Death: Captain Millennium

"This is so boring, Renci! Try harder, or you're doomed to fail."

After a long and intense battle with Renji, Rukia suddenly felt bored. She decided not to continue this unchallenging battle and instead wanted to try the mysterious and powerful power of the nine stars.

"When the Jade Balance moves, the killing begins."

Rukia cried out, and the cold aura she had emanated vanished in an instant. Instead, a terrifying, intense killing intent surged out of her like a volcanic eruption.

At this moment, Rukia seemed like a completely different person. Her delicate face was replaced by a ferocious one, her beautiful eyes flashed with murderous light, and her whole body exuded a creepy and terrifying aura, like a vicious murderer descended into the world.

Renji, who was engaged in a fierce battle with Rukia, was caught in the grip of this sudden surge of killing intent. Instantly, he felt as if a heavy mountain had weighed him down. His movements became incredibly slow, and the frequency of his previously ferocious attacks also slowed considerably.

"What kind of weird ability is this?"

Renji's teeth were chattering, which was more difficult to accept than the explosion of spiritual pressure. This feeling of powerlessness came from deep within his heart, like an attack specifically targeting the mind.

"Renci, you have to take this attack for me. If you get killed by accident, you can't blame me."

"Yaoguang appears, everything is broken!"

As Rukia finished her words, her spiritual pressure erupted like a volcano, its powerful force sweeping outward from her. The murderous intent that had been lingering within her also underwent a qualitative shift, transforming into a terrifying, destructive state of mind, as if enveloped by it, everything in the world would be reduced to dust and ash.

Rukia, practicing the Seven Stars Steps, moved like a ghost, and in the blink of an eye, she was in front of Renji. The long sword in her hand drew a dazzling arc in the air, and with unstoppable momentum, she slashed down at Renji's head.

Faced with such a swift and powerful attack, Renji did not dare to be negligent at all. He hurriedly retracted the snake tail pill and wrapped himself like a turtle, trying to resist Rukia's attack.

Rukia swung the long sword in her hand with a fierce momentum, directly slashing at the snake tail pill wielded by Renji! There was only a crisp sound, and a shocking scene appeared - the seemingly incomparably solid skull joint was actually cut into a tiny crack!

The crack, like a ferocious venomous snake, spread outward at an extremely fast speed, covering the entire surface of the joint like a spider web in the blink of an eye. Then, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds, the baboon king snake tail pill instantly exploded like fragile glass, turning into countless fragments that flew everywhere!

"How... how is it possible?!"

Witnessing this astonishing scene, Byakuya and Tetsuzaemon's eyes widened, their mouths agape as if they could fit an egg. Their jaws nearly dropped in shock! Who could have imagined that Rukia's ordinary, seemingly unremarkable slash could so easily shatter Renji's powerful Bankai? This was simply unrealistic!

"No! When Rukia slashed with her sword just now, one of the stars on her sword lit up. This sword must have received a blessing that we don't know about."

Bai Ya's eyes were really sharp, and he immediately understood the extraordinary nature of the previous knife attack.

"No wonder..."

Tetsuzaemon nodded in agreement belatedly.

Perhaps this was Renji's fate. In the original story, he overestimated his abilities by using his Bankai to challenge the far superior Byakuya, resulting in a crushing defeat. At that time, Byakuya unleashed his own Bankai, "Senbonzakura Kageyama," mercilessly destroying Renji's Jabimaru, severely damaging the baboon king's blade, which has never been able to recover.

However, before this, when Lin Yu and Renji were fighting fiercely in the Palace of Confession, Lin Yu, for some reason, deliberately showed mercy and did not cut off Renji's Zanpakutō.

But who could have expected that fate is always full of drama, and Renji's Zanpakutō could not escape the fate of being chopped off after all, but this time it was a bit serious, and the snake tail pill was shattered all over the ground.

"My knife..."

"My knife..."

Renji tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, his eyes hollow and unfocused, as if he had lost his soul. The fierce exchange just now was still vivid in his mind. He had tried his best to resist, but in the end, he had greatly underestimated Rukia's seemingly ordinary sword strike.

As the person involved, his eyes slowly shifted to the scattered fragments of the Snaketail Pill on the ground, he wanted to cry but had no tears. After the Bankai state was lifted, the original Snaketail Pill turned back into an ordinary shallow sword. However, what was worse was that this shallow sword was covered with dense cracks, crisscrossing like a spider web. It seemed that if it was hit by the slightest external force, it would completely shatter into a pile of worthless debris.

"Did you get into...in trouble?"

Rukia also noticed Renji's expression of despair and immediately realized that something was wrong. After all, this was the first time in her life that her Zanpakutō had been chopped into such a horrific state after it had been activated. She had no idea of ​​the serious consequences of such a move.

"Brother-in-law! What's with Renci's expression? He just lost to me, so is there any need to act like he's desperate?"

Rukia panicked and turned to Byakuya Kuchiki outside the arena for help. In this critical moment, the only person she could rely on was her experienced brother-in-law.

"Rukia! You've really made a big fuss this time! After a Zanpakutō is released, if it is severely damaged, the damage will be permanent and irreversible. You've damaged Renji's sword like this. I'm afraid that from now on, he will have difficulty even achieving the most basic liberation."

Kuchiki Byakuya had a serious look on his face, his brows furrowed, as he explained the seriousness of the matter to Rukia.

"Then...what should we do?"

Rukia was panicked. A good sparring match turned out like this. If Renci couldn't fix it, his life would be over. What's the point of being a god of death?

"Renci! I'm sorry, I didn't know the consequences would be so serious! I was wrong!"

Rukia quickly bowed to Renji and apologized.

"It's not your fault. I'm too weak, otherwise Sheweimaru wouldn't have become like this."

After coming back to his senses, Renji looked much more depressed. After all, it was hard for anyone to accept that his Zanpakuto had become like this.