Time flew by, and five years had passed in a flash.
Hueco Mundo, Great Hollow Home.
Rudbornn knelt respectfully on the ground, looking up slightly at the majestic figure on the throne.
"My King, the new Hueco Mundo has been completed, including the main hall, Hollow Moon, your sleeping quarters, Thunder Lord, and the palaces for each Espada. The residences for the other Arrancar have also been built…"
After listening to Rudbornn's report, Yekawa slowly opened his eyes. His transformation was still ongoing, and he only remained conscious for a few hours each day, but he clearly felt a significant increase in his spiritual pressure. According to his estimation, he would be able to make the ultimate leap and grow to his limit in at most a dozen more years.
"You've done well, Rudbornn. But I'll still trouble you to build another palace. The address for the palace will be at the northernmost part of Hueco Mundo, and as for the name of the palace, let's call it Soul King Palace!"
"Yes, My King!"
Just as Rudbornn finished his bow and turned to leave, Yekawa called out to him again.
"Never mind, let's call that palace Muken instead!"
Rudbornn turned around and saw a mischievous smile on Yekawa's handsome face.
Although Rudbornn didn't understand why Yekawa always liked to give palaces strange names, he knew that what the King commanded must be done well!
Meanwhile, the Shinigami clone, Ito Makoto, had been diligently teaching Kidō techniques at Spiritual Arts Academy for the past five years. Unlike before, when he had to bear a certain share of medical tasks in the Fourth Division every day, he was now very leisurely.
Therefore, he had plenty of time over these five years to communicate with his Zanpakuto, and his development of his Bankai had risen to another level.
And the one who had improved the most in these five years was naturally the Quincy clone, Kurosaki Hiro. In addition to developing his Quincy abilities over these five years, Kurosaki Hiro also paid special attention to training his physique, as Quincy are special humans who carry their physical bodies.
Now, Kurosaki Hiro, who was just thirteen years old, was already nearly 1.8 meters tall, with well-defined muscles all over his body and a very proportionate build, the type that looks thin in clothes but muscular when undressed.
And under his planned training, even if he didn't use any Quincy power, or any Zanjutsu or Hakuda combat techniques, he could still, by sheer physical brute force alone, keep a dozen ordinary strong men from getting close.
At this moment, in the large training room, only Kurosaki Hiro and Ishida Soken stood facing each other.
Ishida Soken looked at Kurosaki Hiro in front of him, pushed up his rimless glasses, and said with a faint smile:
"Little Hiro, I know you're talented, but isn't it a bit of wishful thinking for you to want to defeat me right now?"
Ishida Soken hadn't expected Kurosaki Hiro, at only thirteen years old, to challenge him, so he decided to give this exceptionally talented clan junior a small lesson.
"Little Hiro is good in every way, but he's too arrogant. It's better for him to suffer a small setback here now than to be careless and underestimate his enemies in the future!"
Ishida Soken thought to himself.
However, Kurosaki Hiro was completely unaware of the grand drama Ishida Soken was imagining.
"Brother Soken, I'm coming!"
Seeing that Ishida Soken had no intention of making the first move for a long time, Kurosaki Hiro assumed a posture of drawing a bow and nocking an arrow. In an instant, a light-blue recurve bow made entirely of Reishi formed in his hand, and a Holy Arrow almost simultaneously emerged from the bowstring.
"Whoosh!"
A Holy Arrow, carrying a whistling gust of wind, shot towards Ishida Soken's face.
"So fast!"
It wasn't until the arrow was less than two feet from his chest that Ishida Soken barely reacted, using Hirenkyaku to dodge the Holy Arrow.
Kurosaki Hiro, however, frowned slightly and thought to himself:
"Are you even capable, Brother Soken?!"
Kurosaki Hiro had already slowed down the arrow's speed for this Holy Arrow. If he hadn't held back, with Ishida Soken's reaction speed, he would probably have been hit by now.
Seeing that Kurosaki Hiro seemed to be overpoweringly strong, Ishida Soken couldn't help but become fully focused. He assumed a posture of drawing a bow and nocking an arrow, and a Reishi bow resembling a spider web formed. A light-blue Holy Arrow instantly materialized and shot towards Kurosaki Nan.
Kurosaki Hiro neither dodged nor avoided, standing directly in place. The moment the Holy Arrow was about to touch him, light-blue patterns appeared on his right hand, which was Blut Vene.
His right hand, covered in Blut Vene, swatted at the Holy Arrow like swatting a fly.
"Clap!"
Ishida Soken's eyes widened in disbelief. He hadn't expected his full-power Holy Arrow to be dispersed by a single swat from Kurosaki Hiro. He also hadn't expected Kurosaki Hiro to be able to activate Blut Vene in such a short instant, and precisely cover only one hand.
"As expected of Little Hiro, ordinary methods truly can't defeat you!"
As he spoke, Ishida Soken leaped high, first injecting his Reishi directly into his blood vessels to use Move Blood Garment. Then, he used Reishi convergence to draw upon the free-floating Reishi in the air, causing the spiderweb-like spiritual bow in his hand to instantly glow brightly.
"Be careful, Little Hiro, my Ginrei Kojaku's maximum continuous fire can reach twelve hundred shots!"
"Rain of Light!"
In an instant, dense Holy Arrows shot towards Kurosaki Hiro like raindrops.
Kurosaki Hiro grinned at this:
"Bring it on!"
Unbeknownst to when, he was already holding a Soul Cutter in his hand. As Reishi was injected, the Soul Cutter instantly transformed into a light sword. He quickly swung the Soul Cutter in his hand, his hand speed already a blur.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
All the arrows shot by Ishida Soken were blocked one by one by Kurosaki Hiro, who held the sword with one hand. This was the power he gained by perfectly combining the Zanjutsu learned by his Shinigami clone in Soul Society, his own Quincy power, and the physical strength he had painstakingly trained to acquire.
"This speed… and this fighting style, is this really a Quincy?"
Ishida Soken was stunned on the spot when he saw Kurosaki Hiro block his Rain of Light, after activating Move Blood Garment, in such a manner.
But Kurosaki Hiro wouldn't give him a chance. Taking advantage of the brief pause after the Rain of Light, he directly shot the Soul Cutter as an arrow. At the same time, he used Hirenkyaku to flash behind Ishida Soken and shot a Holy Arrow.
"Not good!"
When Ishida Soken reacted, he found himself with the Soul Cutter in front and a Holy Arrow behind. Therefore, he could only activate Hirenkyaku and leap high upwards. However, Kurosaki Hiro had already anticipated his movement, directly came to his side, and kicked Ishida Soken, who was in mid-air, flying.
Ishida Soken, who had fallen to the side, was about to get up when Kurosaki Hiro pressed a Reishi bow against his neck.
"I concede, Brother Soken!"
Kurosaki Hiro finally understood why Ishida Uryū was so weak in the original story's early stages. With Ishida Soken's half-baked skill level, he definitely couldn't teach anyone to be strong.
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