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Chapter 246 Seeing Through the Killing
Ascension is far more complex than outsiders perceive it to be.

After activating the Ascension to Immortality, Guan Yi felt a glimmer of spiritual light between his brows, faintly merging with the heavens and earth, ready to merge at any moment.

When he released his constraints and chose to merge with heaven and earth, that spark of inspiration suddenly exploded.

That is the ultimate fusion of the two forces of life and death.

The tempering power of the physical body is like molten gold boiling, seemingly trying to break free from the shackles of mortal form, while the vast sea of ​​Qi of cultivation is like an inverted celestial river pouring down, intertwining and blending with the power of the physical body.

He seemed to transform into a wisp of wind, formless and invisible, drifting in the chaotic void of heaven and earth, or perhaps he condensed into an eternal star, anchored at a node in the timeline of the Under One Person world.

Guan Yi couldn't tell whether it was his physical body supporting his cultivation to ascend, or his cultivation enveloping his physical body to transcend. All that remained was a warm, comforting feeling emanating from his very bones. Even the patterns on his soul were imbued with a gentle, luminous glow, a return to simplicity, in this fusion!

The moment his consciousness returned to the world of death, the warmth remained undiminished, and it suddenly collided with the four powers contained within his body.

The power of Fullbring, the power of the Shinigami, the power of the Hollow, and the power of the Quincy—these four powers were smoothed out as if by a roller brush, naturally separating their edges and gaps, fitting together perfectly like a mortise and tenon joint.

Fullbring's soul manipulation began to draw upon the Quincy's spiritual particles, cleaving through the limits of the Quincy's spiritual particle cluster. Meanwhile, the Quincy's divine power neutralized the Hollow's bloodthirsty frenzy, allowing the raging Hollow power to be controlled at will.

The Hollow's innate ability to devour became the perfect vessel for absorbing the Shinigami's spiritual power, transforming from uncontrolled destruction into a cyclical energy source. The unleashing power of the Shinigami's Zanpakuto, in turn, shattered the limits of Fullbring, allowing the energy infused with the soul to transcend the rules.

The four elements complement each other and achieve mutual success.

Guan Yi raised his hand, and a hazy light appeared in his palm—the light contained the deep blue of the Death God's spiritual power, the crimson of the Hollow Flash, the silvery white of the Quincy's spiritual energy, and the dark gold of the Fullbring technique that controls the soul. The four colors of light intertwined and swirled, yet they were completely integrated, with no clear boundaries between them.

When Guan Yi withdrew his palm, the powerful energy naturally returned to his body, without dissipating even a trace elsewhere.

He tried raising his finger again, pointing it at the void—that point condensed the power of the four forces merging, without unleashing any earth-shattering spiritual pressure, yet it instantly froze the spiritual particles within a few feet in front of him. The originally flowing spiritual particles seemed to have been paused, solidifying into translucent crystals, suspended in mid-air, and even the flow of time slowed down slightly under that point.

When he withdrew his finger, the spiritual particles returned to motion from stillness, circulating once again between heaven and earth.

Guan Yi closed his eyes and sensed it; his spiritual pressure had also increased. It wasn't a quantitative surge, but a qualitative improvement. His soul density hadn't changed, but the inner workings of his soul were completely different from before. He was no longer a Shinigami, a Hollow, a Quincy, a Fullbringer, or even a human.

"The Spirit King? Not quite."

The Spirit King has no power over the void.

While more is not necessarily better, Guan Yi felt that his current power essence should have reached the level of a Spirit King. His gaze could easily penetrate the spiritual particle veil of the Death God world, see the trajectory of the spiritual particle flow, see the rule ripples generated when various forces collide, and be able to break them!

Just as he was experiencing and trying out this new power, Ye Huohuo suddenly knocked urgently on the door from outside: "Guan Yi! Are you still there? Guo Yan is missing!"

"Hmm?" Guan Yi turned her head and stood up.

……

Compared to Ye Huohuo, who is always getting into trouble and having inexplicable "adventures," Guo Yan, who gained access to this special training secret realm because of Guan Yi, is a very qualified assistant.

Born into a family of martial arts masters specializing in secret runes, she has a straightforward and decisive personality. She is also grateful for the blue secret rune she obtained in the One Piece world because of Guan Yi. No matter what task Guan Yi gives her, she completes it conscientiously and never asks for the reason.

In both rounds of planning, thanks to her help, Guan Yi didn't have to worry too much about accumulating wealth. Even after Guan Yi stole the vault not long ago, it was she who came forward to digest the gold in batches and by country, turning the gold bricks into wealth.

