Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto's heart skipped a beat.
He was the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, the strongest Shinigami in a thousand years, the foremost defender of Soul Society's laws!
And now, someone was openly discussing Hollowfication with him?
Did they think his Ryujin Jakka had lost its edge?
Even though it was Su Feng who had raised the subject, Genryusai Yamamoto still could not suppress the fury that suddenly flared within him.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"How can something that violates a Shinigami's nature be done so recklessly!"
Su Feng reasoned with him sincerely. "Is Old Man planning to watch Soul Society descend into war once again?"
"A thousand years ago, Soul Society was littered with mountains of corpses, and rivers of blood carried away shields. The flames of Ryujin Jakka even set half the world ablaze."
"The current crisis is no less severe than the one from a thousand years ago."
"And among the captains, aside from you, me, and Sister Hana, how many of the rest are stronger than the original captains?"
After hearing those words, Genryusai Yamamoto fell silent.
No one understood the disaster of a thousand years ago better than he did.
Back then, it was not only the Shinigami who suffered casualties. Even the nobles had been drawn into the war, suffering countless losses.
If Chōjirō Sasakibe had not abandoned his pride as a swordsman, pretended to be a corpse at the crucial moment, hidden amid the mountain of bodies, then suddenly risen during the final battle to launch a surprise attack and pierce Yhwach's body, the true outcome would still have been uncertain.
He had thought that battle would make Yhwach disappear from the world completely.
Yet who would have thought that not only was he still alive, but he had been hiding within the