Hueco Mundo

Although Muyang was really curious about the world that he just saw due to the somewhat familiar Reiatsu he felt and his curiosity about that place that he never saw before, there was something inside him that made him reluctant to keep going.

"Let's save this place for later."

Muyang decided to walk back into the spatial rift and was determined to return to that place once he built up more strength. After all, there was no telling what awaited him in that unknown world.

Muyang took the last glance into the 5 floating discs as he stepped into the spatial rift.

Somewhere in that world, a large and broad man with a bald head, red eyes, bushy eyebrows, and a long black beard suddenly raised his head and looked toward a certain direction as if detecting a foreign presence.

Gatonden…

"Hm?" An obese woman also raised her head from a pile of food in front of her. Judging from her hairstyle and color alone, one might have a hard time telling, but it was Hikifune Kirio who was promoted to Zero Division.

As she stuffed the food down her throat, she was taken aback for a moment, "why did I feel li'l Yangyang's Reiatsu just now?"

"It must be my imagination. This is Soul King Palace, so there's no way Li'l Yangyang can come here. I better finish this as fast as I can, I still have more to eat." Hikifune Kirio immediately brushed off that thought and focused on her food once again.

Muyang didn't realize that place was the famous Soul King Palace, where Hikifune Kirio resided now. However, even if he did know, he would not go in without permission. That place just gave off a mysterious feeling. Besides, he wouldn't enter a place carelessly if he didn't know anything about it.

"It should be around here."

Muyang used his spatial ability once again. As his Zanpakuto glowed, he could feel the Reishi from the spatial rift that he opened, and it felt different from the Reishi in Soul Society, meaning that spatial rift led elsewhere. As long as it didn't lead to Soul Society, he wouldn't mind.

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Dark and desolate sky.

A crescent moon.

An endless white desert.

There were some tree like-objects on the ground, but they turned out to be quartz-like minerals.

The extremely vast Hueco Mundo that no one knew how big it actually was, nor how many Hollows were there in that place.

This place was where Muyang ended up this time. His brows furrowed as he looked into the crescent moon and sighed: "It's Hueco Mundo this time, huh?"

He shook his head helplessly. His first time using the spatial ability to travel through worlds turned out to be quite a disaster.

However, since Hueco Mundo didn't have that many formidable character, he should be okay. Even a Vasto Lorde was no match against him at this point anyway. Besides, he has never been here before, so he might as well take a look around.

but...

"Why can't I feel the slightest Reiatsu? Is there even any Hollow here?"

The Reishi in Hueco Mundo and Soul Society was indeed different, but still, Muyang couldn't feel a trace of Reiatsu whatsoever, which led him to such a conclusion.

Muyang just shook his head and pressed onward. He'd eventually find a living being there as long as he kept walking.

Before Muyang could take a step, something weird happened to him. A Reiatsu that didn't belong to him burst forth from within his body, along with an unknown emotion, as if trying to rob him of his consciousness.

"hnggh!!"

Along with his grunt, Muyang tried his best to suppress that Reiatsu with his own Reiatsu. After a fierce battle for quite some time, he finally sighed in relief after regaining control over his body.

He didn't expect that the Hollowfication symptom would happen again. Thankfully, he could temporarily suppress it this time, but there was no telling he could do so. He might not be able to hold it down at some point later on.

He was supposed to rendezvous with Urahara, yet he was stuck there in Hueco Mundo without knowing when he could go to the Human World. He still hasn't grasped the knack to use his spatial ability, after all.

This situation was truly uncalled for. If he couldn't rendezvous with Urahara and Shinju, then what was the point of letting Aizen insert that Hollow soul within him? At first, Muyang had unwavering confidence that he didn't need to stop Aizen from inserting the Hollow Soul into him because he was strong enough to brush off the Hollowfication's symptom that Urahara should have enough time to figure out the solution. But the same couldn't be said to Shinji and the rest, and now he was discouraged because that tragedy befell them due to his hesitation. He wouldn't be able to rest easy until Shinji and the thers were back to normal, and to make matters worse, he didn't know how to go to the Human World.

Since there was no one here in Hueco Mundo, Muyang decided to learn more about the new ability of his Zanpakuto before going to the Human World to find Shinji.

With that in mind, Muyang looked around to find a suitable place to learn and explore the new ability of his Zanpakuto.

"Hmm, this way, I think."

Muyang saw what seemed to be a small mountain in the distance and decided to go there to find the perfect place to train.

Muyang at first made his way there by walking but eventually switched to running. The mountain didn't seem that far at first glance, but it didn't seem to be any closer even after Muyang ran for a while.

Huh?

Muyang squinted and found a corpse not too far away.

shua~

He used Shunpo and immediately observed the corpse under his feet. It had a mask on its face and a hole on its chest, so there was no doubt that it was a Hollow, and its size was quite enormous, about several floors high.

After making sure the Hollow was dead, Muyang kicked its body, turning it around, and observed its body. Not long after, he frowned as he found no injury whatsoever on the Hollow's body, yet it was dead, so what was the cause of its death?

Even after racking his brain for a while, he couldn't figure out the cause behind the Hollow's death. However, he did notice the horrified eyes of the Hollow that remained even after its death. Was it scared to death? But it was Hollow, so that was impossible.

That's....

Muyang saw another dead body lying on the ground not too far away. He immediately used Shunpo and checked on the corpse, and it shocked him because it was in the exact same condition as the one earlier.

Things seem to be getting more and more interesting.

Muyang kept walking and found more corpse on his way, pointing toward one direction. All of the corpses were exactly in the same state.

As he saw more and more corpses, Muyang was starting to have a rough idea about what was going on here.

These Hollows were not scared to death, and the only possible reason behind their death was because of the Reiatsu that was so overwhelming that they couldn't keep their consciousness intact, just like what happened to ordinary humans when they were in the presence of someone with a really strong Reiatsu.

Well, judging from what he knew in Hueco Mundo, the only one who was capable of this was the 1st Espada, Coyote Starrk, the laid-back man who'd serve under Aizen in the future.

Upon reaching that conclusion, Muyang couldn't contain his excitement. After all, this would be the original Hueco Mundo Arc.

If he followed these Hollows' corpses, he should be able to find the 1st Espada, with the aspect of death "solitude", even though he hasn't sensed his Reiatsu until now.