Chapter 119: Nighttime, Each One's Battle
After everyone had a pleasant time having breakfast, the two modified souls called Tson and Zhiba immediately spoke out about the fact that Ishida and the female soul hunter named Yoshino had already left.
"Meng Ling, with your perceptual ability, do you know where Ishida and the others are now?" Lucilia asked, turning to Meng Ling immediately after hearing what the two modified souls had said.
"Uh, wait a minute." Meng Ling closed her eyes and immediately released her divine consciousness, enveloping the entire city in an instant. At the same time, she also found the whereabouts of Ishida and the female soul hunter.
"That female soul hunter went to find the leader of the soul hunters, called Kariya Shin, and Ishida used Lilin's sensing ability to go in the same direction as the female soul hunter." Muer said slowly.
"Let's hurry up and set off now." said Yī Hù and others immediately stood up.
"Wait a minute, everyone." At this time, Mr. Urahara immediately stopped everyone who was about to leave.
"What's this, Aizen-sir? Are you going to stop me again?" Ichigo asked with some annoyance.
"No, because this time it's an emergency. Alright, Ichigo and Rukia will use Instant Step to get there first, we'll follow after. But remember, the top priority for this mission is to bring back Mr. Ishida, don't engage in any unnecessary battles." said Urahara-san.
"I'll take action myself then. After all, that thing called Kamishiro is my battle target." Yueliang said as she stood up and prepared to leave.
"What's wrong, aren't you leaving now? At your speed, you won't be able to catch up with me. If we're late, something very serious will happen." Meng Ling said as she turned her head back.
"Got it, let's go now." With that, Ichigo and Rukia used Shunpo to leave the Urahara Shop.
"So, I'm leaving - Yata no Kagami." Meng Ling directly shot the Yata no Kagami into the sky in the direction where Karasuma was, and in the next moment, she had already appeared a thousand meters above the room that was destroyed by Naito's Instant Kill yesterday. She gazed down at the situation below.
At this time, the female soul hunter was fighting against Kishibe, but due to her injuries, she couldn't exert her original strength. Even in her prime, she wouldn't be a match for Kishibe. After her wound opened up, the female soul hunter named Yoshino started talking to Kishibe, seemingly discussing something about Yoshino's power being related to "maternal" abilities. This conversation even forced Ishida, who was hiding on the side, to come out. He said it was an honor for him to witness this historic moment and then destroyed Yoshino's crest. As a result, Yoshino's puppet, Goto, went berserk and launched another attack against Kishibe. In the end, she merged with her puppet, transformed into a flame person, and began her second battle against Kishibe in mid-air. Meanwhile, Muken discovered that Ichigo and Renji had already arrived at the scene but were being blocked by a soul hunter and a death god.
"It looks like the situation is not good. But how did that Death God's Zanpakuto recover so quickly?" Meng Ling was somewhat puzzled, but she still prepared to wait and see what would happen next.
That's when, just as Mugen decided what to do, Hino had already been pierced through the body by Kanaya and fell onto Ishida, turning into a sparkling light. At that moment, Kanaya also activated an array similar to Soul Reaper's crest, and within it, cocoon-like objects continuously burst out, transforming into insect-like creatures, each about the size of a basketball.
"This is what Soul Reaper wants to do? But it's not something I can handle anymore, there are just too many of them. Although using the Eight-Headed Serpent could instantly solve this problem, that would change the story, so I'll just assist Ichigo and the others instead." Muramasa said calmly. Meanwhile, after witnessing this scene, Ishida was taken back to Urahara's shop by Ichigo and Renji, while Muramasa came here without doing anything and returned to Urahara's shop. After settling Ishida's affairs, Muramasa went to Ichigo's house with Rukia. Once they arrived at Ichigo's house, Ichigo immediately left. Muramasa and Rukia then started reading manga in the closet where Rukia slept at Ichigo's house. Of course, Muramasa jumped in through Ichigo's window without being discovered by his family.
