Chapter 650 Ulquiorra Cifer's Resurrección

"He actually blocked Ulquiorra's blade?"

Yammy couldn't believe his eyes. His eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets.

Although he knew he might never reach that level in his lifetime, in his understanding, as a being who had achieved self-Arrancarization, Ulquiorra should be a cut above ordinary Vasto Lorde.

Arrancarization was a qualitative leap in itself... sealing a Hollow's power within a Zanpakuto and releasing it through Resurrección when needed.

And that guy named Ishigami Yu, who hadn't even completed Arrancarization, could fight Ulquiorra without being at a disadvantage? How was that possible?

But the next moment, something even more astonishing happened.

Dark red lightning burst from around Yu's body. Those arcs of lightning coiled and slithered across his skin, crackling sharply.

His Reiatsu surged under the boost of this power, instantly tipping the balance that had been deadlocked with Ulquiorra.

Yu's power skyrocketed. With a sudden burst of force from his gun-arm, he sent Ulquiorra's Zanpakuto and his entire body flying backward.

Ulquiorra spun through the air several times before barely stabilizing himself, but still crashed down like a meteor into the white sand below.

White sand erupted skyward, forming a mushroom-shaped cloud of dust dozens of meters high.

"Ulquiorra was overpowered—?!"

This time, Yammy's eyes really did nearly pop out of their sockets.

Yu looked down at the still-churning cloud of white dust below. Dark red arcs of electricity still crackled on his gun barrel. He coldly assessed:

"So this is all a Vasto Lorde Arrancar is capable of?"

But the moment the words left his mouth, a cyan-green flash of light shot out of the white dust like lightning.

That streak of light carved a straight green trail through the dust.

In less than a blink of an eye, it had breached Yu's alert distance, heading straight for his neck.

Yu's pupils contracted slightly. He swung his gun-arm, wreathed in Conqueror's Haki.

But just as the gun-arm was about to hit that cyan-green light, the opponent sidestepped the attack at an almost impossible angle.

It wasn't a dodge... it was an extreme close-quarters flanking maneuver.

Ulquiorra's body brushed past the gun barrel, his blade scraping a shower of sparks across its surface.

Using the momentum of Yu's attack, he circled behind him.

'Pretty fast!'

Yu's pupils contracted slightly.

He noticed that Ulquiorra had some white sand clinging to him, and there were several visible scratches on his pale skin, clearly from the earlier impact.

But this guy didn't even frown. He had already raised his Zanpakuto again, the blade aimed at Yu's unguarded back.

However, Yu's other arm, which had transformed into a machine gun, had already rotated 180 degrees from his shoulder joint.

The joint made a mechanical clicking sound as the barrel precisely locked onto Ulquiorra's face.

Bang!!

The Cero exploded.

The dark red energy detonated at ultra-close range. Because it was released at zero distance, even Yu himself was caught in the blast.

He was pushed back dozens of meters by the recoil, his feet plowing two white trails through the air.

And Ulquiorra, as the one directly hit, absorbed more than seventy percent of that Cero's power.

The unimaginable explosion triggered a towering blaze in the sky, forcing both combatants back. But Ulquiorra was clearly the more injured of the two.

"Kh—!"

Before he even landed, a mouthful of blood burst from Ulquiorra's lips. Dark green droplets traced arcs through the air.

He glanced down at his right arm, which was torn and bloody. Beneath the charred skin, white bone was faintly visible, and the turned-back muscle tissue exposed dark red deep flesh.

Ulquiorra couldn't help but be shocked. He had instinctively activated his Hierro at the last moment, yet he had still been damaged this badly.

'Just how strong was this guy's attack power?'

Then, under the healing of High-Speed Regeneration, the charred flesh on Ulquiorra's arm began to regrow, visibly covering the bone again.

The same was true for Yu across from him. The few burn marks on his body quickly healed under High-Speed Regeneration, new skin restored as if nothing had happened.

'Strong.' Ulquiorra had completely shed his previous unflappable coldness. A deep sense of caution arose from within.

He truly hadn't expected that a Vasto Lorde who hadn't even completed Arrancarization could be this strong.

And the other party was just one of Makoto's subordinates, so how strong must Makoto himself be?

"Hey, Ulquiorra! Use that move to finish him off!" Yammy shouted from a distance, reminding him.

"Shut up, you big idiot." Yu raised his gun-arm in annoyance and fired another Cero.

This Cero was faster and more ferocious than the one he had fired at Yammy earlier.

A dark red, nearly black beam of energy, wreathed in dark red Conqueror's arcs, lunged toward Yammy like a roaring dragon.

Ulquiorra's dark green pupils contracted sharply at that moment.

He knew that Yammy absolutely couldn't block that Cero.

And at his current speed, he absolutely couldn't catch up to it either.

At that critical moment, Ulquiorra didn't even think.

He instinctively opened his mouth. Dark green Reiatsu surged from the depths of his throat, forming a low incantation.

"Enclose, Murciélago."

Instantly, the bright moonlight that had been illuminating the white sand was completely shrouded by a sweeping curtain of pitch-black Reiatsu.

The sky was dyed dark green, as if a massive black curtain had been abruptly pulled down from the heavens.

Black spirit particles rained down like a storm, densely falling upon Ulquiorra.

Ulquiorra's figure was completely swallowed by those black raindrops, and as he vanished, his true body had already shot toward Yammy at a speed surpassing his previous limits.

Along the way, those black raindrops enveloped and reshaped him.

The moment Ulquiorra arrived between that Conqueror's Haki-empowered Cero and Yammy—

A pair of huge bat-like black wings burst from his back, crossing in front of him like two massive shields, blocking the Cero's path.

Boom—!!!

A deafening explosion blasted across the entire region.

This Cero, far more powerful than a Tailed Beast Bomb, slammed into Ulquiorra's black wings without reservation.

The shockwave expanded outward in a ring, blowing away white sand for dozens of miles in all directions.

Even for a Vasto Lorde-level Menos Grande, tanking such an attack head-on would absolutely not leave them unscathed.

When the impact and dust finally began to settle, Yu looked up again.

Before him, Ulquiorra had descended in a completely new form. His single-horned helmet had become two horns, one on each side, extending diagonally upward like twin curved blades.

His arms, which had been almost identical to a human's, had transformed into pitch-black claw-like forms.

The dark green tear-stain lines on his face were deeper, extending from his eyes all the way to his jaw.

A pair of massive bat wings spread slowly behind him, then folded back.

This was the Resurrección of an Arrancarized Hollow.

Ulquiorra Cifer's true combat form.