The stalemate battle was decided in an instant, and Aizen's head was cut off cleanly, which made the Shinigami far away on the edge of the city overjoyed.
However, the next scene made their relaxed nerves tense again.
Aizen lifted up the head which was only connected by skin and flesh and pressed it back to its original position, restoring the muscles and bones. Aizen put his fingers together and wiped away the remaining blood stains on the neck.
“It seems to have disappointed a lot of people!”
Aizen glanced at the positions of the Shinigami, smiled contemptuously, and turned to look at Duke: "The Collapsing Jade can protect my body from death. When my ability reaches its limit or my life is threatened, the Collapsing Jade can make me evolve endlessly to the next dimension. Vice Captain Duke, no matter how many times you hurt me, it will become the driving force for my evolution... Isn't this feeling of powerlessness very desperate?"
After saying that, Aizen shook his arm holding the sword, and his Zanpakuto instantly turned into a flash of lightning, without any breath, and pierced Duke's heart in a moment of stillness.
Aizen drew out Kyoka Suigetsu in confusion. Duke could have easily dodged the attack just now, but he just stood there and let him attack.
"This is impossible!"
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"Let's start the next round quickly. The road of evolution is like sailing against the current. We can't afford to delay even a little bit."
"It's useless! No matter how many times you try, you can't kill me. But I can slowly become stronger with the help of the Hogyoku until I completely surpass you." As he spoke, Aizen suddenly drew out the Kagami Suigetsu and slashed it on Duke's shoulder, penetrating an inch deep.
Duke's mumbling came into his ears. Seeing his confident eyes, Aizen's heart skipped a beat: "You, are you saying..."
In his mind, the memories of the years that had lurked around Aizen flashed through his mind. Aizen's conspiracy, the solution to the mirror flower and water moon, his own sins... In the end, everything turned into a face that haunted his dreams.
It was a calm conversation. Neither side was frustrated by not being able to kill the other. Their eyes were filled with irrepressible joy as they stared at each other in mid-air. The previous fierce battle did not cause them much exhaustion, so after only three to five seconds of confrontation, the blades collided again.
While secretly angry, he couldn't help but wonder, Duke kept making him evolve, was he really not afraid of being surpassed by him? If he was so confident, where did his confidence come from? Could it be... that he had reached the end?
Upon hearing this, Aizen's pupils suddenly shrank, and a cold murderous aura filled the air. Only sharp screams remained in the air, and Jinghua Shuiyue chopped down fiercely.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the sight, Duke, who was in an extremely still state, suddenly moved, and the New Moon cut through countless destructive lights at a speed beyond Aizen's perception.
"If an attack of this level can't kill him, then isn't my Bankai meaningless? What have I been doing all these years..." A trace of horror flashed in Ichimaru Gin's eyes, and he fell into deep self-denial. Aizen's strength refreshed his inner awe. The plan that he had originally been sure of now seemed childish and ridiculous.
"Yes, this power seems to be just one step away from the next..."
Duke grinned upon hearing this: "Captain Aizen, can I understand your words as you putting yourself in the shoes of a weak person? Because only the weak will challenge the strong!"
However, no matter how upset they felt, the people watching the fight did not move at all. They held their breath and tried their best to find the figures of the two people fighting.
“As it should be!”
Opposite the Shinigami, at another edge of Karakura Town, Ichimaru Gin's expression kept changing. Duke cut off Aizen's head with one sword, but the other party just shook his neck and was back to normal.
The fatal wound healed rapidly. Duke tilted his head and looked at Aizen, with a deep disdain in his eyes: "Why are you desperate? Can't you kill me either?"
Ding! The swift momentum of the knife stopped, and the moon that had been erected at some point blocked the mirror flower and water moon. Drops of blood fell to the ground along the handle of the knife, and the palm of Aizen's hand holding the knife cracked.
"Of course I know that, so I keep cutting you, just to make you evolve faster." Facing Aizen's attack, Duke completely gave up on defense and let the blade chop at his body. He then turned around and a few blood flowers bloomed on Aizen's fatal parts.
Clang!!! The blade touched and then left. Duke clamped Kyoka Shuiyue with his five fingers and waved the Moon with his other hand. The blade passed through an unpredictable trajectory. The antelope horn chopped down from a weird angle, splitting a deep wound on Aizen's chest that could be seen to the bone.
