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Chapter 265 The Limits of Death

Among the people present, who is not a human being who has survived for more than a hundred years?

They were either captains or vice-captains. Even Ichigo Kurosaki was not considered a dull person. How could he not have heard the arrogance and contempt that was almost invisible in Aizen Sosuke's tone?
He looked down at everyone present equally. Even Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, the strongest god of death in a thousand years, seemed not to be taken seriously by him. Only Aize made him look at him sideways, and other than that was Urahara Kisuke whom he mentioned at this moment.

In other words, apart from these two people, Aizen Sosuke told everyone with his attitude that he didn't take them seriously at all.

How could everyone not release murderous intent?

"Tell me, Aizen." Ukitake Jushiro said to Aizen Sosuke with a rare cold expression, "What did you do? What are you going to do?"

"Central 46th Room was indeed killed by you, as Vice Captain Kotetsu said, right?" Kyoraku Shunsui said, pressing on the straw raincoat. "You also staged a fake death and planned the execution of Kuchiki Rukia. I really want to know why you did this."

"And you! Tosen!" Komamura Satsuki roared at Tosen as if he couldn't stand it any longer: "Are you really Aizen's man? Are you his accomplice?"

"So, you are also involved in this series of crimes?"

"Where is the justice you advocate? Where is the belief you uphold?"

"Is this what you call a just act?"

"Answer me! Tousen!"

Komamura Sajin's angry question echoed throughout the venue, allowing everyone to clearly hear the grief and anger in his heart.

Unfortunately, Tosen Kaname seemed to have turned into a puppet, standing on the left and right of Aizen Sosuke with the ever-smiling Ichimaru Gin, not saying a word and showing no intention of responding at all.

"Hey!"

At this time, Soi-Fong was no longer acting on impulse. She came to Aize, looked at him, and spoke with a serious face.

"You already knew Aizen's true identity and the murder of the Central 46th Chamber, so you said those words in the captain's meeting room and attacked Aizen in the 5th Division's barracks, right?"

Soi Feng looked straight at Aize and asked every word.

"Now, can you tell us what you know?"

This sentence made everyone's attention focused on Aize.

Including Aizen Sosuke.

"I also want to hear how much Captain Ai knows about me." Aizen Sosuke said with great interest: "Before, in the Fifth Division's barracks, you revealed the unknown things I had done."

"Now, I want to ask you, do you know why I do these things?"

Aizen Sosuke seemed really curious about how much Aize knew about him.

In this regard, Aize can naturally tell everything he knows.

"As we all know, the four most basic fighting techniques of the Grim Reaper are slashing, punching, walking, and ghosts."

Aize began to tell the story with a calm expression.

"Zhan Jutsu, Hanba, Shunpo, Kidō, these are the means by which all Shinigami display their power. Although they are the basics, they also carry through all of Shinigami."

"However, no matter what kind of fighting skill it is, it has its limits."

"As long as you continue to hone your skills step by step, sooner or later, the God of Death will reach this limit and will no longer be able to grow."

"This is the limit caused by the strength of the soul itself. It is the wall of strength that every god of death has."

"Once you hit this wall, it means that your ability as a god of death has reached its end."

Aize has actually already experienced this.

Leaving aside the art of beheading and fighting, Aize had never practiced the former at all, and relied entirely on his authority to perform perfectly. Aize had never taken the latter seriously either, and just practiced it casually in his spare time to avoid having any shortcomings. Naturally, he was far from reaching perfection.

But when it comes to Flash Step and Kidō, Aize has indeed hit the so-called wall of strength.

His abilities in instant movement and ghost movement have not improved for a long time after he had trained them to the extreme.

This is the so-called limit, which is the bottleneck caused by the strength of the soul itself.

"You always say that I'm a genius, but in fact, I'm far from reaching the limit of the ability of the God of Death."

Aize is not being modest, it is indeed the truth.

He had never practiced sword-slashing techniques, nor had he ever taken dialogue seriously. Although he had practiced instant movement and ghost techniques to perfection, the reason he had achieved such results in just a few decades was not because of his great talent, but because he had the foundation.

The reason why the general Shinigami can exert amazing power is because of their spiritual pressure. If the spiritual pressure is strong enough, their abilities and combat power in all aspects will be strong.

When the spiritual pressure is strong enough, a casual swing of the sword can easily break the speed of sound and cut through steel. Even if someone else's magic weapon hits you, you can rely on the absolute advantage of the spiritual pressure to prevent them from even causing a wound.

Apart from the spiritual pressure, the physical strength of the God of Death himself is not that strong.

In the original work, Matsumoto Rangiku and Kira Izuru had a battle, and this battle exposed this problem.

