“Puchi!” The sharp Sword Scales wrapped in dark purple Spiritual Pressure sliced cleanly into the Octopus Hollow’s neck before continuing diagonally downward, nearly cleaving its entire body in two, leaving only a thin strip of flesh barely connecting the upper and lower halves.
The reason Lin Huang deliberately stopped short of completely killing it was not because he lacked the strength, but because Demonic Fetus Parasitism could only be cast on a living target.
“Ugh!” Caught completely off guard by the fatal ambush, the Octopus Hollow had no chance to defend itself.
Looking at the Serpentine Hollow that had suddenly appeared behind it, the expression beneath its Hollow mask was filled with shock and disbelief.
“Are…
are you also one of Baraggan’s lackeys?” It questioned hoarsely.
Lin Huang did not bother answering.
His attack never paused for even an instant.
Opening his serpentine mouth, he unleashed several rapid Balas that accurately blasted apart the writhing tentacles covering the Octopus Hollow’s face, completely destroying every one of them.
In a single exchange, Lin Huang had not only inflicted fatal injuries upon his opponent but had also completely destroyed the facial tentacles that served as both its offensive weapon and the medium for its special ability.
The Octopus Hollow’s aura instantly plummeted to rock bottom.
It struggled desperately, attempting to manipulate the invisible spirit particle tentacles surrounding its body to absorb Lin Huang’s reishi.
However, Lin Huang had watched its battle from beginning to end and thoroughly understood every aspect of its abilities.
How could he possibly allow such an opportunity?
Facing the dying Octopus Hollow, Lin Huang no longer hesitated and directly activated Demonic Fetus Parasitism.
In an instant, his enormous serpentine body dissolved into countless streams of dark purple viscous fluid that surged madly through the horrific wounds covering the Octopus Hollow’s body, invading every corner of its flesh.
“This…
what…
is this?!” The Octopus Hollow let out one final scream filled with terror.
The next moment, the light inside its eyes rapidly faded, replaced entirely by hollow emptiness.
Several moments later, that emptiness gradually disappeared, and clarity once again returned to its eyes.
Only now, the master controlling this Octopus Hollow’s body was no longer its original owner.
It was Lin Huang.
Demonic Fetus Parasitism had succeeded.
Within the Octopus Hollow’s Inner World, Lin Huang’s true consciousness appeared beneath a boundless, dark ocean.
Unlike the lonely Inner World belonging to Liotta Ekk, this Inner World resembled an endless sea of darkness.
As the parasitism succeeded, all of the Octopus Hollow’s Spiritual Pressure, abilities, and memories were completely plundered by Lin Huang.
The instant that enormous torrent of Spiritual Pressure merged into his true body, Lin Huang finally stopped suppressing the power that had already reached its limit.
He chose to evolve into a Gillian directly inside the Octopus Hollow’s Inner World.
There was simply no safer or more concealed place.
Before evolving, Lin Huang already possessed Spiritual Pressure comparable to a High Adjuchas.
His evolution was destined to shake heaven and earth.
The Spiritual Pressure fluctuations produced during the process would likely spread throughout hundreds of miles of the Forest of Menos, easily attracting the attention or even attacks of countless powerful Hollows, perhaps even alarming a Vasto Lorde.
However, evolving inside the host’s Inner World would completely isolate every trace of his Spiritual Pressure from the outside world.
Immediately afterward, overwhelming dark purple Spiritual Pressure erupted from Lin Huang’s serpentine body beneath the dark sea, transforming into a dazzling pillar of light that pierced upward through the ocean.
That majestic Spiritual Pressure continued rising, continuously compressing while undergoing another qualitative transformation.
Finally, a gigantic dark purple Cocoon of Metamorphosis over one hundred meters tall condensed around Lin Huang, completely enveloping his body.
While Lin Huang’s true body evolved inside the Octopus Hollow’s Inner World, the parasitized body outside remained standing motionless like a lifeless puppet.
Even so, the wandering Mindless Gillians nearby did not dare approach a Menos radiating High Adjuchas level Spiritual Pressure.
Inside the Inner World, Lin Huang’s Spiritual Pressure continued growing stronger within the gigantic dark purple cocoon.
Half a day later, it finally broke through another invisible limit.
In a hazy trance, Lin Huang vaguely saw an enormous black and crimson gate engraved with countless skulls.
It was the legendary Gate of Hell.
Being able to perceive the Gate of Hell while his Spiritual Pressure evolved meant that, according to the classification used by the Soul Society, his Spiritual Pressure had officially reached Third Class Reiatsu.
Captain level Spiritual Pressure.
Once a being reached this level, regardless of whether they were a Human, Shinigami, or Hollow, the essence of their soul would undergo a complete transformation.
Even after death, their powerful Spiritual Pressure would no longer naturally disperse into the world.
Instead, it would continue existing alongside their consciousness until eventually being drawn into Hell through the Gate of Hell.
In other words, the consciousness of such beings had already approached true immortality.
Even so, Lin Huang’s evolution continued unabated.
His Spiritual Pressure was still climbing.
“Gada…
Gada…” At the bottom of the dark Inner World, strange sounds that made one’s teeth ache continuously echoed from within the enormous dark purple cocoon.
Those sounds came from Lin Huang’s body being completely dismantled and reconstructed through highly compressed reishi as he evolved into a Gillian.
The bizarre reconstruction lasted for three full days and nights.
Crash!
Accompanied by a crisp shattering sound, a powerful human arm covered in pale bone armor suddenly burst through the cocoon.
Immediately afterward, the second arm emerged as well.
Both hands grasped the cracks from inside before violently tearing the cocoon apart.
The gigantic dark purple cocoon instantly shattered into countless fragments.
A towering figure slowly stepped out.
Standing nearly one hundred meters tall, it possessed the upper body of a muscular humanoid partially covered by pale bone armor.
Below the waist extended a long, powerful white serpentine tail whose tip was adorned with the familiar Sword Scales.
A bone white Hollow mask completely covered the face, engraved with flowing purple wave patterns.
At the center of the abdomen, a massive Hollow Hole was clearly visible.
After evolving into a Gillian, Lin Huang had unexpectedly transformed into a half human, half serpent Hollow.
Feeling this completely new body that perfectly combined overwhelming strength with astonishing agility, together with the terrifying Spiritual Pressure continuously surging through every part of him, far beyond anything he had possessed before, Lin Huang could no longer suppress the exhilaration rising beneath his Hollow mask.
Using Sonído, he instantly appeared above the surface of the Inner World’s dark ocean from its depths, silently experiencing the changes within his body.
Third Class Reiatsu.
Captain level Spiritual Pressure.
And it was far from merely entering the Third Class.
His Spiritual Pressure had already approached the middle tier of the Third Class.
That was to say, although Lin Huang was presently only a Gillian who had yet to undergo Arrancarfication, he already possessed Captain level Spiritual Pressure.
“I wonder…” “How does my current strength compare to that of a true Captain-class Shinigami?” “And compared to those Vasto Lorde standing at the peak of the Menos Grande…”