Near Soul Society, Ninth Division, on Wuming Mountain.
"It should be around here!"
Holding his hand on the thick tree trunk, Shadow was panting a little breathlessly, looking around with eyes with a little bit of strange red light in the dark like sharp knives.
"Whoosh!"
There was a faint sound breaking through the air, and Shadow's ears twitched, but before he had time to react, his enlarged foot had already landed on his chest, and the strong force caused him to fly backwards involuntarily.
However, Shadow is after all a veteran of many battles. He stopped his body in an instant. While landing safely, his figure moved slightly, and in the next second he appeared more than ten meters away, looking solemnly at the place where he was standing before.
However, there was nothing in that place except trees with lush branches and leaves. However, even so, Shadow did not dare to be careless at all. The premonition that originated from the instinct of the beast between life and death had saved his life countless times.
"You escaped!" A low, strange voice sounded faintly above the woods; "What a keen intuition, but that's all!"
There was no trace or fluctuation at all, and it was impossible to tell where the voice came from. He was a master. Shadow took out Zanpakutō from his waist with his backhand and said in a cold voice, "Stop pretending to be a ghost. If you have the guts, just come out. What kind of sneak attack is this?"
"Oh!" The low voice spoke again in a weird voice; "Sneak attack, when will you say such a thing? For us, as long as we can kill the enemy, that's all, right! As for the method used, it doesn't matter!"
"We..." Shadow frowned and said coldly, "Who are you? Don't pretend to know me better!"
"Who am I! Haha..." He smiled low and somewhat arrogantly; "Do you still know who I am? It seems that I can't chat with you anymore. I finally used that knife to lure you here. It would be embarrassing if we didn't achieve our goal, wouldn't it!"
"You said... use that knife... to lure me here!" His pupils shrank instantly, and Shadow gritted his teeth and said, "What do you mean, you put White Fang's Blade here, hey! Speak..."
"This question!" said the low voice; "I'll ask you later! I said you can't continue chatting, so I'm going to do it, be careful!"
"What!" Biting her lip, Zanpakutō raised it, Shadow was on guard with all its concentration, but...
"Bang!"
A sudden huge force suddenly struck from behind and hit the left shoulder. Cold sweat broke out in an instant. Shadow reacted quickly and swung the knife out, but as expected, there was nothing but air.
"Damn it!"
Feeling the constant loss of blood from the injured shoulder, Shadow's eyes couldn't help but turn a little red.
"Then, next blow!"
"Bang!"
"Watch the left!"
"Bang!"
"······"
"Bang!"
The speed is so fast, faster than Lady Yoruichi. No, that's not right. There are no traces of appearance or disappearance. It's even unclear how it was attacked. I'm afraid it's not just speed anymore.
Is it the power of space? However, my mental power did not capture a certain Reiatsu fluctuation at all.
Why... is this happening!
He has obviously escaped, could it be...
But what is used as a medium for movement? The only things here are...
He had been hit countless times, and the tights on his body were already in tatters. There were wounds everywhere on his shoulders, chest, arms, and thighs. Shadow gasped for air in a panic, his angular face was covered with cold sweat, and the hand holding the knife was trembling slightly, but there was still a trace of reason in his eyes.
"You haven't fallen down yet!" the low voice said in surprise; "It's really a tenacious vitality. Then, with the last blow, just... go to hell!"
"Stop joking, I don't want to die, no one can kill me yet!"
With a wild smile on his lips, Shadow's figure instantly disappeared into the woods.
"It's been discovered!"
Whispering, under a thick tree, the corner of the man's mouth raised a cold and bloodthirsty arc.
"Then, let's really start..."
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"That's right, I'm not moving with pure speed, but using the Shade of the trees to move in space. Therefore, no matter how I defend, it will be of no avail, because in the woods, the most indispensable thing is shadows. I'm right!"
"You can control Shade's ability so perfectly!" Standing in the open space outside the woods, Shadow sneered; "You think you know me so well, you... you must be my Zanpakutō!"
"Oh! You finally found out, my master, it's really not easy!"
With a slightly sarcastic tone, the man walked out step by step from the shadow of the woods, with a ruthless face like a knife, two wolf ears looming in the messy black hair, and the sharp wolf teeth exposed at the corners of his mouth glowed with a cold light. The black tights were worn diagonally on the body, revealing the strong bronze muscles on the right half, and the black Zanpakutō was tied on the back.
"You guy..."
"Master doesn't know my name yet!" The man's mouth raised a cold arc, and he whispered arrogantly; "Then, please introduce yourself, my name is...Eroding Wolf!"
"Eroding Wolf!"
Shadow was suddenly startled, and then lowered his head slightly, with a hint of imperceptible complexity in his eyes.
"Why, are you disappointed!" Eroding Wolf sneered; "In other words, isn't this what you have been thinking about!"
"Stop being so wordy!" Shadow clenched the Zanpakutō in his hand and said loudly, "You should tell me now! It was you who used White Fang to lure me here, or this knife..."
"What answer do you want?" Eroding Wolf laughed crazily; "I didn't do this!"
"What do you mean!"
"You will understand!" Shadow did not answer, Eroding Wolf smiled coldly, with a fierce light in his dark eyes.
"······" Shadow gritted his teeth.
"Then, let's continue fighting!"
Licking the corners of his dry and cracked mouth, Eroding Wolf stood motionless and stretched out his palms. Everything Shade around him was gathering and growing rapidly like a black torrent, whether it was trees, rocks or buildings.
"Open your eyes and watch! This is my power as Zanpakutō!"
Eroding Wolf sneered, and the outstretched palms were bent into claws, and while making a grabbing motion towards Shadow, the gathered black Shade formed a huge palm around it, and the palms bent into claws were fiercely grabbed at Shadow.
"Do you think this is enough?"
He raised the knife in his hand and slashed Shadow down hard. The surrounding wind drove countless Reishi to gather at the blade edge, and a huge sword light shot out.
The palm formed by the sword light and Shade met in an instant. There was no fierce collision sound or roar. The sword light immediately cut the palm from the middle, and moved towards Eroding Wolf with unabated force.
"What!" Shadow raised the corner of his mouth in disdain.
"Don't be so proud, I should be the one who said that before, right?" Eroding Wolf sneered without any trace of panic.
"What!"
"Do you think this is enough?"
The outstretched palm suddenly clenched, and the Shade that was cut from it closed again in an instant, tightly entwining the sword light inside, and in the next second, it disappeared without a trace.
"Is that all there is to it!" Eroding Wolf smiled coldly and looked at Shadow with ridicule.
"Damn it!"
Body Flicker Technique activated instantly, and a figure suddenly appeared in the sky behind Eroding Wolf. Shadow raised Zanpakutō high and struck down hard.
"Swordsmanship Secret·Heaven Slash!"
The huge sword light, which was more solid than before, was swung down fiercely, and there was a loud "Boom!" and the smoke and dust spread all over the sky.
"Do you want me to say it again!" Before Shadow could breathe a sigh of relief, Eroding Wolf's voice immediately sounded in the smoke; "Your current level of attack is useless against me!"
The smoke and dust dissipated, and Eroding Wolf, wrapped in layers of black shadows, was seen floating in place unscathed above the ten-meter-deep pit.
"What!"
"Did you know!" Eroding Wolf waved his hand, and the heavy Shade spread around the body, and said coldly; "Shade is the softest and hardest thing in the world, because they are invisible, but they can be transformed into any shape, just like this..."
The palm of his hand was raised, and the black Shade formed a blade in an instant, and with the swing of Eroding Wolf's palm, it struck hard.
"Boom boom!!!"
"You... have become weak!"