The Supreme Soul, Starting with Death

Painful, greedy, angry, hungry, fearful, desperate...

Various noises surged in Gu Shi's mind, causing him to stop eating. However, the other Void beings around him did not hesitate and immediately bit off large chunks of flesh from his body. If he did not eat quickly to replenish his spiritual energy and recover from his injuries, he might be eaten clean by these Void beings in no time.

Left with no other choice, Gu Shi could only continue to struggle to eat.

[So that's why most Kylian are irrational? The emotions and desires of hundreds of Hollows merged into one, and the overly complex and chaotic consciousness clashed with each other, ultimately causing a program-like crash that turned Kylian into idiots.]

It seems that in the process of absorbing others, one must also hold fast to one's original intentions and not mistake other illusory ideas for one's own.

Fortunately, these noises were mostly negative emotions. Because I lost those negative emotions while in a virtual state, my body was naturally able to quickly eliminate them, allowing me to remain optimistic.

[And the fact that I survived a situation that should have meant certain death makes me feel quite good right now. I shouldn't have to worry about noise affecting my consciousness for the time being.]

Thinking this, Gu Shi bit through the belly of the creature in front of him, and leaned his head forward, surprisingly feeling a bit of dry, hot air brushing against his cheek.

[Finally, did you figure it out?]

Looking around, besides the "virtual mountain" where he was, there were several other "virtual mountains" that were constantly writhing.

Further away, there were large numbers of Killian cloaked in black robes. These idiots who created the storm of Cero were almost all wounded at this moment.

However, upon closer inspection, there didn't seem to be any Kylian corpses lying on the ground. It's unclear whether they had already been eaten by other Kylians or whether the Hollows were just tough and resilient, as none of them died even in the eye of the storm of Hollow flashes and the ensuing chaos.

Shaking his head, no longer thinking about the Kylian group, Gu Shi turned around and glanced at the Hueco Mundo behind him.

Although the amount of meat he had just eaten was probably three to five times his own, his injuries had not healed much because he was also being eaten by other Void creatures. He had previously had his limbs amputated below the chest, and now he had only recovered to the point where his limbs would have been amputated below the navel.

After a brief hesitation, Gu Shi decisively turned around and plunged back into the feast of eating and being eaten.

Without sufficient power as a guarantee, it is too difficult to survive in Hueco Mundo. Now that there is an opportunity to become a Menos Grande, even if there is considerable danger, we must seize it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, when you're seriously injured and on the verge of death next time, you might not be so lucky.

P.S.: The author collapsed in the battle against the overtime monster yesterday and was unable to update. I am extremely sorry!

But! I still need some recommendation votes and favorites today~

Chapter Forty-Seven: Kylian

Wow, I thought it was already outrageous enough to get ribbonfish fowl here, but I didn't expect there to be jellyfish fowl here too? How did these things survive on the surface of the desert before?

[Hmm? There's even a tiger's fin! It's a pity its belly is on the back of a coyote's fin, otherwise maybe I could have tasted tiger penis?]

[This... whether it's a donkey or a horse, I can only tell the difference by the length of their ears. With half the head bitten off, I really can't tell.]

While Gu Shi was feasting and drinking in the Void Mountain, he also devoted a portion of his mind to identifying the types of Void he had consumed, not because he had any particular hobby.

However, as he devoured more and more Hollows, the noises rising from his heart grew stronger and stronger. He had to find some amusement to keep himself in a good mood so that he wouldn't be swallowed up by the greedy and resentful voices of other Hollows.

In this environment where there is only eating and being eaten, time seems to have become irrelevant. Gu Shi has no idea how long he has been eating. He can only recognize that none of the surrounding phantoms can maintain their original independent form.

Each Hollow's wound has healed together with the wounds of other Hollows, and the "flesh and blood" of the entire Hollow Mountain has become a whole. Gu Shi is no exception. He can even see himself through the eyes of other Hollows.

At this moment, the Void Swarm is not so much devouring other Voids, but rather devouring itself. Each Void here can actually be seen as a blood vessel or meridian of the huge entity "Void Mountain". They are using the method of "devouring" to drive the spiritual power to circulate rapidly within "Void Mountain".

Gu Shi could sense that the self-awareness of the surrounding "blood vessels and meridians" was becoming weaker and weaker. Once their independent thoughts were completely eliminated, a new Kylian would be successfully born. As long as he could hold on until then and retain his complete consciousness, he could smoothly become the master of this new body.

[If we can just hold on a little longer, that will be fine.]

