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It seems that this boundary itself is not that solid?
Both Hollows and Shinigami are forms achieved after ordinary souls undergo specific changes, which means that the origins of the two are actually the same.
However, as their strength increases, Hollow evolves into Killian and Achukas, and ordinary Shinigami master Shikai and Bankai. Hollows and Shinigami go further and further on their respective paths, and naturally they are getting further and further away from the "origin"?
Therefore, the distance between the God of Death and the Hollow naturally increases exponentially. If you want to break the "boundary between the God of Death and the Hollow" and reach the other side from your side, the difficulty will naturally become greater and greater?
So, the more powerful the Shinigami and Hollows are, the harder it is to break the boundaries?
On the contrary, for a little Hollow who has just become a Hollow, or an ordinary Shinigami who has just become a Shinigami, breaking the boundary between the two may be accomplished with just a "turn"?
Gu Shi frowned and thought for a long time. He always felt that his guess, although it seemed outrageous at first, made more sense the more he thought about it.
Maybe, I should go to the real world and find a little virtual who has just completed virtualization to verify it?
If my guess is true, then perhaps we should try to complete the Arrancar before evolving the Achukas?
While Gu Shi was thinking, the changes in the bone cocoon finally ended. The distorted human figure had completely disappeared, but the long object next to it had completely taken shape and turned into a long metal strip that resembled a knife.
Chapter 98 Death
corpse...
corpse...
corpse...
As far as the eye can see, there is only barren white sand and corpses everywhere.
[How long has it been since you last saw a living thing? ]
Fifty years?
a hundred years?
[It should... take a little longer, right? ]
The lonely figure lay on the pale sand dune, his eyes calm without any ripples, as if he had become one of the many corpses around.
When he was lying on the sand dunes, he hated the endless darkness in the dome of Hueco Mundo more than once, without stars and moon. Otherwise, at least he had these friends to keep him company, but now he has accepted his loneliness.
A small virtual flash gathered at the fingertips and was fired casually, watching it pierce through the mountains, shatter the earth, and disappear at the end of the field of vision. Listening to the roar of huge objects being shattered still coming from the distance, the figure's mouth curled up stiffly into a small arc.
In the dead silent world, such sounds were a rare comfort. The figure closed his eyes contentedly, trying to fall asleep in the enjoyment.
[After waking up, I will definitely become stronger, right? ]
[Oh, it doesn’t matter. ]
[In the end, it is nothing more than a further expansion of the dead world.]
The figure mocked himself and the world in his heart.
"Powerful", what a tempting word. Countless people have gone crazy in pursuit of "power". He was once one of them, swearing to be stronger than anyone else and stand higher than anyone else.
He succeeded, without any thrilling twists and turns, without any hard work, and he naturally became the most "powerful" one.
His spiritual power is so deep and surging like an endless sea.
His spiritual pressure was as strong and brilliant as the scorching sun falling upon the earth.
No life is qualified to be his opponent, and even, no life is qualified to stand in front of him.
Even if he tried his best to restrain it, just a slight leak of spiritual pressure was enough to make his area a restricted area for life. Any life that tried to get close to him would be deprived of all life by his spiritual pressure before even seeing him.
No living thing could appear alive in his sight.
Killian can't.
Not Yachucas.
Vastod...the same cannot be said.
He became the strongest one, but also the loneliest one.
He has been living alone with only corpses as companions for more than a hundred years. But as long as he is alive, he will continue to become stronger, and the dead world that belongs only to him is also constantly expanding.
[Sleep, sleep, after you wake up, maybe there will be a second "strongest" by my side. ]
Holding on to hope that was no longer hope, the figure's consciousness gradually became dim, but at a certain moment when he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly woke up, and for the first time, his eyes that had been dead for a hundred years were tinged with a color called surprise.
Just now, he suddenly felt something. The mysterious fluctuation of spiritual power was extremely weak, even weaker than the airflow caused by his breathing.
but……
wonderful!
Very amazing!
It’s not false!
Not the god of death either!
It’s also different from the sinners in hell!
This is a spiritual power fluctuation that has never been seen before!
[A new power has appeared? Can this power weaken me!? Help me escape from this world of only death! !]
In an instant, the dead heart began to tremble again.
Carefully identifying the direction from which the mysterious spiritual power came, the figure quickly locked onto his target, but at this moment, the already weak spiritual power reaction became even weaker... but also more stable?
[Weakened and stabilized! Yes, this is exactly what I want! ]
[What should I do? Should I go and have a look? He will probably be crushed to death by my spiritual pressure, right?]
[It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter if there are only corpses. This rare opportunity must not be missed! ]
【Eat his corpse and devour that mysterious spiritual power! 】
Sensing the target that exuded wonderful spiritual power, the blue flash of light condensed at the fingertips and shot out in just a moment. Compressed to the extreme, the flash of light as thin as a needle instantly pierced through the pale desert beneath the feet, shot into the Great Void Forest, and accurately hit the perceived target.
"I'm going there. Run away. I have a hundred breaths to take. How far you can run is up to you."
The figure's voice, calm and lonely, followed the passage that was penetrated by the void and entered the Great Void Forest.
In the Great Hollow Forest, Gu Shi had just picked up the long metal strip that he was not sure whether it could be considered a Zanpakuto, when a blue flash passed in front of his eyes, easily piercing through the metal strip and piercing deeply into the ground under his feet, leaving a tiny hole that was bottomless.
Immediately afterwards, an extremely terrifying voice rang in his ears. For an instant, Gu Shi seemed to see some kind of horrible monster that could not be described in words roaring madly at him, as if it would swallow him and the surrounding "world" in the next second.
