Chapter 6 Death is just an ordinary thing
The most important criterion for measuring whether a soul can become a god of death, besides whether the soul possesses spiritual power, is whether it can wield a Zanpakutō.

Zanpakuto is an extremely important weapon for the God of Death.

After the establishment of the Maou Spiritual Arts Academy, the first thing every enrolled student had to do was to receive the "Shōdō". Afterwards, the teachers in the academy would teach these students to resonate with their own Shōdō through methods such as "Sword Zen". Resonance is not difficult. It all depends on injecting your own spiritual power into your Zanpakutō and nourishing it. If the Zanpakutō can palpitate and respond to you, it means that the resonance is successful.

After achieving this step, the next step is to find a way to enter the soul of the Zanpakutō, to merge with it at a deeper level, and finally, to obtain the liberation words from its mouth, so as to master the Shikai.

The first step is to release the power, and a liberation word is needed.

Generally speaking, the Shinigami who are able to join the Gotei 13 all have the potential to master the Shikai. Some of them master it while in academy, while others take longer after joining the team.

Of course, there are also those who are stuck at the stage of resonating with their Zanpakutō for many years and have never been able to master the Shikai.

And these guys were either eliminated by the Gotei 13, had their Zanpakuto confiscated, and lost the qualifications to be Shinigami.

Or, because of their special talents, they go to organizations like the Guidao Society.

However, organizations like the Kidōshu are ultimately not up to standard, and the Gotei 13 are the real mainstream.

While Xia Mu was working hard to learn the four basic abilities of the God of Death, "Zanpakutō", he certainly did not neglect that Zanpakutō is the greatest reliance of the God of Death, and of course he also worked hard to learn it and tried to master Shikai.

Even combined with the vague memory at the time and what Watanabe Yuji said, it is very likely that he had awakened the power of his Zanpakuto at the critical moment when the Hollow was about to kill him.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Daxu died.

But after that, even though he could easily resonate with his Zanpakutō, he was still unable to master the Shikai.

This inevitably made Xia Mu feel a little disappointed.

Hearing the disappointment in Xia Mu's words, Watanabe Yuji said to Xia Mu: "You have extremely powerful potential hidden in you. Although I don't know why you can no longer summon that power after that, you have been making progress during this period of time, right?"

Natsuki looked at Watanabe Yuji.

Watanabe Yuji, the round-faced man, smiled brightly and said to Natsuki, "As long as you keep improving, one day you will be able to master Shikai, or even go one step further and master Bankai, and maybe even become the captain of the Gotei 13."

The last words were undoubtedly words from Yuji Watanabe to encourage Natsuki.

Bankai, even in the vast Soul Society, those who can master it are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, but anyone who can master it means that the master has already possessed a possibility.

The possibility of becoming the captain of the Gotei 13!

……

To become stronger, you have to become even stronger.

Only by becoming stronger can you survive in this cruel world.

Since this actual combat.

Xia Mu joined the expeditionary force to attack Xu.

The expeditionary force was not large in number, only a few dozen people.

The vast majority of them are sinners who came to the Hueco Mundo to fight against the Hollows in order to atone their sins.

Hueco Mundo is the base camp of Hollows. Here, new Hollows are born almost every moment. This is not surprising. Hollows are fallen souls. In the real world, people die every second. It is not possible that all dead people are good people. There are always some people whose souls fall due to desires and obsessions and evolve into Hollows.

Especially in recent years, the world has not been peaceful, resulting in more human deaths. Under such circumstances, the number of Hollows in Hueco Mundo has skyrocketed, so the expeditionary force has been constantly "purifying" the Hollows in Hueco Mundo.

Of course, even though I fight with the void every day.

However, the members of the expeditionary force always chose to wander around in the outer circle and had no intention of entering the inner circle or the Great Void Forest.

The Great Hollow Forest is the area where the Great Hollows live. There are countless Gillians there, and there are also higher-level Great Hollows living there. For just a few of them to enter there would be almost like seeking death.

However, even if you fight in the outer circle, you may still encounter a large hollow and your companions may die.

Although Jiro, who died in the battle with the Hollow, was Natsuki's savior, Natsuki had not yet fully integrated into the expeditionary force at that time. To be cruel, he did not have many feelings about Jiro's death.

But now, after he had completely integrated into the expeditionary force, practiced with these people all day, accepted their teachings, and became familiar with them, after his companion's death, Xia Mu still found it difficult to accept it.

In my previous life, I suffered from illness and died in pain. I thought that after this experience of death, I had become indifferent to matters such as life and death.

But when the mutilated body of the companion who had been chatting and laughing with him yesterday was placed in front of him.

Only then did he realize that he had not taken it lightly.

A silent sadness filled Xia Mu's face.

Watanabe Yuji, the captain of the expeditionary force, stepped forward to comfort everyone and said a lot.

Finally, everyone hastily dug a hole and buried their dead companions.

Someone else put away the opponent's Zanpakutō, preparing to bring it back to Soul Society one day and hand it over to the opponent's squad.

This is also a common practice.

Although in the history of Soul Society, there have been cases where civilians in Rukongai picked up the Zanpakutō of dead Shinigami, awakened the dormant sword and became Shinigami, but that was because the Shinigami died hastily and there was no way to recover his sword.

If it can be recycled, of course it should be recycled.

After all, each Asado is extremely precious. They are not manufactured by the Gotei 13, and their quantity is limited.

Not only the Death Gods who died in battle need to be recovered.

The Zanpakutō of a Shinigami who retires from the Gotei 13 must be handed over to their respective squads and sealed.

After hastily completing the funeral of his comrades who died in battle.

Watanabe Yuji noticed Natsuki's sad face. Perhaps it was because Natsuki joined the expeditionary force midway and was a newcomer, or perhaps it was because Natsuki was taught by him, so he paid close attention to Natsuki.

"Are you feeling bad?"

His voice rang beside Xia Mu's ears.

"Aren't you feeling uncomfortable?" Xia Mu looked up and looked at Watanabe Yuji.

"Of course I feel bad too, but if you live long enough and experience enough of these things, you will find that this is just the fate of death."

"When we choose to hold the knife, there is only fighting in our lives. We live by fighting and die by fighting. Death is a very common thing."

"So, we should not be afraid of it, but should accept it calmly."

"Look, aren't these people very calm about this matter?"

Watanabe Yuji motioned for Natsuki to look at the rest of the expeditionary force.

Xia Mu glanced around and did not see any sadness on these people's faces, nor did he see any fear caused by the death of their companions. Just as Watanabe Yuji said, these people were very calm about death, or they had become accustomed to it.

Watanabe Yuji's voice sounded in Xia Mu's ears again.

"Of course, the main reason why the God of Death died was that he was not strong enough. If he was strong enough, he could survive even when facing a great hollow."

Xia Mu suddenly came to his senses.

"Yes, this world is, after all, a world where the strong are respected and strength is supreme!"

(End of this chapter)