In the deep night sky, five enormous black dragons flew forward as though they would annihilate everything in their path. Wherever they passed, space shattered one after another.
Even at a considerable distance from them, space rippled and fluctuated, struggling to remain stable.
Their target was clear: the Divine Tree that had stood between heaven and earth all along.
At that moment, from the far reaches of the lofty sky, a gigantic sphere of crimson and black light, like a moon, suddenly came crashing down!
"Boom—"
The incomparably massive sphere of light dropped straight from the sky and slammed into the black dragons charging toward the Divine Tree.
Aizen, standing in midair high above, narrowed his eyes slightly at the sight and murmured.
"Divine Tree... just how much power have you absorbed...?"
The instant his words fell, a radiance that completely lit up the heavens flooded the entire space with a thunderous burst, drowning every sight in overwhelming brilliance.
However, the sudden light lasted only a moment before swiftly fading away.
The five colossal black dragons hovered in the air, their heads raised high, supporting that crimson sphere of light, like a miniature moon, in the night sky.
Endless energy poured wildly outward from the sphere, its howling, violent force utterly terrifying!
Yet those rampaging torrents of immense energy failed to cause excessive damage to the surroundings. Everything was confined within this stretch of sky nearly a thousand zhang high.
The space around the black dragons' enormous bodies shattered and collapsed one after another. The moment the energy dispersed, it was absorbed into the fractured space, with none of it escaping.
But because of this, the black dragons were pinned in the air, unable to approach the Divine Tree's trunk by even a step.
If they left, no one could