Chapter 138

"First, I didn't harm the Soul King; second, I didn't disrupt the order of the Three Realms. If you lot are just looking for a scapegoat, I can introduce one to you."

Kuchiki Senya looked at them calmly, his eyes filled with contempt.

To be honest, when he had watched the anime back then, he had thought these people were all pretty decent, but now it seemed they were still human after all — and as long as one was human, one had weaknesses.

Even Shinigami were merely a kind of spiritual form of humans; they had thoughts and emotions, and their weaknesses lay precisely in those.

"Give the Hōgyoku back to me, and I'll hear you out!" Hyōsube Ichibē said at this point, also looking at Kuchiki Senya as he spoke.

Kuchiki Senya swept a casual glance at him, then said, "Give it back to you? The Hōgyoku is a product with its own self-awareness; it chooses its own master."

"And it only admires the strong. If I needed to, I could absorb the Hōgyoku at any time and reach the Hōgyoku Six state." Kuchiki Senya still said with an expressionless face.

Hearing these words, Hyōsube Ichibē was already drenched in cold sweat.

At this moment, several Spirit Officials outside also came stepping through the void, each of them staring fixedly at Kuchiki Senya.

Seeing them holding their Zanpakutō, looking as if they had no intention of letting him go, Kuchiki Senya also let out a sigh.

"I say, Yoruichi Shihōin, don't you want to stop them?" Kuchiki Senya said, looking at the big-chested beauty Yoruichi Shihōin.

At this moment, Yoruichi Shihōin gently bit her lip, her face full of a resentful expression.

"You broke my ability — from now on I can only be an ordinary person." The way she said this seemed more like she was testing Kuchiki Senya's attitude.

Kuchiki Senya swept a glance at her, then raised the Tendō Banshō in his hand.

"Tendō Banshō — Reverse!"

With his loud shout, the blade flashed with blue light and burrowed at high speed into Yoruichi Shihōin's body.

Yoruichi Shihōin let out a soft moan, and the Kirio Tenjirō beside her was so startled his face nearly turned green.

"At your age, could you not make that kind of ghostly noise?" Kirio Tenjirō blurted out instinctively.

But he had forgotten — Yoruichi Shihōin was not someone with such a good temper.

In an instant, Kirio Tenjirō felt a chill rising from right behind him.

"Looks like I've been too gentle with you on a regular basis!" Yoruichi Shihōin swung her Zanpakutō and charged at him.

The scene's atmosphere eased up a little because of the two of them fooling around.

Kuchiki Senya descended from the air; the Hōgyoku fragment in his hand had also exhausted its energy and then dissolved into nothingness.

"You said the Hōgyoku can choose its own master, and you said you can unleash its power up to Hōgyoku Six — so why don't you go after it?"

Hyōsube Ichibē, at this point, also put away the writing brush in his hand.

If it weren't for the fact that Kuchiki Senya had restored Yoruichi Shihōin's power, he would not have let down his guard against Kuchiki Senya just like that.

Besides, he himself was well aware that if a fight really broke out here, they would inevitably affect the Soul King's safety.

The Soul King himself was a kind of safeguard; if he were affected, the world would collapse.

"Because the true master of the Hōgyoku is not him, Aizen." Kuchiki Senya said calmly.

At these words, everyone was utterly shocked.

"Utter nonsense!" The hot-tempered Futamata Wang Yue's face also darkened.

· ·· Seeking flowers · ·

"Aizen framed Urahara Kisuke and got hold of the Hōgyoku he had been researching — we already know all of this. I think the only reason you're saying that is to clear him of guilt!"

Futamata Wang Yue's face was gloomy at this moment; he could not accept that after chasing all the way to this point, he still hadn't caught the right person.

"Then I really am sorry — you lot have indeed gotten it wrong." Kuchiki Senya looked at them calmly.

After saying that, he didn't want to explain any further and planned to leave this place directly.

"Wait!" Futamata Wang Yue tried to step forward.

But Kuchiki Senya's body, like an afterimage, gradually dissipated.

"This…" Hyōsube Ichibē's face was also one of shock at this moment.

He looked at Futamata Wang Yue beside him and said, "Issue an order to Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni — have him immediately take men and intercept Kuchiki Senya!"

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Hyōsube Ichibē didn't dare waste any time, especially since he also knew that Kuchiki Senya had given all of them a thorough beating — that guy's strength had already far surpassed their imagination.

Although Yamamoto's strength was above theirs, if Yamamoto went all out, the entire Soul Society could be reduced directly to nothingness; they did not dare take that risk.

"But he's already disappeared to who knows where — what else can we do?" Futamata Wang Yue also said with a dark expression.

"I can't sense a trace of spiritual pressure — he's already gone; even Soul Society may not be able to find him!" Yoruichi Shihōin beside them also said.

