Hueco Mundo, located in the rift between the Human World and Soul Society, is a desolate, silent world composed of white, desert-like ground and withered trees.
Most humans, upon death, have their souls ascend to Soul Society to begin new lives.
However, some souls, due to their lingering attachments to the Human World or other hindering factors, cannot ascend and wander in the Human World. A portion of these, after years of torment from resentment, or accelerated by external factors, eventually degenerate into Hollows.
Hollows usually hide in the chaotic Hueco Mundo between the Human World and Soul Society, where Shinigami cannot detect them. Shinigami only receive intelligence and pursue Hollows when they come to the Human World to cause mischief.
And today, Hueco Mundo unexpectedly welcomed an unwelcome guest, who was currently causing a massacre within Hueco Mundo...
Along the way, Lin Feng encountered countless bizarre Hollows in the forest, some of whom were like Voldemort, launching sudden attacks from blind spots in his vision, but each time Lin Feng easily dealt with them. And under the miraculous power of the Hogyoku, all the Reishi from those Hollows were devoured by Lin Feng, leaving no trace behind.
However, after killing over thirty thousand small Hollows, Lin Feng tragically discovered that he was lost. The environment of the Forest of the Gran Hollows was very different from the outside world; there wasn't even a single star in the sky, and all around were dense, hundred-meter-tall withered trees.
"Eh, how did I become a road idiot like Xiao Jie?"
Lin Feng scratched the back of his head, somewhat perplexed. There were no reference points around, just identical white withered trees; he felt he had lost his sense of direction in this forest.
Just then, a light flashed at the intersection ahead. It seemed that was the exit to the outside world. Lin Feng rejoiced and quickened his pace towards it.
Upon reaching the exit, Lin Feng was immediately startled. This was no outside world at all.
Before Lin Feng, there were now ten Hollows, each a hundred meters tall, completely black, with slender bodies, long clown-like noses, and white masks.
Lin Feng recognized these Hollows as Gillians at a glance!
The birth process of Gillians is very strange. It is said that Hollows who are extremely hungry for souls naturally gather together, then they begin to devour each other's bodies... Their souls merge in this process, thereby losing their individuality, and finally becoming the lowest-ranked Gran Hollows, possessing immense spiritual power, huge bodies, and dull minds.
These Gillians seemed to have been waiting for a long time. They opened their two-meter-long mouths, from which oppressive spiritual pressure condensed, shining with a red light.
"Such a strange spiritual pressure fluctuation! Is this the legendary Cero!"
Hollows of the Gillian level can already use Cero, and although it requires a few seconds of charging, the destruction it causes is terrifying. It is said that among Shinigami, only Royal Guard members can deal with them.
Uh uh uh...
Ten Gillians simultaneously fired red Ceros towards Lin Feng's direction. Boom! The massive Ceros engulfed Lin Feng's body, and for a moment, dust flew, and a large crater was blasted into the ground.
However, as the smoke and dust cleared, Lin Feng was floating above the crater, brushing dust off his shoulder with his right hand. The red Cero, with its immense destructive power, hadn't even damaged the clothes he was wearing!
"Hmph, is this the power of Cero? Quite laughable."
As the King of Night, Lin Feng's power naturally received a significant boost in the sunless Hueco Mundo, with all his bodily functions increasing by 50%.
Lin Feng flapped his blood-colored wings, flew in front of the Gillian, and punched through the Gillian's black skin, which was harder than rock.
"Ugh, ugh, ugh…"
These clumsy, lower-class Hollows, who didn't even have arms, couldn't escape the devouring grasp of Lin Feng's palm and were completely consumed amidst their painful wails.
After the dense Reishi of the Hollows was swallowed by Lin Feng, he felt as if he had eaten three or four hundred ordinary Hollows.
The power of the Hogyoku in his chest also grew stronger and stronger. In an instant, as ten Gillians were mercilessly absorbed by Lin Feng, the Hogyoku began to get excited, faintly showing signs of evolution.
After finishing off these Hollows, Lin Feng landed on the ground, closing his eyes as if sensing the changes in the Hogyoku within his chest.
However, just as Lin Feng closed his eyes, a huge vibration came from the ground. Four Hollows, whose spiritual pressure density was tens of times higher than that of a Gillian, were walking towards Lin Feng.
