When Gremmy felt Ichigo's Spiritual power drop, he immediately rushed to the middle of Las Noches, finishing his business with Arturo and arriving a few seconds later. His Heart nearly stopped in horror at what he saw.

Not only was the courtyard wholly leveled to the ground, but so were most of the surrounding fortresses. Yet the Hollow King was nowhere to be found while Ichigo was imprisoned inside a gray spike-like statue that hovered above the ruined ground.

However, right before Gremmy could touch or even try to touch the seal, he felt another presence behind him.

One that was unlike anything he had felt before and far more dark and twisted than any Hollow he had ever faced against.

'Well, this is a pleasant surprise,' The voice of Urahara Kisuke muttered cheerfully while walking in front of Gremmy. 'I didn't think Barragan would take up on my request and not just kill the boy when he had the chance.' He then smirked sinisterly. 'But I certainly appreciate it'

Gremmy glared at Kisuke menacingly and then conjured the spear of Mars into his hand. 'I don't know who you are, but you're crazy if you think I'll let you take Ichigo away.'

Kisuke chuckled and began walking up to Gremmy, only to stop when a beam of energy shot near his feet.

'Make that two of us,' Lille Barrow announced from above a ruined pillar. His rifle was still smoking from the shot fired.

Kisuke then looked at the two imperial guards and grinned in amusement. 'You know if either of you were at your full strength, both of you would be right. But given how exhausted you are all are...' He then unsheathed his zanpakuto from under his golden hoari. 'None of you would be able to do a single thing' He then stabbed his sword into the ground, and in an instant, hundreds of white mask figures suddenly appeared and surrounded both Gremmy and Lille. Then, before any of the two Quincy could react, they were immediately bound by countless black chains that came from the sleeves of mysterious men. This somehow also prevents the Imperial guards from activating their Schrifts, and even when Gremmy and Lille try to break out of the chains with their spiritual pressure, they remain firm.

'Even a Sternritter would be hard-pressed to shatter just one of those chains, let alone hundreds of them bound to both of you at once, and while I do not doubt that powerful individuals such as yourselves would break them out eventually...' He then flashed and stepped next to the sealed Ichigo. 'By then, the Kurosaki and I will be long gone'

Gremmy and Lille then looked in despair as they tried to struggle harder against the chains, and even as they began to creak and bend, it still wasn't enough to break them apart.

However, just before Kisuke could touch the seal, he and all the masked men suddenly froze themselves before Lille's and Gremmy's eyes, leaving them stunned and confused by what happened. But, from Kisuke's and his subordinate's perspective, they saw and felt themselves being stabbed by dozens of swords that each pierced every joint in their body.

'You are as resourceful as always, Kisuke Urahara,' A smooth voice called out from nowhere until the air faded away to reveal Aizen Sosuke. He wore the same clothes as Urahara and did not wear his classes; his brown hair was gelled back, and a zanpakuto was drawn in his right hand.

But to Gremmy and Lille Barrow, the most impressive thing about the man was that his spiritual pressure was around the same level as the commanders they just fought.

Kisuke, however, growled in annoyance. 'I am surprised you would risk yourself this much, Sosuke,' he spat lowly. 'Given how cautious you usually are'

The brown-haired man then smiled slyly. 'And if I hadn't made such a risk, Kurosaki would already be in your custody and far beyond anyone's reach' He then raised his zanpakuto and, in an instant later, cut down the hundreds of mask-men that chained the two imperial guards undoing their bindings, before immediately appearing in front of Kisuke and placing the edge of his blade right at his neck. His expression is now full-on serious. 'So, unfortunately, you will have to return with nothing'

Urahara then gave his former colleague a knowing grin. 'You know full well that this will only delay the inevitable, regardless of what you do or what that boy will succeed in' He said ominously while staring directly into Aizen's eyes. 'Because in the end, he will have his vengeance'

Aizen then focuses his eyes on Kisuke. '...perhaps.' He then sliced the blonde man's head clean off his neck while the body collapsed to the ground and blood spilled from the stump.

