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Chapter 248 A Glance

The seventy-two barriers of the Spirit King Palace, like overlapping walls of glazed light, floated ten thousand meters in the air, refracting a mysterious spiritual light.

On the approach to the Spirit King Palace, Hyosube Ichibei stood at the front with a serious expression, followed by four members of the Zero Division lined up behind him.

Kirinji Tenjiro was playing with the medicine bowl, a casual smile on his lips, and said, "Is it necessary to be so solemn? Speaking of which, those guys we captured are really stubborn. We interrogated them for a long time, but they didn't say anything."

"Didn't you already explain some things?"

Oetsu Nimaiya said lazily, "It's just that it's a bit hard to understand; it's probably a code among those people."

Kiryuu crossed his arms, a faint aura of life force emanating from him, and frowned slightly as he pondered what he had just heard.

A woman named Guo Yan said, "Guan Yi possesses the golden secret rune; this is a critical moment, everyone must hold on through this period."

Another man named Xie Chen said, "The Queen is not dead. She is not a demon, but a powerful figure who has hidden her identity. She will definitely come to rescue us after discovering our disappearance."

Golden runes? A crucial moment?
Your Majesty? Demon Clan?
These things sounded completely foreign, almost like a language from another world. Combined with what she already knew, they filled her with a sense of disharmony and unease.

"At least from those strange words, it can be concluded that Guan Yi and the King are their leaders, and these people all come from the same place."

Shutara Senjumaru toyed with the silver thread between his fingers, his eyes cold: "Once we catch those two and make them give up, we can ask them again."

“That’s exactly what I’m saying,” Kirinji Tenjiro said again. “Is it really okay for us to just wait here like this? Without the King’s Sword, no one can get through the seventy-two layers of barriers in the Spirit King’s Palace. If we want to capture them, shouldn’t we go down and find them?”

Boom!!
The moment he finished speaking, a loud roar suddenly resounded, and the floating Spirit King Palace platform beneath their feet suddenly trembled.

The Zero Division members were startled and looked down in astonishment as powerful energy shockwaves rushed toward them at breakneck speed!

"Hey, seriously...?"

"The feeling of this power is..."

"Some kind of spiritual power has broken through the barrier?!"

The tremors spread from deep within the ground, and the jade floor of Omotesando quickly cracked with spiderweb-like patterns. The spirit runes embedded within them suddenly dimmed, as if their primal power had been drained away, and everything rapidly turned dry and withered!
"Senjumaru!"

Hyosube Ichibei's eyes widened as he shouted, but Shutara Senjumaru had already taken action before he even called his name.

The six mechanical arms behind her swung, and in an instant, thousands of dense threads formed a net that clung to the outer path of the Spirit King Palace, attempting to prevent the outer path of the Spirit King Palace from collapsing.

But in an instant, those incredibly strong silver threads began to break inch by inch, emitting a piercing hissing sound. Her expression changed drastically, and she tried to activate more spiritual energy to reinforce them, but the threads at her fingertips seemed to be scorched by an invisible force, becoming scalding hot and fragile, unable to coalesce into a shape at all.

"Oh no! We can't hold on! Scatter!"

puff--

As a dazzling golden light shot up, tearing everything apart like a sharp arrow and shattering the outer path of the Spirit King Palace, five figures had already leaped high into the air.

Nimaiya Oetsu had already drawn his Zanpakuto from his waist, and Hyosube Ichibei had also taken off the huge calligraphy brush he was carrying on his back.

But none of them made a move.

"No, it's not that the barrier was broken! How could this happen?!" Kirinji Tenjiro shouted incredulously, "The barrier protecting the Spirit King Palace is attacking us?!"

Yes, that's right. All five members of the Zero Squad could clearly feel that the golden beam of light that destroyed Omotesando came from the 72 barriers that had existed for millions of years outside the Soul King Palace!
Those barriers constructed by the power of the Soul King should have been just cold portals. Only those who possessed the Key King Key, that is, the bodies reshaped by the power of the Soul King when the members of the Zero Division became the Zero Division, could be accepted by the barriers and successfully pass through them.

But at this moment, the power of the Spirit King within those 72 barriers was being used by the enemy?!

"That human girl from Hueco Mundo?" Hyosube Ichibei brandished his brush, creating runes as he tried to reclaim ownership of the barrier: "I was deceived by her appearance; she actually possesses the power of a Soul King?!"

What kind of ability is this?!

While it is indeed supported by spiritual pressure, it is not the power of a Shinigami, nor the power of annihilation, nor Fullbring, nor the power of a Hollow. Yet, its level is actually close to that of the Soul King?! ...

The divine rune talent is stronger than I imagined.

However, the King's divine rune talent is too subtle to simply call it 'sharing'. It should be called 'Give me your power, or I'll take it if you don't'.

