Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 151 The Battle of Death

Kisuke Urahara pointed the tip of his knife diagonally at the ground, lowered the brim of his hat with his left hand, and a dangerous smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Release it, Mr. Asuka."

"Fight me with your strongest form. If you can't even get past this hurdle, then consider your search for Miss Butterfly a pipe dream."

The bird's pupils contracted sharply.

He could tell that Kisuke Urahara wasn't joking.

This seemingly unreliable and unscrupulous businessman exuded a far greater sense of oppression than the Great Void he faced today.

But this sense of pressure did not make him back down; instead, it aroused the almost obsessive fighting spirit that had long been honed in his bones.

"I understand now."

Asuka took a deep breath.

He took the Zanpakuto off his back and slowly drew it out in front of Kisuke Urahara.

The blade of the raccoon knife gleamed as new, except for some black spots on it.

It seems that using it to cut open Kylian's throat has allowed the guy to enjoy a delicious meal.

"Are you there?"

The bird placed its hand on the blade, feeling the pulse of the blade's spirit.

Not here!

Oh...

Asuka couldn't help but chuckle, her eyes brimming with confidence.

"Manager Urahara, be careful."

At that moment, the surrounding air seemed to sense his will and began to surge wildly toward him.

Asuka closed her eyes, intently sensing the hum of her Zanpakuto. Her fingers transformed into claws, striking the blade. "Chew and swallow! Mujina!"

A violent spiritual pressure suddenly exploded outwards from him.

The Zanpakuto in his hand grew several inches longer, its entire body covered with lava-like patterns, and a gloomy black-red light swirled around its blade, containing an unsettling and fierce spiritual pressure.

"This is... fifth-grade, no, fourth-grade spiritual power?"

Yoruichi had retreated to a high point on the rock face. She squatted on a rock and watched the standoff with great interest.

She keenly sensed the changes in the spiritual energy emanating from the bird, which was somewhat unbelievable.

"...It's a strange feeling. The aura is completely different from before I released my Zanpakuto."

Throughout the long history of Soul Society, there has been a saying called "Spiritual Might".

In order to clarify the measurement standard of spiritual power, some people have divided the spiritual pressure concentration in spiritual bodies into two levels.

Ordinary Death God team members are at the 20th level of spiritual power; below that, they don't even have the ability to become ordinary team members.

The vice-captain level Grim Reapers are ranked fourth or fifth, while the captains are ranked third or higher.

Although each person's Zanpakuto ability development level, fighting style, and various objective factors differ, spiritual power cannot directly represent a person's true combat strength.

However, some have said that the battles between Shinigami are essentially battles of spiritual pressure intensity.

The stronger the spiritual power, the greater the natural advantage it will possess.

Kisuke Urahara looked at the boy in front of him with a serious expression, but he was not surprised by the fact that the boy was a fourth-rank spirit.

I had told him that when Asuka's spiritual pressure went berserk, she was at least close to breaking through to the third level of spiritual power...

"Oh? This is your Zanpakuto? It looks impressive. Is it a direct attack type?" Urahara raised Benihime, seriously wary of Asuka's movements.

"Well then, let's begin, Mr. Asuka. If you can't touch the hem of my clothes within ten moves, you'd better deliver goods to me tomorrow."

"I'm sorry."

The next second, the bird's figure completely disappeared from the spot.

boom! !

The ground he had just stood on completely shattered due to the explosive force of the sudden burst.

A streak of light, almost invisible to the naked eye, accompanied by a crackling thunderclap, aimed straight for Kisuke Urahara's throat.

"Thunderbolt Flash: Shadow Step!!"

Wow, so fast! Yoruichi couldn't help but secretly admire.

This speed surpasses even the instantaneous movement of an ordinary Shinigami.

It is a kind of extreme speed generated by concentrating spiritual pressure in the feet and using a special breathing method to instantly ignite the muscles and spiritual particles.

Kisuke Urahara's eyelids twitched slightly. Instead of using Shunpo to dodge, he elegantly swung his Zanpakuto.

"Sing out, Red Princess!"

A red light shield instantly opened up in front of Urahara.

clang!!

Asuka's longsword slammed into the light shield that Kurenai had conjured!

Lightning flashed and crimson light intertwined, and the resulting shockwave shattered all the surrounding rubble!

The bird did not stop because its attack was blocked. Its body twisted strangely in mid-air in an anti-physical way, and the lightning that was originally attached to the blade instantly turned into a blazing red.

