Chapter 216: Preparing for war, what you see in hell!
In Soul Society.

The Gotei 13 are actively preparing for battle.

After learning about the situation in Hueco Mundo and knowing the current strength that Aizen possesses, the Gotei 13 must of course treat it with caution.

The information we have learned so far is that all the Ten Espada have the strength of a captain level.

But no one can say for sure whether only the former Ten Espada have the strength of a captain.

Because according to the information provided by the advance team members of the 11th Division, the strength of the Tenth Espada "Yami" is extremely terrifying and cannot be compared with that of an ordinary captain. But this is only the case for the last of the Ten Espada, not to mention the two-digit Arrancars behind him.

Their strength might be weaker than the Espada, but probably not by much.

In addition to preparing for war.

There is one more thing that the Gotei 13 are concerned about.

That is, Xia Mu is life and death.

Is he dead or alive?
Through Soul Society's instruments, Natsuki's spiritual pressure can no longer be detected.

From this point of view, Xia Mu is undoubtedly dead.

But did Xia Mu really die like this? This is unacceptable.

You have to know that Natsuki is not just a simple captain. His strength is among the best in Soul Society and the Gotei 13.

So, even if the results of instrument monitoring are like this.

Everyone still couldn't accept the fact that Natsuki died in Hueco Mundo.

The 11th Division was the most excited about Natsuki being trapped in the Hueco Mundo and losing his spiritual pressure.

Many of the 11th Division's chief officers requested to go to Hueco Mundo again to bring back their captains.

However, Captain Yamamoto refused this request.

"Natsuki is trapped in Hueco Mundo, his life or death unknown, are you just going to watch him like this, old man?"

Kyoraku Shunsui came to the side of Captain Yamamoto, his tone a little complicated.

To be honest, he had never expected that something would happen to Natsuki in Hueco Mundo.

In Kyoraku Shunsui's opinion, if the captains went to Hueco Mundo, Natsuki would definitely be one of the people least likely to get into trouble.

However, something happened to Xia Mu.

No one knows what exactly happened in the Hueco Mundo and what Aizen did.

Even Urahara Kisuke, the smartest person in the Gotei 13, didn't know.

After all, when Urahara Kisuke appeared in Hueco Mundo, the storm had already appeared. He didn't even have time to observe it, and could only hastily flee Hueco Mundo with those advance team members.

"Of course I'm not going to watch."

Captain General Yamamoto spoke in a deep voice, responding to Kyoraku Shunsui's words.

There was a hint of anger in his words.

He felt very upset about what happened to Xia Mu, but he was even more angry.

"then you……"

Kyoraku Shunsui looked at the old man in front of him.

Captain Yamamoto said: "It is a fact that Natsuki is trapped in Hueco Mundo and has lost his trace. At this time, even if we send an advance team to re-enter Hueco Mundo, it will be useless. Instead of wasting energy, we should focus on preparing for the war with Aizen."

"Aren't you going to find out Aizen's purpose first?" Kyoraku Shunsui looked at Captain Yamamoto in surprise.

Captain Yamamoto said solemnly: "It doesn't matter what Aizen's purpose is."

"The important thing is that we have figured out the specific situation of Hueco Mundo. Now, we can take action against it."

After a moment of silence, Captain Yamamoto said, "Prepare for a while, and then take the initiative to declare war on Hueco Mundo!"

"In this battle, I will fight with all my strength and swear to kill Aizen."

Kyoraku Shunsui's heart trembled.

……

In Hueco Mundo, the broken Hueco Palace has not been repaired.

After Aizen's return, the entire Kyūya Palace seemed particularly deserted.

The reason for this is that, except for the first three Espadas, the remaining ten Espadas did not return with Aizen.

Combined with their disappearing spiritual pressure.

The results are already obvious.

Probably dead.

If Nnoitra who died in the Hollow Forest is also counted, seven Espadas died at once, which is an extremely terrifying thing.

You know, the current Espada are not the original Espada.

Among the first generation of Ten Espadas, except for Sal Apollo who used special means to continuously evolve and improve himself, the remaining Ten Espadas were eliminated in the subsequent evolution. It is not an exaggeration to say that the current Ten Espadas are the strongest Ten Espadas in history.

However, among these Ten Espada, seven died at once.

Was it the work of the god of death? Or was there another reason?

Sal Apollo naturally started to speculate.

