You like to make holes in my chest, why are you running!
Yekawa continuously tapped his toes on the void, maintaining his Sonido to keep up, arriving in front of Ulquiorra.
He directly gripped his Zanpakuto with both hands and continued to slash, forcing Ulquiorra to constantly dodge.
At this time, Ulquiorra had not yet become an Arrancar.
Although a Vasto Lorde is the highest-ranking Great Hollow closest to humans, it is still essentially a savage monster.
Yekawa, on the other hand, was different.
Although he was also a Hollow, he first obtained the Asauchi left by Ito Kai, and then arranged for a clone to enter the Soul Society and enroll in the Spiritual Arts Academy to study Zanjutsu, Hakuda, Kido, and Shunpo.
Although abilities like Kido and Shunpo were unusable for Yekawa as a Great Hollow, Zanjutsu and Hakuda were interchangeable.
This was why Yekawa, despite his spiritual pressure being slightly lower than Ulquiorra's, showed no fear.
Possessing 'tools' and knowing how to use 'tools', he could, of course, beat an 'aboriginal'.
Facing the storm of slashes, Ulquiorra was forced to retreat repeatedly.
Suddenly, his gigantic bat wings behind him fully unfurled in an instant, with a wingspan exceeding two meters, like two steel blades, slashing towards Yekawa with lightning speed.
Yekawa was too slow to dodge and had both his arms cut by the wings.
Then, Ulquiorra seized the opportunity, kicked fiercely, sending Yekawa flying.
Bang!
With a loud bang, the flying Yekawa crashed into a tree trunk behind him, collapsing dozens of trees and kicking up a huge amount of dust.
This was not the end.
Ulquiorra pointed his right index finger, and a deep green Cero condensed at his fingertip, shooting forward.
At the same time, Yekawa rose from the dust, holding his Zanpakuto in his right hand and pointing it forward, a wisp of black-red spiritual pressure gathered at the blade's tip, also firing a Cero to meet the dark green Cero released by Ulquiorra.
Boom!
The two powerful Cero collided, creating a scene like the end of the world, triggering a massive explosion.
A mushroom cloud rose between them.
Immediately after, the dust cleared, and Yekawa's figure appeared.
Cough, cough, is my spiritual pressure still slightly inferior to a true Vasto Lorde? No wonder, who told me I'm still just a Gillian!
The result of the Cero clash was that Yekawa was slightly outmatched and injured by Ulquiorra's Cero.
In the distance, Ulquiorra watched as the wound on Yekawa's body wriggled and healed completely within a few seconds.
You… how could you…
Seeing that this unfamiliar Great Hollow's Speed Regeneration was no less than his own, Ulquiorra's eyes immediately widened, revealing a look of disbelief.
What's so surprising about that? Who doesn't have Speed Regeneration these days!
The corner of Yekawa's mouth under his mask slightly curved upwards, and he then dusted off his body, once again holding his Zanpakuto and charging towards Ulquiorra.
You should have more than just this level, let me see what you're truly capable of!
Yekawa let out a sinister laugh, and then threads of dark golden lightning wrapped around the blade of his Zanpakuto.
Ulquiorra was not to be outdone, grabbing with both hands, a long spear constructed from deep green spiritual pressure suddenly appeared.
Clang, clang, clang!
The Asauchi wrapped in dark golden lightning arcs and the spiritual pressure spear exchanged several blows, and then, with surprising tacit agreement, both retreated.
Gran Rey Cero!
This time, the two once again competed with Cero, and it was not an ordinary Cero, but the strongest Gran Rey Cero.
Yekawa held his Zanpakuto with both hands, and a Cero intertwined with dark gold and black-red instantly formed.
On the other side, a Cero mixed with green spiritual pressure and pitch-black also shot out at the same time.
Boom!
An explosion far exceeding the previous one rose in the Black Night Jungle, and an aura of destruction spread.
Most of the Black Night Jungle was destroyed in their clash.
Outside the jungle, Puck, the goat Hollow, and Jiwa Barnes, the strange fish Hollow, who were waiting for Yekawa's return, trembled in fear from the aftermath of the battle.
