Chapter 273 Death, Destruction and Choice (7K)

Are they all dead?

No one is alive.

There are other powerful spiritual pressures in the perception, but none of these spiritual pressures belong to the Shinigami, they are all Quincy.

One of them is familiar to me, it belongs to Ishida Uryu's spiritual pressure.

Kurosaki Ichigo tightened his grip on the knife and looked serious.

The current situation made him realize one thing.

If all members of Team Zero are really dead, then it seems that he is the only Shinigami left in Soul King Palace who can still fight the enemy.

The remaining captains had already set off from Soul King Palace to terminate or complete their training and go to Seireitei to support them.

Only he, the acting god of death, is still here.

But this is normal.

In almost everyone's perception, the Spirit King's Palace should have been the safest place in the Three Realms.

There are also experts like Team Zero.

There is no need for the captains of the Gotei 13 to stay here.

But now.

This safest place was breached by the enemy, and those guys who could be regarded as the strongest masters in the three realms were also slaughtered by the enemy.

It's up to you to stop them.

Kurosaki Ichigo took a deep breath.

Can it be done?

Even if I get a new pair of knives.

Can they be stopped?

He didn't expect to defeat the enemy, but he had to at least hold on until Uncle Naruto arrived.

With almost no time to hesitate, he rushed out and headed towards the destination where the spiritual pressure was moving.

at the same time.

A thick plume of smoke erupted from Rukongai and shot straight into the sky.

Shiba Kongkaku pinched his waist: "This is already the third shot today."

"It's been a busy day."

The last time the Shiba family had such a sense of presence was when Haiyan was the captain of the fifth division. The last time again was when Shiba caused trouble with all his heart.

"Maybe I'll bother you again." It was just her muttering to herself, but she got a response.

She turned her head.

It was an old man, Captain Genryusai Yamamoto.

"Naruto is all up." Shiba Kukaku shook his head and stretched, "There are also those guys from Team Zero."

The many failures in the past hundred years have made this man, who has always been confident and sure of victory, a little more cautious: "I will not use all the strength of the Gotei 13."

"We will only let Captain Broken Bee and Captain Nirvana go up."

Shiba Kūkaku turned around in surprise: "Captain Niryuuri of the 12th Division? Is it safe to let him go up?"

Although she did not join the Gotei 13.

But the elder brother and the younger brother are both gods of death. They know the name "Nirvana" very well and know what kind of crazy scientist he is.

Yamamoto Genryusai said with an expressionless face: "Naruto asked him to study the wedge and wait until there are results, just in case."

"He's going up."

wedge

As soon as these two words were uttered, Shiba Kukaku was startled: "Will the Soul King die?"

"This is what Naruto requested." Yamamoto Genryusai shook his head and spoke concisely, without explaining anything to Shiba Kukaku.

during the time they talked.

Naruto landed at the entrance and climbed out of the pillar.

Perception swept away.

The collision of spiritual pressure between the Shinigami and the Quincy was still swirling and reverberating. The battle had just ended and the aftermath had not yet subsided.

He frowned slightly.

Lingering in the air is not only the spiritual pressure of "Monk", but also the spiritual pressure of several other members of the Zero Squadron, but without exception, these spiritual pressures are just the breath of the air. As for their owners, they have disappeared. .

No.

The main body was destroyed, but the connection with the Soul King's Palace was not severed.

Naruto stretched out his hand, grabbed one of the spiritual pressures in the void, and forcefully pulled it out.

A fat body fell to the ground.

It rolled around a few times and stopped at Naruto's feet.

"It's so rude." The man rubbed his face and complained, "You just need to call my name."

It is the "Bingzhubu Yibingwei".

Naruto looked down at him: "Looks like you lost?"

"Lost." The monk said frankly, "His ability is no longer an ordinary category, it involves the realm of the Spirit King."

"Is he omniscient and omnipotent?" Naruto whispered.

This is not some secret news. Ishida Uryu has already told Kurosaki Ichigo and used his mouth to convey this news to the Shinigami.

The monk shook his head and said nothing.

"Let's go." Naruto kicked him, "Nothing has happened in the Three Realms yet. Before they have time to do anything to the Soul King, we should set off."

"I can't go." The monk said with a decisive voice, "Naruto, only you can go."

Naruto looked at him.

