The Supreme Soul, Starting with Death

Of course, the fact that this manuscript is gathering dust in a corner already indicates that the owner's idea was not feasible. At the end of the manuscript, a line of sharp, large characters provides a commentary on this:

“Fool, if you disrupt the stability of the barrier and cause the flow of energy to leak, I will personally send you to the Abyss.”

Undoubtedly, this manuscript was a complete failure in terms of the development of the Ghost Path, and had no reference value whatsoever. However, the large amount of information about the Transcendent Gate cited in it brought Gu Shi a pleasant surprise.

As we all know, the Black Cavity, as a passage opened by tearing open space, cannot exist for a long time. Even if spiritual power is used to maintain it as much as possible, it will still close due to the self-repairing effect of space after a period of time. Its stability is extremely poor, far inferior to the Death God's Gate of Transcendence.

Therefore, after discovering the information about the interdimensional gate in the manuscript, Gu Shi decisively pulled Tian Peng along and studied it thoroughly, eventually successfully developing a black cavity that could exist stably for a long time.

Although it is still difficult for this black cavity to contain a Great Hollow, as long as it is replenished with spiritual particles regularly, it can form a stable channel like the ancient interdimensional gate. Unless manually closed or violently destroyed, it will never disappear on its own.

Black cavities have always been difficult to use for covert operations. To avoid being discovered, they can only be opened at high altitudes or underwater, mainly because the spatial fluctuations generated when they are opened are too intense.

However, once it's opened, apart from the Hueco Mundo aura at the other end of the passage, the black cavity itself isn't particularly noticeable.

Therefore, when a black cavity that can exist stably for a long time opened up on the seabed and successfully used the huge amount of seawater to cover up the aura of Hueco Mundo, a hidden passage was actually formed.

Tianpeng noticed Gu Shi looking back and mistakenly thought he was worried that Xu might enter the real world through the black cavity, so he quickly explained.

"It's alright. I've already had the Holy Son guard the exit. With her there, the Little Hollow definitely won't be able to escape. Even if she encounters a Great Hollow, she can destroy the passage in time, so she definitely won't pose a threat to the mortal world."

Gu Shi was too embarrassed to admit that he had turned around to admire the work he had developed, so he nodded in agreement, acknowledging that he was worried about Xian Shi's safety.

Given the strength and size of the Hollows, their swimming speed was certainly not slow. In about a minute, the group traversed a depth of several hundred meters and reached the surface of the sea.

Just then, the sun was about to set. As soon as the group went out to sea, they saw the dim sun on the horizon, making its final struggle with the sky. The layers of shimmering light reflected off the calm sea were dazzling and irritating.

Having grown accustomed to the absence of sun and moon, and the pitch-black halo above his head, Gu Shi found himself somewhat disoriented upon suddenly seeing the blue sky and the sun, and wanted to quickly find something to shield himself from it.

After closing his eyes and taking a few deep breaths, Gu Shicai finally calmed down and accepted the world with the sun and sea breeze. He scanned his surroundings and quickly spotted a small fishing village on the distant coast. He patted Erlang, who was even less accustomed to the sun than he was, and strode towards it.

Chapter 141 The Land of Renewed Spirits

Soon, the Hueco Mundo members arrived near the coast by walking on the sea. Instead of going directly into the small seaside village, they turned and walked around the village towards a high mountain behind it.

With Da Xu's keen eyesight, it wasn't hard to see that near the top of the mountain, there was a small, slightly old but not dilapidated shrine. Directly below the shrine's torii gate, a tall woman was doing a single-leg squat while holding up a huge rock with one hand.

At the top of the boulder sat a black-clad man with long red hair, a long sword resting on his lap.

Not long after Gu Shi saw them, the red-haired man seemed to have noticed them as well. He gently tapped the boulder beneath him and said something. The woman who was doing squats immediately became excited, casually tossed the boulder aside, knocking down two innocent trees, and ran towards Gu Shi and the others.

"Uncle Gu Shi! You've finally arrived!"

After five years, Bai has grown into a young woman. Her physical attributes have long surpassed the so-called human limits. Relying solely on physical strength, she can run at a speed comparable to that of an ordinary Shinigami using Shunpo. If she were to use spiritual power to assist her, her speed would certainly be able to go even further.

With a high-speed sprint, Bai arrived in front of Gu Shi almost instantly. With a burst of strength, he jumped onto Gu Shi's shoulder and rubbed his face against Gu Shi's.

"Aaaaaah, it's been two months! Two months, sir! I'm going crazy if you don't come soon!"

