Shattering and Concentration

Ichigo's throat gurgled slightly. Others might not have noticed, but only he and Uryū, Quincy, knew the terrifying power contained in Tsuna's crossbow bolt.

That was the culmination of Reishi control; Ichigo even felt that using such a weapon against the Forest of the Hollows was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito—well, like killing a swarm of mosquitoes.

"Ahem, um, Tsuna, we'll make room for you right away."

Without Ichigo word, Ichigo grabbed Uryū and tried to retreat a certain distance. His intuition told him that the power of Tsuna's arrow was definitely not simple.

"No need," Tsuna stopped Ichigo from retreating. "In fact, I never intended to shoot towards the cave entrance in the first place."

Tsuna White Ichigo's meaning. Ichigo was afraid that with him and Uryū present, Tsuna would hesitate to go all out because he was worried that the power erupting from the cave entrance would harm them.

"If you're not shooting through the cave entrance, where do you plan to shoot the arrow?" Ichigo asked, looking at the endless desert.

"Just find any spot." Tsuna raised his crossbow and casually aimed. "My crossbow has a sight, so accuracy isn't important."

Just as Ichigo was about to argue with Tsuna it was precisely because there was a sight that he needed to aim, he noticed Uryū's serious expression.

"Kurosaki, look at that crossbow!"

Ichigo didn't understand what was so interesting about crossbows; they were all variations of the Spirit Bow and Arrows, and he'd long been tired of them after being lectured by Masa. Tsuna's crossbow was just a bit more colorful...

Ichigo's eyes widened suddenly. He saw a square interface appear in front of the crossbow bolt, and the scene inside looked so much like the Forest of the Hollows.

"Hmm, it's a mess. Let's go a little deeper."

As Tsuna's words fell, the scene moved deeper, and soon, Ichigo familiar Forest of the Hollows appeared before Ichigo's eyes, with its monotonous giant branches and Gillian.

"Where was that... where our arrows landed?" The chaotic scene from just moments ago replayed in Ichigo's mind, and he asked, half-believing, half-doubting.

"That's where we attacked! There are traces left by the Hirenkyaku there!" Uryū affirmed, recognizing the smooth, angled surface as the mark left by his attack.

"How is this possible?" Even though his mind had already accepted it, Ichigo still muttered aloud.

"Isn't it normal for mirages to appear in the desert?" Tsuna explained with a light laugh.

This phenomenon is caused by the Desert Flame, which acts as a targeting device. By utilizing the mirage phenomenon in the desert, Tsuna can observe the situation at the target location without going to the site.

But that's not enough. If the Ground Flame, which acts as the crossbow's trigger mechanism, is the core of its activation, then the Desert Flame, which acts as the sight, is the guarantee that the arrow will hit its target.

As the scene unfolded, Tsuna found a relatively satisfactory position, and then, facing this screen, he pulled the trigger of his crossbow.

With a whoosh, no one except Tsuna could react before the arrow pierced the crossbow's crossbow.

"Not good!"

Realizing that Tsuna's crossbow bolt had already been fired, Ichigo and Uryū, who were beside him, simultaneously flashed with a blue light, the power of the Blut Vene.

In Ichigo and Uryū, Tsuna had simply fired an arrow forward casually. Out of respect for the arrow, the two instinctively used the Quincy's strongest defensive ability to resist the impact of the arrow's burst.

"What are you doing?" Tsuna asked curiously as he noticed Ichigo and Uryū suddenly using Quincy powers.

Two seconds passed, but the expected impact did not occur. Uryū immediately looked up at the sky, as if it had nothing to do with him. Ichigo, on the other hand, scratched his cheek somewhat awkwardly and asked.

"Tsuna, where's your arrow?"

"Isn't this inside? The Forest of the Hollows." Tsuna pointed to the scene in front of him, but there was no trace of the Forest of the Hollows in the scene. It was all white and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"You mean your arrow went straight through this screen and into the Forest of the Hollows?" Ichigo, struggling to understand.

"Don't believe me? The shockwave should be coming soon." Tsuna looked down at the ground.

After a few more seconds of silence, the earth suddenly began to shake, a series of shocks surged to the surface, and the earth began to tremble.

"Earthquake?" Ichigo tried to understand what was happening in Hueco Mundo using his knowledge of the World of the Living.

"Isn't it just an earthquake? A violent explosion occurred deep within the Forest of the Hollows, destroying many supporting branches. It's a miracle that this cave below hasn't collapsed," Tsuna explained.

Below, in the desert, the people who were originally standing on the ground used Flash Step to teleport into the sky after feeling the strong tremor. Even Ashido picked up Nel to take cover, leaving only a few subordinates trembling in place.

Tsuna's arrow relied on the illusory nature of the Desert Flame. At the moment of firing, the Spirit Bow and Arrows transformed into an illusion and merged into the scene in front of him, solidified in the interface, and fell to the target point as an arrow again.

It can be said that as long as there is a sight, Tsuna's crossbow bolt has a 100% hit rate. No one can escape this arrow that is sure to hit once it is locked on by the desert flame.

