his control.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Sawada Tsunayoshi. I look forward to seeing you and your true form." Aizen's voice came from the Tōzanshō. He could tell that only the one marked with the number six was Tsuna's true form.

Just as Tsuna was about to reply, he heard Aizen's voice continuously emanating from inside the Tōzanshō.

"A faint, murky emblem, an untamed and arrogant talent; a surge, a denial, a paralysis, a fleeting moment, hindering eternal slumber. The crawling iron princess, the self-mutilating clay doll, uniting, rebounding, extending to the ground, knowing its own powerlessness."

This is the incantation of Kido. With such a distinctive incantation, Tsuna immediately recognized it as the incantation of the Kurohitsugi. No wonder Aizen used the Tōzanshō Tōzanshō; he was preparing to wipe out everything trapped inside, including himself!

This was exactly Aizen's idea. Because the connection between his main body and spiritual pressure was severed, and with Tsuna's drain on his energy, his spiritual pressure wouldn't last long either. Rather than dying miserably in Tsuna's onslaught, he might as well give himself a grand funeral.

The Kurohitsugi is the coffin that Aizen chose for himself.

Inside the Tōzanshō, apart from his hands and face, Aizen was nowhere to be seen intact. Compared to the madness of the monsters Tsuna had conjured, Aizen's confident smile remained unchanged. He also put the hand holding his Zanpakuto into the mouth of a demon, channeling all his spiritual pressure into the sword fingers of his other hand.

A deep black light bloomed at his fingertips, Aizen smiled as he faced his demise with this spiritual pressure, "Hadō 90: Kurohitsugi."

Black swathes rose and spread around the Tōzanshō, and soon a huge black cuboid covered the Tōzanshō as well. Countless strange crosses were also inserted on the top of the cuboid. This was the Kurohitsugi, solemn and dignified.

The Kurohitsugi Kurohitsugi will attack everything inside; the moment it falls is the moment of death for its opponent.

A series of piercing sounds came from inside the Kurohitsugi. Tsuna could feel his Illusion creations disappearing one after another. When the sounds from the Kurohitsugi stopped, Tsuna could no longer sense any trace of his Illusion creations.

The Kurohitsugi slowly opened from top to bottom, revealing that it was completely empty. In a real battle, it would likely have been a scene of utter devastation.

Aizen is truly ruthless. Even with just a small amount of spiritual pressure, he didn't lose any ground to Tsuna. Knowing he was no match, he even tried to take Tsuna down with him. Luckily, Tsuna didn't fall for his trick, otherwise he would have had a lot of headaches.

Aizen's spiritual pressure disappeared, and the world returned to its chaotic state. Tsuna waved his hand to withdraw the Illusion he had released, and it was back to the icy world, except that the icy lake beside it had disappeared.

Beside Tsuna was still the upright ice cross. Toshiro Hitsugaya was still unconscious. Everything before was just a battle of Illusion between Tsuna and Aizen, and it had not truly affected Toshiro's mental world.

Looking at Toshiro's sleeping state, Tsuna couldn't help but marvel at the domineering nature of Kyoka Suigetsu. Even though Aizen's spiritual pressure had disappeared, Toshiro still hadn't regained consciousness. This meant that the effects of seeing Kyoka Suigetsu Suigetsu's Shikai were still present in Toshiro, and if Aizen wanted, Toshiro could be hypnotized by Aizen again.

But that's not Tsuna needs to worry about; right now, all he needs to do is wake up Toshiro.

The staff of mist lightly struck the ground, and a ball of indigo flames blazed beneath the cross—the mist-attribute spiritual pressure that Tsuna had infused into Toshiro's spiritual world.

Under the scorching heat of the indigo flames, the ice cross melted rapidly. Freed from the restraints of the ice cross, Toshiro fell to the ground. He groggily woke up, and his consciousness gradually took control of his body.

Upon discovering that Toshiro had regained consciousness, Tsuna transformed into a wisp of mist and vanished into the snow and ice.

In Soul Society, Tsuna retracted the Mist Staff that was stuck in Toshiro's chest, Daiguren Hyōrinmaru and dissipated, Toshiro fell helplessly to the ground.

"These little guys are such a handful."

With a whoosh, Yoruichi appeared in front of Tsuna, just in time to grab Toshiro's haori, preventing him from being injured a second time. In her Yoruichi Toshiro holding a bandage-like thing, which was her Four Great Noble Clans's sacred artifact. At the other end of this artifact was Rangiku Matsumoto, who was looking furious.

