Chapter 174 Concerto

All things have a spirit, whether they are animals, humans, or inanimate objects; their souls are all composed of spirit particles.

The spirit and the vessel are as their names suggest. The spirit usually resides within the vessel, with the spirit being the soul of the vessel and the vessel being the body of the spirit.

At this moment, the streets, which should be bustling with people and lit up with streetlights, are deserted, simply because this is Karakura Town in the present world, with the spiritual side of the high-rise buildings and houses constructed from numerous vessels.

So, what exactly is emptiness?

Generally speaking, after the soul leaves the body, it is connected to the body by a causal chain. As long as the chain is broken, the soul can return to the body.

However, after a person dies, the chain of cause and effect breaks. Once the chain breaks, the phenomenon of "erosion" begins—fangs grow from the broken point, gnawing in the opposite direction, shortening the chain little by little.

This gnawing process will torment the soul.

When the soul is completely devoured, a void will appear where the lock of cause and effect is on its chest. The original emotions are almost completely lost, and the soul transforms into a mindless, beast-like evil spirit.

Having lost their humanity, they are constantly hungry, yearning to devour other souls to fill the emptiness in their hearts.

These beast-like voids will never be satisfied, no matter how many souls they devour.

After they have devoured enough living beings in the mortal world, the sanity they lost when they fell into the void will gradually return.

Even at this stage, they are still tormented by inner emptiness, and become even more cunning due to the return of reason.

They will continue to devour, but in the next stage, they will again nearly lose their minds due to hunger and emptiness.

At this point, the souls of ordinary humans could no longer satisfy them; their hunger and emptiness overcame reason, and they began to spontaneously seek out their own kind to hunt for food.

When more than 100 extremely hungry Hollows devour each other, the spiritual pressure generated by the consumption of their own kind will merge, and more than 99% of them will completely lose their sanity and merge into a new form—a lower-level Hollow called a Killian!
At this moment, five monsters emerged from the gloomy sky, tearing through it; they were none other than five Gillian-class Hollows!
Under the dim yellow sky, Rukia Kuchiki felt the immense spiritual pressure pressing down from the heavens, and her body trembled involuntarily.

She murmured, "It's over...it's all over..."

The Zanpakuto that should have been firmly held slipped from his palm as his body trembled, falling from the lamppost and embedding itself deeply into the ground.

"We must call for help immediately!" His trembling hand pulled out his cell phone from his pocket. This was a tool issued by Soul Society to every Shinigami who went to the human world to carry out a stationing mission, used to issue orders or call for help in an emergency.

drop by drop...

Trembling fingers pressed the button, but the rapid sound indicated there was no signal.

She muttered angrily under her breath, "What a joke!"

"How could there be no signal at such a crucial moment?!"

As her trembling body gradually calmed down, Rukia Kuchiki knew she had to go. She whispered, "Protecting humanity is the responsibility of the Grim Reaper!"

The appearance of a Hollow's spiritual pressure in the present world, coupled with the loss of signal on my cell phone, should be noticed by the Soul Society soon, prompting them to send in reinforcements.

However, if the Killian is allowed to unleash Cero during this period, the entire Karakura Town will suffer immense destruction, and at least hundreds or even thousands of humans will die as a result.

Leaping off the lamppost, Rukia Kuchiki pulled her Zanpakuto, which was deeply embedded in the concrete, from the ground. She rotated her wrist, and as the blade spun, she whispered, "Dance! Sode no Shirayuki!"

Instantly, the seemingly ordinary longsword was enveloped in a layer of pure white, with long white ribbons growing from the end of the hilt, and a strong chill spread out.

Taking a deep breath, Rukia Kuchiki lowered her eyes. "At least until Soul Society arrives to help, I must hold them off for as long as possible!"

However, she had already resigned herself to death...

Rumble…

A faint rumble of thunder came from somewhere.

"Hmm! Where did that thunder come from?" Rukia Kuchiki, who was rushing forward with Shunpo, subconsciously looked up at the sky but did not see any dark clouds.

Rumble…

The sound of thunder seems to be approaching?

In the next instant, with a swift movement, he slipped on the streetlight, crashed to the ground with a thud.

Getting up from the ground, Rukia Kuchiki clutched her chest in obvious pain, looking bewildered. "What is this?"

Rumble…

The strange thunder was getting closer and closer, seemingly right next to my ear...

No, it was coming from closer.

Inside her!
Her breathing became rapid, and her heart pounded.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Her heart pounded rapidly, yet with a strange rhythm, like the drumbeats of rock music, shaking her body. Boom...

It was as if thousands of thunderclouds were exploding inside my body, with thunder and lightning constantly raging within me.

With a thud, Rukia Kuchiki fell to her knees, her Zanpakuto "Sode no Shirayuki" slipping from her hand.