"Shiranui!!"

The power of his sword strike underwent a qualitative change at that moment; what was originally a thrusting motion instantly transformed into a horizontal slash.

This sword aura, capable of suddenly igniting spiritual particles, astonished even Kisuke Urahara.

"A lightning-fire sword? Could it be an elemental Zanpakuto?"

With a snap, a tiny crack appeared on Urahara's Blood Shield.

Kisuke Urahara nimbly leaped backward, dodging the subsequent slash, and quickly analyzed Asuka's sword technique: "I see, so it can forcibly change the flow of spiritual particles by altering the rhythm of breathing... There's such a use..."

"Your idea is bold, and your attack is swift, but your spiritual pressure defense is completely nonexistent."

Before Asuka could react, the Benihime in Urahara's hand had already drawn a strange arc.

"I know a little about playing with fire too."

"Hado #31: Red Fire Cannon!"

Several beams of red spirit particles shot out along the trajectory of Urahara's sword swing, whistling towards Asuka.

This is a common intermediate-level ghost path, capable of igniting and gathering spiritual particles in the atmosphere into a cluster, causing an explosive effect.

For Asuka, who had absolutely no knowledge of the ways of the demons, it was no different from magic.

He was unable to gain leverage in the air and was about to be hit.

"Bark, you scoundrel!"

He hadn't used this move in a long time, and he even missed it a little.

As the bird roared and slashed down heavily with the sword, an astonishing spiritual pressure erupting from its blade.

Awooooo—!

The howling pack of spiritual pressure hounds charged out fiercely and bit directly at the Crimson Fire Cannon!

boom-!!

Those ghostly spells exploded in the air, failing to get even a fraction of a second closer to the bird.

Moreover, not all of those vicious dogs were blown to pieces.

The wild dogs, who hadn't had a full meal yet, glared menacingly at Kisuke Urahara and pounced on him in a frenzy, biting many of their companions in their excitement.

"Huh? Could it be a biology major?" Kisuke Urahara narrowed his eyes slightly. "This kid's combat ability is really bizarrely strange."

Facing the charging pack of dogs, he raised his Zanpakuto and quickly drew a circle in the air: "Tsurugi Kurenai I!"

After impacting Kisuke Urahara's red sword circle, those spiritual pressure hounds quickly dissipated, turning into pure spiritual particle fragments.

This surprised even Asuka, who was used to enemies being chased and forced to flee in a sorry state by vicious dogs.

"Sorry, Asuka-kun, it's not just your Zanpakuto that has a variety of tricks up its sleeve." Urahara smiled and adjusted his hat.

He can analyze the spiritual composition of his opponent's moves in advance and then neutralize and neutralize them with power of the same nature.

This requires extremely fast reaction speed and analytical ability; otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve this level of performance in combat.

Of course, this is also because Asuka's application of this move is still at the stage of shouting and simply unleashing a spiritual pressure slash without any change in nature, so it is easy to see through.

The bird did a somersault in the air and landed steadily.

Although he appeared calm and indifferent on the surface, he was actually very shocked inside.

Is this the battle of death?

In the past, relying on his powerful spiritual pressure and the power of his Zanpakuto, he was never afraid, even when facing the Demon King Muzan.

But now, after only one exchange, his moves have been seen through, which makes him somewhat uneasy.

If even this unscrupulous merchant is this powerful... then aren't the Shinigami of Soul Society even more powerful?

"Mr. Urahara, you're right."

Asuka suddenly relaxed her furrowed brows and raised the Zanpakuto horizontally: "I really don't understand what a Zanpakuto is, or what a Shinigami's battle is..."

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The blade of the thief was rapidly heating up, and a strange pattern formed from spiritual particles spread from his forehead, gradually covering half of his face.

Urahara and Yoruichi could both sense it.

As this mark appeared, his spiritual power began to weaken, and his aura began to rise!

This kid still has energy left?

"This might be my strongest attack. If this can't hurt you..."

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The bird's right eye was gradually being swallowed up by the black markings spreading from it, turning into pure black:

...Roar! !"

Oh no! Urahara suddenly felt a sense of unease.

On Asuka's Zanpakuto, the black and red turbulent currents condensed into a single point, unleashing an unprecedentedly terrifying pressure!

"—Abduction!!"

"Blood Shield!!"

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