Chapter 401 - 202: Ichibe’s Shock, Squad Zero’s Interception (Part 1)

Chapter 401: Chapter 202: Ichibe’s Shock, Squad Zero’s Interception (Part 1)

A man clad in golden armor slowly walked toward the Soul King Palace along the snow-white long stairs that had appeared out of thin air!

The sound of the soles of the golden God Cloth striking the ice crystal stairs echoed throughout the entire Seireitei.

"Who is he?!"

"Are the stairs beneath his feet made of ice-element power? But with this distance and intensity, it’s simply unbelievable!"

There was no shortage of masters among the Shinigami.

But to utilize ice-element power to such a degree, creating stairs spanning tens of thousands of meters out of thin air while sustaining the weight of a person—just this level of power and control was not something an ordinary person could achieve.

Even Toshiro Hitsugaya, who possessed the strongest ice-element Zanpakuto, Hyorinmaru, could absolutely not achieve this.

The Captains, Lieutenants, and members of the various squads who had not gone to Karakura Town to execute the mission to capture Aizen all appeared on the roofs of the Gotei 13 barracks.

Their gazes locked dead onto the figure slowly stepping through the high sky. Their Spiritual Pressures were quietly raised, but they did not dare to attack rashly.

The display Alex had just put on made them feel fear from the very bottom of their hearts.

But there were also quite a few hotheaded youths who were eager to try!

Retsu Unohana stopped the restless squad members, shouting sternly,

"Do not act recklessly! Await instructions from the Captain-Commander!"

Far away in Karakura Town, the communicator at Captain-Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s waist suddenly blared a sharp alarm. From it came the panicked report of a Gotei 13 member.

"Captain-Commander! A powerful enemy has invaded the Soul Society and is about to break into the mysterious structure that appeared in the sky above the Seireitei. Please instruct us on how to respond!"

Yamamoto’s face instantly turned ashen. His wrinkled face scrunched tightly, and the hand holding Ryujin Jakka trembled slightly.

He thought of the scene on the Karakura Town battlefield where Alex casually suppressed Aizen with a single move, and he thought of the legends in ancient texts about the Divine King establishing the three realms and creating the sun and moon. Ultimately, he could only let out a heavy sigh.

"Let him be. That is not an enemy you can stop!"

Retsu Unohana’s pupils shrank slightly. The Captain-Commander’s words left her incredibly astonished.

The Captain-Commander, who had always dared to use the Zanpakuto in his hand to break through all obstacles, was actually choosing to ignore all of this?

...

Inside the Soul King Palace, within the Squad Zero Riden.

The violent tremors and the wails of the shattering seals instantly alarmed all the members of Squad Zero.

Tenjiro Kirinji was sitting by the medicinal pool, preparing the Kinpeka healing liquid.

The moment the tremors reached him, he stood up abruptly, nearly dropping the porcelain bottle in his hand.

The leisure on his face completely vanished, replaced by panic and solemnity.

"Who is it... Such unreasonable and barbaric power! To actually ignore all the rules of the Soul King Palace and force their way in!"

Senjumaru Shutara was currently inside a workshop filled with threads.

Her gaze was as sharp as a knife, her voice carrying a metallic coldness and hardness.

"A powerful enemy has invaded the Soul King Palace! Activate the highest defenses immediately and protect the Soul King!"

Kirio Hikifune stood in the courtyard. Her plump face showed not a trace of its usual gentleness, and her entire body radiated a majestic Spiritual Pressure.

"This aura is neither Hollow nor Shinigami. It is a power I have never seen before!"

Ichibe Hyosube and Oetsu Nimaiya, who had both met Alex in the past, did not appear immediately.

The figures of the two were hidden in the shadows deep within the main hall, their faces gloomy.

Nimaiya’s fingers unconsciously rubbed the scabbard of the Zanpakuto at his waist, his eyes full of wariness.

The Reishi mirror before the two of them clearly reflected the scene of the outer seals of the Soul King Palace collapsing.

As well as that golden figure forcing his way into the Soul King Palace as if entering an uninhabited land.

He sensed that familiar yet unfamiliar powerful aura.

That oppressive might that overrode all rules from thousands of years ago, when the Soul King first created the three realms, had now reappeared.

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