Dang, Dang, Dang! The gong-like sound rang again, more urgently than the previous time, reminding all the Shinigami in the Jingling Court of the urgent situation.
"Emergency alert! Emergency alert!"
"An intruder was found in the Quiet Spirit Courtyard!"
"Each team, please take guard positions!"
"The number of intruders is two, one is the human traveler Ichigo Kurosaki, and the other is the complete magician Kouki Hirakawa. The former's power is unknown, and the latter's danger level is the highest... The appearance of the two is..."
The Quiet Spirit Court suddenly became agitated. Each Shinigami team member looked surprised and subconsciously looked up in the direction where the sound of the horn came from. On Xizhi Street, Ichigo gritted his teeth slightly and sped up his running speed.
Near the Bai Dao Gate, Yi Jiao's expression changed from surprise, to excitement, to confusion, and finally to anger: "Those two...bastards?!"
The expression on the bald head is even more ferocious. How dare you play tricks on me like this?! Absolutely, absolutely I will kill them with my own hands before the captain finds them!
Just as he expected, Zaraki Kenpachi already laughed excitedly and carried eight thousand people out of the house, embarking on an unknown journey, regardless of the defensive position.
The other captains also responded. Jingraku Shunsui sighed and put down his glass: "Captain Hirako, it seems that we can't have a full drink without sister Lisa coming to disturb us today."
"That guy... broke into the Seireitei? Is it for those Fullbringers?" Hitsugaya Toushiro solemnly put on his sword and summoned his team members.
After the initial shock, Renji Abarai quickly ran towards the fifth division team building, cursing Kurosaki Ichigo for that idiot in his heart. He was worried about Kurosaki Ichigo's own safety, and also worried about the impact on the dust.
The final trial of Rukia!
"team leader!……"
"Captain...went out an hour ago?"
After receiving the report from Sanchi, Renji Abarai was stunned. Where did Captain Byakuya go?
…
Still with the tall figure, handsome and cold attitude that seemed to have no emotion, Kuchiki Byakuya grabbed the Zanpakutō on his left waist with his right hand and intercepted it quietly in front of Ji Xing.
This is one of the only ways to get to the Zhenyang underground prison. He seems to have been waiting here for a long time, and he has no surprise at all about encountering Ji Xing here.
"As expected, it's you, Kouki Hirakawa, no, the 'sinner' Yono Mashi. Your goal is not to rescue the Zenjutsu master, but to get back your own Zanpakuto."
"You are very smart, Master Byakuya. You are the first person to guess and confirm my identity out of thin air." Ji Xing smiled and said, "Is it because of the little 'little traces' I exposed to Lucia?
"
The corners of Byakuya's eyes twitched slightly, and Ji Xing asked again: "Since you have already guessed it, why don't you tell everyone?"
Byakuya was silent for a few seconds and said: "You saved me, and you also saved my grandfather in Hueco Mundo. The Kuchiki clan will never owe others any kindness."
"Then why are you stopping here again?"
"It is my duty as the leader of the Kuchiki clan and as the captain of the Seireitei Division 6 to prevent Yono Mashi from retrieving his Zanpakutō."
Ji Xing sighed helplessly: "Are you tired?"
Byakuya took out his Zanpakutō and said that he didn't feel tired at all.
"Wait a minute." Ji Xing raised his hand and said, "Although I'm in a hurry right now, I can chat with you for a while. I have a few questions I want to ask you... How is Lucia?"
"50 years in black rope prison, 100 years in waiting prison, a total of 150 years in prison." Byakuya said coldly.
"A young girl has become an old lady." Ji Xing shook his head: "Do you regret marrying her sister, a commoner woman named Kuchiki Heizhen?"
"Never. It's just that I told myself at that time that it was the last time I would let Kuchiki be embarrassed." Byakuya didn't ask Ji Xing why he knew those things, and even gave a positive response.
"As one of the four nobles, does marrying a commoner woman bring shame to the family?" Ji Xing laughed: "Then what do you think of Shiba Haiyan?"
Hearing this name, Kuchiki Byakuya's expression fluctuated slightly, so Ji Xing calmly followed up: "What do you think of Shiba Haiyan's death?"
"Died 43 years ago, at the hands of the Quincy, died heroically in battle." Byakuya said.
"Are you sure?" Ji Xing asked.
"Are you sure?" Byakuya asked.
"I'm not sure, but you have subconscious doubts, right? Why?"
Byakuya fell silent again.
That's right, after escaping Aizen's experimental subjects but not the Quincy, Shiba Haiyan even died earlier than the original timeline, leaving Rukia without the opportunity to contact and work with him.
The Quincy, the Shadow Empire hidden in the shadows, is very powerful. Even if it was calculated 43 years ago without any intention, and even if Captain Yamamoto did it himself, it still caused a lot of losses to the Seireitei.
However, we were prepared after all, and only two of the captain and vice-captain suffered casualties.
Aikawa Ratake, the former captain of the seventh division.
Shiba Haiyan, the former deputy captain of the 13th Division!
Among them, Aikawa Luowu died of carelessness, and Shiba Haiyan died of an 'misfortune' - several powerful Quincy fled in the direction where he happened to be.
