American Comics: BOSS Invasion

Seireitei, Repentance Palace.

Bai Suzhen was meditating with her eyes closed, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, carefully mobilizing her magical power.

Having cultivated for a thousand years, Bai Suzhen had seen much and was well-prepared before entering the Underworld, but she did not expect to pay such a high price.

Bai Suzhen was not afraid of direct combat. With her thousand years of cultivation and authentic Xuanmen cultivation techniques, she could hold her own even against Soul Reapers or judges of the Underworld.

However, the Underworld was filled with Yin energy and death aura. Although there was a small amount of spiritual energy, it was tainted with death.

In such an environment, ghosts might thrive and gain a boost, but demons with physical bodies or cultivators from other systems would find it difficult to absorb spiritual energy to replenish their power.

This environment was very unfriendly to cultivators from other systems.

Since breaking into Seireitei a few days ago and being captured, she had been imprisoned in the Repentance Palace. The buildings here were enormous, each cell being hundreds of square meters in size, spacious and empty, and pitch black, as if there was no one else in the world besides her.

Bai Suzhen, having achieved cultivation, did not need food to sustain herself. She only needed to constantly replenish her body with spiritual energy to survive normally.

However, the current environment was very unfavorable. Bai Suzhen tried her best to barely maintain the purity of the magical power in her body, preventing it from being lost or contaminated.

To absorb more spiritual energy and achieve further cultivation was almost a delusion.

Bai Suzhen slowly opened her eyes and sighed softly. She looked out through the bars, but it was still pitch black, and she could see nothing. The Repentance Palace seemed isolated from the world, even cutting off sound.

Although life was a bit harsh, Bai Suzhen did not dislike this place very much. After all, when she cultivated in Qingcheng Mountain, she lived much the same way, only the environment was better.

But after her connection with Xu Xian, Bai Suzhen had another person in her heart, constantly thinking about him.

Especially after the soul-loss incident, which was entirely caused by her and Xiaoqing.

This made Bai Suzhen feel somewhat guilty. Being imprisoned here, her biggest worry was this matter. She wondered how Xu Xian was doing, whether he had returned to his body, or whether he was still wandering in the Underworld.

What if he really had an accident?

Countless thoughts swirled in her mind, eventually turning into a sigh. Bai Suzhen had tried many times, but being imprisoned here, no one could hear her voice.

Just as she was feeling sorry for herself, she suddenly heard faint footsteps. Bai Suzhen was slightly stunned and suddenly raised her head, seeing a whole team of Shinigami wearing black Shihakusho, expressionless, carrying a huge green snake as they walked in.

They were as cold and hard as stones, with no superfluous expressions on their faces, and their footsteps and movements were very uniform.

One of them stepped forward and directly opened Bai Suzhen's cell.

Two squads stepped forward in batches, using their Zanpakuto to force Bai Suzhen into a corner, while the others quickly threw the green snake on the ground, then retreated like a tide.

The whole process was smooth and flowing, without a second's delay.

Bai Suzhen's eyes were fixed on the big green snake. She wanted to ask several times, but looking at the cold faces of these people, she swallowed it down.

Throughout the whole process, there was no communication between the two sides. With a clatter, the prison door was locked again.

Regaining her freedom, Bai Suzhen immediately rushed over and checked it slightly, then breathed a sigh of relief.

"It really is Xiaoqing. Fortunately, she wasn't injured, only exhausted of her magical power and knocked unconscious. Who possesses such strength to suppress Xiaoqing on the front lines?"

Bai Suzhen's mind quickly flashed across Qi Shan's face, then she thought of the other captains wearing the same uniform as Qi Shan, and she fell silent.

Bai Suzhen mobilized the little remaining magical power in her body and poured it all into Xiaoqing's body.

The huge green snake twitched slightly, as if a button had been triggered. The huge body began to shrink rapidly in a strange posture, and in the blink of an eye, the giant python transformed into a petite and graceful woman in green.

