Thousands of Hollows surged forward, overwhelming and vast. The scene was truly magnificent. Chōjirō Sasakibe was about to draw his sword to fight, but Yamabuki grabbed him by the back of his neck and ran for his life!
"Fight my ass!"
The two of you together might not even beat the weakest among these thousand Hollows.
"Lizard Maru, life and death, wealth and honor are all today! Run for me! Turn on your little motor! Run for your life!" Yamabuki shouted.
Lizard Maru seemed to understand Yamabuki's words and immediately started running for its life. However, its running speed wasn't the fastest. Many of these Giant Hollows could fly directly in the sky and swooped down towards the three Shinigami below!
"A Giant Hollow dares to show off in front of me! Six Rod Light Prison!" Yamabuki lightly waved his hand, and six blades of light directly immobilized the Giant Hollow in the sky.
But as soon as one was immobilized, several more swooped down!
"You two keep running forward, don't worry about me." Yamabuki shouted, then turned and drew his sword, using "Flash Flower" to stab a Hollow through the heart.
"Hadō Number Sixty-Three, Raikōhō!"
Yamabuki lightly tapped his fingertip, and a golden flash of light swallowed several Hollows in the sky.
The Adjuchas didn't make a move, instead watching the battle unfold.
"It seems that Shinigami has some strength!"
"It's good to have strength, that way eating them will increase more reishi!"
A row of Menos Grande in the distance opened their mouths and condensed Ceros.
Then dozens of Ceros shot out simultaneously.
"Bakudō Number Eighty-One, Dankū!"
The power of ordinary Menos Grande's Ceros was limited. Even if dozens were fired simultaneously, they couldn't break his Dankū.
Instead, they kicked up a large amount of dust on the desert, creating an opportunity for Yamabuki to escape.
"A weakness!" A winged Giant Hollow launched a surprise attack from behind Yamabuki, but before its claws could touch Yamabuki, a Reishi Arrow with a diameter of over half a meter descended from the sky, directly pulverizing the Giant Hollow.
As the dust settled, Yamabuki stood alone in the desert, one hand holding his sword, the other ready to cast Kidō, with five giant reishi bows above his head, arranged in a pentagram shape.
"No more pretending! I'm revealing my hand!" Yamabuki moved his left hand, and the five reishi bows in mid-air fired simultaneously. He discovered that controlling reishi also consumed reishi, but the consumption was very small, and his reishi was much stronger than that Martin's. What were those five things in mid-air? They were practically laser cannons!
Indiscriminate bombardment against the dense crowd of Hollows!
Hollows hit by the Reishi Arrow directly lost their chance of reincarnation and were completely obliterated. However, Yamabuki became more and more proficient at controlling reishi.
"That doesn't seem to be a Shinigami's ability!" an Adjuchas asked.
"I don't know! But these trash probably aren't his opponents!"
Yamabuki noticed that these Adjuchas didn't directly attack, but were using their subordinate Giant Hollows to deplete his reishi.
"Depletion? You want to fight a war of attrition with me? You're asking for death!" Yamabuki's body began to frantically devour the surrounding reishi to replenish his consumed energy. Plus, the reishi consumed by controlling reishi was originally not much, so by this calculation, he was replenishing faster than he was consuming!
"Why should I be timid then? Hadō Number Eighty-Eight, Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō!"
Golden-blue light erupted on the desert, killing a large number of Hollows.
Yamabuki finally discovered his talent. It turned out that the path of swordsmanship he had been pursuing before was wrong. He was clearly a mage and a marksman, yet he insisted on engaging in close combat. How could he not be crushed?
Now, Yamabuki, with all restrictions removed, had directly become a mobile turret. For long-range, he used Reishi Arrows and Kidō. For close-range, he cut them down with a single swing of his sword!
For a time, the overwhelming tide of Hollows was actually halted by him alone!
"Indeed, these ordinary rabble can't hurt him. It's time for us to act!" A four-armed Adjuchas shouted. Immediately, the sound of spatial vibration came from beside him, and at the same time, this Adjuchas had disappeared from its original spot, appearing behind Yamabuki.
"Sonido!" Yamabuki's heart trembled.
Sonido is the most bizarre of the three high-speed movement techniques. Shunpo and Hirenkyaku are essentially high-speed movement, but Sonido's essence is spatial displacement.
In simpler terms, it's the difference between sprinting and flashing.
Yamabuki instantly turned around. This Adjuchas's four arms simultaneously slammed down with immense force. Yamabuki retreated rapidly, and at the same time, the five reishi bows in the sky fired directly. The Adjuchas used Sonido again, appearing behind Yamabuki.
"Shinigami, your speed is still too slow. The Sonido we Hollows use is far superior to your Shunpo!" Saying this, he slammed his two large hands together, directly squeezing Yamabuki in his palm. However, he quickly realized the sensation was wrong. Opening his palm, he saw that it was only a piece of clothing.
Just then, a flash of sword light came from behind him, directly severing the two left arms of this Adjuchas. Then, the reishi bows in the sky erupted, blasting off the Adjuchas's other two arms.
"Hmph! Boasting!" Yamabuki sneered.
With a small trick, I've got you under my heel. Let's see you be arrogant now!
As a result, distorted flesh grew from the Adjuchas's wounds, and its four severed arms quickly regenerated in just two or three seconds.
"Damn it! I forgot that Menos Grande before Arrancarization have super-fast regeneration!" Yamabuki wanted to deliver a finishing blow, but it was too late. He was directly pushed back by the Adjuchas.
"What exactly are you? What are those things floating in the sky? You shouldn't be a Shinigami!" the Adjuchas asked coldly.
At this moment, the other four Adjuchas had already surrounded him.
With Yamabuki's current strength, fighting an Adjuchas one-on-one was a complete slaughter. Fighting two at once was stressful, but escaping unscathed wasn't a problem. Simultaneously fighting three Adjuchas would be dangerous!
Five at once…
Time to run!
"At this point, I can only bring out my trump card! Bakudō Number Twenty-One, Crimson Smoke Escape!"
Yamabuki placed his hand on the ground, and a large amount of crimson smoke rose around him.
When the smoke cleared, Yamabuki was gone.
"Bastard! He ran away! Go after him quickly! That Shinigami can't have gone far!" The five Adjuchas all gave orders to their subordinates.
Soon, the remaining Hollows chased in all directions.
After all the Hollows had left, a hand suddenly appeared in mid-air, lightly tearing, and Yamabuki's body reappeared.
"Bakudō Number Twenty-Six, Kyokkō. This thing is essential for a sneaky person. I'm truly a clever little ghost!" Yamabuki said happily.
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