Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 464 The Perfect Target

The worldview of the Grim Reapers has been shattered.

The Soul Society trembled, Hueco Mundo trembled, and the scale of the tremors was so great that mountains collapsed and the earth split apart. Even the boundary between the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo began to crumble, and a large number of Hollows poured into the Soul Society.

However, the world remains unchanged.

Even though the place where Xia Zuo and the Soul King fought was closer to the present world, it only had a devastating impact on a small area centered around Karakura Town.

The greatest impact is not even comparable to a magnitude 6 earthquake.

How could such a world be the lower realm of Soul Society?

Who is the primary and who is the secondary?

When the clash of sword energies reached an astonishing level, Xia Zuo suddenly passed through the line of sword energy and appeared directly behind the Spirit King.

The measuring ruler in his hand also drew a semi-circular arc, slashing down to within a palm's width of the Spirit King's neck.

boom!!!

Xia Zuo's Zanpakuto, Meriten-chi, failed to reach the Spirit King's neck; it was blocked by the Spirit King's thin and transparent Zanpakuto, Mansō.

The measuring ruler was cut open by the myriad phenomena that cut through all things, leaving a sword mark several inches long, almost severing it in half.

The Spirit King was also struck by the violent spiritual pressure carried by the Measuring Ruler, and was blasted into the thick ruins of the building like a cannonball.

However, the impact was exceptionally powerful, as the Spirit King had cleverly channeled Xia Zuo's spiritual pressure underground, causing as much damage as possible to the land of heavy spirits.

When all the power had been released, the Spirit King suddenly flew up from the ruins, staring blankly at the earth.

He suddenly asked, "Why?"

Xia Zuo laughed and said, "Why hasn't the world rejected or rejected me after I caused such severe damage to the Land of Spirits?"

"Of course, the damage I caused wasn't severe enough to matter to the world at large."

King Ling was dumbfounded: "Huh?"

Xia Zuo kindly explained, "If that attack had been directed into the Soul Society, it would have been enough to blow up the entire Soul Society and cause considerable damage to the Soul Society."

"But the same attack power is nothing more than a drizzle to the material world of the present, not even enough to scratch a itch."

"The mortal world is the core of the three realms. Although the material world's power of manifestation is not as great as that of the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo, its weight is incomparable to that of the Soul Society."

"You deliberately sent the Spirit King Palace out into the mortal world so that I would be attacked by the mortal world, which has the strongest power in the world. But you obviously don't know that the mortal world is capable of withstanding my attack and will not retaliate against me because of my attack."

"In fact, you might as well have set up the battlefield in Hueco Mundo—"

The Spirit King murmured, "Our power is already the limit of the world, yet we cannot even shake the present world?"

"No, not at all," Xia Zuo said calmly. "It's far from it."

"The power that you and I can achieve in this world is very strong, but it is only the limit allowed by the framework of this world."

"To give an example, the world's highest peak can reach 10,000 meters, but compared to the world's diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers, it is simply incomparable."

"The only places we can really stir up are the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. Even Hell, which you pushed away with all your might, cannot compare to the human world."

King Ling closed his eyes in pain, shaking his head violently to force himself to stay awake.

But he immediately sensed something was wrong. It turned out that while he was with his eyes closed, Xia Zuo had once again approached the bladeless sword, which carried the sword intent to destroy everything. It was already right in front of him, within arm's reach.

boom!!

The darkness surrounding the Spirit King grew wildly, transforming into a shield in front of him. Unfortunately, the initiative had been lost, and Xia Zuo easily cleaved through all obstacles, slicing the cold blade into his forehead.

In an instant, the burst of light dispelled the darkness, and the surging sword energy swept over the Spirit King's body, engulfing everything behind him in the sword energy.

"Waaaah!! Waaah!"

The Spirit King was cleaved in two in that instant, but inexplicably returned to the state of not being cleaved. However, the power within his body was completely disrupted by Xia Zuo's sword energy, leaving behind terrifying damage.

The Spirit King used all his strength to dispel Xia Zuo's sword energy, wrapped it with his own blood, and then spat out mouthfuls of this thick, blackened blood.

When the thick, oil-like blood fell to the ground, it first unleashed Xia Zuo's sword energy, cutting everything around it to pieces.

Then the black blood began to shimmer with golden light, continuously assimilating the surrounding matter into black matter.

