Chapter 319 Rampage
Chapter 319 Rampage
“Who said we should rely on each other before? You are just relying on me for your Zanpakutō…”
Aizen complained in a low voice. He had forgotten how long it had been since he had talked to someone like this. This kind of relaxed conversation without any mask made him feel very relaxed.
"Thank you for your help, Sosuke. My Zanpakutō is a little special and it is indeed difficult to handle."
Lu Li was also a little embarrassed. To be honest, it was Aizen who really helped him realize the awakening of his Zanpakuto.
"I can't do anything about you. Just lie down."
Aizen held onto the hilt of Kyoka Suigetsu, "My Zanpakutō has awakened a new ability that can be used in conjunction with my hypnosis. The effect should be better than before."
Lu Li did not expose Aizen's small change in language. Some things were already known to everyone and there was no need to say them out loud.
"Come on, I'm ready."
After Lu Li lay down, he said that his Chengxin bloodline could theoretically make him immune to all control effects that met the judgment conditions, including Mirror Flowers and Water Moon, but now his mental attributes were much lower than Sosuke, so the opponent's abilities could still be effective.
"Break it into pieces, Jing Hua Shui Yue."
Aizen's deep voice sounded, and the magic trick began to be revealed, and he began to completely hypnotize Lu Li.
His complete hypnosis can control a person's five senses, but if he wants to help Lu Li resonate with his Zanpakutō, Lu Li must fully cooperate, relax his spiritual pressure, and allow him to guide him.
Today, unlike back then, his actual spiritual pressure was several dimensions ahead of Lu Li, but he still found it very easy to channel it.
This made Aizen look at Lu Li with a complicated look for a moment.
Don't trust me that much, idiot.
At this time, with the help and guidance of Aizen, Lu Li once again entered the dark soul space.
I always feel like the last time I came here was a long time ago.
He wandered in the dark soul space, not knowing the direction and the end.
As I was walking, I suddenly saw a dead end in front of me. I looked down and saw an endless abyss.
Lu Li emptied his body and mind, took a step forward, and let his soul's consciousness fall, as if diving, into the area that his subconscious mind resisted entering.
When the wailing sounded in his ears, Lu Li looked down and saw the purple-black purgatory again. Endless purple-black flames were rolling in the lava river. The flames twisted their bodies like living things, constantly devouring the surrounding air, making a deafening roar.
The sky was covered with thick smoke, and occasionally dark red lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating the wailing faces of the tortured souls.
Deep in the purgatory, an enormous cage stood in the magma and flames. Its structure was complex and overlapping, like a gloomy castle. The cage was connected by thick vine-like iron chains and chains. Each chain seemed to contain magic power and flashed a dark red light.
Countless wronged souls were clinging to the chains, wailing constantly as if they were trapped there. Their faces were distorted and their eyes were filled with unwillingness and despair.
Above the cage, sulfur and ashes filled the air. Endless storms raged in the sky with lightning flashing through it. Every thunder seemed to proclaim the majesty of hell.
Thunder, resentment and wailing intertwined to form an elegy of purgatory, resounding throughout this palace of iron and fire.
Lu Li took a step forward, crossed the lava river, and once again came to this cage that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The last time I came here, the cage was not what it is now. It was not as huge and complex as it is now, and there were no vine-like chains wrapped around the outside.
In his intuitive feeling, he felt that the prison seemed to have become more solid, as if some invisible force had strengthened the blockade of the prison.
It's strange, this doesn't fit the characteristics of a normal Zanpakutō.
From common sense, no matter whether he named his Zanpakutō in a domineering way or not, since he is already able to perform Shikai and it is marked as Shikai on his Zanpakutō by the space, it means that he has already succeeded in Shikai.
Logically speaking, he should be able to communicate normally with his Zanpakutō and develop subsequent Bankai.
As long as his spiritual pressure was sufficient, Bankai should have been a natural thing, but in fact, after he left the world of death, he was never able to successfully communicate with his Zanpakutō again.
After all, he had never successfully communicated with the guy in the cage from the beginning, and only heard roars that he could not understand.
