I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

The excessively powerful demonic energy distorted even the path of light. The outermost layer of the nested black coffin was as tall as the Seirei Wall, radiating a deep and terrifying spiritual pressure like the eye of the sea!

Chapter 124: Aizen, the Man Who Slew It Over

Its power had surpassed that of a typical black coffin, becoming something as terrifying as a spatial torrent!

This is Mi Zhen's true and strongest trump card—the Ghost Path Warehouse of the Tongtian Talisman!

Since close combat is not an option, Mima has no choice but to resort to some unethical methods!

It's like an alternate dimension that follows Mizhen around. Mizhen can store the Kido written in the form of talismans inside and use it whenever he wants.

It wasn't that Mi Zhen didn't want to put out more; after all, the two hundred black coffins were only a part of the Ghost Path warehouse's inventory. To put it simply, although the Ghost Path warehouse's capacity was almost unlimited, the size of the entrance and exit was limited. For Ghost Path items like the black coffins, which were over ninety levels in length, putting out two hundred at once was already the limit!

Before Shihouin Hyakugetsu could even cry out in alarm, he was engulfed by this terrifying power that nearly reached the limits of death.

The shadowy thorns, so fine they were almost molecular-level, slashed at the Bone Devouring Armor from every angle, completing tens of thousands of punctures in less than a second. The silver metal, which had remained unmoved by the attacks of the three captains, was gradually worn down and thinned. As the black coffins retreated one by one, the once imposing armor was reduced to a thin layer, with many parts already damaged.

Then, the black coffin dissipated layer by layer, revealing the pitiful appearance of Shihōin Hyakugetsu inside.

Her left hand had vanished without a trace, and her body was covered in bloodstains, as if she had just been pulled out of a blood-red bath. Countless pieces of silver metal that had been cut off fell like sand, mixed with shattered yellow crystals, forming a glittering "rain".

It looks pitiful, but the core part...

The heart and head were intact, likely due to the heavy protection provided by the Bone-Eating Armor.

He only suffered this level of injury? I released two years' worth of accumulated black coffin energy in one go!

What a monster.

"you……"

Shihōin Hyakugetsu coughed up several mouthfuls of blood and began to breathe heavily, even losing his footing on his spirit.

It staggered a few times in mid-air and almost fell.

"The Ghost Path... How is this possible... How could the Ghost Path possibly do such a thing..."

"Senior, times have changed."

Mima walked towards her step by step, and said in a relaxed tone:

"Will you surrender on your own, or make me waste more energy—a hundred Thousand-Handed Heavenly Cannons, or ten Five-Dragon Annihilation Techniques?"

"Hehe...hehe..."

With his lungs and throat pierced, Shihouin Hyakugetsu let out a hoarse laugh like a bellows: "Surrender... what a joke... I will absolutely... never surrender to you... traitors... even if you kill me..."

"As far as I know, even during that upheaval two thousand years ago, you didn't kill many real traitors."

Mi Zhen scoffed, "If you, who inherited the torrent of anger, hate the Five Dukes system, I can understand. But the people who died most often at your hands were just ordinary people reincarnated from the present world. How dare the perpetrator of the massacre talk about will and perseverance?"

"A massacre?"

The black robe beneath the silver metal surged, transforming into countless tiny shadows that merged into Shihouin Hyakugetsu's body.

They plugged up each of her wounds, which resembled slow, agonizing torture, including her leaky lungs and throat.

Then she spoke fluently again: "Being born into this world already taints us with original sin—everyone deserves to die, including me."

These kinds of guys with their own set of logic are really hard to deal with.

It's almost impossible for others to persuade her with reason; in the end, the only way to convince her is through physical means.

But even without Mima's intervention, she had already reached a dead end.

—Because Aizen revealed himself at this moment and was approaching her step by step from behind.

The Spirit King's torrent not only healed the wound but also rebuilt a left hand for her—upon closer inspection, it was clear that a significant amount of flesh on her body had been "replaced."

She didn't seem to be controlling the Spirit King's torrent... rather, she seemed to have merged with it?

It heals not only wounds, but also spiritual pressure.

Even the Zanpakuto—the Bone-Eating Demon Armor and the Spirit Sand Crystal—are absorbing the black shadows and thus rebuilding themselves.

But the newly formed metals and crystals all had a blackish tint, and it was hard to tell whether that was a good thing or a bad thing.

And so, Shihouin Hyakugetsu's spiritual pressure gradually rose to its original level, and even became stronger!

However, death had already quietly arrived.

Aizen walked step by step behind Shihouin Hyakugetsu, aiming at the gap in the Bones-Eating Demon Armor.

Then he suddenly swung the Mirror Flower Water Moon in his hand!

The blade of Mirror Flower Water Moon shattered the repairing Bone-Eating Demon Armor with unstoppable force, directly severing Shihouin Hyakugetsu's ribs and spine, splitting her liver in two, and just a hair's breadth away from cutting her in half.

