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Chapter 198: The Plot Interrupted Midway and the Strange Object in the Reincarnation
“That’s right,” Aizen nodded and continued, “Since ancient times, due to the characteristics of the Spirit World itself, the areas that can be involved are very limited. Therefore, most Spirit World forces, like many countries in the present world, have their own borders for interference.”

"Compared to mortal nations that can expand their territory simply by waging war, it is much more difficult for the spirit realm, a spiritual space attached to the mortal world, to expand its territory..."

It takes not only a long time, but also a huge number of souls, and a sufficient price to be paid by their rulers, for the spiritual realm's territory, or rather, its barriers, to grow.

Therefore, each spirit realm, much like the divine realms in mythology, often lives its own life behind closed doors, with little communication between them.

However, although the spirit world itself can adjust the flow of time to a certain extent according to the will of its ruler, thus making one day on earth a year in heaven, it is just like the heavenly kingdom in the mouths of mortals.

However, the spirit world itself is still composed of spirit particles, and its operation still requires energy, namely spirit particles.

Spiritual particles, on the other hand, originate from the present world.

The present world, that is, the material world of Earth, is a mixture of physical and spiritual particles. Separating them requires a great deal of effort. Usually, only the birth and death of the soul can efficiently separate the spiritual particles from the physical body.

In the ancient past, before the birth of humankind, although animals also possessed souls, their souls were often extremely weak and could only gradually dissipate rather than grow.

Even after billions of years, the number of various plants and animals was astronomical, and the souls extracted from them after death reached an extremely terrifyingly large number.

However, the spiritual particles derived from such a massive soul still only formed a chaotic spiritual realm with extremely thin spiritual particles on the original Earth's surface.

All of this, until the birth of humankind!

Compared to other animals, the human soul is extremely strong. Even after death, it does not disappear quickly, but has the opportunity to gradually grow stronger.

After the birth of humankind, the number of souls gradually increased and grew stronger, eventually forming what are known as deities in ancient mythology.

These ancient gods, for various reasons, gathered the souls of the dead, thus gradually forming numerous primordial spirit realms.

However, these spirit realms at that time were often extremely small, only able to support a few souls to live in.

As civilization expanded and the human population grew, the spirit world established by these early gods was often shattered in various chaotic wars, or rebuilt from the original ruins.

It progresses in a spiral, gradually growing.

As modern times approached, as countries gradually entered industrialization, and as fertilizers emerged, the global population grew rapidly, surpassing 60 billion in 2000!
As a result, the number of souls accepted by the spirit world in many regions around the world has increased dramatically in just one hundred years.

From 1900 to 2000, in just 100 years, more than 10 billion people died on Earth!
As a result, in just one hundred years, the number of souls received by the spirit world has surpassed the total number of souls received in the previous thousand years!

Because of the massive influx of souls, many spirit realms themselves have experienced rapid expansion of their boundaries, even bordering other adjacent spirit realms and leading to conflicts.

In recent years, due to the continuous occurrence of such phenomena, many large spiritual forces around the world have begun to discuss countermeasures.

Many insightful people believe that with the gradual increase in the Earth's population, perhaps starting from 2000, and in another 100 or 200 years, the entire Earth's spirit world will be uncontrollably connected as a massive influx of souls arrives.

At that time, a complete spirit world will envelop the entire Earth.

The newly deceased souls would normally fall naturally into those chaotic and barren spiritual realms, just like those who are thrown into the Martian wasteland and killed by the harsh environment, and after death they would disperse into spiritual particles.

But if that time comes, because the entire Earth will be shrouded in a completely new spirit world, all the newly dead souls will rush into the spirit world, which will provide a stable living environment for the souls.

The original spirit realm regions will no longer hold an absolute advantage, and the souls of ordinary humans will be able to survive intact in the vast new spirit realm regions for a long time.

However, for a long time, these completely connected spirit realms, although able to survive, were still in an extremely harsh environment, much like being in a high-altitude environment or a barren desert.

The souls will not suffocate quickly, nor will they be killed directly by the harsh environment, but they can only barely survive. They will definitely not live for long before they weaken and die due to the barren environment.

To survive, we must obtain spiritual particles as a supplement!

But how can one obtain it in this incredibly barren spirit realm?
Because it is so barren, there are very few spiritual particles in the air.

Even though the spirit world is composed of spirit particles, every blade of grass, every tree, and even the soil contains a lot of spirit particles, these spirit particles are in an inert state, and ordinary souls can't absorb them at all.

So, what is the only source of spiritual particles that an ordinary soul can find?

The answer is: other souls.

In other words, the only way to survive is to fight and kill other souls, to suck the marrow from their bones, and to eat people!

Once the human soul begins to devour others, it signifies the beginning of its depravity.

They will be completely transformed into different kinds of evil spirits!
Imagine that on Earth, more than 90% of the dead would be in the spirit world, fighting and hunting each other like wild beasts in that endless barren wasteland.

