Chapter 74: Release That Kilian, Let Us Take It! (Update 6)

When the soldiers of the Huting Eleven Squad, and the Aqiu Kass of the Thus line: Xu ye gong, discovered the wonderful uses of the hot spring water, they could not wait a moment…

"Your Majesty, the spring water is depleted; perhaps…"

A bold Aqiu Kass whispered to Bai Legang, asking.

"The spring water is gone? Since it's gone, why are you still lingering here? Hurry and fetch it?!"

Bai Legang remained seated on the throne, too lazy to move, and casually spoke to the Great Voids before him.

"We obey!"

The gathered Great Voids brightened at the words; after receiving Bai Legang's consent, they could not stay here even for a quarter hour and rushed toward the Great Void Forest, where the Kilian belong to these Aqiu Kass.

On the other side…

"Captain, we intend to continue sweeping the Great Void Forest!"

Without Araki's urging, the Chives themselves stepped forward, eager to grow stronger; indeed, such ambitious Chives are the proper kind!

"Go then~"

Araki, seeing this, granted the Huting Eleven Squad soldiers permission to launch their sortie.

"Oh!!"

The Eleven Squad soldiers, without a word, seized their Zanpoto and set off toward the Great Void Forest for a new round of expansion…

If anyone with keen ears were present, they would hear these Eleven Squad soldiers constantly murmuring, "All Kilian are ours!"

When the soldiers of the Huting Eleven Squad and the captains burst joyfully into the Void Circle, they saw a horde of Aqiu Kass slaughtering the Kilian…

For a moment, the captains, the Death God soldiers, and this group of Aqiu Kass and the Kilian Gate stared at each other awkwardly.

The atmosphere gradually solidified…

"What on earth are you Great Voids doing?! Stop it right now!"

"You Aqiu Kass are so cruel; how could you bear to strike your own kind? Remember, you also evolved from Kilian! Moreover, eliminating Kilian is clearly the Death Gods' duty, so release that Kilian and let us handle it!"

The Eleven Squad soldiers seemed to become righteous heroes, drawing their Zanpoto blades from their waists, ready to fight to protect the lower‑tier Great Void Kilian.

"Ha?!"

The Aqiu Kass were startled by the words.

"You should be the ones to get out of here, damn Death Gods!"

"This is the Great Void Forest, our Aqiu Kass territory, not your Death Gods' Soul Realm!"

"I advise you Death Gods not to impede the actions of us Aqiu Kass…"

For a moment, the Aqiu Kass strained, roaring at the Death Gods.

Having already witnessed the power of captain‑level Death Gods, they did not wish to clash with these soldiers; the most pressing matter now was still to collect Kilian corpses…

"Brothers, what do we do?!"

For a moment, the Eleven Squad soldiers looked at each other, none able to offer a decent suggestion.

"What are you thinking? Just do it, everyone follow my charge!"

Just as the soldiers hesitated, Zaitou the Immortal drew his Zanpoto from his waist and gave the answer.

"Charge!"

The Eleven Squad soldiers, seeing a captain lead the charge, immediately followed.

In an instant, hundreds of Death Gods, a black mass, surged fearlessly toward the Aqiu Kass.

"Aren't they afraid?"

This gave the Aqiu Kass a headache; they really did not want to waste time on Death Gods.

"No need to engage them; kill the surrounding Kilian, then use the resonance to depart…"

In response, Diheyela, the current First General under Bai Legang, seemed to have an idea.

"Good idea…"

The Aqiu Kass brightened at the words; they stopped trembling before the Death Gods, instead gathering massive void flashes and firing at the surrounding Kilian.

"Roar!!"

At once, each Kilian emitted wails and collapsed to the ground.

"Protect the Kilian!"

The Death God soldiers furrowed their brows; since the Aqiu Kass were merciless, they should not blame them for injustice.

Thinking so, the Death God soldiers stepped in front of the Kilian…

Some mentally twisted soldiers, looking at the Kilian behind them, gently said, "Fear not! We Death Gods will protect you!"

"Roar?!"

For a moment, the instinct‑driven Kilian's huge eyes were filled with confusion.

Who will protect him, whom will he kill? Who will kill him, whom will he protect?

His intelligence like a beast, the instinct‑driven Kilian declared, "Can't tell! Can't tell at all!"

"Since you have come, then none of you shall leave…"

"Bankai—All Exhausted!"

