A pitch-black slash, stripped back to pure simplicity yet seemingly capable of cleaving the entire Soul King Palace in two, shot from the purple-black Totsuka Blade!
It collided thunderously with the blue chakra katana!
RUMBLE-!!!!
Ye Chuan intended to counter each move with his supreme swordsmanship, honed through countless trials!
He would neutralize every ninjutsu Madara Uchiha could throw at him!
"Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"
A wooden Buddha with thousands of arms rose from the ground, even larger than the blue Susanoo!
Its sheer might was enough to make the entire Soul King Palace tremble violently!
And yet-
Faced with this senjutsu powerful enough to raze the entire Seireitei...
Ye Chuan merely gave a disdainful sneer.
SHING-!!
A terrifying pitch-black slash shot forth!
There were no flashy techniques.
Nor any additional energy enhancing it.
Only a pure "cut"!
RUMBLE-!!!
Under Tsukimori Kageya's astonished gaze!
The thousands of enormous arms of True Several Thousand Hands, powerful enough to subdue every tailed beast, were all severed by Ye Chuan's seemingly ordinary "single stroke"!
"Damn it... damn it... DAMN IT-!!!!"
His Susanoo, integrated with [Sage Mode], had been suppressed through pure swordsmanship alone.
Tsukimori Kageya could not understand it.
Nor could he imagine it.
Why was this fellow countryman's power so unreasonably overwhelming?!
"My [Madara Uchiha] inheritance is already an 'S-Class' inheritance, the highest grade the system can assign!"
"Why are your two measly 'A-Rank' inheritances, [Shisui Uchiha] and [Hawkeye], stronger than mine?!"
He refused to accept it!
A chess player who had plotted for a hundred years would never allow himself to lose to some untrained bumpkin who had appeared out of nowhere!
He would use his true hidden trump card!
Tsukimori Kageya slowly drew from his robes the [Hōgyoku] he had forcibly stolen from Sōsuke Aizen!!!
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