Gu Shi silently cheered himself up, not daring to slack off in the slightest. He bit the head of a bird next to him and immediately felt a piercing pain surge into his heart, as if he had bitten his own arm.

Having long been accustomed to the pain, Gu Shi chuckled to himself that the bird seemed to be bald, and continued biting at the next target.

At that moment, a terrifying sense of oppression suddenly came from the very side. The spiritual pressure, like a mountain collapsing, made all the Hollows feel suffocated, and their movements involuntarily slowed down.

Gu Shi was inside the Void Mountain and couldn't see what was happening for a while. However, he blinked and quickly connected with a Void Eye on the outer edge of the Void Mountain through the "flesh and blood" link, sharing his vision.

Not far from the Void Mountain, where there should have been another Void Mountain, there was no longer a swarm of writhing and roaring Voids. Instead, there was a terrifying Great Void, clad in a long black robe and wearing a clown-like mask with a pointed nose, standing at least thirty meters tall.

This newly born Hollow was clearly not one of the lucky ones to retain its self-awareness. It stood there dazedly for a moment, then, following its instincts, let out a terrifying low growl and headed towards the Kyrian colony not far away.

[A new Kyrian has been born, so I should be close to the point where I can evolve soon, right? Good news!]

To maintain his positive mood, Gu Shi cheered inwardly and immediately planned to disconnect from the visual sharing with the Hollow on the outside and continue to focus on devouring the Hollows around him. But at that moment, another terrifying spiritual pressure erupted from the side. Gu Shi blinked and switched to the vision of a Hollow in that direction.

Sure enough, another Kylian was born there, still over thirty meters tall, still draped in a long black robe, and still wearing a pale white mask.

However, while ordinary Killian masks are almost identical pointed-nosed clown masks, this Killian's mask is different; it looks like...

Dog head?

Gu Shi was overjoyed and spoke without thinking.

"Wait until autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month!"

Because of the frenzied devouring, Gu Shi's body had become "blood-linked" with the other Voids, and the self-awareness of the other Voids had almost completely dissipated. At this moment, Gu Shi was so excited that when he opened his mouth, he caused hundreds of Voids on the entire Void Mountain to open their mouths at the same time, emitting a roar that seemed to have its own reverberation and chorus.

"When autumn comes on the eighth day of the ninth month!" This was clearly a powerful line of poetry, but when hundreds of virtual beings shouted it out in various tones at the same time, it sounded like a prayer for the arrival of a terrifying demon, full of an eerie atmosphere.

Upon hearing this line of poetry, Killian the Dog-Headed immediately followed up with the next line without a second thought.

"When my flower blooms, all other flowers will die!"

After receiving the poem, the dog-headed Kylian finally realized what was happening. He looked at the Void Mountain, which was still devouring each other, with surprise and disbelief, and asked.

"Is that you, Gu Shi?"

"Haha, it's me, Erlang! You really are alive! Good, good, good!"

Hundreds of Hollows opened their mouths simultaneously, responding to Killian's question with either mournful or angry cries, and then burst into joyful laughter.

After waiting for so long, Gu Shi finally received some truly good news. He was overjoyed and laughed heartily. His joy swelled and gradually overwhelmed the noise in his heart, instead flowing into the consciousness of the other remaining ethereal beings.

Finally, when the laughter of the hundreds of Void beings on Void Mountain completely shed their negative emotions such as greed, anger, and fear, leaving only the same joy as Gu Shi, a wondrous change arose spontaneously.

Apart from Gu Shi, all the illusory bodies dissolved out of thin air, turning into a pale, surging liquid that carried Gu Shi toward the highest point of the illusory mountain.

At the same time, the liquid produced by the dissolution of the hundreds of illusory masks also merged into Gu Shi's mask, causing the bear-shaped mask to grow larger and eventually become a white bone mask that would not look out of place even when placed on a thirty-meter-tall body.

In Gu Shi's perception, his body grew taller and taller, and his spiritual pressure became stronger and stronger. It seemed that as long as he concentrated slightly, he could spit out an incredibly terrifying Cero.

Despite having acquired a new body, Gu Shi felt no discomfort whatsoever. He casually swung his arms, feeling the terrifying whooshing sound of his claws slicing through the air, and nodded gently with delight.

Finally, I have a basic guarantee to survive in Hueco Mundo.

As Gu Shi was marveling at the sight, a giant dog head, over 4 meters long, appeared right in front of him, grinning broadly and looking incredibly happy.

