With the departure of Urahara Kisuke, Niryuori and others, Kyoneye Palace returned to silence again.
However, everyone's faces looked a little gloomy at this time.
Although everyone except Grimmjow could see that most of Nirvana's words were just confusing right and wrong, he was not wrong about one thing.
He and others are indeed too weak, so weak that they need Duan Mu to protect them.
In the past, Aizen would not protect them, because in Aizen's view, only the strong are qualified to follow him, and he does not need to have trash behind him that will drag him down.
But Duan Mu was different. Although they were a little confused about Duan Mu's thoughts at first, as they got along for a long time, they were not interested in exploring what Duan Mu was thinking. They just felt that today's lifestyle was better than Aizen's.
It makes them feel more comfortable when there.
This also makes them relax, or slack off, and lose the most fundamental thing about virtuality, the sense of crisis that "if you don't evolve, you will degenerate."
Leaving Duan Mu behind, they can indeed do it easily.
But they had no confidence that they could protect Duan Mu when the Quincy attacked again, and they had no way to solve Duan Mu's predicament, which made everyone feel extremely bored and annoyed in their hearts.
The entire conference room fell into silence. Tiruti looked at Harribel and Stark on the side and took the lead in breaking the silence:
"What's going on with the attitude you showed in the battle? Three stages of return to sword?"
If it was the previous Xuye Palace, this kind of issue about personal abilities could be said to be the secret of each Arrancar, and it was absolutely impossible to explore.
But for today's Xuye Palace, there is no such barrier.
As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but look at Harribel and Stark. The power the two showed in the previous battle gave them a completely different feeling than before, and it was completely unlike what the second stage of the return blade could present.
out of state.
"I'm not sure either."
Harribel shook his head and frowned slightly: "But it shouldn't be the third stage of returning to the edge. In other words, there is no such thing as the third stage of returning to the edge. That state feels more like the root of evolution to me."
Evolution at the root?
Everyone was slightly startled, and some did not understand the meaning of what Harribel said.
However, they had no doubts about Harribel's words, even though they were somewhat inconsistent with what Duan Mu said when he created the spirit void pattern.
But let’s be honest…
Duanmu's understanding of the Arrancar he transformed was not as good as those of their transformed subjects, and he didn't even know how far the Arrancar could grow after being transformed by him.
"Do you still remember the effect of the broken jade?" Harribel looked at the doubts on everyone's faces and suddenly said.
Everyone was startled when they heard this, and some did not understand why Harribel suddenly mentioned Bengyu.
But Tiruti seemed to have thought of something, and a strange color flashed in her eyes: "Develop the inner wish according to what you want in your heart, and then materialize it, but the condition is that you need to have the foundation to realize this wish?"
"That's right."
Harribel nodded: "The spiritual core after Duan Mu's reorganization gives us similar possibilities, but how to realize this possibility, I have no idea at all."
"Maybe it's a change in the symbolic meaning?"
Stark, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up and said: "Aizen once gave us our respective symbolic meanings. That meaning can be said to be what we lack, and it can also be said to be what we are pursuing."
"The characteristic of emptiness is that there is a hole in the chest, which represents the emptiness in our hearts. No matter how we evolve, this emptiness cannot be filled, so this emptiness is our root."
"Hribel is given the meaning of sacrifice, but her sacrifice seems to me to be a meaningless sacrifice."
Stark glanced at Harribel, and after seeing that she didn't react much, he continued: "Harribel used to have the idea of 'doing not want to make himself stronger with the power gained by killing others'.
This kind of thinking, so even if you want to hurt your enemy, you still choose not to kill and devour your opponent."
"I also believe that the pursuit of sacrifice must pay the price of sacrifice. This is undoubtedly a meaningless sacrifice towards an impossible goal. It can be said to be a kind of faith, which will abandon something for the sake of what you want to protect. That is the so-called
Stronger and more powerful."
"So our symbolic meaning is also the way we die in Aizen's prophecy. It's not that the adult has seen the future, but that he knows our essence better than we ourselves."
