Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

The originally dark space seemed to be illuminated, and a soft blue light lit up his large cloak.

One step at a time.

He climbed the steps, his posture upright, as if ascending to heaven.

"Pass down the order," Yhwach's voice came from above, ethereal yet authoritative. "Bring back Cheruze Opie."

"Hunting in Hueco Mundo is pointless; continuing to do so is a waste of time and worthless."

At the foot of the steps, all the Sternritter members responded in unison, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

"But, Your Majesty..."

In the crowd, a bespectacled man with a mustache couldn't help but look up and cautiously defend himself, "Those Arrancar, though lowly, are..."

"Undeniably."

Yhwach stopped, turned to the side, and said indifferently, “They are indeed very interesting creatures, and they also have some value.”

"But our real enemy has always been that group of death gods."

"Especially those uncertain and unstable factors."

His gaze searched through the crowd, finally settling on a somewhat timid figure.

"Ludas Fligan".

The man whose name was called trembled and hurriedly squeezed out from the back of the crowd.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

He was covered in sweat and knelt down with a thud, not even daring to look up at the high and mighty king.

"When you were in charge of investigating the border erosion, you confidently told me..."

Yhwach's voice was calm, revealing neither joy nor anger. "Soon, Soul Society will be destroyed because it has lost its balance with the souls of the human world."

"So, what about now?"

Why is the Soul Society still safe and sound even now?

"This...this..."

Ludas Fligan broke out in a cold sweat, stammering, "Your subordinate... Your subordinate can assure you, the balance is indeed being broken! That's absolutely true!"

"but......"

He swallowed hard, his voice trembling with a sob, "Those Grim Reapers, they don't know what they've done, now... now..."

He couldn't continue speaking, stammering and repeating the same word over and over.

"How are things now?" Yhwach looked down at him.

"It seems that the balance has been forcibly stabilized..." Ludas's voice trailed off. "My subordinates are investigating the cause, but we haven't yet figured out what methods the enemy used to stop it..."

"How utterly incompetent."

Yhwach reprimanded him, but his voice was not angry at all; it was calm and indifferent. "Not only did we fail to proceed as planned, but we didn't even figure out how the opponent would retaliate."

"Is this your answer to me?"

"No! No, Your Majesty!"

Ludas Fligan looked up in terror and kowtowed desperately. "Just two days! Your Majesty, give me just two more days! I can find out everything! I can break the balance again!"

"Two days?" Yhwach repeated the word softly. "Are you so sure?"

"Yes! I guarantee it! Two days! Just two days!" Ludas nodded frantically, as if grasping at a straw.

"Are you going to make the invisible empire's thousand-year wait and thousand-year accumulation halt for just two days for you alone?"

Yhwach's next words, however, struck Ludas like a heavy hammer blow to the heart.

He opened his mouth wide, making a gurgling sound in his throat, but could no longer utter a complete sentence.

Should the empire halt its advance and wait for him?

He wouldn't dare admit to such a crime even if he had a hundred lives!

"answer me."

Yhwach slowly raised his right hand, palm down.

"Is that right?"

The hall was deathly silent; no one dared to utter a sound.

Yhwach calmly pressed on, "Answer me, I'm asking you, do you want the Unseen Empire to stop and wait for you?"

Ludas Fligan looked up, cold sweat beading on his forehead and wetting his hair: "No, that's not what I meant..."

"Then why are you so certain that it will only take two days?" Yhwach's eyes were cold. "Two days? Do you know what two days means?"

"Those who cannot keep up with the empire will only have one fate."

He gently pinched it with his fingers.

A flash of blue light, and with a "whoosh," the person kneeling on the ground was crushed into a blurry, bloody block of flesh, just like a "compressed biscuit."

"hiss......"

Among the crowd, those who were not members of the Sternritter trembled violently, filled with fear and unease.

“Azkielro Ibon.” Yhwach withdrew his hand and spoke again.

Another person stepped out from the crowd, with the same respectful attitude, showing no resentment whatsoever.

Even if they did, they dared not express it, and simply knelt beside the blood and flesh bricks: "Your Majesty, please give your orders."

"Go to the mortal world," whispered the king, standing high in the sky as if overlooking heaven, "go and see Kurosaki Ichigo."

"Let's test him to see what he's really capable of."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Azkielro Ibon responded respectfully.

He lowered his head, concealing the fleeting relief in his eyes.

fine......

It's a task, not a punishment.

As long as the mission is completed, the individual can continue to live.

Yhwach: "Valkyrie, you should come too."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

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A dotted circle.

Although Kiruge Opie was struggling against the combined attacks of several Espada, he managed to withstand wave after wave of fierce assaults thanks to his "Quiet Blood Armor" defense.

"Damn beasts..." Kiruje gritted his teeth, his saber barely managing to parry Nnoitra's scythe. His white military uniform was already torn in several places, making him look quite disheveled.

But the arrogance on his face did not diminish in the slightest; on the contrary, it became even more distorted.

"Don't think you've won just because you've gained a slight advantage!"

Kiruja took a step back abruptly, using this to create distance.

He looked up, and a halo suddenly lit up.

"Let me show you the true power of the Sternritter!"

"Complete Holy Eucharist——"

"God's justice!!!"

A beam of spiritual light descended, enveloping Cherujé completely.

His spiritual wings unfurled instantly, his pupils transformed into multiple rings, and the aura emanating from him surged several times over in an instant.

Moreover, the spiritual particles in the surrounding environment seemed to be under some irresistible command, and began to frantically converge into his body.

Even the white sea of ​​sand beneath his feet began to crumble, turning into countless tiny spiritual particles that continuously flowed into his body.

A high-level skill belonging to the Quincy – Spirit Particle Subordination.

It can forcibly decompose and absorb matter composed of spiritual particles to strengthen itself.

In Hueco Mundo, a place with extremely high spiritual particle density, the power of this move is amplified to the extreme.

"What...what is this?!" Asido stared at the scene in shock.

"This feeling..."

Grimmjow frowned, sensing that the steel skin on his body was beginning to disintegrate.

"They actually want to eat me too? This is infuriating!"

He let out a low roar, and his spiritual pressure erupted, forcibly counteracting the suction force.

"Be careful, that guy is absorbing all the spiritual particles around him to strengthen himself!" Heribel warned in a deep voice, holding the Royal Shark Queen in front of her.

"Hahaha! You only realized it now? Too late!"

Chergey hovered in mid-air, his wings of light gently flapping behind him, looking down at the Arrancar with a fanatical and twisted expression.

"Under His Majesty's radiance, you filthy beings will all be transformed into my power!"

"prison!"

He raised his hand, and countless spiritual particles shot out from the tip of his saber, forming light barriers that divided and imprisoned the Ten Blades.

Neutra looked at the light barrier that had trapped him and sneered disdainfully.

"You think you can trap me in this cage that looks like a child's toy?"

He wielded his enormous scythe and slashed fiercely at the railing of light.

"Smash it, you son of a bitch!!!"

However, the expected scene of the light bar breaking did not appear.

The seemingly slender and fragile beam of light did not even tremble after being struck by Nnoitra.