"Although our Zero Squadron is bound to the Soul King Palace, as long as the Soul King Palace is not destroyed, we will not really die." The monk introduced seriously, "It only takes a certain amount of time to be fully resurrected."

"Or calling our name or activating spiritual pressure can also revive us in advance."

"However, this physical resurrection does not mean the complete recovery of strength."

"I am now"

"Not much stronger than an ordinary captain, and I can no longer use the power of a single letter."

To put it simply, in the following battle, he will not play any positive role. At most, he can not be held back because of his "immortality" characteristic.

Naruto nodded, ignored him, and flew forward.

Spiritual Palace.

The palace where the Spiritual King is located.

The God of Death and the Quincy meet here, in this place that symbolizes the beginning and the end.

"Yhwach." Kurosaki Ichigo stood outside the door.

The Quincy stood inside the door and turned their heads when they heard the shout.

The sun is shining brightly in the sky.

It hit Kurosaki Ichigo, and half of the beam was projected into the room.

The Uryū Ishida closest to the door is "cut" and half of it is illuminated by light.

The rest of the people were in the shadows of the house.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, you are finally here." Yhwach stretched out his hand, his tone as low as ever, but in comparison, it was still more enthusiastic than when talking to others, "I have been looking forward to this scene for a long time. "

Kurosaki Ichigo took a deep breath.

He stared at this man whose appearance was very familiar to him, feeling confused and complicated in his heart.

While forging his new sword, he was briefly sent back to the present world by Nigeya Wang Yue.

Learned about the past from my father.

"I see, you understand the past." Youhabach took a step forward, still making a welcoming gesture, "My child who was born in the darkness, my blood is flowing in you."

"There are endless possibilities within you."

"Why did you choose to become the God of Death and stand on my opposite side?"

"Come back, my child."

"Like Uryū, become my right-hand man, my proudest son, and the heir to my invisible empire."

Kurosaki Ichigo's attitude did not change in any way because of these words. He raised his knife and pointed it straight at Yhwach: "I will not be deceived by your sweet words like Uryu Ishida."

"I'm here to stop you."

Yhwach smiled softly: "I've seen it all."

Kurosaki Ichigo was confused: "See?"

"Yes, everything." Youhabach raised his hand, turned around and walked to the amber in the center of the Soul King's Palace. With a wave of his hand, a sword made of souls appeared in his hand, "You came here to chase Yulong. Soul Society."

"Practice in the Soul King's Palace."

"As well as now and in the future, those who are powerless can only sit back and watch the death of the Soul King."

He raised his sword high and struck at Amber.

The voice was low and mournful.

"Goodbye, my father."

Kurosaki Ichigo bowed, stepped out in an instant, pulled out the sword in his hand, and slashed at Yhwach: "Stop!"

His heart was heavy.

Even masters like the Zero Squadron perished in Yhwach.

Can you stop it yourself?

But the fact was somewhat beyond his expectation. Yhwach's strength didn't seem to be very strong. This slash was extremely slow, and even when he stepped in front of him, he couldn't make it.

Zangetsu stopped him, gold and swords intertwined, and sparks flew out.

Yhwach flicked his wrist, as if he had not expected Kurosaki Ichigo's speed and strength to be so great. It was difficult to meet him, and his sword almost came out of his hand.

This sign was completely captured by Kurosaki Ichigo.

He looked happy and slashed with his sword again.

The long sword came out of his hand at a strange angle. It did not fly far, but flew straight up high and then fell straight down quickly.

Yhwach stretched out his hand, trying to grasp his sword again.

Kurosaki Ichigo gritted his teeth and glanced away at him.

He must not be allowed to regain hold of his weapon.

He stamped his feet and jumped up, his wrists passing over Yhwach's tall body and over his head, fighting for the sword.

Compared with the "King of Quincy" who still maintained an "elegant" posture, his attitude allowed his fingers to reach the hilt of the sword first, and he grasped it with a slight hook.

But that was at this time.

Kurosaki Ichigo lowered his head and met Yhwach's eyes.

this person's eyes

Why is it so strange.

Normal people either have a single pupil, or some people who are born with physical deformities have "double pupils", two pupils in one eye. But this man seemed to have three pupils in his eyes. Looking at him, it was impossible to tell which point his eyes were focused on.

