Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Countless phantoms emerged from the distorted shadows, each with a different shape, covered in pale, bone-like masks, their chests bearing empty holes symbolizing the loss of their souls, slowly approaching with a suffocating silence.

Shen Jue stood above the street, his spiritual pressure as deep and calm as an abyss, yet Rukia Kuchiki couldn't predict just how strong it was.

He didn't adopt any defensive stance; he simply stood there casually, as if the vast emptiness had nothing to do with Shen Jue.

Shen Jue slowly raised his right hand, his fingertips swirling with spiritual particles and ghostly runes. The light of the spiritual particles was not dazzling, but it exuded a chilling aura that made people's hearts tremble.

Facing the swarm of avatars that surrounded Shen Jue and his companions, Shen Jue's eyes remained indifferent. His gaze pierced through the hideous masks, revealing only pitiful souls devoid of intelligence, struggling endlessly in the midst of slaughter and devouring.

"Hado: Soul Crushed".

The deep incantation came from Shen Jue's mouth. The voice was not loud, but it was like the pronouncement of the Soul King, echoing clearly in the ears of Kuchiki Rukia and Kurosaki Ichigo.

In an instant, an invisible wave of spiritual pressure spread out from Shen Jue.

There was no earth-shattering roar, no dazzling light and shadow effects, only a low-frequency hum that sent chills down one's spine, as if the very fabric of space itself had been shattered at that moment.

Those Void creatures, each with its own unique shape and menacing appearance, froze in mid-air the moment they came into contact with this power, unable to even utter a scream.

Immediately afterwards, their bodies began to disintegrate from the edges, like wax figures thrown into strong acid, or like rotten wood hollowed out by termites, rapidly decomposing from the outside in.

Their bony masks, their hard skin, their hollow cores, all turned into the most basic spiritual particles, like desert dust scattered by a gale, silently dissolving into the air.

It transformed into free, wandering spiritual particles.

In just a moment, hundreds of phantoms vanished completely.

The streets returned to their former emptiness, leaving only a purified stillness and the lingering spiritual pressure in the air that suffocated Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kurosaki.

One of the void creatures that Shen Jue had deliberately left behind was now trembling, its instincts filling it with extreme fear, making it unable to even escape.

Shen Jue smiled and was about to land to talk to Kuchiki Rukia and Kurosaki Ichigo.

The sky suddenly collapsed.

The immense and chaotic spiritual pressure of hundreds of Hollows converged into a destructive torrent, tearing a huge black rift—the Black Cavity—through the barrier of the mortal realm.

The black cavity did not open slowly, but rather burst open suddenly like the gaping maw of an abyss, accompanied by the wailing and shattering of space.

A dense, almost tangible, pitch-black spiritual pressure erupted from it, carrying with it an aura of decay and despair from Hueco Mundo, instantly enveloping the entire Karakura Town!

That wasn't the red of an ordinary Cero, but absolute darkness capable of devouring all light!

Rukia Kuchiki's face turned deathly pale instantly. She stared intently at the black cavity that seemed to devour all light, her body trembling uncontrollably.

That was an instinctive fear stemming from the terrifying spiritual pressure, a sense of despair over the chaos of Hueco Mundo, and awe of its absolute power.

As a Shinigami in Soul Society, Rukia Kuchiki had seen Hollows before, but she had never felt such a despairing sense of oppression!

Rukia Kuchiki felt as if she had been thrown into an ice cellar, making it difficult to even breathe. Her knuckles, which were gripping Shirayuki's hand unconsciously, turned white from the excessive force, and her nails dug deeply into her palm.

Within this black cavity, there was no pressure from any Hollow she was familiar with; it was pure malice from Hueco Mundo, as if even Rukia Kuchiki herself was about to be sucked into that black hole.

Kurosaki Ichigo was completely stunned by the sight before him.

His mouth gaped open, his orange hair flying wildly in the raging spiritual pressure, and his brown pupils contracted sharply.

Still reeling from Shen Jue's inhuman performance, Kurosaki Ichigo's eyes were filled with disbelief, astonishment, and shock.

The "Hado: Soul Crush" that instantly wiped out the Hollows just now was far more powerful than Ichigo Kurosaki, a high school student, could imagine. It was a power that no human could possibly attain.

That icy indifference to the void, that power to destroy everything and turn it into particles with every move, made Ichigo feel a sense of unfamiliarity he had never experienced before.

Ichigo Kurosaki's worldview is being reshaped.

However, before Ichigo Kurosaki's amazement had subsided, an overwhelming sense of absurdity surged forth.

Kurosaki Ichigo watched helplessly as the black maze in the sky, filled with an aura of despair and chaos, attempted to engulf Shen Jue entirely.

A massive black Cero shattered the entire street!

Although the Cero was too weak to destroy the entire area, it accurately hit Shen Jue.

Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kurosaki were swept away by the shockwave.

Shen Jue knelt on one knee, barely supporting his body with the Human Game, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth as he coldly stared at the hundreds of terrifying Hollows within the black cavity.

"Heh, what a low-level sneak attack." Shen Jue sneered.

A powerful gravitational force ignored Shen Jue's terrifying spiritual pressure and slowly pulled him toward the Hueco Mundo on the other side of the black cavity.

"What a joke!" Rukia Kuchiki struggled to her feet, drew her Sode no Shirayuki from her waist, and was about to use her Shikai to slash at the Black Chamber.

An invisible, heavy force pressed Kuchiki Rukia firmly to the spot, making it incredibly difficult for her to even lift a finger.

A strong sense of unreality welled up in Rukia Kuchiki's heart.

Captain Shen Jue, who just moments ago crushed all voids like a spirit king, is now being slowly blown into the Black Cavity like a withered leaf by a gentle breeze?!

This is absurd and illogical!

Captain Shen Jue clearly possesses such terrifying power, so why was he ambushed and taken away by the Hollows?

Could it be that what lies behind that dark cavity is even more terrifying than Captain Shen Jue?

Rukia Kuchiki could only watch in vain as Shen Jue's figure grew smaller and smaller in her field of vision, her magnificent captain's haori nearly shattering under the intense gravity of the black cavity.

Shen Jue didn't even struggle. He just turned around and glanced at Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kurosaki. His eyes seemed to contain a hint of comfort, but also a hint of helplessness.

In the end, Shen Jue's figure was completely swallowed up by the endless darkness.

Shen Jue was pulled into Hueco Mundo by the Hollows.

Only the illusory form that Shen Jue had deliberately left behind, along with the still-dazed Rukia Kuchiki and Ichigo Kuroki, remained.

The black cavity closed abruptly, just as it had appeared, leaving only a thin black line in the air.

Rukia Kuchiki could hear Shen Jue's roars from inside the black cavity and the incantations he chanted when using Kido.

It all felt like an absurd nightmare.

Only a dumbfounded Rukia Kuchiki and a shocked and bewildered Ichigo Kurosaki, who felt something was wrong, remained on the street.