Infinite: Start as a ghost

"Of course, on the condition that you tell me where Kariya God is."

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Black Knife denied. “I’ve never heard of that name.”

"Don't you know?" Just then, he saw three beams of light explode in the distance.

"Heh, forget it. Whether you're lying to me or not, you're useless now." Jiang Jiu let out a wicked laugh and knocked Hei Dao unconscious.

After a week of searching, when Jiang Jiu found the Black Knife, they immediately found the Hunting God.

He walked towards the three men, carrying the unconscious Black Knife.

No, it's not certain yet that there are still three people; perhaps someone has betrayed us.

A dozen minutes later, the group reunited.

Jiang Jiu was somewhat surprised that all three of them were present, and no one had betrayed them.

After thinking about the reason, he immediately understood.

Their only hope of escaping hell lies in themselves.

"My lord, is it him?" Mei Zhen asked.

With silver hair, thick eyebrows, and a handsome yet mature face, he was unconscious and strapped to a skeleton.

Jiang Jiu nodded: "Not bad, it's really a wonder you were able to find it."

With that, he tossed the black knife to the three men: "Do whatever you want with him, and finally let the plum needles devour him."

"Black Blade!" A violent glint flashed in Honglian's eyes.

Jiang Jiu originally wanted to subdue Hei Dao, but Hong Lian and his four subordinates killed Hei Dao's sister, so there was no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.

Moreover, to make Black Knife submit, it would probably be necessary to find his sister and revive her together, but Jiang Jiu is too lazy to deal with such troublesome matters.

"Hmm, little sister?" Jiang Jiu suddenly thought of something and cut off both of Honglian's arms with a single stroke.

"M-Master?" Honglian cried out in pain, kneeling on the ground.

Jiang Jiu said expressionlessly, "Plum Needle, target change. Keep the Black Blade for now, go and devour the Red Lotus."

"Why?" Honglian roared and immediately ran away.

“I’m sorry, Honglian, you and Black Knife are mortal enemies,” Jiang Jiu said. “Black Knife is not only stronger than you, but he also has a weakness that I can control.”

"Compared to the two, I would naturally choose him."

"My lord, I did nothing wrong! I'm not reconciled!" Honglian shouted as she ran away.

Jiang Jiu laughed and said, "If you can escape Mei Zhen's pursuit before I leave, then I will let you go."

"Damn it..." Honglian had no choice but to take off running for her life.

If he were to simply run away, Honglian would still have a considerable chance of escaping Meizhen's pursuit, since his strength surpasses Meizhen's.

Jiang Jiu drained the power from the hunter, stealing his strength.

"Is this the Wind Doll?" He was immediately satisfied.

Then he said to Szayelaporro, "If Crimson Lotus really has a chance to escape, you should take care of him."

Szayelaporro grinned wickedly: "My lord, you are truly cunning."

"Alright, none of us are good people," Jiang Jiu said. "If it were you, you'd probably come up with a much more twisted idea than I do."

"Thank you for the compliment." Szayelaporro smiled as he stared at the bouncy Crimson Lotus. "However, my lord, I would like to take him back for experiments. Is that permissible?"

"You haven't encountered anyone else along the way?" Jiang Jiu asked. "Do you really have to use the Red Lotus for experiments?"

"Too weak."

"Where are Honglian's men?" Jiang Jiu asked. "Didn't he say he was going back to take his only remaining subordinate with him?"

"I ate the plum needle."

Jiang Jiu: "..."

“Red Lotus won’t do; he must die. This is the first step in subduing Black Knife.”

"I advise you not to research the matter of hell for the time being."

"I know you're curious, but I still advise you to figure out the three realms outside before thinking about hell."

Szayelaporro shrugged. "That's a real shame."

"I'll leave Black Knife in your care; he'll wake up soon," Jiang Jiu said. "Let him witness Red Lotus's demise, and then tell him what I mean."

“I need to go to the first level. There are some things I need to verify.” Jiang Jiu’s eyes flickered. He suddenly thought of Kurosaki Ichigo’s Hell form.

In the original work, he wore a golden skull armor, which he explained was a power bestowed upon him by the will of hell.

Jiang Jiu wanted to test whether he could recreate the armor if he absorbed the power of the Hell Guardians.

If granting is permissible, then theoretically, deprivation should also be permissible.

What he wanted to know was whether those powers came from the Hell Guardians or from Hell itself.

What exactly is the power of hell?

