Yamabuki and Chika Shihōin arrived at the Shihōin family's training ground. Yamabuki was as familiar with this place as if he were home; he had lived in the Shihōin family's residence before he had a place of his own.
The two took their stances in the training ground, ready for a good fight.
They had known each other for so long but had never formally sparred.
"Watch out!" Chika Shihōin rose on his toes and charged forward, his fists like cannonballs, striking rapidly.
Yamabuki didn't draw his sword, facing Chika Shihōin's attack with his bare hands.
He was no longer the same as before. With the increase in his spiritual pressure, his speed, strength, and reaction time had also greatly increased. Moreover, he had previously learned boxing from the Old Man, so he could easily handle these ordinary warm-up attacks.
"You came all this way to find me just to show off this much? Who are you looking down on? If you don't get serious, I'm leaving!" Yamabuki said.
"Young people are impatient. If that's the case, then I won't be polite!" Chika Shihōin's attack speed instantly increased. In that instant, Chika Shihōin gave off a completely different feeling. If his previous blows were within the tolerable range of ordinary punches and kicks, now, his attacks were as sharp as blades. Every punch and kick carried immense power, and coupled with his swift movements, even Yamabuki felt a hint of pressure.
After all, he hadn't delved too deeply into fist techniques.
Yamabuki raised his arms and continuously blocked, like a shield, remaining as unmoving as a mountain no matter how the opponent attacked.
"As expected of the Second Division Captain, you really do have some skill!" Yamabuki said with a smile. But now, such strength no longer posed a threat to him. Yamabuki calmly observed Chika Shihōin's movements, searching for flaws in his actions. Any technique must have its weak points. Indeed, although Chika Shihōin's movements were fast, the flaws he exposed were fleeting. But Yamabuki was no pushover now. He seized a tiny flaw in Chika Shihōin's movements and instantly counterattacked.
Unlike Chika Shihōin's torrential punches, Yamabuki was more like a dormant phoenix, waiting for a moment of rebirth from fire. Wherever his fists reached, the immense wind pressure was so suffocating!
Chika Shihōin seemed to be stunned for that brief moment, actually freezing in place. But Yamabuki suddenly reacted, turning abruptly and blocking with both arms.
A steel-like calf slammed hard onto his arms, forcing Yamabuki back two steps.
"Utsusemi!" Yamabuki hadn't expected Utsusemi to be used this way. He tilted his head slightly and saw that the afterimage behind him had turned into a piece of clothing.
"The show is just beginning!" Chika Shihōin crouched low, like a hunting leopard, then suddenly threw a punch.
The force of this punch was strong, but it hadn't reached the point where it could injure Yamabuki. Yamabuki extended his right hand and grabbed his fist.
"Is that all?" Yamabuki said with a disdainful smile.
But the next second, a white light erupted from the fist. The power of this punch increased several times. The immense impact blasted Yamabuki back over ten meters, his feet dragging on the ground, leaving two deep marks.
"How was it?" Chika Shihōin said triumphantly.
Yamabuki looked at his steaming palm, dumbfounded, because that punch just now wasn't an ordinary attack. It was Kidō combined with a fist, instantly unleashing super strong attack power!
Combining Kidō and Hakuda?
Isn't this the Shunkō of the future?
However, at this time, Shunkō was just a prototype, far from reaching the flexible and varied degree of later generations. After Chika Shihōin threw one punch, he would probably need a long time to prepare before he could throw a second!
The release of Kidō requires a chant. If the chant is not recited, the power will be greatly reduced.
And the Shihōin family's fighting style leans towards Hakuda, using superb speed and flexible fists and feet to deliver fatal blows to enemies. This fighting style might be fine against ordinary enemies, but once they encounter strong opponents, especially those with some rule-based powers, they will definitely be at a disadvantage!
This is also why Yoruichi's strength, while significantly stronger than that of an ordinary captain, kept getting defeated.
Until the end of the manga, the audience still didn't know what Yoruichi's Zanpakutō ability was. Many people speculated that Yoruichi's Zanpakutō ability was to turn into a cat.
That's too cute!
Pick up a cat, people, she wants to come home with me!
And Shunkō is a technique that combines Kidō and Hakuda, allowing ordinary fists to unleash super destructive power.
If he had to make an analogy, Yamabuki thought it was more like enchanting a weapon, attaching explosion magic to an ordinary sword, so that even an ordinary warrior could unleash the destructive power of a mage.
Wait, why didn't I think of that? Can I learn it too?
Yamabuki himself was a master of Kidō, capable of instantly casting Goryūtenmetsu, and also had a decent talent in Hakuda. If these two abilities were combined, wouldn't that be the Shunkō of the future?
He was the Child of Destiny; creating a new fighting method would be simple, wouldn't it?
Thinking this, Yamabuki began to control his spiritual pressure to condense Kidō on his arm, holding it back, waiting for the moment his fist touched the target to unleash all this power at once!
"Excellent! I've mastered this method! Fourth Division, come on, let's keep fighting!" Yamabuki beckoned with his finger. Chika Shihōin had come to Yamabuki precisely to refine his moves, so he naturally continued to fight.
He also began to condense Kidō on his arm, but when he punched, he found that Yamabuki had a very healthy smile on his face!
"Ora!!!"
"Boom!!!!"
Fists collided like a C4 bomb exploding. Chika Shihōin was sent flying by Yamabuki's violent spiritual pressure, like riding a roller coaster, continuously breaking through a dozen walls before stopping. After a long while, he stood up from the rubble, looking very disheveled.
"Why didn't you just kill me!" Chika Shihōin coughed twice and complained, "Wait, wasn't that my attack method? How did you learn it so quickly?"
It was the same when this kid pestered him to learn Utsusemi before. He just demonstrated it once in front of him, and he learned it!
This time was even more outrageous; not only did he learn it, but he used it more skillfully than himself!
"In the entire Seireitei, if my Kidō ranks second, no one dares to rank first!" Yamabuki said with a smile, "Want to learn? Do you want me to teach you?"
Chika Shihōin rolled his eyes. This brat, praise him twice and he starts getting arrogant!
"I'll treat you to dinner tonight. How did you throw that punch? Hurry up, tell me!" Chika Shihōin said with a grin.
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