'But not today...' He then swiped the gore off his sword while Kisuke's body crumbled into red and black dust before fading away. With the rest of the mask, men's bodies followed suit.

Lille Barrow then walked over to the Shinigami, who rescued them. ' Sosuke Aizen...I am surprised yet grateful that you used your powers to save us, but how did you know we needed help?'

Aizen then let out a smirk. 'Let's just say I had suspicions since I heard that Kurosaki went to battle Barragan' He then looked over to the seal kido. 'And now it would seem that they were well founded'

Lille Barrow then focuses his eyes on the seal. 'It also means the rumors of the Shinigami involving themselves with the Hollows are true...or at least regarding the Gotei 13. He then looked over to Aizen. 'But anyway, can you undo this seal?'

Aizen then placed his right on the floating bone cross and smiled. 'Kisuke's kido, while powerful, is simple to figure out when adequately analyzed and lucky for us. His technique has not changed much in the past two hundred years. He then consecrated his spiritual power on the seal, which glowed from red to orange before flaking and crumbling into the air.

However, after the seal was done, Aizen, Gremmy, and Lille stared in horror at seeing Kurosaki Ichigo not as an eighteen-year-old teenager. But that of an older man in his late nineties. With his orange hair now gray, his muscular body had greatly withered away, and wrinkles wore down his face.

Ichigo then looked at the three and gave a remorseful grin, which also showed some of his front teeth were missing.

'Sorry guys,' he spoke in a weak and raspy voice,'...but it seems I messed up big time

Meanwhile, within the Soul Society, every soul in the realm felt a massive surge of Spiritual power, which was dark, foreboding, and all-consuming. Which only intensified when a great Descorrer opened before the of the Silbern. It was protected by seventy-two barriers, twice as substantial as the Sekkeshi barrier surrounding the Silver City, thus making even the top Espada and the Commanders hard-pressed to get through.

However, when Barragan arrived out of the portal, he didn't even gesture when approaching the barriers. They all aged away into nothingness within seconds before his presence before eventually arriving at the front of the Silbern.

Where the Quincy King was waiting for him.

(Soundtrack of Choice God Shattering Star)

'It has been over sixty years, Yhwach, ' Barragan announced as his blank red eyes stared down at the old king. 'And were as I have grown beyond the limits of my Hollow Form. 'You have continued to wither away into a shell of your former self'

Yhwach remains silent while staring fearlessly into Barragan's glowing crimson-red eyes. 'And you are just as arrogant as ever. If you honestly believe your new form and power can stand even against a mere shell of me' He glared darkly at the Hollow King as his irises were divided into three. 'And I believe it is time you know your place again'

Then, a second later, Barragan's body exploded in a burst of blue reshi light while Yhwach stared impassively and deactivated his Almighty.

But then winded his eyes in shock when he sensed the Hollow king was suddenly right behind him and completely healed. Making Yhwach hastily turn around and step back.

'Hmph, my place...' Barragan mocked. 'I have been settled in my place and your shadow for far too long' He stretched out his hand and formed a great battle black from the black tar-like miasma that made up his body. 'And by cutting you down, it will bring me one step closer to standing above the places of everyone else!' The Hollow King swung his axe and unleashed a massive tidal wave of the dark substance that rotted away the bridge where Yhwach stood, forcing him to use the flying step to evade it.

'So he can recover a hit from even the Almighty by reversing time, and because of that, he gains temporary immunity to it,' The Quincy King analyzed before materializing a large elegant reishi broadsword of reishi in his hands. 'There is nothing for it then. I will have to take him on with brute force.' He then pointed his weapon at Barragan and trapped the fearsome Vasto Lord in a brilliant glowing blue circle wall while drawing spiritual partials across the entire realm of the Soul Society.