That's why Tsuna doesn't care about aiming angles. From the moment he took out this crossbow, it was guaranteed to hit. As long as the desert flames could cover it, Tsuna could win from a thousand miles away at any time.

Uryū gave a deep look at the crossbow in Tsuna's hand. Tsuna, whom his father once said had no Quincy talent, now possessed such a terrifying Spirit Bow. This was something even Ryūken probably hadn't expected.

The scene before Tsuna was a vast expanse of white. As the earth's veins trembled, the white light grew stronger and stronger, a phenomenon indicating that the Reishi were becoming increasingly concentrated.

Deep within the Forest of the Hollows, countless Gillian are experiencing death in seven different ways.

Crushed into Reishi by the gravity of the Ground Flame, fermented and dissolved into sticky liquid Reishi by the Swamp Flame, directly cleaved into Reishi size by the sharpness of the Forest Flame, crushed into fragments by the heavy explosive force of the Mountain Flame, frozen into ice peaks by the Glacier Flame, and vanished without a trace amidst the heart-piercing attack of the Flame of Stream.

The Gillian wanted to escape but couldn't. Once locked onto by the targeting device, they had already fallen into the trap created by the Desert Flame. Driven only by instinct, how could they possibly escape the Desert Flame's blockade?

Urahara Kisuke's face paled slightly. He hadn't expected Tsuna's commotion to be so great. Even with all his might in modifying his Zanpakuto, he still couldn't keep up with the speed at which the Gillian were being broken down into Reishi.

"It's coming out!" Urahara Kisuke shouted.

The concentration of Reishi underground was too high. Under the pressure of the endless desert's bottom layer, all the Reishi were crowding in one direction: the cave entrance in front of Urahara Kisuke.

Aizen's expression changed slightly. He couldn't let these Reishi escape from the cave entrance; if the Reishi dissipated into the air, it would mean that the effectiveness of his Seireitei would be reduced.

Activating the seal prematurely? If that's the case, Urahara Kisuke's modification abilities won't be able to penetrate the seal. Does that mean he'll only need a high-concentration Reishi space?

Aizen quickly made his decision. Without Urahara Kisuke's modifications, although he couldn't get the Reishi to settle down in a short time, the quantity of Reishi was clearly more important to him.

As for the subsequent Reishi precipitation, only Aizen and Kaname Tōsen gradually work on it.

Aizen used Flash Step at the edge of the device that Gin Ichimaru had placed, looked at Gin Ichimaru, and gestured to Gin Ichimaru with his eyes to act together.

However, Gin Ichimaru completely missed Aizen's glare; as an observer, he noticed more details than Aizen.

Even though the Reishi flow from underground was about to burst out of the ground, Tsuna, who was above the cave entrance, still showed no sign of leaving. Gin Ichimaru did not believe that Tsuna liked to be washed by the Reishi flow for no reason.

Therefore, there is only one conclusion: Sawada Tsunayoshi had anticipated the current situation, so Gin Ichimaru was not in a hurry at all, since it was not his problem anyway.

Tsuna calmly pulled the black hole that served as the crossbow's trigger from the crossbow, released it with his fingertip, and the finger-sized black hole fell into the entrance to the Forest of the Hollows.

Just as the Reishi of the Forest of the Hollows reached the vicinity of the surface, the black hole suddenly emitted a terrifying suction force, drawing all the restless Reishi to its surroundings.

The Reishi riot in the Forest of the Hollows was resolved. Centered around a black dot the size of a finger, all Reishi revolved around it wherever the black hole passed.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the deeper one goes into the Forest of the Hollows, the larger the shape of the Reishi sphere becomes, while the gravitational pull generated by the black hole at its core shows no sign of weakening.

Despite being only the size of a finger, this black hole is the embodiment of all the power of the Ground Flame, and the attraction it generates is something that even Reishi cannot escape.

Retracting the power of the Earth Crossbow, Tsuna lightly landed beside Urahara Kisuke. "The rest is up to you, Manager."

"Leave it to me, it's a really long process." Urahara Kisuke said, scratching his head. The main problem was that the number of Reishi that Tsuna was converting was too large, and the repetitive work was the most annoying.

"You've worked hard. I'll treat you to a hot spring when we get back." Tsuna patted Urahara on the shoulder, then turned to Aizen. "That's all the Reishi we have. We can't give you any more."

"You're joking, Sawada Tsunayoshi. With your recovery progress, you'll be able to launch the same attack into it again after a while, right?" Aizen said.

As a former explorer of the Forest of the Hollows, Aizen had a basic understanding of Forest of the Hollows extent. Through the previous Reishi riot, he could sense that most of the Forest of the Hollows had been destroyed by Tsuna in a single move.

But this also shows that the number of Reishi that the Forest of the Hollows can convert has not yet reached its limit. As long as Tsuna is willing, the quality of the Seireitei can be improved.

"Forget it, the quality of the Reishi absorbed by the Ground Flame is already no worse than that of Karakura Town." Tsuna rejected Aizen's request without even thinking. There's no need to be perfect when it comes to working for someone.