"Whoosh!"
Ito Makoto, in his Shunko state, activated Shunpo, flashing to Kasumioji Unokawa's side and striking with his sword.
His speed had reached its peak; before his afterimage could vanish, Ito Makoto had already unleashed another strike.
In a rush, Kasumioji Unokawa countered with her Bakuyoto.
"Clang!"
After one blow, Ito Makoto immediately used Shunpo to create distance.
The moment Ito Makoto retreated, Kasumioji Unokawa discovered that the long sword in her hand, which she considered the strongest Bakuyoto, had been chipped.
"Boom!"
Furthermore, behind her, the ruins of the blacksmith shop, which had been piled like a mountain, and all the surrounding houses, were reduced to dust by that single strike.
"This..."
Looking at her damaged Bakuyoto, Kasumioji Unokawa was momentarily stunned.
Ito Makoto, who had retreated to the side, was now gasping for breath, clearly indicating that his development of his Bankai was still insufficient.
He had not yet developed other special skills for his Bankai. Currently, he could only perform simple sword swings.
Even so, this sword, relying on its extremely high base damage and Ito Makoto's superb Zanjutsu, which far surpassed that of ordinary captains, unleashed unparalleled power.
Had he not consciously held back, that strike just now would have broken through the barrier's seal and disturbed the entire Soul Society.
However, even after borrowing spiritual pressure from his main body and wielding this sword with Second-Class Spiritual Power, that single strike had consumed an enormous amount of his energy.
From the moment he awakened the true name of this sword, he knew that his Annihilation God was the strongest space-type Zanpakuto, possessing an extremely high ceiling; however, correspondingly, it also demanded extremely high spiritual pressure from its wielder.
According to Ito Makoto's estimation, to fully master this Bankai, his own spiritual pressure would need to reach First-Class Spiritual Power.
"This is the true Spatial Slash!"
Just a single strike infused with spiritual pressure possessed such power; if Ito Makoto could one day develop this sword to its utmost, it would certainly not be weaker than Yamamoto Genryūsai's Zanka no Tachi, and perhaps even stronger!
Each strike he unleashed was equivalent to crushing the enemy with the power of spatial turbulence, which was why the aftershocks of his previous sword swings shattered numerous buildings within the barrier. This was already the result of his utmost effort to control his spiritual pressure.
Otherwise, a casual sword swing could shatter this barrier, and then his Bankai ability would be completely exposed to the captains of the Seireitei.
"How dare you destroy my sword? I'll have your life to pay!"
At this moment, Kasumioji Unokawa, realizing her Bakuyoto had been destroyed in a single encounter, immediately began to shriek hysterically, pouring all her spiritual pressure into the shattered Bakuyoto. In an instant, an incredibly thick, crimson beam of light, carrying terrifying power, surged towards Ito Makoto.
"Oh no, this strike will surely destroy the barrier!"
Seeing that this madwoman was no longer hiding and intended to directly break the barrier, both her bizarre form and Ito Makoto's Bankai would be exposed to the public.
To prevent the premature exposure of his Zanpakuto's ability, Ito Makoto could only choose to end the fight quickly.
Ito Makoto gathered all the spiritual pressure within his body, concentrating it entirely on the blade. Dense black and white spiritual pressure surged forth and intertwined.
"Die!"
Ito Makoto held his sword and met the crimson light beam that spanned the entire barrier.
The black and white blade collided with the massive blood-red light beam, and in an instant, the world lost its color.
"Bang!"
Ito Makoto's sword effortlessly cut through Kasumioji Unokawa's Bakuyoto, and at the same time, Kasumioji Unokawa's body was also severed.
Initially, she tried to repair herself with her flesh, but the next moment, she discovered in horror that her undying Bakuyo Insect body seemed to be ineffective.
At the wound on her abdomen, black and white spiritual pressures intertwined, forming a black hole-like vortex that continuously pulled and absorbed at her abdomen until every inch of her body was completely destroyed.
Making her completely unable to regenerate!
"How... could this be!"
Kasumioji Unokawa looked at the wound on her abdomen and the increasingly large black and white vortex, her eyes filled with intense fear.
"No... I'm not reconciled!!!"
"I..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Kasumioji Unokawa was completely crushed into nothingness by the terrifying vortex. At the same time, the barrier itself was also crushed into nothingness.
After unleashing his strongest attack, Ito Makoto's spiritual pressure was completely drained. A sense of powerlessness spread throughout his body, and the sword in his hand reverted to its Asauchi form.
Just as he leaned against the edge of the ruins, gasping for breath, a blood-red crystal the size of a baby's fist floated down from where Kasumioji Unokawa had died. Ito Makoto reached out and caught it.
"This is..."
As soon as the blood-colored crystal entered his hand, Ito Makoto saw fragments of memory, like a continuous slideshow, pouring into his mind.
In this memory, Ito Makoto saw a world where ignorance and chaos coexisted. At that time, the world was still in a state of chaos, with no distinction between realms. All living beings, whether humans, souls, or Hollows, broadly lived in one world.
During this period, many excessively powerful humans, souls, and Hollow were born. They engaged in endless slaughter among themselves to seize territory, and the entire world fell into chaos.
Until one day, a supreme being named Adonai was born, embodying the will of heaven and earth.
He had great compassion in his heart and could not bear to see the world's living beings suffer. So, he gathered a group of like-minded powerful individuals, ended war with war, and conquered the entire chaotic world through absolute strength.
To prevent the world from falling into chaos again, He used supreme divine power to divide the entire world into Three Realms, and imprisoned the terrifying beings who had wreaked havoc on the world, those he had defeated, in a place called Hell, which was independent of the Three Realms.
When the Three Realms were first created, the world's foundation was unstable, and disturbances often occurred. There were also terrifying beings from Hell who wished to once again engulf the Three Realms. To maintain the stability of the Three Realms, the supreme Adonai willingly became the wedge (wedge) that sustained the Three Realms, using his divine power to support them.
But not long after Adonai became the wedge, his five former followers suddenly betrayed him, seizing the opportunity to dismember Adonai and seal his divine power, attempting to make Adonai forever the wedge that maintained the stability of the Three Realms.
On the day Adonai was dismembered, heaven and earth wept, and blood rained down from the sky. The five powerful individuals' God-slaying blades pierced Adonai's torso, dismembering him and turning him into a human pillar.
When Adonai was dismembered, the remaining flesh and blood fell from the palace in the sky. A tiny insect in the Soul Society, by chance, swallowed it, and from then on, that insect gained powerful strength and near-human consciousness, calling itself the Bakuyo Insect!
Later, the Bakuyo Insect met a person named Kasumioji, and soon, the person and the insect became close friends. As Kasumioji married and had children, his family grew stronger. All of Kasumioji's descendants referred to the Bakuyo Insect as the Insect Ancestor. After endless years of refinement, the descendants of the Xia Da Lu Family finally found a way to utilize the power of the Bakuyo Insect.
That was to combine the Bakuyo Insect's body with blacksmithing techniques to forge Bakuyoto with special abilities!
At this point, this incomplete memory abruptly ended, and Ito Makoto stared blankly at the blood-colored crystal in his hand.
"The origin of the Bakuyo Insect was an insect that swallowed the Soul King's flesh and blood! That means this blood-red gem is actually the Soul King's blood essence!"
Looking at the blood essence stone, as beautiful as a ruby, in his hand, Ito Makoto fell into deep thought...
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