90 Chapter 90: The Hidden Powers (1/2)
Hueco Mundo (Realm of the Hollows)
In the realm far reaches from the Blue Pole Star and the Realm of the Gods, Hueco Mundo exist known as the realm of the corrupted souls or the land of the dead. For millions of years it exists as a punishment realm for souls refused to go to the afterlife. These souls are condemned and will never reincarnate in their next life.
In Hueco Mundo, the moon is on the opposite lunar phase of that in the Human World. The vast desert seems to lack any bodies of water and contains rocky formations.An unchanging night covers the sky, an endless white desert covers the ground. The tree-like objects are not plants, but rather quartz-like minerals. The landscape of Hueco Mundo is a seemingly never-ending white desert, with a multitude of dunes, littered with boulders.
The atmosphere of Hueco Mundo is filled with a high concentration of Reishi, thus allowing smaller Hollows to gain nourishment despite the lack of Human souls. If one day people from the human realm came here, most of them will die within minutes regardless of their strength as the Reishi or Spirit Particles in the air will kill the humans as they are not able to survive on spiritual land. Only those with the embodiment of Spirit or Soul beings able to survive in the realm without being harm by the Reishi.
Hueco Mundo had claimed the souls that weren't able to pass into the afterlife as its own. Turning the soul into hollowfied beings to fill its realm with hollow residents. In the upper skies of the Hueco Mundo lies the embodiment of Hueco Mundo itself. They are known as the overseer or the Gods of the realm. For millions of years, they didn't interfere with the affairs of lesser or greater hollows. Their task is to keep the realm from falling apart. However, much has changed after 2 million years ago.
All of a sudden, in the upper skies of Hueco Mundo. A giant Garganta suddenly open before a gigantic red eye suddenly appeared along with its giant tentacle arms around it. Not just one, two more garganta started to open up and two more eyes appeared with its own tentacles as well. One of the eye is blue and the other one is yellow. The size was considered bizarre if humans were to see these eyes but none of them will believe it even if they saw it with their own eyes. If the eyes and tentacles are this large then what about the whole body?
Suddenly a voice started to sound in the air as if it was there to begin with. But, none of the eyes have any organ or mouth to speak with. So no one knows who is the one speaking. The giant red eye suddenly spoke with telepathically but the voice sounded in the air. ”Fellow Divine rulers, how goes the new world order?” Judging from the color of the eyes, looks like these so called Divine Hollows are ranked as well. The gigantic red eye was known as the highest or the strongest divine hollow. Judging from their powers to overseer the entire realm, their powers probably might be in the divine realms or even beyond.
The Blue eye then spoke ”It has been going great, the new world order was different but the energy they had can be considered replacement for the reishi in our realm.” The new world order they referred to was the world where Yun Che or Yuuki is currently residing, The Blue Pole Star.
Then, the yellow eye suddenly spoke ”Contaminated souls are coming in like gushing river ever since we opened up the first garganta to that world. With each passing day, new hollows are born in this world. Never expected we found a world can serve as a replacement.”
Then the red eye spoke again but the tone was rather a happy tone. ”Finally, after two million years. We are able to find suitable nourishment for our residents. Moreover, that world was filled with corrupted souls and we were able to fill our realms with new hollows.”
Then, it continued ”What kind of nourishment found in that world?”
The blue eye then answered ”That world was filled with so called 'Profound Energy' or 'Heaven and Earth' energy cultivated by humans in that world. When our hollows ate them, they were able to grow stronger but the side effects were they are vulnerable to human attacks and they were able to see them despite lack of spiritual powers. Since then, our hollows were clashing against humans all the time and most of them have cultivators on par with our High Level Adjuchas.”
”So humans in that world are strong enough to counter us?”
”They tend to use Profound Energy to combat the hollows and easily killed them.”
”So, this so called 'Profound Energy' made the hollows attain physical form? All of them came from the soul from that world?”
”Not quite, they came from the living human beings. Our hollows ate them and absorb their vitality. That's why they were able to attain physical form. Since then, hollows in our world didn't eat each other anymore. Instead, they went into the human world and find any cultivators they can consume. Surprisingly, the hollows didn't eat those with weaker cultivation once they become stronger.”
Then the yellow eye said ”So no wonder this realm can produce a Menos in just a year after we invaded that world. In a few years time, this realm probably filled with Vasto Lordes. ”
Then, the giant red eye turned to the blue one and asked ”Anyhow, how did you discover this realm anyway? There are millions and countless of realms outside this dark realm.Searching for a replacement realm it's like searching for a needle in a haystack.”
”We seem to detected a strong presence of 'reaitsu' in that world. That's why we were able to find the realm easily. Our scouts tried to find the source but we found none of the reaitsu in that area. Since then, we detected more reaitsu spikes came from that world.” One of the eye spoke. It's true that they detected the reaitsu spike twice already aside from the first one that draws them into the world. The two reaitsu spikes the eye meant was the spikes caused by both Yun Che and Retsu's bankai.
”'Reaitsu? Aside from us, there's no more beings able to cultivate those powers. Last reaitsu cultivators perished two million years ago.”
”Perished?” The primary eye asked the other two. It probably didn't even remember the events occurred back then.
”Something about their human world and their Spiritual world clashed with one another causing the both of the realms were instantly annihilated. Since then, the gateways from our world to that world were instantly destroyed and we were not able to find a suitable realm as replacement.” The realm it meant probably the only realm Hueco Mundo ever connected with. If Yun Che were here, he will know what happen to that realm that cause Hueco Mundo to search for a new realm to dwell in.
”Still, the thought of the existence of reaitsu cultivators in that world still bothers me. Never expected they are actually survivors.”
”There's no denying that there are reaitsu cultivators once more. Then again, it's not for us to decide what happens next. We have done our part opening up a new pathway for the hollows, the rest is up to them.”
Then the yellow eye continued again. ”With the humans of this world lack of purification powers. Our hollows reincarnation will be endless and soon our realm will grow stronger as they were two million years ago.”
”We won't be so sure about that as we also detected one thing. Some of the hollows sent to that world were actually purified. And even if they went through reincarnation after being killed by the humans, the hollows lose their entire strength and powers. So they have to re-cultivate again.”
The yellow eye then continued in a shock voice. ”Purified? The only ones who can purified our hollows are the Soul Reapers from two million years ago. To think that they are also exist in that world?”
”Purification can only be used by those Soul Reapers. We can assume that Soul reapers also exist in that world.”