There was anger and loneliness in that roar, and brutality in its despair.
"Hey, Prisoner, can you hear me?"
Compared to before, the only improvement is that Lu Li has become more autonomous in this place and can move and speak at will. This should be the effect of the increased soul strength after his strength increased.
The response from the cage was a long silence, which made Lu Li very dissatisfied.
He raised his leg and kicked the closed door, but only the sound of steel echoed. The door did not move at all. It seemed impossible to open the door with his strength.
But this is very strange. If the 'Zanpakutō spirit' in the gate is imprisoned here, then theoretically it cannot come out on its own, and its master cannot release it either. Wouldn't that be a dead end?
"Prisoner, respond to me."
Lu Li gave the order again and waited for the feedback from inside.
But according to Lu Li's perception, ten minutes had passed and there was no response from inside the cage.
He became more and more puzzled, because he was clearly capable of Shikai, and both his abilities and the style of his Zanpakutō were clearly related to the prisoner here.
This shows that he is definitely not without the help of his Zanpakuto, or the power from the depths of his soul. Then why can't he even open the door now?
Just as Lu Li turned around and prepared to go back to discuss and analyze this issue with Sosuke, there was a sudden movement behind him.
Lu Li looked back in surprise, only to see that the huge cage was constantly shaking. Thick ashes were falling from it, hitting the ground and emitting a pungent smell.
As the door trembled, a crack appeared in the tightly closed door.
The gap was not small enough to fit a little finger in, but Lu Li was still able to see the figure inside with the faint light of the lava in Purgatory.
Just as he remembered, the majestic demon was tightly bound by chains. The chains were cold and heavy, and each ring was inlaid with ancient runes, emitting a piercing light.
The demon's skin was covered with scars, which were the marks of countless years of struggle and suffering. The former glory in its purple-black eyes had long since disappeared, and only emitted a cold and cruel light, as if even endless years could not erase its resentment.
The moment he looked at Lu Li, the demon opened his big, grim mouth and roared as if challenging the sky, but his voice was swallowed by the wind of purgatory. The roar of the lava and the demon's roar intertwined, but they could not cover up the sadness in his heart. The demon struggled with his limbs, trying to break the shackles of the chains, but the chains seemed to grow in sync with his strength, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not break free.
In the end, it calmed down and curled up in the black and gray shadows. Time lost its meaning here. Every moment was an eternal torture, and every breath was a torture to the soul.
Inside the cage, the demon's shadow looked particularly lonely under the faint light of magma from the outside.
When it looked at Lu Li again, Lu Li felt that there was another picture in his mind. It was a land he had never seen before, strange and desolate.
As if it had been baked by a scorching air, the ground was covered with black residue. Absurd and weird sharp objects emerged from the ground. I couldn't tell whether they were tentacles or some kind of plants, decorating this dim black and white world.
A slender black shadow stood on the ground, with a slightly shorter shadow following beside it like a follower, gazing at this post-apocalyptic world in the wilderness.
The might that made the heavens and the world tremble is no longer there, and what remains is only the sadness after the prosperity has ended.
The next moment, Lu Li's ears seemed to ring with the sound of a huge bell, and the scene in front of him was shattered like glass.
Then his consciousness returned to the purgatory space, and he saw strong winds blowing in the world, endless sulfur and magma rolled together, turning into a beautiful scene of destruction, and flames flew into the sky like fireflies, but they could not reach the non-existent heaven.
After circling for a long time, the extinguished fire turned into ashes and fell on the top of the cage, as if a heavy sin was pressing down on it.
As more and more ashes accumulated, the door that was slightly open gradually closed.
Before the door was completely closed, Lu Li heard the voice of the prisoner demon for the first time. It was a language he could not understand, but he was still sure that it was not a meaningless growl, but a conversation with him.
A series of voices rushed into Lu Li's mind, causing his consciousness to tremble and his soul to almost shatter.
At the critical moment, a burst of flames rose from the magma world and washed over his body, which stabilized his soul.