"It's truly rare for a human with a physical body to appear in Hueco Mundo. Were those Gillians' Cero just now attacking you?"
The leading Hollow was named Kakameer. He was a Hollow that resembled a chimpanzee, with a sturdy body over four meters tall, covered in a thick layer of white bone armor.
Behind him were three other animal-shaped Hollows: a wild boar, a wolf, and a giraffe, each with a spiritual pressure density far stronger than a Gillian.
Kakameer was staring at Lin Feng with bloodthirsty eyes, and saliva involuntarily dripped from the corner of his white mask.
These Hollows should be the intermediate Hollows—Adjuchas. He must have been attracted by the spiritual power emanating from Lin Feng. After all, the Hogyoku, which contains the blood of the Soul King, is the food they crave immensely.
Due to their unique characteristics, Adjuchas are the most bloodthirsty and warlike group among Hollows. Once they stop devouring, they will degenerate into lower-class Hollows, Gillians, and lose their individual consciousness, never being able to evolve into Adjuchas again.
Every Adjuchas is terrified of degenerating into a Gillian, so even though they have regained their intelligence, their mental state is the most unstable in Hueco Mundo.
"I'm talking to you, are you mute?"
Kakameer yelled arrogantly at Lin Feng, not putting this human in his eyes at all.
"Hey, if you don't want to die, you big gorilla, then honestly answer my questions."
Lin Feng happened to have some questions about Hueco Mundo that he wanted to ask an intelligent Hollow.
However, Lin Feng's contemptuous attitude almost made Kakameer furious.
A human dared to be so arrogant. Kakameer was instantly enraged, stomping his feet on the ground with force. At the same time, he angrily swung his two long arms to grab him.
"You have some nerve, daring to attack me!"
For Lin Feng, who was in his Night King state, even if a Vasto Lorde came, he would not be afraid. As two palms, whistling through the air, came slapping, Lin Feng simply raised his hands, clashing violently with the opponent's meter-wide palm attacks.
With a loud bang, the smoke dispersed, and Kakameer failed to harm Lin Feng in the slightest.
"This… how is this possible? My palm strike has hundreds of tons of force!"
However, before Kakameer could be shocked, Lin Feng had already raised his right arm, forming his palm into a blade, and slashed down at the Hollow. The invisible sharp blade split Kakameer's body in two.
The intermediate Hollow let out a wail, its body splitting and falling to either side. Then, its dead body turned into blue Reishi, floating into Lin Feng's chest.
"What a terrifying human! He actually killed the powerful Kakameer. How did he do it?"
The wild boar-shaped Hollow next to him was stunned. He didn't expect that in just a normal hunt, his companion would be defeated by a human who didn't even have a Zanpakuto, and he was filled with shock and astonishment.
One should know that the defense of intermediate Hollows is very strong; ordinary Shinigami's Zanpakuto can't even leave a scratch on them.
Yet, the Kakameer before them was killed by a human's hand-blade, and it was a clean cut right down the middle. If they hadn't witnessed such a shocking event with their own eyes, they would never have believed it.
"It's incredible that there's a human in the world who can kill a Hollow and even devour its Reishi!"
A trace of surprise flashed across the wolf-shaped Hollow's face next to him.
But in an instant, these Adjuchas opened their gaping mouths. They couldn't overcome their body's thirst for souls and still attacked resolutely, wanting to devour Lin Feng, this anomaly.
"You're in such a hurry to die, I'll satisfy you!"
Lin Feng was also too lazy to chatter with these animals. The Forest of the Gran Hollows has no shortage of Hollows, so since they didn't know what was good for them, he would just kill them directly.
Lin Feng once again swung his hand-blade, a dimensional blade that could distort space, easily tearing through their hard bodies.
Adjuchas are considered very powerful high-level Hollows in Hueco Mundo, but against Lin Feng, who possesses the power of the Hogyoku, they were merely destined to be instantly killed.
Just like when he killed the gorilla, the bodies of these three dead Adjuchas instantly transformed into blue Reishi, and every visible particle of Reishi was absorbed into Lin Feng's body, not a single bit wasted.
