Chapter 164 - Bankai vs Resurreccion

After cutting and dispersing Ren's attack and everything else in the surroundings, Shinigami keeps looking at Ren and continues with his monologue "As I was saying before, now that I used my Resurreccion, you can't beat me anymore for a very simple reason... You know why my name is Shinigami?".

Ren calming his urge to attack, takes a deep breath, and slowly draws Senbonzakura while he replies "Didn't Kaguya name you that because she created you by fusing the Shinigami powers into Hollow?" but Shinigami let out a low laugh and replies "Kukuku... Really!?... You're wrong! I chose this name!! For a very simple reason... My powers are the one that a true Shinigami should have!!!".

As a demonstration he raises his left arm, and as the cursed seal from it lights up in violet light, a transparent human featureless figure is quickly being created, and once it reaches an average human size, Shinigami's hair extends and restrains the newly formed soul in front of him and then he says "Just by expending a little Chakra I can create a Soul!! And of course, it doesn't end here!!".

Shinigami then lightly tap the newborn soul with the hilt of his tanto, and the next moment the soul lets out a familiar anguished roar, a hole forms on its cheat and a porcelain white demonic mask forms on its face, and its physical form begins to change, it turns into a medium-sized, bipedal green Hollow with a mask resembling the face of a frog that has two long extensions coming out of the sides, resembling pigtails, and yellow eyes, it's arms are long and thin, resembling bones with large humanoid hands, while its legs are thick and muscular at the haunches before tapering down to normal-sized feet.

But Shinigami doesn't stop here, with another tap of his tanto's hilt, the newly formed Hollow let out a painful roar, as its mask breaks, and it once again returns into a human form even the hole on his chest is once again filled, basically returning the soul in its plus form, then Shinigami eat the soul and in an arrogant and proud tone says "I have complete control over the soul, my own included, that is why that bitch Kaguya and her sons sealed me... Simply because as long as I have Chakra, I can't be killed as I can make my soul immortal!! And as long as there are other Souls around me and in my stomach, my Chakra can't be exhausted as I can use them to replenish my Chakra!!!".

Without losing his spirit Ren says "But you still were defeated and sealed by Kaguya and her sons, that means that you aren't unbeatable... And even the fact that you are unkillable is up to debate... after all if I can kill you many times and so fast that you squander all your reserves you will still die... Yes, it will be hard, but not impossible...".

Then Ren calmly drops his sword straight down saying "Bankai...", the sword phases into the ground, as though it were a pool of water and an energy ripples expand out, turning the surrounding area dark, and within seconds, two rows of a thousand giant blades rise up from the ground "Senbonzakura Kageyoshi (Vibrant Display of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms)".

Then all the blades lit up in a pale blue fire and soon after Ren commands "Chire (Scatter)" and those thousand swords scatter into countless burning flying blades ready to attack Shinigami from all the sides as they fly all around Ren.

Shinigami didn't underestimate Ren anymore and quickly focuses on the fight once again, he quickly uses his fastest Sonido to move behind Ren then he gather a huge amount of Chakra on his fingertips into one jet-black cero with a violet outline, and quickly shoot it toward Ren "Cero Oscuras!" turning any exposed light to complete darkness.

But Ren quickly reacts and with a wave of his hand, he controls all Senbonzakura's blades to intercept Shinigami's Cero, as the two clashes the resulting explosion is so strong that scatters Ren's defense and the resulting winds blow him away.

Ren then controls a part of Senbonzakura with his mind to secure himself, while with his hands he converges six streams of blades and sends them toward Shinigami, attacking him from different directions.

Shinigami is forced to dodge, defend, and deflect constantly as the six streams of blades constantly attack him from all the sides, and many cauterized cut wounds appear on his body, before slowly healing thanks to Shinigami's high-speed regeneration.

Shinigami is so focused on defense that he doesn't notice that the number of blades is quickly increasing and surrounding him from all the sides in a spherical formation, at least not until he hears Ren's voice "Gōkei (Mawscape)" and under his command all the blades swirl around Shinigami like a cloud before flying into him from every possible angle, leaving no blind spots and no possibility of escape.

The spherical formation proceeds to collapse in on itself, obliterating Shinigami and generating a strong shockwave that blows away all the surrounding wreckage, then the blade once again return to surround and protect Ren as he looks at the enraged expression showing on the transparent figure of his opponent.

The next moment Ren stops using Shunko: Asura Senkei (Instant War Cry: Asura War Form) to conserve energy and as Senbonzakura's blades once again return to their original light pink color, Ren smiles and says "See? I've already killed you once... How much harder can it be to kill you again and again until you die for real?".

Shinigami then let out an enraged roar and with a violet flash, his transparent body once again return corporeal, showing his capacity to control a soul and make it so that his soul isn't purified by a Zanpakuto, nor destroyed making him virtually immortal, of course doing this consumes a huge amount of Chakra and Souls, but thanks to this war he was able to harvest a lot of strong souls.

Shinigami then pointing his tanto at Ren yells with a creepy smile on his face "Good!! Finally a real fight after so long!! I'll make sure to rip your soul out of your body and torture it for a thousand years every time you kill me!!! But don't worry, you won't be alone that bitch Kaguya will be with you!!" but right as the fight was about to once again start, from the distance a powerful roar can be heard, and soon after a practically planet size amount of Chaotic Natural Chakra can be felt.

Ren's face quickly turns grave 'Shit!! This can only be the Juubi!! How the fuck is possible!? He can't revive it without Isobu, Gyuki, and Kurama's Chakra' then he remembers a small detail of the original that he forgot 'Damn!! To revive the Juubi Obito only needed a small piece of Chakra! How could I forget that!!? Now I have to worry about an immortal Arrancar, Hollomaru, and also Kaguya!? Time for plan B I don't have the time to engage with him now...' at the same time, Shinigami looks in the direction of the Juubi's roar and starts maniacally laughing "Muhahah!! Finally!!! My targets are all here!!!".