Shendu couldn't be bothered to keep arguing with Vovin. That guy was a master at hypnotizing himself.
The Most Ancient Godslayer: "Hmph."
Vovin felt the same way.
This battle had been another loss — but the gap between him and Shendu was narrowing. That was enough.
Demon Queen: "@Uchiha Dance King, your ocular technique space is something else."
Demon Queen: "This old lady couldn't analyze a single thing about it!"
Morgana and Uchiha Madara's battle had also concluded. The outcome was never in doubt, but the process had left Morgana genuinely astonished.
When Madara went all out, in Morgana's eyes he was already no weaker than a third-generation god-body.
And among third-generation god-bodies, he ranked near the top.
Especially those endless waves of ocular techniques — each one devastatingly powerful, and impossible to analyze on first contact.
Even Morgana couldn't do it.
Warriors like Morgana who relied on technology were most comfortable when they could lean on overwhelming computational power — every attack calculated precisely ahead of time. Fighting against this kind of mystery-system opponent was a nightmare.
Not only did she lack any information on their abilities, but her entire combat习惯 had to be thrown out.
Because whatever optimal attack angle or direction she'd calculated? The mystery-system fighter almost certainly wouldn't act that way.
They fought on instinct, experience, and habit.
Fortunately, both sides had powerful regeneration, so the battle stretched on long enough for Morgana to fully analyze Madara's techniques.
Whether she won or lost didn't matter much to Morgana — what mattered was the sheer麻烦 of having to keep fighting.
The truth was, Morgana had no desire to continue fighting these people.
Uchiha Dance King: "."
If he hadn't witnessed everything in the Virtual Battle Arena himself, Madara really might have believed Morgana hadn't figured it out.
But the reality was — after the battle had dragged on for a while, Morgana had completed her analysis of his ocular technique space.
It wasn't a true analytical breakthrough. But she found the weak points in the space itself, and that was enough to shatter it.
As for genjutsu?
Against a powerhouse of the technological system like Morgana, genjutsu was completely useless.
Ordinary Group Leader: "So Shendu and Vovin's fight is done, Madara and Morgana's fight is done, Whitebeard and Esdeath's fight isn't finished yet — did Aizen and Baixuan's fight not end either?"
Fifth Division Captain: "No. Our battle has concluded."
Fifth Division Captain: "Baixuan-kun… truly showed this frog-in-the-well what the might of the gods looks like."
This was Aizen's genuine sentiment.
" frog-in-the-well" was a term of modesty — but also the truth.
Aizen was proud. Both before joining the chat group and after.
Different world systems created different kinds of strong individuals, and they also determined the upper and lower limits of each world.
After joining the chat group, Aizen witnessed the might of the truly powerful.
But Aizen never doubted that he would, in the future, possess equal or even greater power than any of them.
If he'd been born in the same world, he wouldn't be inferior to anyone.
Even this battle with Baixuan hadn't shaken his conviction.
He had only realized, after witnessing Baixuan's power, that his heart had been restless.
The rapid pace of his strength gains had left him no time to temper himself.
He didn't consider himself someone capable of maintaining absolute rationality at all times — otherwise, why would he have hurled such questions at Kurosaki Ichigo when he encountered someone who completely surpassed him in the memory副本?
Even now, the same was true.
He needed a powerhouse so far beyond him that he couldn't even glimpse their back — someone to serve as a mirror for his own self-examination.
Angel Yan and Morgana, though powerful, walked different paths. Aizen wouldn't be shaken by the gap between himself and them.
As for everyone else?
Be it Shendu or Uchiha Madara, none of them could threaten Aizen.
And Luo Hao?
Her pursuit of martial arts, her accomplishments in the martial way — Aizen genuinely acknowledged he couldn't compare.
Luo Hao could certainly bring Aizen crushing pressure.
But that pressure was visible, finite — with just a bit of time, it could be caught up to, even surpassed.
For Aizen, that degree of pressure wasn't nearly enough to force a genuine reckoning with his own weakness.
Baixuan was the perfect choice.
And indeed, that's how it played out.
The battle in the Virtual Battle Arena against Baixuan let Aizen viscerally understand the power of gods.
A gap like the difference between dimensions!
Every technique of his was seen through in an instant.
Kyōka Suigetsu, the dream state, any and all手段 — none of it made the slightest difference.
The two of them might as well have existed in entirely different dimensions. Any technique from the lower dimension was powerless against those in the higher one.
Hell — he couldn't even sense Baixuan's presence.
Even though his eyes could see the man.
Child of Nature: "One day, the future you will reach this point as well."
Baixuan had never expected Aizen to possess a First-Sequence-level ability from his own world.
Whether it came from a lottery draw or an exchange, this ability was undoubtedly a perfect fit for Aizen.
Ordinary Group Leader: "The might of the gods…"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Can you describe roughly what that was like?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Because I have too many reference points in my mind — I can't even figure out which direction to imagine in."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Is it like Saitama's serious punch? Or Seiya's punch that transcends the gods? Or what?"
The scenes in Su Yunqing's mind that could qualify as "the might of the gods" were numerous.
Beyond anime, there were various novels as well.
So it was hard to form a clear picture.
Ninth Prince of Qin: "Speaking of Saitama — it seems the manga version of One-Punch Man had just received a remake when I transmigrated."
Ninth Prince of Qin: "The remade storyline got a lot of fans arguing."
Reading Su Yunqing's words, Ying Zi'nian suddenly remembered this.
Ordinary Group Leader: "Huh?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "What's there to argue about with One-Punch Man?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Is it because Saitama's too strong and has no opponents?"
Su Yunqing was bewildered.
Was One-Punch Man really contentious?
Complaining that Saitama was too strong and had no opponents — that every battle was a total curb-stomp?
But One-Punch Man was literally in the title. That's literally what it meant.
A hero was supposed to defeat villains with a single punch.
How was that grounds for argument?
Ninth Prince of Qin: "No — apparently it's because an opponent appeared who was Saitama's equal."
Ninth Prince of Qin: "Who even made Saitama bleed."
Ninth Prince of Qin: "Probably just a minor wound. But he was genuinely injured."
Ninth Prince of Qin: "And Saitama was genuinely impressed by the opponent's strength."
Ordinary Group Leader: "That's…"
Ordinary Group Leader: "I always thought Saitama's power was idealistic."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Like — his strength was tied to his own perception."
Ordinary Group Leader: "He believed a hero should defeat monsters with one punch, so he could do it. He believed humans can't fly, so even at that level of strength he couldn't fly."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Though they say he broke his limiter and his strength is constantly increasing — I always felt Saitama's power was fundamentally idealistic."
Ordinary Group Leader: "But hearing you say this, it doesn't seem all that idealistic after all?"
(End of Chapter)
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