After absorbing the Reishi of the four Adjuchas, a strange white light actually emanated from his chest. Lin Feng's heart stirred, knowing that this was the Hogyoku advancing its own power.
The Hogyoku from the original world, which helped Aizen evolve multiple times, was actually formed by the fusion of two incomplete Hogyoku.
Aizen created a Hogyoku containing Shinigami power using Shinigami and the Soul King's fingertips, while Urahara Kisuke created a Hogyoku containing Hollow power using Hollow materials. Afterwards, Aizen fused the two Hogyoku together. Only a Hogyoku with the power of Shinigami, the power of Hollows, and the power of the Soul King combined into one was that omnipotent wish-granting device!
As for the Hogyoku in Lin Feng's chest, it was a golden bean condensed by the True Ancestor's 'Creation' power after fusing the Soul King's blood with thousands of drops of True Ancestor essence blood. This 'golden bean' later gained spiritual energy after absorbing the Sekirei's wishes, becoming a semi-finished Hogyoku.
This semi-finished Hogyoku began to evolve after devouring tens of thousands of low-level Hollows and several Gran Hollows.
After a dazzling light flashed, the Hogyoku completely fused with the Hollows' Reishi, and the power it contained increased by another dimension.
Immediately after, the Hogyoku's pure energy surged through Lin Feng's meridians, flowing with his blood, and began to transform his body.
This caught Lin Feng a little off guard! He didn't want to turn into Aizen's Hogyoku form 5, a giant fluttering moth! Wearing a mask on his face and a hole splitting open in his chest, such an ugly form, how could he pick up girls in the Soul Society!
However, fortunately, the Hogyoku could sense Lin Feng's will and did not allow his appearance to evolve towards that of a Hollow.
Lin Feng only felt that all the meridians in his body were reshaped, and his internal organs also evolved. Taking a deep breath of the forest air, his lungs could absorb Reishi from the air like a Hollow, and his blood could also combine with Reishi.
He extended his right finger, and as the Reishi within his body gathered at his fingertip, it actually formed a red ball with extremely high spiritual pressure density.
"Heh heh, it seems I can use Cero now too."
After this transformation, Lin Feng's physical body had adapted to the Hollow's power, and he could now manipulate spiritual particles similar to a Hollow.
However, before he could use his new power, he felt a strong earthquake in the Forest of the Gran Hollows.
"What's going on? Are other Hollows fighting? Perfect, I can ask them for directions."
Lin Feng's thoughts stirred, and he spread his wings, flying towards the direction of the vibration.
...
"You two females can't escape my grasp. Be good and become the stepping stones for my evolution, Lord Yammy, Cero!"
Several kilometers away, a fierce battle was taking place in the nearby forest.
Hollows at the Adjuchas stage, if they didn't want to degenerate, had to hunt other Hollows of the same level. When both were intermediate Hollows, female Hollows were much smaller than males, making them more susceptible to being devoured.
At this moment, a male intermediate Hollow was haphazardly firing red Ceros from his mouth. This Hollow's body was enormous, as large as a Gillian, yet he had 12 legs, and his skin was an uncommon brown.
The two female Hollows he was chasing were much smaller, only two meters tall, appearing as large centipedes covered entirely in white bone armor.
With a thunderous crash...
The bodies of the two female Hollows were sent flying by the Cero's shockwave, crashing heavily into a large tree.
"Just a little longer, Menoly, if we run deep into the forest, he won't be able to catch us!"
Loly stepped forward to help her friend up.
In Hueco Mundo, because female Hollows were easily attacked by males, they generally huddled together for warmth.
Loly and Menoly, these two Hollows, usually hunted other Adjuchas together, but they hadn't expected to encounter someone today who was immune to their poisons.
"It's useless, you can't escape, Cero!"
Yammy, close behind, spat out another red flash from his mouth.
Although both sides were intermediate Hollows, Yammy's massive body contained infinite power. Even when the two females fired Ceros back together, they were still blasted away by the opponent's Cero, which was several times stronger than their own.
"Ah!"
The two intermediate Hollows were battered and bruised, with most of their white bone armor shattered.
"Ahahaha, let this great lord eat you two!"
A bloodthirsty smile appeared on Yammy's large face, and with a stretch of his large hand, he easily gripped the two female Hollows as if they were chicks.