Therefore, when Guan Yi first heard that Guo Yan had disappeared, he thought that the theft of the vault had happened, but after learning more, he realized that it was not.

Ye Huohuo quickly retrieved the surveillance footage from the headquarters of their investment company in China and showed it to Guan Yi: "Guo Yan entered the office at 9:17 a.m., and it wasn't until lunchtime that someone knocked on her door and discovered that she was gone."

She wouldn't answer the phone, and during those two hours, none of the three security cameras in the corridor outside her office captured her leaving..." Clearly, this was a disappearance caused by supernatural forces. Guan Yi immediately cast a divination to investigate Guo Yan's whereabouts, but the divination was also obscured, and no accurate result could be found.

But no result is also a result. There are not many things left that can block Guan Yi's probing power. "The big monk doesn't have martial ethics. He didn't have the confidence to capture me, so he took a hostage first?"

Although his contact with Guo Yan was secretive, it wouldn't be difficult for the Seireitei and the Zero Division to investigate. Just then, the Great King and Meow Meow suddenly returned to the human world, telling Guan Yi that this matter seemed to be more than just targeting him.

"Guan Yi! Help me out, I need to go and beat that bastard Urahara Kisuke to death!"

Three years ago, after helping Guan Yi awaken Fullbring, the Great King found three promising talents among the Explorers and guided them to master Fullbring.

Before joining Aizen's side, the Great King had been with the three explorers, guiding them and developing his own power.

When Aizen joined his side, the three explorers who had mastered Fullbring also joined with him. However, they did not go to Hueco Mundo but stayed in the human world and infiltrated the Fullbringer organization in Naruki City—XCUTION.

“We didn’t realize that our understanding of this secret realm during the last exploration was far from deep enough. We and the King knew absolutely nothing about those Quincy.”

Meow Meow said, "We never expected that your progress in the strategy would actually leave us far behind. The other three have already given up on the strategy. So the King and I let them stay in XCUTION and do whatever they want. What level of runes they get depends on their luck."

Just three hours ago, the King suddenly discovered that the auras of the three of them had vanished. We had Aizen open a portal and went to Naruki City to search, only to find that even the members of the Fullbringer organization XCUTION were gone!

The king, still pouting, angrily said, "I can vaguely sense the locations of those whose power I've shared. Now there's not a trace left. It must be a sealing ability. It's that damned bastard Urahara Kisuke again!"

This is also why they were able to find Guan Yi so quickly. Guan Yi pondered for a moment and wondered if the more than 40,000 life points he had mentioned earlier actually came from the Fullbringer organization XCUTION.
As another chapter boss, the Wandenreich gave him over a million life points, making Ginjo Kūgo seem rather unimpressive. And if that's the case...

Guan Yi then asked, "Governor, you saw that big monk in Hueco Mundo before, right?"

The king paused, then replied, "Aizen said that guy is a member of the Zero Division, which is above the Gotei 13... Uh, you mean?"

Guan Yi asked, "If that great monk's ability is 'to know the names of all things,' what would happen when he meets us explorers?"

The king was stunned: "Knows the names of everything? He... he knows the things in the secret realm, but what about us explorers..."

"A conceptual ability to discern?!" Meow Meow exclaimed in astonishment. "This secret realm actually contains the 'Discernment Kill,' which is the most troublesome skill for us explorers? This is usually only found in secret realms that surpass the legendary level!"

"So... it wasn't Urahara Kisuke, it was that great monk...?" the king murmured.

'See through the killing'?

Fortunately, I was cautious in my initial actions and spent two years developing my business at Urahara's shop. If I had entered the Shinigami's sights earlier, or chosen to join the Seireitei, there would have been this hidden risk.

However, if that's the case, it's likely that more than just Guo Yan and the three Fullbringers that Da Wang and Miao Miao brought out will be arrested.

Guan Yi quickly instructed Ye Huohuo to contact the other explorers, and soon confirmed that more than a dozen members of the special training class had lost contact, while the rest were mostly far away from Japan and developing elsewhere.

The Zero Division's reach isn't that far, and Guo Yan only came to the attention of the Zero Division because of her close contact with Guan Yi. Ye Huohuo, on the other hand, benefited from the misfortune; she hadn't been discovered by the Zero Division while she was a zombie and following the Quincy.

"Holy crap..."

"We have to save them quickly, Guan Yi!"

(End of this chapter)