At this time, the outside started to make a noise. In the end, it was still Luciya who couldn't bear it and stopped the argument between the modified souls. After that, Meng walked out of the closet and looked at everything happening in front of him, thinking of the scene where Naruto and Sasuke argued in the world of fire shadows.
Later in the day, a commotion occurred when several modified souls tried to prove their usefulness against the Soul Hunters' traps and had a small clash with Ichigo and others.
However, in the end, Soul Hunter was not caught off guard, but Aki's father was. He was pressed to the ground by a heavy millstone and couldn't move.
In short, this farce was just a waste of time for Meng Ling, who already knew what had happened. At night, Meng Ling slept in the wall cabinet like Lucier, but the space was too small, so Meng Ling could only meditate all night.
————I am that gorgeous dividing line————
The next day, Meng Ling and others went to school together in order not to arouse any suspicion. During this time, they also had a conversation about the array method used by Soul Hunter once and the increasing number of missing people recently. Everyone was extremely puzzled about the purpose of Soul Hunter, which made everyone feel extremely depressed. However, Meng Ling knew all these things, but it was not the right time to say them out loud.
At night, everyone went their separate ways to do their own things, which was actually to assist each other in finding the whereabouts of the new puppet created by Soul Reaper and killing it.
With the addition of Muken, they ended up in a group with Abarai Renji. The two saw the "soul" (Ichigo's modified soul, normally appearing as a small tiger plushie) moving around outside and discovered the trail of new dolls on the edge of a street, where they were attacking a boy. Abarai Renji, being impulsive, charged into battle as soon as he saw the trail, while Muken calmly walked up to the boy who was being attacked and used his Sharingan to put him to sleep, making him run away in the distance. He then watched Renji fight from the side, ready to shoot down any dolls that would harm Renji with his rays.
"That whatever... Mr. White Rice Eater, move aside. I'll take care of these puppets." Meng Ling said to Renji who was still fighting but already exhausted.
"Don't underestimate me." Lian Ci said with a strong tone.
"This is not the time to say such things, others still need our support, so for now, let's not waste any more time. If you don't avoid it, you'll get hurt and I won't care." Meng Ling said lightly, her hands directly clasped together in front of her chest, and the next moment...
"The Eight Trigrams Jade Pendant!"
"Not good, quick dodge." After hearing Meng Ling's words, although Meng Ling was now on his side, Lin Ji himself felt a sense of danger. So he immediately used Instant Step to leave the original place, and in the next moment, Meng Ling fired countless rays of light, instantly solving all the puppets.
"Good... really strong!" Even Renji couldn't help but stutter as he looked at Muken's strength.
"Don't say that, with your current spiritual energy, you should be able to use the legendary Shinigami's Bankai, right? I'm not even sure which one is stronger between my abilities and your Bankai. Anyway, our top priority now is to go support the others. It looks like many of our companions are already in a tough battle. Alright, Mr. Eat-White-Rice, you go support Rukia and the others, they're in some danger right now. I'll go support Ichigo, one person should be fine for now." "Because he still has his inner Hollow. And Ichigo's reinforcements should arrive the earliest." Momo added after her sentence.
"What? Rukia, they're in danger? No way, I have to hurry." Renji said and used Shunpo to rush out.
"Hey, do you know where she's headed?" Meng Ling shouted loudly, but Lian Ci had already vanished.
"Whatever, let him find it himself then - Yata no Kagami." After saying that, Meng Ling immediately used her usual method of movement. A golden light flashed by and she had already left the original location.
————I am that gorgeous dividing line————
At this time, everyone was fighting non-stop in their respective locations, and they were all trapped in their own predicaments. Although each of them had already received reinforcements, the situation on the Chado side was the most unfavorable. Despite having Chado's attacking power, Zha's spatial movement ability, and the arrival of reinforcements such as Matsumoto Randō's Kiri-kaeshi - Gray Cat, the enemy's abilities were simply too strong. As a result, just when Meng Ling felt it, everyone had already become very exhausted.
Meng Ling has also arrived here.
"Oh dear, oh dear, the situation here is indeed not optimistic." Meng Ling said lightly.