As the Kilian's instincts became wildly chaotic, unable to distinguish friend from foe, the Aqiu Kass began a reckless assault, aiming to wipe out both the Death God soldiers and the Kilian! The Death God soldiers, while fleeing, also tried to protect the Kilian, leading to an extremely passive moment, when a cold‑as‑ice voice reached everyone's ears.

A stunning figure resembling a Rakshasa suddenly appeared in the middle of the battlefield…

In an instant, endless blood flooded the ankles of everyone; the surrounding rocks, the ground's sand, the towering trees—everything composed of spirit particles—burst forth with countless crimson juices at that moment…

"Run!"

Diheyela, upon seeing the Rakshasa, hoisted a Kilian corpse from the ground and fled forward without looking back.

"Did you think I'd let you escape?"

Maozhihua, watching Diheyela run, swung a hundred‑meter‑high blood‑red sword pressure; the sword pressure, like a wave, surged toward Diheyela…

"Let's go!"

Di He Ye La, seeing this without any hesitation, directly hurled the corpse of Ji Li An in his hand as a defensive shield, and it collided with Di He Ye La's slash.

"Boom!!"

With a booming sound, Ji Li An's corpse instantly turned into countless fragments in the slash that was cutting toward Di He Ye La.

"Tsk~"

When Ji Li An turned into a rain of blood that fell to the ground, there was no trace of Di He Ye La ahead; he had already fled far away. This displeased Mao Zhi Hua Lie, so she had to redirect her fury onto other Ya Qiu Ka Si…

"Oh no!"

It was the shared thought of all Ya Qiu Ka Si at that moment.

"Boom!"

However, before the Ya Qiu Ka Si could act, Ji Li An, sensing a huge threat, launched an attack on Mao Zhi Hua Lie first. At this moment, the alarm bells in the hearts of the Ji Li An flock rang continuously; following their instincts, they judged that the threat Mao Zhi Hua posed to them, as Great Void beings, far exceeded the combined threat from the surrounding Shinigami soldiers and Ya Qiu Ka Si.

"Die!"

Mao Zhi Hua, facing Ji Li An's attack, showed no hesitation; with each swing of her blade, one Ji Li An after another fell dead on the spot…

As for those Ya Qiu Ka Si, after witnessing the scene, how could they dare stay? They immediately used their resonance shift and fled! For a while, the battle between Shinigami and the Ya Qiu Ka Si seemed to calm again, at the cost of a group of Ji Li An dying…

There's no way; wisdom is like a beast—Ji Li An, having no evolutionary potential, simply lacks "Void" authority! Whether Shinigami soldiers or higher‑rank Great Void beings, they would bully them…

With the battle over, the loot‑division began! The members of the Guardian Court Eleven Squad lifted Ji Li An's corpse and headed toward the hot springs outside the Great Void Forest.

At present, the Shinigami's "economy" is clearly better, gradually gaining the advantage…

Time flew, a swift ten years…

In ten years, the Void Circle expedition team and the Ya Qiu Ka Si of Xu ye gong have clashed countless times. Both the Shinigami soldiers and the Ya Qiu Ka Si, as time passed, seemed to have learned each other's patterns; each battle was merely a touch, since neither side's fundamental goal was fighting but seizing more Ji Li An corpses. During the contest for corpses, each side had victories and defeats…

As for the Ya Qiu Ka Si and Shinigami soldiers' frantic hunt for Ji Li An, whether it would upset the balance of the Great Void Forest is something neither side cares to consider.

Because the Void Circle is immensely vast, and the Great Void Forest is equally massive, no one knows how many Great Voids dwell in that forest older than the Guardian Thirteen Squad…

Meanwhile, whether Shinigami or Ya Qiu Ka Si, when hunting Ji Li An, they mainly target the mindless ones; when encountering Ji Li An with evolutionary potential, they often spare them…

The Ya Qiu Ka Si feel a kinship for these Ji Li An, while the Shinigami think that letting Ji Li An evolve into Ya Qiu Ka Si before exterminating them is not that they can't kill directly, but that it offers better cost‑effectiveness!

As for Huangmu…

Huangmu is doing other things. More important things.

"Esteemed Chief Commander Shanben, I am your most prized disciple Huangmu; how have you been lately?!"

"Lately, your good disciple has run into some minor trouble in the Void Circle…"

"Actually this matter isn't that big; it's just that the five squad leaders you once assigned to me, to aid my hunt of the evil Great Void 'Yi Ji Si Ji Ba', namely 'Zhi Dao Zhi Wu', 'Zhi Xing Nai Wu Zang', and the ones completely not to my taste 'Shan Ding Si You Pin', 'Jiu Mian Jing Yan Tie', and 'Ni Gu Cai Cang', have all accidentally died!"

