Victory

Boom-crack!

Like towering mountains colliding with one another, a tremendous roar resounded across the battlefield!

A massive blazing-blue inverted triangular crystal floated in midair. Aizen stood inside it with a faint smile on his face, while the pitch-black rock mountains on both sides pressed against it with all their strength!

Crack! Crack!...

Like enormous ships carving through icebergs, chunks of rock continually broke away from the black stone mountains on either side.

Yet even so, the enormous floating Tōzanshō remained completely motionless!

Just then—

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...

While Aizen and Ōnoki were locked in a struggle of strength, several tiny black figures suddenly leaped into the sky, each of them erupting with intense chakra!

High in the sky, with only the stars and moon of the night as company, they might have seemed insignificant compared to nature itself, yet each displayed an imposing aura of their own.

As the night wind blew, the hems of the ninjas' clothes fluttered, while dense chakra wrapped around them.

Aizen glanced at them from the corner of his eye and said with a soft chuckle.

"So, they're Mist Ninja and Sand Ninja. Even you dare to overestimate yourselves and appear here?"

The ones who had appeared in the sky were Yagura of the Mist Ninja and Rasa of the Sand Ninja.

Yagura stood atop a huge bubble of water, while Rasa stood upon a floating mass of gold dust. Neither man's expression changed at Aizen's words; they merely stared at him with grave eyes!

Beside them, Ōnoki snorted coldly and said to Aizen in a deep voice.

"Aizen, you're not the one who gets to rule the Ninja World with one hand!"

After saying that, Ōnoki released the hand seals for the Earth Style: Mountain Earth Technique. His hands swiftly formed another set of