In a corner of the battlefield outside Las Noches, Nnoitra Gilga, the eighth Espada, set his sights on Sajin Komamura, the captain of the seventh division. The battle between the two was also the bloodiest of all the fights.
In order to repay Yamamoto Genryūsai for his kindness, Sajin Komamura returned to the clan elders before the war began.
He offered his heart to that elder, in exchange for the "Humanization Technique" that allowed him to return to his true form and greatly increase his spiritual pressure, and also awakened the second form of Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō, "Dangai Jōe"!
In this form, Tengen Myō'ō transformed into a giant demon covered in blood red, completely abandoning the original hard armor outside its body, and exchanging its defensive power for a significant increase in attack power and recovery power.
However, Sajin Komamura, who had offered his heart, only had the power of this one battle left. As long as he stopped fighting, he would permanently revert to his beast form, and from then on become a beast without intelligence.
Therefore, this battle was the last battle in Sajin Komamura's life!
From the beginning of the battle, Sajin Komamura was the only one among the captains of the Gotei 13 who had gained the upper hand, and had always been firmly suppressing Nnoitra.
For Nnoitra, who was warlike, crazy, and arrogant, such a performance, when almost all the Espada members were able to suppress or even crush their opponents, simply made him lose face!
In extreme anger, Nnoitra activated the power of Segunda Etapa, and he also became the first Espada member in this battle to use Segunda Etapa.
Under Segunda Etapa, Nnoitra's entire body was covered in black, hard armor, surrounded by dark yellow demon flames. The long-handled four-bladed scythe in his hand disappeared, replaced by a more powerful crescent-shaped arm blade.
When Nnoitra in Segunda Etapa and the second form Tengen Myō'ō controlled by Sajin Komamura fought together, the battles of the other captains and Espada members paled in comparison.
Perhaps the spiritual pressure levels of Nnoitra and Sajin Komamura were not the strongest, but in terms of the degree of bloodshed and the intensity of the fighting, it was definitely the most thrilling.
Aaroniero Arruruerie, the ninth Espada, and Luppi Antenor, the tenth Espada, respectively faced Kaien Shiba, the lieutenant of the thirteenth division, and Suì-Fēng, the captain of the second division.
At this time, Kaien Shiba had initially mastered the ability of Bankai. With his outstanding fighting talent, he was barely able to temporarily sustain the battle when he met Aaroniero, whose strength was considered to be at the bottom of the Espada.
Aaroniero was the only Gillian among the Espada, and his talent lay in "Infinite Evolution".
Although his growth space was indeed much stronger than other Gillians, and even surpassed most Adjuchas, he had not been able to reach the so-called "infinite" level.
Aaroniero himself did not have any special powerful abilities, but fortunately, his spiritual pressure steadily surpassed Kaien Shiba. Even if he could not easily defeat the other party, at least he was invincible.
As for Luppi Antenor and Suì-Fēng, Luppi Antenor was also superior in terms of hard power.
However, Suì-Fēng relied on her excellent "Super-Speed Shunpo", and there was no big problem in dealing with Luppi Antenor for three days and three nights.
If there were no unexpected circumstances in the overall situation on the battlefield, the Espada had completely taken control of the battle, and Yūsuke's plan to develop the Hōgyoku to enhance the power of the Arrancar had perfectly achieved its intended goal.
Among the captains of the Gotei 13, apart from Shunsui Kyōraku, who was paying attention to the situation on the field at all times, Kisuke Urahara, who was also the key to this war, was also secretly calculating in his heart.
The opponent that Kisuke Urahara was currently fighting was Barragan Louisenbarn, the second Espada, the Skull Emperor.
Faced with Barragan's aging energy attacks, Kisuke Urahara did not respond directly, but kept dodging.
For him, he would never use his true strength to fight unless absolutely necessary.
Kisuke Urahara was well aware that once a trump card was revealed, it could no longer be called a trump card from then on.