'Göttliche Kunst: Heilige Säuberung!' (Divine Art Holy Purge)

Yhwach called out, and in the next moment, a massive beam of light shot out from below and above the circle. With such force, it split all the clouds in the sky across the far ends of the atmosphere of the realm to below the surface, which The Quincy king expected that Barragan would reverse time to heal himself.

But his surprise. The Hollow king calmingly walked out of the beam of light with no harm to his person, and as Yhwach analyzed Barragan. He realized that he was using his aging not to reverse the damage he took but instead rapidly aged away the beam of Spiritual energy and reshi into nothingness the moment it got within an inch of contact with the skeletal man's body.

'You have underestimated me, but moreover, you overestimated yourself,' Barragan said plainly. 'You believe that by catching me off guard using your Almighty. That would mean you could obliterate me with your stronger techniques,' He said, narrowing his eyes. 'But in truth, it is only through the use of your Almighty that you can even harm me at all!'

Yhwach activated his Almighty once more and then materialized several gigantic Helmet-winged women, each wielding equally sized bows and arrows resembling swords.

'If I need my Almighty to humble you again, then so be it!' He announced boldly and then pointed his left hand at Barragan.

'Göttliche Kunst: Walkürenangriff!'(Divine Art: Valkyrie Assault) He announced, and then all the woman began to ready their bows.

'Fire!'

He ordered, and all of the valkyries unleashed their arrows simultaneously. Each with enough power to devastate the whole surface of the Soul Society in a single blow.

Yet Barragan countered them by simply unleashing a much larger wave of Misamia that dispersed the arrows and made them explode, sending dust of reishi scattering all over the Silbern, which The Hollow king quickly disbursed with a simple burst of his Spiritual pressure. Only to then notice that Yhwach was right below him with his sword ready and before he could even react. The Quincy Monarch stabbed Barragan in the stomach with his broad sword, the Almighty protecting him from the Hollow's aging aura.

'Now let's see if you can reverse from this!' He shouted out boastfully before using the Almighty to pick a future in which Barragan's body was vaporized completely and upon making it so with a thought. The Hollow King disappeared in a flash of light and vapor.'

But as Yhwach was about to relax, he suddenly sensed a bladed axe approaching above him and immediately raised his board sword to defend himself. While barely able to use his spiritual pressure to ward off the aging effect.

'Sorry to disappoint you,' Barragan said with sarcastic sympathy. 'But as long my mind and the spiritual pressure within the reishi of my body remains intact, I can reverse time for myself indefinitely.' He looked over the stressed and sweating Yhwach. 'That, however, cannot be said for the same for you.'

Then, without warning, Barragan increased his spiritual pressure to the point that he managed to cut through Yhwach's broadsword and overcome the resistance of the Almighty itself, cutting deeply through the Monarch's chest, causing him to bleed horribly from a large gash in his chest and making him collapse from the sky before forming a platform of reshi to land on.

'How pitiful...' Barragan spat in contempt. 'Since the last time we faced. You could easily negate my powers over time just by simply knowing about them, and now it takes everything you have to prevent yourself from dying before them' He then stared down at Yhwach. 'It is little wonder that you send that child to face me when you no longer can'

Yhwach breathed in slowly as he steadily rose. 'Don't think...that I haven't foreseen this outcome, Barragan' He then rose to his full height to conjure bars with Roman numerals on them from his right hand, and then he proceeded to use them to heal his wounds fully. 'Because as long as that boy still breaths...the Holy Kingdom will prosper!'

He then raised his left hand.

'Göttliche Kunst: Schwerter Des Heiligen!' (Divine Art: Swords of the Sacred)

He announced, and immediately, Seven massive great swords materialized and surrounded Yhwach. But instead of just being made of simple glowing Reshi, each of them was solid, elegantly designed, and encrusted in metals of silver, gold, and platinum, radiating power several times more potent than the arrows he fired at Barragan.

'Even if I should fall'