Ichigo hesitated.

Although Wang Yue of Ermeiwu said it very well, his old knife could be used as material to be incorporated into the new knife.

But that means the old knife will still be destroyed, doesn't it?
Because of Shiba Kaien and Natsuki, the truth told to Ichigo was not complete. Ichigo didn't know that his mother was a Quincy, and he didn't know about Yhwach. He only knew that his father was a god of death. So he had a deep attachment to the current sword. It was really difficult for him to destroy the old sword and then replace it with a new one.

"It seems that you are very conflicted." Nimeiya Wang Yue saw Ichigo's thoughts.

"In that case, let's think about it slowly."

"Next, you will be our guest in the Zero Division."

Nimaiya Wang Yue did not force Ichigo to forge the sword directly. Later, as the owner of this place, he warmly entertained Ichigo.

Ichigo also met the other members of Squad Zero under the leadership of Nimaiya Oyue.

He first enjoyed a special meal at the home of Hikifune Kiryu, the last person to be promoted to Squad Zero and Urahara Kisuke's old boss.

Hikifune Kiryu's food has unique effects. It contains the results of her past research on the soul field, which can be used to improve the soul level of the eater, thereby increasing the eater's spiritual pressure again.

Ichigo's spiritual pressure was strong enough in itself, but he was unable to fully tap into this power.

Even though he used the final Getsuga Tensho, it didn't mean that Ichigo had complete control over his own strength. He was just releasing all his strength through forbidden techniques without any regard for consequences.

At this moment, at Hikifune Kiryu's place, as he enjoyed the delicious food and his own soul improved, the spiritual pressure increased a little, but what Ichigo cared about most was that he found that his control over power had increased.

This is the most direct benefit brought about by the strengthening of the soul.

However, it is very difficult to completely digest Hikifune Kiryu's delicious food in a short period of time.

So, after eating and drinking, Ichigo went to Kirinji Temple's Tenshiro and took a hot spring bath there.

Qilin Temple Tianshilang is the creator of medical skills.

If Hikifune Kiryu has extremely deep research into the realm of the soul, then Kirinji Tenshiro understands the soul body itself best.

He created a unique medical spa.

Through the pervasive and silent flow of water, all hidden injuries within the human body can be healed.

When this hot spring acted on Ichigo, all the pores of his body opened instantly and his physical vitality was awakened. In an instant, all the essence from Hikifune Kiryu's food was madly absorbed by him. In a short time, Ichigo's condition was elevated to the extreme.

I have eaten and taken a bath.

Apart from some hesitation about forging new weapons, there is no need to hesitate about the next thing.

So what needs to be done next?

Of course, change into new clothes.

The founders of many things are in the Zero Squad. In addition to the creators of Zanpakuto and medical skills, the creator of the Shinigami hagi, Shutra Senjumaru, is also a member of the Zero Squad. Over the years, it has finally happened that someone who is not a new member of the team has come to visit the Zero Squad. Naturally, they will not be stingy and do not mind giving some gifts to the guests.

After arriving here, Ichigo had his physical data measured by Shutra Senjumaru, and then he personally made a brand new Shinigami suit for him.

I don't know if Hyoshubu Ichibei had said something to these members in advance.

Ichigo's new Deathly Hagura outfit is completely different.

Mixed in it were the hair, bones and other things of the Zero Squad members.

These things can be regarded as Wang Jian’s leftovers.

The so-called King Key is the body and bones of the Zero Squad members that are baptized by the power of the Soul King and reshaped after entering the Zero Squad. Under certain specific circumstances, this can be regarded as an immortal body and an indestructible attribute. To match this, the physical strength of the Zero Squad members is also extraordinary.

Although the Death Suit made with Wang Jian's scraps is not as powerful as Wang Jian himself, its strength exceeds that of ordinary Death Suit. More importantly, it can connect with the soul of the God of Death itself. When it is damaged, it does not need to be replaced like ordinary Death Suit. It can be repaired by its own spiritual power.

