Bailegang's heart was filled with doubts, and he looked at the locust-like Pikaro in mid-air in surprise.
Originally, according to his expectations, it would not be difficult for him to defeat Pikaro after he returned to the sword, but this was also the case. After he returned to the sword, his aging had completely crushed the new students.
But……
No matter how huge the advantage he had, he could not completely erase Pikaro's existence. Instead, he could vaguely feel that Pikaro's vitality was getting stronger.
Not only that, even the area covered by the strong wind has expanded again.
Unknowingly, not only Area 5, but also the surrounding areas were enveloped in the strong wind.
In the originally colorless violent wind, there was a hint of blood, which was transformed by the Arrancar and Hollow who were inadvertently involved.
Although the endless wind blades are not a threat to Bailegang, this does not mean that the power of the wind blades is not strong. It should be said that it is quite the opposite. If the wind blades themselves are not corrupted, then all the wind blades will be destroyed.
It possesses such power that even Balegang would not dare to be too careless.
Boom boom boom~~
Deafening roars continued to be heard, and the black mist in the strong wind spread crazily, almost completely merging with the strong wind.
But only in the small area where the Picaros were located, there was only strong wind, but no fog. All the dark fog approaching them seemed to be being pulled, constantly spreading to the surroundings.
At this time, each of the Picaros, although their faces were still childish, looked no longer playful.
Outside the battlefield.
Tiruti had already retreated again and again with Lucia, Luo Jia, and Inoue Orihime, completely out of the battlefield.
"Soon!"
Tiruti looked at Picaro's expression, and a flash of joy flashed in her eyes.
"ah?"
Kuchiki Rukia was startled and looked at Tiruti with some doubts, but before she could ask, she heard Miss Luojia's voice in her ears: "Tirudi-sama, please be careful."
"Don't worry, it's just the sky falling."
Tiruti shook her head, and the spiritual pressure barrier that had been withdrawn after withdrawing from the fighting range once again appeared around the four of them.
This made Rukia Kuchiki on the side more and more confused, and at this moment...
Bang~!
A loud noise suddenly came out, as if something heavy hit the spiritual pressure barrier.
This is……
Rukia Kuchiki looked up, and the scene she saw made her pupils shrink suddenly, and she finally understood what Tiruti meant by 'the sky is falling'.
Looking around, I saw a large dark hole above the blue sky above the heads of Balegang and Pikaro.
The large hole was in the shape of a depression, the surroundings were twisted and deformed, and an inexplicable storm continued to spread from it.
In the center of the battlefield, the spiritual pressure of Balegang and Pikaro condensed into substance at this moment, dripping from the sky like raindrops.
"What...what happened?"
This scene was extremely shocking. It looked like the end of the world was coming, and it made Rukia Kuchiki feel extremely chilly in her heart.
"In Xuye Palace, there are two things that are absolutely prohibited."
Tiruti said calmly: "One is to prohibit the Ten Blades from using Wang Xu's flash in Xuye Palace, and the other is to prohibit the 'top four' Ten Blades from liberating. Because both of them are too much
It is so powerful that it will distort the space of Xuye Palace, thereby destroying the artificial sky above Xuye Palace."
"The former and the current two blades are liberating themselves in Xuye Palace. Even if the artificial sky completely collapses, it is normal."
"Mumbling~~"
Rukia Kuchiki looked at the sky above her head and found that the collapsing void was gradually expanding. They were now far away from the battlefield, but things continued to fall from above their heads, and finally shattered after hitting the spiritual pressure barrier.
Um?
Suddenly, Kuchiki Rukia turned to look at Tiruti and said with a confused expression: "Two 2-blade?"
"Didn't I say that?"
Tiruti said: "Pikaro once had the same sequence as Balegang, and they were both number 2 among the ten blades. However, when they were still ten blades, Balegang was one blade. The battle in front of us can also be said to be
There was a battle between the Ten Blades of Sequence 1 and the Ten Blades of Sequence 2.”
You never said that!!
The corner of Kuchiki Rukia's mouth twitched slightly, although after feeling the strength of Pikaro's return, she had already thought that these children were not simple.
But she really didn't expect...
This group of children who look like they are only about ten years old were once members of the Ten Blades, and they were also the second-ranked existence among the Ten Blades.
"Coming!"
At this moment, Tiruti's excited voice interrupted Kuchiki Rukia's thoughts.
