Chapter 249

Not far away, Isshin Shiba collapsed to the ground, his limbs twisted.

He rubbed his shoulder against the ground, trying to turn his face to the side, but he couldn't.

The Kidō Reiatsu in my senses slowly dissipated.

The Reiatsu was immense, and it was clearly a technique of the Soul Reaper, which gave him a glimmer of hope.

"I sensed Kidō Reiatsu attack just now. Has a powerful member of the Kidō Corps arrived?"

No one answered his voice.

Isshin Shiba to blink away the blood from his eyelashes, but they remained bloodshot, making it impossible to see what had happened.

But it was precisely because of this that he did not witness the release of Kyōka Suigetsu, and thus sensed Aizen's Reiatsu.

"You are... the vice-captain of the Fifth Division?"

Isshin Shiba coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Run! This is no match for you..."

Aizen didn't speak, but merely glanced at Isshin Shiba's face.

The captain of the Tenth Division was lying on the ground, his neck twisted to one side and his eyes obscured by blood.

Weren't you affected by Kyōka Suigetsu...? Well, it doesn't really matter.

Aizen withdrew his gaze.

The captain, who was lying on the ground, was not in his plans and was not important to him.

In the distance, Pernida's eyes darted around.

Its cloak was torn apart by the Black Coffin, revealing its true form: a giant hand with five thick fingers, iron chains broken on the ground, and the crack on the side of the palm still wriggling slightly.

Unfortunately, its eyes could not see Aizen's true form.

The illusion has already been created, like a Kyōka Suigetsu.

Pernida's attack was aimed at a huge rock in the distance, which, in its perception, was the Soul Reaper had just released the Black Coffin.

Its palm is slightly arched, and the back of its hand is covered with dense bumps.

Sharp spikes emerged from his back and pierced the boulder in unison.

Rock fragments flew everywhere, and the boulder was riddled with more than a dozen holes.

The illusion disappeared, and Aizen created another fake body, placing it on the west side and another on the north side.

Pernida began chasing the decoys, the nerve synapses on the back of her hands spreading out like a spider web, covering the ground within a radius of dozens of steps.

When the tentacles touched the stone, the stone shattered into powder.

Upon encountering the broken wall, the wall collapsed into dust.

Aizen frowned, then stood in mid-air, keeping a safe distance between his feet and the spreading nerves.

He then manipulated the Kyōka Suigetsu, causing Soul Reaper from the Tenth Division to walk towards Pernida from a distance.

Pernida's nerve tendrils coiled over, and the moment they made contact, the soldier screamed as his leg bone bent backward, and his entire body was then crushed into a ball.

Aizen observed silently and noted down the details.

Controlling objects through contact is effective for both living and non-living objects.

That's enough.

However, it can withstand the damage from the Black Coffin, so its defense is quite good, and it can also recover and has strong Regeneration abilities.

What if it's Kidō) with even higher attack power?

He reached out his hand.

"The Hadō #99: The Five Dragon Destruction."

Five elemental dragons coalesced around Aizen, their heads emerging from the Reiatsu vortex, their roars shaking the ground.

Pernida sensed the disturbance, but due to the illusion of Kyōka Suigetsu, he was unable to determine the direction of the attack.

The next moment, all five dragon heads crashed down simultaneously.

The Five Dragon Destruction.

The shockwave ripped away half a street's worth of ground.

The stone slabs were crushed into dust, and Pernida's body disintegrated under the bombardment of the dragon's head. Her five fingers were torn from her palms, and the skin and flesh of her hands were ripped apart piece by piece.

A major earthquake occurred.

Isshin Shiba was thrown over by the shockwave, finally facing the sky, and shook off the blood droplets from his eyelids.

Although it was still all red, he could finally see it.

He only saw the Fifth Division vice-captain standing in the air, one hand outstretched.

Before him, five elemental dragons, imbued with immense Reiatsu, were wreaking havoc, turning their enemies into dust.

Isshin Shiba was agape, his lips were cracked, and he couldn't make a sound.

This... this is something the vice-captain could release?

A moment later, the enemy's figure shattered into pieces, and the restless Reiryoku gradually subsided.

But Aizen still frowned.

Because those fragments on the ground were not completely dead, but were slowly wriggling.

Each fragment was twitching, with fine tendrils growing from its edges, stretching out like earthworms toward its companions.

The fragments touched each other, merged, and re-weave into the shape of muscle fibers, which were then covered by pale skin.

In less than ten breaths, the giant hand reassembled itself, this time in a more complete shape, having evolved from a single palm into an entire arm.

He dug his fingers into the ground, his knuckles arched, and he stood up. The crack in his palm reopened, and his eyes stared at Aizen in the air.

Aizen stared into those two eyes.

The Hōgyoku felt hot in his arms.

The last time the Hōgyoku exhibited such unusual activity was when the Soul King Fingertip was extracted from the body of that little girl from Rukongai.

This indicates that the Hōgyoku reacts extremely strongly to the fragments of the Soul King.

