A target that couldn't be more perfect

The Death God Reapers' worldview shattered.

The Soul Society trembled, Hueco Mundo trembled, the tremors were so great that mountains collapsed and the earth cracked. Even the boundary between the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo began to crumble, and a large number of Hollows poured into the Soul Society.

However, the World of the Living remains unchanged.

Although the place where Shazo and the Soul King fought was closer to the World of the Living, it only had a devastating impact on a small area centered around Karakura Town.

The greatest impact is not even comparable to a magnitude 6 earthquake.

How could such World of the Living be the lower realm of Soul Society?

Who is the primary and who is the secondary?

When the clash of Sword Qi reached an astonishing level, Shazo suddenly passed through the line of Sword Qi energy and appeared directly behind the Soul King.

The Heaven-Measuring Ruler in his hand also drew a semi-circular arc, slashing down to within a palm's width of the Soul King's neck.

Boom!!!

Shazo's Zanpakuto, Heaven-Measuring Ruler, failed to reach the Soul King's neck; it was blocked by the Soul King's thin, transparent Zanpakuto, Myriad Phenomena.

The Heaven-Measuring Ruler was cut open by the myriad Myriad Phenomena that cut through all things, leaving a sword mark several inches long; it was almost severed in half.

The Soul King was also struck by the violent Spiritual Pressure carried by the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, and was blasted into the thick ruins of the building like a cannonball.

However, the impact was exceptionally powerful, as the Soul King had cleverly channeled Shazo's Spiritual Pressure underground, causing as much damage as possible to the Spiritually Dense Land.

When all the power had been released, the Soul King suddenly flew up from the ruins, staring blankly at the earth.

He suddenly asked, "Why?"

Shazo Zuo laughed and said, "Why hasn't the world rejected or rejected me after I caused such severe damage to the Spiritually Dense Land?"

"Of course, the damage I caused wasn't severe enough; it doesn't matter to the World of the Living."

Soul King was dumbfounded. "Huh?"

Shazo kindly explained, "If that attack had been channeled into the Soul Society, it would have been enough to blow up the entire Soul Society and cause considerable damage to the Soul Society."

"But the same attack power is nothing more than a drizzle in the World of the Living of the material world, not even enough to warrant a scratch."

"World of the Living mortal world is the core of the Three Realms. Although the material world's power of manifestation is not as great as that of the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, its significance is incomparable to that of the Soul Society."

"You deliberately sent the Soul King Palace out into the World of the Living so that I would be attacked by the most powerful force in the world— the World of the Living realm. But you clearly don't know that the World of the Living is capable of withstanding my attack and will not retaliate against me because of my attack."

"In fact, you might as well have placed the battlefield in Hueco Mundo— "

The Soul King murmured, "Our power is already the limit of the world, yet we cannot even shake the World of the Living?"

"Not at all," Shazo said calmly. "Much worse."

"The power you and I can achieve in this world is immense, but it's only the limit allowed within the world's framework."

"To give an analogy, the World's Number One's highest peak might reach 10,000 meters, but compared to the world's diameter of over 10,000 kilometers, it's simply incomparable."

"The only places we can truly stir up are the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. Even Hell, which you pushed aside with all your might, cannot compare to the World of the Living."

Soul King closed his eyes in anguish, shaking his head violently to force himself to stay awake.

But he immediately sensed something was wrong. It turned out that while he had his eyes closed, Shazo had once again approached the bladeless sword, which carried the Sword Intent to destroy everything, and was already right in front of him, within arm's reach.

Boom!!

The darkness surrounding the Soul King grew wildly, transforming into a shield in front of him. Unfortunately, the initiative had been lost, and Shazo easily cleaved through all obstacles, slicing the cold Blade into his forehead.

In Setsuna, the burst of light dispelled the darkness, and the surging Sword Qi swept over the Soul King's body, engulfing everything behind him in the Sword Qi.

"Waaaaah!!"

The Soul King was cleaved in two in that instant, but inexplicably returned to its original state as if it had not been cleaved. However, the power within his body was completely disrupted by Shazo's Sword Qi, leaving him with terrifying damage.

The Soul King used all his strength to dispel Shazo's Sword Qi, wrapped it with his own blood, and then spat out mouthfuls of this thick, blackened blood.

When the viscous, oil-like blood fell to the ground, it first unleashed Shazo's Sword Qi, cutting everything around it to pieces.

