Even if you don't admit it consciously, your body still honestly remembers the pain, and your heart also remembers the humiliation and defeat.
The Infinity Stones and Unlimited Blade Works both possessed the potential to rival the Soul King himself. Even the Dangai technique could be traced back to the strongest power of the Soul King.
From this perspective, it wasn't that the Infinite Void was insufficient to transcend the status of ordinary transcendents, but rather that typical transcendents couldn't even touch the true nature of Infinite Void.
How could the power of a mere transcendent be compared with the fundamental power of the Soul King?
"Mugetsu? The Final Getsuga Tensho?" Hearing this declaration, Aizen immediately remembered the overwhelming fear of being dominated by Mugetsu: "Impossible! This kind of technique should be the exclusive secret technique of the Shiba family. You couldn't possibly master it! Are you truly willing to give up all your power?"
Being completely overwhelmed by Ichigo's Mugetsu would forever remain his most painful memory. The Final Getsuga Tensho had become a persistent shadow lurking in his heart.
Therefore, even now Aizen didn't want to recall the final battle with Kurosaki Ichigo! What a humiliating defeat!
If Uehara Shiroha could really use Mugetsu, then regardless of whether he had the support of the Hogyoku or not, even with its full power backing him, he wouldn't be able to defeat such an opponent.
Because Aizen was significantly weakened now, his confidence had been greatly reduced. The culprit was none other than Ichigo Kurosaki's devastating Mugetsu technique.
Before this moment, Aizen's various provocative words had simply been tactical necessities dictated by old habits. After calming down and thinking clearly, he knew very well that Uehara Shiroha would never act without complete confidence, and it would be extremely difficult for him to defeat Uehara Shiroha who possessed Infinite Dangai with his current diminished strength.
If his opponent could also unleash the Final Getsuga Tensho, there would be absolutely no chance of victory. Even if Uehara Shiroha couldn't fully exert the complete power of the Final Getsuga Tensho, Aizen would still be no match for him.
Unless he could somehow return to his final fusion form, he would definitely not be able to achieve victory. It was simply impossible to win.
Uehara Shiroha's normal form combined with Infinite Dangai was already overwhelmingly powerful. Not to mention Uehara Shiroha in a Mugetsu-enhanced form—what could he possibly do against that? Attack with his head?
However, Aizen tried to convince himself that Uehara Shiroha was just bluffing. First of all, it should be impossible for Uehara Shiroha to learn the Final Getsuga Tensho.
Secondly, how could his opponent choose to give up his power? That was completely illogical. Unless Uehara Shiroha had somehow found a way to avoid the devastating side effects...
Facing Aizen who was clearly showing signs of PTSD, Uehara Shiroha said with perfect calm: "I really didn't know how to use it before this moment. But thanks for giving me the opportunity to observe it! I took a careful look at Ichigo Kurosaki's Final Getsuga Tensho, and then... I figured it out!"
"You figured it out!? What exactly do you mean?" Aizen looked completely confused and his mind short-circuited for a moment. Now it was his turn to not understand what was happening.
According to his extensive research and speculation, Mugetsu—the Final Getsuga Tensho—should be the exclusive secret technique of the Shiba family bloodline. Otherwise, the other captains would never have allowed him to fight his way all the way to Karakura Town unchallenged.
Even if other Shinigami captains were somehow able to learn the Final Getsuga Tensho, its power would definitely not be as devastating as Kurosaki Ichigo's version. Because they didn't possess the blood of the Shiba family.
As one of the five great noble houses, the Shiba family still retained considerable hidden power and knowledge. After all, their ancestors had been powerful figures from the original era of the Soul King.
Moreover, this secret technique must have extremely harsh learning conditions and requirements. Judging from Isshin Shiba's condition and experience, Ichigo Kurosaki had also spent a considerable amount of time in the Dangai to properly learn and master it.
Now Uehara Shiroha was actually claiming that he could master this level of technique with just a single observation. How was such a thing possible?
If this was actually true, then what did that make his own achievements? What did that make his transcendence? There should be some limit to looking down on others!
"Watch carefully, Ichigo Kurosaki and Aizen—this is how one properly uses the Final Getsuga Tensho!"
Faced with Aizen who was still desperately clinging to hope, Uehara Shiroha didn't waste any more time with words and directly activated his ultimate technique.
A brilliant silver-white light suddenly burst out from his entire body, making it completely impossible to look directly at him. These radiant rays of light exploded outward into a perfect sphere of energy.
After the initial explosion, the light condensed and reformed into silver-white entities that surrounded Uehara Shiroha's form. Each entity seemed to exist in a state between solid, liquid, and gas, and could switch freely between these three forms with endless variations and possibilities.
When the entities took solid form, their shape resembled pieces of compressed space that had been shrunk dozens of times, with strange golden spiritual patterns engraved across their surfaces.
Six blade-shaped suspended entities formed a perfect ring structure, arranged behind Uehara Shiroha, slowly rotating and flowing in a hypnotic pattern. On each silver-white blade, light golden spiritual patterns were shining with otherworldly power.
The constantly changing silver-white blades and the flowing golden light were sometimes like flowing water and sometimes like ethereal mist, appearing erratic and deeply mysterious.
The overall effect looked like some kind of special wings that possessed an almost divine quality. Everything returned to a state of calm and nothingness, with only the six spirit blades turning silently in their eternal dance.
Amidst the interplay of light, mist, and floating blades, Uehara Shiroha's tall and straight figure remained completely motionless, as if he were an immovable rock standing against the flow of time itself.
Everything else lost its color and significance, while only Uehara Shiroha's overwhelming presence became stronger and more undeniable with each passing moment.