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"However, since Asido stayed in Hueco Mundo and accepted the protection of the Hollows, my attitude had to change a little.
“Ashido and I have been friends for more than 200 years. It’s okay to say that he is my non-blood family member. If I let you tell other people about him, then Ashido will be in danger.
"Ashido also knows the nobles' secrets. The nobles will definitely not let him live. They will definitely order his extermination, even if it means sacrificing a large number of criminal troops and covert mobile team members in the process of going deep into the Hueco Mundo.
"Anyway, ordinary Death Gods are just tools that can be replenished at any time for the nobles. In order to protect their own interests, it doesn't matter if some of them are damaged."
As a member of the 11th Division, Ibuki's strength was higher than that of Hinata, and his instant step level was obviously better than Hinata's. While talking and chasing, he soon caught up with Hinata who was running away at full speed, and gave him an apologetic smile.
"So, I'm sorry, but I have to kill you before returning to Soul Society. I can't give you the chance to leak information to the criminal army."
"Close your eyes, Zhulang."
The Zanpakutō's release words rang out, and the sharp blade turned into a heavy long stick, sweeping heavily towards Hinata's head. At the same time, Ibuki's other hand stretched out, firing a series of low-numbered binding techniques to disrupt Hinata's actions.
The sun, which was about to set, moved slowly. After an unknown amount of time, the sun finally hid among the mountains. Darkness enveloped the earth. Ibuki sat down slowly, panting. At his feet, lay a corpse with a smashed head.
Ibuki rubbed his face vigorously, feeling somewhat exhausted, and simply leaned back and lay on the grass. He looked up at the waning moon in the sky, the smile on his lips becoming more bitter.
"Ashido, this is all I can do for you. I hope you can live well, at least live longer and happier than a wicked man like me."
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Chapter 70 Dislike and Like
"Tianpeng, the god of death is here again."
Erlang squatted on the ground to recover his strength, his eyes fixed on the stone pillar not far away, his tone somewhat disgusted.
Near the top of the stone pillar, there is a small man-made hole, through which you can see the god of death named Asido sitting there with his eyes closed, silently absorbing the spiritual energy in the air to heal his injuries.
On Asido's right arm and chest, one can see some hideous wounds with the skin and flesh turned outward. Even on his left cheek, there is a "scratches" that reveal the bone. It is not difficult to imagine the scene where he was almost pierced in the head by a claw, and he dodged in an emergency but still got his facial bones scratched.
Asido's mastery of the Huidao was obviously not very good. He could only use the Huidao of No. 13 at best. Using it on himself was just better than nothing. Not to mention treatment, he could only barely stop the bleeding. He sat there motionless, but the wound would still crack from time to time, and fresh blood would flow out.
The blood of the god of death is different from the blood of the great hollow. The smell of that pure spiritual power is far more attractive to the hollow than blood of the same kind. Erlang smelled the smell in the air, and his stomach growled unconsciously. When he looked at Asido, a hint of appetite gradually crept into his eyes.
He slapped himself hard to break his uncontrollable appetite, and Jiro looked at Asido with an increasingly unhappy look.
Gu Shi said that the God of Death cannot be eaten, and Erlang will of course obey Gu Shi's orders, but isn't this God of Death coming too frequently?
He came three times in five days, each time with different injuries. As soon as his injuries healed, he ran out to hunt, and then came back with new injuries.
Every time the Grim Reaper came over, Jilang felt like someone was tempting him with a big meal, but he couldn't eat it. That feeling was too much torture for a Xu with a strong appetite.
Moreover, this torture happened three times in five days, which made it even more unbearable.
Tianpeng had just finished refining a batch of pills and was squatting beside to review the experience of this pill refining. Hearing Erlang's stomach growling, she laughed out loud without giving her face. Erlang got angry and punched her on the head, but instead of making her stop, her laughter became even louder.
After laughing enough despite Erlang's fist, Tianpeng wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and waved his hand with a slight smile.