This thing in front of me is immortal and indestructible. It was blasted into dust by the Five Dragon Destruction Technique and yet it managed to piece itself back together. It's really too strange.

He had sneaked into the library of the Tsunayashiro Clan and rummaged through the secret files of the Five Great Noble Clans.

The Soul King was dismembered, his limbs separated, and his internal organs removed.

Could this hand be the arm of the Soul King that was lost to the world?

But why did they end up in the hands of the Quincy and be treated as one of their members?

Aizen couldn't understand this.

But he had a way to deal with it.

At this moment, Aizen's heart began to stir restlessly.

Even a single fingernail of a Soul King could greatly enhance the Hōgyoku, allowing him to successfully conduct the Captain Hollowfication Experiment.

And now, right in front of him was the entire arm of the Soul King. What would happen if the Hōgyoku absorbed it?

He took the Hōgyoku out of the sealed container.

The blue light inside the transparent prism surged the moment it came into contact with the air, like a shark smelling blood.

Aizen descended from the sky, wielding the Hōgyoku, his Reiatsu at full power. The energy waves of the Hōgyoku created visible ripples in the air.

Pernida's nerve tendrils had just emerged when they shattered upon contact with the energy overflowing from the Hōgyoku.

Aizen, observing Pernida's neural synapses being Hōgyoku, knew that the Hōgyoku had a natural restraining effect on this type of creature.

His battle against the Quincy was truly a stroke of luck.

Sensing the disappearance of parts of her body, Pernida looked slightly puzzled, but made no other move.

However, the moment Aizen manipulated the Hōgyoku and made contact with the giant hand of Pernida, everything changed.

Pernida's body began to disintegrate.

The first point of contact disappeared, and then, the fingers began to atomize, joint by joint.

At that moment, Pernida finally instinctively felt fear.

He tried to escape, but was held in place by the Hōgyoku and could not move. He could only watch helplessly as he turned into a stream of pale golden Reishi and melted into the Hōgyoku.

After absorbing Pernida's Hōgyoku emitted a buzzing sound, and then Aizen held it in his hand.

Aizen could sense that the Hōgyoku, as if it had finished eating, had begun its internal digestion.

The energy structure within the Hōgyoku is rapidly condensing and reorganizing, evolving towards a higher level.

The Hōgyoku is growing.

Aizen waited for the Hōgyoku to absorb the last wisp of pale golden Reishi and then retract it into the prism.

He held it in his hand and shook it; it seemed to have become much heavier, and its internal energy density had increased many times over.

Is this... a success?

Aizen smiled.

He turned his head and looked into the distance.

Wang Xun stood in the air, looking in this direction.

The two men stared at each other for a moment, separated by a hundred paces.

Aizen smiled at him, said nothing, and then left Shunpo.

Right now, all he wants to do is observe the changes in the Hōgyoku.

For him, this battle against the Quincy had already yielded more than enough gains.

Wang Xun witnessed Aizen's departure and landed next to Isshin Shiba.

Isshin Shiba was in an extremely miserable state at this moment, having fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss.

Wang Xun quickly stepped forward and used his Kaidō to help him stabilize his condition.

Unfortunately, Isshin Shiba's injuries were too severe, and after a difficult treatment, Wang Xun managed to keep him alive.

He waved to several still-active members of the Tenth Division, instructing them to take Isshin Shiba to the back and hand him over to Captain Unohana.

Before leaving, Wang Xun slapped a Quincy Medallion onto Isshin Shiba's chest.

That was the Quincy Medallion he found on Cang Du, the one that had stolen Isshin Shiba's Bankai.

In this way, the item can be considered returned to its rightful owner.

Meanwhile, the system notification was still refreshing in front of Wang Xun.

When he approached the battlefield, a large number of scattered Reishi Fragment were the Glutton absorbed into his body by the Devourer.

The Schrift Awakening Level jumped 5% to reach 40%, and the Spiritual Might Experience also increased significantly.

But these are not things he needs to worry about right now.

Behind him, Yamamoto was still fighting Gerard.

By this time, Gerard was already as tall as a small mountain.

The flames of the Ryūjin Jakka burned large patches of charred marks on his body, his flesh melting and regenerating, each regeneration making him even larger.

His Sword of Hope had become a giant sword, its blade dragging on the ground, carving trenches large enough to bury an entire street.

Yamamoto has a wound on his left arm, running from his wrist to his elbow.

He was injured by the backlash of Gerard's Sword of Hope when he cut it down.

From that moment on, Yamamoto understood the enemy's capabilities.

You become stronger when you get injured; the greater the blow, the more power you gain.

It's the kind of monster that gets more and more difficult to deal with the longer you fight it. Although Yamamoto has the ability to continue killing it, he's afraid that if he keeps cutting it, he'll only feed this monster into something unmanageable.

Yamamoto's current strategy is primarily defensive, focusing on prolonged engagements and denying Gerard any further room to grow stronger.

But how to handle it is a difficult problem for Yamamoto.

Gerard brought his sword down again.

