Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 165 Encounter Battle

The three of them stepped into the interdimensional gate side by side.

The boundary within the interdimensional gate remained as chaotic as ever.

The roar of the Jutu could be heard faintly in the distance, and the spiritual barriers on both sides kept collapsing and reforming.

In the past, when traveling this route, the Grim Reapers mostly remained silent, in order to prepare for any potential crisis.

But this time, Haiyan keenly sensed the destination outside the interdimensional gate—Fuyuki City.

An extremely oppressive aura is seeping into the boundary in some inexplicable way.

The feeling was like a drowning person's outstretched hand, trying to grab every passing soul.

"The flow of spiritual particles is wrong." Rangiku gripped her Zanpakuto tightly. "The pressure of the Dangai is at least 30% greater than usual... It feels like the other world is refusing to connect."

Shinobu Kocho felt the tremors of the vortex and frowned: "That city... seems to be frantically absorbing all the spiritual particles around it."

Haiyan's eyes turned extremely cold.

He felt his spiritual pressure begin to tremble slightly after entering the severance zone.

This tremor comes from the depths of the soul.

[Huh...that smell is so familiar...is it like we're back in Hueco Mundo?]

"Shut up," he hissed inwardly.

"All personnel, prepare!" Haiyan shouted. "Arrive at the exit in one minute! Establish defensive formation the instant you land, without any hesitation!"

The exit from the boundary is just a stone's throw away.

What should have been a white light leading to the present world now had an unpleasant, faint dark purple hue.

Om-! !

The moment the portal opened, a wave of heat carrying a stench of decay swept over us.

thump.

When Haiyan landed first, the moment his feet touched solid ground, he felt a strange swaying.

It's not an earthquake, it's space itself that's trembling.

This is the top floor of an unfinished building high up. From here, the entire city of Fuyuki is shrouded in a deathly silence of night.

But that wasn't a normal night.

There were no stars in the sky, and the lights of countless homes, which should have been shining brightly, appeared unusually sparse and dim.

A thick, barely visible gray fog hung in the air.

A divine calamity! Haiyan was greatly alarmed!

"Cough cough... What's that smell?" One of the team members couldn't help but bend over and gag. "It smells like rust and rotting flesh."

"Don't breathe easily! Switch to internal spiritual pressure circulation!" Rangiku shouted sharply.

She walked over to Haiyan and looked at the street in the distance.

Under the observation of the spiritual vision, those originally smooth streets began to show red and black patterns.

These patterns extend along the earth's veins, weaving a vast net beneath the city.

"The sense of oppression is too heavy." Haiyan closed her eyes and felt it.

His second-level spiritual power, without any spiritual pressure restrictions, felt as if he were sinking into sticky mud.

Each time spiritual energy is mobilized, it requires several times more effort than usual.

For ordinary team members, this feeling is no different from carrying a small mountain on their backs.

"This is no longer the ordinary world... It is being forcibly distorted by something."

Rangiku Matsumoto looked up at the sky.

She always felt that something was looming over everyone in the sky, making it hard to breathe.

Sizzle—sizzle—

Below the unfinished building, the old streetlights emitted a piercing electrical hum.

Then, all the lights on the street went out completely in the same second.

Utter darkness instantly swallowed everyone's vision.

Accompanying this was the sound of something heavy being dragged and crawling on the ground.

The sound was extremely dense, coming from all directions!

"Everyone! Draw your swords!"

Haiyan's angry roar exploded in the darkness.

boom-!!

Just then, the exterior wall of the unfinished building beneath their feet suddenly collapsed.

One, two... dozens of enormous black shadows burst forth from the shadows.

That's an illusion.

But they are completely different from ordinary virtual objects.

Their bones were covered with blood-red tentacles, and black, viscous liquid kept flowing from the hollows in their chests.

It's as if... they've been distorted too!

The suffocating spiritual pressure surged to its peak the moment these monsters appeared!

