When Brook saw the four generals of the Zero Division clashing with the four members of the Divine Pardon Guard, his desire to devour them surged almost instantly.
Especially Pernida, the Soul King's left hand, and Gerard, the Soul King's heart.
Once he devoured them, his power would be strengthened again.
More importantly, those two beings carried part of the Soul King's divine authority. To Brook, they were unbelievably delicious prey.
Which one is the most troublesome?
Brook's gaze fell on Gerard.
It should be Gerard, the Soul King's heart, the one who possesses The Miracle.
Then he would start with him.
He would not even give Gerard the chance to enter his Vollständig and unleash the full power of his divine authority.
Brook grinned.
At last, the final harvest had begun.
Most importantly, he had to strike fast and strike hard.
If Yhwach discovered what was happening, he could use Auswählen at any moment and reclaim the power of the Sternritter and the Royal Guard in one move.
Brook had no intention of letting the duck already on his plate fly away.
Watching Gerard, the Soul King's heart, lock into a fierce battle with Tenjirō Kirinji, the Hot Spring Demon, Brook's smile turned greedy.
He ignored the heavily injured Sword God, Ōetsu Nimaiya.
That prey was easy to catch. There was no chance for him to escape.
The only concern was that if his injuries dragged on too long, his spiritual pressure would keep leaking away.
That would be a waste.
The harvest would begin now.
Without the slightest hesitation, Brook seized the moment while Yhwach and Ichibe Hyōsube were locked in fierce combat.
He was going to steal Yhwach's spiritual energy supply pack before Yhwach could react.
"The Five Divine Aspects!"
"Soul King's Power, Time Stop!"
"Eye Technique, Domination!"
Brook's six-tomoe white Rinnegan and the three-tomoe white Rinnegan on his forehead spun wildly.
The sudden descent of five terrifying divine figures startled the four members of the Zero Division and the four members of the Divine Pardon Guard at the same time, freezing them in shock.
In the next instant, the four Divine Pardon Guards and Tenjirō Kirinji were swallowed by the five giant divine figures.
Golden sealing runes flashed one after another.
The five of them vanished completely into the bellies of the divine forms. Even their spiritual pressure disappeared without a trace.
"Devour and fuse!"
Brook clasped his hands together.
A terrifying devouring force erupted from him. It was a true god-level authority that instantly broke down the bodies of the five captives and transformed them into pure power and divine authority.
Inside the Soul King Palace, the Soul King's eyes suddenly widened.
Even those deathly eyes, which seemed capable of seeing through everything, could not hide a trace of panic.
This time, he might truly face death.
Even the gods might not be able to save him, the god of the underworld.
If he had known that a terrifying devouring race from the Northern Underworld could cross the boundary between domains, he would never have been soft-hearted enough to let his own subordinates dismember him without resisting.
If this otherworldly god devoured his soul completely, then even if a higher deity descended, he could not be resurrected.
Even if his divine bloodline had some connection to the Heavenly God, it would be useless.
In the present human world, only a few Fullbringers remained undiscovered by this otherworldly god. If even those Fullbringers were devoured, then he would truly be finished.
Every part of his body and every internal organ could become the foundation of his resurrection. As long as he received even a little divine power from the Heavenly God, he could be fully restored.
The amount of strength he regained would depend on the divine power provided by the Heavenly God.
And given his family's connection to that Heavenly God, that should never have been a problem.
But now, it seemed he might not be able to last until the end of his term and the descent of that god.
Should he negotiate with this otherworldly god?
Or should he transfer his remaining power to a Fullbringer in the human world ahead of time, then allow that Fullbringer to hide completely until the thousand-year cycle ended?
He knew very well that even if Yhwach and Ichibe Hyōsube worked together, they would still not be a match for this otherworldly god.
He planned to offer most of his power and see whether this otherworldly god would spare his crippled life.
Otherwise, his only choice was to hide inside the body of a Fullbringer in the human world.
At the same time, Yhwach, who was locked in battle with Ichibe Hyōsube, suddenly changed expression.
He had lost contact with the Divine Pardon Guard.
When he looked deeper, he realized that even his connection to the Sternritter had vanished.
That meant his Auswählen could no longer summon back the power inside those people.
A flicker of panic finally appeared in Yhwach's heart.
Those abilities and powers were part of what he had granted them. At any moment, he should have been able to reclaim them with interest.
Because of that moment of distraction, Yhwach was struck hard by Ichibe Hyōsube, who stripped away his voice, power, and name.
But Yhwach quickly used The Almighty to restore both his voice and his power, rendering Ichibe's abilities ineffective.
Enraged, Yhwach launched a ferocious counterattack against Ichibe.
He already knew the Lord of Hueco Mundo had arrived.
He had to devour the Soul King completely before that enemy reached him, then use that power to reach an even higher level.
Brook, however, was not satisfied.
The three-tomoe white Rinnegan on his forehead still did not have enough energy to evolve.
The combined power of the four Divine Pardon Guards and Tenjirō Kirinji was already comparable to two or three Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.
But even that was still far from enough to support his next evolution.
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Brook's gaze fell directly on the heavily injured Sword God, Nimaiya Oetsu.
Under the fearful eyes of Shutara Senjumaru and Hikifune Kiryu, Oetsu was pulled toward him by Universal Pull.
