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Chapter 593: Devouring Grimmjow
Chapter 593: Devouring Grimmjow
"Cero."
Facing the blood-colored arrow fired by Lilynette, Grimmjow, who had transformed into an upper-level Vasto Lorde-class Hollow, merely glanced at it indifferently and raised his right hand.
Red light converged in his right hand, erupting with a vast and overwhelming spiritual pressure that transformed into a red beam of light shooting forward.
This was a Vasto Lorde-level cero blast! Whether it was offensive power or oppressive force, it far surpassed the ceros of the lower-level Adjuchas-class Gillians and the mid-level Adjuchas-class Menos Grandes.
Boom!!!
The cero collided with Lilynette's arrow, creating an earth-shattering boom. The blood-colored light exploded, forming a wave of energy that surged in all directions.
On the ground below, countless grains of white sand were swept up, like a sandstorm reverberating towards the endless desert horizon.
Within a hundred-mile radius, Hollows and various other creatures trembled involuntarily, cowering on the ground, unable to move as they felt an absolute suppression on a life-form level.
As the aftermath subsided...
Grimmjow remained standing on the sandy ground below, his body unwavering. Lilynette, floating in the sky, also maintained her composure. Their initial exchange of attacks seemed to have ended in a stalemate.
"Hey..."
Grimmjow gazed at Lilynette and suddenly curled his lips in a sneer. He raised both hands, and brilliant blue light extended from the fingertips of his five fingers.
"Garra de la Pantera!" (Panther King's Claw!)
He roared, and in the next instant, he disappeared from his original position and reappeared in the sky, viciously slashing his claws towards Lilynette.
The consecutive strikes of his left and right claws created intersecting blue light trails that tore through the sky, intertwining like a fishing net aimed at tearing Lilynette to shreds.
Boom!!
Facing this attack, Lilynette remained calm. She grabbed the corners of her longbow with both hands and swung it like a mighty axe, forcefully smashing it towards the incoming blue light trail.
The collision between the longbow and the light trail caused the blue light to distort and then shatter into pieces.
Swish!
Just as Lilynette swung her bow, shattering Grimmjow's attack, he didn't linger. He flashed and appeared behind Lilynette, his left hand transformed into a claw, aiming to pierce through her heart from behind.
Facing this sudden attack from behind, Lilynette showed no sign of panic. In her amber-colored eyes, the world seemed to slow down, and Grimmjow's movements were completely within her visual capture.
Bang!
Lilynette twisted her body and struck Grimmjow's claw with her elbow, forcing it to halt in mid-air, unable to advance any further.
Lilynette turned her head towards Grimmjow, her expression indifferent and cold.
"Is that all?"
As her words fell, she released the longbow with her right hand, supporting her left arm, and pushed forward forcefully. The impact of the colliding spiritual pressures caused an explosion, forcing both Lilynette and Grimmjow to retreat.
Grimmjow's arrogance from his transformation into a Vasto Lorde had faded, and he now glared at Lilynette with murderous intent. He hadn't expected Lilynette to still be able to block his attacks even after he had transformed!
This Shinigami before him was incredibly powerful!
In fact...
Lilynette's Shinigami powers were not that strong. They were slightly inferior to Grimmjow's post-transformation state, but she was able to calmly counter his attacks because, in addition to her Shinigami powers, she also utilized the power of the "Blood Eye".
The ability to use Dojutsu techniques while in Shinigami form was a trait shared by both Feng Ye and Lilynette. However, Lilynette's Dojutsu was not the Rinnegan of the Nine-Tailed Kyuubi, but a Bloodline Limit Dojutsu more focused on close-quarters combat. It provided an extremely powerful enhancement to her dynamic vision, combining the abilities of the Sharingan and Byakugan, and surpassing them both.
With this dynamic vision, even if the girls' and Feng Ye's process of buying Coke was accelerated by several dozen or even a hundred times, she could still capture every detail clearly, let alone Grimmjow's movements.