What's coming?
Kuchiki Rukia subconsciously looked along Tiruti's gaze. Before she could clearly see the situation on the battlefield, she felt her body sinking. Even though she was in the spiritual pressure barrier, she still felt an extremely terrifying spiritual pressure.
Ran out from the center of the battlefield.
At the same time, the Arrancars and Shinigami scattered throughout Xuye Palace, no matter where they were or what they were doing, could not help but stop their movements and turn their attention to the fifth tower!
Rumble~~
The explosion sound came out extremely suddenly.
Xun Sheng looked around and saw that at this moment, the sky that enveloped Xuye Palace suddenly began to distort and dent on a large scale, and then...
Collapse suddenly!
Xuye Palace, which was originally full of sunlight, was now completely exposed to the darkness.
The dark night sky and the cold crescent moon give people an extremely lonely feeling.
This is the original sky of Hueco Mundo!
The whole day is night, and the moon in Hueco Mundo is different from the real world. Just like inside and outside the mirror, it always shows the opposite appearance to the real world.
Fragments of the sky continued to fall from the void, smashing the entire Xuye Palace into holes, making it look like a meteor shower.
This scene made Tiruti couldn't help but shake her head.
Compared to the extremely lonely sky in Hueco Mundo, she actually prefers the artificial sky full of sunshine, so she has been suppressing her aura during the battle to avoid affecting the sky.
But it is impossible for Picaro, who is innocent in nature and loves to play, to suppress himself.
What's more...
He now also used the second return blade that he had only used once!
Feeling the pressure coming from the center of the battlefield, Rukia Kuchiki, Luo Jia, and Orihime Inoue couldn't help but collapse to the ground.
The terrifying aura even made them unable to move a finger, and they could only stare blankly at the battlefield in the distance.
Seeing this, Tiruti frowned slightly, her spiritual pressure surged around her body, and a layer of purple spiritual pressure suddenly appeared on the shield covering several people and continued to flow.
Kuchiki Rukia felt a sudden lightness all over her body, and the terrifying aura completely disappeared.
But when she saw the scene outside, she already understood that the pressure had not disappeared, but was completely blocked by Miss Tiruti.
Looking around, I saw a heavy downpour suddenly falling from the sky.
However, the color of the rain is a pitch black that seems to be able to swallow everything.
That's entirely caused by...
Raindrops formed by the reckless spiritual pressure.
In the center of the downpour, young figures stood in the void, still with various wings behind them, but great changes had taken place on them.
Insect-like bone shells cover every Pikaro.
The bone shells show the characteristics of different insects, but one thing is very similar, that is, the surfaces of these bone shells, without exception, have strange purple lines, which are extremely conspicuous on the pale bone shells.
And what makes Rukia Kuchiki even more weird is...
She always felt like she had seen the lines on the bone shell somewhere.
Tiruti looked at the lines on Pikaro's body and nodded secretly. Sure enough, with the changes in the core of the body, the lines on the surface of the second stage of the return blade also changed from the original red lines to purple spiritual lines.
I just don’t know if this change will bring about an improvement in Pikaro’s strength.
"He...what happened to them? Did they return to the blade?"
Rukia Kuchiki couldn't help but said: "But can't the Arrancar's Return Blade be performed only once?"
Although the Arrancars are the product of breaking the boundary between the Shinigami and Hollows, their use of the Zanpakuto to return the sword is different from the Shinigami's sword liberation.
After the Arrancar released their swords, they just changed back to their original posture that was more suitable for fighting. The normal state can be said to be a kind of seal, which means that their sword release is not an enhancement, but an unsealing of themselves.
However……
The scene before him completely shattered this perception.
"Pikaro and I are different from other Arrancars."
Tiruti smiled slightly: "We are the only two people in the entire Hueco Mundo who can perform the second stage return. The reason why we can do this is not because of Aizen, but because Duanmu gave us this ability, allowing us to
You can truly be like the God of Death and further improve your abilities."
Boss Duan Mu?
Rukia Kuchiki and Orihime Inoue looked at each other, they were already somewhat immune.
After hearing Tiruti say that Duan Mu had transformed them, the two of them actually felt that this was indeed the case...
"This battle is almost over."
A reassuring smile appeared on Tiruti's face, and she looked at Pikaro in mid-air: "The moment Pikaro used the second stage return blade, he had already won!"
