Duan Mu's eyes were dull as he looked at Xu who was gradually disappearing in front of him, but his attention was completely focused on the system interface.
One month!
It has taken him a whole month to carry out the research, and during this month, countless people have died in his experiments.
Ordinary Hollow, Killian, Achukas, Arrancar...
There are also a lot of Hollows with various special abilities. Duan Mu has hardly slept a wink in this month. He has been dissecting each of the Hollows captured by Tiruti day and night and conducting various experiments.
From a few on the first day to dozens or hundreds on the last day.
Now, one of them will die in his hands in a few minutes.
Various developmental spirit patterns with subtle changes were continuously engraved on Xu's body by Duan Mu. As long as the spirit patterns could be carved in the body, he did not let go...including some vital parts.
The carved part began to explode...
And the same is true for this one now.
But it worked!!
…
Special techniques:
[Chanting Destruction] Advanced (780/100000)
[Reply]: Advanced (24209/100000)
[Singing to be described later]: Advanced (2460/100000)
The method is the same, the process is the same, the result is the same...
Obviously all the steps were the same as when they failed before, but they were approved by the system.
Accident~~coincidence~~luck!!
Although Duan Mu knows very well that the starting point of some inventions comes from accidents, coincidences, or luck.
But……
What exactly is different about the research steps you just carried out?
The corners of Duan Mu's eyes twitched slightly, because he didn't even know what he had created. He had a rough goal at first, but as each one died, he had fallen into an extremely irritable state. Basically,
Take it over and mess around with it.
Should I say luck?
wrong!
It should be said that the system is awesome!!
It is true that many inventions come from accidents, but if you want to realize the inspiration obtained from accidents, you need a strong knowledge reserve. Otherwise, no matter how many times such an 'accident' happens, it will just be an accident.
But Duan Mu is different, there is a system...
Even the slightest possibility will be captured by the system, and the deduction will continue. Once it is feasible, it will appear on the system panel.
For Duan Mu, there is no possibility of missing an "accident", and it does not require a strong knowledge reserve to achieve it.
However, the occurrence of many 'accidents' also requires a strong knowledge reserve. Without the development of spiritual patterns, such 'accidents' would not exist at all.
"Failed again?"
Tiruti looked at the absent-minded Duan Mu, stood on tiptoes, patted Duan Mu on the shoulder, and comforted: "If it really doesn't work, forget it. After all, you are not Lan... you are not that adult." After that, she looked at
Looking at Duan Mu, a trace of reluctance flashed in his eyes, but she immediately hid it.
"Whether you are willing or not, I will forcefully send you to the present world this time. Because the recent frequent disappearance of 'Void' in the Great Void Forest has attracted the attention of some people, you must leave here immediately."
After Tiruti said that, she pursed her dark purple lips and said, "For the sake of all the hard work you have done for me, I will not kill you, but next time we meet again, I will definitely give my all for that adult."
I will kill you with all my strength, but you don’t need to hold back on me at all. We are destined to..."
"friend!"
Duan Mu interrupted Tiruti's words, with an excited smile on his face: "I succeeded!!"
"Who is your friend? Don't be too arrogant... eh?"
Tiruti subconsciously wanted to refute, but she froze in place mid-sentence, her cheeks trembling like water droplets twice, her big eyes full of confusion: "What...what did you say?"
"I said..."
Duan Mu's face showed excitement involuntarily.
"I succeeded!!"
--suddenly see the light!
Special techniques:
Void pattern: Advanced (0/100000)
Without hesitation, he invested 11,550 experience points in the new spirit patterns. Countless new knowledge about the new spirit patterns and the Arrancar's "spiritual core" were integrated into Duan Mu's mind.
Different from the Shiba family spirit pattern, the new spirit pattern can be said to be a brand new system extended from the Shiba family spirit pattern!
Going beyond activation, low-level, intermediate... and straight to high-level, the knowledge Duan Mu acquired was massive, extremely complex, and varied. In addition to spiritual patterns, there were also various detailed explanations related to the void.