With amusement in his heart, Gu Shi raised his paw and patted the big head. Although the feel had changed, Erlang's reaction to being touched was as familiar as ever, his eyes narrowed and his face full of silly smiles.

After examining Erlang's head for a while, Gu Shi shifted his gaze to the still-evolving Void Mountains, trying to find traces of bats.

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Great Void Robe

"Let me eat you!"

What's the point?

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! I'll definitely be the one to become a Hollow in the end!"

Does the Great Hollow have any meaning?

"Hehe, why are you all so agitated? We're all just illusions. What's the difference between you eating me and me eating you?"

[Talking about this all the time is getting a bit...boring.]

"Delicious! So tasty! This is the first time I've ever eaten so enjoyably!"

Is 73 a prime or composite number?

"Power! I can feel a continuous flow of power surging into my body!"

I've already learned how to calculate the area of ​​squares and rectangles, but I haven't had time to learn the formula for the area of ​​a triangle yet, and it seems I won't have the chance now. I'll try to derive it myself.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"

[Yes, the area of ​​a right-angled triangle can be calculated by multiplying the area of ​​a square by one-half, but what about triangles without right angles...]

"Shut up! You stinky bat, I'll eat you! Let's see if you can still spout this incomprehensible nonsense!"

[By the way, you can draw an auxiliary line perpendicular to the base to transform a triangle into two right triangles for calculation.]

"What's wrong with that guy? Wasn't he going to eat that bat head? Why isn't he moving?"

There's a simple formula for calculating the area of ​​a square. Is it possible to simplify my method for calculating the area of ​​a triangle into a similar formula?

Is 73 a prime number or a composite number?

"Wait, weren't you going to eat that bat head? Why are you going crazy too!"

"Assuming the length is 7 and the height is 6, what is the area of ​​this rectangle?"

"How come you also... 42, the area is 42, it's my turn to ask a question."

[Strange? The atmosphere seems to have improved; everyone's starting to discuss meaningful things? Oh well, it's none of my business. Let's get back to simplifying the formula.]

……

Gu Shi merely glanced around and quickly found the most unusual one among the remaining four virtual mountains. The virtual objects in the other virtual mountains were devouring each other and roaring in anger.

Only the virtual creature within this virtual mountain, while muttering questions like, "Xiao Ming's speed is 23 meters per second, Xiao Hong's speed is 15 meters per second, Xiao Hong runs 33 seconds ahead, how long will it take Xiao Ming to catch up with Xiao Hong?", slowly and methodically gnawed at each other's flesh.

His slow, deliberate manner resembled that of a young person who watches TV shows on their phone while eating, unable to swallow a single bite for ages.

"...Alright, needless to say, the bat must be inside to have transformed into this bizarre form."

Rolling his eyes, Gu Shi was momentarily at a loss for whether to be happy that the bat was still alive or disgusted by its polluting nature, which had managed to drive so many phantoms into madness along with him.

"However, all the spirits of the void are nearly unified. Once the spiritual energy completes its assimilation in the great cycle, the bats should be able to evolve into Killian smoothly."

Gu Shi nodded with satisfaction and decided to stay here as a protector until the bat completed its evolution.

Jiro, who was standing to the side, instinctively wanted to sit down and scratch his head with his hind paws, but found that after evolving into a Gillian, he could no longer do this. Frustrated, he shook his head and offered a different opinion.

"But, Gu Shi, these phantoms are devouring each other so slowly, can they really complete the evolution? Doesn't evolution have a time limit? Judging from this speed, I always feel that the bats will eventually fail to evolve due to exceeding the time limit."

After becoming a Hollow, Jiro's mind seemed to become even sharper; not only were his thoughts clearer, but his language skills also improved significantly.

After Erlang said that, Gu Shi also became a little worried. He couldn't help but consider the feasibility of interrupting the evolution, retrieving the bat, explaining to him the things to pay attention to during the evolution, and then finding another opportunity to help him evolve.

As Gu Shi was thinking, another Hollow erupted with astonishing spiritual pressure behind him, successfully evolving into a Gillian. He glanced at the new, lower-level Hollow and confirmed that its mask was a clown with a pointed nose, belonging to the type without reason or self-awareness. Gu Shi then withdrew his gaze without caring.

Such ordinary Kylians will soon be guided by their instincts to join the Kylian herd, becoming an inconspicuous member, and there is no need to pay them any attention.

Just as he made his judgment, Gu Shi suddenly realized that the newborn Kylian, after a brief period of confusion, did not head towards the Kylian herd, but instead moved towards them.