"Rumble!"
A terrifying golden and purple spiritual particle vortex unfolded a tug-of-war in the sky of Hueco Mundo.
"Soul Eater! Suck for me!"
Yekawa roared, pushing his Soul Eater power to the extreme. Now that he had successfully become an Arrancar, coupled with his status as the Child of Hueco Mundo, the power Soul Eater displayed in Hueco Mundo was naturally incomparable.
A terrifying dark-golden spiritual particle vortex, Through the entire sky, continuously pulled the spiritual particles from Hueco Mundo towards Yekawa, while Aizen's purple-black vortex remained at a disadvantage.
The next moment, an incredible thing happened: the Hōgyoku on Aizen's chest actually began to split off a small piece on its own, flying towards Yekawa's location.
With the splitting of the Hōgyoku, the power of the purple-black vortex in front of Aizen instantly surged, beginning to contend with Yekawa's dark-golden vortex, greedily devouring the spiritual particles in Hueco Mundo.
Originally, Aizen's Hōgyoku was created by combining tens of thousands of souls with Shinigami abilities and a spirit king fragment, which was why he so desperately craved Kisuke Urahara's Hōgyoku, which was formed from countless Hollows.
Due to the lack of Kisuke Urahara's Hōgyoku, Aizen found it difficult to tame one of the fragments individually. But now, Aizen had collected Yekawa's spiritual pressure, as the Child of Hueco Mundo, during the battle.
He achieved a subtle balance between Yekawa's spiritual pressure and his half of the Hōgyoku. Although this was not as strong as the fusion of two Hōgyoku, it was enough for Aizen to embark on the path of Hōgyoku evolution ahead of time.
Subsequently, whenever Aizen's black-purple vortex fell into a disadvantage, the Hōgyoku would spontaneously split off a small piece, flying towards Yekawa's location, and then the power of the black-purple vortex would greatly increase!
This spiritual particle struggle lasted for a prolonged period, a full three days, before the two spiritual particle vortexes slowly dissipated almost simultaneously.
Yekawa looked at the twelve fingernail-sized, dark-golden gems with a hint of purple-black in the center, lost in thought.
"Did I just create Hōgyoku?…"
He never expected that Hōgyoku, this substance, was also alive and possessed its own will!
During his tug-of-war with Aizen, the Hōgyoku, in order to ensure Aizen Sōsuke's successful evolution, would occasionally split off tiny, equally sized individuals, allowing Yekawa to absorb them with Soul Eater.
There were a total of twelve of these tiny individuals!
In other words, in order to prevent Yekawa from hindering Aizen's evolution, the Hōgyoku directly split off a small part of its own body to interfere with Yekawa's Soul Eater!
And Yekawa, through his status as the Child of Hueco Mundo, could draw in the faint spiritual particles of all things within Hueco Mundo, and this naturally included the spiritual particles of the Hōgyoku.
Therefore, the moment Yekawa obtained the Hōgyoku fragments, he immediately tried to use the countless spiritual particles in Hueco Mundo to replicate the Hōgyoku's spiritual particle state, manually creating twelve small Hōgyoku!
A moment later, as the smoke dispersed, Aizen Sōsuke's figure appeared.
His upper body was bare, and a large Hōgyoku, interwoven with dark gold and black-purple, was embedded in Aizen's chest, causing several purple-black and dark-gold interwoven cracks to appear on his chest!
Yekawa found that the Hōgyoku on Aizen's chest was far more dazzling than all twelve pieces in his hand combined.
Strictly speaking, Yekawa's twelve Hōgyoku could only be considered the offspring of Aizen's Hōgyoku, and should be called sub-hogyokus.
Furthermore, the Hōgyoku on Aizen's body did not weaken due to splitting itself; instead, its aura became even stronger due to absorbing enough spiritual particles.
Aizen's current state was very similar to his Hōgyoku State One from the original work. The only difference was that the Hōgyoku on his chest had changed from its initial black-purple to a color interwoven with black-purple and dark gold.
