" Lieutenant Soi Fon's speed is truly astonishing~" Gin Ichimaru's breathing was already a little erratic. Although he considered himself a genius, and he truly was, no matter how high his talent, it couldn't bridge the gap in physical skills between him and Shaoling Fon, which was decades or even centuries apart. Being able to keep up with Shaoling Fon's speed for a short time already demonstrated his extraordinary talent. If he hadn't undergone systematic training, and could not only keep up with Shaoling Fon's speed but also suppress Shaoling Fon, then Gin Ichimaru wouldn't be a genius, but a monster!
"What do you think I've gained from training day after day?" Shaoling Fon said dismissively. Wasn't it natural that she outpaced Gin Ichimaru in speed?!
"Is that so? Shoot him... Shinsō!" Gin Ichimaru smiled slightly and pointed the gun in his hand at Shaoling Fon.
"Null!"
In an instant, the air was sliced open by the knife in Gin Ichimaru's hand, and a silver-white line pierced towards Shaoling Fon's heart.
"Ding~"
Shaoling Fon seemed to have come prepared; she used her golden poison needles to try and withstand Gin Ichimaru's attack.
"Null!!"
As Gin Ichimaru's ever-growing sword clashed with the stinger in Shaoling Fon's hand, sparks flew everywhere. The next second, Shaoling Fon was thrown away by a tremendous force.
They didn't stop until they had retreated several hundred meters...
"My hand is numb~" Shaoling Fon moved her arm. "As expected of Shinsō, this power is truly extraordinary."
"I see... You wanted to experience the power of my Shinsō, so you willingly accepted this attack?" Gin Ichimaru pondered after hearing Shaoling Fon's words. In his opinion, although his divine Shinsō was unexpected, Shaoling Fon could definitely have dodged it.
"I wonder if Lieutenant Soi Fon is satisfied with my Shinsō?" After figuring it out, Gin Ichimaru still had a faint, cunning smile on his face as he asked Shaoling Fon what it was like to take his Shinsō.
"Very interesting..." Shaoling Fon nodded. "I think this power is perfect for back massages. I wonder if you'd be interested in opening a massage parlor and using your Shinsō to give massages to everyone? I think it would be very popular."
"Hahahaha..." Gin Ichimaru just laughed at Shaoling Fon's taunts. "Thank you for your recognition, Lieutenant Soi Fon. But before that, I hope Lieutenant Soi Fon can try out this back-tapping knife of mine and see if it can break your back..."
"We can try..." Before Gin Ichimaru could finish speaking, Shaoling Fon, who had been a hundred meters away, vanished instantly. By the time Gin Ichimaru reacted, Shaoling Fon Gin Ichimaru's poisoned needle was only five centimeters away from his throat...
"Whoosh!" Gin Ichimaru opened his eyes wide, tilted his head back, and as a few drops of sweat fell, the knife in his hand instantly extended, separating his throat from the poisoned stinger in Shaoling Fon's hand.
"Your reaction speed is incredibly fast..."
Having failed in her attack, Shaoling Fon instantly increased the distance between herself and Gin Ichimaru.
"Heh..." Gin Ichimaru swallowed hard, cold sweat pouring down his forehead. He admitted that he had underestimated Shaoling Fon. He had always been misled by Shaoling Fon's Death in Two Steps. It was true that Shaoling Fon 'Zanpakuto ability was to kill instantly by attacking the same spot twice, but it was never said that Shaoling Fon could only rely on this ability to kill enemies. Shaoling Fon could directly pierce the enemy's throat with that poisonous stinger, which was more than ten centimeters long, and then use taijutsu to twist the enemy's neck, thus achieving a one-hit kill.
"What's wrong? You seem less composed than before?" Shaoling Fon smiled slightly at the prepared Gin Ichimaru. "So you finally see the difference in strength between us?! If you want to catch up with me, you'd better train diligently for another forty or fifty years! You great genius!"
"Sigh..." Gin Ichimaru sighed helplessly, "I didn't want things to get this bad, but it seems there's no other way now."
" Bankai: Kamishini no Yari!" Gin Ichimaru exclaimed, completing his Bankai!
Suddenly, a bright silver light flashed before the eyes of all the spectators staring at the arena!