Is this… the battle between Vasto Lorde!
While Ulquiorra was still honestly engaging in a Cero clash, Yekawa directly used Flash Lightning to pierce the ground and then moved stealthily underground.
Then, he unexpectedly emerged from the ground behind Ulquiorra and directly slashed him on the back with his Zanpakuto.
Pffft!
The Zanpakuto, carrying the power of lightning, directly cut a deep, bone-visible wound on his back, almost severing his left bat wing, but in a blink of an eye, the flesh on his back wriggled, seemingly about to recover completely.
But Yekawa naturally wouldn't let him have his way, and directly struck the wound with a huge lightning whip!
Ah!
Ulquiorra let out a cry of pain, immediately turned around, disregarding his injuries, and directly used his hand as a blade, thrusting it straight into Yekawa's heart.
Damn it, is he really that persistent?
Fortunately, Yekawa knew the original plot and knew that one of Ulquiorra's favorite pastimes was to dig out people's hearts.
At this point, Yekawa's Speed Regeneration was not strong enough to regenerate internal organs, so if he really had his heart dug out, it would be miserable.
Clang!
Just as Ulquiorra's pale right hand was about to touch Yekawa's heart!
The part of his back that had already transformed into a centipede armor began to rapidly extend, forming a white bone armor that tightly protected Yekawa's heart.
Ulquiorra's attack missed, and instead, Yekawa grabbed his arm and directly slashed horizontally, creating a huge wound that stretched from his cheek to his waist.
At this moment, Ulquiorra lay on the ground, exhausted and powerless.
The wounds on his body quickly healed with a wriggling of flesh, but a corner of his mask was cut off by Yekawa, leaving a gap.
Just as a gap appeared in Ulquiorra's mask, his surrounding aura did not decrease; instead, it became even more profound, as if some kind of qualitative change was about to occur!
Is this… Arrancarization?!
Yekawa reached out and picked up the small piece of fallen mask, then glanced at Ulquiorra, who was undergoing some kind of transformation, lying on the ground.
Ulquiorra, you have lost.
Feel the new power I bestow upon you, this power that transcends the limits of the Hollow world!
From today on, I am your King! Your only King!!!
This Arrancar power is the gift from the King!
After finishing his grand speech, Yekawa left without looking back.
Yes, he had to run.
If he didn't run now, his secret would be exposed.
It was true that Ulquiorra was exhausted from the fight, but his spiritual pressure was also running low.
His goal of breaking off a small piece of Ulquiorra's mask during the battle had been achieved.
Moreover, he was already very satisfied to have fought a Vasto Lorde to such an extent as a Gillian.
If he didn't run now, once Ulquiorra got familiar with his incomplete Arrancar power, it would be too late to escape.
Ulquiorra was a high-ranking Great Hollow, a Vasto Lorde; after his mask shattered, he naturally wouldn't fall in rank like those Adjuchas.
Instead, he would begin to transform into an Arrancar.
In the original work, Ulquiorra also accidentally became an incomplete Arrancar on his own first, and then Aizen helped him undergo a second Arrancarization with the help of the Hōgyoku, which is how he became Espada No. 4.
Yekawa just never expected that he would actually become the catalyst for Ulquiorra's evolution into an Arrancar.
By a strange twist of fate, he helped Ulquiorra complete his initial Arrancarization ahead of time!
At this moment, Ulquiorra, having gone through a bitter battle, was squatting on the ground, stroking the pale skin revealed beneath the gap in his mask.
And at this moment, the spiritual pressure around him had actually risen by a level compared to before.
Puck and Jiwa Barnes looked at Yekawa, who walked out alone, and timidly asked:
How was the battle, My King?
Hmph, less nonsense, walk faster!
With that, the three Hollows immediately used Sonido to quickly leave the Black Night Jungle.
Not long after, Ulquiorra, who had largely familiarized himself with his incomplete Arrancar form and thus experienced a surge in power, also appeared outside the Black Night Jungle, staring blankly in the direction Yekawa had left, then murmured to himself:
King?
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