That 'misfortune' made Urahara Kisuke suspect that there were traces of deliberate guidance, and the one who was most suspected was naturally the Tsunayashiro family, one of the four nobles!
Since Tsunayoshi's death a hundred years ago when Tsunayoshi Tokinada was blurred, the Tsuyashiro clan leader and all the elites in the clan died. The Tsunayashiro family, which was originally vaguely ranked as the head of the nobility, has almost collapsed, and the Shiba clan has been suppressed by them.
But there are signs of recovery and return to the era of the five nobles.
Although he only had a brief acquaintance with Shiba Haiyan, Ji Xing still clearly remembers that the young man would attend every meeting of the Golden Seal Nobles just like himself who 'collected evidence of crime'!
He is striving to make "nobles break the law and the common people are equally guilty". This has never been successful a hundred years ago, but he still insists on expressing his opinions every time.
After Ji Xing's massacre of the nobles, some of the noble nobles became afraid and restrained, and his proposals began to succeed intermittently.
This really attracts hatred.
Ji Xing will not forcefully take the blame for this chain reaction on himself, but it does not prevent him from being very suspicious and dissatisfied with Shiba Haiyan's death!
"The fact that you have doubts means that you understand the filthiness of the nobility. In this case, as the head of the Kuchiki clan, who has a pivotal position among the nobility, he demands himself and treats himself harshly as a lotus flower that can rise out of the mud and remain unsullied.
relatives, ignoring other filth within reach.”
Ji Xing looked at Byakuya and shook his head: "Do you think you did a great job? Master Byakuya, you are far behind Senior Kuchiki Ginling."
Byakuya didn't see anger, he just lowered his head and looked at himself, and said: "Of course I am not as good as my grandfather, but...Rukia did commit a serious crime."
Ji Xing smiled: "That's because Soul Society's laws and regulations are not perfect enough, and there is a lack of an 'emergency evacuation' rule. As a high-risk profession, the Shinigami hunts vulnerabilities to protect the safety of the world, and their rights and interests should be more protected. With Lucia's face,
In a life crisis, those who lend their power of death and successfully kill Xu without causing huge damage should be punished with a small punishment."
Byakuya was silent for a while, then he turned the sword upside down and let it fall, sinking into the ground.
Powerful spiritual pressure burst out from his body, and was quickly gathered back by him. The high concentration was compressed back into his own body, making the captain Yu Zhi hunt!
"Swastika - Senbonzakura Kageyan!"
"Final scene-White Emperor Sword!"
In an instant, the surrounding world turned dark, one after another existed in the shadows, and the white-glow sword blade shimmered.
Those are all virtual.
All the swords, all the cherry blossoms, have been gathered into the sword in Byakuya's hand and the white wings spread out on his back! This is the strongest secret that Byakuya has mastered, which highly condenses all the spiritual power and binds it together.
Concentrate your strength on yourself!
"There is no need to shake me with words, Yono Masashi. Knock me down and you can get through here."
puff--!
As soon as he finished speaking, Byakuya's eyes suddenly blurred, and then he felt a sharp pain in his back!
As blood spattered and fell to the ground, he saw Ji Xing in front of him turn into a shadow and disappear, and heard a voice from behind: "Okay, I've been knocked down."
...Isn’t it too fast?!
Byakuya's thoughts didn't even follow the injury.
I don’t even have a chance to use the sword... Even if I directly... use the ultimate scene... the strongest genius in a thousand years... no... it turns out that I have been shaken...
So even his movement trajectory and spiritual pressure were missed... In his intermittent thoughts before coma, Byakuya could only feel himself being held by the back of the neck by Ji Xing and carried on his shoulders.
Where is this guy... taking me...
The world is dark.
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Zhenyang Underground Prison, second floor.
"So tired..." Lucia muttered in her heart.
She is now in a shape that looks like a bundle of limbs, with her hands and feet tightly bound together by special ropes. She can only use her shoulders to turn over and move, changing her position to lie on her side.
This is the punishment of black rope prison.
Only during the daily eating time and personal hygiene time can we briefly get a total of about an hour of rest and relax our limbs.
With her spiritual pressure sealed, she was exhausted from the fatigue accumulated over the past week, and she always felt like she might lose control and collapse at any moment.
"Just adapt...just adapt..."
"Uh... Lucia, you have to cheer up... it's only been a week... and you're already hallucinating?!"
Blinking her eyes, she saw a familiar figure. The living perfectionist Kouki Hirakawa walked into the cell where she was. The person he was holding in his hand was even more familiar, Brother Byakuya???
The eldest brother looked injured and unconscious, his back was stained red with blood, and he could only let Hirakawa Kouki manipulate him, placing him on the ground opposite to her who was lying on his side.
Immediately, Kouki Hirakawa took out a familiar black rope, broke off Byakuya's legs and hands, and tied them up in the same shape as hers, making the eldest brother's posture become a very inelegant bow shape.
The cold eldest brother...it's a bit funny to turn into a 'caterpillar' without arms and legs like himself!
Lucia couldn't help but smile, feeling that the accumulated fatigue on her body had dissipated a lot, and her mental fatigue had also been relieved.