XX-level Hokage

As he spoke, he slowly rose from his throne, and with each step he took, the ground beneath him instantly decayed and turned to ashes.

The force of aging spread outwards from him, and even the air seemed to become stale and rotten in an instant.

"This spiritual pressure... is terrifying!" Hinamori Momo felt a strong sense of dizziness. It seemed that the spiritual pressure within her body was being eroded by this decaying power, and her life force was being drained away.

Matsumoto Rangiku immediately raised her spiritual pressure, trying to resist the erosion, but she could feel that this power was not a simple oppression, but a direct corrosive effect on the essence of life.

"Everyone, stay away from him! Be careful of his abilities!" Toshiro Hitsugaya warned again.

Renji had already brandished the Serpent Tail, but he dared not rush forward rashly. Barragan's ability made him feel extremely dangerous. Rukia also gripped Sode no Shirayuki tightly, vigilantly watching Barragan's every move.

“A bunch of ignorant ants.” Barragan’s tone was tinged with disdain as he slowly raised his hand, palm facing them. An invisible force emanated from his palm, and in the air, they could see “time” passing by with the naked eye.

The surrounding walls, the ground, and even their own clothes instantly became old and decayed, turning into ashes. "Get out of the way!" Hitsugaya Toshiro roared, taking the lead in dodging to the side.

They quickly scattered, but some people's clothes were still touched by that force and instantly turned to dust.

Nellyel's expression was extremely solemn. She knew that Barragan's abilities were among the best in Las Noches, and he was not an opponent like Nnoitra who could be defeated by brute force.

"This is the Sigh of Death…" Nellyel's voice carried a hint of solemnity, "Barragan's ability to age. Anything he touches will age at an alarming rate until it dies."

Barragan's gaze finally settled on Hitsugaya Toshiro. He slowly extended his hand, his skeletal fingers pointing directly at Hitsugaya. "Shinigami... your time is about to come to an end," Barragan said hoarsely.

Toshiro Hitsugaya felt an immense pressure; the aging power seemed to be directly eroding his life. He immediately gathered his spiritual pressure.

Hyōrinmaru emitted an even stronger chill than before, attempting to freeze this decaying power.

However, Barragan's power seemed to exceed Hyōrinmaru's freezing limit.

The cold air clashed with the power of aging, producing a sizzling sound, as if it were a contest between ice and fire.

"You little brat, you think you can resist the laws of Hueco Mundo?" A glint of light flashed in Barragan's eyes, and black spiritual pressure began to surge around his body, a sign that he was about to release his Zanpakuto.

“Now that Aizen has left, I will take over the cleanup of Las Noches,” Barragan said in a low voice. “You will serve as my scouts for returning to my position.”

The arrival of the "King of Hueco Mundo" instantly escalated the battle deep within Las Noches to an unprecedented level of danger.

Toshiro Hitsugaya and his group were about to face the oldest and most powerful of the Espada. "Release!" Toshiro Hitsugaya did not hesitate at all. Faced with such an opponent, he had no choice but to go all out! Hyōrinmaru instantly erupted with a soaring blast of cold air, and a huge ice dragon roared out, enveloping him within it.

The form of Daiguren Hyōrinmaru unfolded instantly, its ice wings, ice tail, and ice armor radiating a chilling aura. "Freeze him!" Hitsugaya Tōshirō roared, and the massive ice dragon charged towards Barragán, unleashing a devastating blast of cold air!

However, Barragan merely watched the charging ice dragon coldly, his skeletal hand slowly rising. "Insignificant."

With his hoarse voice, a decaying aura erupted from his body, instantly meeting the charging ice dragon head-on.

The moment the ice dragon came into contact with that aura, its massive body began to decay and collapse rapidly, turning into countless ice shards. Before it could even fully unfold, it was completely devoured by the power of aging!

Hitsugaya Toshiro's expression changed drastically. He hadn't expected that his solution would be so easily neutralized by Barragan's power, which was even more terrifying than he had imagined!

"Everyone, take cover!" Hiban Shiro roared. His body also felt a bit tired under the impact of that decaying aura, and his spiritual pressure seemed to be being eroded.

Renji, Rukia, Matsumoto Rangiku, and Hinamori Momo immediately scattered, searching for cover in the ruins while attempting to launch an attack from the flanks. Nelieel charged forward again, her Antelope Knight emitting a vibrant green light.

"Cero Flash Resounds!" Nereel roared, and a massive emerald green energy ball instantly blasted towards Barragan!

However, Barragan merely glanced at it dismissively, then raised his hand again, the power of aging coalescing in front of the energy sphere to form an invisible barrier.

The moment Cero Resonance touched the barrier, it seemed as if time itself was accelerated, instantly decaying, collapsing, and ultimately turning into nothingness without even making an explosion.

"This is impossible to attack!" Rukia felt despair.

Any attack that gets close to him will be instantly neutralized by his power of aging.

"I am the King of Hueco Mundo, the embodiment of death." Barragan slowly raised his skeletal hand, and a jet-black energy sphere condensed in his palm—that was...