Behind Bai, Ashido followed at a leisurely pace, casually raised his hand to greet everyone, and then stood smiling with his arms crossed under a tree. For Ashido, who had lived for over two hundred years, two months of separation was nothing, and there was no need to be excited.

Gu Shi rolled his eyes, letting Bai hold his head and shake it left and right, as if she wanted to shake his brains evenly. After she finished venting, Gu Shi straightened his torn black robe, comforted her a few words in a gentle tone, and then began to ask about the important matter.

"So, have you chosen the address yet?"

"Of course I've made my choice, Gu Shi, just come with me!"

Bai patted his chest forcefully, jumped off Gu Shi's shoulder, and began to lead the way, muttering complaints about Gu Shi's "cruelty" along the way.

"Uncle, you have no idea how hard I've worked these past two months. Uncle Asido is such a quiet guy, he barely says two words in three days. I don't even have anyone to talk to in this godforsaken place, I'm going crazy with boredom."

Gu Shi felt guilty and could only laugh awkwardly. Tian Peng, who was standing to the side, asked him some questions out of curiosity.

"Bai, you're a living person. How could you not find anyone to chat with in the real world? There's a village at the foot of the mountain, isn't there? I see there are quite a few people there."

Bai's reaction to this question was exactly the same as Gu Shi's: a big eye roll and a wave of his hand with a look of disgust.

"Aunt Tianpeng, what do you think I could talk to them about? Is the amount of grain to be handed over to the nobles increased again this year? Or is someone going to freeze to death again this winter? We're from different worlds now. It's much more reliable for me to just grab a few little Void creatures to keep me company than to chat with them!"

Tianpeng blinked, a hint of sympathy unconsciously rising in his eyes. There is a difference between companions and kindred spirits. These Great Void beings can be Bai's companions, but they can never become Bai's kindred spirits.

If even humans are not the same kind of people as white, then to which group does white belong?

No wonder Bai feels lonely even in the world she rightfully belongs to.

As Tianpeng carefully considered her words, just as she was about to say a few words of comfort to Bai, Bai saw through her thoughts and cut her off before she could finish.

"I don't need comforting. Uncle Gu Shi once said that the daily life of the strong is the romance of the weak. I consider myself a strong person now. Every day I live, even when I'm lonely, is still a kind of romance that ordinary people can hardly reach."

Seemingly afraid that Tianpeng wouldn't believe him, Bai tilted his head and thought for a moment before starting to give examples on his fingers.

"I can leap to the sky they can only look up to their whole lives, I can kill their helpless little ghosts at will, I can go deep into dangerous places that their ancestors dared not set foot in, I can see a world far wider than theirs, and in the future I can even go to the starry sky that they dare not even imagine..."

"Even the loneliness that I despise is an unimaginable luxury for ordinary people. They are already exhausted by thinking about how to get through tomorrow, and they have no energy left to think about whether they are lonely."

Hearing Bai say this, Tianpeng couldn't help but nod in agreement. What Bai said did make sense. If Bai were to give up what she had now and integrate into ordinary people in order to find so-called kindred spirits, that would be truly cruel to her.

Gu Shi, Asido, and the others maintained appropriate silence throughout the entire discussion and did not participate in the topic.

They could all see clearly that Bai's life had been completely different from the moment she awakened her Fullbring ability and gained immortality. No matter what she thought, there was no place for her in the world of ordinary people. The established reality would not change because of Bai's subjective thoughts. Even if Bai regretted it and wanted to return to the world of ordinary people, it was too late.

Therefore, there is no need to discuss this issue at all.

While they were talking, Bai didn't neglect his task of leading the way. He quickly led everyone to a deep forest at the foot of the mountain. After pulling aside a large pile of unnaturally stacked vines, a large hole that had obviously been recently dug out was exposed.

Following the simple, compacted path inside the cave, the group entered and immediately saw a passage that had been violently carved out. On the walls on both sides, there were numerous deep marks left by fists.

The passage wasn't very long overall. After walking for a while, the group entered a huge natural underground cavern. Even a Great Void being could walk inside without feeling confined. Following the markers left by Bai during his previous exploration, the group finally stopped at a stalagmite forest a moment later.

Bai smiled proudly and pointed to the top of his head.

"We've arrived. The village is now right above us."

Upon hearing this, Tianpeng's eyes lit up immediately, and she looked at Gu Shi with anticipation. As soon as Gu Shi nodded, she couldn't wait to open the large suitcase she was carrying.

The huge box was filled with blue crystals. As soon as these crystals, which were condensed from pure spiritual energy, were exposed to the air, the concentration of spiritual energy around everyone immediately increased slightly.