"Ji Lang, if you want to come to me for approval and let me comfort you, then you have found the wrong person. I really like Asido."
As he spoke, Tianpeng looked past the stone pillar where Asido was recuperating and looked further away. He could see several brainless Killians, lured by the smell of the god of death's blood, moving towards this side with staggering steps.
In order to avoid being visited by the Grim Reaper sent by the Saito family, they had abandoned their original position five days ago. Tianpeng's completely crystallized earth pit furnace was naturally also completely backfilled during the move to avoid leaving any clues for the Grim Reaper.
Although Tianpeng dug a new pit to make an alchemy furnace as soon as the transfer was completed, it must be said that the effect of the newly dug pit is not a bit worse than the alchemy furnace that had undergone hundreds of times of high-pressure calcination with spiritual flames, whose inner wall was completely crystallized and had almost no spiritual power leakage during alchemy.
Tianpeng has been refining medicine almost non-stop these days, in order to allow the new furnace to complete crystallization as quickly as possible during the alchemy process, and this requires a large amount of alchemy materials, namely Killian.
Coincidentally, every time Asido came here to recuperate, the smell of blood on his body would attract several Killians. Tianpeng no longer had to go out to collect materials. He just had to wait next to the alchemy furnace, and the Killians would follow Asido's scent and come to her for her to use.
Such a convenient environment for alchemy is even more convenient than the original camp. It is really difficult for Tianpeng to have any bad feelings towards Asido, the material provider. After a few days, not to mention eating Asido, Tianpeng even wanted to send food to Asido as a reward. In the end, he gave up because the God of Death could not eat Daxu's meat.
[However, just because of the convenience provided, can the Great Hollow be immune to the temptation of the blood of the God of Death and not have an appetite for the God of Death? ]
Gu Shi slowly opened his eyes with some doubts.
Like Erlang, Gu Shi, as a pure Great Hollow, would instinctively develop a strong appetite every time he smelled Asido's blood. However, he adhered to the principle of never eating humans, and regarded this temptation as a kind of tempering of his own character, hoping to make his mind strong enough, strong enough to be completely immune to the Great Hollow instincts.
After all, he is a man who is determined to make friends widely, and wants to bring everyone, whether they are Shinigami or Hollows, into his circle of friends. If he cannot completely control his appetite for Shinigami, how could any Shinigami be willing to be friends with someone who wants to eat him?
However, the instinct of Daxu is not so easy to eliminate after all. The training in the past few days has achieved little results. Although Gu Shi can restrain the cannibalistic instinct and not harm Asido, as long as he can smell the blood of Asido in his nose, the idea of eating Asido will continue to impact his consciousness.
Gu Shi was still quite confident in his willpower. After all, when he had just become weak and his body was in urgent need of spiritual energy replenishment, and his desire to eat humans was at its strongest, he was able to fully restrain his instincts.
You know, even Erlang, who is not a human being and whose soul is less affected by the instincts of the virtual species, briefly lost his sanity when he just completed his virtualization. He had to eat a lot of virtual meat and replenish a large amount of spiritual power to stabilize his state before he recognized Gu Shi as his companion again.
It can be seen that Gu Shi did a really good job in controlling his instincts.
But Tianpeng seemed to be doing better than Gu Shi and showed no appetite for Asido at all.
"Come to think of it, Tianpeng, you haven't eaten properly for a long time, right?"
After thinking for a moment, Gu Shi ignored Erlang's resentful look and looked at the "Tianpeng Pills" that had just been made beside Tianpeng.
Those "Tianpeng Pills" still looked like charcoal and did not seem edible at all. In fact, due to the relocation of the location and the decline in the quality of the pill furnace, their appearance was even worse than before.
Tianpeng didn’t think there was anything wrong with Gu Shi’s question and nodded as a matter of course.
"After all, you have to try the pills yourself to understand the hidden changes in them. I feel full after taking the pills recently, and I really don't have much appetite to eat normally."
