However, the 'slay Hollows to level up' aspect of this event was simply too shocking.
Furthermore, the description of 'opportunity' also left Ichigo very confused.
What is an opportunity? A chance not seized is a chance lost!
The game called this event an 'opportunity...
Ichigo began to harbor some speculative possibilities!
Since the arrival of numerous Players, the game had never stated that killing could lead to leveling up.
Killing is something one can become addicted to, even if it's Hollows.
Moreover, the people and monsters of the Bleach World aren't like the denizens of some game world… they don't respawn. Once killed, they're gone.
Therefore, although it's a 'game', the game had never stated that killing led to leveling up.
Such an update was a bad omen.
If Ichigo were to describe it, it was like draining the pond to get the fish… taking the last haul.
But speculation was just speculation. Since the game's event had been updated, the focus now was to prepare. Everything else could be discussed later. No one could refuse a chance to increase their strength.
However, Ichigo originally thought that since the event had arrived, he would simply participate, and nothing else mattered until then.
But the scent of an approaching storm cannot be hidden. Sensitive beings feel it before the wind even stirs.
Third day before the event countdown ends.
Night.
A graceful figure emerged from Urahara Shop!
"That bastard Ichigo, hitting so hard!"
Stretching her body, sore from Ichigo's bamboo sword 'tutoring', Jing Bing was extremely displeased.
"Just a few teasing words? Can't even take a joke!"
"Forget it. Regardless, let's complete today's Hollow-slaying quota first!" Jing Bing murmured.
Although Ichigo's training was brutal, it did help Jing Bing and Xin Na correct their bad habit of relying solely on Kido in combat. Swords had returned to their hands.
Recalling the swordsmanship learned from Ichigo, Jing Bing was very excited.
"Now, let's see which little cuties are available for me to test my blade on~?"
Placing her hand on the sword hilt at her waist, Jing Bing closed her eyes.
Simultaneously, a subtle wave emanated from her closed-eyed form, spreading outwards like radar.
Through active Reiatsu sensing, akin to ultrasound imaging, rumbling cars, mothers shopping with children, fathers cooking at home, and grandfathers telling witty jokes making old ladies laugh heartily.
Of course, also young men and women indulging in pleasures, salarymen working late, and delinquent youths in alleyways engaged in vices.
Everything appeared within Jing Bing's perception.
However, she hadn't been sensing for long when Jing Bing abruptly opened her beautiful eyes.
"None!!?" Organizing the results of this sensing, Jing Bing was shocked!
She immediately closed her eyes to sense again. This time, her perception was deeper, even picking up couples 'making love' in hotels and bedrooms appearing in her mind!
But Jing Bing, who would normally feel a bit shy upon sensing such things, couldn't afford shyness now.
"Still none? Could I have forgotten how to sense properly after getting beaten up so much?" Jing Bing was very surprised.
She had just talked about starting a night hunt.
But now, Jing Bing grew agitated.
In front of Urahara Shop, Jing Bing paced back and forth.
"Huh? What's up with Goddess Jing?"
"Didn't she say she'd find some Hollows for a late-night activity? Why isn't she moving?"
"No idea. Maybe Goddess Jing finally realized staying up late is the enemy of fairies?"
"Keep going! Night run!"
Watching Jing Bing, the audience in her live stream also didn't understand what she was freaking out about.
No one knew that Jing Bing's mind was in tremendous turmoil!
Shinigami have communication devices called Denreishinki to order them to slay Hollows.
But ever since Ichigo started training them, he ordered them not to use the devices and to rely on their own senses.
Yet just now, no matter how Jing Bing tried to sense, she couldn't find a single Hollow!
Such an abnormality completely overturned her worldview!
Are you kidding? This is Karakura Town! A place with so many Hollows one can't slay them all!
Not only numerous, but also high-quality, practically a rookie Shinigami's hell!
Dubbed the [Little Hueco Mundo of the Living World]!
Here's a dark joke: Karakura Town, a Jureichi, has no Hollows!
But now, this was no longer a joke!
Thinking this, Jing Bing immediately took out her Denreishinki to see if there were any orders.
However, the device's messages were empty.
The last order was from... the previous order, a day ago!
Moreover, the more she checked the device, the more shocked she became.
Because she discovered that during her training breaks, the orders from the device to slay Hollows had become fewer and fewer, the frequency rapidly decreasing.
Like a web novel author who just stops updating mid-story.
Instinctively, Jing Bing wanted to turn back and tell Ichigo and the others about this.
But thinking of the strict Ichigo, she didn't want to hear him say, "You came at the perfect time. Finish this set of training."
So after some thought, Jing Bing decided to go check things out herself first.
Because the Living World of the has thin Reishi concentration, spiritually powerful individuals can use Reishi to lift themselves off the ground.
Jing Bing, having mastered this skill, leaped a few times, propelling herself high into the air.
Using her newly learned high-speed Shunpo, Jing Bing truly began a 'night run' as the bullet comments had said.
Her dust-trailing figure was like a whirlwind, quickly circling over Karakura Town.
Not long after, Jing Bing returned to Urahara Shop with a grave expression.
"Hado #31: Shakkaho!"
Boom!
A Shakkaho smashed into the center of the training area where Ichigo and Xin Na were sparring. Jing Bing forcefully interrupted the training.
Under their surprised gazes, Jing Bing declared:
"Something big has happened! The Hollows in Karakura Town... are gone!"
"What!!?" Hearing Jing Bing's words, Ichigo was extremely puzzled!
In Bleach, there's a memorable Shinigami named Ashido.
He was powerful, handsome, and tragic.
Because during a Hollow-slaying operation in the Living World many years ago, a Hollow opened a Garganta to escape, so Ashido and his teammates pursued it into the Forest of Menos.
As someone who could befriend the 7th Kenpachi, Kuruyashiki Kenpachi, who was even invited by the Royal Guard, it speaks volumes about Ashido's strength and talent.
During Rukia's time in the Forest of Menos, Ashido could defeat Adjuchas using only his Zanpakuto, without even releasing it.
Thus, of the entire Shinigami Squad that entered the Forest of Menos, only Ashido survived.