Chapter 128: Fiander Vs Jilianka
"Oh, ants!"
Kurosaki Ichigo's words made Ulquiorra's forehead bulge with visible veins. You know, he had always looked down on others and had never been humiliated like this before.
At this moment, his dignity seemed ruthlessly trampled upon. The enraged Ulquiorra was about to fight to the death and just got up, but Ichigo's figure merely swayed in the air. Ulquiorra only felt a chill down his spine and subconsciously tried turning his head away, but a palm pressed directly against his face.
Exactly the same movement as when he had grabbed Kurosaki Ichigo and brought him to the zenith.
The new form of Kurosaki Ichigo lowered his body, pressed Ulquiorra's head against the ground and slid for tens of meters before kicking him toward the wall of a towering ancient spire.
BOOM!
Ulquiorra's entire body sank into the wall, and with the sound of violent coughing, Ulquiorra sprayed considerable blood from his mouth. His face bore burn marks where his opponent's palm had gripped him.
"Ulquiorra..."
Looking at the one responsible for bringing her to Hueco Mundo and causing all this to happen, Inoue felt an unexplainable emotion.
Whoosh!!
At this moment, Kurosaki Ichigo's entire body was wrapped in blood-red armor, and a pair of scarlet eyes looked at Ulquiorra's body like a hungry predator.
Flashing forward again to Ulquiorra, Ichigo's temperament had already begun changing. How should one describe it—it seemed similar to when Fiander's eyes changed, the temperament of the whole person also shifted. This inhuman quality was incompatible with everything around him.
Ichigo lifted Ulquiorra's chin and murmured, "Not bad blood food, but the taste is so strange—it really disgusts me!"
Just when he was about to crush Ulquiorra's jaw with his hands, a blast of ice instantly froze his arm.
After being startled, Ichigo subconsciously retreated several hundred steps, opening distance before seeing his attacker.
"Huff..."
Fiander breathed a sigh of relief, green smoke still rising from his palm, then moved to Ulquiorra's side, grabbed his body and threw him beside Inoue, saying: "Heal him, Inoue!"
After speaking, Fiander followed Ichigo's movements and approached him. After the two looked at each other, Ichigo felt a wave of uneasiness surging in his heart.
"Who are you...?"
"Who am I?"
Fiander stroked his chin, killing intent in his eyes, and even the surrounding air filled with a chilling atmosphere—that breath of all things withering and unstoppable death was released from his body.
"However, after only a few hundred years, you've forgotten me. How disappointing, Jilianka!"
Fiander's familiar tone made Jilianka understand why he kept feeling that uneasiness.
"You... you're still alive... impossible!!"
"You're just a mortal!"
Jilianka stepped back subconsciously, and suddenly saw that familiar, beautiful figure reflected in Fiander's eyes.
Kurosaki Ichigo, possessed by Jilianka, now had panic in his eyes. He looked around to find an escape route, but Fiander snapped his fingers lightly, and surrounding ice fog instantly attacked them both, binding them in a confined space.
"Although I merely wanted to test this, that kid did excellent work!"
"I knew that with your greed, you would definitely try to seize Kurosaki Ichigo's body. After all, his talent would make him a first-class genius in any world!"
"However, invasion by outside entities inevitably leads to backlash from the world's will, which is why I needed to become a native creature to grow stronger again!"
"Once you attempted to seize Kurosaki Ichigo's body, you could no longer hide your whereabouts. Honestly, if you had simply slept obediently and never appeared, I truly would have had no way to deal with you. Unfortunately, your greed was exactly what I expected!"
Following the sound of steel being drawn, Fiander slowly pulled his Zanpakuto from his waist, held it upright before his body and said, "Allowing you to live, whether in my past life or this one, is a mistake I cannot tolerate or forgive!"
"Bankai! Bankai: Ten Chi Dōdō, Ai Kokoni Kitaru!"
"Moros, you bastard! A mere mortal dares commit such transgression—we gods will not become your prisoners!"
"You want to use this world's power to annihilate me? How ridiculous!"
Seeing Fiander's attack, two bloody rings appeared around Jilianka's body, and a crimson trident materialized in his hand, stabbing toward Fiander first.
"You said it yourself—in this world, one can only fight with this world's power. Why do you violate that rule?"
After Fiander's voice fell, Jilianka's body gradually transformed into a brand-new ice sculpture under the cover of countless icy mist, still maintaining his trident-wielding posture until death.
But at this moment, the trident's tip was less than a millimeter from the bridge of Fiander's nose, practically touching it.
An ice blade appeared in Fiander's hand, and he raised it to strike directly at Jilianka's body.
"Santen Kesshun!"
Suddenly a yellow barrier blocked Fiander's attack and simultaneously shattered into fragments.
"Please... please don't attack Kurosaki-kun!"
Inoue said breathlessly while treating Ulquiorra.
"How bold of you to attack me!"
Fiander glared at Inoue, and terrifying Reiatsu shot skyward, forcing Inoue to collapse on the ground unable to move. Seeing this, Ulquiorra, who had recovered his arm, stood up and positioned himself before Inoue to confront Fiander, helping her resist the shock of Fiander's spiritual pressure.
Looking at Ulquiorra, whose legs were still trembling yet continued facing him, Fiander asked in puzzlement, "She's merely human, and you would actually choose to fight me for her?"
"Do you understand what you're doing, Ulquiorra!"
Accompanied by Fiander's stern voice, Ulquiorra's body seemed under ten thousand pounds of gravity, half-kneeling on the ground, unable to breathe.
"Master Aizen... Master Aizen didn't order me to kill her."
"Then... then I need to keep her safe until Master Aizen returns!"
Ulquiorra looked at Fiander stubbornly, speaking word by word.
"Is that so?"
Fiander's eyes became incomparably cold, without a trace of emotion. I thought you were still someone who could be cultivated, but since you have your own ideas, then die!
"Absolute Zero!"
The ice blade in Fiander's hand swung down lightly, and a nearly hundred-meter-long slash descended straight toward Inoue and Ulquiorra below.
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