You are very strong, but my painting style is better than yours!

...The battle became increasingly difficult, with Hollows falling one by one, but the number of Shinigami also decreased. No deaths were confirmed because the "corpses" would disappear into the Hollow horde in an instant.

Tenbei also fell, his chest pierced by the spikes from an Adjuchas' tail, and his body was easily torn apart.

There was no time to mourn his sacrifice; the desperate battle continued...

Saito, who is immortal, encourages everyone. Her new and old injuries combined have left her with almost no strength to stand up, but even so, she remains the pillar of strength for everyone.

"Humph!"

At this moment, the King of Hueco Mundo, having had his fill of the spectacle, let out a cold laugh.

"There is no need for such sentimentality, nor for fear. All your wavering before me is meaningless, for death will devour you before you even realize it."

That invisible force causes all things to decay, from the physical to the spiritual, turning everything to dust without exception...

"That's right, this is the true 'Grim Reaper,' and I am the one who controls it!"

Extend your fingertips;

Depicting death;

Like quicksand, like a gentle breeze, it slips by in a fleeting moment—

The shadow of death loomed over the one-eyed girl, a skeletal fingertip touched her forehead, and a wisp of thin black mist rose and swayed...

His pupils dilated instantly, and Saito, who was immortal, stiffened all over. Then, starting from his forehead, his skin, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, internal organs... all cells and tissues withered instantly and turned to ashes. In just a few breaths, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force was reduced to a skeleton!

"Lord Saito!"

One of the Four Heavenly Kings, who had persevered until now, rushed forward in grief and indignation. Before he could even get close, he was struck by a heavy and sharp black shadow. His upper arm, sternum, and spine were instantly split in two.

He didn't even feel the pain, just as the King of Hueco Mundo said, losing his life without even realizing it.

rustling...

Saito and the Four Heavenly Kings' corpses completely crumbled into ashes and scattered in the wind.

Barragan made no comment on this; with his power capable of destroying everything, even a captain-level Grim Reaper couldn't resist, so this outcome was only natural.

"Damn it! The Destruction of the Dao—"

Aizen and his sister gathered their spiritual pressure and unleashed a powerful Kido at Barragan, but the King of Hueco Mundo calmly pointed a finger, and the flame Kido that touched his fingertip instantly dissipated!

"what!"

Iori stared at the scene in disbelief: "The Kido has actually been..."

"What's so strange about it? Everything in the universe has its end. Whether it's humans, Hollows, or Shinigami, all living and non-living things, even Kido composed of spiritual pressure, inevitably go through the process of formation, deterioration, and death."

Nothing in this world is permanent! All things and phenomena will eventually age and perish!

Barragan brandished his great axe and flashed to Iori's side. Neither his Kido nor his Zanpakuto could withstand the ominous dark spiritual pressure. Under the corrosive influence of "aging," they turned into rust and broke. Then, the great axe fell heavily, cleaving the exceptionally talented young Shinigami in two from top to bottom with a single blow!

"Hmph... all bark and no bite."

The King of Hueco Mundo showed disdain for Iori's weakness. Despite having fought for a long time and expending a lot of energy, Iori couldn't even withstand a single blow from him... He was just a figurehead.

As for his defeated subordinates—

"What a bunch of useless trash!"

"Those Adjuchas were actually defeated by such trash?!"

Chapter 169: It won't waste your time! (4K)

Unrivaled power!

The rulers of Hueco Mundo possess the supernatural power to control "aging," which is not a simple curse, but rather the deterioration of matter caused by the passage of time.

Just as the power of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception is to see the “death” of all things, what Barragan can manifest is the possibility of “aging” that all things in this world possess.

There is nothing eternal and indestructible in the Three Realms. All matter and spiritual particles will change over time, so no person or object can resist Barragan's Death Finger!

The body ages, the soul perishes, objects decay, and even the demonic path, a phenomenon caused by spiritual particles, will turn to ashes under the erosion of time…

This "absolute" power is precisely the reason why Barragán became "King"!

