Chapter 90
In the realm far reaches from the Blue Pole Star and the Realm of the G.o.ds, Hueco Mundo exist known as the realm of the corrupted souls or the land of the dead. For millions of years it exists as a punishment realm for souls refused to go to the afterlife. These souls are condemned and will never reincarnate in their next life.
In Hueco Mundo, the moon is on the opposite lunar phase of that in the Human World. The vast desert seems to lack any bodies of water and contains rocky formations. An unchanging night covers the sky, an endless white desert covers the ground. The tree-like objects are not plants, but rather quartz-like minerals. The landscape of Hueco Mundo is a seemingly never-ending white desert, with a mult.i.tude of dunes, littered with boulders.
The atmosphere of Hueco Mundo is filled with a high concentration of Reis.h.i.+, thus allowing smaller Hollows to gain nourishment despite the lack of Human souls. If one day people from the human realm came here, most of them will die within minutes regardless of their strength as the Reis.h.i.+ or Spirit Particles in the air will kill the humans as they are not able to survive on spiritual land. Only those with the embodiment of Spirit or Soul beings able to survive in the realm without being harm by the Reis.h.i.+.
Hueco Mundo had claimed the souls that weren't able to pa.s.s into the afterlife as its own. Turning the soul into hollowfied beings to fill its realm with hollow residents. In the upper skies of the Hueco Mundo lies the embodiment of Hueco Mundo itself. They are known as the overseer or the G.o.ds of the realm. For millions of years, they didn't interfere with the affairs of lesser or greater hollows. Their task is to keep the realm from falling apart. However, much has changed after 2 million years ago.
All of a sudden, in the upper skies of Hueco Mundo. A giant Garganta suddenly open before a gigantic red eye suddenly appeared along with its giant tentacle arms around it. Not just one, two more garganta started to open up and two more eyes appeared with its own tentacles as well. One of the eye is blue and the other one is yellow. The size was considered bizarre if humans were to see these eyes but none of them will believe it even if they saw it with their own eyes. If the eyes and tentacles are this large then what about the whole body?
Suddenly a voice started to sound in the air as if it was there to begin with. But, none of the eyes have any organ or mouth to speak with. So no one knows who is the one speaking. The giant red eye suddenly spoke with telepathically but the voice sounded in the air. "Fellow Divine rulers, how goes the new world order?" Judging from the color of the eyes, looks like these so called Divine Hollows are ranked as well. The gigantic red eye was known as the highest or the strongest divine hollow. Judging from their powers to overseer the entire realm, their powers probably might be in the divine realms or even beyond.
The Blue eye then spoke "It has been going great, the new world order was different but the energy they had can be considered replacement for the reis.h.i.+ in our realm." The new world order they referred to was the world where Yun Che or Yuuki is currently residing, The Blue Pole Star.
Then, the yellow eye suddenly spoke "Contaminated souls are coming in like gus.h.i.+ng river ever since we opened up the first garganta to that world. With each pa.s.sing day, new hollows are born in this world. Never expected we found a world can serve as a replacement."
Then the red eye spoke again but the tone was rather a happy tone. "Finally, after two million years. We are able to find suitable nourishment for our residents. Moreover, that world was filled with corrupted souls and we were able to fill our realms with new hollows."
Then, it continued "What kind of nourishment found in that world?"
The blue eye then answered "That world was filled with so called 'Profound Energy' or 'Heaven and Earth' energy cultivated by humans in that world. When our hollows ate them, they were able to grow stronger but the side effects were they are vulnerable to human attacks and they were able to see them despite lack of spiritual powers. Since then, our hollows were clas.h.i.+ng against humans all the time and most of them have cultivators on par with our High Level Adjuchas."
"So humans in that world are strong enough to counter us?"
"They tend to use Profound Energy to combat the hollows and easily killed them."
"So, this so called 'Profound Energy' made the hollows attain physical form? All of them came from the soul from that world?"