Hearing this, Hyōsube Ichibē's expression became extremely ugly.

"I know — go grab his younger brother." Kirio Tenjirō beside them said.

"No!" Yoruichi Shihōin's brows knit.

"We can't lay a hand on him again. I think we should still negotiate with him." she continued.

Hearing this, Kirio Tenjirō's expression turned strange, and he then asked, "You don't have a crush on him, do you?"

"But he's still just a kid — at your age…"

"What? You have an objection?" Yoruichi Shihōin's face went dark.

"No, no…" Kirio Tenjirō hurriedly explained.

Elsewhere, Kuchiki Senya had already followed the Hōgyoku's spiritual pressure and arrived in the void.

"Looks like where you're going is the same as what I had in mind." Kuchiki Senya's eyes narrowed.

084. Dangai Trembles — The One Chosen by the Hōgyoku

Kuchiki Senya plunged into the Dangai, extending his spirit network, forcefully channeling his spiritual pressure into it.

"Quite a fancy little thing." Kuchiki Senya gradually drew closer to the Hōgyoku.

In the anime, the Hōgyoku had a mysterious cosmic hue; anyone who approached it would be drawn in by its immense energy.

And the truly fearsome aspect of the Hōgyoku lay in its ability to protect its host — as long as the host's energy was strong enough, it could spur the host to continue growing, gradually surpassing the human Fan Chou and advancing toward the next dimension.

"Boom boom boom!" Suddenly, a series of sounds rang out from the chaotic void.

Kuchiki Senya raised his eyelids and looked toward the Jutotsu rushing in from the other side.

"It's a Cleaner. It'd be nice if it could be a little gentler." Kuchiki Senya regarded the Jutotsu calmly, then raised his right hand and grabbed violently toward the front.

A tremendous force appeared in an instant. If anyone with extremely high spiritual pressure were present, they could see just how terrifying the power bursting from Kuchiki Senya's fingertips truly was.

A Shinigami's reiraku is red; the more overwhelming one's spiritual pressure, the deeper the color of the reiraku.

And Kuchiki Senya's reiraku had by now grown nearly black!

"Boom!" The entire Dangai shuddered.

The Jutotsu suddenly halted before Kuchiki Senya, and the chaotic hues of the entire space seemed to freeze.

Immediately after, the Jutotsu dissolved into scattered starlight and vanished.

Yet the Jutotsu was a rule-class being that had existed for tens of millions of years. Once it was destroyed by Kuchiki Senya, the rules of the three worlds would undergo earth-shattering changes.

Even the three worlds felt it. The World of the Living experienced crustal shifts, and Soul Society was forced to open its connection with Hueco Mundo.

Members of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads across all of Seireitei mobilized one after another; even the children still in school threw themselves into battle at this point.

After all, for them, this was a rare opportunity for training.

Kuchiki Senya could guess what was happening outside, but what he needed to pursue now was the final destination of this Hōgyoku.

"Where exactly are you trying to go?" Kuchiki Senya furrowed his brow, gazing at the Hōgyoku before him in confusion.

Earlier he had shattered Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu and realized that Aizen, too, was merely someone being used—only that person had let him believe he was the true mastermind.

That was an ability more terrifying than any ability that had existed up to now, one that even surpassed Kuchiki Senya!

In Kuchiki Senya's own words, Aizen's Kyōka Suigetsu was merely a type of genjutsu ability imposed upon him.

Kyōka Suigetsu was an ability bestowed upon Aizen by the person truly controlling him—an ability that operated under that person's own rules.

"Hm?" Just then, Kuchiki Senya suddenly lost all sense of the Hōgyoku's presence.

One must remember that he had been wrapping the Hōgyoku in his reiraku without pause the entire time, precisely so he could track the Hōgyoku's movements.

Or rather, so that before the Hōgyoku vanished, he would have a premonition and be able to intercept it.

But this time he found that he had failed—and failed spectacularly.

"How could this be?" Kuchiki Senya's expression darkened.

His spiritual pressure erupted throughout the entire Dangai; the immense spiritual pressure even leaked out, drawing countless Hueco Mundo monsters that wanted to charge into the Dangai.

At this time, Hueco Mundo should still have been under the rule of Baraggan Louisenbairn.

The current Bleach World differed in many ways from what Kuchiki Senya had seen before.

For instance, in the Soul Society Kuchiki Senya now saw, there were many Shinigami who had not undergone Hollowfication, and these Shinigami had remained—none of their captains' positions had been replaced.

And this meant that many powerful Shinigami had yet to be discovered.

So as for who the Hōgyoku's master might be, Kuchiki Senya still had many guesses, but right now none of them seemed possible to him.