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Chapter 124 A Fateful Encounter
Chapter 124 A Fateful Encounter
"Cero? At such close range?!" Startled, Shiba Isshin turned his head sharply.
A beam of purple light grazed his cheek and struck an apartment building in the distance.
With a deafening roar, the middle section of the entire building was instantly shattered.
While Shiba was focused on dodging the flank, a sharp blade silently pierced his abdomen.
"Sky Rift!!"
A slash that went diagonally upwards struck precisely the side of Xu Bai's blade.
With a piercing explosion, the bird soared through the air, forcefully using its ultimate swordsmanship to deflect Xu Bai's fatal blow by a few inches.
The sharp blade tore through Shiba Isshin's clothes, drawing out a string of blood beads, but ultimately did not seriously injure him.
"Thanks, Asuka! But you'd better run!"
Shiba Isshin roared and kicked Kyobai in the chest, using the recoil to create distance between them.
"This guy is really tough. Looks like I'll have to use my real skills."
He held the Zanpakuto horizontally with one hand, and lightly ran two fingers of his left hand along the blade.
At that moment, the originally chaotic rain seemed to be forcibly frozen by a scorching force.
"Burn, Yanyue!!"
As the words of liberation fell, a scorching spiritual pressure surged into the sky.
The originally cold rainwater was instantly vaporized, rising into a large cloud of white mist.
Shiba Isshin's Zanpakuto was enveloped in intense flames, burning fiercely.
This flame is not a false illusion, but is truly formed by the convergence of spiritual particles, generating an extremely high temperature capable of distorting space.
Feeling the heat, the bird retreated slightly.
These are the Zanpakuto of other people.
He stood at the edge of the white mist, feeling the heat wave that seemed to scorch his very soul.
Very competitive.
This is a heartfelt sentiment from a bird.
If the Demon Slayer Corps' swordsmanship is humanity's learning and imitation of nature's wrath in desperate situations, then the Shinigami's Shikai is the true mastery of nature's power.
Is this the power of Captain Death? He suddenly felt a surge of irritation.
That person must also be the captain, I wonder if he's as strong as Shiba Isshin in front of me.
Shiba Isshin snorted coldly and lunged forward.
Asuka could sense that he had also used some method of gathering spiritual pressure under his feet, instantly increasing his speed to a level that Asuka could hardly see, only that his technique was more refined than Asuka's.
A huge fan-shaped flame swept across the street, heading straight for the murderous humanoid phantom.
It tried to dodge using its unpredictable speed, but Shiba Isshin's combat experience was so rich that he had already blocked all of its opponent's escape routes with a swing of his sword.
boom!
Flames and shadows collided head-on.
The jet-black blade on the opponent's left arm even emitted a piercing cracking sound under the intense heat released by the moon.
The situation turned around at that moment.
Shiba Isshin's flames not only suppressed Hollow's speed, but also continuously dismantled its hard black shell.
"A monster like you couldn't possibly appear in the world undetected! Who concealed your whereabouts?!"
"roar-!!"
The monster had no intention of, or perhaps no ability to, respond to Yixin's questions, and roared as it continued to attack him.
"Not planning to talk? Whatever, whether you talk or not, I'm going to tell you today—"
—
Shiba Isshin's originally outward flames began to frantically gather towards the tip of the blade; once this strike landed, his opponent would surely die!
however.
Just as he was halfway through his sentence...
Behind Shiba Isshin, the space seemed to have developed an extremely slight, unnatural fold.
A very thin and faint ray of light flashed past in the folds.
*Pfft*
The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh seemed so insignificant amidst the cacophony of the rain.
But Shiba Isshin's body trembled violently.
The dazzling flames that had been gathered at the tip of the blade were extinguished instantly.
...Ugh!
A mouthful of blood gushed from Shiba Isshin's mouth, staining the lingering white mist in front of him, and he plummeted downwards!
boom--!!
He fell to the top of a building, instantly raising a cloud of dust, and struggled to get up.
A deep cut, revealing bone, appeared on his back.
The cut slanted across his right shoulder, precisely severing the most important spiritual node within Death's body.
"Damn it, who is it?!" Shiba Isshin staggered forward a couple of steps, glancing nervously around. "That's a Zanpakuto attack! Show yourself!!"
