Chapter 37 The Long War

Scarlet-red clothing appeared around Natsuki's body, and his Zanpakutō was swung by him.

The spirit light arrows shattered one after another, and occasionally some of the aftermath fell on him, but was easily blocked by him.

He was somewhat surprised that the Quincy had forcibly taken control of some of the nearby Reiki.

But the opponent is not Kenpachi Zaraki after all, and his will can be contained in the spirit particles. This means that after the attack launched by the Quincy is broken, these spirit particles can be absorbed by Natsuki.

As he breathed, after the spirit particle light arrow was destroyed, all the spirit particles scattered around were absorbed into Xia Mu's body.

In this short period of time, he had already figured out how to deal with the Quincy.

That is, there must not be any spirit particles in this space.

Since the other party forced himself into this state and enslaved the spirit particles originally intended for his use, he only needed to swallow all the spirit particles into his body. Xia Mu still didn't believe that the Quincy could control the spirit particles in the body of the god of death.

If they could achieve this, the Quincy wouldn't have to fight the God of Death all that much. They could just manipulate the spirit particles to destroy the body of the God of Death. After all, the body of the God of Death was also made up of spirit particles.

The Quincy cannot do this, which shows that the only things the Quincy can control are the spirit particles in the surrounding air.

After Xia Mu had the idea, a huge vortex quietly emerged.

The crimson mist also faded and then dissipated.

Natsuki's Zanpakutō, after being released, has two different forms.

One is internal and the other is external.

To the outside world, he can make all the nearby spirits be imbued with his aura, which manifests as crimson butterflies and crimson mist. Among these, apart from the fact that the mist can slightly confuse other people's eyes, the greatest function of the mist is that it can quietly absorb the spiritual power of others to nourish Xia Mu himself. In addition, the crimson butterfly can provide Xia Mu with an overall vision.

Such an ability will constantly weaken the Shinigami and Hollows when fighting against them, and is an extremely convenient ability.

But it doesn't work when fighting against the Quincy.

Although it is possible to absorb the Quincy's spirit light arrows, the Quincy itself does not possess strong spiritual power. The power of the Quincy is not spiritual power at all, so it is very difficult to weaken the Quincy.

On the contrary, although the spirit particles here were influenced by Xia Mu's aura, they did not contain Xia Mu's own will. If the Quincy's ability to control the spirit particles was stronger, he could manipulate these spirit particles.

Therefore, in order to better fight against the Quincy, Xia Mu entered another state.

That is the internal state.

When in the internal state, the environmental bonus will disappear and he will lose his overall vision.

Correspondingly, his own various powers would be enhanced to the extreme under the premise of instantly plundering the surrounding spiritual particles. The ability to absorb spiritual particles still existed, but it was limited to his Zanpakuto.

But in a moment.

The crimson mist disappeared completely, leaving only the black Shinigami suit on Xia Mu's body stained with a hint of crimson stripes. The blood-red light on the Zanpakutō in his hand became increasingly intense.

Swish!
Xia Mu stepped on the ground and leaped out quickly.

This is not instant step, it is just pure physical strength, but at this moment, the speed it shows is not much different from instant step.

Seeing this, the Quincy, who had forcibly entered the final form of the Quincy with the help of the Scattering Spirit Gloves and used the "Ranzhuang Tiankui" to allow himself to move, prepared to continue manipulating the spirit particles and launch an attack on Xia Mu.

However, when he activated his Quincy power to gather spirit particles, he found that only a few spirit particles responded to his power and gathered.
The knife flashed by and the head fell to the ground.

Even though the Luanzhuang Tiangui is very powerful and can allow the Quincy to ignore the injuries on their limbs and even on their bodies and fight, there is a prerequisite, that is, the vital parts are not injured.

Once the head, heart and other vital parts are damaged and the Quincy dies, the Heavenly Puppet will be of no use.

"A pure-blooded Quincy is such a troublesome fellow!"

Taking a look at the Quincy's corpse on the ground, Xia Mu couldn't help but sigh.

If it weren't for the ability of his Zanpakuto, which could just exert some restraint on the Quincy, it would not be so easy to defeat this pure-blooded Quincy.

The Quincy's ability to manipulate spirit particles is indeed quite powerful in restraining the Grim Reaper.

However, this is also the current situation of this world, a balance between each other.

Shinigami restrain Hollows. When facing Quincy, Hollows can gain some advantages because of their brutal fighting style. Not to mention that the power of Hollows is like poison to Quincy. Quincy can gain greater advantages when facing Shinigami.

If the Shinigami did not possess his Zanpakutō, it would be difficult to defeat the Quincy simply by relying on abilities like Zanken Zougui.

The Quincies are all good at long-range attacks, and the Byakutsu must be used at close range to be effective. Kidō and Shunpo will also be affected by the Quincies. Slashing techniques, like Byakutsu, can only be effective at close range.

Xia Mu couldn't help but think of the disastrous defeat of the Grim Reaper at the beginning of the thousand-year bloody battle in the original novel.

The Quincy at that time had already found a way to restrain the Zanpakutō of the God of Death.

When the Zanpakutō was also restrained, the Shinigami was helpless against the Quincy, which is why so many people were killed or injured in a short period of time.

It is one thing for the Quincy to hide in the shadows of the Seireitei and suddenly launch a war unexpectedly, but the main reason is that their abilities are restrained.

……

This war is longer than imagined.

In other words, this is what a racial war should look like.

In the original work, the thousand-year bloody war was over in just a few days, and the Ninja World War in the next door studio was over in just a few days. It seems a bit outrageous just to think about it.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

After nearly eight hundred years of reproduction and development, there are still many Quincies in the world today. The only thing that has decreased is the number of pure-blood families. As for the half-blood Quincies, there are actually more of them compared to a thousand years ago.

The God of Death wants to completely wipe out the Quincy race from the world, which is not something that can be accomplished in a few days or months. Not to mention, facing the slaughter of the God of Death, the Quincy are not a group of fools who would wait for the God of Death to exterminate them.

They either resist or escape.

Facing the rebels is easy, the Grim Reaper only needs to fight them and kill them.

When it comes to escapists, the Grim Reaper still needs time to find them.

After all, the order issued by the Central 46th Chamber is to completely wipe out the Quincy race, and they will not let them go just because the Quincies are in hiding.

(End of this chapter)