"Xiaoqing?"

The little girl was still a little confused. She stared blankly at Bai Suzhen for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered something, exclaimed, and sat up, stomping her feet in annoyance and saying:

"Sister, I failed. The monk at Jinshan Temple is too hateful. He had long anticipated that I would steal the immortal herb, and he directly set up multiple layers of defensive barriers at the inevitable passage."

"I said all sorts of good things and bad things, but the monk remained unmoved. He's just a heartless block of wood!"

Bai Suzhen shook her head: "So you fought him?"

"You can't say that!" Bai Suzhen quickly interrupted Xiaoqing, "The vast Western Paradise of Buddhism has its own destiny, which is not for us little demons to speculate.

You are also a little too impulsive. We underestimated Seireitei before. Now that you have taken action, they will definitely cause you trouble!"

Xiaoqing said: "Sister is right. I was just about to teach the stinky monk a lesson and flood his Jinshan Temple when the people from Seireitei suddenly popped out and started attacking without saying a word.

That bastard with the ghost-headed broadsword was like a madman. I was caught off guard and he got in front of me. To protect myself, I could only passively defend, and in the end, he found a flaw and ambushed me, knocking me unconscious!"

The more Xiaoqing spoke, the angrier she became. She suddenly stood up and said: "No, I have to settle accounts with them. How dare they ambush me when I was fighting? I have to teach them a lesson and vent this anger!"

As she spoke, Xiaoqing subconsciously mobilized her magical power, ready to blast open the prison, but when she tried to gather her energy, her body was empty.

Xiaoqing was stunned for two seconds and tried several times, but there was no response from the magical power in her body. She sensed it slightly and realized that her magical power had long been empty, and there was no sign of recovery.

Xiaoqing's expression finally changed. Sensing her surroundings, she turned solemnly and asked, "Sister, something's not right. Where is this place?"

"Still so impetuous! You should have noticed it sooner!"

Bai Suzhen shook her head: "You've already seen me, can't you guess where this is?"

"Is this the Yin Realm of the Underworld?"

"It is indeed a Yin-attributed space, but it doesn't seem to be under the jurisdiction of the Underworld anymore. Instead, it's under the control of the Seireitei. That's right, I was very shocked when I first heard this news. The Seireitei not only occupies large territories in the Yang Realm, but it's also a massive force in the Underworld. They occupy a vast area and have a large number of people fighting everywhere!"

Bai Suzhen said with a solemn expression: "That's secondary. The space is infinitely vast, and we're not very clear about the specific forces at play. But even the vast human world is full of factions, so the underworld is naturally no different. There's nothing strange about it.

The main thing is that the Yin energy here is too dense, and death energy is almost everywhere in the air. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is already scarce, and the remaining bit is polluted by death energy. Even if we try our best, the pure spiritual energy we can extract each day is only enough to maintain our own physiological needs. It's almost impossible to restore our magic power or advance further through closed-door cultivation."

As Bai Suzhen explained, Xiaoqing verified each point, and finally, her face darkened.

"What kind of hellhole is this? How can it be like this!"

Bai Suzhen shook her head: "Complaining is meaningless. Now, guard your minds, seal your acupoints, and minimize the consumption of magic power as much as possible. Before, I was alone, so the speed was much slower. Now that we sisters are working together, we should be able to accumulate some magic power while maintaining our physiological needs."

"Even hearing what you want to do makes me wonder if they're going to lock us up and kill us?"

"I don't think so. If they wanted to kill us, they would have attacked directly during the battle. Locking us up should just be to punish us for not following the rules.

It's just that I don't fully understand how long we'll be imprisoned for."

Xiaoqing said angrily: "This damned Seireitei is too overbearing!"

Just then, footsteps came again.

Bai Suzhen quickly made a gesture of silence. The two women huddled together, staring at the passage outside the fence.

A few minutes later, four Soul Reapers escorted a bald man in a monk's robe in and threw him directly into the building opposite Bai Suzhen.

