Chapter 200 : Mirror flowers and water moons! Defeat in one move!
The spirit particles of Karakura Town surged restlessly like fireflies.
Aizen Sōsuke stood at the center of the battlefield, a faint, habitual smile on his lips, his brown eyes gleaming with fanaticism for unknown power.
Just as he was about to make a move, he was frozen in mid-air by a sudden, icy chill.
Li Yu merely spoke, and the swirling spirit particles on the battlefield instantly froze; even the distant aftershocks of battle seemed to be paused, and all of Karakura Town fell into a dead silence.
"Studying me?"
"Aizen, with just you, and that laughable Hōgyoku inside you?"
Li Yu's voice was calm and unruffled, yet it carried a soul-piercing coldness, like the aura of ten-thousand-year-old ice, not only shattering Aizen's declaration but also directly imprinting itself deep within the consciousness of every living being on the battlefield.
He stood motionless, his golden Cloth reflecting the pale blue spiritual light, his White cloak billowing without wind, his brows slightly raised, his gaze indifferent.
Aizen's pupils suddenly constricted, and the smile on his face instantly froze.
He subconsciously tightened his grip on his zanpakutō, his knuckles turning White from the effort, a trace of imperceptible cold sweat beading on his forehead—was he truly a God of Death?
How could he instantly reveal his most core secret?
While some knew of the Hōgyoku's existence, he had never revealed it to anyone, not even Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen, who only knew its superficial aspects, not its true nature.
Li Yu's words, filled with disdain, were like an ice pick, precisely piercing his self-confidence, which had expanded infinitely due to the Hōgyoku's power.
His intelligence, of which he was so proud, his century-long machinations, and even the Hōgyoku, which he considered the key to ascending to godhood, all seemed so ludicrously insignificant before this being who proclaimed himself a God of Death King.
But this contempt, instead, ignited the most insane Fire within Aizen's heart.
He covered his face with one hand, throwing his head back in aLaughing wildly; his eyes, visible through the gaps in his fingers, burned with extreme fanaticism.
"Very good! This is the majesty a God of Death should possess! I will personally verify the upper limit of your power!"
The Hōgyoku surged wildly within him, granting Aizen unprecedented spiritual pressure, attempting to break through Li Yu's omnipresent divine suppression.
Aizen stopped wasting words, drawing the zanpakutō from his waist, its blade glinting coldly under the spiritual light.
"Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu!"
Aizen's zanpakutō could completely hypnotize anyone who had witnessed its Shikai, manipulating their five senses and thoroughly distorting everything they saw; it could even kill unseen through psychological suggestion.
But all of this was futile before Li Yu.
Even Gemini Saga's Genro Maoh Ken couldn't hypnotize him, let alone a Kyōka Suigetsu?
The moment the release command fell, the zanpakutō transformed into a myriad of shimmering silver fragments, its power infinitely distorted and magnified under the Hōgyoku's catalysis.
The space of Karakura Town suddenly became twisted and deformed; illusory streets and broken buildings began to overlap, and countless blades, gleaming with cold light, emerged from all directions.
They pierced through the ground, tore through the sky, and some even extended from the past, future, and ethereal Shadow.
Everything before Li Yu's eyes could transform into an infinite killing intent from Kyōka Suigetsu.
This was no longer mere illusion.
Aizen perfectly fused Kyōka Suigetsu's cognitive interference with the Hōgyoku's immense spiritual pressure, distorting the rules of space, time, and perception; each blade contained a deadly spiritual pressure, forming a surging torrent of blades that sought to completely engulf and disintegrate Li Yu.
This was his full-power attack, surpassing the limits of a God of Death, unleashed under the immense pressure brought by Li Yu.
At this moment, Aizen's spiritual pressure was so overwhelming that it made the distant Captains of the Gotei 13 and the Espada tremble; if they were in Li Yu's position, once caught in the path of this power, their bodies and souls would undoubtedly be annihilated.
However, facing this attack capable of tearing through space-time and distorting perception, Li Yu didn't even bat an eyelid.
He remained calm, the patterns on his golden Cloth subtly shifting, the surrounding spiritual particles suspended motionlessly under an invisible force.
Just as the torrent of blades was about to touch his body.
Li Yu took a gentle step forward; there was no incantation, no technique, not even a noticeable energy fluctuation, just a soft step forward in the face of the blade light covering all paths.
Buzz!
A White halo silently spread out from his body as its origin point.
Time seemed to lose its meaning at this moment; falling spiritual fragments hung suspended in mid-air, and the spiritual pressure on the blades solidified.
The surging torrent of blades, a foot away from Li Yu, seemed to collide with an invisible barrier; there was no earth-shattering explosion, no jarring impact sound, only silent annihilation.
Kyōka Suigetsu's reality-distorting attack, fused with the Hōgyoku, melted and disintegrated like snowflakes under a scorching sun the moment it touched that wave, turning into the finest spiritual dust that drifted away with the airflow.
Aizen's full-power attack, surpassing the limits of a God of Death, was as fragile as a child's sandcastle before Li Yu, collapsing completely with a gentle push from Li Yu.
Pfft!
The backlash was far more terrifying than imagined.
The Hōgyoku in Aizen's chest let out a 'crack,' and tiny fissures appeared on its surface.
He violently spat out a mouthful of blackish-red blood.
Aizen's body, fused with the Hōgyoku, trembled violently; his legs gave out, and he knelt on one knee, his chest heaving violently.
The spiritual pressure on his body rapidly dissipated like a punctured balloon, and his once-erect figure instantly withered.
The Hōgyoku was originally a miraculous item capable of materializing the host's inner desires, but under Li Yu's power, which transcended the World's limits, even the Hōgyoku could not withstand such force.
Aizen's always self-assured brown eyes now held nothing but boundless shock.
His pupils dilated to the extreme, followed by a bone-deep bewilderment, and finally, profound fear took over.
He hunched his body, hands propped on the ground, teeth clenched tightly, veins bulging on his forehead.
In that instant, he clearly saw the crushing force of dimension and rules.
Li Yu's counterattack was a fundamental negation of the spatial rules he had established.
It was as if someone had casually erased his lines on a canvas; everything he understood, controlled, and distorted was, in the other's eyes, merely superficial dust.
Li Yu's figure shimmered and reappeared before Aizen.
Aizen showed no intention of resisting; in fact, before such power, anything he did would be futile.
Li Yu leaned slightly, his gaze piercing through Aizen's body, precisely locking onto the nearly shattered Hōgyoku in his chest.
"Do you see, Aizen Sōsuke?"
"Your so-called transcendence is merely the arrogant delusion of a frog in a well."
"The Hōgyoku you rely on is nothing more than a crude toy created by your own imagination."
"You pursue power, yet you don't even understand the meaning of power; you think you've glimpsed the rules, yet you don't know that above the rules, there is an existence that sets the rules!"
Every word of Li Yu's was like a heavy hammer, striking Aizen's mental defenses hard.
Aizen trembled all over; he suddenly raised his head, blood dripping from his chin.
The fanaticism in his eyes completely extinguished, replaced by an almost blank bewilderment...
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