The crackling bonfire deep in the cave cast the shadows of the four children on the rock wall, flickering between light and dark.
After dismissing the other villagers who had come on a whim, Li Yu knew that the birth of the first batch of Shinigami had to be handled with extreme caution.
Li Yu knew these four individuals before him inside and out; they would definitely succeed in becoming Shinigami.
As for the others, Li Yu didn't have the leisure to slowly guide them.
Among the four, the tall, slender boy with narrow eyelids, Tsunayashiro Kyogen, looked at Li Yu.
"Lord Li Yu, can we gain extraordinary power like Brother Ade?"
"Brother Ade's Quincy Power is so cool!"
Kuchiki Kyo lifted his face, his delicate features appearing exceptionally translucent in the firelight, his eyes shining with undisguised yearning.
"I want to become like him too."
"Yes, yes, if I can gain such power, I'm willing to pay any price!"
Shiba Enjou, with his flame-like short hair, clenched his fists, looking at Li Yu with an expectant expression.
Gain the Soul King's power through learning? What kind of daydream are you having?
Li Yu looked at them, his black eyes unruffled.
"Ade's ability is unique in this Bleach World; you cannot imitate him."
He paused, his voice suddenly turning cold.
"But you can gain power comparable to his through other means!"
"Really?" A hint of surprise appeared in the eyes of the four youths. They knelt on one knee, addressing Li Yu like Ade did.
"Master, please teach us!"
Li Yu said coldly.
"I am not your master; I am merely a guide to lead you onto the right path."
Li Yu did not want to become the master of these four.
If history were to follow its course, the Soul King would later be betrayed by these four, his limbs severed, internal organs removed, and made into a human pillar to stabilize the three realms.
Recalling these sordid matters, Li Yu did not wish to be associated with them in any way.
He paused.
"Before we begin, you must be prepared to pay with your lives!"
Upon hearing this, the eyes of the young individuals gleamed.
Do they have to pay with their lives to gain power comparable to Ade's?
The little girl named Shi Feng Yuan Ye Hua burst into tears on the spot.
"Are we… are we going to die? I haven't even been in love yet…"
Li Yu's expression was cold.
"It's still not too late to quit."
The children looked at each other, and finally, they all shook their heads.
"No, I also want to be like Brother Ade and contribute to the village…"
"Brother Ade works too hard alone; he comes back to the village almost exhausted every day. I want to share some of his burden."
Li Yu's heart warmed slightly; no matter how things progressed in the future, the hearts of these children were still pure at this moment!
Since he had already arrived in this Bleach World, perhaps Ade's fate might change.
Setting aside his preconceived notions about the four children.
Li Yu nodded slightly.
"Good, get ready. It's about to begin!"
A white halo emanated from beneath Li Yu's feet. The four children instantly began to freeze from their legs upwards, and in less than five seconds, all four children simultaneously turned into four ice sculptures.
Their eyes were wide, mouths agape, as if they could hardly believe that Lord Li Yu, whom they regarded as a god, would actually attack them!
Ade was also startled, looking at Li Yu. Ade was very clear about Li Yu's Absolute Zero Domain and how overbearing its ability was.
Even the immortal Void Beasts, once frozen, could not easily escape!
His four young companions were just ordinary people; if they were frozen into ice sculptures, they would likely die very quickly.
"Master!"
Ade suddenly stood up.
"You froze them all; won't there be a problem?"
Li Yu's face was terrifyingly calm, and his next words instantly made Ade completely break down!
"They are already dead!"
No matter what accomplishments these four would achieve in the future, at this moment, the four children were just ordinary people. Under his Absolute Zero Domain, they couldn't even last a second.
"Ah!"
Ade stumbled back a step, hitting the rock wall. Cold sweat instantly soaked through his single layer of clothing.
He could accept sacrifice, but he could not accept his companions dying so silently, without even a word of farewell.
"How can ordinary people become extraordinary without paying a price?"
Li Yu's lips curled into a cold, sharp arc.
"If you want them to live, you have to rely on yourself. Think about the abilities I taught you; what should you do now?"
Ade's left and right hand abilities transcended everything, belonging to the power of the world's rules.
