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Su Li grabbed Xubai's arm and stood upright in the air.
The two were almost nose-to-nose. Their posture... oddly ambiguous.
Xubai could even feel Su Li's breath.
Everyone at the scene, watching this awkwardly intimate stance, fell into absolute silence. No one dared breathe. It was the stillness before the storm.
Xubai trembled in humiliation. It couldn't stand being held in such a way.
It prepared to strike.
Then, it caught a glimpse of excitement in Su Li's eyes.
From afar, others saw Su Li slowly raise his leg.
"White Hits, the seventh kick..."
The corners of Su Li's mouth lifted into a faint smile.
Sui-Feng blinked in confusion.
Others froze.
"White Thunder Whip!" Su Li's voice rang out lightly.
In the next instant, he whipped his leg like lightning, slamming it into Xubai's abdomen.
BOOM!!
A tremendous impact exploded through the air.
Xubai was hurled backward in an instant.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
It flew uncontrollably, smashing boulders and stone walls as it went. Even after destroying a dozen obstacles, the speed didn't slow until it finally crashed into a cliffside—creating a massive crater in the rock.
The entire field gasped in unison.
All eyes turned to the cliff in the distance, expressions filled with terror.
From Su Li's position to the cliff—at least 300 meters. In modern terms: over a thousand meters.
One kick. A thousand meters. Against a Vasto Lorde?!
What level of strength was this?!
Even more unbelievable—Su Li used White Thunder Whip, a move everyone had learned.
White Thunder Whip is a basic White Hits technique. It's essentially a whip-like leg strike, practical and easy to master. Because of its simplicity and stylish name, nearly every Shinigami learns it early on.
But that's the problem—it's a basic move.
For a regular Shinigami, a strong kick might send someone flying a few meters. Maybe 5. Maybe 10 if they trained hard.
But one thousand meters?
What is this, a sci-fi movie?!
The most stunned of all was Sui-Feng.
She stared at Su Li's lifted leg, eyes wide. For a moment, she forgot to breathe.
Only after several seconds did she gasp for air, cheeks flushed, forehead dripping with sweat.
She slowly raised her head, staring at Su Li with an utterly complicated gaze.
It was the first time she'd seen Su Li use a standard White Hits technique.
And it shook her more than when she'd faced his Ultra Instinct during the graduation assessment.
Back then, she didn't understand Ultra Instinct. It felt alien, impossible.
But White Thunder Whip? She knew it intimately.
It was the very first White Hits move she had ever learned.
She knew its limits.
At her peak, even using all her strength, her kick might launch someone 100 meters.
Even Yoruichi-sama, at her prime, could only reach 300 meters.
And now... Su Li just kicked a Vasto Lorde over 1,000 meters.
And this wasn't a sparring match against a subordinate in padding.
This was a Vasto Lorde.
A real Hollow.
A living monster.
Sui-Feng felt faint.
She had always assumed Su Li could beat her because of his speed and reflexes. But now—she realized how wrong she'd been.
This boy wasn't holding back.
Or worse—he might have been holding back even against her.
Of course, maybe he'd improved over time.
But no matter how talented, could someone improve this much in just a few days?
Had he activated a cheat code?!
Sui-Feng refused to believe it.
No—he must've been hiding his strength the entire time.
"Damn it... that brat... lying to women... scumbag!!"
Her jaw clenched in fury.
Then she turned to glare at Omaeda.
"Help me up. I can't see clearly lying down."
Feeling the chill in her voice, Omaeda shivered and rushed over, helping her sit up with a dazed look.
Who the heck provoked the captain again?
Meanwhile, Su Li had no idea someone behind him was glaring daggers into his back.
At this moment, he stood with one hand on his hip and the other shading his eyes as if scanning the horizon.
"Ohhh... I've improved a lot lately..."
His expression was full of satisfaction and quiet joy.
What Su Li didn't realize was that his strength—speed, power, explosiveness, reflexes—had leapt to a whole new level thanks to training with Ultra Instinct and the Eight Inner Gates.
Although he could currently only maintain Ultra Instinct Omen and open one Inner Gate, his physical abilities were already far beyond the average Shinigami.
One was a divine ability of gods.
The other was the pinnacle of martial mastery.
And because of his dual understanding, Su Li had reached a master-level comprehension of martial arts. That's how he learned Double Bone in a single day.
Even basic White Hits techniques, in his hands, didn't just reach their full potential—they were amplified, several-fold over.
God-tier techniques.
Master-tier control.
Monster-tier physical power.
Together, Su Li's strikes were now unknowably powerful—even he wasn't sure what he was fully capable of.
He just needed a test dummy.
Unfortunately for Xubai, that role fell to him.
In the distance, rubble tumbled.
Xubai slowly climbed out of the crater, glaring at his abdomen.
His black scale armor had shattered—completely ruptured.
Blood seeped out between the cracks, soaking the battlefield red.
His expression shifted from blankness, to confusion, to shock.
That black scale armor was his life—his pride. It had been granted to him by the divine Lord of Hueco Mundo.
Even the high-ranking Espada in Las Noches needed effort to damage it.
Yet this boy—this boy with such low Reiatsu and ordinary-looking body—broke it with a single kick?
If Xubai could still speak, he would have cursed.
Loudly.
And vulgarly.
But he couldn't.
So he howled.
Like a beast.
Everyone present grimaced and covered their ears.
Su Li also covered his ears, looking slightly embarrassed.
"...Honestly, I'm getting tired of this kick already."
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