Bleach: From the moment I was invited by Squad Zero

Chapter 87 Over 100 Breakthroughs

He slowly raised his head and looked at Lijie Barrow, who was forced to slow down but still charged into the formation with a violent momentum.

A calm voice rang out, echoing clearly in the silent realm shrouded by the magic circle: "A long time ago, when I first came into contact with the Kido and studied its principles and structure, I had a question."

His voice was calm and unhurried, as if he were discussing academic matters with an old friend rather than engaging in a life-or-death struggle.

"Is the so-called Ninety-Nine Demon Paths truly the limit of the Death God's technique, constructed using spiritual particles?"

Lijie Barrow's charge was further slowed by the suppression of the magic circle, and he heard Liuchuan's words.

A sharp sneer emanated from the bird's head, though the laughter sounded somewhat distorted and weak under the influence of the magic circle: "Ridiculous! According to all the intelligence we have, for thousands of years, no one in the Grim Reaper's life has been able to break through the Ninety-Nine Ghost Paths!"

That's the theoretical limit of your spiritual particle technology, an insurmountable chasm for your weak race! Who do you think you are?

"The fact that no one has made a breakthrough does not mean that it is impossible to make a breakthrough. The theoretical limit is just a constraint based on the existing cognitive framework."

Liu Chuan shook his head slightly, his gaze calmly sweeping over the magic circle beneath his feet, which was slowly flowing with a dark light. "Since no one before us could do it, then, the Kido after number ninety-nine—"

He paused, his tone so calm it was as if he were talking about something trivial: "—I'll be the one to start it."

"Arrogant!!" Ridge Barrow roared, completely enraged by Yanagawa's nonchalant attitude.

"Go to hell and keep your grandiose dreams of innovation! Heretic!!"

Driven to his limit, Lijie Barrow finally reached within fifty feet of Liuchuan!

This distance was enough for him to unleash the ultimate killing move that could only be used in the final form of the "Perfect Holy Body"!

He abruptly stopped his charge, gripped the ground firmly with all four feet, raised his slender neck high, and let out a long cry to the sky!

The eight wings of light on its back spread out to the maximum extent, pouring the remaining divine spirit into the shaky miniature halo above its head without reservation!

The halo's light surged, instantly resonating strongly with his body!

"Listen! This is the prelude to God's judgment, which cuts through falsehood and condemns sin! This is the final judgment that purifies heresy."

"The Trumpet of God!!"

Accompanied by this roar that seemed to exhaust all his life force, Lijie Baron's two giant arms, transformed from wings of light, appeared.

Suddenly, he raised his hands high above his head, and the two complex magic arrays in the palms reappeared and joined together!

This time, however, the magic circle did not emit light; instead, it frantically extracted and compressed the last of the divine spirits within Lijie Barrow's body.

And the free spirit particles within the surrounding magic array that have not yet been fully "digested"!

A dazzling light bursts forth at the point where the palms meet, rapidly shaping and extending!

In the blink of an eye, a giant megaphone appeared above Lijer Barrow's head!

The speaker's opening was pointed directly at Liuchuan below!

Lijie Barrow retracted one of his bare arms, his huge palm partially covering the bird's beak, making a "playing" gesture.

He poured all his remaining strength, will, and even the essential nature of the "divine penetration" into this strike!

"Pierce through! Annihilate! The Prelude to God—Final Chapter!!"

He suddenly blew forward with his half-closed hand!

"Ugh!!!!!!!!!"

Where the invisible sound waves passed, space rippled violently, like water ripples on a surface tossed with a pebble. Then, everything at the center of those ripples—

Its power and scope are sufficient to "purify" everything within the fan-shaped area directly in front of the loudspeaker in an instant.

This is Ridge Barrow's final, all-or-nothing gamble!

This is the strongest proof of his status as the "God-piercer"!

He intends to use the final chapter of this "Prelude to God" to completely erase Yanagawa, along with his ridiculous "New Ghost Path," from this world!

However, just as the earth-shattering prelude to the "God's Trumpet" was about to touch Yanagawa, Yanagawa pointed lightly in mid-air.

A calm syllable escaped his lips: "One Hundred Hakado."

"Eternal Demon Flame".

Buzz—! ! !

As the syllable fell, the massive, pitch-black magic array covering hundreds of meters beneath Liu Chuan's feet suddenly erupted with an unprecedented dark radiance!

This is a brand-new ghost path created by Liuchuan by combining magic and spiritual power, breaking through the upper limit of ghost paths.