Every pill made with Daxu as the material is full of spiritual power. The spiritual power in a pill is basically equivalent to half of a Killian. Tianpeng tests the pills himself every time he finishes making them, and it is indeed difficult for him to have an appetite to eat the meat of Killian normally.
Gu Shi nodded thoughtfully and stretched out his claws without any hesitation.
"I don't feel like eating today. Tianpeng, please give me a few of your pills."
Tian Peng was overjoyed when she heard this. Recently, the materials for alchemy have been delivered to her door, and her efficiency in alchemy has been greatly improved. She couldn't finish all the pills even if she ate too much every day. She has already stockpiled several new pills, and new materials for alchemy are being delivered to her door continuously. Seeing that the stockpiled pills will definitely increase, she is worrying about what to do with them.
Hearing Zhenjun say that he wanted to take his elixir, Tianpeng was so happy that he felt a sense of joy of being recognized. He quickly grabbed all the pills and stuffed them all into Gu Shi's hand. He stared at Gu Shi's mouth with anticipation, wanting to witness the scene of Zhenjun taking the "Tianpeng Pill" with his own eyes.
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Chapter 71: Pre-prepared meals?
Gu Shi did not delay. He picked up a Tianpeng Pill and threw it into his mouth and chewed it. Immediately, surging spiritual power was quickly released in his mouth. The violent impact was like a flash of lightning exploding directly in his mouth. Gu Shi even tasted the taste of his own blood.
[Well, it's a bit like an enhanced version of popping candy. ]
Gu Shi just commented on the taste in his mind, and then this violent feeling, which was far stronger than Daxu's but far purer than Daxu's spiritual power, was quickly absorbed by Gu Shi's body and transformed into a part of his own foundation.
Gu Shi closed his eyes and felt it carefully, and found that when his body absorbed the spiritual power from the Tianpeng Pill, the speed was much faster than when he directly ate Daxu's flesh and blood. There was even a vague feeling of... impatience emerging from deep within his body?
This feeling of urgency was very familiar, and was very similar to the appetite for the god of death that Gu Shi had been suppressing for some time, except that it was much weaker in comparison.
[…Is it because under high pressure burning, some impurities in the spiritual power of the Great Hollow (raw material) were removed, and it became closer to the pure spiritual power of the God of Death? ]
[Tian Peng does not have a strong appetite for the God of Death. On the one hand, it is because she has taken too many pills and has been full for a long time, so her appetite is not strong. On the other hand, it may also be because the spiritual power she has taken in during this period is very pure, similar to... the God of Death who is about to become empty? ]
[So for Tianpeng's body, although the spiritual power of the god of death is better than what he eats every day, it is not a particularly rare thing. He is too lazy to make any drastic reaction? ]
[If we use fruit as an analogy, the spirit power of the god of death is a fresh banana. My body and Jiro's body have never eaten bananas before, so we are naturally greedy when we finally see one.]
[Although Tianpeng's body has never eaten fresh bananas, he eats bananas that have been soft and have black spots on the skin after a period of time. So even if he sees fresh bananas, he won't be very excited? ]
While feeling his body's reaction, Gu Shi thought quickly. After a moment, he opened his eyes, nodded to Tianpeng who was full of expectation, and gave him a thumbs up.
"Yes, it is really good stuff!"
As he spoke, Gu Shi picked up a Tianpeng Pill and handed it to Erlang.
"Erlang, you should try it too. One pill can make you half full. It can effectively shorten the time of eating and digestion, allowing you to free up more time to study your martial arts."
Erlang was not interested in elixirs at first. After all, he was now a virtual being. Before he became a virtual being, he was a dog. No matter which stage he was in, using his sharp teeth to tear the bodies of his prey into pieces and eating fresh flesh and blood were all great enjoyments for him. Therefore, even though he knew that Tianpeng's elixirs could be used to fill his stomach, he never thought of taking elixirs instead of hunting.
But when he heard that he would have more time to study martial arts, Erlang instantly perked up. He immediately put aside his hunting desire and impatiently took the Tianpeng Pill and put it into his mouth.