His ultimate Cero after his Resurrection was named "Cero of Aging"!

"Your deaths will be the final hymn to my return." At this moment, the battle in Hueco Mundo truly reached a dead end.

Chapter 212: The Sea of ​​Time

Inside the massive circular hall of Las Noches, the battle between the Shinigami squad and the First Espada, Barragan Louisiana, was fraught with despair from the very beginning. Barragan's power, known as "aging," was an absolute law, an insurmountable chasm between life and time.

When Nereil's "Cero Resonance" came into contact with that invisible barrier of aging, it instantly decayed into nothingness, and even the aftershocks of the explosion failed to spread. Despair overwhelmed everyone present like a tidal wave.

This force is not a simple contest of brute force, but a denial of existence itself.

“Too slow.” Barragan’s tone was filled with utter contempt. He slowly lowered his skeletal hand, and the dark “Aging Cero” in his palm was like a shrinking black hole, emitting a terrifying gravitational pull. “My time has exceeded the limit that your Cero can withstand. Before me, everything will age, until death.”

His gaze swept over the scattered Death wolves, his empty eye sockets filled with a primal loathing for life.

"Captain Hitsugaya, what do we do? We can't get close to him at all!" Matsumoto Rangiku's voice trembled slightly, but she still gripped her Zanpakuto tightly. "His ability isn't just a simple spiritual pressure attack, but an acceleration of the flow of time... We must find a way to strike him before he activates his ability."

"A method!" Hitsugaya Toshiro's expression was unusually solemn. He knew this was an almost impossible task. Barragan's spiritual pressure was strong enough to suppress their actions, and the aging field around him was a natural barrier.

"Coin break!" Renji suddenly stood up, knowing he had to give it his all.

A gigantic bone serpent emerged from the snake tail, its gaping maw surging with enough brute force to devour everything as it charged toward Barragan. "Great True One," Barragan sneered. He didn't even raise a hand; he merely released a slight amount of spiritual pressure from his body.

The moment the bone serpent came into contact with his spiritual pressure domain, its massive skeleton seemed to have been weathered for tens of thousands of years, its surface instantly covered with cracks, and then with a "whoosh," it turned into dust and dissipated into the air.

"Renji!" Rukia exclaimed, knowing this was a sign that her defenses had been broken in an instant.

"Six-Staff Light Prison!" Lucia did not give up. She plunged her sleeve into the ground, and six pillars of light rose from the earth, attempting to bind Barragan within them.

However, as the pillar of light formed around Barragan, it began to blur, as if its color had faded, and then vanished instantly. A futile struggle. Barragan said hoarsely, "Before the absolute laws of time, all forms of restraint are meaningless." Hitsugaya Toshiro knew that conventional attacks would be ineffective; he had to devise an attack method that could break through "time" itself.

"Release, Daiguren Hyōrinmaru!" Hitsugaya Toshirō's ice wings flapped violently, concentrating all his spiritual pressure onto the ice blade. The ice blade was instantly compressed, becoming transparent and sharp, emitting a chilling aura.

"Ice Heaven Hundred Flowers Burial!" Hitsugaya Toshiro roared, unleashing an ice blade that instantly caused countless ice flowers to bloom in the air, each carrying the power to freeze space.

This is not a simple attack, but the ultimate application of the solution. He attempts to use absolute "stillness" to counter Barragán's "passage"!

“Interesting.” Barragán finally showed a hint of interest as he looked at the countless ice flowers that did indeed temporarily freeze the surrounding air of decay. However, it was only “temporary.”

“Resurrect.” Barragan’s voice was deep and resonant, like the pronouncement of death, “Rot away, Emperor!”

His body was instantly enveloped in black smoke. When the smoke dissipated, he had transformed into a giant unicorn, wearing a purple robe and holding a huge bone scythe.

That aging power was more than a hundred times stronger than before! "Boom!"

When the ice flower came into contact with the aging spiritual pressure unleashed by Barragan's Resurrection Blade, it almost instantly decayed and withered, vanishing without a chance to bloom.

Hitsugaya Toshiro's attack was like a clay ox sinking into the sea, causing no ripples whatsoever.

"Kid, your ice can't freeze time." Barragan raised his massive bone scythe and swung it down fiercely at Toshiro Hitsugaya. Barragan had seen the limits of Toshiro's power.

Toshiro Hitsugaya's pupils contracted sharply; he knew this attack was unavoidable!

Just then, a figure in emerald green rushed forward, the last half of the Antelope Knight in her hand emitting a dazzling light!

"I'll go!" Nelieel's body erupted with spiritual pressure far exceeding that before. She concentrated all her spiritual pressure on the Antelope Knight's blade, and then, with an almost insane speed, she charged towards Barragan's bone scythe!

Cero Recital! "Nellyel compressed the power of Cero to its limit and then poured it onto the blade, attempting to shatter Barragan's aging power as it spread to the blade in an instant!"

"puff!"

Nellyel's Antelope Knight, with a Cero that could tear through space, slashed fiercely at Barragan's bone scythe! "What?!" Barragan exclaimed in surprise for the first time.