Xia Zuo asked in surprise, "Your body was severed—yet you can reverse cause and effect, returning to the time before the attack? You can actually use your omniscience and omnipotence like this?"

"Could it be that he communicated with his future self and joined forces to destroy the timeline that was damaged?"

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Just as Xia Zuo said, the Spirit King did indeed join forces with his future self in the timeline of death to destroy the timeline of death, thus reversing cause and effect and eliminating the reality of being killed.

This is truly an extraordinary ability, originating from the omniscient and omnipotent authority of Yhwach, the son of King Soul King.

After learning that Yhwach's omniscience and omnipotence were limited by the world, the Soul King, after careful consideration, reduced his omniscience and omnipotence to the authority of time.

While it may lack the grandeur of God, its practicality has been improved like never before.

But for a being like the Spirit King, who has reached the limits of the world, each version of himself on every timeline is a part of himself.

In order to ensure the overall survival, it is necessary to destroy the timeline, which is essentially cutting off one's own flesh, an act of self-harm.

The power of time should not be used in this way, but rather one should anticipate the enemy's moves absolutely, take the initiative at every step, and calmly break the enemy's courage.

Unfortunately, Xia Zuo's existence was too powerful. When he gathered his power to launch an attack, all timelines were highly unified, and no branches were generated at all.

In this situation, the time authority can only perform simple predictions and cannot perform further time-related operations.

Until Xia Zuo's attack was completed, his power inevitably decreased, and the timeline was no longer strongly constrained, returning to a state of free growth.

It was at that time that the Soul King had room to maneuver and escaped the future of death.

Xia Zuo guessed correctly, but the Spirit King did not intend to answer his question. Instead, he shook his longsword and launched a counterattack.

Xia Zuo didn't expect the Spirit King's answer. As he asked the question, his figure moved like a ghost, instantly closing in on him again.

As a result, the Spirit King, who had gained the upper hand in the future, was unable to keep up with Xia Zuo's increasingly rapid and varied attacks, and ultimately failed to counterattack, instead suffering another blow.

The injured King of Spirits lightly touched the ground with his toes and flew away to avoid Xia Zuo's powerful but deadly strike.

At this moment, the spiritual pressure of Xia Zuo within his body, like a maggot clinging to his bone, began to churn and leap within him once more, disrupting the flow of his power and constantly weakening his strength.

Soul King knew he would surely lose if things continued this way, so he remembered what Shaza had said before: Hueco Mundo was more fragile and more likely to trigger the world's rejection.

But he now pretty much knows that while Xia Zuo doesn't lie, he doesn't tell the whole truth.

For example, Shazam said that Hueco Mundo is more vulnerable to harm, and that he would be rejected by the world's power because of it, which is absolutely true.

However, he didn't mention whether the Soul King would also be rejected by the world's power after entering Hueco Mundo.

The Soul King's hesitation lasted less than a second. When he saw that if he continued to fight, he would inevitably suffer another fatal injury in 12 seconds, he made up his mind, transformed into a black meteor, and rushed towards Hueco Mundo.

Xia Zuo was not about to let the Spirit King go, so he transformed into a streak of blue light and gave chase.

The black meteor and the blue streak of light soared into the sky, moving along a straight line, and in the blink of an eye, they pierced through the thin spatial barrier and entered the desolate void.

This sand sea, which is always a place of howling winds, was engulfed in a raging storm because of the pursuit between Xia Zuo and the Spirit King.

The white sand was swept up by the storm to a height of thousands of meters, instantly transforming into a cloud that blotted out the sun.

Xia Zuo and the Soul King chased each other for a while, and finally, after circling Hueco Mundo twice, the black meteor stopped on its own.

After the Soul King stopped, he lowered his head and gently spat out a mouthful of black blood, which contained the last bit of spiritual pressure belonging to Xia Zuo. Before falling to the ground, it exploded into a small firework.

Expelling the last remaining threat from his body, the Spirit King, seeing Xia Zuo also chasing after him, dared not delay and raised his hands, quickly drawing strange runes in the void that resembled Quincy holy script.

This is the Soul King's understanding of the power transformation of the Death God's world, which is incomparable to Yhwach's shallow sacred script. It is the root script that can directly mobilize the power of the world.

When Xia Zuo arrived in front of the Spirit King, nine Root Characters had already been drawn in the air, forming a mysterious nine-square grid.