"But didn't you just say..."
Although Inoue Orihime didn't know how terrible it was to be killed in the second stage, Inoue Orihime remembered that Miss Tiruti had said before that she was not sure whether Pikaro could defeat Bailegang.
"Pikaro is a very special existence. His second-stage return blade is different from mine. You can't use it just because you want to, but it must meet a condition."
Tiruti slowly said: "That is synchronized cognition!"
"Synchronized cognition?"
"That's right."
Tiruti sighed: "Picaros are generally a whole, but they are also different individuals. They constantly lend a helping hand to the earth-bound spirit children who are in the same situation as themselves and are about to disappear, and become friends with them.
Feed them your own flesh and blood, causing the individuals to become more and more numerous..."
"But it will not affect the original personality of those children. Instead, it will retain the thoughts, memories, and behaviors of each child, making them an individual existence. Therefore, each child will show a completely different diversity among children.
sex."
"Under such circumstances, it is difficult for them to build consensus, and they may even quarrel and fight with each other... They are divided into different camps and have different cognitions and concepts."
"But no matter how different the individuals are, the fact that they are a whole will not change. In other words, they share the same 'spiritual core' of the Arrancar. This is why it is difficult for him to use the second stage return blade.
."
"Because if you want to perform the second stage of return, you must establish contact with the reorganized spiritual core. This process is somewhat similar to the communication between your Shinigami and your Zanpakutō."
"What is a simple step for others is the most difficult thing for them, and the more people there are...the harder it is for them to use the second stage of return."
When Tiruti said this, she couldn't help but sigh.
She had also thought about asking the Picaros to stop expanding their team to ensure that she could carry out the second stage of return at any time.
But on this point, the Picaros are surprisingly unanimous, that is, they will not stop adding friends.
Because this is the meaning of their existence!
After the original Pikaro became Achiukas, he began to look for the Earthbound spirit children who were in the same situation as himself and were about to become virtual. He wanted to become friends with them and lend a helping hand to them.
And after those earth-bound spirit children became hollow, in order to satisfy their hunger, this boy, who was an intermediate Daxu, gave his flesh to them.
He firmly believed that if he could forget about hunger, everyone would not quarrel.
Because this boy, who was an intermediate Great Hollow, used his own flesh and blood to feed other Hollows, he, who was supposed to have extremely high potential, was unable to break through Achiukas and become the superior Great Hollow, Vastod.
Even the original Achiukas continued to weaken his body and then disappeared.
But all the children who accepted its flesh and blood became Pikaros... In other words, the original Achucas merged into all Pikaros, allowing these different individuals to share the same wish...
——Have many friends.
This cannot be changed no matter what!
In the end, Tiruti had no choice but to give up the persuasion and let Pikaro expand. She even thought...Picaro might not have a chance to return to the second stage.
The second stage of return is the only way Pikaro can defeat Bailegang.
Pikaro, who only performed one stage of returning to the sword, would not be able to compete with Balegang no matter what. This was why she had not been sure whether Pikaro could defeat Balegang before.
But now, she can be sure that Picaro will win!
Because no one knows Pikaro's second-stage return sword better than her, not even Duan Mu.
wrong……
That guy doesn't even know his own second-level sword, let alone Pikaro, whom he has never seen before.
It's not that she intentionally concealed it, but Duan Mu was completely uninterested and didn't even explore how strong she and Pikaro were.
Tiruti even suspected that in Duan Mu's eyes, she might still be the Ten Blades who had been eliminated, completely unable to compete with the current Ten Blades...
"This is impossible!!!"
The incredible roar of Balegang was heard, and the situation on the battlefield had been reversed in just half a minute.
The endless storm containing violent spiritual pressure formed countless wind pillars whose tops could not be seen, and there was this young figure in each wind pillar.
Collapse, collapse, collapse...
The dark mist formed by the sigh of death continues to dissipate.
Split, split, split...
The invisible wind blade split the space of Hueco Mundo into gaps.
All the Picaros were looking at Balegang, the center of countless wind pillars, with cold and bloodthirsty eyes.
The void twists and the spiritual pressure vibrates!
Who would have thought that a group of children could completely suppress the former king of Hueco Mundo to the ground, making him unable to move.
The eyes of Balegang's skeleton flashed red, filled with madness and unwillingness. He could not accept it no matter what, that he would be suppressed by a group of brats that he had never paid attention to before.