He hadn't expected that, despite his aging power, someone could deliver an attack so precisely and at such high speed! Nelliel's attack did indeed briefly breach the "time" barrier of his aging domain, preventing the power from fully taking effect!

However, Barrell is, after all, the king of Hueco Mundo.

Although Nelliel's blade clashed with the bone scythe, the aging power instantly eroded her attack. "Karaara..."

At the moment of impact, the Antelope Knight's blade began to emit a painful groan, then quickly decayed and collapsed, turning into dust that filled the sky.

Neliel's body was also eroded by the backlash of aging power. Age spots appeared on her cheeks and arms, as if she had aged hundreds of years in an instant!

"How naive." A hint of disdain flashed in Barragán's eyes. "You think you can defeat me simply by accelerating the aging process? Aging is a law, it's irresistible."

His bone scythe still carried the power to destroy everything, and it slammed heavily into Nelieel's body. Boom!

Neliel's body slammed heavily against the wall like a kite with a broken string, spitting out a mouthful of blood. The charred marks left on her body by the bone scythe were visibly decaying and collapsing, her life force rapidly fading away!

"Miss Neriel!" Toshiro Hitsugaya and the others exclaimed in surprise.

They knew that Nelliel's attack was their only chance, but they still failed. Now, all of them were severely injured, their spiritual pressure depleted, and they had lost the ability to fight again.

“It’s all over,” Barragan said hoarsely, raising his massive bone scythe and pointing it at Toshiro Hitsugaya and the others. “Your struggles end here.”

That's enough.

The bone scythe, carrying the aura of death and decay, slowly swung down at them. Wherever that power passed, the air, the earth, and time seemed to be erased in an instant, turning into nothingness.

Hitsugaya Toshiro, Renji, Rukia, Rangiku, Hinamori Momo, and the heavily injured Nelliel all closed their eyes, awaiting death.

However, just as the deadly bone scythe was about to touch their bodies, a powerful and strange spiritual pressure suddenly spread out from the depths of Hueco Mundo in an illogical way!

This spiritual pressure was neither as full of death and decay as Barragan's, nor as clear and pure as the Grim Reaper's. Instead, it was something in between, carrying a hint of ancient chaos, yet incredibly powerful aura.

As soon as this spiritual pressure appeared, Barragan's bone scythe actually paused in mid-air for a moment!

"Who is it?!" For the first time, a trace of solemnity flashed in Barragan's empty eye sockets. He could feel that this spiritual pressure was ancient and powerful, no less than his own, and even... above him!

"Hey, you guys, don't die in front of me."

A cool, slightly nonchalant voice echoed from the deep corridors of Hueco Mundo. "I came here specifically to watch the show. If all the actors die, how can the performance continue?"

As the sound rang out, a woman wearing a white captain's haori, but without a team emblem on the back of the haori, slowly walked out of the darkness of the corridor.

She had long, jet-black hair, casually tied back with a red ribbon. Her face was pretty, but there was a cryptic smile on her lips.

Hitsugaya Toshiro and the others (except Nelliel) stared at Mashiro in surprise.

"Who are you?" Barragan had already retracted his bone scythe. He stared at the woman before him, and the ancient spiritual pressure emanating from her made him feel threatened for the first time.

"Who am I?" The woman's enigmatic smile deepened as she slowly extended her hand, palm up, toward Barragán. "Guess?" Her words carried a serene composure that seemed to see through everything.

Barragan's empty eye sockets flickered with an uncertain light. He could sense that the woman before him was a monster in the same dimension as Aizen, Suke, and even himself.

"Who...who are you?" Barragan asked hoarsely. The woman didn't answer, but simply snapped her fingers lightly. "Snap!"

The crisp snap of fingers, seemingly carrying some ancient and mysterious power, instantly resounded throughout the entire Hueco Mundo hall. And in that very instant, the incredibly powerful, aged spiritual pressure surrounding Barragan... briefly froze!

“You are not worthy to know my name,” the woman said coldly. “All you need to know is that I can also make your time... stand still.” For the first time, a look of terror appeared on Barragan’s marrow-like face.

Faced with the absolute laws of time, his proud "aging" was instantly neutralized by the woman before him! In the end, to prevent the deaths of Rukia and Nero, Mashiro chose to reveal herself.

And coincidentally, her Soul Blade Zero White-Blue's power counters Barragan's aging power.

Blue-Sea of ​​Time: Disrupts time within the spiritual pressure range. The closer to the center of the spiritual pressure, the deeper the time is disrupted. It can cause time to stop or time to be exiled. Time stop cannot affect the human body but can only affect spiritual particles, while time exiled can only affect the human body but cannot affect spiritual particles.

Chapter 213: Mashiro vs. Barragan

Inside the massive circular hall of Las Noches, the Grim Reapers looked at the woman before them in despair. Her appearance was like a thunderbolt from the sky, shattering the absolute laws constructed by the First Espada, Barragan Louisenbon.

The line, "I can also make your time... stand still," caused the first expression of terror to appear in Barragán's empty eye sockets.