To survive, they had no choice but to kill!

They can only survive by constantly cannibalizing their own kind.

By then, it will be like raising a poisonous insect.

Before the Soul Society was born, the progenitor Hollow who devoured countless souls was nothing compared to the things that would be born in the future!
In the spirit world, this will inevitably give birth to unprecedentedly terrifying evil creatures, unprecedentedly powerful beings, and unprecedentedly fierce wars.

Anyone with a modicum of insight can basically foresee this future.

Unlike ordinary humans, even if ordinary humans could foresee the terrible wars that would happen hundreds of years from now, they would mostly do nothing.

After all, to them, what do they care about the deluge after I die? It's something that will happen hundreds of years from now, and it's not a big deal to them.

However, for spirits who can live forever as long as their spiritual power is strong enough, a short hundred or even several hundred years is too insignificant.

This almost visible future instilled a sense of fear in the vast majority of large spiritual forces that had been under long-term lockdown.

To avoid such a future, some believe that the original spiritual barrier needs to be frantically strengthened to completely isolate the souls that naturally flow in from the outside world, allowing only a limited amount of intake. In this way, the growth of one's spiritual territory can be prevented.

Some people believe that it is necessary to relocate their entire spiritual realm to a more distant region of outer space, or even beneath the Earth's crust, to become a true celestial realm and underworld. This would prevent their spiritual realm from bordering other spiritual realms during its expansion.

Some people also believe that preparations should be made in advance, and that a comprehensive army should be trained in preparation for the likely chaos and conflict to come, so as to gain the greatest benefit.

Regardless of their intended countermeasures, the continued expansion of the spirit world remains inevitable, and it is only a matter of time before the previously closed environment is completely broken.

Therefore, as early as the Age of Exploration more than a hundred years ago, not only did mortals in the present world have frequent exchanges during the Age of Exploration, but exchanges between many spiritual forces also gradually became more frequent.

As for Soul Society, due to the excessive corruption and conservatism of its former rulers, the Eye Monk and the five noble families, it has always remained closed off, completely refusing to communicate with the outside world.

However, the Soul Society is not without its wise and discerning members.

Originally, during the Warring States period 500 years ago, five noble families launched a sneak attack on the Soul Society created by the Soul King. By frantically consuming its power to accelerate time, millions of years passed in the Soul Society.

It wasn't until the Black Ships incident in Japan that the passage of time in Soul Society gradually began to intersect with that of the human world. During this process, a child born in the Rukongai of Soul Society gradually grew up and came to understand the decay of Soul Society and the changes in the outside world.

He felt nauseous at the decay of Soul Society and shocked by the drastic changes in the outside world. He began to slowly vow that he would change this corrupt Soul Society!
"Uh," Kurosaki Ichigo raised his hand. "Excuse me, this child you're talking about, his name isn't Aizen Sosuke, is it?"

Aizen responded with a soft laugh.

A deathly silence fell over the scene. Ichigo Kurosaki lowered his head, his tightly furrowed brows showing deep distress.

After a long silence, he slowly raised his head, looked at Aizen, and said, "Mr. Aizen, if what you say is true, you are preparing for a full-scale border crossing in the future, is that right?"

"But no matter what, even if a hundred years is a very short time from your perspective, there's still at least a hundred years left, isn't there?"

Is such a rush really necessary?

After hearing this, Aizen simply shook his head slightly and remained silent. He gestured for Kurosaki Ichigo to follow him.

Kurosaki Ichigo was full of doubts, but he still followed him deeper into the Soul King's Palace.

The two passed through layers upon layers of extremely powerful seals, which even made Kurosaki Ichigo feel slightly uncomfortable, and finally arrived at the deepest part of the Soul King Palace.

"This?" Kurosaki Ichigo was stunned, staring at the vast, lake-like liquid before him, radiating a terrifying spiritual energy and shimmering with an eerie light. "What is this?!"

Aizen bent down and scooped up a handful of strange liquid with his palm. In just a moment, the liquid crystallized automatically in his hand, turning into a large gem with a strange luster.

He replied softly, "This thing is called Hogyoku."

"A strange form of spirit particle that Kisuke Urahara and I jointly researched."

Aizen waved his hand, and a powerful spiritual pressure forcefully pushed open the center of the lake, revealing a spatial rift below.

This means that the massive Hōgyoku Lake is constantly flowing into the spatial rift.

Ichigo Kurosaki looked puzzled and pointed to the crack below. "This? This doesn't make sense. With such a large crack, shouldn't all of these things you call the Hogyoku have leaked out by now?"

Aizen did not answer his question, but focused his gaze on the jewel in his hand, looking at its strange luster, and said, "Ichigo, as you know, the expansion of the Spirit World itself means the demise of souls."

"Only the death of a large number of souls can generate spiritual particles that allow the spirit world to gradually expand."

