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After a brief discussion, everyone was inexplicably persuaded by Fang Mo.
This also proved that traditional hot-blooded manga protagonists really don't have a good way to deal with people like Fang Mo.
Even Kurosaki Ichigo and his friends couldn't understand how they were persuaded, just feeling that what Fang Mo said seemed somewhat reasonable. By the time they realized it, they were already standing in the desert of Hueco Mundo.
Kurosaki Ichigo looked around and found himself in a desert resembling ashes, surrounded by dead silence, without plants or sunlight, with only an eternal crescent moon hanging in the half-dead sky: "It seems Hueco Mundo is really desolate."
"Ichigo, look there."
At that moment, Yasutora Sado suddenly spoke up, pointing at a strange, gigantic castle not far away: "Is that our destination?"
"Mr. Fang Mo, is that the Las Noches?"
Kurosaki Ichigo also noticed the castle and looked up at Fang Mo.
"Yes, that's the place of the void." Fang Mo nodded and said: "Our goal is to find a way to get inside there."
"Uh…"
After hearing Fang Mo's statement, everyone was once again at a loss for words.
Fortunately, Uryū Ishida remained calm, briefly speechless, then quickly broke the deadlock: "Anyway… now that we know our destination, let's hurry over."
"Shouldn't we greet them first, as we are guests after all?"
Fang Mo suddenly asked.
"Greet them?"
Uryū Ishida was also taken aback after hearing this.
"You're a Quincy, right?" Fang Mo looked at Uryū Ishida and suddenly asked an unrelated question: "Skilled in using bows and sacred arrows for attack?"
"Yes."
Uryū Ishida nodded somewhat puzzledly: "Is there a problem?"
"I am also a Quincy."
Fang Mo raised his hand and pointed at himself, saying, "What?" Uryu Ishida was stunned upon hearing this: "You're a Quincy?"
"He's a Quincy too."
Fang Mo then pointed at Kurosaki Ichigo.
"What!?" Uryu Ishida was even more shocked: "You're saying Ichigo is a Quincy too?"
"Me... I couldn't possibly be a Quincy, could I?"
Upon hearing this, Chad couldn't help but hesitate and ask.
"Sorry, you're not," Fang Mo waved his hand at Chad: "You're just someone who's overdone it, awakening the Kirin Arm."
"Uh..."
Chad froze on the spot.
"No, you must be joking, right?" Uryu Ishida couldn't hold back any longer upon hearing this: "Let alone Chad, neither you nor Ichigo could possibly be Quincies, right? Firstly, you don't even fight with Reishi, and Kurosaki Ichigo is a pure Shinigami, okay?"
"No, I really am a Quincy."
Fang Mo shook his head and said, "I even have a family heirloom Holy Bow. If you don't believe me, I can show it to you. I just don't like using it normally, after all, only women shoot people with bows and arrows, we men shoot people with..."
"Please, no more, I beg you."
Uryu Ishida didn't know what else to say and covered his face.
"That, Uryu."
Just then, Kurosaki Ichigo also started speaking seriously: "Actually, I really am a Quincy too..."
"Can you not stir things up, please!?"
Hearing Kurosaki Ichigo's claim, Uryu Ishida couldn't hold back any longer and yelled at him: "Look at the Zanpakuto on your back! Where is your pride as a Shinigami? What's with you all today... How did you all become Quincies? Do you all have to pretend to be Quincies?"
"No, I really am a Quincy."
Kurosaki Ichigo suddenly got serious: "The Old Man Zangetsu inside me says he's my Quincy power. I've always been fighting with this power, so... strictly speaking, I really am a Quincy."
"You..."
Just as Uryu Ishida was about to speak, Fang Mo suddenly interrupted him: "Kurosaki Ichigo is right, he indeed has Quincy blood in him. His mother was a pure-blood Quincy, and she had a good relationship with your father, Ishida Ryuuken. You might not believe it, but Ryuuken and Kurosaki Masaki were even engaged back then."
"Ah???"
Uryu Ishida's eyes widened in shock after hearing that.
"If it weren't for Kurosaki Masaki being intercepted by Shiba Isshin back in the day, you would have been done for, young man," Fang Mo chuckled as he patted Uryu Ishida on the shoulder. "Actually, you are not Uryu Ishida; you are Kurosaki Ichigo. Kurosaki Ichigo is the real Uryu Ishida."
"???"
Not only Uryu Ishida but also Kurosaki Ichigo found themselves utterly baffled.
After thinking it over for a while, the two looked up at each other again and suddenly felt a bond stronger than blood, though not related by blood.
...
As for Chad, who witnessed the whole event, he wisely kept silent.
"So..."
After a long silence, Uryu Ishida spoke up again, asking Fang Mo, "You said you're also a Quincy... What's that about? Do you have any relation to my family, like an uncle or something?"
"Although you wish to acknowledge me, I indeed do not have the habit of taking nephews," Fang Mo replied with a smile, then pulled out an incredibly magnificent huge bow. "As for why I said I'm a Quincy, look at this."
"This... this is..."
Upon seeing the huge bow, Uryu Ishida was instantly stunned. He could vaguely sense an immense power within it, far surpassing the galaxy itself, where a mere pluck of the star string could erase all existence.
"Watch closely, Uryu Ishida."
As Fang Mo spoke, he pulled the bowstring, and a vast, destructive energy began to gather on the bow. "The true Quincy Vollständig... I'll teach it to you!"
"Wait!"
Uryu Ishida felt a jolt in his heart.
At that moment, Fang Mo suddenly shouted, "I shoot the Vollständig!"
Following his shout, Fang Mo released the bowstring, and a blazing white light shot forth from the Longbow of the Heavens. The light was so terrifying that it evaporated the desert below instantly, leaving behind a bottomless trench.
At that moment, the Hueco Mundo palace also suddenly lit up with several lights.
Then, a series of astonishing spiritual pressures erupted.
Several beams of different colors, or Ceros, shot out from various directions, heading straight for the white light.
However, just as they were about to collide, the Ceros unexpectedly met in advance, merging into a constantly changing colored sphere that then exploded instantly, even tearing open a ferocious black crack in space.
Fang Mo's white light shot straight into the spatial crack.
Soon after, familiar sounds of explosions and shattering echoed from within the crack.