The terrifying spirit particle storm that once raged made him even more worried.

However, after Aizen returned, these thoughts were restrained.

It’s because Aizen was so terrifying after his return.

Even if he didn't say too many words, the captivating aura he exuded made it difficult for people to ignore him.

Having said that, I don’t know what Aizen is doing now.

Since his return, Aizen has not been busy cleaning up the mess in Hueco Mundo, but has been staying indoors.

In the palace that belongs exclusively to Aizen.

Aizen sat quietly on the throne with his eyes closed. The Houyu embedded in his chest emitted an extremely strange light. His expression kept changing during this process, sometimes ferocious, sometimes weird.

If you look at it from another angle, you will find that there are many figures flashing by in Aizen's body.

Harribel, Grimmjow, Zomali, Metastasia, Simon, and Yammy, these were all the Ten Espadas in the Hueco Mundo. Looking at the vast Hueco Mundo, they were also the top Hollows. Each of the Ten Espadas possessed unique abilities and their evolutionary directions were also completely different.

Originally, Aizen trained the Ten Espada in order to have them form his own "Gotei 13" to fight against the Shinigami in Soul Society.

But now, it is clear that plans cannot keep up with changes.

With the third battle with Natsuki, as the Hogyoku separated from the body, under Aizen's desire for power, the hidden will in the Hogyoku revived. Coincidentally, because the Great Hollow Forest was destroyed, countless Hollow powers hovered above the tiankeng, which further awakened the devouring power of the Hogyoku consciousness.

A huge amount of hollow power poured into Aizen.

His consciousness was finally completely lost under the impact of this extremely terrifying force.

The out-of-control power turned into an extremely terrifying spirit particle storm.

Everything around it will be trapped in it and swallowed up by it.

Those Shinigami were temporarily spared from the chaos and escaped because Natsuki activated his ability at the last moment and Urahara Kisuke happened to open the Black Chamber and come to Hueco Mundo, but those Hollows were not so lucky.

Six Espadas were trapped in the spirit particle storm.

And because of the suppression of their superiors.

Even though they struggled with all their might, it was ultimately futile, and then, everything they had was swallowed up by Aizen.

If it continues to evolve, this spirit particle storm will continue to spread, and then devour the entire Hueco Mundo, and then spread to the real world and Soul Society. The three realms will be devoured, and at that time, the great hollow that devours the world in the chaotic world will reappear.

Although the Spirit King is still there, he no longer has any ability to act independently because of the five noble ancestors. He is almost like a human stick, so naturally he cannot prevent the birth of Daxu.

But Aizen is still Aizen.

After being lost in consciousness for a while, he actually found his true self again, barely suppressed the power, and returned to the Hueco Mundo.

But even so, the situation is not very good.

When the power of the Hollow King revived and absorbed a huge amount of Hollow power, including six Espadas, the power of the Hollow in Aizen's body was already beyond the limit.

Relying on the few Soul King fragments in the Hogyoku and Aizen's own power of the God of Death, it was already difficult to fight against this Hollow power.

Now Aizen is relying on his extremely strong will to suppress this power.

If he could subdue this power, there was no doubt that he could evolve to an extremely terrifying level.

After all, this is the power of the Void King. Even though the opponent was killed by the Spirit King back then, he was still an existence that almost destroyed the world and competed with the Spirit King.

Even the tiny bit of power that remained helped Ulquiorra break the mask and become an Arrancar.

It would have been fine if this residual power had not been found by Aizen.

But it was found by Aizen and then absorbed into the Hogyoku.

Normally, it has been suppressed by Beng Yu.

However, when Aizen was in crisis and wanted to gain more powerful strength, the Hogyoku began to instinctively squeeze this power, and accidentally awakened the instinct to devour this power.

After absorbing many void powers, it has begun to recover.

Although this power is very strong now, it is not so easy for Aizen to conquer it and make it his own.

At this moment, Aizen was like an ordinary god of death who suddenly became hollow.

The power of the god of death is not strong enough to compete with the power of the void.

I can only hold on by willpower.

If the will can no longer hold up, one will degenerate into madness.

"You think you can influence me?"

"I will not fall, I will only become stronger!"

……

The smell of decay permeated.

To be honest, hell is not a very nice place.

This is the true world of the dead.