It's creepy, and there's an eerie feeling that cannot be seen through.

And even weirder.

It's my own hand.

Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head hastily and looked at the hand holding Yhwach's sword.

I am no longer in control of myself!

Yhwach grinned: "Come on, Ichigo, let us witness the end of Soul Society together."

Outside the Spirit King's Palace.

Naruto stopped at the door and stared at Kurosaki Ichigo's movements.

He wants to take action.

The golden blockade has been deployed in an instant.

But in the ear

The words that King Spirit had said to him back then rang out again.

"Please don't stand in the way of my death."

He had foreseen his own death and accepted it with peace of mind.

Naruto looked across the crowd, across the light and darkness, at the piece of amber in the depths, and the human stick sealed in the amber.

It was not the original words that I recalled.

This is what the current Spirit King said to himself again.

He didn't say anything, but he didn't dissolve his technique, and the chains were still flying.

"You have something in your hand that can temporarily bear the quality of the Three Realms." The Soul King's second sentence rang in Naruto's ears, "It will persist until you make a new wedge."

Naruto made a move.

Take on something of the quality of the Three Realms?

yes.

The heart of the Soul King?

The organ he left behind after killing Valkyrie.

Is that so?

He clapped his hands again, and the diamond chains were still flying, but this time the target was not Kurosaki Ichigo.

The orange-haired boy looked surprised, looked at his hand in disbelief, and slashed away uncontrollably.

The amber that preserved the Soul King's torso was so fragile that it was cut off at the waist with a single slash.

Just at this moment.

The sky and the Spirit Palace began to tremble.

The world began to show signs of collapse due to his death.

Kurosaki Ichigo's eyes widened and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

The Spirit King is dead.

Killed by his own hands.

He was determined to protect the Spirit King and himself in the Three Realms, but at this moment he committed the greatest sin and killed the wedge that stabilized the Three Realms.

Yhwach smiled brightly: "I have already said that you can only sit helplessly and watch the death of the Soul King."

"That's what I saw."

"You come, you take action, you kill."

Kurosaki Ichigo clenched his fists, his body was shaking, and his voice was frightened and unbelievable: "Why?"

"Why should I kill him?"

"Why is my hand out of my control? Even now I can't break free from this sword."

Yohabach answered him: "Because this is my gift."

"You are also a Quincy, my dear child."

"I will give you this sword that belongs to me, and all the spiritual pressure on the sword."    "These powers will be connected to the powers in your blood."

He took a deep breath and no longer concealed his emotions: "That is to say."

"As long as your body has the blood of a Quincy flowing through it, you are destined to kill the Soul King."

"This is your mission."

Kurosaki Ichigo twisted his body, raised the sword connected to his body, took a long stride, and slashed towards Yhwach.

"You're still swinging a knife at me?"

"Is there any reason why you have to fight me now?"

Yohabach spoke softly, his tone was calm and calm.

"Soul Society is disappearing from this world, and the Three Realms will collapse."

He didn't finish his sentence.

Reiatsu came from behind.

He sensed it and didn't look back to see who the enemy was behind him. He just turned around and dodged.

This is the future that has not been read.

And there are only two people in this world who can make themselves invisible.

One is the dead Spirit King.

The only candidate left to attack him was Uzumaki Naruto.

After escaping the attack, he turned around and looked back.

At the entrance of the hall, a blond figure performed a spell.

The chain attack on Yhwach is just incidental.

One wrapped around Kurosaki Ichigo, swinging him and throwing him under the amber. The remaining bracelet, like an octopus's tentacles, supported Amber who had not yet completely fallen.

"Naruto Uzumaki." Yhwach smiled proudly. He couldn't hide the excitement in his heart just by calling out this name. "You're here!"

"You are a guy that I have always been unable to see clearly. Now your threat to me is gone."

"All your choices are correct."

"It's a pity that you are still late."

"It's just a minute away."

"If you had come a minute earlier, or even ten seconds, you could have stopped Ichigo Kurosaki from killing the Soul King."

Naruto instantly walked to Kurosaki Ichigo, raised his hand, and patted Kurosaki Ichigo on the head: "Use the child's hands to fulfill your ambitions."

"After the incident is over, the crime must be passed on to the child."

"After living for so many years, my lifespan is many times that of Ichigo."