The Spirit King stared intently at Xia Zuo and roared, "Divine Descent! Divine Domain!!!"

The next moment, the nine Root Scripts gave rise to intricate and complex golden incantations. These wrinkles drove the spiritual particles of Hueco Mundo to combine into beams of light that shot into the sky.

Thousands upon thousands of beams of light rapidly spread out, filling the Hueco Mundo desert like scattered stars and clouds, suppressing the entire Hueco Mundo.

The sandstorm that was just raging in Hueco Mundo was suppressed by the pillar of light in the blink of an eye.

The sand in the air didn't even have time to land before its physical structure was destroyed by the spiritual pressure emanating from the pillar of light, turning into pure spiritual particles.

A massive amount of spiritual particles were drawn in by the pillar of light and flowed into the Spirit King's body like rivers flowing into the sea, forming a surging ocean of power.

At this point, the Soul King and Hueco Mundo were completely connected, forming an inseparable community; the power of Hueco Mundo was his power.

After his resurrection, he surpassed Xia Zuo in strength for the first time, and his confidence naturally exploded.

He looked at Xia Zuo and smiled smugly: "Xia Zuo, do you think you can still beat me now?"

Xia Zuo ignored the Spirit King's clamor. He looked around and saw rows of evenly distributed pillars of light reaching the sky.

They were like a series of frantic pumps, drawing spiritual particles from Hueco Mundo to the top and then pouring them into the Soul King's body from top to bottom.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that each beam of light is still growing, extending continuously in both upward and downward directions, seemingly aiming to completely penetrate the virtual circle.

"Heh heh, you won't answer my question!" The Spirit King said smugly. "Indeed, you must be shocked to see the power of me merging directly with Hueco Mundo."

"Back when this place was still called the Spirit Realm, I was known as the Spirit King."

"It's because I can merge with the spirit world and arbitrarily deprive all life within it of everything for my use. All life must obtain my permission to continue living."

"Shazo, you are a great being who transcends this world, but a portion of your power is already within Hueco Mundo. I want to try and see if I can make that portion of your power mine!"

Xia Zuo was stunned upon hearing this, and immediately felt the spiritual pressure within his body rapidly dissipate uncontrollably, almost completely disappearing in the time it takes to breathe.

At the same time, the Spirit King's body glowed. He had actually taken away Xia Zuo's power, and his aura became even stronger. The surging holy light illuminated the sky as bright as day.

"I succeeded?"

"I did it! I really did it!!"

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The Spirit King could not hide his joy and shouted excitedly, "Xia Zuo, although I cannot kill you, in the world I rule, you have no way to fight me and can only become my prey!"

But amidst his joy, a lingering fear remained, so he couldn't help but feign weakness, saying, "For the sake of the broader prospects you've shown me, just leave obediently, Xia Zuo!"

Having had all his power drained away, leaving him seemingly an empty shell, Xia Zuo suddenly laughed: "It's unbelievable. How dare you greedily steal my power when you were one with the world?"

"Spirit King, have you ever considered that I deliberately allowed you to steal my power?"

The Spirit King's smile froze on his face instantly, as if he had been punched hard and stood there dumbfounded in the air with his mouth slightly open.

Xia Zuo sneered, "Have you discovered that you can't expel my power?"

"Shallow fellow, how can I feel at ease using a power that can be taken away from me?"

"My power is absolutely mine. Even if you take it away with my help, it will not become yours."

"On the contrary, now that you are filled with my power, you can no longer block my perception of you, and you can no longer dodge as before."

Xia Zuo revealed the Measuring Ruler, and a powerful, unfamiliar force poured into the blade, causing runes that were out of step with the world to appear on its surface.

"You are now one with Hueco Mundo. Hueco Mundo and Soul Society are merging, yet you have actively absorbed my power and cannot escape it."

"By cutting you down, who can't move or dodge, it's the same as directly cutting down Hueco Mundo and indirectly cutting down Soul Society. What a perfect target."

"Thank you for giving me this one chance to rebuild the rules of the world!"

The Spirit King's expression changed; his smile turned into fear. An unprecedentedly powerful spiritual pressure erupted from his body as he tried to break free from Xia Zuo's spiritual pressure or avoid the impending killing.

But all of this was in vain.

Xia Zuo's measuring ruler carried entirely new rules, and seemingly cleaved the Spirit King in two.