Because he had already reached the pinnacle of Hueco Mundo, the king found the daily routine tedious, and the arrival of the Grim Reaper piqued his interest slightly... But when he grew tired of his foolish and incompetent subordinates, he ended the battle with a single move.

Whether it was the first captain a thousand years ago or the peerless genius who mastered Bankai in just a few years, they all perished under the power that brought about the end of all things, without any suspense.

Overwhelming power!

Desperately powerful!

After slaying the leader, Barragan easily wiped out the remaining Grim Reapers. While bodies of those at the third level of spiritual power or above cannot decompose in the natural environment, both Saito and Iori's corpses were completely destroyed by the decaying black aura, their existence utterly erased from this world...

In the end, only one female Grim Reaper remained, struggling to stay afloat.

— Aizen Sōyūhime.

Witnessing her brother being killed by the Void King, she was not blinded by anger and hatred, and continued to fight fiercely. However, no matter how hard she tried, she could not change the course of the battle. Under the heavy siege of Adjuchas, she was covered in wounds and could only use her knife to support her body as she knelt on the ground, unwillingly raising her head to look at Barragan who was approaching step by step.

"hateful……"

"Aren't you willing to give in?"

The King of Hueco Mundo's deep purple fur coat fluttered in the wind, while his jet-black feathers swayed like flames. Wearing a golden crown and holding an execution axe, he drifted in like a ghost.

Compared to the samurai of Soul Society, he is more like a true "Shinigami"!

"But only losers of similar skill levels can claim to be resentful and regretful. Ants dying under the feet of humans have no right to make such a declaration."

"You weaklings, what you should do is simply hurl insults and curses, so that at least you can still appear to have backbone at the last moment."

With a skeletal hand outstretched, Barragan pressed down on Yuki's beautiful face, and the surging black energy instantly turned her into a pile of white bones!

"No matter what kind of appearance they have, their essence is the same."

With a casual wave of his hand, the skeleton instantly turned into a handful of white ash and scattered.

—The elite forces of the expeditionary force were completely wiped out here!

"Perfect for stretching my muscles... It's been a long time since I fought against death."

Can a one-sided massacre be called a battle?

This question is meaningless because his power is unsolvable. Death has already performed exceptionally well, it's just that Barragan is superior to him.

"I've had my fill. Now let's return to Hueco Mundo," Barragán said, returning to his throne and giving orders to his subordinates.

After cheering and flattering, Adjuchas and the other Voidlings escorted the throne back the way they came, looking extremely arrogant. Barragan, too, felt a long-lost sense of pleasure, which added a touch of color to his dull life.

"..."

Suddenly, the fingertips resting on the armrest twitched slightly, and the skeletal body wrapped in the fur coat swept away the languid atmosphere, like a wild beast suddenly arching its back.

"..."

He silently raised his head, his dark eyes casting an empty gaze as he coldly swept over the subordinates surrounding him.

wrong!

Although I don't know exactly where the problem lies... it's safe to say that there's a problem everywhere!

He reached out and grasped the execution axe again, and silently rose from his throne.

Noticing the commotion, one of the Adjuchas turned to look at Barragan and asked curiously, "Your Majesty?"

——Zheng!

With a swing of the great axe, the Adjuchas was killed on the spot!

"His Majesty?!"

Adjuchas stared in disbelief at his most revered king, but the power of aging was irresistible, and his body rapidly turned to ashes under the erosion of time.

The surrounding Hollows were instantly terrified!

However, Barragán remained unmoved, his cold gaze sweeping over his other subordinates.

"Your Majesty! What are you doing? Your Majesty!"

"Humph!"

The King of the Hollows glanced at it, recalling that it must have been seriously injured in the battle and did not have the specialized super-fast regeneration ability, but now its entire body was completely unharmed.

So, without the slightest pity, he extended a finger—

laugh!

The Great Hollow's head was pierced and completely corroded from the inside out.