If the Shiba family's spiritual pattern is a spiritual pattern tailor-made for the God of Death, then the virtual pattern is just like its name, a spiritual pattern made for the virtual god!
Brand new system.
In addition to transforming the "spiritual core" in the Arrancar's body, Duanmu can also construct the Arrancar's "fake spiritual core" with virtual patterns in his body.
Although it is fake, the effect it can exert is the same. The reason why it is called fake is because the 'virtual pattern' is pressed by the god of death as its foundation, and the effects released will not have any virtual effects.
breath.
"Success!?"
"Um!!"
Tiruti looked at the place where Xu disappeared just now with a confused look on her face, and the teardrop-like traces under her eyes twitched: "Then what's next?"
"Of course I implemented it on you."
"..." Tiruti.
Implemented on me…
What kind of confidence do you have to say such a thing?
You know, I just watched that virtual creature scream for several minutes and then dissipate faster than it could turn into ashes.
If she hadn't spent time together day and night during this period, she might have thought that Duan Mu wanted to use this method to kill herself...
"Believe me."
After Duan Mu saw Tiruti's reaction, he immediately understood what she was thinking. He looked directly into Tiruti's eyes and said, "Although you may not believe it, but..."
"How should I cooperate with you?"
"Um?"
"Now that it's successful."
Tiruti raised her head, a flash of hesitation flashed in her purple eyes, but it turned into determination the next second: "Then let me be your first experimental subject!"
"Well……"
Looking at the firmness in Tiruti's eyes, Duan Mu felt a little guilty because of her, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Although this is a bit strange for me to say, but after seeing the death scene of the virtual one just now, don't you think
Don’t you think I want to experiment on you?”
"Didn't you already say that?"
"Um?"
"Let me believe you."
Do you believe me?
Duan Mu was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "I really don't know whether I should be happy for your trust, or whether I should say... you are a lunatic!"
I have witnessed countless animals die in my experiments, and yet I can still let myself do what I want because of the words "trust me". Isn't this a lunatic?
but……
If you think about it carefully, her character itself is quite crazy.
Otherwise, he would not have chosen to keep Duan Mu alive in order to become stronger, and would have used any means necessary to deliver them to Duan Mu one by one.
And besides being crazy, she is also cruel, whether towards her enemies or herself!!
Since Tiruti chose to believe in him, Duan Mu didn't say much, but just let Tiruti lie down on the stone platform with a knife.
"I will engrave the virtual pattern created by me in your body. Strictly speaking, part of it will be inscribed in your body, and the other part will be inscribed on the Zanpakutō formed by your 'spiritual core'." Duan Mu looked at it.
Lying on the stone platform, Tiruti looked a little nervous and comforted: "You don't need to be nervous, just trust me."
"And after the virtual pattern is formed, it will not make you stronger now."
Facing Tiruti's puzzled gaze, Duan Mu smiled and said: "Creating and evolving the Arrancar are far beyond what I can do. What I can do is... let your 'spiritual core' reorganize
, and evolve, so there will be no increase in your current posture."
"Is it an increase in return to the blade?" Tiruti's eyes lit up.
Although the normal state would not be enhanced, which made her feel disappointed for a moment, but if her return weapon could become stronger, then it would not matter what the normal state was. After all, all their Arrancars would choose to use return weapon during the battle.
"Yes, but also no!"
"Um?"
"The existence of the virtual pattern will not make you stronger, or even the same as before. But the existence of the virtual pattern can absorb the spirit seeds on its own, and store these spirit seeds, so that you can carry out..."
"Second return!"
"It's not impossible to return to the sword three times, so I said this is the strengthening of the 'spiritual core', which can also be said to be the strengthening of the Zanpakutō in your hand."
After Duan Mu pondered for a moment, he continued: "You can treat your first returning sword as releasing the seal and showing your true strength; the second returning sword is regarded as the first release of the Death Zanpakutō, and the third returning sword is the Death Slash.
The swastika of the soul sword and the evolution of the spiritual core will lead to the change of the form of your sword, and what the final transformation will be depends on your own ability."
Second...or even third time?