"He turned out to be such a despicable and shameless adult who only knows how to do despicable things."

"It's so disgusting."

Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned and raised his head.

His eyes were stunned, surprised, and a bit incredulous.

He didn't expect that Uncle Naruto would say such words and soothe his emotions immediately after appearing.

"No matter how you evaluate me." Youhabach shook his head, looking indifferent, "Now I am the only winner."

He paused, as if to deliberately disgust Naruto: "No matter how much you comfort Kurosaki Ichigo, he has made the biggest mistake."

"He is just a knife manipulated by you." Naruto continued to gently stroke Kurosaki Ichigo's head, "Is it the knife that is guilty of murder, or the person holding the knife?"

Yhwach sneered: "Kurosaki Ichigo is no ordinary sword."

Kurosaki Ichigo turned his head and looked at him.

There was a penetrating look in the eyes of the three pupils, and he said in a faint tone: "You should listen to your uncle Naruto and not come to Soul Society."

"As long as you don't come, no matter how fierce the war is and no matter how heavy the losses in Soul Society are, there will be no such result."

Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned.

Naruto didn't understand either, but at this time, he had more important things to do.

He took his hand from Kurosaki Ichigo's head.

Reattach the amber.

He stretched out his hand and pressed it on the surface of amber, concluding it like a psychic spell.

There was a small bang, white smoke exploded, and a heart appeared.

It's beating, it's alive, it's emitting powerful, gentle reiatsu.

Yhwach watched helplessly and did not stop him.

Naruto stretched out his hand, and his spiritual power condensed into a knife at his fingertips. Without any hesitation, he stabbed it towards his heart and opened a gash.

Thick, surging spiritual power surged out from the wound, wrapped around Amber, and connected to the wound on the waist and abdomen.

The trembling of the sky stopped at this moment.

Those intense and huge changes disappeared without a trace, as if nothing had happened just now.

"Heart?" Yhwach chuckled, "You can also think of such a method."

"But apart from lingering on, what's the use of this?"

"How long can this heart keep the world stable?"

"Nine days? One week? Or three days?"

Kurosaki Ichigo couldn't hold it back and interrupted him: "You haven't said it yet, why wouldn't this happen if I didn't come?"

"That's really stupid." Youhabach waved his hand, "Or is it that the current situation has made it impossible for you to make a wise judgment?"

"I think."

"Naruto Uzumaki must have guessed the result."

Naruto once again put his hand on Kurosaki Ichigo's head, pulled out the Uzumaki with the other hand, and liberated it without chanting the liberation words.

The wind blew on Kurosaki Ichigo's hand, grinding away the part of the power given to him by Yhwach.

The answer was spit out along with the wind: "Ichigo is the only one who can kill the Soul King."

Kurosaki Ichigo trembled.

There is the pain of losing "power", and there is also the inner shock of hearing the news.

Only you can kill the Spirit King?

Yhwach grinned: "Yes, that's it."

"Only those who possess the five powers of the Soul King, Death, Hollow, Quincy, and humans at the same time can kill the Soul King."

"In this world, the only person who possesses these five powers at the same time is Kurosaki Ichigo."

Kurosaki Ichigo shook again and stared at his hands in annoyance.

"My son in the darkness." Youhabach looked at him, "Don't be so troubled, you were born for this."

Kurosaki Ichigo looked up.

Born for this?

"When you come to this world, who you become friends with, and what kind of power you have." Yohabach continued, "What kind of people you fight with, and what skills you learn, are all because of me."

"In your short seventeen years of life, I have been preparing for this for nearly a hundred years. Everything is just for this day."

This statement

Something strangely familiar.

Kurosaki Ichigo quickly remembered that Aizen once said the same thing.

He held his hands.

Turning his head with some difficulty, he looked at Amber who was wrapped in something dark.

A feeling of powerlessness emerged from within.

But these negative emotions had not had time to invade his heart.

"This day was just his premeditation, a premeditation that took a thousand years." Naruto patted Ichigo's head, his tone still gentle, "No, it even included the Soul King's premeditation, and he was also looking forward to it. die."

Kurosaki Ichigo didn't react at all, his body was numb.

Okay

Is there anyone else controlling it?

"But these are just results." Naruto continued, "Your existence, your strength, and everything you do are all because of your own will, aren't they?"

