At the Seireitei Fifth Division training grounds, several disillusioned youths knelt before Aizen. They had been tricked; after Aizen demonstrated his power, he said he would lead them to establish a new order and New World, and they believed him without question...
The time has come to 189 years before Aizen was sealed away. In the past ten years, Baraggan and his group have not attacked the Arrancar Army even once, and Yanis, who controls the 'Rei Homologous Body', has been monitoring them all along.
Zero would disappear from Soul Society for a few days each month during his vacation. People thought he was training, but he went to Hueco Mundo to use Yanis's abilities to devour Menos Grande.
In the same year, Love Aikawa also learned Bankai and was finally promoted from Vice-Captain to captain. When he took the Captain's test, Zero was invited to witness it. His Bankai has extremely high explosive power, but it is easy to hurt his own people around him.
Among fire-type Zanpakuto, only Yama-jii's Ryūjin Jakka is stronger than him.
After Love Aikawa was promoted, Shōtsubaki Jin'emon, who was originally the Third Seat of the Seventh Division, was promoted to Vice-Captain. Kotsubaki Jin'emon is the father of Shōtsubaki Sentarō. He is a master swordsman and is known as the "Sword Master".
However, in Zero's opinion, the only non-captain who can be called a 'swordsman' is Asido, the third seat of the team, who defeated Maki, who had reached full Shikai, without even using his Shikai.
Meanwhile, when Zero was on vacation and Seigen Kyōraku and Seigen to drink, he also learned that Hirako had become the Vice-Captain. Seigen's sister had retired due to illness, which is why he was brought up again.
Seigen originally wanted to resign to take care of his sister, but Yama-jii wouldn't allow it because a suitable person hadn't been found to replace him as Captain...
At this time, several cases of Menos Grande attacking ordinary humans suddenly occurred in the World of the Living, reported by the Ninth Seat of the Thirteenth Division stationed in the World of the Living.
The ninth seat was severely injured by Adjuchas and fled. He only sent back a report later, estimating that the opponent was Adjuchas- class Menos Grande, which is why he requested support.
The 11th Division needed to send out combat personnel, and Zero sent Ashido, who was familiar with the Menos Grande, to lead a team to track and investigate. Maki also went along.
The Soul Reaper leadership held a serious meeting to discuss the matter. All intelligent human scientists in the World of the Living had been attacked and killed by Menos Grande, their souls created, and then captured by the Menos Grande. The Ninth Seat witnessed this firsthand.
Back at his residence, Zero used the specially enhanced Hand Chicken Qiu Jite had given him to send a message to Hueco Mundo: "Ulquiorra, what happened? Didn't I tell you to keep things clean? How did we still get discovered?"
"Sorry, that new Adjuchas doesn't know the rules. I've already told him to be more careful in his next life," came Ulquiorra indifferent voice from the Hand Chicken.
"Hmm, have those scientists figured anything out?"
"They've figured out the composition of the soul and the generation of Reiryoku... There are some devices here that we can't manufacture, so we have to use certain illusory body parts as substitutes..."
This incident was caused by Zero's authorization to launch the 'Third Project'. Several years ago, Menos Grande began attacking chemists and physicists in the human world.
World of the Living currently in the early 19th century. Although human technology is not yet advanced, we have already entered the steam age, and large cannons firing projectiles at sea can travel several kilometers.
There are countless researchers studying various fields; among those arrested, there are certainly imposters, but those imposters manage to survive under the protection of the genuine article.
The souls captured in Hueco Mundo were too fragile to withstand the Reiatsu of the Menos Grande. So, Yanis, who controlled his Homogeneous Body, used Kidō to build Laboratory, with three layers inside and three layers outside, and no Reiatsu could penetrate the Laboratory.
Not only were souls captured here, but also those seeking death on the edge of Soul Society. Although the Adjuchas showed interest in those souls by drooling, they dared not secretly devour them due to Ulquiorra's prohibition.
When a sub-level Menos Grande tries to enter the Laboratory to check on the progress or deliver materials, their Reiatsu will be sealed to the extreme.
At first Grimmjow had a great time in the Arena, but as time went on, he began to kill Menos Grande who would immediately flee as soon as they saw him go down.
The uninteresting Grimmjow chooses to fight for the Visoreds. To prevent him from being ambushed by Baraggan or Picaro, Ulquiorra orders Adjuchas, who possesses abilities similar to Qiu Jite's, to monitor and protect Grimmjow using small parasitic Spirit Worms.
If Baraggan attacks, their Headquarters will instantly release the Negación and use the parasitic Spirit Worms ' location tracking to Grimmjow back.
As long as one doesn't let their guard down, Vasto Lorde with its own sophisticated power structure generally won't die.
The guy killed by Kuruyashiki was just unlucky; his Spirit Worm was killed instantly during the battle with Kuruyashiki, which prevented the Negación from accurately locating him, leading to his death.