Undoubtedly a fatal flaw!

A large amount of blood rushed into the damaged stomach, flowed back up from the throat, and gushed out of the mouth like a fountain.

"Who...is it..."

Shihouin Hyakugetsu tried hard to turn around, but her body wouldn't obey her commands.

Her eyes dimmed little by little, and the spiritual particle's foothold in the air gradually disappeared—

Then it slowly fell.

Mima and Aizen watched together as Shihouin Hyakugetsu fell to the ground.

From a normal perspective, such severe injuries would almost certainly be fatal.

But Shihouin Hyakugetsu is clearly not someone who can be judged by common sense.

Look at M and C in Yhwach's SS; they get killed again and again but still manage to get back up.

The Resurrection Armor is like free money to them—who knows if she, the holder of the Spirit King component, also has that ability.

Moreover, Mima had another concern.

Although he learned most of Shihouin Hyakugetsu's abilities through historical travel, there were still some who slipped through the net.

That is, the kind of method she used to break all the seals set up by the ancestors of Shihōin with just a casual touch.

During Hyakugetsu Shihōin's long and chaotic killing career afterward, this ability was almost never used again.

Mizhen could only guess that it was a kind of "talent" that could unconditionally break through a certain type of ability, but she didn't know why.

"Breaking the seal" is fine, but "breaking the demonic path"...

This is precisely why Mima first resorted to close combat—if hundreds of Kido were to be shattered by a single finger, he would be no different from facing Aizen's Hogyoku against Ichigo Mugetsu.

If his teammates hadn't all been moved away, and he would definitely have been beaten up by his swordsmanship alone, he might not have used the Ghost Path Warehouse.

Aizen only made a shallow cut and didn't seize the opportunity to finish it off, presumably because he was worried about similar issues.

For some opponents, finishing them off is not only useless, but can also result in them getting a disgusting buff like "Shared Fate" on their heads, so you have to be careful.

"Hmm... what should we do next?"

Aizen flicked the blood off his sword, his vigilance remaining unwavering.

The same goes for Mi Zhen.

They stood in mid-air, watching coldly as things unfolded.

Because his waist had been severed more than two-thirds of the way from behind, Shihouin Hyakugetsu fell to the ground at an extremely bizarre angle, his internal organs spilling out, and liters of blood splattering onto the nearby ground.

In the first few seconds, she struggled a few times, but soon stopped moving, and the light in her eyes quickly faded.

Just like every dead body that has lost its life.

However... the phenomenon of double pupils never disappeared.

The same applies to spiritual pressure.

The "flow of anger" enveloping her was still surging, expanding outwards and pouring into Shihouin Hyakugetsu's broken body, while maintaining her spiritual pressure at a stable level.

Then, the left hand, composed of these black shadows, suddenly rose up!

"!"

Yama and Aizen immediately raised their alert level to the highest level!

"Ho-ho-ho-ho-"

Suddenly, a sound that didn't sound human came from Shihouin Hyakugetsu's throat.

After the spine was severed, the lower body, which had no nerve signals, began to move again. After kicking its lower limbs a few times, it stood up on the ground, supporting its entire body in a bizarre posture that defied physiology.

The black shadows transformed into countless threads, pulling on Shihouin Hyakutsuki's body and making her appear like a marionette.

Could it be... a random disguise of a celestial puppet?

But Hyakugetsu Shihouin is clearly a Shinigami (death god), and has no Quincy elements whatsoever!

"Ah... this is the first time I've ever been in this situation."

The voice was cold, unlike anything that was alive.

Most of her internal organs were outside her body, and she had almost lost all her blood, but she still stood up and did a feat that no human could possibly do, like a steel bridge, and looked up at Mizhen floating in mid-air.

“That stab just now… wasn’t from you.” She glanced at Mima with lifeless eyes, then scanned the room in mid-air. “Hidden? It’s okay, as long as… this is fine.”

The hand, made of black shadows, rose up, clenched into a claw shape, and stabbed forcefully—tearing a large hole in her own chest!

A sound like a mirror shattering suddenly rang out!

Shihōin Hyakugetsu casually tossed aside the pieces of flesh and bone he had pulled out.

The black shadows immediately converged into the hole, forming... a shape almost like an eye!

The newly formed "eye" twitched a few times before immediately locking onto Aizen in mid-air.

"I see you."

"what?"

Before Aizen could even be surprised, he saw Shihouin Hyakugetsu suddenly appear in front of him.

Neither he nor Mima noticed how she moved!

Like a puppet, Shihouin Hyakugetsu was not covered in armor or crystals, nor did he control the red dragon or the black moon. He simply swung the broken Earth Bone Eater with a horizontal slash.

But even this simple action caused Aizen's expression to change drastically!