"The reorganization of the spiritual core, the changes brought about by Boss Duan Mu, and becoming the king of Hueco Mundo... With the combination of various factors, this root has not disappeared, but it has transformed. What she pursues is no longer nothing.
The sacrifice of meaning abandons belief and instead prioritizes tolerance, or protection of the object to be protected.”
"In order to achieve her highest priority goals, her attitude towards the enemy will also change."
When Stark said this, a look of deep thought appeared on his face, as if he was recalling something:
"And when I lost to the man named Yhwach, like Hribel, I also felt that possibility, but there were two possibilities."
Stark paused for a moment, then faced everyone's gaze and continued:
"One is to fill the void and make up for the possibility of 'emptiness', which will make us more inclined to death; the other is not to fill the void, but to amplify one's own 'emptiness' and make one step closer to the roots
Transformation occurs.”
"And what I chose was the latter. I magnified my loneliness and completely merged with Lilinite. They were indistinguishable from each other. There were two empty holes in my body. I was no longer a pack of wolves, but a lone wolf."
"But this kind of amplification of loneliness is not the pursuit of loneliness, but a clearer understanding of 'loneliness' just like Harribel's clearer understanding of the symbolic meaning of 'sacrifice', in order to explore the correct way to avoid loneliness.
, no longer like a headless fly, without purpose, without goals, without pursuit..."
Stark said a lot in one breath, and then took a deep breath:
"These are probably the feelings I experienced in that state. I don't know if it can help you."
Everyone frowned when they heard this. Only by experiencing some things can one be more deeply aware of the feeling. But without experiencing it, no matter how much you think about it, it will have no effect.
A wry smile appeared on Tiruti's face, not because of Stark's words, but because...
possibility!
She didn't feel the possibility at all of the two people talking about it.
And the reason, she was actually vaguely aware of it...
Because like Bengyu, if you want to realize the possibility that Duan Mu has given them, you need to have the foundation to realize this possibility.
She is different from the Ju Blades present. The reason why she is able to sit here is entirely because she is the first Arrancar to come into contact with Danki, and she is also the first Ju Blade to receive transformation.
Compared with the other Ten Blades present, I am far from lacking in basic skills. The reason why I am able to achieve my current strength is entirely due to the accumulation of time, and this accumulation has now reached its limit.
That is to say...
Even if Duan Mu gave her this possibility, she didn't have the foundation to realize it at all.
I have reached the end.
Harribel looked at the wry smile on Tiruti's face and vaguely saw something. She frowned slightly, but in the end she didn't say anything more.
Some things are only useful if you are aware of them, and it is difficult for others to remind you of them.
Tiruti, the subordinate officers present, and Dorudoni, the two eliminated ten blades, really did not have the foundation to realize the possibility.
But there are essential differences between Tiruti and the subordinate officers and Dorudoni present!
Whether it was the subordinate officers transformed by Duan Mu or Dorudoni, the two Ten Blades who had also been eliminated like Tiruti, they did not grow to Tiruti's level after being transformed, and they died early.
With stagnation, the gap cannot be made up by "accumulation of time".
And the reason for this is very simple...
The predecessor of Lingxu Wen, Xu Wen, was created by Duan Mu for Tiruti, and it perfectly fits Tiruti.
Tiruti didn't even realize...
Neither Pikaro, who was the second person to undergo transformation after her, nor herself or others could use the virtual pattern like her.
It can be said that Tiruti is Duan Mu's first work, and it is also the source of the possibility. She did not feel the possibility. It was more because of her own mentality and her inability to recognize the meaning of what she was pursuing.
reason.
…
Within the boundary.
Dozens of people dressed in the costumes of ghosts gathered in the barrier, constantly injecting their spiritual pressure into the surrounding stream along the ropes around their hands.
Let the liquid like mudslides on both sides of the boundary completely solidify at this time.
In the center of dozens of ghosts and Taoists, there is a golden translucent bowl-shaped shield, covering the sections of wood glowing with purple light.
However, at this time, Duan Mu's purple branch-like lines formed by the spiritual void lines all over his body had become extremely dim, as if they would disappear at any time.