At this moment, in the Desperate Cliff Hueco Mundo, located at the very edge of Hueco Mundo, even though the Reishi energy concentration was so thin that it made it difficult for Menos Grande to breathe, there were still two streams of Reiatsu that were slowly increasing every day...
Hueco Mundo is half a broken planet, and it is enormous. This space contains only two worlds, the Moon and Hueco Mundo, which are infinitely far apart. If you step out of the edge of Hueco Mundo, you will fall into the boundless void until you die and turn into Reishi, which will be pulled back by the gravity of Hueco Mundo or the crescent moon.
The moonlight shines directly on the location of Las Noches, which is the core area of Hueco Mundo. The outer part of the core area is called the Inner Circle, then the Outer Circle, the edge of the Outer Circle, and finally the outermost edge, the Desperate Shore.
The concentration of Reishi is highest in the core area and then decreases sequentially.
In the outermost region, the concentration of Reishi was similar to that of the 'Spirit-Dense Area' in the World of the Living, but it still made the Adjuchas feel short of breath...
"The concentration of Reishi is too low."
"I'm starving! I can't take it anymore! I'm going to Soul Society to eat some souls. Goodbye."
"Damn it, who farted here? It stinks!"
"Stop complaining, aren't Baraggan and the others ready yet?"
"It might take a long time!"
"Don't change the subject, that guy who farted was definitely you."
"So what if it's me? Come out and fight me one-on-one!"
The Arrancar Army' fears that the Baraggan would continue to attack never materialized; there were still nearly a hundred Adjuchas who believed in Baraggan and Szayelaporro.
Since the Menos Grande Forest no longer existed, they could only scatter in the caves to await orders, but some Adjuchas, unable to endure it any longer, left.
One-on-one duels had become their only pleasure. The defeated would be devoured. When Baraggan was defeated, this large group of his confidants, who were stationed in various places or had escaped from the battlefield, followed him.
Their numbers dwindled from 150 at the beginning to less than 100 today; the rest died at the hands of their own people.
Even Adjuchas wouldn't come to a place like this, where they'd rather be waiting to die. There are very, very few Gillian Grunts the Menos Grande. Each Gillian colony might have at most a dozen or so, and very few can evolve from Gillian into Adjuchas.
In the past, very few could evolve; now, none will. The Gillian have been wiped out by these sub-class creatures.
While the Menos Grande were complaining, their commander was sitting on a giant skeletal chair, encased in a Container made of a giant Barrier.
Meanwhile, Szayelaporro sat in the same Container, his fleshy wings slightly retracted, while Picaro sat between the two Containers...
Outside, Lojia Jia was holding a notebook, intently observing Baraggan's skeletal form and diligently recording. "On the 1550th day since the 'Reiryoku Natural Arrancar' experiment began, Experimental Subject 5 has shown Experimental Subject of Reiryoku turning into shredded flesh..."
The fact that flesh threads are growing from the skeletal body proves that Baraggan's abilities are being suppressed, and his own Reiatsu is also increasing.
As Lojia approached Szayelaporro, he began recording: 970 days into the Experimental Subject, Subject 6's wings, which utilize his abilities, began to materialize into Reishi, and his speed was faster than Subject 5's...
When Lojia saw Picaro, he recorded a different account: his Reiryoku had not been excessively weakened, and he still possessed extremely strong combat power!
At Zero's behest, the Arrancar Army made no further moves. The 11th Division task force, which had originally intended to take down Menos Grande, got bored and returned to Soul Society after a few months of stationing there.
Both factions within Hueco Mundo were conducting frantic experiments, but the level of these experiments was on completely different levels, since the Arrancar Army's Laboratory had only recently been established.
Just when Zero thought the Laboratory wouldn't produce any results anytime soon, the department in charge of 'Menos Grande Transformation' brought good news: the four sub-class masks that had been bitten by their own kind had been combined into two, and their masks had also been repaired.
The news of the birth of two Experimental Subjects initially delighted Zero, but when he went to Hueco Mundo as usual to see the research results, he only found the Laboratory area in complete disarray and the Arena in chaos...
Yanis instantly returned to his original position, and Zero learned the whole story... It turned out that the scientists had collaborated to create a small device using the organs of certain Menos Grande to control two Experimental Subjects and have them assist in escaping Hueco Mundo.
Believe it or not, if Yanis hadn't been constantly watching the Laboratory, the scientists might have actually succeeded; those two Experimental Subjects were no pushovers...
"Sir, shall we go and check their fighting strength first? I spared their lives, and they are currently being tested in the Arena!" Ulquiorra arrived on time to greet them and explained the main methods of handling the situation.
"Hehehe, as expected, there are still quite a few bold humans... Let's go check out the Experimental Subject's combat capabilities first."
Following Ulquiorra's advice, Zero immediately Shunpo to the 'Menos Grande Arena' to observe the combat power of the Modified Menos Grande.