Who are you calling a stable boy?!

With that in mind, Zheng Jing invested another 7200 courtyard coins to start his sixth, and also his planned final, ten-pull.

[Your ten-pull yielded the following items: 1 Blue Fire Gourd, 2 Blue Monkey Wines, 4 Green Longevity Vine, and 3 Green Iron Gallbladders.]

"Oh?"

Zheng Jing blinked and pulled a bright red gourd from his backpack.

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Competing for the First Fire Gourd (Blue)

Quality: Exceptional

Weight: 2KG

特性

【Return】: After pouring in wine of lower quality than this item, this item will record the wine and slowly produce that wine inside the gourd by absorbing external energy.

【Dare to be the first】: After being filled with wine of higher quality, this product will improve its own quality by slowly absorbing the high-quality wine it contains.

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After tossing the Fire Gourd around, Zheng Jing took out the last jar of century-old monkey wine from his backpack, opened it, and poured it into the gourd.

This jar of high-quality, century-old monkey wine was being poured into this five-inch-long gourd, and even after the bottom of the jar was empty, it still couldn't fill the gourd.

Squinting one eye, Zheng Jing peered into the gourd and grinned.

"Hmm, that's interesting."

With a muttered sound, he closed the lid and hung the competitive fire gourd on his waist.

After glancing at the remaining 20,000+ Courtyard Coins, Zheng Jing opened the Heavenly Martial Furnace, threw all the extracted green materials into it, and then unleashed the Three Heads and Six Arms technique.

To develop a third pair of arms, you would need 40,000 experience points if you invested all your experience points.

Using these materials and piecing them together, he actually managed to save over 10,000 experience points.

Zheng Jing didn't waste any words—

burn!

Lie down and close your eyes—

practice!

When Zheng Jing opened his eyes again, he sat up, turned his head, and moved his third pair of arms.

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Three heads and six arms (purple)

Quality: Legendary

Progress: Beginner

词条

[Six Arms]: Two pairs of arms can be generated by consuming internal energy. These arms are considered innate weapons and enjoy corresponding bonuses. Once formed, the arms can switch between spirit and physical states until they are destroyed, at which point they can be generated again by consuming internal energy.

【Six Paths of Power】: By consuming a large amount of internal energy, one of your attributes—strength, agility, constitution, intelligence, perception, and charm—can be increased for a certain period of time, up to a maximum of 19.

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These arms emerged from under the ribs, and their movements were completely fluid and natural.

At this point, he had essentially mastered the basics of the three-headed, six-armed technique.

But before he could even celebrate the achievement of having six arms, Zheng Jing's face fell again when he saw the amount of training needed to create a second head.

Based on experience points, the third pair of arms would require 40,000 experience points.

And this second head requires 80,000 experience points...

Well, this is probably what they call, you reap what you sow.

Zheng Jing turned off the stove and opened the attribute panel.

He needs 14000 experience points to level up from level 5 to level 6.

Considering what he had read in the autobiography of that legendary monk, Zheng Jing did not hesitate and spent his remaining 10,000+ experience points.

[The monk's level has been increased to LV6.]

The player has acquired the following class skills: Somersault (Blue), Transformation (Blue).

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Somersault (Blue): Consumes internal energy to accurately teleport to any location within a 1-kilometer radius that you can see.

Change (Blue): Consumes internal energy to change oneself. Currently, one can only change into a humanoid biological form. One can change one's body shape, with a maximum expansion of three times and a minimum contraction of three times.

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Zheng Jing stood up, pushed open the door of the main hall, ran to the restroom, stood in front of the mirror by the sink, touched his face, and then channeled his inner energy.

"Change!"

The familiar face in the mirror blurred for a moment, then transformed into Gilgamesh's face.

Zheng Jing pointed at Gilgamesh in the mirror, making faces and baring his teeth. After confirming that there wouldn't be any crooked nose or eyes that couldn't be straightened, he laughed out loud.

He turned around again, and apart from his clothes, he had completely transformed into Gilgamesh.

Wonderful!

Now it's his turn to bluff Old Lan!

After reverting to his original form, Zheng Jing was about to return to the main hall to pay his respects to his master before setting off. Suddenly, he realized that he didn't know how long he would be gone. Although the flow of time was different on both sides, he would eventually have to find time to come back. But before leaving, he should sort things out here.

Zheng Jing took out his phone and sent a message to Xue Qing, saying that he was going to wander around for a couple of days and if anyone needed to go to the temple, he asked Xue Qing to keep an eye on things for them.

After waiting a while without receiving a reply, Zheng Jing scratched his cheek, thinking that Lady Cao probably didn't have the habit of going to bed this early. She was probably taking a shower or playing video games and had her phone lying aside unattended.

This wasn't the first time he'd asked Xueqing for a favor like this. The two had grown up together, so a simple request was enough. Zheng Jing didn't wait any longer.