In a mere instant, the blade in Gin Ichimaru's hand shot straight to the end of the arena...
"Hmm!?" Shaoling Fon's pupils contracted slightly as she looked at the sharp blade pointing straight to the end of the arena.
" Lieutenant Soi Fon..." Gin Ichimaru smiled slightly, "If you try to block my Kamishini no Yari... you'll be pushed straight off the stage, you know~"
"The attack range of my Kamishini no Yari... is twenty kilometers!" Gin Ichimaru began to spout nonsense with a straight face, "That means my Zanpakuto is the longest Zanpakuto in Soul Society. With me as the center, a radius of twenty kilometers is entirely within my attack range. From the moment I Bankai my Bankai, this arena ceased to be an arena, and instead became a Captain Soi Fon..."
"Twenty kilometers?!" Shaoling Fon frowned upon hearing Gin Ichimaru's words. It was the first time she'd ever heard of Zanpakuto that long existed in the world. Twenty kilometers... well, that really meant running anywhere would be pointless...
"Wait... there's no point in running anywhere..." Shaoling Fon suddenly seemed to realize something.
"Oh no..." Ichigo Kurosaki frowned once again from below the arena.
"What's wrong?" Uryū Ishida asked, looking at Ichigo Kurosaki's furrowed brows. "Did you discover something, Kurosaki...?"
"That Gin Ichimaru's Zanpakuto, its true strength isn't its range..." Ichigo Kurosaki shook his head after hearing Uryū Ishida's question, "Its true power lies in its speed!"
"Speed?!" Uryū Ishida was taken aback. "What speed?"
"Attack speed!" Ichigo Kurosaki's face showed some anxiety. "Haven't you noticed? That guy's sword, in just one second, went from zero meters all the way to the end of the arena!"
"This..." Uryū Ishida's expression suddenly changed. "I see... Attack range is actually used to confuse the enemy; the real danger is attack speed."
"Assuming his Zanpakuto's maximum speed is 20 kilometers per second..." Uryū Ishida began calculating rapidly, "Using the current temperature in Hueco Mundo as a baseline of zero degrees Celsius, the speed of sound in air is approximately 331 meters per second. That guy's Zanpakuto... has already broken the sixty-times-fastest-sound barrier? What kind of monster Zanpakuto is that?!"
"That's not important..." Ichigo Kurosaki shook his head. "What's important is whether Miss Shaoling Fon can realize this. If Miss Shaoling Fon can't realize that Gin Ichimaru's Zanpakuto focuses on speed rather than length, this battle is very uncertain..."
"Damn it..." Uryū Ishida scratched his head and started looking for ways to get help from outside the game.
"Hey! What are you two panicking about?!" Just as Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryū Ishida were in a panic, Lilynette walked over with displeasure, glared at the two of them, and asked.
"Oh no, Miss Lilynette!" Ichigo Kurosaki warned, "That Gin Ichimaru is cheating! His Zanpakuto..."
Ichigo Kurosaki shared the information he had gathered with Lilynette.
"That's it..." Lilynette scratched her ear after hearing this, "Are you done?"
"Uh..." Ichigo Kurosaki looked at Lilynette, who remained completely calm, and was momentarily speechless, unsure of what to say.
"Don't worry!" Lilynette crossed her arms over her chest. "Although that idiot Shaoling Fon indeed a bit slow-witted, she can still see things that everyone else can."
"Everyone can see that?!" Ichigo Kurosaki's eye twitched slightly.
"Of course we're here..." Lilynette nodded. "Who do you think everyone here is? Every single one of us here... is an elite member of the Second Division!"
"Elite?!" Ichigo Kurosaki swallowed hard.
Meanwhile, on the arena...
"The dangerous thing about your Zanpakuto isn't its length, is it?" Shaoling Fon calmly corrected, "It's that inhuman attack speed, right?! You kept emphasizing how long your Zanpakuto was, and that it was the longest Zanpakuto in Soul Society, but that was just to cover up the fact that your sword could extend from your hand to the end of the arena in a mere instant—that's inhuman speed Zanpakuto, isn't it?!"