When Tsuna entered Toshiro's mental world, Yoruichi and Ukitake went to the Central 46 to rescue Rangiku. As for the Central 46, Ukitake and the others did not plan to go in for the time being because Rangiku was not in good physical condition.

"Sawada... Tsuna?" Toshiro had just regained consciousness and saw Tsuna's unforgettable figure. He knew Tsuna had saved him. "Thank you..."

Exhausted, Toshiro thanked them and then fell into a deep sleep again. Kyōraku placed Hyōrinmaru back behind Toshiro and said to Tsuna, "Sawada- kun, thank you for your help, Vice-Captain Matsumoto as well."

"No problem."

Saving one or two makes little difference to Tsuna, except that Matsumoto's dangling lightning bolt is a bit of a nuisance. After a moment's hesitation, Tsuna goes behind Rangiku and, as usual, stabs her in the back of the heart with his Rangiku.

This time, Tsuna didn't waste any more time chatting with Aizen. He immediately launched a group attack, completely obliterating the spiritual pressure Aizen had left inside Rangiku.

Because Rangiku's strength was not as great as Toshiro's, and Aizen's spiritual pressure within her was also not as strong, Tsuna finished in just a few seconds, Rangiku slowly woke up.

"Captain Kyōraku? Captain Ukitake? And Lady Yoruichi? Captain!" Rangiku greeted them and then noticed that everyone was injured, but her captain was the most seriously injured.

"Don't shout so loudly, he's just passed out," Tsuna said, sheathing his Zanpakuto.

"It was you? Sawada Tsunayoshi? Did you injure the captains?" Rangiku asked warily.

"Stop messing around, this has nothing to do with me. You were the ones who injured Ukitake," Tsuna said, speechless.

Rangiku then noticed that both Ukitake and Kyōraku's injuries showed signs of being frozen, clearly caused by her captain's Hyōrinmaru.

Rangiku is quite intelligent when she uses her brain. She remembered losing consciousness after entering the Central 46 with Toshiro, and considering Kyōraku and the others' injuries, she quickly figured out the situation. "The captain and I were controlled?"

"That's right, do you remember what happened in Central 46?" Ukitake asked eagerly.

"Sorry, Captain Ukitake, I don't remember anything!" Rangiku said with an embarrassed smile.

"Don't even think about it, Ukitake. Since that person entrusted them with the task of keeping them in the Central 46, there's no way they could have left them with any flawed memories," Yoruichi said irritably.

"Sawada-sensei, I have a question for you." Tsuna had never seen Kyōraku with such a serious expression before. "You can dispel Captain Hitsugaya and Vice-Captain Matsumoto's illusions, but can you also deal with the Central 46...?"

"No, I refuse." Tsuna said immediately, "I know what you want to say, that I should go and cause trouble for that person, I refuse."

"But..."

Just as Ukitake was about to persuade Tsuna, Yoruichi interrupted him, "You two shouldn't even think about it. If this incident didn't involve Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kurosaki, that brat wouldn't have come to Soul Society."

"But this concerns the stability of Soul Society..."

"It doesn't affect the World of the Living, does it? That guy hasn't affected my life, so I have no reason to lay a hand on him." Tsuna shrugged and said, "Being your henchman for nothing doesn't do me any good, does it?"

"We can pay the reward..." Ukitake said urgently. With the biggest mastermind in Soul Society right in front of him, Ukitake was extremely unwilling to fail to find his true identity.

"The reward? I reckon only Yoruichi's family could afford to pay for his services," Tsuna said with a smile.

"I'm warning you, brat, don't even think about my Four Great Noble Clans. I'll pass the family headship to Yūshirō someday," Yoruichi said, feigning anger.

"Alright, alright, I'm not kidding anymore. This guy has plenty of enemies. I promised them I'd make them take revenge themselves. Wouldn't it be redundant for me to intervene before that happens?" Tsuna said.

"You mean the other people who came in with you?"

Kyōraku had investigated and found that at least a dozen Ryoka had entered Soul Society, but only Tsuna and his group appeared before them. Where were the rest?

"Don't look at me like that. I'll say it again: we have no ill intentions towards the Soul Society. We only knocked down the Bleach who tried to stop us; we didn't take their lives."

After hearing Tsuna's words, Kyōraku nodded. So far, apart from Aizen, they had not heard any news of anyone's death.