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Chapter 585: Finale - Eternal Instant
Chapter 585: Finale - Eternal Instant
"Damn it!!!"
Olug let out a cry of anger and surprise, his eyes narrowing as he lunged at Feng Ye. But the next second, he found himself back at the starting point once again.
In just a few short seconds, both he and the leopard-like man beside him, who possessed the Rinnegan, had tried various means to attack Feng Ye, escape to a far distance, or make other choices, only to be returned to the origin point a few seconds later!
Time had fallen into an infinite loop at this moment!
"Kakashi... Vice-Captain..."
Seeing the endlessly looping time, the last tear that hung at the corner of Soi Fon's eye trembled as she spoke.
At this moment, Feng Ye's figure in her eyes was no longer a flickering flame that barely brought her the last lingering light, but had transformed into a beam of light piercing through the darkness, shining down from the horizon and enveloping her. That light was named Hope!
Hope to save Yoruichi!
Hope to save herself!
The infinite looping time meant that in this endless cycle, Yoruichi would not die and would continue to loop like this. Although it couldn't truly bring Yoruichi back to life, it was a true hope that appeared before her eyes!
"Rest assured," Feng Ye said to Soi Fon with a gentle smile, his gaze then shifting to Yoruichi as he continued, "I told you, as long as I'm here, she won't die."
He gently lifted the zanpakuto in his hand, and a brilliant light appeared on the sword, which resembled clock hands, extending from the hilt to the tip.
Feng Ye casually swung his zanpakuto, and the sword pierced through Yoruichi's body.
Soi Fon was taken aback by this scene, and before she could react, Yoruichi's body suddenly became illusory and disappeared silently from her arms.
Feng Ye sheathed his zanpakuto and calmly explained, "Eternal Instant, Second Movement - River of Severed Flow."
Silence.
Yoruichi's figure reappeared in Soi Fon's arms, but this time, there were no wounds on her body, and the fatal injury to her abdomen had vanished without a trace, as if the previous scene of her being on the brink of death was merely an illusion.
"Yoruichi... Captain Yoruichi!" Soi Fon exclaimed, her brief moment of astonishment giving way to an outburst of emotions as she tightly hugged Yoruichi. The tears that had stopped flowing started to stream down her cheeks once more.
They were tears of joy.
Yoruichi was the very reason for Soi Fon's existence. After Yoruichi sustained a mortal wound, the whole world seemed to darken for Soi Fon, and the only thing that remained was the flickering candle that Feng Ye had lit, illuminating her final remnants.
And now, the candle that Feng Ye had lit turned into a beam of light, piercing through the dark sky, tearing away the gloom of this world, and restoring everything back to the way it was!
"...”
Yoruichi seemed to still be adjusting to the situation. She moved her fingers slightly and slowly raised her hand to caress Soi Fon's head, her gaze turning to Feng Ye as she gradually realized what had transpired. "So, that's the power of your Bankai?"
"Yes," Feng Ye replied calmly. "The Second Movement - River of Severed Flow. After I activate my Bankai, everything my zanpakuto touches will have its moment in time recorded, and I can swap that recorded moment with the present at any time."
When Yoruichi was at the Mao Spirit Academy, she had touched his zanpakuto, so his sword had recorded that moment in time for her.
To save Yoruichi, he didn't need to use the ability of the illusory clock; he only needed to use the Second Movement of his Bankai to swap the present with the past, restoring Yoruichi to the state she was in at that previous time node.
"What a... formidable ability," Yoruichi murmured, gently patting Soi Fon's back with one hand and taking a soft breath.
She had expected Feng Ye's ability to be powerful, but she hadn't anticipated it to be this formidable. The powers of Infinite Loop and River of Severed Flow were already considered taboo.
Although these two abilities seemed to lean more towards support and didn't seem to have much offensive power, Feng Ye's spiritual pressure had already surpassed her own.
Back then, she had guessed it would take three, five, or even ten years. But now, it seemed that all her predictions were wrong. The answer was—seven months.
"With this ability, can't you achieve immortality?"
"No."
Feng Ye shook his head, his gaze distant as he replied, "What can be swapped is only the physical state. Your mind won't be reverted to a previous state."
With this ability, one could indeed permanently record Rukia as a young girl, Hinamori as a teenager, and even Soi Fon herself as a child, allowing them to remain in those states forever. However, the problem was that their minds would continue to age.
In other words, while one could prevent physical growth by swapping their current state with a previous one, their minds would still mature. They would end up like Dragon Carp, a legal loli, and eventually fall into the same state as the Soul King—dying due to the aging of their minds.
Time, space, reality, power, soul, and mind... These were the six fundamental attributes that constituted the universe, and among them, the mind was the most critical and substantial component. It was the very reason for existence and the embodiment of being.
"Is that so..."
Yoruichi murmured softly and then leaped out of Soi Fon's embrace, standing up to face Olug, the Leopard King, and the other Rinnegan-wielding leopard man, who were still trapped in the endless loop of time, repeatedly returning to the starting point. "Then, how do you plan to kill them? In an infinite time loop, wouldn't death also bring them back to the beginning?"
Feng Ye's expression remained calm as he turned to face Olug and the other leopard man. "Time doesn't alter the mind, and that's a flaw, but it's also the key to the finale."
He gazed at Olug, slowly raising the zanpakuto in his hand and bringing it down in a swift strike. As he did so, he spoke in a tranquil tone.
"Finale—
"Eternal Instant."
Whoosh!
The world suddenly trembled as if time had warped, creating a bizarre disturbance before returning to normal and continuing its forward flow.
The endless loop of time created by the prelude was torn apart by the finale, and Olug, along with the leopard man with the Rinnegan, no longer returned to the starting point.
However.
Their bodies froze in place.
Their spiritual pressures lingered, and their physical forms appeared unchanged, but that pressure had become incredibly serene. Their eyes had turned gray, devoid of any spark of life, as if they had transformed into living sculptures, suspended in the sky.
Silence befell them.
Feng Ye's zanpakuto returned to its original form, and he sheathed it. The massive golden clock that had been behind him also vanished, and the vast spiritual pressure he exuded settled into calmness.
"Is... it over?"
Soi Fon stood up, her eyes falling upon Olug and his companion, frozen in the sky. She wore a look of bewilderment and confusion, unsure of what had just transpired.
Only Yoruichi, having heard Feng Ye and Soi Fon's earlier conversation, grasped a hint of what had occurred and formed a vague understanding. She turned her head to look at Feng Ye, awaiting an explanation.
Meeting the gazes of Soi Fon and Yoruichi, Feng Ye took a calm step forward and said,
"Eternal Instant. A fleeting moment becomes eternity... That instant just now felt like a fleeting moment to you, but to them, it was an eternity, spanning tens of thousands of years."
What would happen to someone trapped in place, unable to move, perceiving the entire world as stationary? After enduring this state for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, what would become of them?
They would go insane first.
Then, their minds would completely shatter.
Eventually, they would succumb to numbness, until even their insanity faded away, and their minds were utterly annihilated.
Eternal Instant.
A fleeting moment becomes eternity. This was the finale of his zanpakuto's Bankai, the only truly offensive ability from its initial release to its Bankai. It was the most powerful means of indirectly attacking the mind by manipulating the endless flow of time that he had mastered thus far!
(End of Chapter)
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