After creating some distance between herself and Grimmjow, Lilynette reached out and summoned the Blood-red Elegy back into her hand, once again drawing the bowstring.
"Bankai, Finale—Hell's Elegy."
Grimmjow's strength after transforming into a Vasto Lorde was indeed formidable, and it would be challenging to defeat him with conventional attacks. Therefore, Lilynette didn't plan to continue the stalemate and decisively unleashed the final ability of her Bankai.
Buzz!!!
She pulled the bowstring, and with each segment she drew, the spiritual particles near the string vibrated violently, causing visible distortions in the air, as if the space itself was shaking and folding.
Lilynette's stance as she drew the bowstring was also completely different. Instead of pulling the bow with both hands, she stood at the center of the massive bow, using her body to stretch the string bit by bit.
Her Bankai's Finale transformed her body into the arrow itself!
True to its name, this technique was the Hell's Elegy, the ultimate form of her technique, and the most decisive form! By turning herself into the arrow, she could gather all her spiritual power into a single, explosive attack, unleashing unimaginable destructive power. However, if this strike failed to kill her opponent, she would undoubtedly shatter and perish!
Either pierce through the enemy, or shatter herself.
This was the ultimate technique of her Bankai!
As the air vibrated with spiritual particles, Lilynette's body began to glow with a bloody light. She transformed into a gigantic arrow bathed in sanguine radiance, pulling the bowstring to its full extent, forming a perfect full moon.
"!"
Grimmjow's expression changed slightly.
He sensed a strong threat and instinctively realized that Lilynette's attack was not to be taken lightly. Moreover, he felt locked onto, as if there was no way to evade Lilynette's impending strike!
If he couldn't dodge, then he would have to clash head-on with Lilynette!
"Garra de la Pantera!!" (Panther King's Claw!!)
Grimmjow glared at Lilynette, his arms trembling as he unleashed his spiritual pressure to the extreme, channeling all of it into his arms and concentrating it into his claws.
The surging spiritual pressure caused the air around his claws to distort, as if space itself was warping. The white sand below rippled violently, forming wave-like patterns that spread in all directions, with Grimmjow at the center.
Buzz!!
Lilynette brought her hands together in front of her, her expression calm and serene. Finally, she propelled herself forward, transforming into a dazzling blood-red beam of light that cut through the sky and descended towards Grimmjow.
In an instant, the world seemed to lose its color.
The battle between a Vasto Lorde-level Hollow and a Shinigami fighting with all their might in Hueco Mundo was no less impactful than a battle between a Captain-level Shinigami and a strong opponent in Soul Society.
One could see the sky and earth seemingly split in two, with a blood-colored radiance descending from above and a blue radiance rising from below. The collision of these two lights clearly divided the world into two distinct halves!
The dazzling lights shone like suns, illuminating the sky and land, causing the rest of the world to pale in comparison.
Blue and crimson thunderbolts continuously exploded in the void.
This was the spectacle of spiritual particles bursting in the air.
The blood-colored and blue lights violently pulsated and stalemated in the air, like two opposing drills endlessly spinning and sparking countless flecks of light.
In the distance.
About several dozen miles away.
Nel, who was quickly traversing the desert, slowed her pace and gazed toward the battlefield of Lilynette and Grimmjow. She clearly saw the blood-colored and blue radiance interweaving in the sky.
"As expected, they are fighting..."
"...And it has escalated to this extent."
Nel murmured, her eyes gleaming with a hint of shock. She could discern that the newly ascended Vasto Lorde-level Hollow was likely exerting all his strength.
What shocked her even more was that the entity fighting this Vasto Lorde-level Hollow possessed a spiritual pressure unlike that of a Hollow... It belonged to a Shinigami from Soul Society!
A newly ascended Vasto Lorde-level Hollow was battling a Shinigami from Soul Society, and it seemed they were reaching the climax of their fight, where a victor would soon emerge!
"..."
