Chapter 35: The War in the Present World

Xia Mu was actually no stranger to the Quincy.

Ishida Uryu, one of the main characters in the original novel, was a Quincy. Later, the villain in the Thousand Year Blood War was also a Quincy. In the Thousand Year Blood War, dozens of Quincies basically suppressed the entire Gotei 13. A large part of their defeat was due to plot reasons. It can be said that the Quincies are really powerful.

At this moment, in the real world, as one of the ones who wielded the knife against the Quincy, after fighting with the Quincy, he also felt the power of the Quincy firsthand.

The Death God's Instant Step is to condense his own spiritual power at the soles of his feet, and release it into spiritual pressure to collide and rub against the spirit particles in the air, forming a powerful reactionary explosive force, propelling the body to move instantly. It is not a transfer on the spatial level, it is just very fast.

The technique is not that difficult, so most of the reapers can master it quickly. The only difference is the speed.

However, when facing the Quincy, this ability was greatly disturbed.

The Quincy can manipulate spirit particles, drawing the surrounding spirit particles to the vicinity of their bodies and being controlled by them.

In addition to its own spiritual power, the Shinigami's instant movement also needs to collide with the external spiritual particles. The denser the external spiritual particles are, the faster the Shinigami's instant movement will be. This is why the Shinigami will get a bonus in the spiritual particle-dense environment like Hueco Mundo.

Under the influence of the Quincy's ability, the Shinigami's instant movement will be directly destroyed.

And when they are unable to use Shunpo to approach the Quincy, the Quincy's spirit particle light arrows can attack the Shinigami from a long distance. At that time, Shunpo will be interfered by the Quincy, and they can only resist with the Zanpakutō in their hands.

As for using Kidō to engage in long-range combat with the Quincy?

The idea is good, but the ghost path also needs to rely on external spirit particles, and the Quincy can also interfere with it.

The main reason why the casualties were so high in the early stages of the Gotei 13's attack on the Quincies was that the Quincies' abilities could interfere with the Shinigami.

Even though the overall abilities of a half-blood Quincy are not as good as those of a pure-blood, the ability to manipulate and interfere with spirit particles is something that all Quincies possess. With this ability, if the basic abilities of a Shinigami are not strong enough, the only result will be defeat and death.

Xia Mu's instant movement was also interrupted once by the Quincy in front of him.

But he is not an ordinary Shinigami after all. Apart from instant movement and kidō, he is also quite accomplished in slashing techniques and hand-to-hand combat. Especially in slashing techniques, after being taught by Unohana Retsu, his skills have become extremely good.

To fight this thing in Bai, you need to engage in close combat to unleash its powerful force.

The Quincy's posture now shows that they don't want to fight the Grim Reaper in close combat.

Although they possess a powerful ability to manipulate spiritual power, their own physique is that of an ordinary human. When fighting against a spiritual creature like the Grim Reaper, whose body is composed entirely of highly concentrated spiritual particles, they are inferior in both strength and physical power.

Their only chance of winning is to launch long-range attacks using spirit light arrows.

This is also the point that the Quincy concluded after the war broke out through the numerous casualties.

One after another, spirit particle light arrows were released by the Quincy. After arriving in front of Natsuki, they were cut one after another by Natsuki's Zanpakuto which contained powerful sword pressure. During this process, Natsuki was also trying hard to get close to the Quincy.

He also discovered something.

That is, a Quincy cannot be distracted from doing two things.

When they manipulated the spirit particles to condense the spirit particle light arrows, they were no longer able to interfere with his use of the Flash Step. Therefore, during this period, when he used the Flash Step to approach the Quincy, the Quincy naturally realized this. Therefore, after releasing the spirit particle light arrows, they also used the high-level footwork unique to the Quincy, the "Flying Sickle Kick", to relocate their positions and find a more suitable position to attack Xia Mu.

The Hikama Kick is actually more useful than the Shinigami's instant step. In the spirit world of Hueco Mundo and Soul Society, it is the only one of the three mobility techniques mastered by the Shinigami, Hollows, and Quincies that can fly in the sky. But unfortunately, this is not Soul Society or Hueco Mundo, but the real world.

In the real world, the Flying Sickle Leg cannot gain air superiority, because the God of Death can also stay in the air in the real world. The main reason is that the spirit particles in the real world are scarce, and the God of Death has a high concentration of spirit particles in his body. The spirit particles are lighter than the air. In the real world, it is like being in space. Gravity cannot affect the spirit particles. With a light leap, they can jump very far and can even fly in the air.

In addition, although the Flying Sickle Kick can be used for flying, it is also the step that is most dependent on spirit particles among the three steps. If the spirit particles are rich, it may be faster than the instant step under the control of the Quincy.

However, with the current concentration of spirit particles in the world, no matter how powerful the Quincy is, the speed of the Flying Sickle Kick he performs is limited.

Even though this Quincy kept using the Scythe Kick to transfer, as long as he could not interfere with Xia Mu's Shunpo all the time, Xia Mu's Shunpo was still better, and soon he arrived in front of the Quincy.

The golden sword pressure was swung out, destroying the spirit light arrows released by the Quincy, and then fell on the Quincy's body.

Blood splattered and life was cut short in an instant.

After dealing with a Quincy, Xia Mu did not rest and continued to move towards where the other Quincy were.

It is called a war, but in fact, not both warring parties are fighting on the same battlefield.

Even though the Quincies caused a lot of casualties on the Shinigami side, they themselves suffered even more casualties.

Also, because they were the losers in the war eight hundred years ago, they had a natural hatred and fear of death itself.

When the god of death swung his knife at them, they first chose to hide. Only after they realized they could not hide did they choose to fight.

Facing these Quincies who have been hiding from the beginning.

The God of Death needs to find them first before he can destroy them.

Fortunately, in order to completely annihilate the Quincy, there are enough Shinigami who have come to the world this time, and the 12th Division is providing technical support in the rear. Quincy are found one by one. All Natsuki needs to do is to reinforce the remaining Shinigami and kill the found Quincy.

When he rushed to another battlefield.

All I saw were a few Grim Reapers being pierced through the body by sharp spirit light arrows and died.

On the roof of an ancient building, a middle-aged man with a ponytail, a scar on his face, and eyes as sharp as an eagle was looking at Xia Mu.

"Despicable Grim Reaper, are you here to die too?"

From this Quincy, Xia Mu felt an aura that was far superior to that of ordinary Quincy.

In his spiritual perception, there were extremely terrifying spirit particles lingering around the opponent's body.

This is definitely not an ordinary Quincy, but a pure-blooded Quincy without a doubt.

"No, it's you who should die!"

Xia Mu answered the man's words.

(End of this chapter)