Outside the shield, Nirvana looked at the timer in his hand, his eyes full of surprise.
Three minutes.
Three minutes have passed since he brought Duan Mu into the broken world and placed him in the Jueling area.
After passing through the "boundary fixed" boundary, one minute in the outside world is equivalent to two thousand minutes passing in the boundary. In other words, Duan Mu has been in the state of spiritual body disintegration for 6,000 minutes, 100 hours, and four days.
much time...
The spirit body that had solidified to such an extent was beyond Nirvana's imagination, and he even had the urge to take Duan Mu back to the laboratory for dissection while he was in a state of self-imposed confinement.
However, in the end, he suppressed this impulse. Anyway, there will always be opportunities in the future. The top priority is to take Duan Mu back to Soul Society.
Buzz~
At this moment, a wave of turmoil emerged.
Nie Yuli looked up and saw Duan Mu inside the barrier. The purple lines on his body completely disappeared after darkening to the extreme.
As the lines dimmed, Duan Mu opened his eyes immediately.
here it is?
A flash of vigilance flashed in Duan Mu's eyes. When he saw Nirvana's cocoon outside the shield, his vigilance calmed down. Instead of asking why he appeared here, he asked: "How long have I been self-proclaimed?"
"It's been exactly ten minutes since you left that space."
Ten minutes?
Duan Mu was stunned, how is this possible!?
However, when Duan Mu saw his surroundings clearly, he immediately realized why such a short time had passed.
"Now that you're awake, let's go back."
Nirvana didn't waste any time. He took out the command machine and ordered the Technology Development Bureau to open the channel.
Duan Mu turned his head and glanced towards Hueco Mundo. When he was sure that the object connected to him had not disappeared, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the process was a bit difficult and dangerous, in the end, his goal was achieved, and then he only needed to return to Soul Society to take charge.
Duan Mu and others returned to Soul Society smoothly without any hindrance.
However, there can be no obstacles.
After all, Yhwach also consumed a lot of energy in his battle with Duan Mu. In just ten minutes, the impact of his forced opening of his eyes could not be eliminated at all.
But after one battle...
Duan Mu looked at the familiar streets around him and frowned.
The next battle will probably become more difficult. After clearly recognizing his threat, Yhwach will not easily initiate a war before he is completely sure.
Although this gave Soul Society time to prepare, it prevented the Gotei 13th Division from being attacked without any knowledge as usual.
But it also means...
When the invisible empire invades again, preparations will inevitably be better.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
As soon as Duan Mu stood still, figures appeared through the air.
Sui Feng led a group of Xing troops to appear around Duan Mu. He first observed Duan Mu's condition and then nodded: "Come with us, the captain is waiting for you."
"Um."
Duan Mu nodded, this battle was not without gain, because Duan Mu could use this to tell all the information he knew to the Gotei 13th Division.
As for how the subsequent battle will turn out, that has nothing to do with Duan Mu.
People who are cheating should be dealt with by people who are also cheating.
Duan Mu is not planning to invade the Invisible Empire anymore. More strictly speaking, if it were not for Tiruti and the others, he would not care about the Invisible Empire.
Anyway, as long as his friends don't die, it doesn't matter to Duanmu no matter how many people from the Gotei 13th Division die.
Duan Mu has only one goal next...
That is, without sacrificing your friends, try your best to let everything develop according to your memory.
in short……
Cheating players like Yhwach should be left to Ichigo Kurosaki to deal with.
……………………
At the same time, there is no time.
"Has Duan Mu come back?"
Aizen raised his head and glanced upward, with a slight smile on his face: "It seems that it won't be long before we can meet again."
Listening to Aizen's muttering to himself, Mole City Shuang also frowned slightly, and then transferred his consciousness to the outside world, more strictly speaking, he transferred his consciousness to the first team.
I want to hear the information Duan Mu brought back.
…
Well, I'd like to apologize first, I know this chapter is super rough...
But I had a terrible headache and could barely code... I felt completely out of shape, but I didn't want to lose my perfect attendance, so I wrote a chapter...