All the intricate runes, graphics, and symbols within the formation simultaneously spun, resonated, and burned wildly!

It is not the rising of flames, but the embodiment of the concept of "burning" itself!

Based on the magic circle, endless, seemingly soul-devouring black flames suddenly "burned" out of thin air without warning!

This flame has no temperature, and even gives people the illusion of being cold, but what it "burns" is not matter, but energy itself!

The pitch-black demonic flames instantly filled the area covered by the magic array, and as if they were alive, they actively met the annihilation sound waves of the "God's Trumpet" that were sweeping in!

*Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!*

The instant the annihilating sound waves, imbued with divine penetrating and purifying power, came into contact with the temperatureless, pitch-black demonic flames that seemed to burn "nothingness" itself—

An anomaly has occurred!

The annihilation sound wave, upon touching the pitch-black demonic flames, was actually—ignited!?

The sound waves themselves actually became the "fuel" for the demonic flames!

The pitch-black flames spread and engulfed the sound waves in reverse, at an astonishing speed.

The sound waves spread toward the source of the sound waves—the enormous "God's Horn"—and toward Lijie Barrow beneath it!

"What?! This is impossible!!!" Lijie Barrow screamed in disbelief and extreme terror!

He felt the power he released instantly upon contact with the black flames.

Instead of "penetrating" or "purifying" it, it has lost control, and its sacred essence is being "burned" wildly by the flames!

That flame seemed to exist solely to "burn" his sacred power!

It is a higher level of absolute restraint and — pollution of "divine power"!

He wanted to cut off the supply of spiritual particles and take back the "trumpet of God," but it was too late!

The pitch-black demonic flames followed the torrent of sound waves and instantly clung to the enormous pure white horn!

The sacred trumpet surface, upon touching the demonic flames, seemed to encounter its nemesis, emitting a hissing sound as if corroded by strong acid, and quickly dimmed, becoming stained with a murky black!

Immediately afterwards, the entire body of the horn, radiant with holy light, began to be rapidly covered and devoured by the pitch-black demonic flames!

"Aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!"

When the first wisp of dark demonic flame, connected to his power with the "God's Horn," darted like a venomous snake up to the fingertip of his bare arm, Lijie Barrow let out a piercing scream!

It was an extreme torment that originated from the depths of the soul, a thousand times more painful than the destruction of the body!

He felt his sacred spiritual body, his connection with the source of power of "all things interconnected," and the power of his "eye of God."

They were all being frantically "burned" by this cold, black flame!

His power is rapidly dissipating, and the very essence of his being is wailing!

"No! My divine power! The power bestowed by His Majesty! How could this be—how could this be?! What is this thing?!"

What on earth is that?!

Lijie Barrow struggled frantically, trying to extinguish the demonic flames on his arm with his remaining strength and to activate divine power for defense.

However, once his divine child came into contact with the demonic flames, it not only failed to stop their spread, but instead added fuel to the fire, making the demonic flames burn even more fiercely!

The pitch-black flames seemed to feed on the "sacred," burning ever more fiercely!

In the blink of an eye, the pitch-black demonic flames had already engulfed half of the light arm and were rapidly spreading towards his body!

Wherever the demonic flames touched his wings on his back and the armor on his body, they quickly lost their luster, were stained with a murky black, and then turned into ashes!

"it's over."

Liu Chuan's calm voice pierced through Li Jie Barrow's desperate screams and came through clearly.

He still stood in the center of the magic circle, his body spotless, with only a wisp of deep black light slowly dissipating.

He watched silently as Lijie Barrow struggled frantically in the dark demonic flames, his eyes showing no emotion, only indifference as if witnessing the results of an experiment.

"No—!!! I am a god!!! I am His Majesty's greatest masterpiece!!! I will not lose!!! I will—!!!"

Lijie Barrow's roar had taken on a blatant madness, but as the dark demonic flames relentlessly devoured him, his struggles grew increasingly feeble, and his voice grew weaker and weaker.

His enormous monstrous form was crumbling, the sacred radiance was completely replaced by filthy darkness, and the "X"-shaped pupil in his left eye had long since extinguished, leaving only a despairing emptiness.

In the end, Lijie Barrow's last consciousness was completely "burned" away by the dark demonic flames, plunging him into eternal darkness and silence.

The pitch-black demonic flames slowly died down, as if they had completed their mission.

Lizzie Barrow, captain of the Sternritter of the Unknown Empire, the man with the holy script "X" who claimed to be the closest to God, was utterly defeated here.