As time passed, Uchiha Hikaru felt the power within him steadily increasing. The brown bead beneath his feet bloomed with an incomparably dazzling light.
After being filtered by it, all the energy flowed into Uchiha Hikaru's body.
After Uchiha Hikaru broke it down and recombined it, it flowed toward the Kido Cannon.
The previously chaotic energy, after being filtered by the brown bead and sorted by Uchiha Hikaru, seemed as though it had all been emitted by a single person.
Every trace of individual aura contained within it had been completely stripped away.
Mayuri Kurotsuchi watched that utterly pure energy, crystalline and clear like the first drop of water when ice and snow melted.
His face was filled with disbelief!
"Is there enough energy?"
Mayuri Kurotsuchi let out a soft cry. "There should be enough energy, but if these Shinigami guards sacrifice their energy again—"
"It will take at least sixty years for them to recover!"
"The more severe cases may simply fade away altogether, so—"
Mayuri Kurotsuchi looked troubled!
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni merely swept his gaze over the three thousand people before him and asked calmly, "For Soul Society, are you willing to give your lives?"
"Willing! Willing! Willing!!!"
The three thunderous cries sent the blood of everyone present boiling and their breathing quickening!
The voices reached Uchiha Hikaru's ears directly, leaving him wondering what was happening outside.
He wanted to open his eyes and take a look, but the pain in his eyelids made him utterly unable to move!
Helpless, he could only abandon the thought!
Next came the replacements.
The three thousand Shinigami guards completely surrounded the previous thousand guards in the center!
Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni turned back and glanced at the captains. Other than Soi Fon and Kuchiki Byakuya, who had yet to be found—
All