"Ah~" Gin Ichimaru laughed after hearing Shaoling Fon's words, "As expected of the experienced Lieutenant Soi Fon, you saw through my Zanpakuto in an instant. That's right, the true strength of my Zanpakuto isn't its length, but its speed... My Kamishini no Yari isn't the longest Zanpakuto in Soul Society; its true form is... the fastest Zanpakuto in Soul Society!"
"Listen..." Gin Ichimaru Zanpakuto under his arm and clapped his hands vigorously, "Clap~"
"What's wrong?!" Shaoling Fon looked at Gin Ichimaru, who was clapping, with confusion. "Is your sword related to sound?"
"Of course..." Gin Ichimaru nodded, "My Zanpakuto is five hundred times faster than the sound you just heard!"
"This is the true form of my Zanpakuto, the Kamishini no Yari." Gin Ichimaru opened his eyes, a crimson light flashing between them. "It possesses an attack speed that even a god cannot evade."
"Hmph~" In the stands, when Sōsuke Aizen heard Gin Ichimaru claim that his Zanpakuto possessed a speed that even a god couldn't dodge, he laughed, " Gin Ichimaru... you really are risking your life~"
" Lieutenant Soi Fon..." Gin Ichimaru licked his lips lightly, "I can't guarantee you'll leave the Captain Soi Fon alive, so how about we just admit defeat?!"
" Bankai: Ultimate: Suzumebachi Duke of Thunder!" Shaoling Fon smiled slightly, answering Gin Ichimaru with her actions.
"Null!!"
A surge of Spiritual Pressure erupted from Shaoling Fon's body, its terrifying power even causing Gin Ichimaru was directly facing it, to feel a chill.
Just as Gin Ichimaru was feeling apprehensive, a robot that was 24 meters tall with 16 pairs of golden wings on its back and exuded a powerful sense of oppression appeared on the arena.
"My god... Won't Bandai complain about this?" Ichigo Kurosaki, a longtime manga fan, stared at the robot in front of him, whose art style was completely out of place with theirs, and his eyes twitched slightly.
"What is this? This is..." Gin Ichimaru had never seen such a strange thing before. "Is this Bankai? Lieutenant Soi Fon? Where are you?"
"I'm here..." Just as Gin Ichimaru was wondering, the golden ornament on the robot's head suddenly shone, and the next second, it projected Shaoling Fon's image onto the screen. Yes, it wasn't just a simple ornament; it was a 3D projector!!!
" Ultimate Bombardment Mode..." Shaoling Fon said, pressing a red button with a skull printed on it on the control panel. The next second, the robot's back suddenly opened, revealing cannon ports!
One, two, three... a total of thirty-two golden nuclear bombs... yes, a total of thirty-two golden Suzumebachi Raikōben were displayed there.
" Ultimate Bombardment Mode! This will launch all thirty-two Hōjaku Raikōben from inside the Hōjaku Raikōgō at once!" Shaoling Fon explained her Bankai. "At the cost of not being able to Bankai for a month, I'll blast the enemy to smithereens."
"Is this even playable?" Gin Ichimaru's eye twitched slightly. He admitted he had been hiding his Bankai. His true Bankai ability was that the blade would turn to ash the instant it extended or retracted, releasing a potent poison capable of dissolving cells inside. When the blade was thrust out and then retracted, a portion of it would turn to ash and remain inside the opponent's body. Then, the poison absorbed by the enemy would be used to completely kill them... But when the enemy had put a turtle shell around his head, what was the point of playing this game...?
" Gin Ichimaru! Blame it on your choice of opponent. With my Bankai, no matter what kind of enemy you encounter, it's meaningless. They will all be reduced to ashes by the Hōjaku Raikōben." After years of working alongside Shaoling Fon, Aya Sōgo Shihoin finally understood a principle: true assassination means razing the enemy's entire crew, their families, and even the city itself to the ground. That is true assassination!
"Is that a whip? That's clearly a nuclear bomb!" Gin Ichimaru protested. This Bankai didn't match the release statement at all; it was fraud!
"Enough talk! Prepare to die!" Shaoling Fon sneered, her finger pointing towards the red button.
"Wait..." Just as Shaoling Fon was about to press the button, Sōsuke Aizen suddenly called for a pause.