She felt her pupils trembling violently, and her body was completely out of her control.

She could only lie limply on the ground, feeling the intense thunder rumbling in her heart, in every inch of her flesh, and in the deepest part of her soul, growing ever more intense and overwhelming.

Countless thunderclaps intertwined within her body, creating a breathtaking symphony.

However, when the incredibly intense roar reached its peak, it suddenly fell silent.

Her heart stopped beating, and Rukia Kuchiki's five senses seemed to completely disappear, plunging her into endless darkness and absolute silence.

suddenly……

Thump! A heartbeat, seemingly from a distant shore, resounded.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Her heart, which had stopped beating, began to beat slowly and steadily again, and her lost senses gradually returned.

She seemed to "hear" a heartbeat, footsteps, and the symphony of all things echoing in the distance, as well as the boy who was running step by step toward the Hollow "Kirian" not far away.

……

Even a mortal body can unleash astonishing power when controlled by a sufficiently large computing power.

By precisely coordinating the contraction of every muscle fiber, using ligaments and fascia as the transmission medium, converging the force with the bones and joints, and then releasing the force through large-scale body movements, it is easy to unleash a huge impact force of more than ten tons.

So, what about going a step further?

The human body is composed of 37 to 40 trillion cells.

Although not every cell can release force through contraction and relaxation like a muscle cell, cells themselves are by no means static or lifeless.

Each cell is like a tiny living organism, exhibiting extremely subtle movements at the microscopic level.

The forces generated by micro-movements within and around cells, such as cell membrane undulations, cytoskeleton contractions, and localized peristalsis, are not as great as the forces generated by muscle cell contractions.

The forces generated between different cells are like white noise, or like the principle of a vacuum energy ocean, where countless tiny energy fluctuations cancel each other out, achieving a state of near nothingness as a whole.

How can we harness such power?
For Founder, this is not a difficult task.

At this moment, with each step he takes forward, a tremendous change is taking place inside Ichigo Kurosaki's body. A strange vibration is advancing towards a more microscopic level based on each step he takes.

With each step he took, a strange vibration originating from his body caused a huge crater to appear in the ground beneath Kurosaki Ichigo's feet, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading everywhere.

That was Ichigo Kurosaki's entire body of muscle tissue, through bones, ligaments, joints, and so on, layering and flowing power to achieve a terrifying, near-maximum strength.

With two steps, a strange vibration appeared, and the concrete ground no longer showed huge pits, but instead showed ripple-like cracks, like a pebble being dropped into a pond.

With three steps, the miraculous vibrations caused the original cracks to heal like waves, and the concrete floor seemed to return to a state before it solidified, showing ripple-like depressions and bumps.

Subtle vibrations, transmitted through the air and the earth, cause everything around us, whether living things or objects, to resonate.

The resonance intensified, and the unique resonant frequency of every different substance, every organ and tissue in every living body was detected by Fang Zheng with the help of the vibration feedback received by Kurosaki Ichigo, and forcibly calculated through violent calculations that are unimaginable to humans.

The sufficiently detailed instructions and the sufficiently detailed calculation results allow for the precise calculation of all the feedback received by Ichigo Kurosaki with every step he takes, and the reverse calculation to reach the cellular level to create a full-body model of Ichigo Kurosaki.

Even if too many commands cannot be output within that strange domain, which would cause the domain to explode, as long as the commands are precise enough and the output of the orders is accurate enough, the result that Fang Zheng wants can still be achieved.

Through continuous calculations, Founder achieved full-model prediction of the natural peristalsis noise and random fluctuations of Kurosaki Ichigo's cells.

This massive chaotic system, so complex that it could drive humanity to despair and far larger than the Three-Body Problem by countless orders of magnitude, was forcibly enumerated and brute-forced by Fang Zheng with absolute computing power, listing all its possibilities!

This ensures that the most subtle interference commands can be used to manipulate Ichigo Kurosaki, creating a chain reaction that precisely controls every cell in his body, forcing all cells to move and enter an optimal state of coherence.

The minute movements of each cell, with their dispersed tiny energies mobilized in a strict time sequence, cause their respective mechanical energies to accumulate at the same moment and in the same direction, layer upon layer, forming a macroscopic effect.

All cells move according to strict frequency, phase, and direction, thereby coordinating and superimposing minute vibrational energies.

This allows weak cellular actions to be transformed into a steady and controllable massive energy output!
This could probably be named—

Cellular Concerto!
Fang Zheng also brute-forcely deciphered everything around Ichigo Kurosaki in just a few steps—the air, the earth, the buildings, and even the vibration frequencies generated by the five Hollows as they moved.

Thus, the human body is used as an instrument to play a cellular concerto.

Let all things be the musical score, and let us play the concerto of all things!
(End of this chapter)

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