After locking the doors and windows in front of and behind the temple and making sure nothing was missing, he returned to the main hall, bowed to his master, and then sat cross-legged on the prayer mat with a grin.

"Old Lan, I'm here!"

Chapter 128: Death, What is Death?!

"Aieeeee! Death, why is the Grim Reaper—"

They scrambled and crawled, screaming incoherently.

Compared to the Hollow, this lizard-like Adjuchas, which is over four meters long, looks more like a blonde woman in a splatter movie being stabbed in the face by a psychopathic killer.

"Don't be afraid, I don't mean to make things difficult for you."

Pushing up his glasses, Aizen wore his usual gentle smile as he looked down at the panicked Adjuchas in front of him.

"You can leave as long as you answer my questions truthfully."

"A...question?"

Taking two more steps back, Adjuchas stared at Aizen, his heart filled with astonishment and doubt.

He wasn't unfamiliar with death.

Although he hid and didn't go when Lord Barragan summoned a group of Adjuchas to invade Soul Society as vanguards, he had been an Adjuchas for quite some time and had not only met Shinigami, but had even eaten Shinigami in the human world who wanted to punish him.

But he had never seen such a powerful Grim Reaper!

He was the one who launched the sneak attack on the seemingly unsuspecting Grim Reaper, but in the blink of an eye, his forelimbs were severed—

In the end what happened?

He just couldn't understand it!

The only thing he could understand was that the Shinigami in front of him, who had somehow arrived in Hueco Mundo, was stronger than him—much stronger!

So strong that he could kill him at any moment!

Is there really such a powerful character in Bleach?!

This Adjuchas, who had never suffered a loss at the hands of Death before, realized for the first time how terrifying Death was...

"Ask me! Ask me! I'll answer whatever you ask!"

Seeing Aizen take a step toward him, as if afraid that Aizen, who was only a dozen steps away, wouldn't hear him, he quickly shouted.

"Besides me, have you seen any other Shinigami in Hueco Mundo?"

"Other Grim Reapers?"

Adjuchas muttered something.

His usually unused brain couldn't help but generate an idea.

Could this be... because of Lord Barragan's previous invasion, the Grim Reaper is retaliating?

Has this guy gotten separated from his companions?

"That's right, he's a male Grim Reaper with four arms, skilled with a club, strong physique, and lively personality."

As he said this, Adjuchas felt that the man's smile seemed to brighten considerably.

"N-No...really no! I'm not lying to you! I haven't left Hueco Mundo for a long time, and you're the only Shinigami I've seen during this time! Really!"

"Yeah......"

Seeing Aizen's smile fade slightly and his eyes lower as if he were disappointed, Adjuchas straightened up like a cat with its fur standing on end.

"Wait! Hold on—although I haven't seen him, but... but I know where you might have found out about your companion's whereabouts!"

"Oh?"

"Go that way!"

Without its forelimbs, Adjuchas pointed with its tail.

That leads to the core of Hueco Mundo—the direction towards Barragán [Palace].

He wasn't lying; if one were to search for a Shinigami in Hueco Mundo, this overlord of Hueco Mundo would undoubtedly be the most "enthusiastic"...

After looking in the direction Adjuchas pointed for a moment, Aizen turned around and started walking in that direction.

Adjuchas stared at Aizen's back until Aizen had walked nearly two hundred meters without showing any intention of turning back to attack, before he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Just you wait... damn it!"

Just imagining how miserable the sinister-looking four-eyed Grim Reaper would be after meeting Lord Barragan made his wounds feel less painful.

"Lord Barragan will definitely—ga!"

"Ok?"

Standing on Adjuchas's head, Zheng Jing scratched his cheek.

"Oops, sorry, I didn't expect to step on someone."

He apologized and jumped off the Adjuchas.

Adjuchas was first startled by the human-like figure, but upon closer inspection, he realized that it was a guy who didn't look like Death at all who had landed in front of him.

He wasn't wearing the iconic Shinigami uniform, nor did he have his annoying Zanpakuto hanging from his waist.

...the soul of an ordinary human being?

Adjuchas, who wasn't particularly fond of thinking, didn't bother to consider how the souls of ordinary humans ended up in Hueco Mundo.

All he wanted to do at that moment was vent his anger!

That Grim Reaper is one thing, but you, a weak human, dare to step on my head?!

With this thought in mind, Adjuchas opened his blood-red maw and roared as he bit at Zheng Jing.

"Boom."

Zheng Jing picked at his ear, shook the blood off the stick, and looked down at the headless corpse twitching slightly in front of him.

"Why are you yelling so loudly? And biting people? Even if you don't have hands, you can't just start using your mouth."

He put the golden cudgel behind his ear and looked up at the sky.

A pale crescent moon hung high in the gray-black night sky.