Then the black blood began to shimmer with golden light, continuously assimilating the surrounding matter into black matter.

Shazo asked in surprise, "Your body was severed—yet you can reverse cause and effect, returning to the time before the attack? You can actually use your the Almighty like this?"

"Could it be that they communicated with their future selves and joined forces to destroy the damaged timeline?"

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Just as Shazo said, the Soul King did indeed join forces with his future self in the timeline of death to destroy that timeline of death, thus reversing cause and effect and eliminating the reality of being killed.

This is truly an incredibly powerful ability, originating from the Almighty authority of Yhwach, the son of Soul King.

After learning that Yhwach's the Almighty were limited by the world, the Soul King, after careful consideration, reduced his the Almighty to the Time Authority.

While it may lack the grandeur of God, its practicality has been improved like never before.

But for a being like the Soul King, who has reached the limits of the world, each version of himself on every timeline is a part of himself.

In order to ensure the overall survival, it is necessary to destroy the timeline, which is essentially cutting off one's own flesh, an act of outright self-harm.

The Time Authority should not be used in this way, but rather by anticipating the enemy's moves, taking the initiative at every step, and calmly breaking the enemy's nerves.

Unfortunately, Shazo's existence was too powerful. When he gathered his power to launch an attack, all timelines were highly unified, and no branches were generated at all.

In this situation, the Time Authority can only perform simple predictions and cannot perform further time-related operations.

Until Shazo's attack was completed, his power inevitably decreased, and the timeline was no longer strongly constrained, returning to a state of free growth.

It was at that time that the Soul King had room to maneuver and escaped a future of death.

Shazo guessed correctly, but the Soul King did not intend to answer his question. Instead, he shook his longsword and launched a counterattack.

Shazo didn't expect the Soul King's answer. As he asked the question, his figure moved like a ghost, instantly closing in on him again.

As a result, the Soul King, who had gained the upper hand in the future, was unable to keep up with Shazo's increasingly rapid and varied attacks, and ultimately failed to counterattack, instead suffering another blow.

The injured Soul King lightly touched the ground with his toes and leaped away to dodge Shazo's powerful, potentially fatal, strike.

At this moment, the Spiritual Pressure of Shazo within his body, like a maggot clinging to his bone, began to churn and leap within him once more, disrupting the flow of his power and constantly weakening his strength.

Soul King knew he would surely lose if things continued this way, so he remembered what Shazo had said before: Hueco Mundo was more fragile and more likely to trigger the world's rejection.

But he now pretty much understands that while Shazo doesn't lie, he doesn't always tell the whole truth.

For example, Shazo said that Hueco Mundo is more vulnerable to harm, and that he would be rejected by Hueco Mundo's world power as a result, which is absolutely true.

However, he didn't mention whether the Soul King would also be rejected by the world's power after entering Hueco Mundo.

The Soul King's hesitation lasted less than a second. Seeing that continuing to fight would inevitably result in another fatal injury in 12 seconds, he steeled his heart, transformed into a black meteor, and charged towards Hueco Mundo.

Shazo was not about to let the Soul King get away, so he transformed into a streak of blue light and gave chase.

The black meteor and the blue streak of light soared into the sky, moving along a straight line, and in the blink of an eye, they pierced through the thin spatial barrier and entered the desolate Hueco Mundo.

This sand sea, which is always a place of howling winds, was engulfed in a raging storm because of the pursuit between Shazo and the Soul King.

The white sand was swept thousands of meters into the air by the storm, instantly transforming into a cloud that blotted out the sun.

Shazo and the Soul King chased each other for a while, and finally, after circling Hueco Mundo twice, the black meteor stopped on its own.

After the Soul King stopped, he lowered his head and gently spat out a mouthful of black blood, which contained the last bit of Spiritual Pressure belonging to Shazo. Before falling to the ground, it exploded into a small firework.

Having expelled the last remaining threat from his body, the Soul King, seeing Shazo also chasing after him, dared not delay and raised his hands, quickly drawing strange Runes in the void that resembled Quincy Schrift.

This is the Soul King's understanding of the power transformation of the Bleach World, which is incomparable to Yhwach's shallow Schrift. It is the Root Characters that can directly mobilize the power of the world.

When Shazo arrived before the Soul King, nine Root Characters had already been drawn in the air, forming a mysterious nine-square grid.