This is also one of the research results of Shudorashi Senjumaru in Squad Zero over the years.

Although she invented many things in the Soul Society, such as establishing order for the Soul Society, and the highest risk level "Shudra Level" was named after her last name, but what she was best at was making clothes.

Just as Ichigo was enjoying the gifts given by the members of Team Zero.

Outside the inner palace of King Ling.

A soldier from the Hyoshubu Department sat cross-legged. He looked at the magnificent palace in front of him with flickering eyes, and it was unknown what he was thinking.

It has been some time since Xia Mu stepped into the main hall of the Spirit King Palace.

I could only feel the tremendous power erupting within it, but I didn't know what exactly happened.

Even he couldn't get a glimpse of what was happening inside.

After all, the Spirit King is involved. All the predictive and peeping abilities are useless in front of the Spirit King.

However, he is also on guard at all times. If he finds any risk that may shake the Spirit King, he will take action immediately.

……

Time goes back to an earlier time.

After Xia Mu stepped into the Ling Wang's inner palace and arrived at the Ling Wang's palace, he first felt an extremely powerful force coming at him and blessing him.

But it was different from the power I had felt in Hueco Mundo.

In the Hueco Mundo, as the power of the Hollow King in Aizen's body revived, the will of the Soul King in the fragments of the Soul King that Natsuki absorbed into his Zanpakutō in the past also revived, and even had some exchanges with Natsuki. Unlike the Hollow King who had long since been annihilated and only had a little residual power left, although the Soul King was in a bad situation, it existed in this world as a wedge.

That power was full of malice, and eventually banished Xia Mu, the man who blasphemed the Spirit King, to hell.

When Xia Mu finally struggled out of hell, the power of the Spirit King reappeared, still full of malice.

Fortunately, the malicious force disappeared afterwards, and Xia Mu was able to stand safely in this world again.

I never thought that the peaceful days would not last too long.

After Aizen's crisis was completely resolved, in order to allow Kurosaki Ichigo to gain more powerful power, he asked Shiba Kaien to contact Squad Zero, but the fire ended up spreading to himself.

After much thought, Xia Mu decided to face reality. He eventually came to the Zero Squad, entered the Soul King's inner palace, and saw the Soul King with his own eyes.

A true meeting with the Spirit King.

Unexpectedly.

The Spirit King did not reveal the deepest malice as his will had revealed when it was revived in those fragments.

Although tremendous power was bestowed upon him, Xia Mu did not feel any malice or murderous intent within this power. On the contrary, when this power enveloped him, his consciousness fell into a chaotic world.

Here, there seems to be no concept of time and space.

Everything was in chaos, until a ray of light emerged from the chaos.

A figure appeared in front of Xia Mu.

"Spiritual King!"

After seeing this figure, Xia Mu's eyes froze.

Facing Xia Mu, King Ling did not speak.

In other words, he couldn't speak at all.

In the past, the ancestors of the five great nobles dismembered the Soul King extremely thoroughly. Apart from the limbs, his internal organs, locks, soul, and even the things directly in his brain were hollowed out. Now, only a pure shell is left of the Soul King. But even though only an empty shell is left, the Soul King's soul still exists and it has merged into the world.

Yhwach can use his broken body to complete himself by plundering the souls of others.

The Spirit King naturally also possesses this ability.

Although due to the limitations of the world itself, it is impossible for him to devour the entire world to complete himself.

But the world is him, and he can emit some will of his own and interfere with the operation of the world.

Perhaps the ancestors of the five great nobles realized this, so after sealing the Soul King and turning him into a wedge, they imposed many restrictions on him, making it difficult for the Soul King's will to completely leave the Soul King Palace.

But this is the Palace of the Spirit King.

Different from the will that Xia Mu felt from the Spirit King fragments at the beginning, the will that Xia Mu felt at this moment was more pure.

An exchange of wills.

Xia Mu gradually understood the purpose of the Spirit King asking him to come here.