Tiruti's pupils shrank, is this really possible?
This was the first time she heard that the Arrancar could return to the sword for the second time, and even that adult had not been able to do this!!
Although she believed in Duan Mu, it was too unbelievable to be killed twice or three times.
"Is this really possible?"
"Because it's me, it's possible."
Duan Mu said confidently, and secretly added in his heart: There is also a system...
"I hope what you said is true."
Tiruti nodded, restrained all the spiritual pressure around her body, and lay down in front of Duan Mu without any defense and reservation. If Duan Mu wanted to... he could kill him in an instant.
"You are quite free and easy."
Duan Mu smiled and shook his head, and stretched his hand towards Tiruti's abdomen, but then he seemed to have thought of something, retracted his palm, and used his spiritual pressure to condense a spirit blade, and cut it down with one blow...
Part of the flesh and blood was forcibly cut off.
Blood continued to flow down the place where the flesh was peeled off, causing Tiruti's expression to change as she lay on the stone platform.
"You should have discovered that my body is somewhat special and has the ability to conceal my breath."
As Duan Mu spoke, he ground the cut flesh and blood into blood mud with spiritual pressure, and penetrated all of his own spiritual pressure into it: "I will use my flesh and blood to form spiritual patterns to hide my
Breath, so as long as you don't use the Second Return Blade, no one except me will be able to detect your own changes, which should be able to avoid a lot of trouble for you."
Speaking of this, Duan Mu couldn't help but laugh: "Does this count as having my flesh and blood in your body?"
Tiruti couldn't help but glance at Duan Mu when he heard this, and then turned his head to the side: "Humph, instead of helping me avoid trouble, why not help yourself avoid trouble?"
"I really can't hide it from you."
Duan Mu smiled slightly: "I don't want that adult in your mouth to know about me."
"Don't worry, if it's true that I can perform the second return of the blade as you said, then as long as there is no life or death crisis, I will not use the second return of the blade, nor will I tell others about you.
…Including that gentleman.”
After Tiruti said this, she changed the subject: "Don't think too much. I'm not doing this for you, I'm just keeping my trump card. Anyway, with my strength, in most battles, I only need to kill once."
Got it!"
"Um."
Duan Mu nodded, then his face changed, and he said in a serious tone: "I'm going to start!"
The mixture of flesh, blood, and spiritual pressure changed rapidly in Duan Mu's hands, and finally turned into transparent runes that looked like tree branches.
Almost at the moment when the runes appeared, the extremely rich spiritual energy in Hueco Mundo surged toward the cave where the two of them were like a tsunami.
The various hidden spiritual patterns engraved around the cave were buzzing and trembling in front of this massive amount of spiritual beings, as if they would collapse at any time.
Seeing this, Duan Mu's face darkened and he sped up his movements.
…
Buzz buzz~~
The ferocious spirits gathered quickly. If viewed from outside the cave, it seemed as if a huge hole appeared above the cave. The spirits were injected crazily into the cave along the funnel.
But apart from the visual effects, due to the existence of those hidden spiritual patterns, no breath came out; it only attracted countless empty eyes around the cave, and an inexplicable sense of desire emerged in my heart, and I couldn't help but move towards that place.
The cave where the huge funnel is located converges away.
In the blink of an eye, dense voids gathered outside the cave.
Bang bang bang~~
At this moment, there seemed to be a sound of collapse, followed by an extremely manic spirit storm. This spirit storm spread to the entire Hueco Mundo in an instant, even to the broken souls in Xuye Palace.
His expression changed, and he subconsciously wanted to find the location of the spirit storm.
However……
This spirit storm only appeared for a moment and then disappeared without a trace. The time was so short that they were unable to detect where the inexplicable aura came from.
In addition to the countless animals scattered around the cave.
The moment the spirit storm appeared, all these voids were agitated by it, and even Killian tended to instinctively gather towards this side.
Time passed little by little, just as these virtual beings were preparing to enter the cave.
Phew~~
There was a sound of breaking through the air, and a petite figure like a nimble flying swallow appeared out of thin air, letting out a scream.