"Run! Wang has gone mad!"

"Spare me, Lord Barragán!"

"His Majesty!"

Even the most loyal Adjuchas dared not approach Barragan at this moment, and scattered and fled. After carefully sensing the situation, the King of Hueco Mundo aimed at one of the figures and hurled his great axe at it!

This giant axe was like the guillotine of death, with the power to cut a small mountain in half with a single blow. Barragan showed no mercy and was determined to cut this Hollow in two!

- Om!

However, the throw missed its target. The Adjuchas had turned around at some point and was calmly looking at Barragán, his position perfectly positioned to avoid the thrown axe.

"Ha... Just as I thought! You actually managed to fool this old man, you're truly remarkable!"

The King of the Hollows sneered, and black smoke rose from his fingertips. With a casual wave of his hand, ominous ripples spread across the water.

This won't break the illusion that's binding him, but it will cause any enemy lurking around him to meet their doom!

To Barragán's surprise, no enemy took advantage of his hallucination to launch a sneak attack; the finger strike missed its target.

"Hmm... Although it's a despicable rat, it's still quite intelligent. It knows that such underhanded tricks won't work on a true strongman, so it was planning to stall for time from the beginning?"

Heh...whoosh whoosh...haha! Interesting!

"How dare you fool the King of Hueco Mundo! I admire your courage, but—be prepared to bear the consequences!"

The Skeleton King was enraged to the extreme, and the spiritual pressure belonging to Vastod was poured out without reservation, causing the entire desert to tremble, and every grain of sand could feel the weight of death.

As a king, to be deceived by a mere illusion and almost let a group of rats go was an insult to Barragan.

Yes, he has already figured out the whole story.

The turning point was probably when the boy was killed; from that point on, he was deceived by illusions.

One of the Grim Reapers used extremely malicious hypnotic abilities to make him believe that he had killed all his enemies, and then triumphed amidst the throng of his subordinates...

But in reality, a considerable number of the enemy probably escaped, and his subordinates... likely suffered much more casualties.

He may even have personally killed some of them—but Barragán was not swayed by this.

He now has only one thought: to find the caster and torture them to death in the most cruel way as punishment for deceiving the king!

There's no need to use the power of "aging," that would be far too lenient on such filthy sewer rats!

"Did they notice? It's still a bit of a stretch, isn't it?"

The Adjuchas who dodged the flying axe had vanished without a trace, replaced by a beautiful young woman with long, jet-black hair. The transformation was completely unexpected, as if the young woman had always been standing there.

She calmly met Barragan's gaze and smiled, "Excuse me, this is also my first time encountering a Vasto Lorde-class Hollow... As expected, its spiritual pressure is far above that of an ordinary captain-level Hollow, which puts me under quite a bit of pressure."

Despite saying that, there was no sign of embarrassment on her face.

In fact, Yuuki was indeed very composed...

Her [Mirror Flower Water Moon] possesses the ability of "complete hypnosis," which can control the enemy's five senses, causing the hypnotized enemy to mistake the posture, shape, texture, touch, and taste of a certain object for information from the enemy.

Simply put, it means arbitrarily manipulating the world as perceived by the other party, turning a fly into a dragon in their eyes, and a swamp into a flower field.

—This ability, though not directly lethal, is extremely terrifying in actual combat.

The Sharingan in Naruto is awe-inspiring because its genjutsu effect only requires a simple "eye contact," making it virtually impossible to defend against. However, Yuuki's Zanpakuto, after completing the "ritual," can be activated unconditionally anytime, anywhere…

For experts, even a momentary lapse in concentration during intense combat can lead to defeat, let alone "complete hypnosis" which occurs without any warning and is difficult for them to detect!

Originally, this ability had a drawback: as a price to pay for hypnosis, the Zanpakuto itself wasn't particularly strong physically. While Shikai and Bankai could typically increase a Shinigami's spiritual pressure several times over, [Kyoka Suigetsu] wasn't particularly outstanding in this regard…