Death: Captain Millennium

Chapter 441 Finale

The lake behind the Fourth Division shone with a silvery glow, and the night wind blew up pine needles that fell on the wooden covered bridge.

When Lin Yu pushed open the creaking bamboo door, the bronze wind chimes hanging on the eaves suddenly started to chime without any wind. This was the early warning device he had hung up a hundred years ago, but now it seemed to be ringing for farewell.

"Everyone is here?"

Bayunsai shook off the star sand on her haori, and the moon dial at her waist made a clear sound.

Seven figures in the room swayed in the candlelight. Saito Furuobushi was peeling an apple with his Zanpakutō, and the spiral peel fell down, forming the word "liar".

Rukia suddenly threw herself into Lin Yu's arms, her tears soaking the Beidou tattoo on his chest: "Master, can you please not leave! I... I haven't learned the third form of Bankai yet..."

The ice crystals that slipped down from her sleeves condensed into frost flowers on the ground. In a trance, she was still the little girl who chased him in the Seventh Division to learn the ways of ghosts.

"You girl..."

Lin Yu gently stroked the top of her head, the starlight from his fingertips seeping into her hair, "Do you remember what you asked when you were dealing with that Hollow in the present world?"

He deliberately raised his voice to imitate the young girl's tender voice: "Master, is there a wider world beyond death?"

The wine glass in Kuchiki Hibiki's hand suddenly exploded, and the amber liquid formed a river on the table.

At this moment, he was staring at the ice crystals floating in the wine in a trance - the scene of him proudly refusing to be Lin Yu's disciple more than 500 years ago flashed through his mind.

"If you want to get out, get out now!"

Saito suddenly smashed the wine cup, and the glass fragments reflected thousands of distorted Lin Yu, "Save me from having to look at your face every day and not being able to eat!"

She turned and opened the small window of the cabin, and the moonlight poured onto her trembling shoulders.

On the pine branches outside the window, the words "Saito steals wine to drink" carved by Lin Yu a hundred years ago are still clear.

Unohana Retsu picked up the celadon teapot, the boiling steam spreading across her eyes. "Yuan Liuzhai, do you still remember?"

She poured the tea into Rukia's ice crystal cup. "Back then, you used Ryujin Jakka to make tea and nearly burned down the Fourth Squad's barracks."

The aroma of tea brought back scenes from the past: Yamamoto Shigekuni, with a dark face, was roasting herbs with a flame wall, and Lin Yu was squatting in the ruins, piecing together the burned medical records with star sand.

"Master, are you really going to leave? Can you please not leave?"

Rukia threw away the wine glass in her hand and hugged Lin Yu crying.

"It's so big outside! Master wants to go out and take a look. Besides, it's not like I won't be back. Why are you so excited?"

Lin Yu patted Rukia's back gently. His silly apprentice was crying so hard that people who didn't know would think that Lin Yu was going to die.

"I don't want Master to leave!"

Rukia cried even harder and hugged Lin Yu tightly.

"Hey! Why are you being so sentimental? It's not like we won't see each other again."

Saito looked unhappy. She couldn't stand this kind of separation between life and death the most.

Having said that, her eyes betrayed her true thoughts.

She and Lin Yu had been arguing for thousands of years, and had made countless rumors about each other, but today Lin Yu said he was leaving to go see the outside world with Bayunzhai and Yamamoto Yuanguo. Could she tolerate this? No!

"Ugh……"

"All good things must come to an end, and eventually there must be farewells."

Lin Yu sighed softly and pushed Rukia away from his arms.

"Master..."

Xianghe wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know what to say.

"Don't cry! Lin Yu will come back, right? As his disciple, what's the point of crying?"

Unohana transformed into a caring older sister and comforted Rukia.

"Unohana, Saito, Rukia, Hibiki..." Lin Yu called out the names of several people and paused, finally saying only the two words "goodbye".

After saying that, Lin Yu, along with Bayunzhai and Yamamoto Shigekuni, disappeared into the wooden house in an instant.

"Wow! Master, why did you abandon us?"

Rukia cried even louder.

Just half a year ago, Yamamoto Shigekuni and Bayunsai both reached the threshold of becoming gods. The Emperor Ziwei used the essence of the sun and the essence of the moon to create a perfect body for them that matched their own attributes, and finally allowed them to become gods.

The matter of traveling to the heavens and all realms after becoming gods has also been put on the agenda of Lin Yu and the other two. They can no longer get any improvement in the world of death, and the only way is to travel to the heavens and all realms through the star gate.

At the core of the Sun Star, a towering star gate stands there, and there is a small crack on the star gate that was left by Jesus with great effort.

"So hard!"

Lin Yu placed his palm on the star gate, and the power of the stars exploded, but it still did not shake the star gate at all.

"let's start!"

Lin Yu, whose attempt failed, looked at Bayunzhai and Yamamoto Shigekuni. It seemed that the only way to open the star gate was to rely on the method left by Donghuang Taiyi.

"Chaos Clock!"

"Moon wheel!"

Yamamoto Shigekuni and Bayunsai did not waste any time and simultaneously sacrificed the innate treasures they had obtained from Donghuang Taiyi and Wangshu Star Lord.

The power of the moon and the sun instantly filled the space, and the terrifying pressure forced Lin Yu to be on high alert.

As the two of them made hand gestures, the originally closed star gate began to rumble and slowly opened.

After the star gate opened, what appeared before the three people was an ancient starry road that extended to an unknown place.

“It’s open now?”