Kurosaki Ichigo raised his head with confused eyes: "But, I really have it."

He now suspected that even his own consciousness and the things he had and was thinking about now were the result of being manipulated.

"Don't doubt yourself." Naruto smiled, "My existence is proof of the existence of your personal will."

Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned.

"No matter how powerful Yhwach's so-called ability to peer into the future is, they can't see me." Naruto said softly, "So he can't decide your interactions with me, and the same goes for things related to me. He can't control it."

"So, you have to believe it."

"He just interfered, using higher-level information to make the outcome go toward the outcome he expected."

"It's the same as fighting."

"and"

"If he can really control your will, why not let you choose to become a member of the Invisible Empire after becoming the God of Death?"

"Why should you be given the ability to kill the Spirit King with your hands?"

Kurosaki Ichigo murmured, the confusion in his eyes dissipated, and clarity returned: "Uncle Naruto, I understand."

"What a gentle person." Yhwach stared at Naruto, "At this moment, you still remember to comfort Ichigo."

"But what's the use?"

"The world is doomed."

Naruto stood up and pulled out another sword, the red "Nine Lama": "Maybe the world will be destroyed in the next second."

"But before it is destroyed, I will not allow the culprit to continue to live."

Yhwach raised his hand: "I admit that even now I cannot see you clearly with these eyes."

"but."

"You have no hope of defeating me."

From the amber, some black viscous liquid seeped out, trickling on the ground and flowing towards Yhwach.

It is the power of the dead spiritual king.

He is sucking the corpse of the Spirit King.

"You should know that this world originated from the Spirit King." Yhwach raised his hand in enjoyment. "He was attacked by despicable creatures. They cruelly removed his limbs, hollowed out his internal organs, and cut Knock out his tongue"

"Make him into a wedge and use his power to create the three realms."

"Then those creatures pretended to worship him and gave him the title of 'Spirit King'."

"But who else remembers his name?"

Naruto paused.

The name of the Spirit King?

He hadn't heard of it, hadn't even thought about it.

It's like "Spirit King" is his name.

"See, even a guy like you doesn't know." Yhwach raised a finger and put it in front of his lips, "Then let me tell you."

"His name is"

"Adnes."

"So he hates this world, a world born out of the sin that befell him."

"Uzumaki Naruto, you are not fighting me, you are fighting this world."

Naruto raised his knife: "I don't know the Soul King as well as you do."

"But rather than saying that he hates this world, it's better to say that you hate this world. You just impose your will on the Soul King."

"You don't have to make your sins sound so high-sounding."

Yhwach waved his hand, the long sword condensed, and slashed.

Under the Soul King Palace, in the Soul Society.

The battle between the Quincy and the God of Death has not yet ended completely, and some people are still resisting stubbornly.

The trembling of the sky drives the trembling of the earth.

The degree of exaggeration is definitely not something that can be caused by a Zanpakutō or a Quincy, unless there is an "earth-type Zanpakutō" that can be compared with "Ryujin Jakka".

This strange change alerted everyone.

"What's going on?" Hitsugaya Toushirou raised his head. His knife was able to manipulate celestial phenomena, so he naturally knew that the source of the vibration came from the sky, not the earth, which was the most exaggerated and obvious.

"Is the Soul King dead?" Urahara Kisuke stared at the sky with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

Kurotsuchi Mayuri frowned and said nothing.

Soi-ho was furious: "Dead? Urahara, are you kidding me!"

"No, I'm afraid that's it." Kurotsuchi Mayuri shook his head. At this moment, he and Urahara Kisuke were in the same camp.

Hitsugaya Toushirou frowned: "What about the Zero Division? Isn't their duty to protect the Soul King?"

No one answered him.

But if this result can occur, it means that the Zero Division may have all died in battle.

The Seventh Division's barracks.

The three people who were discussing what to do next suddenly paused.

"The Spirit King is dead." Yamamoto Genryusai said in a low voice. He was inevitably surprised by this result, but he restrained his emotions very well and did not show them outwardly.

Kyoraku Shunsui reached out and grabbed the wrist of his fellow disciple beside him.

He knew what choice his friend would make at this moment.

"Now I have to come." Ukitake Jushiro spoke softly and uttered this sentence.

It was when he said this.

The tremor stopped.

The world returned to peace.