After briefly slowing down, Nel took a breath and accelerated again, rushing toward the battlefield up ahead.
BOOM!!!
The blood-red and blue lights in the sky continuously exploded.
Grimmjow's expression was ferocious as he pushed his spiritual pressure to the limit, roaring continuously and channeling his spiritual power into his attack.
However.
As time passed, the Panther King's Claw he had unleashed began to crack from the tip, gradually being drilled through and broken apart!
After all, he had just transformed into a Vasto Lorde, and he hadn't developed many techniques to utilize his new power yet. Moreover, his technique merely involved unleashing his spiritual pressure with all his might, while Lilynette had transformed herself into an arrow and shot herself forward, a desperate move that risked her life!
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Grimmjow's eyes reddened with bloodshot veins, and he roared madly. But once the tide of battle turned against him, he couldn't reverse it.
His Panther King's Claw began to crumble from the front, pierced by the blood-red arrow. The rate of collapse quickened, like a withered tree being snapped, shattering in large pieces.
Finally.
The blood-red arrow pierced through the blue light and reached his front, colliding with his claws. After a brief pause, it shattered his claws!
HISS!
After shattering Grimmjow's claws, the blood-red light didn't pause or face any obstruction. In an instant, it shot forward, piercing through Grimmjow's body and falling toward the desert dozens of meters behind him.
The desert initially caved in, then exploded downward, collapsing and disintegrating in a radius of several hundred to nearly a thousand meters. A pitch-black, massive hole appeared, as if a platform had collapsed.
The bottom of Hueco Mundo was exposed beneath the hole, revealing the scene within the Forest of Menos.
However, there were no signs of any Hollows in the nearby Forest of Menos. They had instinctively fled far away when Grimmjow transformed into a Vasto Lorde, and only darkness and emptiness could be seen.
"Cough..."
Grimmjow's body froze in mid-air.
He turned his head with difficulty, glancing back before coughing and spitting out a mouthful of blood. A hole about twenty centimeters wide appeared in his chest, his body almost completely pierced through and broken from the center.
"I actually..."
Grimmjow clenched his teeth, his eyes revealing a reluctant expression.
He had just become a Vasto Lorde, the highest-level Hollow, yet he hadn't conquered all of Hueco Mundo or become the king. How could he be defeated here!
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!"
Grimmjow roared toward the sky, his shattered body twitching as it gathered and converged toward the center, struggling to heal the wound.
All Vasto Lorde-level Hollows possessed rapid regeneration abilities, so this was a given. After becoming an Arrancar, some Hollows would lose their rapid regeneration ability, but before that transformation, almost all of them retained this ability.
However.
His injuries were too severe.
His spiritual pressure was extremely depleted, having been overwhelmed and crushed head-on. His wounds weren't mere limb injuries or external wounds, but truly fatal ones. If not for his status as a Vasto Lorde-level Hollow, he would have already disintegrated into spiritual particles.
Otherwise, if a regular Adjuchas-class Hollow were pierced by Lilynette's attack, they would have long turned into spiritual particles and ceased to exist.
The flesh and blood in Grimmjow's chest twitched, but it seemed to be a struggle to maintain.
It was at this moment that Lilynette's figure silently appeared below the collapsed section of the desert and flew toward Grimmjow.
She had released her Bankai state, and her spiritual pressure seemed somewhat overexerted, making her appear a little weak and her complexion even paler. However, her expression remained calm.
"You..."
Grimmjow stared at the approaching Lilynette with difficulty.
But before he could say anything else, he saw Lilynette stop about ten meters away from him. Then, the upper half of her body swelled and twisted, her white hair dancing wildly as it transformed into pieces of milky-white flesh, forming a massive head.
CRUNCH!
After partially transforming her soul into the Ten-Tails' form, Lilynette manipulated the Ten-Tails to open its mouth and bite down on Grimmjow, swallowing him whole. She chewed a couple of times before swallowing him.
(End of Chapter)
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