Compared with here, the seemingly desolate world of Hueco Mundo is already considered good. No wonder the ancestor Tsunayashiro would try to find a way to escape from hell.

In addition, due to the special environment here, there are no spirit particles. There is only the power of hell and the breath of hell. When spirit particles fall here, because there is no spiritual power, their remaining power will continue to be consumed in this unique environment. At the same time, the power of hell also permeates their souls. When the power of hell completely fills the soul and replaces its original spiritual power.

This means that you have established a very deep connection with hell and can no longer leave here. These are the answers that Xia Mu verified through some methods after coming to hell.

Fortunately, his current spiritual power is enough to support him to walk in hell.

In addition, he also carries a spare battery, which is the spiritual sword made by Urahara Kisuke back then.

Back then, because of the excessive consumption of Bankai, he thought of producing and selling it by himself and storing his own power of death, so he came up with the spirit sword. The original spirit sword, although very small, was not very convenient to carry, and Xia Mu had never used it.

Later, with the continuous advancement of technology, the current spiritual swords are already similar to the cards that Urahara Kisuke made for Natsuki to play with to seal the ghost path.

Of course, Xia Mu has never used it.

Because after his Zanpakutō evolved, the consumption of his Bankai was not as great as before.

But just in case, I still brought a few cards this time.

"But it's better to find a way to leave here. I don't want to stay here."

Xia Mu glanced at the environment of hell and couldn't help but speak.

The environment is really too bad.

Moreover, from ancient times to the present, countless powerful souls have fallen into hell and been unable to escape.

Apart from anything else, the ancestors of the five great nobles are hiding in hell.

So, this is not a good place.

It would not be a good thing if someone discovered my peculiarity and I was forced to stay here and unable to go out.

move on.

Another cave appeared in front of Xia Mu.

Although hell is outside the Three Realms, apart from its vastness, it is somewhat similar to the Broken Realm. In addition to the harsh environment, there are various caves scattered throughout the place.

The caves are interconnected and the environment inside each cave is different.

But there is only one thing that is similar.

That is, it is full of dead bones.

It is worth mentioning that apart from the dead who had been struggling in the magma before, Xia Mu did not see any other living creatures.

This is obviously unreasonable.

After all, hell has existed for too long, and everyone who has fallen into hell cannot escape from here.

Perhaps a large part of it has disappeared over the long years.

But because of the long time, there should still be many living creatures here.

It seems that if you keep thinking about it, there will be a response.

Just as Xia Mu was thinking this.

Footsteps were heard in front.

"Go, go quickly!"

Snapped!
There were sounds of scolding and whipping.

Xia Mu's eyes flickered and he activated his Bankai immediately. In hell, he found that his Bankai could still work, but it required the consumption of spiritual power. In this world, once the spiritual power was depleted, it was difficult to recover.

But it doesn’t matter, Xia Mu has never been a hesitant person.

With the help of Bankai, he concealed his existence.

Then, a group of people were seen being expelled in shackles, and the person who was expelling them was a... hollow.

"Interesting, really interesting!"

Xia Mu watched this scene seriously.

If he didn't know some information about hell, he would have thought that this was the Hueco Mundo, and that it was the Hollows that enslaved the souls that had just arrived here.

But obviously, this is not the case.

"These people should be the ones to blame."

Guilty people are the names of sinners who have fallen into hell.

Hell is where sinners live. When a normal human dies, his soul will be led into the Soul Society by the God of Death, while those with obsessions will fall into the Hueco Mundo and become Hollows. However, there are always some guys who are extremely evil and do not deserve redemption at all. They will trigger the laws of hell, and the gates of hell will appear. They will then be pulled into hell and suppressed. These sinners are called "guilties". In addition, there are also jailers in hell.

However, Xia Mu really didn't expect that Xu would become the jailer here.

This made him feel a little surprised.

"However, perhaps we can take this opportunity to find out the specific situation of hell."

Xia Mu's eyes flickered.

Then, follow these sinners, follow behind this sinner, and continue to explore the depths of hell.

The fake-looking jailer escorted these criminals and made them move forward.

Finally, we arrived in front of a strange door.

"Get in, everyone!"

Whether these criminals were willing or not, they were all driven in by the jailer as the whip was waved.

As they stepped into the door, screams were heard from inside, as if stepping into it was like enduring some kind of punishment that was difficult to describe in words. While the criminals were being punished, the jailer was guarding outside the door.

