Chapter 473: The Power of the Supreme Three Kings
"Eh!"
The hunched old man turned his head, startled by the long-haired man who suddenly appeared before his eyes. That instinctive trembling of muscles and dilation of pupils couldn't fool anyone.
Even with [Shigure]'s perception ability, he could easily hear the slight tearing sound of visceral fibers when the other party's heart suddenly contracted at this moment.
As well as the sound of blood vessel walls being impacted and trembling when a large amount of blood rushed straight to the brain.
The other party was lucky. With this level of fright, there was a considerable probability the other party would directly suffer a cerebral hemorrhage and die.
Shigure stared intently at the other party. Although he hadn't specially learned any mind-reading abilities, when the gap in Spirit attributes was too large, powerful thoughts could completely and directly control the other party.
This old man was an absolute ordinary person.
He focused his eyes, and the old man's body trembled, losing physical control.
"Let me see if that Kaito Shirogane is actually your handiwork..."
Shigure closed his eyes, and scenes began to flash by rapidly. That was the abbreviation of an ordinary person's life.
A lifetime is too long, and there are always many scenes left deep in one's memory. But because the brain had already begun to age, they simply couldn't be retrieved normally.
At this time, under the effect of Shigure's powerful spiritual force, the past began to reappear.
The old man trembled all over, and cloudy tears began to fall.
Even an old guy like him, so old and frail, waiting for death in the deep mountains, had his own magnificent waves in his youth, his own loves, hates, and partings. That was the epitome ultimately left behind by a short-lived species like humans in just a few decades.
Shigure had no interest in these things, completely having no intention of letting the old man savor them carefully. He continuously traced back, constantly recalling backwards.
He wanted to see earlier!
Finally, he saw the scene he wanted to see.
The old man was still wearing a sleeveless undershirt. While working hard to reclaim wasteland, he saw a basket wrapped in pink flannel drifting down the irrigation canal beside where he was working.
Out of curiosity, he walked over and picked up the basket with a stick.
He lifted the flannel covering the basket. Inside was a baby, its hair not even grown out yet, obviously not many days old.
The old man looked up but saw no one.
This irrigation canal wasn't considered very long. Theoretically speaking, no matter who put it down, he should have been able to see them.
But the result was that he just didn't see who abandoned this baby at that time.
The intense spiritual force made the surrounding woods move without wind. For a time, the atmosphere in the mountains became eerie and chilling, the birds fell silent, and insects and ants vanished.
In the spiritual world of memories, the old man suddenly turned his head uncontrollably, looking in another direction.
Humans can actually receive far more information than what remains in their impressions. It's just that due to their own physical functions, they simply can't read it.
But Shigure was different. He could completely read any acquired information.
Right now, he was forcibly mobilizing all the information in the brain's memory at that time, piecing together the truth the old man couldn't see, through his eyes!
The old man trembled in pain, the meridians on his forehead bulging, as if they would explode in the next second.
His line of sight swept around, looking towards the sky the old man had never looked up at before.
There, a man wearing a white high-collared martial arts suit, with short chestnut hair, stood smiling in the air ten meters high.
Shigure's pupils shrank. This image in the memory actually met his gaze!
"Hehe, sure enough, someone would find this place."
Shigure's body instantly tensed up. Facing this weird phenomenon, even he momentarily felt a creepy sensation of hair standing on end down his back.
This wasn't just the bizarre profundity of power, but also the far-reaching nature of the other party's schemes, far exceeding his expectations.
"Relax a bit. This old man is innocent. If you blow his head up like this, it won't lead to any good results."
Thoughts raced rapidly in Shigure's mind. He quickly realized that the other party didn't name him directly. It was highly likely the other party had just made such arrangements and preparations in advance.
With the abilities and resourcefulness of those three, it was completely reasonable for them to guess that sooner or later, someone would notice Kaito Shirogane's uniqueness and track it down here.
Coupled with some fate-side abilities, it was indeed possible to execute some operations akin to conversing across time and space.
He quickly calmed down, and the intense spiritual force also dissipated consequently.
The man meeting his gaze raised his lowered eyelids, a smile brewing in his chestnut pupils.
"Do you think this is a performance we prepared in advance?"
Shigure's expression stiffened, and that creepy feeling appeared again. He looked at the arrogance completely restrained on the other party's face, and a huge sense of disparity emerged.
In the next moment, his vision emptied.
His pupils trembled. That man had already appeared before his eyes.
A finger pointed at Shigure's glabella.
Shigure felt a prick on his glabella. The next moment was a feeling of time and space reversing, and various scenes flooded in again.
Opening his eyes, he had already broken away from the old man's spiritual world. This old man, as if nothing had happened, turned around and hunched his body to return to his wooden hut. His movements were accompanied by the unique sighs of the elderly.
That was the manifestation of their flesh and bodies having aged; any action was accompanied by fatigue and pain.