"In the next hundred years or more, hundreds of billions or even trillions of people on Earth will die. More than 90% of them will perish in the chaotic spirit realm because no spirit world can accept them, thus becoming the cornerstone for the gradual expansion of the spirit world in the future."

"And after the spirit world has completed its expansion, there will still be an extremely long period of time during which more than 90% of the souls, which are hundreds of billions of souls, will prey on each other in endless hunger."

"So, if you had a way to replace them now, to allow these souls who were supposed to die in the future to live on, would you do it?"

"Of course!" Ichigo Kurosaki shouted. "If there's a way to save hundreds of billions, even trillions, of souls in the future, whoever it is, no matter what it takes, would definitely do it!"

"Heh..." Aizen chuckled.

He waved his hand again, revealing the vast Hōgyoku lake in front of him, showing a corner at the very top that contained a cube-shaped object made of Hōgyoku liquid, which was floating in mid-air.

Aizen's eyes held deep doubt. "You know, while I was the one who researched and developed the Hogyoku, I didn't create this strange, square thing."

He pointed, and all the liquid around the liquid Hōgyoku cube was pushed aside, but the next moment, it continued to gush out. "It's utter nonsense, an endless stream of Hōgyoku liquid is flowing out of thin air."

Holding up a finger, he said, "A Hōgyoku about the size of a finger contains a total amount of spiritual particles that are almost equivalent to the souls of tens of thousands of ordinary humans."

Pointing to the vast lake again, he said, "And right now, the total amount of spiritual particles added to the Hogyoku liquid here every second exceeds the spiritual particles of 1000 million ordinary human souls!"

Ichigo Kurosaki was stunned for a moment, then immediately said in shock, "You mean!"

“That’s right,” Aizen nodded, looked up at the void, and murmured, “I used a little bit of the spatial Kido to break down the liquid Hogyoku that had not fully solidified into spirit particles and introduced them into the spirit domains located in various parts of the earth.”

"It won't be long, maybe a year or two, before a spirit world that will encompass the entire globe is born..."

"Chaos is coming..."

Suddenly, Fang Zheng saw that Aizen, who hadn't finished speaking, stopped.

Not just him, but also Kurosaki Ichigo, and everyone in the Soul King's Palace...

Everything in the world came to an abrupt halt at that moment.

Even the Atomic Concerto came to a standstill.

The changes in the instrument and the spirit, or rather, the smallest unit of operation, have been terminated.

The next moment, the square-shaped Kurosaki Ichigo vanished into thin air, and everything disappeared just like that.

Only the square stood upright in the endless void, and in the center of the vast Hōgyoku lake in front of it, the only remaining square that was still endlessly gushing out liquid Hōgyoku.

The real-time rendering that was happening every moment suddenly ended at this moment.

……

In the dimly lit role-playing space, Aoki Kazuya, who was playing Aizen, was stunned. He stared at the large screen in front of him as it continuously showed him every choice he made while playing Aizen, and the subsequent effects of each choice.

"What the hell?"

"Etc., etc!"

"Why did it suddenly end?"

"Although the plot development is a bit strange, the story timeline hasn't ended yet, has it?"

"How did it suddenly end?"

He was getting anxious: "The space is gone so quickly. Will I not even be able to recoup the cost of the role-playing card in this game?"

"Huh?" Suddenly, the large screen in front of him stopped.

All the choices he made, all the plot interference he achieved, are finally coming to a head.

The final calculated Origin Points on the big screen were: E-level Origin Points - 3600 million!
Aoki Kazuya was stunned when he saw the unbelievable number.

"I I I I..."

A sharp, eerie scream squeezed out of his throat: "I've struck it rich!!!"

……

Fang Zheng was plunged into endless darkness, and then, in the next moment, the world repeated itself!
Rendering restarted!

As Fang Zheng's vision turned red, he saw another faint red light.

In Ichigo Kurosaki's house, the orange-haired boy lay on the bed, his eyes opened by the cube-shaped figure sealed inside his body.

Meanwhile, in another layer of Soul Society...

In the Fifth Division of Seireitei, Aizen Sosuke, wearing glasses and appearing refined and easygoing, was leisurely admiring the flowers in his courtyard, while Vice-Captain Hinamori Momo was carrying a stack of documents toward Aizen's office.

Suddenly……

"Ouch..." A large stream of liquid shimmering with a strange luster suddenly rushed towards her. Caught off guard, Hinamori Momo was knocked to the ground by the massive flow of water and watched helplessly as all her documents were soaked by the strange liquid.

Aizen, who had been quietly admiring the flowers, suddenly frowned and used Shunpo to appear beside Hinamori Momo.

Looking expressionlessly at the strange liquid that had completely filled the courtyard and was condensing into various sizes of strange gems that were rolling out, Aizen's eye twitched.

He took a deep breath, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and looked again, his lips twitching...

(End of this chapter)