Asuka reacted instinctively the instant Isshin was attacked: "Gale Force - Tengu Wind!!"
He turned abruptly, his Zanpakuto, still not unleashed, slashing a ruthless arc towards the empty space where Shiba Isshin had just stood.
The wind blade sliced through the rain, but it didn't hit anything except the cold air and water droplets.
Asuka immediately unleashed her unstable spiritual pressure, searching for any suspicious traces.
Utility poles, rooftops, puddles, white fog...
There was nothing there.
The rain continued to pour down, and the streets were deathly silent.
Besides Asuka, there's Isshin Shiba, and the humanoid Hollow that exudes an even more terrifying aura.
There was no one else on this street in Karakura Town.
It's a ghost story.
He leaped to Shiba Isshin's side and asked anxiously, "How are you?!"
"This is not good... The wound is deep, and my spiritual pressure is starting to become unstable."
Shiba Isshin made no attempt to hide his presence; sweat mingled with rain as he solemnly sensed the energy within his body: "In this state, I can't use Bankai... This is troublesome."
As a seasoned captain of the Death God team, he knew very well what this meant.
The person who made the move was incredibly fast and ruthless, even managing to shield him from spiritual pressure perception...
Its strength has probably reached a terrifying level.
"Gah—!"
The humanoid phantom let out an excited shriek and pounced.
Although it was also injured, the weakened Shiba Isshin excited him more than that.
"Rising into the dust storm!"
Asuka gritted her teeth and took a step to block Shiba Isshin's path.
The wind and rain in the atmosphere began to surge under the flow of his sword-shaped movements, and a hurricane was actually whipped up by the flow of spiritual particles!
Boom—Clang clang clang!
Sparks flew everywhere.
The humanoid Void's twin swords were incredibly fierce, not only shattering the wind vortex but also continuously striking the bird's rusty sword, which looked like it was about to break at any moment!
The bird's arm instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
That was because the difference in spiritual pressure was too great. Just the collision caused the blood vessels in his arm to burst, and half of his body became completely numb.
For him, this kind of battle was like dancing on the edge of a knife.
If he is even slightly careless, he will be dismembered.
"Damn it, don't underestimate me!"
As the team captain, Shiba Isshin was somewhat embarrassed that he was saved by a member of another team who wasn't even a captain.
He suddenly wiped his wounds, put a mouthful of blood in his mouth, and spat it onto the blade of the Blade of the Moon.
"Asuka, get out of the way!!"
Just as the black blade was pressed against the bird's shoulder in that critical moment, a large area of blazing flames ignited again, forcefully repelling its suppression!
Not only that, he followed up with a side slash, striking the monster's body with even greater force!
The burning flames drew a blazing red line in the rain, severing the jet-black left arm at the shoulder!
"Gahhhhh!!" Xu Baifa let out a painful scream.
After losing its limbs, it became increasingly frenzied, using its last remaining black blade to block Isshin's knife, its entire body radiating a destructive purple light.
"Oh no! He's about to unleash a Cero! Get out of the way!"
call out-!!
Zhibo felt that too many twists and turns had occurred tonight, and his straightforward information processing system was simply not up to the task.
An arrow of spiritual energy, radiating a dazzling blue light, pierced through the dark rain.
It carried a sacred and pure aura, precisely striking the bone horn of the monster just as it was about to unleash a Cero.
boom!!
A massive explosion rocked behind the two men.
The Cero, which was originally deadly, was severely deflected by the interference of the blue light, grazing Shiba Isshin's shoulder and slamming into the building behind him.
"Who is it?"
Asuka and Isshin were both stunned.
They turned their heads to look in the direction from which the arrows had come.
In the middle of the rain-soaked streets of Karakura Town, a figure suddenly appeared.
It was a young girl.
She was wearing a school uniform, her short orange hair was completely wet, and her bright eyes were fixed on the monster in front of her.
In her hand, she held a giant bow made of blue spiritual particles, radiating an astonishing aura.
"Are the two people there still able to move?"
Her voice was steady, and she sounded quite young.
But that calm and collected demeanor in the face of danger gave the bird a strange sense of security.
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