"Therefore, I hope that as the Chief Commander of the Guardian Thirteen Squad, you can continue to reinforce us with five squad leaders to complete our hunt of 'Yi Ji Si Ji Ba'. I strongly recommend that among the five leaders you send, include Captain Lu Qu; the other four are indifferent… By the way, do not send Wang Tu Chuan Yu Xu Ji!"

In the First Squad barracks, after Shanben finished listening to the report Huangmu sent from the Void Circle, read aloud by Chief Que Bu Chang Jirou, he fell silent.

"Jirou…"

Yuan Liu Zai took a deep breath, looked at the nearby Que Bu Chang Jirou, and softly greeted.

"Lord Yuan Liu Zai, I'm here!"

Que Bu bowed respectfully at the words.

"Tell me, how did Huangmu manage, in one breath, to cause five second‑rank Spirit‑Might squad‑leader Shinigami to die simultaneously?!"

Yuan Liu Zai asked Que Bu.

"Well, I myself don't know…"

Que Bu hesitated for a moment; he truly couldn't understand how Zhi Dao Zhi Wu and the others 'died'.

"They died? Heh…"

Yuan Liu Zai recalled his past conversation with Huangmu; it seemed Huangmu had already begun assembling his own 'troop'.

"Send Captain Yan Yuan Jin Le of the Third Squad, Captain Wei Hua Dan Er Lang of the Fifth Squad, Captain Lu Qu Ba Yun Zai of the Eighth Squad, and Captain Wang Tu Chuan Yu Xu Ji of the Tenth Squad to the Void Circle!"

"By the way, one more thing! Jirou, don't forget to have Yan Yuan and the others deliver a message to my errant disciple; if another 'captain' dies this time, then don't…"

Yuan Liu Zai naturally understood the matter in his heart; he intended to help his good disciple, sending one sword after another to him.

At this point, the vast Jingling Court will completely bid farewell to the era of the original Guardian Thirteen Squad! Thinking of this, Yuan Liu Zai felt rather melancholy; after all, these were the twelve swords he personally selected, and now he himself has sent those twelve swords out of the Jingling Court.

What a pity! A blade can subdue enemies and slay evildoers, yet it cannot teach future generations!

In chaotic times, heavy law must be used; better to lose by severity than by leniency, and correcting a wrong must be done with excess!

But what about after the chaotic era ends?!

"Sigh…"

Thinking of this, Yuan Liu Zai let out a sigh.

Then, Yuan Liu Zai turned to the still‑motionless Que Bu beside him and asked, "Jirou, what are you still doing here?!"

"Reply, Lord Yuan Liu Zai! Que Bu, upon hearing, immediately answered, 'Actually, Huangmu said he hopes you will reinforce the Void Circle with five captains, and he also firmly said not to send Wang Tu Chuan Yu Xu Ji!'"

"Send him away!"

Yuan Liu Zai, hearing this, felt a fire in his heart and asked Que Bu, "Do you listen to him or to me? Who is the Chief Commander of the Guardian Thirteen Squad?!"

"Lord Yuan Liu Zai, of course I listen to you! You are the Chief Commander of the Guardian Thirteen Squad!"

Que Bu replied to Yuan Liu Zai.

"Hmm."

Yuan Liu Zai found the words very gratifying.

"But Huangmu is now a Zero Squad member; to be frank, his authority, to some extent, should still be above yours."

However, when Que Bu continued speaking, Yuan Liu Zai's mood became less pleasant.

"You also scram! Remember to follow my orders."

Yuan Liu Zai finally drove Que Bu away with a boom.

Yes, sir!

Sparrow Unit heard this and dared not linger, immediately leaving the First Division barracks.

Can't let Sparrow Unit keep hanging out with that guy Huangmu! Originally meticulous, Sparrow Unit now speaks more and more like Huangmu, able to annoy people dead-seriously. Yuan Liuzhai thought of this and couldn't help chuckling, "I don't know if that bastard Huangmu has made any progress in the Hollow Realm! Without Huangmu, the Soul Society is too peaceful."

Another ten thousand words! If there are any problems, please point them out first; I'll make changes after I see them, because my mind is not clear right now, and I'm not sure if I'll make mistakes……

After this, the Hollow Realm layout chapter will soon end……

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