"Not quite, they came from the living human beings. Our hollows ate them and absorb their vitality. That's why they were able to attain physical form. Since then, hollows in our world didn't eat each other anymore. Instead, they went into the human world and find any cultivators they can consume. Surprisingly, the hollows didn't eat those with weaker cultivation once they become stronger."
Then the yellow eye said "So no wonder this realm can produce a
Then, the giant red eye turned to the blue one and asked "Anyhow, how did you discover this realm anyway? There are millions and countless of realms outside this dark realm. Searching for a replacement realm it's like searching for a needle in a haystack."
"We seem to detected a strong presence of 'reaitsu' in that world. That's why we were able to find the realm easily. Our scouts tried to find the source but we found none of the reaitsu in that area. Since then, we detected more reaitsu spikes came from that world." One of the eye spoke. It's true that they detected the reaitsu spike twice already aside from the first one that draws them into the world. The two reaitsu spikes the eye meant was the spikes caused by both Yun Che and Retsu's bankai.
"'Reaitsu? Aside from us, there's no more beings able to cultivate those powers. Last reaitsu cultivators perished two million years ago."
"Perished?" The primary eye asked the other two. It probably didn't even remember the events occurred back then.
"Something about their human world and their Spiritual world clashed with one another causing the both of the realms were instantly annihilated. Since then, the gateways from our world to that world were instantly destroyed and we were not able to find a suitable realm as replacement." The realm it meant probably the only realm Hueco Mundo ever connected with. If Yun Che were here, he will know what happen to that realm that cause Hueco Mundo to search for a new realm to dwell in.
"Still, the thought of the existence of reaitsu cultivators in that world still bothers me. Never expected they are actually survivors."
"There's no denying that there are reaitsu cultivators once more. Then again, it's not for us to decide what happens next. We have done our part opening up a new pathway for the hollows, the rest is up to them."
Then the yellow eye continued again. "With the humans of this world lack of purification powers. Our hollows reincarnation will be endless and soon our realm will grow stronger as they were two million years ago."
"We won't be so sure about that as we also detected one thing. Some of the hollows sent to that world were actually purified. And even if they went through reincarnation after being killed by the humans, the hollows lose their entire strength and powers. So they have to re-cultivate again."
The yellow eye then continued in a shock voice. "Purified? The only ones who can purified our hollows are the Soul Reapers from two million years ago. To think that they are also exist in that world?"
"Purification can only be used by those Soul Reapers. We can a.s.sume that Soul reapers also exist in that world."
"Anyhow, just observe the cultivators first. Each time our hollow perished by those Soul Reapers, a new one will replaced them. We have done what we can to help restoring this world. The rest is up to the new hollows of this world." With that, the three eyes and tentacles went back into the garganta and the skies of Hueco Mundo was calm once more.
Blue Pole Star current time
The explosion and the dark sky attracted and alerted the nearby experts from nearby cities. Curious they might be, they decided to wait around a while to avoid being caught between crossfires of two experts. Still various clans and small sects dispatched their elders to find out about the experts who can cause that kind of damage. If the dark sky and explosions are fights between two High Level Experts, probably they are still there. Maybe if they're lucky, they can recruit these experts to their cause.
Yun Che finally lied down after accepting the fact that his cultivation was stagnated by the system. Until he reached Illusory Demon Realm, his cultivation will not progress into the Emperor Profound Realm and he will never attain his next Zanpakuto or wisdom cubes. He had one wisdom cube so far and looks like he had to depend on the system's luck to award him some wisdom cubes after the last one blew the h.e.l.l out of him.
Given his current powers and abilities, his full power strength will be at Grand Perfection of Tyrant Profound Realm or Level 90. Looks like he needed to confront Hoyuu once more to unlock his Adjuchas mode or full hollow mode. But that'll require him to beat Hoyuu with Evil G.o.d Arts at his disposal and that'll take a long time to complete and he needed at least a year to complete that sort of training.