After guarding for a while, a strange aura was released from the door and poured into his body.

After absorbing this breath, he looked like a skeleton, but there was a hint of enjoyment on his face.

This expression is very subtle.

But Xia Mu developed this feeling through his careful observation.

"So, what exactly is this breath?"

A low voice sounded in the ear of Xu, who showed a happy expression. Hearing this voice, Xu couldn't help but be startled. He suddenly turned his head and looked, and soon saw a figure wearing a white feather robe appear in front of him.

Such clothing is not surprising.

After all, over the long years, there have been enough people who have fallen into hell.

Death gods, hollows, I don’t know how many powerful people from various eras have come here.

Quincy?
After their death, they will not fall into hell, their souls and power will be absorbed by Youhabach.

What Zhixu was most concerned about was the aura emanating from the figure that appeared beside him.

When Xia Mu showed up on his own initiative, a trace of his aura inevitably leaked out.

This is not the breath of hell.

In hell, there are no spirit particles and no spiritual power.

But here, there is another force.

This force corresponds to the spirit particle.

If the real world, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo are considered the world of the living, then the souls within them are actually another form of life. Reipons make up everything in these worlds, and instrument particles and reipons can be converted into each other.

Then hell is filled with another force that is completely independent of instruments and spirits.

This power is full of decay and decline. Once contaminated, one can never return to the world of spirits and can only walk to the end of time in such a lonely world.

This power, whose name is unknown, can be temporarily called the "power of hell". Every person who falls into hell, no matter how evil they were in their life or how strong they were, will be baptized by the power of hell after arriving in hell.

In the end, all the spirit particles were exhausted, and what replaced them was this power of hell.

But this power is also limited.

If one cannot obtain more power from hell, one's own existence will gradually be consumed by hell and will completely cease to exist.

After all, hell is the world of the dead, and the difficulty of survival there is much higher than in Soul Society and Hueco Mundo.

Currently, there are only two ways to gain Hell Power in it.

The first one is to become the jailer of hell, capture sinners, sacrifice them to the gate of hell, and receive gifts from the gate of hell.

The second type is even more cruel. It devours other beings and continues its own existence by absorbing the power of hell in their bodies.

In fact, there is a third way.

That is, by devouring the living, they can also get some supplements and continue the essence of their own existence. After all, when the spiritual life comes to hell, the spiritual particles in their bodies will be transformed into the power of hell. This is the capital for them to continue in the beginning. If they can find brand new spiritual particles, it will naturally be an additional capital for transformation.

But how easy is this?
After the formation of the three realms of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the real world, Hell has been suppressed below the three realms. The God of Death also replaced the original power of Hell and established a new cycle of reincarnation. Although Hell still exists, it has no way to interfere with the three realms.

Although the gates of hell can be opened occasionally, that is a law that has existed since the beginning of the world.

Only those who are truly extremely evil and cannot be tolerated by the three realms are qualified to open the gates of hell and be dragged into hell.

Apart from this passive opening of the gate of hell, under normal circumstances, these beings in hell have no way to actively open the gate of hell.

"you are?"

Thinking of a possibility, the jailer in front of him suddenly revealed greed.

He didn't know how Xia Mu came to hell, but for him who had lived in this lifeless hell for a long time, whether he devoured Xia Mu or sacrificed Xia Mu to the gate of hell, he would be able to gain great benefits.

After realizing Xia Mu's background, this virtual being immediately emitted malicious intent towards Xia Mu.

Xia Mu raised his brows.

"Sure enough, there are no good people in hell. They are all evildoers who have committed heinous crimes."

"I haven't said anything yet and you want to do something to me."

A sigh came out of Xia Mu's mouth, followed by an explosion of extremely powerful strength.

Even though the jailer in front of him was ambitious and had ill will towards Xia Mu.

He even made preparations at the first moment and wanted to attack Xia Mu.

But he took too long to prepare.

Xia Mu didn't even make any preparations, and the powerful force enveloped the opponent in an instant.

The jailer didn't even have a chance to struggle before being suppressed by Xia Mu.

At this point, only powers related to the essence of the world, such as the Spirit King and the Void King, can pose some threat to Xia Mu. Normal power cannot threaten Xia Mu at all.

Even though this Xu was a strong man when he was alive, after entering hell, he became the jailer here.

But it sounds like everyone is strong.

(End of this chapter)