The devouring force wrapped around him in an instant.
The two women watched with pale faces as Nimaiya Oetsu was digested and devoured, vanishing without leaving even the faintest trace behind.
However, they both knew one thing.
As long as the Zero Palace was not destroyed, their soul seeds could still be revived.
"You can be resurrected anyway, right? Then give me all your power."
A devouring force enveloped the two women of the Zero Division as well.
At the same time, the surging power of devouring spread toward the entire Soul King Palace and the Zero Division's Departure Hall.
All these buildings had been created from spirit particles.
That meant they could all be broken down and transformed back into spirit particles and soul power.
Shutara Senjumaru and Hikifune Kiryu weakened rapidly, their spiritual energy draining away at a terrifying speed. They stared at Brook in horror.
This monster could even devour spiritual structures.
"Not enough! Still not enough!"
Brook threw out the seven Shinigami captains, along with Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin, and absorbed all of their Shinigami spiritual power.
He also drained more than half of the Hollowfication and Shinigami powers from the eight Visoreds, the two Hollowfied Shinigami, and the two Hollowfied Fullbringers.
Then the Espada and the Six Deadly Sins began to panic.
In the end, aside from Ulquiorra and Nelliel, all of Brook's subordinates had their energy drained.
As streams of spiritual energy poured endlessly into Brook's body, the three tomoe white Rinnegan on his forehead finally began to evolve.
At the same time, the Soul King Palace and the Zero Palace began to dim.
Brook also violently extracted a massive amount of spiritual energy from the Ice Palace in Seireitei and from the Wandenreich.
Seeing Brook devour everything like a starving dragon, even the Arrancar and the sinners from Hell trembled in fear. One after another, they prostrated themselves at his feet.
At last, under the flood of spiritual energy, the three tomoe white Rinnegan on Brook's forehead completed its next evolution.
It became a six tomoe white Rinnegan.
"Hahaha! I finally succeeded!"
Brook laughed loudly.
His three six tomoe white Rinnegan looked holy, powerful, and terrifying beyond words.
After absorbing so much energy, the Three Realms began to destabilize. Violent tremors erupted throughout the Human World, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo.
However, Hell had already been cleared out and partially brought under Brook's control.
Even if the Three Realms collapsed, he could still rebuild order.
This development startled Ichibe Hyosube. Even he became nervous.
If the destruction of the Soul King Palace caused the Three Realms to collapse, rebuilding them would be far more difficult than creating a new Soul King.
After all, the Soul King Palace and the Zero Palace had been built bit by bit from spirit energy across countless years. They could not be rebuilt overnight.
"Bald monk! Get out of my way! Otherwise, the Lord of Hueco Mundo will seize control of the Three Realms!"
Yhwach angrily cleaved through Ichibe and charged madly toward the inner palace of the Soul King Palace.
He needed to absorb the Soul King's power as quickly as possible.
Only then would he have the strength to fight this terrifying Lord of Hueco Mundo.
But the moment Ichibe was sent flying, a massive hand caught him in midair.
He could not resist at all.
"Become my strength too!"
Brook's devouring force swallowed Ichibe Hyosube while he chased after Yhwach.
Seeing that terrifying scene, even Yhwach, who possessed The Almighty and had ruled countless subjects as emperor, could not suppress the fear rising in his heart.
He desperately rushed toward the inner palace where the Soul King was sealed.
This was his final chance to turn the tide.
"Is The Almighty truly a power that knows everything and changes the future?"
Brook grinned wickedly.
Behind him, Ichibe Hyosube had already turned into spiritual energy and died at his hands. Even his Zanpakuto, Ichimonji, had been devoured.
Meanwhile, in the Zero Division's Departure Hall, Shutara Senjumaru and Hikifune Kiryu, whose strength had been devoured by ninety percent, weakly called out the names of Nimaiya Oetsu and Kirinji Tenjiro.
Miraculously, the two Zero Division generals reappeared.
However, their current strength was even weaker than that of an ordinary Hollow. They could barely walk normally.
With the Zero Palace and the Soul King Palace weakened so severely, it was impossible to know how many centuries it would take for them to regain their original power.
Seeing that their leader had also been killed, they called out once more.
Hyosube Ichibe revived as well, but he too was now terribly weak.
They no longer had the ability to fight.
All they could do was watch Brook, the Lord of Hueco Mundo, and Yhwach, the Emperor of the Wandenreich, enter their final confrontation.
The weakened Zero Division and the captains of the Gotei 13 were all captured and imprisoned by Ulquiorra, who still retained his full power.
The Espada and the Six Sins of Hell looked at the highly favored Ulquiorra and Nelliel with envy.
Yet none of them dared show even the slightest jealousy.
In front of the Soul King's sealing crystal, Brook finally caught up with Yhwach.
He watched as Yhwach stabbed the Soul King.
He watched the son kill his father.
But Brook would never allow Yhwach to devour the Soul King.
Both Yhwach and the Soul King were his prey.
"Give up, Yhwach. You have no chance of winning."
Brook chuckled mockingly.
His terrifying divine pressure completely overwhelmed Yhwach's spiritual pressure.
The Almighty had never been able to see Brook clearly, so it was nearly useless against him.
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