Duke put the knife on his abdomen, and the still blade seemed to infect the space, and everything around him became quiet. The sound was quiet, and the air stopped flowing. Aizen was horrified to find that he couldn't even lift his arms, as if he had entered a certain realm and his body was no longer under his control.
At the end of his words, Aizen almost roared. The Hogyoku on his chest pulsed again, and a stronger force surged out of Aizen's body, and the wound on his palm disappeared instantly.
However, he himself did not realize that in the depths of his ecstatic heart, a crack appeared in his belief in superiority, and in an instant, he doubted himself. Aizen developed a fear of Duke, not a fear of strength, but a fear of who would reach the top first on the road of evolution.
Aizen smiled brightly: "Sorry, I got excited and confused you with those mediocre guys."
This flaw was buried by the ecstasy that followed. Perhaps Aizen himself did not notice it, but the seeds buried deep had already taken root, just waiting for the moonlight to shine. By then, the thousand-mile dam will collapse in an instant, and the branches that broke through the ground will grow into giant trees.
"Rangiku!"
The spiritual pressure of the two transcended dimensions, and those who were not strong enough at the same level could not sense it at all. But the atmosphere among the crowd watching from afar became even more depressing. Even though they were not oppressed by the spiritual pressure at the moment, the earth-shaking momentum was like a mountain pressing on their hearts. They could not swallow or spit out the pent-up energy, and they felt extremely uncomfortable.
"No, I still have a chance! As long as I take the Hogyoku, Aizen will definitely die. Rangiku's soul can also..." His eyes turned to the interlaced shadows in the air, and Ichimaru Gin curled the corners of his mouth, his smile as cunning as ever.
Aizen gritted his teeth and spoke word by word, his calm expression turning ferocious: "I have already conquered the Hogyoku and left you far behind on the road of evolution. How could you be stronger than me? I am the one who is in a higher dimension!"
No, this is impossible! I have conquered the Hogyoku. No one is stronger than me. Only I can stand in the sky! Only I can truly surpass! Aizen's spiritual pressure surged again. Kageka Shuiyue chopped down. Duke raised his sword to block, but his arm trembled slightly, and his smooth movement stagnated. This pause was captured by Aizen, and a strong ecstasy surged in his heart. Kageka Shuiyue turned into a blurred shadow, and chopped down with a knife, slashing Duke hard.
The disordered breath calmed down, and the wavering faith was re-firmed. In Ichimaru Gin's light blue pupils, a shocking murderous aura flashed. Then, the slender eyes closed, and the cold venomous snake put on a hypocritical face again.
He seemed to realize that Duke had provoked some ripples in his state of mind. As a person destined to surpass everything, he needed to calm down now.
"That's it, I am the strongest." Feeling the power in his body increase again, Aizen's face slowly calmed down.
Boom! Duke walked out of the deep pit, dusted himself off, and said with a calm expression, "I've gotten stronger, but it's not enough!"
Swish! A wound appeared between Duke's chest and abdomen. Aizen stood behind him, his eyes full of the condescending gaze of a transcendent person: "Vice Captain Duke, I have surpassed you. As I said, you have become a thing of the past."
"Hahaha... It's this kind of power that makes me the strongest!!" After breaking through the pressure given by Duke and gaining the absolute upper hand in the battle for the first time, Aizen couldn't help but roar to the sky, his excited heart eager to vent.
The next second, Aizen came to his senses. It was not that time had stopped, but that his super senses were too slow to keep up with Duke's movements.
Aizen frowned. He had noticed this when the battle rhythm was escalating, but after hearing it with his own ears, he couldn't help but feel a little angry. This kind of mercy, like alms, deeply hurt his self-esteem. He had always been the only one who played the role of training, and had never been trained by others.
Chop, stab, cut, pick, and slice... the blade cut through the space, leaving behind twisted black lines. Countless afterimages appeared in the air, as if countless knives were slashing down from all directions at the same time.
Although he shouldn't have been able to see it, the traces of the slash were clearly imprinted in Aizen's eyes. He wanted to move but couldn't dodge.
In an instant, countless slashes fell.
boom--------
(End of this chapter)