Brushing, brushing, brushing...
In any area shrouded by the screams, all living creatures seemed to be cut by invisible blades and disintegrated one after another.
In the blink of an eye, the entire area.
Whether it's those miscellaneous fish, Kilian, or even Yachukas!
Everything was turned into powder under the sound wave caused by the scream.
But the figure that turned into a flying swallow did not stop, and disappeared from the place in a flash.
Duan Mu's figure appeared in front of the cave, looking at the direction Feiyan was leaving, with a look of shock in his eyes.
I always feel...
It seems like I have created a monster!!
He could clearly feel that the auras of those creatures that could witness the previous changes in the area were disappearing at an incredible speed.
——Extinction!
Even though he knew very well that Tiruti was trying to hide it for him, this crazy solution made Duan Mu couldn't help but grin.
Moreover, this is only the second return.
If Tiruti mastered three times of return...
Duan Mu's lips twitched slightly, and he secretly decided that he would never make random changes to Arrancar again!
I don't know if it was because of the addition of her own flesh and blood, but the effect exerted by Tiruti's recast 'spiritual core' far exceeded the original effect of the virtual pattern, and even Duan Mu felt at that moment
Without fear, I feel like I have created a creature that should not exist.
Fortunately...
[Tiruti's favorability is 1, gained 20480 experience points, current favorability: 60]
Just as Duan Mu expected, the moment the spiritual core was successfully recast, Tiruti's favorability level for him increased from the original 40 points to the full value of 60 points.
Moreover, the experience value added by each point of favorability has also been greatly increased after the spiritual core was recast.
Originally, 40 points of favorability and 1 point of favorability only provided Duan Mu with 4800 experience points, but after the spiritual core was recast, 1 point of favorability directly provided Duan Mu with 6500 experience points; when it reached 50 points,
Each point provided Duan Mu with 13,000 experience points.
Current experience value: 239450
It was more than 40,000 experience points higher than Duan Mu had originally expected.
Although this value is far less terrifying than Unohana Retsu, it has already surpassed Captain Zombie. It can be said...
According to the system's judgment, Tiruti's strength after returning to the second level is much stronger than that of Zombie or the captains of the same level.
Um……
I can't tell how strong it is specifically, but killing my current self is probably the same as playing.
After all, just half a minute passed, and the number of Hollows who died in Tiruti's hands had reached a point where even Duan Mu could not count them.
The only pity is...
Tiruti's favorability towards him has not exceeded 61, otherwise he would have nearly 370,000 experience points now. If all of them were added to his spiritual pressure, his spiritual pressure would be as strong as those of the mid-range captains.
Comparable.
However, this is no wonder.
Because the void is transformed by the undead after years of sorrow and torture. The unique hollow represents the emptiness of the heart. This makes many voids lack many emotions, and even do not understand what "heart" is, so what is the point?
What to like or not.
Buzz~~
The void shook, and Tiruti, who returned to normal, jumped down from mid-air with an excited look on her face, and then hung directly on Duan Mu.
"You are so powerful, I have never felt so powerful before!"
Holding Duan Mu's neck, Tiruti jumped for a while. After Duan Mu gave a wry smile, in order to avoid being dragged down, he had to bend down so that Tiluti's feet could touch the ground.
He didn't think much about it, because the favorability level already showed that this was just a celebration after Tiruti was happy.
It's not so much ambiguity as it is the friendship between brothers!
And this is also true. After being excited for a while, Tiruti jumped down and said with expectation: "Is it really possible to achieve the third stage of return to the blade?"
"Totally possible!"
Duan Mu pondered for a moment and nodded: "But don't worry, when my mastery of virtual patterns is better, I will make changes for you again."
"Right."
Tiruti was overjoyed when she heard this, but then she seemed to think of something and hurriedly said: "Although I have eliminated all the Hollows who saw strange things, the previous movements are likely to attract others, so I will send you there now.
Now."
"Wait, before that, can you teach me something first?"
"What?"
"The skills of tearing apart space and virtual flash, the unique ability of virtuality!!"