"Sigh, there's nothing I can do until then. Looks like I need to bear with it. At least when my cultivation restored, my level will jump towards the peak the moment the experiences acc.u.mulated themselves." He slowly s.h.i.+fts his hollow's mask aside and put his hand on his chin.
"Still, going straight to the Illusory Demon Realm is quite far from here. And the main story involving Feng Xu'er and the Primordial Profound Ark still two years apart. Ahh, what the h.e.l.l. I'll just acc.u.mulate some experience points so I might jump straight to Tyrant Profound Realm or Sovereign Profound Realm." As he said that, he slowly sits back up and put Tensa Zangetsu on his lap.
"Quite a mess you caused." Jasmine suddenly sounded from his mind.
Yun Che was jolted from his thought the moment he heard Jasmine's voice. "Oh, Jasmine. You awake?"
"Of course I am. Both me and the spirits observed everything from the image projecting in your inner world. I might say that hollow really is powerful." The spirits are observing everything from in the inner world but Hoyuu was disappointed as Yun Che didn't even need his help in this. He was hoping to get some action after staying inside the inner world after so long.
Yun Che slowly sighs. "Powerful it might be. It was still a low level Adjuchas Menos. If one day a high level one exist, I won't be able to fight it."
Jasmine was dumbfounded and she continued "You should gain a lot of experience points from that hollow. Why can't you fight it?"
"Well…" Yun Che narrates the stagnated status from the system to Jasmine. He didn't tell her about the events two years from now but only told her about the Illusory Demon Realm.
Jasmine then sighs and asked. "The system really is unpredictable. So, you need to reach the Illusory Demon Realm? Where is that?"
"From the system's trivia, its located on the other side of this planet. It's actually another continent." He answered her. He knew from the novel that the Illusory Demon Realm was supposed to be his next destination in two years. So, he can say that his cultivation will be stagnated until then.
"How are you planning to reach there?"
"That's a little bit hard. Flying or jumping with flash step probably took months to reach. So. Until I found a suitable way, I'll find a way to train another trump card so I can face any Sovereign Profound Realm cultivators."
"Or let Hoyuu takeover you sometimes, that guy is really getting on my nerves."
"That's a desperate plan though. You know his strength is limitless when it comes to fighting. When he's on takeover, he tends to be indiscriminate and probably much more sinister compared to him in the inner world as he is taking over along with a hollow's instinct. He probably won't harm anyone I cared but the same thing can't be say for innocent people." Yun Che remembered when Hoyuu took over him some time ago during the Fire Bead Heist with the Emperor rank dragon. It's surprising enough he protected Jasmine along the way despite being a hollow himself. But he feared that once he initiated a full hollow takeover, he will do it along with his Hollow's instinct which is bad news for anyone as he'll do everything to destroy his opponents even harming innocent lives. If that happens, he must make sure none of the people he cares about is nearby as he started his rampage.
Jasmine was amazed and didn't know that annoying p.r.i.c.k is actually that strong. "Wow, how strong is your full hollow takeover?"
"I didn't achieve it yet as I needed to defeat Hoyuu another fifty times. Hoyuu learn everything that I learned so you can say I am defeating my evil self. Anyway, the full hollow takeover will increase my strength to an entire realm but transform my appearance akin to a hollow." If he remembered correctly, his appearance will transform into Adjuchas version of Ichigo's hollow after earning the last 50 affinity points with Hoyuu.
"So, that's your strongest takeover?" Jasmine imagined the full version of Yun Che's hollow mode. If that thing happens, he will be more like a hollow than a human. But his humanity still retains.
"Not quite, there's…. one more…." Yun Che's voice started to grow softer as he slowly thinks about Hoyuu's final form. The form which is too powerful for anyone to handle. The form which he required Hoyuu to sync with his mind to access it.
She widen her eyes and said "There's another?"
"Yes, that form require me sync my mind with Hoyuu and increased my strength for two big realms regardless the difference. But if limitless strength Hoyuu initiated a full takeover in this form, you can say the it will be quite bad."
"It's….." Then his answer was suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Young master?"