Chapter 397 - 200: Kyoka Suigetsu! Defeated in One Move! (Part 1)

Chapter 397: Chapter 200: Kyoka Suigetsu! Defeated in One Move! (Part 1)

The Reishi in Karakura Town surged and tumbled restlessly like fireflies.

Sosuke Aizen stood in the center of the battlefield, his customary faint smile hanging on his lips, while his brown eyes lit up with a fanatical zeal for the unknown power.

Just as he was about to make a move, he was frozen in mid-air by a sudden, descending, icy chill.

Alex merely spoke, and the churning Reishi on the battlefield instantly stagnated. Even the aftermath of the fierce battles in the distance seemed to have had the pause button pressed, plunging the entirety of Karakura Town into a deathly silence.

"Study me?"

"Aizen, relying on just you and that ridiculous Hogyoku inside your body?"

Alex’s voice was flat and calm, yet it carried a chill that pierced the soul. Like the breath of ice, it not only tore Aizen’s declaration to shreds but was also directly branded into the depths of the consciousness of every living being on the battlefield.

He stood completely still. The golden God Cloth reflected the pale blue Reishi light, his white cape fluttered without any wind, his brows were slightly raised, and his gaze was indifferent.

Aizen’s pupils contracted violently, and the smile on his face instantly froze.

He subconsciously gripped his Zanpakuto tighter, his knuckles turning white from the force. A trace of imperceptible cold sweat seeped from his forehead. Is he truly a god?

Why could he expose his most core secret with a single sentence?

Although the existence of the Hogyoku was known to a select few, he had never revealed its true depths to anyone. Even Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen only knew of its surface, not its inner workings.

The contempt in Alex’s words was like an ice pick, accurately piercing the infinitely inflated confidence he had gained from the Hogyoku’s power.

The intellect he was so proud of, the schemes he had plotted for over a century, and even the Hogyoku he viewed as his key to ascending to godhood—before this existence known as the Divine King, they all appeared so comical and insignificant.

However, this contempt ironically ignited the most frantic flames within Aizen’s heart.

Covering his face with one hand, he threw his head back and laughed maniacally. The eyes visible through his fingers burned with extreme fanaticism.

"Excellent! This is the majesty a god should possess! Allow me to personally verify the upper limits of your power!"

The Hogyoku throbbed frantically within his body, granting Aizen an unprecedented Spiritual Pressure as it attempted to break through Alex’s omnipresent divine suppression.

Aizen wasted no more words. He drew the Zanpakuto at his waist, its blade gleaming with a cold light beneath the Reishi illumination.

"Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu!"

Aizen’s Zanpakuto could completely hypnotize anyone who had seen its Shikai, controlling their five senses and thoroughly twisting everything they saw. It could even kill people formlessly through psychological suggestion.

But all of this was mere illusion before Alex.

Even the Gemini Saga’s Genro Mao Ken couldn’t hypnotize him, let alone Kyoka Suigetsu!

The moment the release command fell, the Zanpakuto transformed into a sky full of fine silver radiance. Catalyzed by the Hogyoku, its power was infinitely twisted and magnified.

The space of Karakura Town suddenly twisted and deformed. Fake streets and broken buildings began to overlap, and countless blades flashing with cold light emerged from all directions.

They pierced through the ground, tore the sky apart, and some even extended from phantoms of the past and future.

Everything before Alex’s eyes transformed into infinite killing intent from Kyoka Suigetsu.

This was no longer a simple illusion.

Aizen had perfectly fused Kyoka Suigetsu’s cognitive interference with the massive Spiritual Pressure of the Hogyoku, twisting space, time, and the rules of cognition. Every single blade contained a lethal Spiritual Pressure, forming a surging torrent of sword light intended to completely submerge and disintegrate Alex.

Under the overwhelmingly immense pressure brought by Alex, this was Aizen’s full-powered strike that transcended the boundaries of a Shinigami.

At this moment, the intensity of Aizen’s Spiritual Pressure made the distant Gotei 13 Captains and the Espada tremble all over. If they were in Alex’s position, once caught in this power, their bodies and souls would inevitably be obliterated.

However, facing this attack capable of tearing through space-time and twisting cognition, Alex didn’t even bat an eyelid.