It can not only 'share' the power of living things, but also the power of inanimate objects.

Standing beside her, Guan Yi could sense that she was sharing a portion of the power of the seventy-two layers of the Spirit King Palace's barrier for her own use. He looked at the king's cold and majestic profile and asked, "Governor, you're mighty. Can you hold on? If you've gone this far, it shouldn't be difficult for me to break in."

"I said I'd send you in, so these barriers won't wear you down at all." The king shook his head slightly and said, "They'll be the first to give out. Right now, I don't have the energy to deal with those who try to bother me, so I'll leave it to you."

Guan Yi turned her head away.

Even divine rune talents cannot escape the limitations of the world's rules. They are more like a bug attached to the underlying logic of the secret realm. What supports the Great King in sharing the power of the Spirit King Palace barrier is the spiritual pressure that erupted from her body after she took back everything shared from Meow Meow, which is five times that of an ordinary captain-level spirit.

When this immense spiritual pressure surged, it naturally triggered an alarm in the Seireitei.

At this moment, the east gate of Seireitei, a few hundred meters away, has been opened, and the nearest Shinigami is rushing over to investigate the situation.

At the end of his gaze, the leader was someone Guan Yi was meeting for the first time, yet he felt incredibly familiar with him.

With silver hair, blue eyes, short stature, youthful appearance, and delicate features, he is none other than Toshiro Hitsugaya, the genius young captain of Seireitei!
The vice-captain, who was a few steps behind him, was none other than Matsumoto Rangiku, whose figure was ridiculously good.

When Guan Yi could see them, they could naturally see Guan Yi and the Great King as well. Matsumoto Rangiku's expression changed slightly as she said, "That's Guan Yi! Who's that woman next to him? Such strong spiritual pressure, what are they doing?!"

Hitsugaya Toshiro's eyes narrowed slightly as he placed his hand on the hilt of his sword behind his shoulder. Matsumoto Rangiku quickly added, "Captain! The Commander-in-Chief's orders are to cease all attention and pursuit of Seki. Even if we encounter him head-on, no action is required!"

“I know.” Toshiro Hitsugaya drew his Zanpakuto and said in a deep voice, “But right now they are plotting something near the Seireitei! Although we don’t know what they are doing, stopping them first and waiting for more people to arrive is the right choice.”

Rangiku, step back!

"Swastika!"

Without any hesitation, and without any room for hesitation, Toshiro Hitsugaya, who had fought against members of the Holy Cross Knights, knew what a feat it was to single-handedly destroy the Wandenreich. Faced with such a target, only by unleashing his Bankai immediately could he have a chance to delay the arrival of others.

Frost mist instantly rose from his body, and the biting cold froze the surrounding air at a visible speed. Spiderweb-like ice cracks spread across the ground, and his Zanpakuto, Hyōrinmaru, reflected a dark blue light under the moonlight. After its Bankai, Daiguren Hyōrinmaru dragged the entire area into an extreme cold realm.

A massive ice wing unfolded behind the young captain, and a dragon-shaped phantom formed from ice crystals coiled and roared. Under Matsumoto Rangiku's tense gaze, its speed suddenly increased, rushing towards the King and Guan Yi!

But in the next instant, Matsumoto Rangiku saw something that sent chills down her spine even more than Hitsugaya Toshiro's Bankai.

Faced with the boy captain's sudden advance, Guan Yi merely raised an eyebrow slightly, his eyes widening slightly as he stared at Hitsugaya Toshiro.

boom--

Without any impact or perceived spiritual pressure fluctuations, the ice wings that Hitsugaya Toshiro had conjured suddenly shattered, sending ice crystals flying everywhere. The previously frozen ground began to thaw, and the rising steam blurred his vision. A mouthful of blood spurted from Hitsugaya Toshiro's mouth, and his body was thrown back at an even faster speed than before!
Bang! Matsumoto Rangiku, startled, reached out to catch it, and then a terrifying force struck.

The two tumbled together, crashing all the way back to the wide-open Dongzhimen Gate and back to Seireitei before finally coming to a stop!
Despite the excruciating pain coursing through her body, she couldn't suppress the horror in her heart; Matsumoto Rangiku's worldview had been completely shattered. What was that? A single glance?
Did they concentrate their spiritual pressure through their gaze and launch an attack on the captain? Just like that, they broke through the captain's Bankai in an instant?!
Oh no… She quickly rolled over, revealing Hitsugaya Toshiro, who had been pinned beneath her during the roll. The Soul Society's genius captain had his eyes rolled back and was in a deep coma.

"team leader?!"

In the distance, the king's eye twitched slightly. "Guan Yi, have you opened it?"

"I've never turned it off either," Guan Yi said with a smile.

"...Seriously," the king sighed, "they can't hold on any longer, get ready to go up!"

(End of this chapter)