"You brat, are you just going to keep dodging?" Barragan said to Kisuke Urahara with great dissatisfaction.
At this time, Barragan was sitting on a magnificent throne composed of bones, floating in mid-air, surrounded by purple aging mist.
Kisuke Urahara ignored Barragan's provocation, but looked at the battle situation of the captains of the Gotei 13 around him.
At this time, apart from Shunsui Kyōraku, who was holding back Starrk in a slacking-off manner, there was no danger for the time being, but the other captains seemed to be in dire straits for the most part.
Tōshirō had been constantly beaten down by Harribel, and the cross-shaped ice flowers representing his Bankai time were about to disappear completely.
Although Ukitake himself was very strong, his physical strength was obviously unable to keep up, and he began to be suppressed by Grimmjow.
If the time dragged on any longer, even if he didn't die at Grimmjow's hands, he might run out of physical strength or even get sick directly.
Chōjirō Sasakibe had already fallen at Nelliel's feet. Seeing that everyone except Nnoitra, who was still struggling, had basically won, Nelliel didn't take any action, but stood aside and watched the battle.
The reason why Nelliel didn't take action to help Nnoitra was not because of her dissatisfaction with Nnoitra. She would not take internal contradictions to heart during this great war.
However, she knew that the guy Nnoitra hated the most was being helped by women, especially herself, who had defeated him twice.
Not only would her intervention not help Nnoitra, it might even backfire, causing Nnoitra to fight her.
On the other side, Zommari's opponent, Ikkaku Madarame, had completely become a puppet, and was fighting with his friend Yumichika Ayasegawa. Zommari himself was leisurely watching the show from the side.
Kaien Shiba, who was fighting Aaroniero, was also about to be unable to hold on. The spiritual pressure on his body was constantly weakening. Obviously, he, who had just mastered Bankai, had to face an opponent of the Espada level alone, which exceeded the range that his strength could bear.
Suì-Fēng, relying on her super-speed Shunpo, had no problem protecting herself, but it seemed that she had no way to defeat Luppi Antenor, who had transformed into a tentacle monster.
What worried Kisuke Urahara the most was that Ulquiorra, the fourth Espada, was calmly standing aside and observing the battlefield.
In the situation that the Gotei 13 no longer had enough power to fight against the Espada, Ulquiorra, as the commander designated by Yūsuke, only needed to be on standby to guard against emergencies.
Seeing that everyone's situation didn't seem to be very good, Kisuke Urahara frowned and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect the power of the Arrancar to be much stronger than I predicted. It seems that it's time to use his power!"
Barragan also heard Kisuke Urahara's words, and said with a sneer: "Mere Shinigami, do you think you have even a glimmer of a chance of winning? From the moment you stepped into Hueco Mundo, your fate of defeat was already doomed."
Kisuke Urahara looked at Barragan, a flash of light flashed in his eyes: "Is that so? Then what if we let Hollows deal with Hollows?"
Barragan was stunned when he heard this. He didn't understand the meaning of Kisuke Urahara's words.
Kisuke Urahara didn't explain any further to Barragan, but pointed the Zanpakutō in his hand at the sky, and the spiritual pressure on his body suddenly erupted.
"Release it, the true Vasto Lorde!"
A golden spiritual power exuding a strange spiritual pressure rushed towards the sky. Although this spiritual power was not strong, it gave all the Arrancar present an extremely dangerous feeling.
At the same moment, a golden spiritual power fell from the sky directly above the location where Ichigo was frozen, directly covering Ichigo's ice sculpture.
In Rukia's unbelievable gaze, cracks actually began to slowly appear on Ichigo's ice sculpture.
"Did this golden light destroy my seal? No, the seal is being destroyed from the inside!"
The story continues…
Also, the author has put the Hōgyoku Espada diagram in the pinned post in the book friend circle, as a reference to the influence of the Espada's Segunda Etapa in this book.
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