" Lieutenant Soi Fon, won't the power of your Hōjaku Raikōben threaten the surrounding area?!" Sōsuke Aizen scrutinized Shaoling Fon's Shaoling Fon Bankai, and in a short moment, he had already estimated its Bankai. "I mean, won't it pull in the spectators around us too?!"
"..." Shaoling Fon didn't reply to Sōsuke Aizen's words. She looked at Lilynette, who was standing in Sōgo Shihoin's team, and then a cold smile appeared on her face. "Hmph~"
"Wait, wait..." Lilynette shuddered, "Your Bankai looks like you're about to fire a cannon at me!!"
"How could that be?" Shaoling Fon smiled slightly. "Our relationship is so good, how could I take advantage of this to get rid of you?"
Shaoling Fon spoke, the giant robot adjusted its direction and aimed at Lilynette.
"Stop talking nonsense..." Lilynette pointed at the cannon muzzle that was adjusting its direction, "You're aiming at me, you bastard! If you've got the guts, come out and fight me one-on-one! What kind of skill is it to use this kind of once-a-month ultimate move?!"
"While my ultimate move is still available, of course I'm going to use it to take down the person I hate the most." Shaoling Fon's eyes were lifeless. "Right?! Lilynette..."
" Sōgo! Shaoling Fon has gone mad!" Lilynette panicked; she was now regretting abandoning High-Speed Regeneration...
" Sōgo, we had an agreement before," Sōsuke Aizen up, "You're not allowed to use this kind of power that even you can't control."
"Hmm..." After hearing Aizen's words, Shaoling Fon stroked his chin. Indeed, the formidable and unstoppable power that Shaoling Fon possessed at this moment was not, strictly speaking, the result of her hundred years of training. Shaoling Fon's Sōgo Shihoin was a Bankai created by Sōgo Shihoin, the entire Squad Zero, and Szayelaporro. They not only increased the power of each Hōjaku Raikōben, but also increased the number of them, allowing Shaoling Fon to instantly obtain the strongest firepower in Soul Society. At the moment the Hōjaku Raikōgō unleashed its full power, Shaoling Fon's firepower even Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai! Although it was only for a brief moment, its power was indeed enough to sink Japan...
However, as Sōsuke Aizen said, this power was not actually under Shaoling Fon's control; it was a power that they, the people involved, imposed upon Shaoling Fon...
"Then let's call this a draw." Sōgo Shihoin. " Little Fon, you should put away your Bankai! That thing is too powerful; when it explodes, it doesn't distinguish between friend and foe..."
"Tsk~" Shaoling Fon clicked her tongue helplessly after hearing Sōgo Shihoin's words.
" Lilynette, you're really lucky~" Shaoling Fon retracted her Bankai and stood on the stage, speaking to Lilynette below. "You won't have such a lucky chance next time, and I will definitely kill you."
"Big sister, you've got the wrong enemy, haven't you?" Lilynette's eyelids twitched. "Is my enemy? Is my enemy really me? Isn't your enemy that silver-haired brat? So the only person you've ever wanted to kill is me, right? You did aim your Bankai at me just now, didn't you? You wanted to nuke me, right?"
"Hehe..." Shaoling Fon, stung by Lilynette's hurtful question, turned her head away. "How could that be? How could I possibly want to kill you? I just thought... perhaps lying in a dark coffin would be more suitable for your graceful figure~ Otherwise, it would be a waste of your voluptuous body..."
"You..." Lilynette wanted to say something harsh, but when she thought of Shaoling Fon, whose monthly ultimate attack she hadn't even used yet, she held back. Lilynette didn't want to be sleeping in her own bedroom, only to wake up to find herself playing mahjong in Hell...
Souls of the third rank or higher cannot naturally dissipate into Reishi and enter the cycle of reincarnation. After death, they are sent to Hell by the world's mechanisms. As for monsters like Lilynette who have reached the end of the void, death is a luxury. Even Hell cannot imprison her. Even if Reishi spiritual body is blasted apart and sent to Hell by the world's mechanisms, when she reassembles her body in Hell, she can still break the chains. Once she finds a chance to escape from Hell, she will still be a good woman...
Five thousand~
(End of this chapter)