Chapter 229 Hell Armor

Jiang Jiu didn't care whether the black knife would submit or not, and he also looked down on the so-called "plum needle".

The only scientific talent he valued was Szayelaporro.

With the two demons being suppressed by Tenbei Shusuke and Kibune Risa in turn, what he values ​​most is to quickly uncover the secrets of his blood.

Jiang Jiu arrived at the second floor and crossed the pool again.

He encountered resistance while going up, but he didn't experience this when coming down.

"Heavy water?" Jiang Jiu pondered. "No, this water isn't heavy; it only has an effect when it rises."

"Is this some kind of barrier, or the will of hell itself?"

Holding their breath, they studied the water but found nothing special about it.

After some effort, I passed through the water layer and successfully reached the surface, arriving on the lotus flower. Then I sat on the lotus flower and slowly studied it.

The water was very clear, containing no extraneous substances, including spiritual particles.

No matter how you check it, it's just ordinary water, no different from any other water in the world.

After much deliberation, Jiang Jiu abandoned the research project.

He has many opportunities to re-enter if he wants; this departure is not the end.

Hell opens after the death of the most wicked person, so as long as you wait near the prison for death row inmates, you won't have to worry about not being able to wait for hell to descend.

Therefore, he decided to abandon his research on hell for now and come back when he had the chance.

Continuing to jump upwards, Jiang Jiu quickly returned to the first level.

The Hell Guards reacted swiftly and immediately gave chase to Jiang Jiu.

This time, Jiang Jiu did not run away, but instead severed the hand of the Hell Guardian that was holding the knife.

"Devouring God!"

He roared and absorbed the power of the Hell Guardians.

The body of the Hell Guardian began to disintegrate, transforming into a strange power that coalesced towards Jiang Jiu.

"Hmm?" After absorbing all the Hell Guardians, Jiang Jiu asked in surprise, "What kind of power is this?"

"It seems... to be just ordinary people's spiritual power, without any attributes, but there seems to be other special energies in it."

Jiang Jiu carefully sensed it: "This energy feels like...faith?"

“No.” Jiang Jiu shook his head: “No, it’s not faith, but something similar to faith. What is it?”

At that moment, the entire hellish space suddenly began to tremble violently.

"How come..." Jiang Jiu almost fell to the ground before she could react.

After the tremor, all the guards of Hell rushed towards him.

"This is..." Jiang Jiu thought upon seeing this, "Because I absorbed the power of a Hell Guardian, has the Hell Guardian's mission changed from driving them away to hunting them down?"

Seeing the hell guards chasing after him, Jiang Jiu was not alarmed but delighted, and instead of retreating, he advanced: "Good thing they came, it saves me the trouble of killing them one by one."

Not knowing what the power within the Hell Guardian's body was, Jiang Jiu decided to absorb it all and study it slowly.

Hundreds of Hell Guardians, each with the strength of a vice-captain, surged towards Jiang Jiu in a massive attack.

Not only that, but hell guards were also flying up to the first level one by one.

"There are these things down there too?" Jiang Jiu was somewhat surprised, but he remained calm.

"Hahaha, bring as many as you want, I'll suck you all dry."

In Jiang Jiu's eyes, the strength of a vice-captain is now no different from that of an ant.

The difference between the vice-captain and Jiang Jiu is roughly the same as the difference between an ordinary squad member who isn't even a board officer and a captain.

No, the gap is much larger than that.

Because Jiang Jiu also possesses almost unlimited stamina and recovery ability, quantity is completely irrelevant to him.

Jiang Jiu possesses a Hollowfication ability even more complete than Masked and Arrancar, so much so that the Hell Guardians can't even break his skin.

Moreover, the powerful spiritual pressure caused a layer of spiritual energy to automatically protect Jiang Jiu's body, similar to a spiritual armor.

Back then, Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't even break Kenpachi Zaraki's skin because he was unconsciously protected by spirit particles.

This was just the spiritual energy that Kenpachi Zaraki unconsciously released. If he had consciously controlled it, it might have actually formed a spiritual armor.

Therefore, the group of hell guards posed no threat at all; instead, they were absorbed by Jiang Jiu one by one.

A small amount of unknown, blood-red, shell-like substance condensed on Jiang Jiu's body.

Half an hour later, Jiang Jiu's body was covered in blood-red hard armor.

"Did it take half an hour to absorb a hundred Hell Guardians to condense this set of red armor?"

"Is it because we obtained them in different ways that Ichigo Kurosaki has golden armor and I have red armor?"