Hundreds of millions of pink cherry blossoms were forming a joint attack towards the middle at the same time, was a shocking scene to say at the least.
Even if it were just simple petals, this scene was enough to shock people, not to mention that these cherry blossoms only looked like ordinary cherry blossoms on the outside, but they were actually tiny blades.
A single blade could take the life of an ordinary person. But here, an overwhelming number of blades were moving at the same time, towards the same target, no matter how strong Mazuru was, the thin crimson light shield that lingered around his body could possibly not resist this terrifying attack.
Sojiro and Maki who were watching the battle couldn't help but think to themselves.
Was Byakuya really planning to bring Mazuru back to Soul Society instead of taking the life of his own teacher?
Bankai was released almost from the beginning, and just after releasing Bankai, such a powerful move was launched.
"Even with such a move, if you want to threaten him, it's still a little inadequate."
Unohana was very clear about how strong Mazuru's Bankai is.
It seemed that there was no solution to his current predicament, but there was no need to think of anything else, as long as Mazuru was willing to use his Bankai, Byakuya's offensive would be deemed useless, even if more terrifying attacks were released by Byakuya, as long as Mazuru's Bankai's flaws were not found, they couldn't break through Mazuru's immortal body granted by his Bankai, and no matter how fierce their offensive, it would all be futile.
Unohana and Mazuru now, did not even know how many times they had fought, they had too many battles to count. And as such, she knew the reality and extent of Mazuru's strength very well.
However, looking at it, Mazuru doesn't seem to have the intention of releasing his Bankai at the moment.
The ocean of cherry blossoms, which were piled up one after another, burst open suddenly, and a crimson light burst out from within it.
Sojiro and Unohana immediately felt acute danger after seeing the sight.
Sojiro immediately released his Zanpakuto, "Sit upon the Frozen Heavens, Hyōrinmaru!"
A cold air suddenly emerged from his body, and at the same time a pair of wings made of condensed ice crystals appeared behind Sojiro, using the boost of power he got by releasing his shikai, he quickly retreated towards the edge of the palace, and heavy frost condensed in front of him, turning into ice walls.
Unohana also moved at the same time, she arrived in front of Yachiru, Maki, and Zaraki in a flash and calm words came out of her mouth.
"Bakudō #81 — Dankū!"
A huge defensive wall immediately appeared in front of her, protecting her and everyone behind her.
Following Unohana and Sojiro's immediate response, the sea of pink cherry blossoms surrounding Mazuru's body split apart and a dazzling light poured out in all directions, seemingly tearing the sea of cherry blossoms apart abruptly.
Afterwards, the pink cherry blossoms, scattered by the crimson sword light, rushed towards Mazuru's surroundings like ocean waves again.
*Boom*
*Boom*
*Boom*
*Boom*
*Boom*
Wherever it passed, everything in the hall was destroyed, and the pillars that originally stood in the hall also collapsed, and subsequently the whole hall started to crumble down.
After hitting the dome of the main hall, a hole was forcibly torn open on the top of the main hall, allowing the sunlight from the outside sky to fall into the slightly gloomy main hall.
However, the falling sunlight did not make the main hall brighter, because as far as the eye could see, there were billows of dust and smoke.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew and the smoke was blown away.
Sojiro, who was behind a broken ice wall, and Unohana, who was behind the defensive wall of Dankū, noticed the movement and stared at the same place at the same time.
They saw Byakuya's body surrounded by pink cherry blossoms. They flew out with every wave of his arms. At his command, the cherry blossoms condensed into an array and rushed forward. Before it could get close to its target, another crimson sword light struck, and broke up the attack.
"Your Senbonzakura is indeed a good Zanpakuto, but the flaws are obvious."
"Your blades that look like cherry blossoms have lethality and number, but after all, they are all scattered individuals. Even if they condense into a ball, as long as my attack is a little bit stronger, they will collapse, and it will be difficult to cause any damage to me before they could be re-condensed."
Even at this moment, Mazuru was still in the mood to comment on Byakuya's Zanpakuto and teach him about its shortcomings, he didn't seem to care that Byakuya had repeatedly attacked him just now.
Looking at it in another way, his hidden meaning was that he did not regard Byakuya as an opponent at all.
Byakuya also realized this, and was a little angry.
"Are you really that arrogant?"
He waved his hands, and the pink cherry blossoms instantly condensed together. With the flashes of light, they condensed into a huge blade, suspended in the sky.
"Senkei (Slaughterscape) - Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!"
Another technique of Senbonzakura's Bankai was performed by Byakuya.
The true form of Senbonzakura. This unites the scattered petals into complete glowing swords, numbering in the thousands, which form four rows. These rows float just above each other, and circles around Byakuya and his opponent in a continuously moving, column-like array. It abandons defense in favor of a concentrated offense. Though visually menacing, this form is not meant for attack from all sides, rather, it concentrates his Bankai into fewer blades, thus increasing his attack power. While Byakuya can mentally control these swords, he commonly calls them to his hands for actual melee combat but this time Byakuya went for controlling them mentally to attack Mazuru. He knew Mazuru's prowess in zanjutsu all too well to challenge him after abandoning his defense.
Under Byakuya's control, the blades flew towards Mazuru, attacking him in a staggering manner.
'Since you said that the blade made of condensed cherry blossoms are too fragile, what about real blades?'
'How would you deal with it?'
Mazuru's way of coping it was simple.
Although these huge blades were harder than the previously clustered cherry blossoms, their speed was too slow.
Not only Mazuru's slashing skills were extraordinary and refined, even his Shunpo had reached the peak.
With a flash of his figure, he directly came in front of Byakuya in an instant.
Even if Byakuya manipulated the blades around him in time to grab one of them to defend against the coming attack.
But Mazuru's attack was too fast and ruthless.
Byakuya's skin was cut open immediately under Mazuru's attack, and then the crimson blade left a hideous wound on Byakuya's body.
Blood spurted out, dyeing the white captain haori red. Byakuya gritted his teeth and used Shunpo to put some distance, but again, Mazuru's speed was too fast. Even though Byakuya was equally good at Shunpo just like his other skills, Mazuru was always able to follow him closely.
Byakuya could only wave his hand, trying his best to control the pink cherry blossoms, trying to block Mazuru's path and affect his speed.
At the same time, he emitted a huge amount of reiatsu from his body. Facing Mazuru, he finally displayed Senbonzakura's Bankai's final attack, which was called "Shūkei: Hakuteiken (Endscape: White Imperial Sword)!"
His Zanpakuto emerged in his hand, and then all the cherry blossoms and the reiatsu in his body rushed towards the Zanpakuto in his hand at the same time.
Mazuru just got close to Byakuya, when a pair of white wings suddenly appeared behind Byakuya, between the wings spread out, a savage gust of wind was brought, and Mazuru's body was forcibly shifted away.
Then, he swung the Zanpakuto in his hand.
With one blow, everything in its path was destroyed.
The ground, the palace, and the walls were all torn apart by this attack, and then the light of the sword even reached the the artificial sky of Las Noches and hit it. A crack had already appeared earlier under Szayelaporro's Gran Rey Cero, and now, it was finally completely destroyed.
*Crack*
*Crack*
Like glass shattering, countless fragments collapsed and then disappeared.
The blue sky and white clouds of Las Noches disappeared completely, replaced by the scorching sun that shines on the entire Hueco Mundo.
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