Chapter 599

However, when Estarossa came before Hitsugaya Toushirou, quite unusually, Hitsugaya Toushirou actually blocked the attack directly.

The originally unstoppable fist, this time, struck directly against Hitsugaya Toushirou's Zanpakuto.

Looking at the approaching Estarossa, a faint smile appeared on Hitsugaya Toushirou's face.

"Got you."

"Bankai, Daiguren Hyourinmaru!"

Countless ice crystals surged from Hitsugaya Toushirou's body toward Estarossa.

Almost instantly, Estarossa was frozen into a block of ice — this was the terrifying power of Hitsugaya Toushirou's Bankai, Daiguren Hyourinmaru.

As the strongest ice-type Zanpakuto, Hyourinmaru's abilities perhaps have not yet been developed to their utmost by Hitsugaya Toushirou; after all, in Lin Cheng's view, Hitsugaya Toushirou's power is more than just this.

But the current Hitsugaya Toushirou is still enough to deal with Estarossa. The present Estarossa is not that final form that can absorb the power of the Commandments, so even Hitsugaya Toushirou alone has a chance of defeating him.

Seeing Hitsugaya Toushirou successfully freeze Estarossa, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, after all they could think of no way to defeat Estarossa either.

An Estarossa bearing the Commandment of Loving-Kindness was an unbeatable opponent for everyone present.

"Right now we still don't have the ability to kill him — any attack carrying hostility will be nullified by his power, so for now we can only freeze him here."

"But the current situation is already good enough for us. My Daiguren Hyourinmaru can keep him frozen here for decades, or even longer."

"Although this isn't as good as killing him when it comes to weakening the Demon God race's strength, this can already be considered the best option."

Looking at the frozen Estarossa, Hitsugaya Toushirou was clearly somewhat exhausted. Activating Bankai in an instant, and then having to keep freezing Estarossa like this without pause, was also an enormous drain on Hitsugaya Toushirou.

Looking at Hitsugaya Toushirou's state, Makarov also nodded. In the current situation, it was obvious they could not defeat Estarossa, one of the Ten Commandments.

But as long as they froze him here, preventing him from going to reinforce the other Ten Commandments, that was enough for them.

"Then let's keep moving forward. There's not much time left."

Watching everything unfold before his eyes, Makarov could not explain why, but a faint sense of unease always lingered in his heart. He always felt that perhaps the Ten Commandments' abilities were not as simple as he imagined.

A race capable of fighting the Shinigami — and even the strongest among them, the Ten Commandments, had been frozen so easily by Hitsugaya Toushirou. This made him feel there was something off.

And Hitsugaya Toushirou's urging deepened his sense of danger, as if that person called the Demon God King possessed a special power — that kind of undefeatable power.

"Toushirou, I have a question I want to ask you. Back then, even if you worked from inside and out to seal away the entire Demon God race, you still had to have someone who could fight the Demon God King, right? Who exactly was that person?"

"This…"

Hearing Makarov's words, Hitsugaya Toushirou was somewhat stunned; he had not expected Makarov to ask such a question.

But thinking about it, it made sense — the Ten Commandments' Estarossa alone was already this powerful, so just how powerful the Demon God King who bestowed the Commandments upon the Demon God race was, was also a key question.

"I'm not too clear on that either, because I hadn't been born yet at that time. But I've heard rumors that, above our 13th Division, there is also a 0th Division — the strongest division, specially tasked with guarding Hell."

"Even our Head Captain was once a member of the 0th Division. Perhaps within the 0th Division there exists someone who can stand against the Demon God King."

Lin Cheng, while manipulating Hitsugaya Toushirou into speaking, was thinking to himself with a pang of heartache.

If it were just summoning one Demon God King, he would already be hard-pressed; now he also had to summon someone who could deal with the Demon God King, which would cost quite a bit of Emotion Value, and such a drain would make him wince.

But besides letting the Demon God King appear, Lin Cheng had another way to break the current deadlock — that was, not letting the Demon God King and an even stronger powerhouse appear; he only needed Yamamoto's burden to show up for a while.

This way, Anjing neither had to summon puppets of the Demon God King and 0th Division members, nor had to worry about his identity being exposed. After all, it was perfectly reasonable for a powerhouse to be fighting in another space and had yet to appear for a long time.

Thinking of this, Lin Cheng's mind already had the next step planned. The next step was to let that person appear, and then let a few puppets vanish — that might be more fitting.