Xiaoqing couldn't help but shout: "Get your supervisor out here, I have something to say to him! It's that Captain-Commander, he personally issued us transit permits! If you just report it, he will definitely not ignore it!"

But the Soul Reapers were like wooden puppets, deaf to her words, not even looking at Xiaoqing, and left straight away.

Xiaoqing was so angry that her eyes widened like light bulbs. Bai Suzhen comforted her from the side: "It's no use. These jailers who guard us seem to have undergone special training. No matter what we do, they won't pay attention to us, as if we don't exist at all!"

"That's too much, wait till I get out and see how I deal with them!" Xiaoqing said angrily, inadvertently looking up at the opposite side, and was immediately shocked: "Sister, it's actually Fahai, they've arrested that monk Fahai too?"

Bai Suzhen's expression froze. She looked at the cell opposite and saw Fahai entering the cell and sitting cross-legged against the wall. He made a lotus seal with his hands and chanted words, his expression very pious.

"Hey, you stinky monk, why are you imprisoned here too?"

Xiaoqing shouted twice in a row, but Fahai remained deaf.

Bai Suzhen said: "Don't waste your energy. This prison seems to have a special barrier. Different cells cannot communicate with each other. Perhaps only we can see him, but he can't see us at all."

Xiaoqing collapsed to the ground: "Sister, what should we do?"

"Let's take it one step at a time. There's nothing we can do for now. Your foundation is still very shallow. When you were cultivating on Qingcheng Mountain, you were always busy and in a mess, fishing for three days and drying nets for two. It's fortunate that you have extraordinary talent to barely transform into a human, otherwise, you might still be stealing fish in some small gully!

Take this opportunity to temper your temperament, consolidate your foundation, and prepare for future cultivation!"

Xiaoqing glanced at her sister and didn't refute. In fact, she also knew that being locked up in prison, unable to hear any sound, she could only cultivate well to pass the time.

She and her sister were locked up together, so at least they had a companion. That stinky monk Fahai was locked up alone in the prison, how pitiful, without even anyone to talk to!

Qi Shan raised his hand and turned off the light screen in front of him. Seeing the interaction between Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, and seeing Fahai seemingly abandoning all his inner demons and starting to cultivate the fundamentals of Buddhism from scratch, he nodded with satisfaction.

Sure enough, changing the map is the best solution.

Now, there are no other demons within Yu Hang County and the surrounding hundred miles.

Qi Shan sent out a large army, and as soon as any mountain spirits or tree demons approached the Seireitei's range or the Jinshan Temple's range, they were immediately arrested and sent to the Underworld.

Qi Shan wasn't an unreasonable person. After capturing these demons, he would distinguish between good and evil, and divide them into two groups. One group was thrown into an empty spatial area, allowing them to roam freely and continue to cultivate, without caring about their cultivation speed.

The other group, which was obviously demons who cultivated by eating blood, would be directly killed and used to supplement the concentration of spiritual particles.

At the same time, the rapid operation of the Central Academy and the supplementation of a large number of pure spiritual particle masses almost created batches of qualified Soul Reapers in a ballooning manner.

These were not created by Qi Shan using technological means, but completely native Soul Reapers. Qi Shan compiled them into an expeditionary force and dispatched them in large teams of ten small teams to conquer more territories remotely.

And in the human world, there were also a large number of Soul Reapers active, specializing in capturing wandering lonely ghosts. Soul bodies were important raw materials for the Soul Society.

Moreover, this was precisely the function of the Seireitei.

Time passed little by little. When Xu Xian accelerated his graduation from the Central Academy and was dispatched to the expeditionary force three months later, Qi Shan suddenly received a notification that the mission was completed.

This surprised him somewhat. He didn't expect that after changing the map, the mission would be completed so simply. This was an unexpected delight.

However, since the plan had already progressed to this point, of course, he had to see the results before leaving.

So he decided to stay for the time being!