The Soul King stared intently at Shazo and roared, "Divine Descent! Divine Domain!!!"

The next moment, the nine Root Characters gave rise to intricate and complex golden incantations. These wrinkles drove the Spirit Particles of Hueco Mundo to combine into beams of light that shot into the sky.

Thousands upon thousands of beams of light rapidly spread out, filling the Hueco Mundo desert like scattered stars and clouds, suppressing the entire Hueco Mundo.

The sandstorm that was just raging in Hueco Mundo was suppressed by the pillar of light in the blink of an eye.

The sand in the air didn't even have time to land before its physical structure was destroyed by the Spiritual Pressure emanating from the pillar of light, turning into pure Spirit Particles.

A massive amount of Spirit Particles were drawn in by the pillar of light and flowed into the Soul King's body like rivers flowing into the sea, forming a surging ocean of power.

At this point, the Soul King and Hueco Mundo were completely connected, forming an inseparable community; the power of Hueco Mundo was his power.

After his resurrection, he surpassed Shazo in strength for the first time, and his confidence naturally exploded.

He looked at Shazo and smiled smugly, "Shazo, do you think you can still beat me now?"

Shazo ignored the Soul King's clamor. He looked around and saw rows of evenly distributed pillars of light reaching the sky.

They were like frantic pumps, drawing Spirit Particles from Hueco Mundo to the top and then pouring them into the Soul King's body from top to bottom.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that each beam of light is still growing, extending continuously in both upward and downward directions, seemingly aiming to completely penetrate the Hueco Mundo.

"Heh heh, you won't answer my question!" The Soul King said smugly, "Indeed, seeing my power as I merged directly with Hueco Mundo, you must be quite awestruck."

"Back when this place was still called the Spirit Realm, I was known as the Soul King."

"It's because I can merge with the Spirit Realm, arbitrarily taking everything from all life within the Spirit Realm for my own use. All life must obtain my permission to continue living."

"Shazo, you are a great being who transcends this world, but a portion of your power is already within Hueco Mundo. I want to try and see if I can make that portion of your power mine!"

Shazo was stunned upon hearing this, and immediately felt the Spiritual Pressure within his body rapidly dissipate uncontrollably, almost completely disappearing within a single breath.

At the same time, the Soul King's body glowed. He had actually taken away Shazo's power, and his aura became even stronger. The surging holy light illuminated the sky as bright as day.

"I did it?"

I did it! I really did it!!

The Soul King could not hide his joy and shouted excitedly, "Shazo, although I cannot kill you, in the world I rule, you have no way to fight me and can only become my prey!"

But amidst his joy, a lingering fear remained, so he couldn't help but feign weakness, saying, "For the sake of the broader prospects you've shown me, just leave obediently, Shazo!"

Having had all his power drained away, leaving him seemingly an empty shell, Shazo suddenly laughed, "It's unbelievable. How dare you greedily steal my power when you're one with the world?"

"Soul King, have you ever considered that I deliberately let you steal my power?"

The Soul King's smile froze on his face instantly, as if he had been punched hard and stood there dumbfounded in the air with his mouth slightly open.

Shazo sneered, "Have you discovered that you can't expel my power?"

"Shallow fellow, how can I feel at ease using a power that can be taken away from me?"

"My power is absolutely mine. Even if you take it away with my help, it will never become yours."

"On the contrary, now that you are filled with my power, you can no longer block my perception of you, nor can you dodge as you did before."

Shazo revealed the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, and a powerful, unfamiliar force poured into the blade, causing Runes that were out of step with the rules of the world to appear on its surface.

"You are now one with Hueco Mundo. Hueco Mundo and Soul Society are merging, yet you have actively absorbed my power and cannot escape it."

"By cutting you, who cannot move or dodge, it's the same as directly cutting Hueco Mundo and indirectly cutting into Soul Society. What a perfect target."

"Thank you for giving me a one-time opportunity to rebuild the rules of the world!"

The Soul King's expression changed; his smile turned into fear. An unprecedentedly powerful Spiritual Pressure erupted from his body as he tried to break free from Shazo's Spiritual Pressure or avoid the impending attack.

But all of this was in vain.

Shazo's Heaven-Measuring Ruler, carrying entirely new rules, effortlessly cleaved the Soul King in two.