In a secluded cave somewhere in Hueco Mundo, Ito Makoto was simply treating his injuries with Kidō.
"Hiss, so I'm that strong!"
Ito Makoto grinned in satisfaction while wincing as he treated his wounds.
Through this great battle between his clone and his main body, he finally clearly understood how powerful his main body was at this moment.
Not long after, with simple treatment, Ito Makoto's injuries had mostly recovered.
He then sat cross-legged, closing his eyes, intending to use his spiritual pressure to sense the Kido aura in Hueco Mundo, the Kido aura belonging to the Shinigami.
The purpose of him doing this was naturally to find this expeditionary force in Hueco Mundo, or rather, to find a certain person within the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force!
When the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force embarked on their expedition, the Gotei 13 would implant a specific Kido into each expeditionary Squad Member's body, so that even if the expeditionary Squad Member got separated in Hueco Mundo, they could still reunite with the main force through this Kido.
This special Kido ability allowed the expeditionary Squad Members to locate each other, and at the same time, it could, to a certain extent, shield them from the spiritual senses of Menos Grande, concealing the Squad Member's spiritual pressure and ensuring they weren't discovered by Menos Grande.
It was precisely because of the existence of this special Kido that Yekawa had been unable to discover the whereabouts of the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force.
Although Ito Makoto had never been implanted with this special Kido, he was a Shinigami, so he could naturally sense the hiding places of these expeditionary Squad Members more easily than his main body.
As Ito Makoto entered a state of perception, his spiritual pressure instantly surged, exceeding the level it was at during his previous battle with Harribel; clearly, Ito Makoto had now borrowed 50% of his main body's spiritual pressure to search for the expeditionary force.
During this time, Ito Makoto constantly changed positions, continuing his perception.
There was no other reason than the fact that the entire Hueco Mundo was too vast; even with the addition of 50% of his main body's spiritual pressure, Ito Makoto couldn't locate the expeditionary force in one go.
Thus, Ito Makoto continuously wandered through various parts of Hueco Mundo to sense the precise location of the expeditionary force, a process that lasted for over half a month.
"Found them!"
In a dense forest within the Great Hollow Forest, Ito Makoto, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, his expression appearing slightly excited.
At that moment, Ito Makoto sensed a trace of Shinigami spiritual pressure.
...
On a hill south of Hueco Mundo, Harribel was sparring with Yekawa.
Under Yekawa's training and guidance for half a month, Harribel's combat skills had advanced by leaps and bounds.
Previously, facing the powerful Yekawa, Harribel would surely be defeated within five seconds. Now, she could last over thirty seconds against Yekawa. If she were to face Ito Makoto, who was borrowing 30% of his main body's spiritual pressure again, even if she still couldn't win, she wouldn't lose as miserably.
"Bang!"
With a crisp sound, Harribel was sent flying backward by one of Yekawa's lightning whips.
Harribel was miserably embedded into a rock crevice.
Yekawa used Sonido to instantly appear nearby, helping Harribel up, then intimately caressed Harribel's exquisite half-exposed face, which was covered by her mask.
Thinking of Harribel's proud figure and enchanting demeanor after she became an Arrancar in the original work, Yekawa couldn't help but feel a surge of warmth:
"Arrancarization needs to be put on the agenda!"
Although Yekawa was still essentially an Adjuchas at this time, his actual spiritual pressure and combat power had already far surpassed that of all the Vasto Lorde!
In the process of evolving from a Gillian to an Adjuchas, he had devoured at least a hundred or more Adjuchas. By extension, he would have to devour at least a hundred or more Vasto Lorde to evolve into a Vasto Lorde.
But in reality, Hueco Mundo probably didn't even have ten Vasto Lorde, so if Yekawa wanted to advance to Vasto Lorde, the path of devouring his own kind was definitely not feasible; he needed to find another way.
However, if he wanted to quickly increase his combat power right now, he could try Arrancarization first. After all, becoming an Arrancar first wouldn't affect his subsequent advancement to Vasto Lorde.
After all, in the original work, Grimmjow became an Arrancar first, then advanced to Vasto Lorde.
Of course, another important reason that prompted Yekawa to temporarily change his evolution path and decide to become an Arrancar first was that Aizen had already taken control of Hueco Mundo, and he had to first obtain sufficiently powerful strength to be qualified to have a share in subsequent events.
He absolutely wasn't rushing to become an Arrancar because his Hollow body couldn't engage in lewd acts with Harribel!
"Harribel, I have some matters to attend to. For this period, try not to go out, especially not towards Hueco Mundo!"
Yekawa said to Harribel in a gentle tone.
"Yes, Lord Yekawa!"
Harribel replied respectfully, her emerald eyes filled with undisguised admiration and joy; clearly, half a month of interaction had already deeply captivated this proud Empress of the Shark to the man before her!
...
Somewhere in the Great Hollow Forest.
A group of Shinigami, dressed in soul reaper uniform and wielding Zanpakuto, were battling a group of Gillian.
The spiritual pressure emanating from these Shinigami was not to be underestimated; the weakest among them had the level of a regular Gotei 13 Seat Officer.
Furthermore, among this group of Shinigami, there was actually a man wearing a Squad Captain's haori, whose terrifying spiritual pressure clearly reached Squad Captain level. With every swing of his blade, a Gillian met its demise.
However, what was strange was that the back of this man wearing a Squad Captain's haori had no squad number.
Just as these Gillian were all killed by these powerful Shinigami, six large, similarly shaped Adjuchas, resembling loaches, surged out from all directions, each firing Cero towards the Shinigami in the field.
"Not good, we've been ambushed!" an older Shinigami exclaimed with a look of surprise.
The six Cero were about to hit several Shinigami in the field.
The man wearing the Squad Captain's haori lightly tossed his Zanpakuto.
The Zanpakuto instantly transformed into dozens of rhombus-shaped shurikens, shooting towards five of the Adjuchas.
"Pfft!"
In an instant, those five Adjuchas were all pierced by the shurikens. Behind the Shinigami wearing the Squad Captain's haori, the last remaining Adjuchas had already finished charging its Cero. Just as a black-red Cero was about to strike his back, a young man with messy, disheveled hair from the Shinigami squad raised his Zanpakuto:
"Sever, Raikazuchi!"
His Asauchi instantly transformed into a pure white weapon with a hooked tip, carrying a rich flame power, and it directly split open the Cero fired by that Adjuchas. Then, with a Shunpo, he stepped forward and, with his left hand, drew a steel fork-like weapon from his waist, then fiercely plunged the steel fork into the brain of this last Adjuchas.
"This is Squad Captain Osaki Masahiro's Flying Shuttle and Squad Member Tsubaki Izusuke's Raikazuchi! This cooperation is simply amazing!"
A nearby Gotei 13 exclaimed in praise.
At this moment, the man called Osaki Masahiro also turned his head and said to the disheveled young man:
"Tsubaki Izusuke, well done! It's truly reassuring to leave my back to you!"
The disheveled man scratched his head and smiled shyly.
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