Yamamoto sidestepped, and the sword wind sliced off the top floor of the entire building behind him.

Gravel rolled down from a height, splashing up clouds of dust as it hit the ground.

Wang Xun followed behind him.

Yamamoto didn't turn around, but asked in a deep voice.

"I just saw you head in Isshin Shiba's direction. How did things go over there?"

"Captain Shiba was seriously injured and has been taken to the hospital. The enemy has also been dealt with."

Yamamoto nodded, staring at Gerard's still-expanding body, his knuckles bulging as he gripped the knife.

"The enemy in front of us is difficult to deal with. Do you have any ideas?"

Wang Xun pondered for a moment.

"Perhaps I could try out my Bankai."

The next moment, Wang Xun raised his Zanpakuto.

"Bankai, Renge of All Kalpas Returning to Nothingness."

With Wang Xun's release, his Zanpakuto returned to its Shikai state.

However, his domain had already been entered, enveloping Gerard.

Gerard's smile froze.

He looked down at his hands.

His fingers were shrinking, and not just his hands, his entire body was shrinking.

That ever-expanding power is dissipating, reverting to its original state.

Gerard's pupils dilated, then he roared and swung the Sword of Hope down.

Wang Xun Shunpo moved to the other side, and the sword missed its mark and crashed to the ground.

Gerard is still shrinking.

His size shrank from the size of a hill to the height of a building, then from the height of a building to a few meters, and finally became 2.2 meters tall.

He the Roar and tried to charge at Wang Xun.

"What did you do to my the Miracle?!"

Wang Xun did not answer, but raised his Bakudō and unleashed the Sixty-Third Sajō Sabaku.

Golden light threads of high-level Bakudō shot out from his fingertips, wrapping around Gerard's legs and locking them in place, circle after circle.

The light pierced his skin, binding him to the spot.

Gerard was still struggling, but the light cable hadn't broken.

Wang Xun added a few more moves, locking his arms to his sides and pressing his knees to the ground.

Then, Wang Xun silently activated the Glutton.

A power of the same origin as the Quincy surged from his body, directly targeting the Reishi flowing within Gerard's body.

At that moment, Gerard felt his Reiatsu, which had returned to calm, mysteriously begin to leak away again.

But why...

Gerard's Reiryoku was gradually drained by Wang Xun, and his body shrank more and more.

What Wang Xun received was far more than he had imagined.

[The Glutton ability activated, gaining Reiryoku Fragment, Spiritual Might Experience +100]

[The Glutton ability activated, obtain Schrift Fragment, Schrift Awakening Level increased by 1%]

[The Glutton ability activated, obtains Soul King Fragment, Hōgyoku Awakening Level increased by 1%]

Gerard knelt on one knee, looking up at Wang Xun. His eyes were no longer filled with arrogance and confidence, but with fear.

"What, what did you do to me?!"

This shouldn't be your power!

With Gerard's terrified roar, his body shrunk to the size of a child, and then Wang Xun him with a single blow.

Gerard's body collapsed to the ground. After his abilities were sealed and most of his original power was drained by Wang Xun, he was powerless to save himself.

In the end, Wang Xun gained 2000 Spiritual Might experience points, his Schrift Awakening Level increased to 55%, and his Hōgyoku Awakening Level increased to 25%.

A very fruitful harvest.

But then Wang Xun sensed that the even more powerful force within Gerard's soul was being drawn by an even greater gravitational force, flowing rapidly in another direction.

No matter how many times he unleashed his the Glutton, he could not take even a fraction of it.

Wang Xun vaguely sensed that something in the distance was trembling, as if... about to awaken.

Shigekuni Yamamoto stood to the side, his aged eyes swirling with complex emotions, before Ryūjin Jakka.

"Well done."

"Go to Kyōraku's side, I'll handle things here."

Yamamoto paused.

Be careful.

Wang Xun nodded and vanished in Shunpo.

He swept across several blocks, his senses locking onto Kyōraku and Lille Barro's Reiatsu.

The two were still locked in combat, and Kyōraku's Shikai was holding on with great difficulty.

Especially after Lille Barro unleashed the Vollständig, his power sealed off most of the battlefield; any golden beam that grazed him was a piece of flesh.

Kyōraku had several charred bullet marks on his body, his haori was burned full of holes, and he had a bloody gash on his face.

But for some unknown reason, Lille Barro's Vollständig suddenly disappeared. Then he looked in the direction of Silbern in a panic, as if he had seen something that was both extremely exciting and terrifying.

"Your Majesty, you are about to awaken."

"But, Your Majesty, why is even my power..."

The next moment, Kyōraku appeared behind him, slashing out with his twin swords.

Although he didn't know why the enemy had lost their abilities, he wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by.

With a single stroke, Lille Barro's body was severed from its head, and after falling to the ground, it turned into a pile of bones.

Kyōraku collapsed to the side, coughed twice, and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Although he didn't know what had happened, thankfully he pulled through.

Kyōraku frowned as he looked at the guy who had cornered him.

But who is the "His Majesty" he's referring to?