If classified by the power levels of the Saint Seiya World, Ade was naturally an existence that had reached the Eighth Sense or above. If used well, reversing life and death was not impossible.
Li Yu would eventually leave the Bleach World, and the path ahead had to be walked by Ade himself.
So he did not tell Ade the specific method, but rather let him figure it out himself.
Ade clenched his fists, lowering his head in thought.
"Time is running out."
Li Yu's voice was like a death knell.
"Absolute Zero can only delay their hollowing for three minutes. If you don't want to shatter them with your Quincy Power yourself, hurry up and think!"
"I, I'm thinking! Give me some time!"
Fine beads of sweat seeped from Ade's forehead. Before his eyes, the figures of the four children were infinitely stretching, their bodies beginning to rapidly inflate!
This was the process of humans transforming into Void Beasts after death.
Li Yu quietly observed all of this.
The ancient era of the Bleach World was truly bizarre.
Humans and Void Beasts lived together without boundaries, and the cycle of life and death completed within a single Bleach World.
It always made him feel that the Bleach World's consciousness was still in a chaotic stage.
Previously, when someone in the village was about to die, the villagers would carry them to the ground before they took their last breath, leaving them to their own devices.
It was almost too late!
Ade gritted his teeth, extending his right hand. A blue static force swept over, instantly halting the hollowing process of the individuals.
However, maintaining the static force on all four at once was no small burden for the current Ade.
Ade's body trembled violently. He was afraid of making a mistake; if he chose wrong even once, his four companions would have no chance of survival.
He looked at Li Yu with a pleading expression.
"Teacher, help me, I can't do it…"
Li Yu stood aside with his hands behind his back, his black eyes reflecting the struggling souls within the ice sculptures.
"Think about what your abilities are. Your right hand stops everything, your left hand accelerates everything, but this is just the surface."
He paused.
"You can stop all things; can't you reverse everything?"
Reverse everything?
Ade's pupils suddenly constricted.
He looked at his left hand, a crimson light pulsing in his palm.
Before, he had only used this hand to accelerate the end of things: to burn out bonfires, to exhaust lives, to disintegrate Void Beasts!
But was the opposite of acceleration truly reversal?
"Crack!"
Tsunayashiro Kyogen in the ice sculpture suddenly let out a silent roar. The ice seal up cracked, and half of his face was deformed, revealing sharp fangs.
The static force showed a slight loosening, and the hollowing process was visibly transforming his body at an alarming speed!
"What are you still hesitating for! Reverse life and death, fuse pure Reishi, and sublimate an existence that is between life and death!"
Li Yu shouted in a low voice.
Ade gritted his teeth, the crimson light from his left hand suddenly surged, intertwining with the faint blue glow from his right hand to form a spiral band of light, which fiercely struck the four ice sculptures!
The two powers exploded within the ice sculptures, sending white ice shards and intertwined red and blue Reishi flying, creating a bizarre and magnificent scene!
The moment the ice shards settled, the physical bodies of the four children collapsed, turning into pale blue phantoms suspended in mid-air.
Reishi from all directions, as if pulled by an unseen force, suddenly appeared from unknown space, surging madly towards the four phantoms.
On Tsunayashiro Kyogen's phantom, black patterns covered his entire body, coalescing into an ancient black robe with a dark gold fan emblem embroidered on the collar.
Around Kuchiki Kyo's phantom, Reishi intertwined to form a simple black and white Shinigami uniform, with a white sash automatically tied around his waist, fluttering in the wind.
Shiba Enjou's phantom was enveloped in Reishi, and beneath his fiery short hair, a pair of eyes emitted an infinite light.
Around Shi Feng Yuan Ye Hua's phantom, Reishi transformed into a knee-length Shinigami skirt, the hem gently swaying with her breathing!
They were no longer ordinary humans, nor had they transformed into Void Beasts, but had become the first existences in this Bleach World that were between life and death—Shinigami!
The ancestors of the Four Great Noble Families of the Bleach World were born!
What made Li Yu's pupils constrict slightly was that each of these four Shinigami had a long katana at their waist... Shinigami transformed by the future Soul King were indeed extraordinary; were they born with Zanpakutō?
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