Chapter 144

Kuchiki Senya frowned. "Void Current?"

"You should know the Dangai, right? You likely came from the Hueco Mundo, which is from the Dangai. Inside the Dangai exist Kōtotsu and Kōryū. The Void Current and Kōryū are the same thing; they exist naturally, with the purpose of detecting and devouring intruders."

The Adjuchas beneath his feet continued speaking.

Hearing this, Kuchiki Senya's expression darkened. This thing was far larger than the Kōryū within the Dangai.

A Void Current forming a sky-filling sandstorm; one could imagine how terrifying this was, and how vast its numbers were. Even with his strength, facing such laws of heaven and earth, he dared not claim he could definitely withstand it.

Kuchiki Senya's brows knitted tightly; for a moment, he did not know what to do.

Seeing him somewhat at a loss, the Adjuchas he was holding finally spoke: "How about you try coming into my embrace?"

Kuchiki Senya looked at him with a strange expression. What nonsense was this, that he should go into his embrace?

"Actually, I am not entirely useless. I can actually alter the spiritual particle attributes around myself, forming a unique protective membrane. As long as you hold me, I can coat your surface with a layer of spiritual particles, and you will not be detected."

The Adjuchas looked at Kuchiki Senya with a serious expression, not seeming to be joking.

"If you are truly worried, you can maintain an attack stance at any time. It doesn't matter if you kill me," the Adjuchas said.

Kuchiki Senya frowned; for a moment, he did not know whether to believe him.

After all, he was an Adjuchas, a Hollow with independent consciousness. Even if he did not know how he became an Adjuchas, it must have been after slaughtering countless other Hollows to evolve!

"Hurry up! It takes time for me to form my spiritual pressure; if we delay any longer, it will be too late!" he shouted urgently at Kuchiki Senya.

Kuchiki Senya made up his mind. At worst, he would be discovered and chased; but facing this Void Current now, it was better to avoid its sharp edge.

Immediately, he grabbed the Adjuchas before him with one hand, while the other directly embraced him.

A strange mist of spiritual particles gradually surrounded the two. They stood like this in the center of the storm, and soon the storm moved toward them.

But to Kuchiki Senya's surprise, these things were not a sandstorm, which meant the Adjuchas had not lied just now.

It was a fog-like mass composed of spiritual particles; it only created the illusion of wind due to its rapid movement.

The entire process lasted nearly half an hour. The two in the center of the storm could see nothing at all, only boundless darkness and the sensation of Hueco Mundo's spiritual particles passing through their bodies.

Finally, the Void Current passed, and the Adjuchas who had been holding Kuchiki Senya fainted dead away.

Kuchiki Senya frowned. He clenched his fists and realized his power had completely recovered.

Just moments ago, he felt the spiritual particles here offered almost no help for recovery, but now he could clearly sense the surrounding spiritual particles and could utilize them to recover.

"Could it be him?" Kuchiki Senya frowned, looking at the Adjuchas lying on the ground.

He actually held no great hostility toward these Hollows. After all, in the Hueco Mundo of the original manga, there were beings with flesh and blood; once they gained independent consciousness, their hearts could return.

Having been saved by an Adjuchas, Kuchiki Senya felt no rejection in his heart. Of course, he was also thinking about how he could help this fellow.

This Adjuchas was already on his last breath, his spiritual pressure nearly vanishing.

If Kuchiki Senya's perception was not wrong, earlier, to prevent Kuchiki Senya from being identified by the Void Current, this fellow had wrapped him in an extremely thick layer of spiritual pressure.

And he was merely a small Adjuchas, the weakest kind in terms of strength; such a burden was indeed very difficult for him.

"Heaven Severing Myriad Phenomena, Myriad Phenomena Renewed." Kuchiki Senya raised his Zanpakutō.

Heaven Severing Myriad Phenomena lay horizontally in the air. Then, light illuminated the surroundings again, but this time there was no pressure like before; instead, it was something like holy light.

Immediately, the Zanpakutō pierced directly into the Adjuchas's body.

But Kuchiki Senya did not intend to kill him. Instead, he pierced the hole in the Adjuchas's chest, and the healing power within the Shinigami's energy slowly entered it.

Kuchiki Senya did not know if it would succeed, but he did not want to owe a debt of gratitude, so he could only do this.

"Ah!" The Adjuchas suddenly shouted out loud.

His body began to trem violently, and there were faint signs that his body was about to collapse.

Kuchiki Senya frowned. The power he was using now was the Shinigami energy converted from the Hueco Mundo energy he had just devoured; theoretically, this ability should not be incompatible with the Adjuchas.

But soon, Kuchiki Senya noticed a change in the Adjuchas on the ground. Heaven Severing Myriad Phenomena had already flown back into his hand.

The surroundings were wrapped in massive light. Their current situation could be described as extremely dangerous, because the energy erupted by this Adjuchas was enormous.

Now, Kuchiki Senya had sensed countless Gillians slowly moving toward this location. If he had not run far yet and was still some distance from the forward outpost, perhaps waiting a little longer would have allowed Kuchiki Senya to encounter members of the Arrancar army.

Kuchiki Senya took a deep breath. It seemed he would have a hard battle today.

More than ten minutes later, several Hollows in Adjuchas form, having taken human shape, also arrived.