"Yekawa, I must thank you greatly. If it weren't for the pressure you exerted, the Hōgyoku and I wouldn't have fused so quickly!"
"To thank you, I will let you truly witness this power that transcends the limits of a Shinigami!"
Clearly, Aizen, whose strength had greatly increased after fusing with the Hōgyoku, had regained his previous confidence and demeanor.
"No, I should be thanking you. If it weren't for you, where would I mass-produce so many Hōgyoku!"
Yekawa looked at Aizen's calm face and teased him.
"Hōgyoku? You said mass-produce Hōgyoku? Don't be ridiculous. Can that pile of garbage in your hand even be called Hōgyoku?"
Aizen's voice immediately rose by eight octaves, and the next moment he charged forward with his sword.
"Clang!"
Yekawa directly waved his hand, conjuring a Thunder Blade, blocking Aizen's incredibly powerful strike.
The clash of blades stirred up gusts of wind, causing dust and sand to fly in the Desert!
"Oh my, Lord Aizen, how heartless you are. They are all children of your Hōgyoku. If you say that, the Hōgyoku will be sad, won't it!"
"If it had a heart!"
As they spoke, the two clashed again. This time, Aizen's single strike sent Yekawa flying, plunging him violently into the sand.
Seeing Yekawa once again suppressed by him, Aizen's lips always bore a smile.
"Is this Aizen in his Hōgyoku state?"
Yekawa was indeed a bit surprised, not expecting Aizen, even in just Hōgyoku State One, to be so strong. He had been suppressed by Yekawa just moments ago, but now he was fighting him blow for blow.
"Could it be that my intervention caused his Hōgyoku transformation to be even stronger than in the original work?"
Despite this, Yekawa was not flustered in the slightest, because as long as he was within Hueco Mundo, with the power of Hueco Mundo supporting him, he had never feared anyone in a prolonged battle!
"Gran Rey Cero!"
Yekawa extended a finger, and a terrifying Cero, interwoven with dark gold and black-red, formed in an extremely short amount of time.
It directly hit Aizen Sōsuke head-on.
"Boom!"
As this destructive Gran Rey Cero exploded in the Desert, a terrifying heatwave swept across the entire Desert.
"Rumble!"
The vast Hueco Mundo experienced a massive earthquake from this single Cero, and even Starrk and his group, who were holed up in the Great Hollow Forest, felt the tremors distinctly!
The smoke and dust cleared, revealing a terrifying deep pit. Yekawa's Cero had directly blasted from the sky all the way down to the Great Hollow Forest at the very bottom of Hueco Mundo.
And Aizen, who should have been utterly annihilated, only had a huge hole in his chest. The next moment, as purple light surged, Aizen's injuries completely healed.
However, he was still in Hōgyoku State One at this moment; he had not entered Hōgyoku State Two under this stimulation, clearly due to the absence of Kisuke Urahara's Hōgyoku.
Looking at the fully reconstructed Aizen, Yekawa sighed.
"I knew it!"
The next moment, Yekawa once again transformed into a flash of lightning, rushing directly in front of Aizen with lightning speed, and slashing fiercely at his face.
"Hyakumanben!"
Layers of colorful shields lit up on Aizen's body, blocking Yekawa's attack!
"Bakudo Seventy-Nine — Kuyō Shibari!"
Seeing that his attack missed, he immediately prepared to retreat, but his body was enveloped by nine black cylindrical pillars, making his limbs completely unable to move.
At the same time, Aizen used Kido again.
"Hado Ninety — Kurohitsugi!"
This time, Yekawa did not have time to release his Thunder Armor, so he took a full-force Kurohitsugi head-on.
Yekawa was trapped inside the several hundred-zhang-tall Kurohitsugi, and in an instant, countless pitch-black spikes pierced through all his limbs, bones, and vital organs.
But the next moment, a surge of spiritual particles entered his body, and those fatal injuries recovered in an instant.
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