Haiyan's Zanpakuto, Tsubaki, was instantly unleashed, and the trident unleashed a violent torrent of water that smashed the monster at the forefront to pieces.

"First squad, engage the enemy! Second squad, provide support with the Ghost Path!" he shouted the order.

But something strange happened.

The shattered monster did not dissipate into spiritual ashes as usual.

The splattered black viscous liquid landed on the ground, instantly corroding the thick concrete, and then coalesced again as if it were alive.

They actually tried to rebuild their bodies.

"What a joke?!" Rangiku swung her Zanpakuto, Gray Neko, sending clouds of dust billowing across the street, only to find that the mutated monsters were completely immune to physical attacks.

Even if they are cut, they will quickly re-bond themselves through that black, viscous substance.

"This isn't an ordinary Hollow!" Shinobu Kocho's spiritual insects had already transmitted their senses back. Looking at the black mud, her expression changed drastically: "They're using the city's abnormal energy to regenerate infinitely!"

The mutated Void beings stood still, emitting a high-frequency, soul-shaking shriek.

This frequency made the Grim Reapers present dizzy, and their defenses were thrown into chaos in an instant.

"Gather together! First, find a way to stop those Hollows that are making the screams!"

Haiyan stood at the very front of the formation, swinging her trident once more.

He stirred up towering waves, forcibly creating a space in the monster horde to cover his teammates behind him.

"Binding Spell #30: Mouth Thrust Triple Flash!"

Matsumoto Rangiku emitted three golden light shards from her fingertips, precisely locking onto a giant mutated Hollow that had jumped from the third floor.

However, when his binding spell came into contact with the black mud flowing on the surface of the monster's body, it made a hissing sound as it dissolved.

In just three seconds, the light sheet was completely corroded.

The beast let out a piercing roar, its belly, filled with sharp teeth, suddenly split open, spewing out a large amount of viscous, dark green venom.

Rangiku had no choice but to roll backward in a disheveled manner to avoid the opponent's counterattack.

"Captain! These things aren't exactly top-tier in terms of defense, but the black mud on their bodies will neutralize the Kido attacks!" Rangiku wiped the sweat from her brow and shouted a reminder.

Haiyan swung her halberd, swatting away a swarm of attacking monsters, and coldly swept her gaze around.

He could sense that he had arrived at just the right time...

The spiritual pressure fluctuations in Fuyuki City are entering a new and more intense phase.

What was originally just an undercurrent flowing beneath the surface has now begun to impact the barriers of space.

We need to find a way to weaken their connection with these anomalous energies...

"Rangiku! Lead the team to retreat towards the Fuyuki City Bridge. It's higher up there, and the anomalous spiritual pressure is relatively weaker. Let's secure a favorable position first!"

"And what about you, Captain?" Rangiku felt a sense of unease.

Haiyan didn't turn around; he slowly held the trident horizontally in front of his chest.

The spiritual pressure emanating from him began to change from the wild, unrestrained waves to a state of tranquility, like an abyss.

"I'll cover the rear, otherwise no one will be able to escape."

"But...

'

"That's an order, Vice Captain."

Haiyan turned around and gave Rangiku a bright, sunny smile.

That's a smile that can support someone even in the most desperate circumstances.

"Don't worry, I'm Shiba Kaien, I never fight a battle I'm not sure I can win."

"Really...?" Shinobu Kocho glanced at him.

Rangiku gritted her teeth: "...I understand! Everyone, follow me!"

As Rangiku led the team in a forced breakout, the originally dense monster tide seemed to sense something and frantically tried to split up and pursue them.

"Hey, your opponent... is me."

As Haiyan took his first step, the air around him seemed to be expelled by an invisible high pressure.

The spiritual pressure stopped spreading outwards and instead began to compress wildly into the Zanpakuto in his hand.

"To be honest, I've never actually tested this in real combat before..."

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"Swastika—!!"

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