Lin Yu didn't expect the star gate to open so easily. He originally thought it would be very difficult.

"Death World, I, Lin Yu, am gone..."

Lin Yu took Ba Yunzhai's hand and turned to look back at Soul Society: above the Soul Society, Aizen, disguised as "Lin Yu", was using Kyoka Shuiyue to create a rainstorm, while Kenpachi Zaraki was chasing the illusion of Killian in the rain...

In the present clinic, Ichigo Kurosaki's Zangetsu suddenly burst into starlight - that was the coordinate mark buried by Lin Yu.

"Let's go."

The moon wheel of Bayunzhai turned into an exquisite boat, steadily parked in the ancient starry road.

The moment the three of them stepped into the Ancient Starry Sky Road together, the entire Soul Society was shaken by a powerful force.

All the Zanpakutō seemed to be awakened, making clear sounds at the same time. The sound was like the sound of nature, resounding throughout the Soul Society.

In front of the monitoring screen of the Technology Development Bureau, Kurotsuchi Mayuri laughed wildly with excitement, his eyes flashing with fanaticism, and the pen in his hand recorded this historic fluctuation as fast as lightning.

On the tranquil lakeside of the Fourth Division, Rukia's Sode no Shirayuki suddenly burst into dazzling light. It seemed to have come to life and quickly solidified into a huge ice monument.

There was a line of words engraved on the ice monument: "Master Bastard, remember to bring the local specialties."

Although this line of words is simple, it reveals Rukia's deep concern for Lin Yu.

In another place, Saito was drunk among a pile of wine jars, tightly clutching half a piece of star core fragment in her hand, as if it was the most important thing in her life.

Kuchiki Hibiki stood in an open space, practicing his slashing technique facing the starry sky.

Each of his moves was like a meteor streaking across the night sky, leaving behind a trail of star sand, magnificent and beautiful.

However, at the other end of the star gate, Lin Yu encountered his first shock.

He discovered that in this chaotic void, there was a huge tortoise shell floating.

This tortoise shell is huge, like a mountain, and is engraved with dense runes.

When Lin Yu took a closer look, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth - these runes turned out to be the full text of "The Book of Changes"!

Lin Yu stretched out his hand in disbelief, wanting to touch the mysterious tortoise shell.

Just as his fingers were about to touch the tortoise shell, the tortoise shell suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and then slowly turned into the shadow of an old man.

The old man's figure was illusory yet real, and his voice rang in Lin Yu's ears like a huge bell: "I, the poor black tortoise, have been waiting here for the successor of Ziwei for 30,000 years..."

End of the book

PS: The story ends here. How should I put it? The writing of this book is a bit unsatisfactory. Many prepared plots have not been written. I thought about making major changes and giving up in the middle, but I still don’t want to disappoint the readers.

I would like to once again express my sincere gratitude to all the readers for their support. It is thanks to you that I have come this far.

I have to say goodbye to everyone today. Just like what is said in this chapter, all good things must come to an end. I wish all my readers peace and happiness!

See you in the next book!

Extra—I, Hu Hansan, am back again!

Time flies, and it has been more than three hundred years since Lin Yu left the world of death.

During these long years, the Shinigami of Seireitei lived a peaceful life day after day, and nothing earth-shattering happened.

There was only one thing that made the Soul Reapers of Soul Society feel very strange, and that was the sudden disappearance of Yamamoto Shigekuni and Bayunsai.

These two figures, who both hold important positions in the world of death, disappeared without any warning, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

The captains were naturally very concerned about this. They asked Lin Yu (actually Aizen in disguise) about the whereabouts of Yamamoto Shigekuni and Bayunsai more than once.

However, the answer received each time was the same: Yamamoto Shigekuni and Bayunsai were in seclusion practicing, seeking an opportunity to break through and become gods.

"Master is such a jerk!"

Rukia strolled alone by the lake of the 13th Division, muttering, "I promised to come back, but now it's been over three hundred years and there's not even a trace of him."

She muttered to herself and kicked the pebbles at her feet out of boredom, watching them splash ripples on the lake.

Today, Rukia has grown into the captain of the 13th Division, but unlike the original ending, she and Abarai Renji have not yet married.

All this happened just because Lin Yu once said that one day he would return to the world of death.

Rukia always believed in her master's promise, so she did not take the love affair too seriously, but chose to wait silently, waiting for the unreliable master to come home.

During these long three hundred years, Rukia's life was not lonely, but it was by no means colorful.

Ichigo Kurosaki, Orihime, Uryu Ishida, and Yasutora Chadari, all of whom had deep bonds with her, have passed away, but their souls have come to the Soul Society, which gives Rukia some comfort.

Despite this, Rukia's life remains dull.

She kept in close contact with these people, having a small gathering every three days and a grand party every five days.

During these gatherings, they reminisced about the past and shared their ordinary lives in Soul Society.

Compared with Rukia, Saito's fate seems a bit miserable.

Ever since Lin Yu took away Bayunzhai, she lost her only place to go.

Now, she has nowhere to go except Unohana's Fourth Division.

Unohana also chose to retire not long ago, which made Saito's life even more lonely.

She and Unohana stayed in the small wooden house that used to be by the lake all day. Time seemed to be extremely long for them, and every day felt like a year.

However, when he felt depressed, Saito would occasionally go to the 8th Division to have a drink with Kyoraku Shunsui.

There she could temporarily forget the troubles of life, have a good chat with Kyoraku Shunsui, and feel some warmth and comfort.