"What?"
Grimmjow, charging at high speed, was instantly caught by the throat by Bai Yuetong's strong hand. The entire process was so smooth it was as if he had voluntarily offered his neck to the enemy.
Moreover, after being choked, Grimmjow felt himself being eroded by a powerful force. Strange things continuously entered his body, leaving him completely paralyzed.
"Grimmjow!" Ichigo Kurosaki shouted with worry. He saw the blue patterns that appeared on Bai Yuetong's arm spread from his palm onto Grimmjow's body. Now, half of Grimmjow's body was covered in raised, branch-like blue veins.
"Disappear, you eyesore," Bai Yuetong said coldly, like a god of death announcing a final judgment.
With a flick of the hand that held Grimmjow, under everyone's watchful eyes, the forcefully thrown Grimmjow turned into a splendid Reishi firework in mid-flight, exploding completely from the inside out.
BOOM—!
A sudden explosion echoed through Hueco Mundo. A giant mushroom cloud rose slowly, and the accompanying shockwave and rings of concentrated azure Reishi flames sent Ichigo Kurosaki, who was rushing over to catch Grimmjow, flying.
Reishi flames were everywhere; the eye could only see a sea of blue fire.
As the storm from the shockwave swept across the area, even the non-flammable sand and rocks melted under the intense heat, becoming fuel for the expanding Reishi flames.
Meanwhile, Orihime Inoue and the others were safe under the hemispherical shield formed by Bai Yuetong's Blut Vene Anhaben.
"GRIMMJOW—!!!"
Ichigo Kurosaki, using Tensa Zangetsu to support himself, finally climbed up from the sand, his body tattered and covered in burns. Facing waves of scorching heat and the thick smoke from the explosion, he stared at the towering pillar of blue Reishi fire and cried out in anguish, his face filled with sorrow.
The massive fluctuation of his spiritual pressure caused the surrounding flames to flicker, inadvertently suppressing some of the concentrated Reishi flames and preventing them from spreading towards him.
"Could it be... his ability is to turn any object injected with his Reishi into a Reishi bomb?" a dusty Kisuke Urahara climbed out of a sand pile. He ignored his own disheveled state and immediately began to analyze Bai Yuetong's ability, speaking with great apprehension. "This level of power must have used Grimmjow himself as the raw material for the bomb. Using the highly concentrated Reishi of the object itself as fuel for a sympathetic detonation with minimal energy cost... It's a good thing he didn't throw Grimmjow directly at Mr. Kurosaki."
"What a waste. This power is truly worthy of a bomb made from a high-level Adjuchas. To be able to perfectly fuse multiple techniques with that ability, your skills are truly masterful. If you had hit Ichigo Kurosaki and Kisuke Urahara directly, you probably could have finished them off, right?" Quilge stood up, looking at the spectacular explosion, amazed at Bai Yuetong's technique, yet also feeling a sense of regret.
Although Ichigo Kurosaki had rushed towards Grimmjow, Grimmjow exploded while he was still a considerable distance away, failing to kill him at point-blank range.
Beside them, Nel and Orihime Inoue's eyes were vacant, stunned by the terrifying scene. But then, they desperately wanted to rush out to see if Ichigo Kurosaki was hurt, but both were firmly trapped within Bai Yuetong's Blut Vene Anhaben, unable to get out.
As for Apacci, Sung-Sun, and Mila Rose, who had been chattering nonstop just a moment ago, they were now silent as cicadas in winter, no longer daring to voice their dissatisfaction to Bai Yuetong's face.
Loly Aivirrne and Menoly Mallia, who had been awakened by the explosion, were trembling with fear, not daring to move, terrified of attracting his attention.
"Grimmjow died because he had no use value to you... In fact, from the very beginning, you had no intention of harming Ichigo Kurosaki, did you?"
Harribel's words caused everyone inside the Blut Vene Anhaben to turn their gazes to Bai Yuetong. The previously anxious Orihime and Nel also showed a glimmer of hope.
"Of course. A fool who interrupts my fun doesn't need to live."
Bai Yuetong did not deny Harribel's speculation.
However, what surprised him was that even though Grimmjow had been blown to bits, with any ashes becoming fuel for the Reishi flames, he could still 'share' everything from Grimmjow through his ability.
Was it because he had injected a part of his Reishi earlier, which was now flowing back into him? Or was it because Grimmjow was killed by his own hand and couldn't resist the power of 'Share', so everything he had became Bai Yuetong's at the moment of explosion?
Or perhaps, as long as it wasn't purified by Auswählen, even if he was still burning in the concentrated Reishi flames after the explosion, the residual Reishi could still be considered as the non-resisting Grimmjow himself, thus allowing for sharing?
At this moment, Bai Yuetong had not only obtained everything from Grimmjow, stacking and expanding his own potential in Hollow power, but if he wanted to, he could even perfectly resurrect Grimmjow through various methods like 'Life Share' or 'Gabriel'.
In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Bai Yuetong's mind. If he could really demand to share from even residual Reishi, then perhaps he could try it on the strongest Soul Reaper of the millennium, Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai, later on.
"Why did you show mercy to Ichigo Kurosaki?" Quilge asked, puzzled.
"Of course, it's because His Majesty values him greatly. The blood of a Quincy flows in Ichigo Kurosaki's veins. He is a person of great interest to His Majesty," Bai Yuetong said with a straight face. "The mission His Majesty gave me was to hold back Ichigo Kurosaki, and if possible, capture him alive. He never said to kill him. His Majesty's attitude, isn't it obvious? Do you want me to defy His Majesty's will?"
This was both Yhwach's intention and Bai Yuetong's own selfish plan. A guy as useful as Ichigo Kurosaki, with so many weaknesses, a saint-like heart, and astonishingly huge potential, couldn't just be killed off. Bai Yuetong was still counting on him to help 'balance the books'.
Besides, Ichigo Kurosaki wasn't that easy to kill. Normally, his power often declined due to mental self-consumption, and the multiple powers within him balanced and restricted each other, along with external seals, effectively suppressing him.
But if his life was in danger and he lost consciousness, left with only the instinct for survival and killing, he might suddenly unleash a full release where his internal powers no longer restrained each other.
Even the god-tier Soul King Yhwach couldn't withstand a single blow from a full-power Ichigo Kurosaki, preferring to use his Schrift 'A' to break his sword and play with mechanics rather than face the raw power of that stats monster head-on. The current him certainly couldn't withstand it either.
Even though Ichigo hadn't mastered all his powers yet and the chances of the above situation were slim, Bai Yuetong wouldn't bet his life on whether Ichigo would have a power-up when near death. He didn't want to share the same fate as the miserably dead Ulquiorra.
So, out of consideration for his own safety and future plans, Bai Yuetong had never even thought about killing Ichigo Kurosaki in Hueco Mundo.
"I see. I was being too emotional," Quilge said. Although he was very unwilling, he was a die-hard loyalist of Yhwach. Since it was His Majesty's order, he had to obey.
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