Shigure was somewhat dazed for a moment. Did the other party use an ability to affect him across nearly twenty years of time and space, or did they hide an ability within this old guy's spiritual world?
Crunch, crunch...
The sound of fine footsteps had already sounded from over ten kilometers away. That kind of measured pace definitely belonged to professions like soldiers.
Shigure knew that his whereabouts had probably already been learned by Eastern Xia's official authorities. And according to his agreement with that person from Azure Sky, he indeed shouldn't have entered Eastern Xia's borders.
But it didn't matter. He still had about 7 minutes...
No, probably 1 minute left.
Shigure saw a huge cloud of smoke, mixed in the rain and mist between the mountains, rapidly shuttling through several mountains. It was obviously a rather strong Reincarnator searching for him.
Shigure was unwilling to accept this result and still wanted to go to that old man. But in the next moment, a voice sounded from behind him.
"Shigure, a creature like humans should know when to advance and retreat, right?"
That voice was mellow and deep, naturally carrying a certain bewitching power.
Shigure, however, abruptly felt as if frozen in place.
Although he lost half a crown and couldn't be considered a true Supreme now,
He had never thought there would be a Reincarnator who could appear behind him and leave him completely unaware.
"Some truths and secrets are like Pandora's Box. Once opened, there is only disaster, only destruction."
Shigure turned his head, only seeing intense light blooming before his eyes. For an instant, he couldn't see anything clearly.
[You have been affected by the ability of Special Unit ?. Based on your Spirit attribute, you can obtain the following information]
[You have been affected by Zanpakuto · Kyoka Suigetsu. Now conducting Immunity Check...]
[Checking...]
[Immunity Failed. You have been affected by Kyoka Suigetsu]
Impossible!
Shigure's spirit shook violently. He held [Eternal Fate] and wouldn't be affected by any cognitive interference abilities. How could he fall for Kyoka Suigetsu?!
"Impossible?"
"Your understanding of power still remains at such a superficial level. It seems among the [Supremes] of this generation, those capable of taking on great responsibilities are few."
"Go back, Shigure. You don't know how many attempts we made to deal with that final crisis."
Boom!
A smoke dragon descended from the sky. Song Xian's whole body was entwined with Armament Haki. As he clenched his right hand, black-red lightning actually coiled around it.
He glared at Shigure, raised a crest carved with words, and said:
"Based on our agreement with the [King of Miracles], Reincarnators beyond the Third Ladder are not allowed to use abilities within Eastern Xia's borders. Please... leave immediately!"
Song Xian gripped that crest as if it were some kind of Command Spell.
He knew very well that if the person before him really wanted to fight, the Reincarnators and the Azure Dragon Squad who came here today would all be wiped out.
Those drones of the Vermilion Bird Squad also couldn't have much impact on this kind of figure.
Shigure looked at the man in white who still remained in his field of vision but whom Song Xian and the others seemingly couldn't see at all. He already understood that there was an insurmountable gap between him and the so-called [Supreme Three Kings].
Expressionlessly, he took one last look at that wooden hut, directly turned around, stepped into the clouds and mist, and quickly disappeared.
This trip of his wasn't completely without gain.
At least he had confirmed that Kaito Shirogane was indeed a special guy, one of the backup plans prepared by those three.
He was very curious, if Kaito himself knew about this kind of thing, given that guy's madness, how would he react...
Shigure quickly flew above the sea of clouds. In the next moment, he left the range of Song Xian's Observation Haki perception.
Song Xian felt as if he collapsed. Only after meeting face to face did he realize the person was [Shigure]. He knew very well that the other party possessed the ability to easily destroy a city.
He massaged his glabella, feeling this world seemed already tottering. The strength of Reincarnators was getting stronger and stronger, just like bombs that could explode at any time.
No one could be sure what would happen to this world once the order at the top tier of the Space collapsed.
Among the Reincarnators of this generation, the forces of the order side seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. He was very uneasy.
In the Space, guys like Mercenary Tao were increasing. He suddenly thought of that student named Kaito Shirogane. The other party was probably the type of person naturally adept at fighting.
Perhaps, he should be unearthed a bit...
Kaito reappeared in the manor of the March Consortium. The butler ordered people to bring a large amount of food.
The things belonging to the Li family here had already been moved away. This manor was directly given to Kaito by Li Xianhou, including this group of servants, all packaged and left for Kaito.
Kaito took a few bites, finding that the progress of the Gourmet Cells hadn't changed much.
He frowned and said:
"Go, bring all the ingredients over. I will cook them myself."
The butler didn't understand why, but meeting this Mr. Bai's eyes, he inexplicably felt a chill in his heart. He immediately nodded, walked out, and began to order the various ingredients stored in the kitchen and warehouse to be brought over.
Li Qingzi from outside the manor walked in, turning a blind eye to this scene, merely saying:
"We have successfully recruited more than 20 Reincarnators. We can hold the press conference now, right..."
(End of Chapter)
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