When he opened his eyes again, Lu Li was panting with sweat all over his forehead, and his eyes met with Aizen who was equally surprised.
"Lu Jun, what did you see in the resonance of your Zanpakuto?"
Aizen asked curiously.
"What's wrong? Have I changed in the outside world?"
Lu Li was also full of confusion. He couldn't say that he had gained nothing this time. After all, he saw the prisoner demon whom he hadn't seen for a long time, but he was still confused.
Aizen's expression was no longer as calm as usual, and he said seriously: "Mr. Lu, look around you."
Lu Li raised his hand to cover his forehead to drive away the headache. When he felt a little better, he looked around with more and more surprise in his eyes.
Because everything in sight disappeared, the cave they were originally in and the limestone mountains above them completely disappeared.
Not only that, but below them was a huge, deep pit that stretched out in all directions, all the way to the horizon as far as he could see.
The gray sea of sand was pouring back into the big pit. Some kind of manic energy remained on the ground. From an intuitive point of view, it looked like clusters of purple-black flames were burning, corroding the empty world.
Looking more closely, he discovered that Sosuke's Shinigami suit had been damaged in many places, and there were obvious bloodstains on his body.
"This is……"
Lu Li felt his head hurting more and more. He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "Did I do this?"
"Lu Jun, although I had a hunch as early as when I was in school, your Zanpakuto is really more dangerous than I imagined."
Aizen said with a serious expression, he used one hand to heal the wounds on his body.
Lu Jun had only been rampaging for 19 seconds, and he was almost killed by the violent Lu Jun.
Between life and death, he did not hold back at all, but let alone waking Lu Li up. Lu Li in that state was a violent warrior he had never seen before. Although his every move seemed to be based on beast-like instinct, it seemed that he had a sense of shortcut, revealing a mystery that he could not understand.
It was almost crushing, destroying all his means. Just when he thought he was going to be killed by the violent Lu Jun, Lu Jun's Zanpakuto stopped in front of his neck, and then he let go of his hand weakly and returned to its original state.
"Sorry for causing trouble for Sosuke, let me help you."
Lu Li said apologetically that he used Kaido to help Aizen heal his wounds. In the field of Kaido, he was more proficient than Aizen. After all, the other party had only learned a little bit as a hobby.
The two of them cleared a space in the devastated battlefield and sat down. Lu Li was also very frightened when he was treating Aizen.
Because he had communicated with Aizen before, Sosuke did not hide much from him. Combined with Lu Li's own estimation of the attribute values, he suspected that Aizen's attributes were at least at the peak of the fourth level, and there was a great possibility that he was already a fifth-level strongman.
In this situation, how could he beat Sosuke like this?
What is the situation with his prisoner demon?
What kind of secrets are hidden in your body?
Lu Li is not a fool. Although he is not good at thinking and reasoning, he does not think that this is a problem with his Zanpakuto, but a problem with the nature of his soul.
At first, he only got an ordinary Zanpakutō, which was activated through communication and given the power of his own soul, thus forming the Demon Prisoner.
In the final analysis, the demon in the depths of his soul should have existed before he entered this space.
After reasoning to this point, Lu Li felt a chill down his spine.
The world he was born in was just a normal world on the surface, but compared to most space explorers, he came from an Earth further back in the timeline. Due to different causal changes, he developed a worldview they called cyberpunk.
In his world, there is no supernatural power and everything can be explained by science.
The ancient martial arts novels left by his grandfather only gave him some fantasies of power, but at most they were about strong men who could split mountains and break rocks. Moreover, they were basically considered to be fictional novels.
In such a world, as a martial arts genius, Lu Li could only be considered a powerful warrior at best. He believed that he had no direct relationship with extraordinary powers.
But the imprisoned demon deep in his soul seemed to contain power beyond his imagination. With just a simple communication, the power transmitted from his body almost killed Sosuke.
This is not to mention extraordinary. Even if it is placed in space, this is a phenomenon that is difficult to explain. After all, I have never heard of any explorer who can burst out such powerful power out of thin air.
(End of this chapter)