Somewhere in Hell.
This was a place where one might go mad just by looking at it for too long.
Skeletons piled up to form mountains. Blood gathered into a black-red river, flowing into the distance.
The wind, filled with the smell of blood, carried endless wailing.
Two figures arrived in front of a cave in a mountain of skeletons.
They were Yhwach and Miyamoto Tetsuya, whom the Hell Expeditionary Force was looking for.
Guarding the cave of the skeleton mountain was a man with pink hair.
He was Szayelaporro, who had been killed by the Shinigami!
However, the current Szayelaporro looked completely different from the past. He had evolved into an Arrancar.
Not long after Szayelaporro fell into Hell, he met Miyamoto Tetsuya, who was working for the Lord of Hell.
Szayelaporro was very interested in what Miyamoto Tetsuya was doing, and the two hit it off immediately.
They collected the power of the Lord of Hell scattered throughout Hell and created a Hōgyoku containing the power of Hell.
Using the Hell Hōgyoku, Szayelaporro shed his mask and evolved into a Vasto Lorde Arrancar.
"Is this it, the heart of this world?"
Yhwach ignored Szayelaporro. His four pupils stared coldly at the cave. All kinds of possible futures appeared in his eyes.
"This is the place. Please unseal what is inside!"
Miyamoto Tetsuya reached out his hand, gesturing for Yhwach to go inside.
This strange area was the core of the Hell world.
At the same time, it was the place where the consciousness of the Lord of Hell was sealed.
"Then let's begin."
Yhwach didn't hesitate and stepped directly into the skeleton cave.
The alliance between him and the Lord of Hell was quite fragile.
The Lord of Hell invited him here to help break the seal.
And he chose to accept the invitation not just because of the Hōgyoku containing the power of Hell.
He came here to seize the power of the Lord of Hell!
There was no path inside the skeleton cave. After entering, it was just a pitch-black space.
In the center of the pitch-black space, countless Reishi formulas were intertwined to form six chains. They tightly locked a beating heart in the middle.
That beating heart was the manifestation of Hell's consciousness.
He was already closely connected to Hell itself. No matter how many times He was destroyed, He would be reborn in Hell using the power of Hell.
Therefore, when the Soul King gave up the power of Hell back then, the solution was to seal it.
The chains made of countless intertwined Reishi formulas were the seal set by the Soul King.
This was a heart that could not be destroyed by conventional means.
But Yhwach wanted to accept the power of Hell, just like the Soul King did back then.
He wanted to absorb this power and destroy the will of the Lord of Hell.
At that time, Yhwach would become the new Lord of Hell!
"These seals are the methods of a Quincy."
Yhwach identified the type of seal with a single glance. This happened to be what he was best at dealing with.
He raised his right hand, and a huge Reishi hexagram array suddenly appeared in the air.
The Reishi in the chains of formulas was quickly stripped away by the hexagram array in the air.
Without the support of Reishi, the formulas on the chains disintegrated one after another.
The chains made of Reishi formulas cracked rapidly and dissipated in the air.
In the center of the pitch-black space, without the binding of the Reishi chains, the sound of the heart beating suddenly amplified more than ten times, like thunder in one's ears.
Thump-thump— Thump-thump— Thump-thump—
Immediately after, the heart melted rapidly like a burning candle, turning into crimson liquid.
The heart soon turned into a crimson vortex.
"Hehehehe—"
A cold, piercing laugh came from the crimson vortex.
In the next moment, the crimson vortex swept towards Yhwach.
But the crimson vortex didn't attack Yhwach. Instead, it fell into the Hōgyoku containing the power of Hell in his hand.
The Lord of Hell's idea was exactly the same as Yhwach's!
What He wanted was not just as simple as escaping his predicament.
He was also coveting Yhwach's Quincy power!
The Lord of Hell possessed the powers of Shinigami, Hollow, and Hell, but he lacked the power of a Quincy.
Quincy power was the final piece of the puzzle for Him to reach the realm of the Soul King!
Meanwhile, Yhwach did not hinder the Lord of Hell's actions.
He also had enough confidence in himself. He believed he could win this winner-takes-all struggle.
A moment later, the crimson vortex had completely entered the Hōgyoku.
There was no ripple in Yhwach's eyes; he just watched all this quietly.
"Yhwach, it seems you are very confident in yourself."
A cold voice came from the crimson Hōgyoku.
This Hell Hōgyoku was originally made from fragments of the Lord of Hell scattered all over Hell. After fusing with it, He directly controlled the power of the Hell Hōgyoku.
"Of course. My eyes have already seen your future," Yhwach said calmly.
"Hehehehe..." A cold laugh came from the crimson Hōgyoku.
"Eyes that can see the future?"
"Do you know why I was able to seize the moment of the Wandenreich's destruction and send Miyamoto Tetsuya to invite you?"
"Although Miyamoto Tetsuya and Szayelaporro couldn't break the seal, they allowed me to use more power."
"I saw your predicament through those lives that came to an abrupt end."
As the half-body cut off by the Soul King in the past, the Lord of Hell possessed the ability to 'see the past'.
If the future Yhwach saw was the end of many long threads...
Then the past the Lord of Hell saw was the threads extending continuously.
If a thread came to an abrupt end, it could be determined that the person had died.
Thanks to the help of Miyamoto Tetsuya and Szayelaporro, the Lord of Hell could use more power. Even while in Hell, He could see the past of people in the three worlds.
When the Shinigami invaded the Wandenreich, the Lord of Hell saw the deaths of a large number of elite Quincies.
He seized this opportunity and sent Miyamoto Tetsuya to the Wandenreich to invite Yhwach to Hell.
"Seeing the past cannot change your future."
Yhwach grabbed the floating Hell Hōgyoku in the air.
"Then let's try and see."
The Lord of Hell knew very well that the future Yhwach saw was just a possibility, one out of ten million possibilities.
Although His Shinigami power was sealed by the Soul King in another place, He still had the powers of Hollow and Hell.
He also had the environmental advantage in Hell. No matter how one looked at it, His chances of winning were greater.
"Before that, we need to move to another place."
"The Shinigami archives also contain records of this sealed place. They will find this place soon."
Yhwach had already seen the future where Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni found this place.
Therefore, he didn't immediately merge with the Hōgyoku containing the Hell will. Instead, he chose to move to another place first.
Neither Yhwach nor the Hell will could devour the other in a short time. This was a protracted war, so they needed a place where they wouldn't be disturbed
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