Kira Izuru's Zanpakutō is named Wabisuke, and it is a Zanpakutō with rather special abilities.

It will double the weight of the object it hits. If it hits once, it will double it. If it hits twice, it will double it again, making it four times. If it hits three times, it will double it again, making it eight times. The more times it hits, the heavier the object will be. In the end, the enemy will fall down because they cannot bear the accumulated weight, and stick their heads out as if to apologize, allowing it to chop them, and they will be defeated without a fight.

Relying on this ability, Kira Izuru hit Matsumoto Rangiku's Zanpakutō several times, causing its weight to become over 100 kilograms.

Then, Matsumoto Rangiku couldn't lift her Zanpakutō.

From this performance, it can be seen that the physical strength of Matsumoto Rangiku, the vice-captain-level Grim Reaper, is very average.

Aize was able to lift objects weighing more than 100 kilograms easily when he was still a student at the Star Guide Academy, let alone now.

The same goes for the rest of the Shinigami. When they don't use instant step, their running speed is not much faster than that of ordinary people. If they don't use the method of using spirit particles to create a foothold under their feet, they can't even jump too high. It can be seen that in terms of physical strength, the Shinigami are not outstanding.

However, Aize's physical strength is very high. In the world of Devil High School, he was able to rival the highest-level demons with his own physical strength and considerable fighting spirit, and he was a ten-winged demon only slightly weaker than the demon king level. To put it bluntly, with his physical strength alone, he could compete with the captain-level Grim Reaper.

Combined with his extremely strong spiritual pressure, Aize can easily defeat captain-level Shinigami even without releasing his Zanpakutō, which has been proven many times in the past few decades.

It is precisely because of this physical strength that Aize actually has a great advantage when practicing high-speed movement techniques such as Shunpo. Otherwise, he would not have become the first person in his class to master Shunpo, and he would not have been able to practice Shunpo to a level that surpasses [Shunshin] Yoruichi in just a few decades.

In other words, the reason why his instant movement was so fast was that his physical strength also added to the speed, so that his instant movement skills were faintly showing a tendency to exceed the limits of the Grim Reaper.

The same is true for the ghost arts, because Aize once deliberately honed his ability in this area in order to fully master his own power, resulting in a high level of control over spiritual power. In addition, with the support of the powerful spiritual power converted from the second authority, he has been able to practice various ghost arts smoothly and has never encountered any difficulties.

With these foundations, Aize was able to practice Shunpo and Kidō to perfection, instead of relying on so-called talent.

Not to mention his Zanpakuto, if he didn't have the authority, he didn't know how long it would take him to master Shikai and Bankai.

To sum up, Aize has never considered himself a true genius.

But, Aizen Sosuke is different.

"Aizen Sosuke, from the moment he was born, he was destined to be an extraordinary existence."

"More than a hundred years ago, when he was the vice-captain of the Fifth Division, he had already raised his abilities in all aspects to the limit."

"His spiritual pressure is several times that of an ordinary captain. He hit the wall of soul strength early on and reached the point where he could no longer grow."

"So, he has been looking for ways to break through the limits of the God of Death, wanting to surpass the existence of the God of Death and reach a new realm."

"To this end, he made a lot of attempts and experiments, and finally used hundreds of souls with the power of the god of death to create a substance that brought about this possibility."

Aize's eyes were focused on Aizen Sosuke's chest.

The authority in his body flickered slightly, and the gold-plated lines were faintly visible, telling him that there were very powerful props there.

"That substance is called Collapse Jade."

"It can turn the god of death into a hollow, allowing the god of death to gain the power of the hollow. It can also turn the hollow into the god of death, allowing the hollow to gain the power of the god of death."

"Death God and Hollow are two completely opposite existences. If we can make them reach a certain degree of balance, or even merge them, we can break the boundary between Death God and Hollow and reach a new height."

"This is what Aizen Sosuke pursues."

Aize's words made everyone present change color.

"The transformation of the god of death..."

"Hollow's transformation into a god of death..."

"This……"

The Death Gods couldn't help but recall that more than a hundred years ago, several captains and vice-captains encountered the Hollowization experiment and almost fell into Hollowness.

And decades ago, the students of Aize's class encountered a Hollow that could hide its spiritual pressure. Wasn't that an alien existence that possessed abilities other than Hollow?
Even the mysterious disappearance of the former captain of the 10th Division, Isshin Shiba, was eventually confirmed to be the result of a strange Hollow.

Could it be that all of this is the product of Aizen Sosuke's attempt to break through the boundaries of the God of Death?

(End of this chapter)