"No wonder you came to meet me through Squad Zero. It turns out that you are powerless!"

"Although you once possessed the ability to know everything, you have now been stripped of many of your powers. Even though your will is always implemented throughout the world, you can't do that much. On the contrary, you can only watch many things but find it difficult to influence them, which makes you feel even more uncomfortable."

"The development of the world has deviated from your original intention. Although the Three Realms still exist, your descendants have no place to stay. If this continues, the entire world will be completely ruled by the God of Death. At that time, you will no longer have a chance to escape."

"So, for so many years, you have been seeking liberation, but because of my existence, the originally predetermined fate has changed. Therefore, you gradually cannot tolerate my existence. After I refused to be recruited by you, you chose to exile me."

"But then, I walked out of hell again. Now, even hell can't trap me. There is no place inside or outside the Three Realms that can imprison me. At the same time, you can't destroy me, so you decided to talk to me..."

A deep voice came out of Xia Mu's mouth.

Because the power of the Spirit King shrouds this place, and this conversation is not taking place in reality, but in the soul, in the spiritual world. No one knows about this conversation except Xia Mu and the Spirit King.

Ordinary death gods have deep respect for the Soul King.

Xia Mu's attitude towards the Spirit King was neither respect nor dislike.

But after the incident in Hueco Mundo, he completely lost his favorable impression of the Soul King, and was left with only deep contempt and disgust.

He gradually understood why the ancestors of the five great nobles in the past wanted to kill the Soul King. Although the leader was the ancestor of Tsunayashiro, the ancestor of the Shiba family was opposed to it in the beginning, but after the Soul King was killed, the ancestor of the Shiba family did not protect the Soul King. Instead, he and the others sealed the Soul King and enjoyed the blood of the Soul King.

The Soul King, although he possesses the power of omniscience and omnipotence, once saved the world.

But he is not a good person.

In other words, he and the God of Death are not of the same race.

The world that the Soul King needs is a world dominated by his descendants, not a world usurped and controlled by despicable Death Gods.

But the world has always been controlled by the god of death.

Even though the Quincy once grew stronger with his secret support, the Quincy empire was still defeated when facing the God of Death.

Since then, this world has been under the control of the god of death.

The Spirit King could only watch, but he did not have much power to influence the situation.

He could only resort to despicable means in secret, such as allowing Yhwach to survive in the hope of making a comeback.

One of his goals was to let the Quincy bury the Grim Reaper.

The second purpose is to escape from this situation that is worse than death.

Sometimes, death is not a painful thing, but a relief.

But because of Xia Mu's existence, the already predetermined fate has been secretly pushed forward, and new variables have appeared.

There are countless possibilities in the future.

Even a Spirit King cannot change the future.

After all, he no longer had the ability to be omniscient and omnipotent.

Even though Yhwach was secretly trained to possess this power, it was incomplete, not complete.

Because Youhabach himself is incomplete.

Now, the predetermined future no longer exists because of Xia Mu, and it is impossible to eliminate Xia Mu as a variable.

King Ling began to get anxious.

"You want to make a deal with me?"

"interesting!"

In the spiritual world, Xia Mu felt the will conveyed by the Spirit King and found it very interesting.

At the beginning, when the Spirit King's will revived, this was not his attitude. At that time, the other party's attitude was not much better than being his dog and obeying "fate". He hoped that Xia Mu could be driven by him to fight against the Void King and protect the world.

Unfortunately, Xia Mu was neither a fool nor a brave man, and his respect for the Spirit King was very limited. As a time traveler, he was already very considerate of the King by not saying "my fate is in my own hands".

Unexpectedly, after being rejected, the so-called Spiritual King became angry and humiliated.

And now, when he truly stood before the Spirit King.

Among many records, the Spiritual King, who was high above everyone else and had a unique status, actually negotiated a deal with him.

Just like a very mercenary businessman.

Thinking of this, Xia Mu couldn't help but reveal a strange smile. (End of this chapter)