"Third Turn, Swallow Current!"
Inside the Breaking Dawn Formation, Shiba Kaien once again spun the trident in his hand. In an instant, a spiraling water pillar rose, carrying a powerful spiritual pressure that directly dispersed the Breaking Dawn Formation.
"Why?"
Shiba Kaien, who had broken through the formation, looked at the Quincy wearing rimless glasses before him with a puzzled expression.
The opponent clearly had an opportunity to severely injure him with the strange formation earlier, but they only trapped him and did not actively unleash the formation's destructive power.
"I don't want to cause innocent slaughter..."
Ishida Soken said expressionlessly as he looked at Shiba Kaien.
"Foolish! You harvested the lives of ordinary humans before, killed so many Gotei 13, and now you show mercy to your enemy? Are you schizophrenic?"
"Bakudo No. 30: Shitotsu Sansen!"
Shiba Kaien directly swung his hand, and three yellow light cones appeared, directly pinning Ishida Soken's body.
Then, he closed the distance with a Shunpo and thrust his trident towards Ishida Soken's face.
"The reason I harvested souls was out of necessity to save my companions. Not killing you is because I don't want to cause more slaughter. There's no contradiction!"
Ishida Soken absorbed the scattered spirit particles released by the Breaking Dawn Formation with his spirit particle absorption, using it to break free from Shiba Kaien's Bakudo, and then directly leaped high into the air.
"Rain of Light!"
Ishida Soken, using Hirenkyaku, leaped high into the sky and fired countless light arrows vertically from above to the ground. Their speed was extremely fast, like a storm sweeping across the land.
Shiba Kaien, on the other hand, gripped his trident with both hands and spun it rapidly. A water curtain-like circular shield appeared on the trident, blocking all the spirit particle arrows!
"The naturally evil Quincy are simply incomprehensible!"
Clearly, Shiba Kaien was shocked by Ishida Soken's worldview.
Upon hearing this, Ishida Soken merely curled the corner of his mouth, with a hint of sarcasm:
"Shinigami who commit genocide against my clan shouldn't speak so righteously. We are all executioners, who is nobler than whom?"
"You..."
Shiba Kaien was left speechless by Ishida Soken's retort. He simply stopped talking nonsense and directly used his Wave-Riding technique to enhance his Shunpo, closing in for a direct confrontation.
Ishida Soken could only use his spirit bow as a substitute for a sword to fight Shiba Kaien. Because Shiba Kaien's trident thrusts were too fast, Ishida Soken was pierced through the shoulder with a trident before he could convert his Move Blood Garment into Blut Vene.
"Ah!"
Ishida Soken endured the severe pain and, with one hand, shot a Holy Arrow at Shiba Kaien's face, forcing him to retreat.
"You're very strong. You must be a Squad Captain in the Soul Society!"
Ishida Soken slowly said, glancing at his still bleeding shoulder.
"Captain? I'm not yet. I'm just the Vice-Captain of the Thirteenth Division!"
"However, in the near future, I will definitely become a Squad Captain!"
As the successor of the Shiba Family, one of the Five Great Noble Clans, and a genius who appears once in a century among the nobles, Shiba Kaien was confident that he would become a Squad Captain in the near future. This was his pride as a genius and a descendant of a great noble family!
"So, you're still just a Vice-Captain? I didn't expect a Vice-Captain to be this strong. I originally thought I already had the strength to challenge a Captain! The truth is truly distressing!"
Shiba Kaien snorted in response, raising his left hand:
"Hado No. 31: Shakkahō!"
A crimson fireball carrying high temperatures shot out from his palm, blasting towards Ishida Soken.
Ishida Soken, using Hirenkyaku, stepped on the void and narrowly dodged the blast. This fireball, however, hit the elevated bridge behind him squarely, directly blowing up the asphalt and concrete bridge deck and raising thick smoke.
"Forget it, I'm not playing with you anymore! Gojo Bakujū!"
Ishida Soken threw out a silver tube, and his spiritual power transformed into a capsule with a five-pointed star mark, enveloping Shiba Kaien.
Ishida Soken then used Hirenkyaku and left the area.
A few minutes later, a surge of water broke through the capsule, but Ishida Soken's figure was long gone from the scene.
"Damn it!"
...
On the other side, Kurosaki Tomohiko had just walked out of the Star Brilliance Fortress's barrier, preparing to support Ishida Soken, when he saw Ishida Soken clutching his left shoulder and heading towards the Star Brilliance Fortress.
Seeing this, Kurosaki Tomohiko quickly went forward to help him.
"Soken, are you alright!"
"I'm fine, just a superficial wound. How are Little Hiro and Kurosaki Nan?"
Ishida Soken didn't care about his own injuries but was very concerned about the condition of Kurosaki Hiro and Kurosaki Nan.
"They're all better! They're all better! Little Hiro and Kurosaki Nan are both fine!"
When mentioning this, Kurosaki Tomohiko excitedly grabbed Ishida Soken's arm, speaking with excitement.
For a moment, he even forgot that Ishida Soken still had an injury on his shoulder.
"Hiss~"
It wasn't until Ishida Soken cried out in pain that he realized his impropriety and quickly released his arm.
"Uncle Tomohiko, let's go home. This operation has already attracted the attention of the Soul Society. I suggest sealing the Star Brilliance Fortress for several years!"
Just moments after Ishida Soken and Kurosaki Tomohiko returned to the Star Brilliance Fortress, the void rippled like a lake. Two figures in white robes emerged from it.
One was a disheveled young man with wavy brown hair, and the other was a small boy holding a steel trident. They were Starrk and Jiwa Barnes.
The two of them were naturally there to escort Yekawa's new clone.
"Ha~, it seems Lord Yekawa's plan succeeded. Let's go back."
Starrk said lazily, stretching.
"Yes, Lord Starrk!"
Barnes, with a flick of the steel trident in his hand, opened the Hueco Mundo, and the two directly stepped inside.
At the same time, Yekawa, on the underground palace throne, also opened his eyes, a smile playing on his lips.
"The bloodline of the pure-blood Quincy is mine!"
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