"How can it be?"

"Ennetsu Jigoku."

"Only one of his captain's haori was burned!"

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni looked at Aiyan, who was wearing the death tyrant costume, and his burned face became extremely ferocious.

What is this? One second, he had righteously declared, "I would rather die to seek greater evil," and for this, he personally sacrificed 2,000 Shinigami. The next second, the so-called Gotei Captain's spirit and the lives of 2,000 Shinigami were actually only worth one of Aiyan's captain haori.

Especially when he thought about how the Captain of the Fifth Division, he had personally handed that haori to Aiyan, his face became even uglier.

"It's hard to accept, isn't it? I can understand your mood."

"But unfortunately, what you see with your eyes is the truth."

"Your Ryūjin Jakka has no effect on me."

Aiyan's words made Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, who was already both frightened and furious, completely erupt.

"Taimatsu!"

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni roared angrily, clenched Ryūjin Jakka tightly with his right hand, and drew his sword.

Boom!

With a loud noise like a volcanic eruption, a huge tornado of flames spurted out from the blade, like a terrifying fire dragon with teeth and claws.

Seeing this, Aiyan calmly opened the complete Susanoo.

"Susanoo?"

"You just relied on its protection, coupled with the special layer of Reiatsu on your body for defense, to survive the Ennetsu Jigoku!"

"It's a pity that the same Kidō is useless no matter how many times you use it. My Ryūjin Jakka can destroy your Susanoo once, twice, three times, or even countless times."

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni looked at Susanoo, who was rising from the ground like a warrior god, with no concern on his face. After all, he had already destroyed Aiyan's Susanoo once before.

"Yeah?"

"Then before you get too proud of your own Ryūjin Jakka, I will let you see the power that even the strongest heat-type Zanpakutō cannot reach."

"Armed Susanoo."

After hearing this, Aiyan, standing between Susanoo's eyebrows, was not angry. Instead, he opened his hands, and the Armament Reiatsu within his body surged outward unreservedly, like a mighty torrent.

In an instant, Susanoo was completely covered by the rolling waves of Armament Reiatsu.

At the last second, it shone as golden as the blazing sun.

The next second, from head to toe, from armor to wings, everything was hardened into black by Armament Reiatsu.

If before he showed the appearance of a god of war, now he revealed the attitude of a god of destruction in Soul Society.

Clang!

Facing the surging flame tornado, under Aiyan's will, Susanoo unhurriedly pulled out the armed Reiatsu sword. From his palm, Conqueror's Reiatsu surged ferociously like a black dragon, wrapping around the hill-sized blade.

Immediately.

Swinging the sword with both hands, he cleaved downward like splitting Mountain.

The long sword, entwined with Armament Reiatsu and Conqueror's Reiatsu, had not yet touched the explosive tornado. Even with five meters between them, the black and red lightning net spread out across the sky, instantly covering the entire tornado and shattering it into countless fragments of flame.

"What!"

Seeing the Taimatsu released by Ryūjin Jakka, which he had been so proud of, being split apart by Aiyan's Susanoo and scattering into curling flames across the sky and earth, Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni was so shocked that his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Amaterasu Bijūdama!"

The corners of Aiyan's lips lifted in satisfaction at Yamamoto's reaction, but his offensive did not stop.

After splitting the explosive tornado with a single stroke, Susanoo opened its mouth, and blue and purple Reiatsu particles burst out, spinning and twisting into a sphere, condensing into a Bijūdama.

Immediately afterward, Amaterasu Black Flames, Armament Reiatsu, and Conqueror's Reiatsu were injected into the Bijūdama.

Black flames surged.

Flowing light.

Black thunder entangled.

A Bijūdama with an unbelievably high concentration of souls and Reiatsu took shape in an instant, then bombarded Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.

"Jōkaku Enjō!"

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni's pupils shrank, and he dared not neglect them. Using Shunpo to retreat, he swung his sword to release a massive amount of explosive fire, shaping it into a mountain-sized palm of flames. He pressed it down from all directions, trying to engulf the Amaterasu Bijūdama, Aiyan, and Susanoo together.

However,

When the Bijūdama touched the mountain-like palm of flames, the sky twisted, dragging the flames into it.

A terrifying surge of Reiatsu erupted, twisting the blazing explosions—comparable to the surface of the sun—into countless Reishi particles.

At the same time, the Overlord Amaterasu Bijūdama continued to expand. In an instant, it became a meteorite with a diameter of several kilometers, wrapped in black lightning, its surface burning with searing black flames. It split the earth, distorted the sky, and incinerated everything in its path.

Boom!

With a deafening explosion, waves of dust billowed into the sky, surrounding the Bijūdama, rising until they finally formed a massive mushroom cloud entrenched in the heavens.

Whoosh!

At that moment, a figure fell from the sky like a kite with a broken string and crashed into the ground.

It was Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni.

When he struck the ground, his already burned body, covered with blackened bloodstains, once again burst into a mist of blood, like a squashed tomato.

Now.

Facing Aiyan, who was driving the Susanoo, even the strongest Shinigami in a thousand years could only kneel on one knee, using the proud Ryūjin Jakka as a crutch to hold himself up, preventing himself from collapsing entirely to the ground in shame.

"Didn't you say you wanted to destroy Susanoo?"

"Genryūsai."

"I'm waiting for you!"

Aiyan stepped forward in the Susanoo,shaking the earth with every step.

"Aiyan!"

Hearing this, Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, furious, swung his sword and released another wave of explosive heat. But before it could reach Aiyan, Susanoo raised its palm, wrapped in Conqueror's Reiatsu, and slapped it aside.

"Are you exhausted?"

"Still, is this the true level of your Ryūjin Jakka?"

"You can't even release your Zanpakutō to its fullest."

Aiyan saw the strongest Shinigami in a millennium launch such a meaningless attack, and his voice carried a hint of mocking pity. It seemed that in his heart, the Gotei captain before him should not have been so clumsy.

"Are you disappointed?"

"What an arrogant brat."

"Don't be too self-righteous. To talk to me in this tone, you are a thousand years too early."

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni stabbed his blade into the ground.

With a sound like cracking earth, hundreds of pillars of explosive flames shot into the sky.

"Is it the Ennetsu Jigoku again?"

"No."

Aiyan's eyes glimmered, and countless visions of the future flashed across them like a lantern slide. He seemed to have glimpsed something marvelous, and the disappointment in his gaze slowly disappeared.

"Let me show you."

"Ryūjin Jakka's true form."

Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni raised his Zanpakutō. The hundreds of fire pillars did not converge and explode as before. Instead, they soared into the heavens like flying dragons, transforming into an endless sea of explosive flames, vast enough to engulf most of Seireitei.

The next moment, the blazing sea of flames churned violently, setting off monstrous waves of fire. It seemed as though something colossal was stirring within it, causing a fiery tsunami.

Tssk—

Suddenly, the sound of tearing silk spread across hundreds of kilometers. The surging sea of fire that had been descending upon Seireitei split apart with the sound, torn open by a pair of wings that blotted out the sky.

At the same time, hidden behind the inferno, a colossal figure resembling a flaming phoenix revealed itself to the world.

Compared to it, the 100-meter-tall Susanoo, towering like a mountain, appeared utterly small.

Like a baby before an adult.