"What's going on? This is... a Shinigami?"

"That's right, absolutely a Shinigami. I've eaten one before; I will never forget such a wonderful taste!"

The several Adjuchas looked grotesque; some had tongues as long as arms, while others had two heads.

"Is the one lying on the ground one of our kind?"

"It seems so. Truly despicable! A Shinigami actually came to the Hueco Mundo to hunt Hollows. I think he is truly asking for death!"

"Kill him!"

The several Adjuchas suddenly rushed forward, and a Cero shot toward Kuchiki Senya.

Kuchiki Senya frowned. He glanced at the Adjuchas lying behind him.

He had gone to great trouble to help treat him just so he could survive; naturally, he could not give up now.

"If you want to fight, change the location." Kuchiki Senya narrowed his eyes, then used Shunpo to fly toward the surroundings.

Seeing this, the several Adjuchas hurriedly flew to the side. They were determined to seize the Shinigami's spiritual power; once they could evolve, they would be set for life.

093. The Hollow Tide, Trapped in Dilemma!

Kuchiki Senya looked at the several Adjuchas chasing him and sheathed Heaven Severing Myriad Phenomena again.

"Let me try and see just how powerful you are!" Kuchiki Senya sneered twice.

The reason he did this was simply because he wanted to test how much capability Adjuchas of this level possessed.

"Dare to underestimate us? You will regret it!" Seeing that Kuchiki Senya did not even use his Zanpakutō, the several Adjuchas immediately rushed at him in anger.

Kuchiki Senya raised an eyebrow. These things seemed very excited?

"I feel you must be a very powerful Shinigami. As long as we can devour you, all three of us can evolve into Vasto Lorde. At that time, no matter who those Espada are, they will all be my defeated foes!"

The three Adjuchas also shouted loudly at this moment.

Kuchiki Senya looked at them calmly, not a trace of hesitation in his eyes; this time he only used his body's physical strength to contend with them.

"Whoosh whoosh!" One of the Adjuchas could actually do the same as a Quincy, using the surrounding spiritrons to create spirit arrows!

Moreover, his arm served as the bow, and the speed evolved through the ability of his arm.

"Not bad, that kind of ability is pretty good." Kuchiki Senya narrowed his eyes; what he said was simple, but in truth he was secretly shocked in his heart.

"Not bad? I'll make you regret that!" Another Adjuchas's voice came from behind.

In his hand was a massive battle axe, seemingly evolved from the head on his right side.

"Boom!" Kuchiki Senya caught the battle axe barehanded, but the tremendous impact sent Kuchiki Senya plunging straight into the sand.

Kuchiki Senya lay in the sand and began to mark these people down with a classification.

"Gillian's rank is one to three, Adjuchas should be four to six by strength; these three have weapons and decent spiritual pressure, so they're at least top-tier level four."

"As for that fool from before, he probably couldn't even beat a Gillian, so count him as level three."

Kuchiki Senya still had the leisure to classify ranks now—this was his habit, and also something he had to do, as it would help him investigate these Hollows' strength in the future.

"Dead? Not dead yet? Why isn't he moving?"

At this moment, several Adjuchas were also staring at Kuchiki Senya, a little excited—after all, this was another Shinigami, and they might really be able to evolve into Vasto Lorde!

"Looks like above level four, I still have to bring out some real skill." Kuchiki Senya now had a complete set of procedures; he already knew what method he should use at what level to deal with these Hollows.

"Boom!" Kuchiki Senya suddenly flew up from the sand.

Death God power appeared in his hand—this time it was pure Death God power—and he threw a punch straight at the Adjuchas who had just grabbed the battle axe.

"Crack!" Kuchiki Senya's fist slammed into the battle axe, and in an instant the battle axe dissolved into specks of spiritual power and scattered!

"How is this possible?" That battle-axe Adjuchas was utterly shocked.

Immediately after, a series of sounds came from behind Kuchiki Senya—all of them fired by the Adjuchas that could shoot arrows.

Kuchiki Senya snorted coldly, then employed Shunpo, arriving right beside the opponent in an instant, and grabbed his head.

"You—"

"Bang!" Kuchiki Senya exerted force with his hand, and the opponent's head instantly exploded, scattering into starlight.

The last remaining Adjuchas stared at him in terror—this guy hadn't even released his Zanpakuto, and had only used his fists and a bit of Death God power to kill both of his companions?

"You, you're no ordinary Shinigami, you're a Captain?" The remaining Adjuchas stared at Kuchiki Senya in terror.

Kuchiki Senya did not answer; he had already detected that many Hollows were approaching, and among them was one Hollow with extremely formidable strength.

The spiritual power currently circulating within Kuchiki Senya's body was extremely limited—it was formed when that Adjuchas had been holding him earlier, fusing a portion of his spiritual power with the Hollow's spiritrons.

The spiritual pressure Kuchiki Senya could recover now was only that small fused portion, roughly five percent of his total spiritual pressure, and using this portion of spiritual pressure would not bring double the strain.

After using more than this five percent of spiritual pressure, what Kuchiki Senya used was pure Death God power—this power had no limit, and he could use a hundred percent of his strength to deal with enemies.

But if he wanted to recover, that would be extremely difficult; he could only slowly recover through time and meditation, because this was Hueco Mundo, not Soul Society.