"Unforgivable...unforgivable..."
Crazy roars continued to come from Bailegang's mouth, and the dark gas around him, like the abyss, surged crazily.
"A mere swarm of locusts...are trying to defeat me!?"
"I am the Great Emperor - Balegang Ruisenbang, the God of Hueco Mundo!!"
Pikaro ignored Bailegang's extremely crazy roar, and his young faces revealed an intoxicating coldness.
immediately……
Black spheres appeared above each Picaro's head, spinning at high speed.
In front of the black sphere, even the moonlight was swallowed up by it, unable to reflect any light.
At this moment, the whole world was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers.
In the area where the black sphere is located, the high concentration of spirit particles in Hueco Mundo quickly disappeared, as if the entire world was entering the stage of collapse at this moment.
Tiruti frowned, these naughty kids are so messy!
Fruit paradise!
This is the ability of Pikaro, they can directly absorb all the spirits within the surrounding area.
Whenever they feel hungry, they will not devour souls like other Hollows, but will use this skill to devour the souls in an entire area to satisfy their own hunger.
If it's just normal, that's it. Anyway, it will only absorb all the spirits in an area, and the impact will not be big.
But right now...
Those densely packed black balls were devouring the entire Xuye Palace’s spiritual beings.
If this battle does not end, the scope of the devouring will be further expanded, even to the entire Hueco Mundo, and the most important thing is... not only the souls within the black sphere will be devoured, but even the souls of the Hueco Mundo will be devoured.
What they devour.
Boom boom boom~~
In the area where Balegang is located, deafening roars are heard continuously.
The crown collapsed, the royal robe was shattered...
The former Emperor Hueco Mundo, who claimed to be the God of Hueco Mundo, is now like a crazed lunatic, constantly roaring and cursing.
Kakakka~~
Cracks appeared on Bailegang's body, no matter how hard the black mist around him resisted.
Under the supplement of Picaro's crazy devouring, he was still completely suppressed!
Bailegang couldn't figure out why, why the little ghosts in front of him who had been abandoned by Aizen and had not been fully strengthened by Bengyoku had such terrifying abilities and possessed such terrifying spiritual pressure.
What happened to them?
Is that the pattern?
Balegang looked at the lines on Pikaro's body, but he was destined to be unable to figure it all out.
"Locusts...you bunch of lowly locusts..."
Along with the roar that echoed through Xuye Palace, Bailegang collapsed like broken glass.
The rising black mist gradually disappeared, corroding the skull fragments bit by bit. When the black mist dissipated, Bailegang completely disappeared into the virtual circle, leaving no trace behind.
All that was left was the final roar, which was still echoing over Xuye Palace.
"Stop!"
Feeling the disappearance of Balegang, Tiruti, who was far away on the outside of the battlefield, suddenly shouted.
Almost as soon as her voice fell, the black balls in the air collapsed one after another like exploding balloons.
The next second...
The terrifying aura that permeated Xuye Palace gradually receded.
The skeletons of the Pikaros also collapsed in mid-air, and young figures fell to the ground one after another.
All of a sudden, there was an endless stream of banging and banging sounds.
Upon seeing this, Tiruti hurriedly dispersed the spiritual pressure barrier around her body and quickly walked towards where the Pikaros were.
Arriving in front of the disappeared 5th tower, the place had turned into a huge basin, and at the bottom of the basin, all the Pikaro's young faces were full of exhaustion, and they were lying or lying on the ground.
Upon seeing this, Tiruti hurriedly jumped into the basin with Inoue Orihime and others.
…
While they were treating Pikaro, outside Xuye Palace, in the Great Xu Forest under the white sand, a crack was torn open with difficulty.
Just as a gap was torn open, a person rushed out.
The cracks quickly closed after he rushed out.
"Huh~~ It's really hard."
Duan Mu raised his head and looked around, then released his senses in the direction of Xuye Palace:
"It seems we can only reach here. I don't know what happened to Tiruti and the others."
Um?
Duan Mu frowned. As soon as his senses were released, he felt a familiar aura spreading out, but it completely disappeared in the next second.
That's the aura that belongs to Balegang.
Did he stay in Hueco Mundo?
A strange color flashed in Duan Mu's eyes, hoping that Tiruti and the others had not encountered Bailegang.
…
Well, five thousand six, it makes up for the 1,600 owed yesterday...