The terrifying feeling of oppression made Gu Shi unable to even fully discern the meaning of the voice. He could only sporadically capture words such as "breathing, time, escape".
Without any hesitation, and even without taking the time to calm his breathing which had become rapid due to fear, Gu Shi immediately ran towards the camp as fast as he could, shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Run! Run quickly! Don't take anything with you! Run now!"
In the camp not far away, everyone also heard the horrible sound. Asido collapsed to the ground. He tried desperately to get up, but his limbs were as soft as instant noodles that had been soaked for a whole day. Urahara Kisuke's eyes were also filled with fear, but his condition was much better than Asido. He was about to help Asido up and escape together.
Tianpeng's eyes became dull, as if he had completely sunk into the abyss of fear. He was unable to come back to his senses for a while. The face of the big rabbit next to him was already full of tears. However, as if because she was often "terrified", she broke free from the shackles of fear before Tianpeng. She was wailing and shaking Tianpeng's body desperately, trying to awaken her consciousness.
At the same time as Gu Shi's shout was heard, Erlang had already gritted his teeth and rushed towards the group of Killians where Gu Shi was. When he saw Gu Shi rushing out of the Killians, he was visibly relieved. The fear suppressed in his heart began to rise. He let out a low whimper, turned around and ran to Tianpeng, and slapped her in the face.
"Stop being in a daze! Run!"
There is no need to explain the speed of Daxu. In just a few breaths, Gu Shi had already run back to the camp. He pulled up Tianpeng, who had finally come to his senses, and with his other hand grabbed Asido, who was still unable to get up, and without hesitation, he continued to run wildly.
Several Great Voids fled in a panic, not even having time to think about what they were running away from. Beside them, there were a large number of Great Voids who were also fleeing wildly.
Behind the fleeing big Xu were the corpses of small Xu. They also heard the voice that warned them to escape and died as a result.
The "shallow" spiritual pressure in the voice, which was "insignificant" to the figure, destroyed all their vitality in just an instant.
Chapter 99: Hope
"...Ninety-nine, one hundred."
The figure patiently counted to one hundred, and the spiritual pressure spread out under his feet. The pure white sea of sand spontaneously dispersed in all directions with him as the center, completely exposing the Great Hollow Forest below.
In the moment when the vision became clear, there was almost no so-called movement track. It was just a flash, and the figure that was still on the surface desert the moment before was already standing on the land of the Great Void Forest the next moment.
Relying on the guidance of spiritual perception, the figure's eyes immediately locked onto the long white metal strip lying on the ground without having to search everywhere. His expression had not changed for a long time, so that a hint of surprise appeared on his somewhat "expressionless" face.
[This spiritual power, doesn't it come from a living thing? Who created it? ]
A little doubt arose in his heart, but the figure did not hesitate at all. He picked up the long metal strip, looked at it for a moment, and then used the method most commonly used by the Great Void to study something -
eat!
Gently pinch one end of the metal strip with two fingers, and with just a little force, easily break off a corner of it, put it in your mouth and chew it carefully.
The metal that should have been hard and sharp, like crispy puffed biscuits, quickly turned into a pile of crumbs in the figure's mouth. The figure closed his eyes, savored and experienced the spiritual power in the fragments, and absorbed it all without wasting a single bit.
Soon, a "sample" of that wonderful spiritual power appeared in the figure's body. He began to adjust the composition of his own spiritual power, trying to simulate this never-before-seen power.
However, the attempt was not successful. In the perception of the human figure, part of the composition of this mysterious spiritual power was quite similar to that of Daxu, but the other part seemed to be in irreconcilable conflict with Daxu's spiritual power.
This resulted in the situation that whenever the simulation of the human figure was initially successful, the spiritual power belonging to the Great Void in his body would riot, and spontaneously crush and devour the simulated spiritual power in a violent, life-and-death posture.
After trying several times in succession, not only did he fail, but because of the repeated spiritual power riots, the few spiritual power samples in his body were completely wiped out and swallowed up by his own great virtual spiritual power.
Temporarily giving up the blind attempt, the figure's gaze fell to the ground beside him.
There, there lay a piece of gravel with many holes on its surface. On the surface of the gravel, there were also some tiny blue crystals that sparkled with mysterious light.
【What is this? 】
Muttering to himself, the figure picked up the rubble and took off a blue crystal from it. After observing it carefully, he found that it seemed to be some kind of high-concentration spiritual power crystal.
[Is it... made like this? ]
The figure tried to spread out his right hand, and a terrifying amount of spiritual power surged out from his palm, quickly forming a spiritual power sphere that was enough to instantly destroy an entire group of Killians. Then, the figure's five fingers slowly gathered together, and as he moved, the spiritual pressure that was enough to crush Vastod wrapped around the spiritual power sphere and steadily compressed it towards the center.
Soon, the figure's right hand clenched into a fist. When he opened his palm again, a blue crystal several times larger than an ordinary human eyeball appeared in his hand.
Tianpeng needed to rely on the alchemy furnace and Urahara Kisuke's seal and use all his strength to barely create a spiritual energy crystal the size of a millet grain, but here with the figure, he only needed to clench his fist with a little force to compress the spiritual energy into a solid.
However, the human figure was not satisfied. By comparing the two spiritual power crystals together, it can be clearly seen that although the spiritual power crystal he squeezed out is larger and the blue color is purer, and even the surface of the formed crystal is rounder and smoother, it is just a crystal of spiritual power and has no "activity" at all.
However, the surface of the blue crystal picked from the gravel in the hole was constantly flashing with an "active" aura, just like the breathing of a living thing, stable and rhythmic.
【What is the difference? 】
After confirming that there were still a few blue crystals on the surface of the gravel in the hole, the figure decisively threw a small blue crystal into his mouth and gently bit it into pieces.