Having personally experienced the wonderful experience of being almost full in just a few seconds after taking a bite, and not having to waste time waiting for digestion, Erlang squinted his eyes happily, rubbed his paws in a flattering manner, and looked at Tianpeng.
"Ahem, Tianpeng, could you please help me refine a pill every day? I won't let you do it for nothing. If there is anything you need me to do, just tell me, and I promise to do it!"
Tianpeng was very happy that his work was recognized and loved by his peers, and he nodded vigorously without hesitation.
"No problem, but if two people eat together, the ingredients that Asido brought won't be enough. You have to help me prepare the missing ingredients, Jilang."
"No problem, no problem. Leave it to me. If you need any materials next time, just give me a call and I'll get them for you right away!"
Erlang patted his chest and agreed readily. Anyway, in order to determine whether the moves he had researched were useful, he had to try them out on Killian every day. It was not a difficult task to kill a few Killians and bring them back.
At this time, Gu Shi also interrupted with a smile.
"Tian Peng, please prepare a batch of pills for me every day. I can also take care of the materials."
Tianpeng felt even happier knowing that Zhenjun wanted to eat his own pills every day. The smile on his face became extremely bright. He kept saying thank you, and then said that there was no need to trouble Zhenjun to prepare the materials, as he and Erlang could prepare them. His enthusiastic attitude made Gu Shi feel a little amused.
"Stop! Okay, Tianpeng, calm down. I asked you to help me make an elixir, so how can you thank me in return? Anyway, it's settled. For the time being, we will give up eating meat directly and eat elixirs instead!"
Gu Shi made the decision directly and decided on the meals for the three people for the next period of time.
[Let me see if Tianpeng's elixir can really weaken Daxu's appetite for the god of death as I thought.]
[If it is possible, then this kind of elixir will have extraordinary significance for us and all the Voids.]
【but……】
Gu Shi frowned unconsciously. The Saito family was a trouble after all. As a superior noble, the power they had accumulated over the past thousand years was definitely not weak. Even if it was unlikely that there would be captain-level combat power among the forces sent to the Hueco Mundo to hunt him down, it was still very likely that there would be deputy captain-level combat power.
The Death Gods are a group with a huge gap in strength between the upper and lower levels, and five seats is basically a watershed. If the three Killians on our side join forces, they will have no problem defeating the officers with less than five seats, and they can even fight three or five at the same time. But when facing the Death Gods with more than five seats, especially the vice-captain level, they will most likely be beaten to a pulp.
Therefore, for safety reasons, it is necessary to move the position every once in a while before one of the three evolves Achukas.
However, Tianpeng's alchemy furnaces are all large earth pits that are ten meters long, wide and about fifteen meters deep. Even if the furnace walls are completely crystallized after repeated alchemy and can be dug out and taken away, such large objects are really difficult to carry, and it is inevitable to backfill them on the spot when transferring.
This meant that every time he moved his position, Tianpeng would have to dig out a new alchemy furnace, and the quality of the pills he refined would inevitably be temporarily reduced due to the decline in the quality of the furnace. It would become very challenging to stably provide enough pills for the daily consumption of the three-headed Daxu.
【Is there any way to solve this problem? 】
Gu Shi frowned and thought for a moment, and soon thought of the "pre-prepared dishes" that were once widely complained about, and then came up with the idea of "secondary refining".
The alchemy furnace of Tianpeng is so big because the Killian, who is used as the material for alchemy, is of a huge size, over 30 meters tall. If the furnace is not dug big enough, the materials cannot be stuffed in.
If you prepare a small alchemy furnace that can hold just a few pills, without having to fit a whole Killian in it, you can carry it with you.
Then, every time after moving the position, when the quality of the pills refined decreases because the quality of the new furnace does not meet the standards, the inferior pills are put into this small furnace for secondary refining. Can the quality of the pills be kept stable?
Gu Shi thought for a moment, expressed his thoughts, and asked Tianpeng, a professional, for his opinion.
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Chapter 72 Please Don't Eat Me~