Shigure raised his hand, gripping his sword in reverse.
The water-blue light barrier of Dankū disappeared before everyone's eyes, but at the same time, a burst of golden light appeared in Shigure's hand.
The golden light instantly shot toward Hueco Mundo's sky, completely scattering all remaining yellow clouds in an instant!
In the cloudless clear sky, thunderous roars continued endlessly!
Everyone looked up at the sky, while Zommari and Yuka were completely stunned.
The next moment, two golden thunder dragons suddenly manifested from the sky, plummeting directly toward Zommari and Yuka below.
The instant they locked onto them, thick golden mist particles appeared around them.
?!
Zommari's pupils immediately contracted. He reacted instantly, preparing to use Sonído to escape.
Under such tremendous thunderstorm, if hit, there would be absolutely no chance of survival!
As for Yuka's life or death, that had nothing to do with him.
After brief, rapid consideration, Zommari's expression grew grave as he quickly executed Sonído.
But the next moment, he discovered... he was still standing in the same place!
Around him was still that golden mist, and above his head was still that thunder dragon rushing down toward him!
"How is this possible?!"
Zommari instantly cast a shocked gaze toward Shigure ahead.
Shigure's expression remained calm as he said quietly:
"No need to struggle."
"The moment I activated my Shikai, the space around you was already locked."
"This is..."
"Candle Dragon's Surrounding Binding Lock."
?!
Zommari's heart suddenly jumped, and on his dark face, all those eyes suddenly widened to their maximum.
The reason he could maintain a certain composure was because from the beginning, he knew his Sonído could save his life.
But now... his Sonído had completely lost its effect!!
He could only watch helplessly as that thunder dragon carrying the oppressive presence of death rushed toward him, but he had no way to resist.
Yuka beside him was trembling, his mind going completely blank.
However, there was no time left for them to think carefully. The tremendous golden thunder dragon struck their bodies with overwhelming force.
Boom!!
In an instant, explosive thunderstorm completely covered them.
Dense Spirit-Collapsing Thunder Swords began manifesting from the thunderstorm, piercing through both of them completely in just one moment.
Splurt! Splurt!
The moment blood sprayed from their bodies, it was instantly vaporized by the surrounding thunderstorm.
A miserable howl came from within the thunderstorm's explosive sound—
"Lord Aizen!!!"
Under the thunder's cover, it was impossible to tell whether it was Zommari's or Yuka's voice, but the emotion within was undoubtedly fanatical and unwilling.
At the same time, both their spiritual pressures undoubtedly began rapidly weakening.
Several breaths later, the thunderstorm began disappearing, revealing the corpses of the two completely dead Arrancar within.
They collapsed, falling onto the sand, their bodies already beginning continuous spiritual particle dissolution.
Behind them, Rukia, Rangiku and the others watched this scene with grave expressions.
Hitsugaya slightly turned his eyes, looking at Shigure beside him:
"A 'Surrounding Binding Lock' that can completely seal enemy movement space... truly an unexpected ability, Segawa."
Hitsugaya had always been clear about Shigure's attack power, so what surprised him this time was actually this unique ability.
Hearing this, Shigure chuckled lightly without responding.
In fact, Shigure had used this move before.
Previously in Soul Society, when facing the rebellious trio of Aizen, he had activated this ability and combined it with Spirit-Collapsing Thunder Sword for attack.
Because of this, he was able to directly defeat both Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen in an instant.
Aizen at that time had obviously also noticed the surrounding space being sealed.
So he didn't try to dodge either, instead directly covering himself with spiritual pressure to resist the subsequent Spirit-Collapsing Thunder Sword attacks.
However...
He could never know that Surrounding Binding Lock wasn't actually power brought by the thunder dragon, but...
Candle Dragon's wind-type Shikai!
This point was obviously something Hitsugaya and the others hadn't noticed either.
Thinking of this, Shigure unconsciously curved his lips.
From the beginning, Candle Dragon had simultaneously possessed two completely different powers: wind and thunder.
To preserve his strength, Shigure had deliberately hidden the wind-type release, always showing the thunder-type power to the outside world, whether during division entrance exams or subsequent battles.
Because of this, everyone including Aizen had developed the mistaken perception that "Candle Dragon is a lightning-type Zanpakutō."
But actually, this was less than half his power!
After completing his sign-in at Urahara Shop, Shigure had already completely mastered both Shikai forms.
From that time, he knew the techniques for using Surrounding Binding Lock, and he understood how broadly practical this move was.
But in fact, activating this move was completely impossible under thunder-type release.
So after multiple attempts and training, Shigure created a new method of use—
No one noticed that when Shigure raised his sword, he had actually already begun activating Candle Dragon's wind-type Shikai!
Due to the wind-type release's special nature, others couldn't see any change in his Zanpakutō at all.
In that very instant, Shigure immediately released Surrounding Binding Lock.
However, if it were only this, though people around couldn't sense the Zanpakutō's external changes, they would definitely gradually notice abnormalities in spiritual pressure and such.
So Shigure needed to conceal the wind-type power.
This was why when Shigure activated this move, he deliberately used the grand descending thunder dragons for attack and covered their surroundings with lightning spiritual particles.
It was completely to divert their attention.
Using more tremendous thunder-type spiritual pressure to mask the spiritual pressure from the earlier wind-type Shikai activation—this way, no one could detect the source of spatial fluctuations.
Whether it was Aizen, Gin Ichimaru and the others, or Hitsugaya, Rukia and them, they would all mistake this as one of the thunder dragon's powers.
Though these operations sounded complex, actually, with Shigure's mastery of Candle Dragon, completing these steps took less than a second.
Even easier than casting Kidō.
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