Tianpeng grabbed a handful of blue crystals, bent down, and began digging holes in the ground, like planting vegetables. Every so often, he would "plant" a spiritual crystal in the hole he dug.

Asido watched Tianpeng's actions with a complicated expression. Even though he had asked many times before, he couldn't help but confirm with Gu Shi again.

"Gu Shi, can a Spiritual Land really be cultivated later in life?"

Chapter 142 Aizen's Prestige Has Risen Again

Gu Shi patiently gave a positive answer to Asido's question, which had been asked countless times.

"If the information I have collected is correct, then artificially creating a spiritual land is absolutely feasible."

Although his answer was confident and seemed full of assurance, Gu Shi was actually a little unsure. After all, to be honest, information about the Soul Society should be highly confidential in the Soul Society, and there were no books in the library of the Shinigami Academy that systematically recorded this information.

Gu Shi was able to obtain information about Chonglingdi mainly through a few fragments of notes in discarded manuscripts, and all of it came from people who lacked public morality, liked to jot down their inspirations in the blank spaces of public books while reading, and from people who saw others' notes and thought the other person was a complete idiot, leaving comments to mock and refute them.

Especially that mourner who likes to mock others, Gu Shi seriously suspects that the guy was so bored that he took the time to search through the entire library and then started criticizing those records that he thought were "worth mocking".

Because in the blank spaces of many books and manuscripts, there are these infuriatingly sarcastic messages from the mourner.

Privately, Gu Shi suspected more than once that the mourner was actually Mayuri Kurotsuchi, because although the mourner's words raised people's blood pressure, all his rebuttals were reasonable and well-founded, and even gave people the feeling of standing on a high place and looking down on and criticizing the other party's thoughts.

In the entire Soul Society, in Gu Shi's knowledge, there are actually very few people with this kind of insight and ability; only Urahara Kisuke, Shutara Senjumaru, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri.

Of course, there may be other people in history who are not known to Gu Shi but whose abilities are no less than theirs. However, it seems that only Mayuri Kurotsuchi has the ability to say every word in a way that makes people so angry.

In short, it was through these guys who lacked public morality, scribbled on public books, and even when they returned to the school more than a hundred years after graduation, they would dig out their old notes and add to them under the guise of reminiscing about their youth. Gu Shi obtained a lot of information that would definitely not be found in ordinary books, including information about Chonglingdi.

Before obtaining information about Chonglingdi, Gu Shi always thought that Chonglingdi should be a kind of "blessed land" with special properties, a unique area naturally born in the world, which is why it was valued by Aizen in the story and chosen as a sacrifice to open the gate of the Spirit King Palace.

But after obtaining the information, Gu Shi realized that the name "Chong" Lingdi was, in a sense, not so straightforward.

Simply put, the entire world can be seen as a dense, interconnected network where spiritual energy circulates. The superior replacement of spiritual energy networks, enabling the Seventy-Seventh Binding Heavenly Void to achieve ultra-long-distance positioning and communication, is achieved by utilizing the threads of this network.

The so-called spiritually rich area refers to a region where the spiritual energy gathers far exceeds that of the surrounding areas and remains in this state for a long time. As a result, the "net" of this area will be compressed and deformed, and will slowly begin to sag and sink, forming a height difference with the surrounding "net".

In this way, the spiritual energy flowing around the "net" will spontaneously flow into this "low-lying area" like water, making the spiritual energy here more abundant and "heavier," causing the "net" to sink even more severely and gather spiritual energy from a larger area.

The sarcastic mourner also left behind some of his conjectures about the Spirit Land, claiming that if the Spirit Land were not destroyed by external forces and continued to exist, it would eventually collapse due to its excessive weight, breaking the "net" through which spiritual energy flowed.

Those who break free from the "net" (the spiritual realm) will fall downwards into a place similar to a rift, completely disappearing from this world, forming the phenomenon of mysterious disappearance that is popularly known in the world today.

Alternatively, after leaving the present world, which is mainly composed of matter (vessels), a small world similar to Soul Society and Hueco Mundo is formed, where spirit particles replace all vessels.

After reading this information about the Reincarnation Land, Gu Shicai realized that Karakura Town becoming a Reincarnation Land in the story was probably not something "naturally so".

The Visored Corps consists of eight captain-level Shinigami, including Shinigami whose spiritual pressure surpasses that of ordinary captains when they take out their masks, as well as two standard captain-level Shinigami, Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin. A total of ten captain-level Shinigami have settled here for over a hundred years.

Then, more than ten years before the start of the story, Kurosaki Isshin, a captain-level Shinigami who lost his Shinigami powers but whose spiritual power was mostly intact and could be restored later, appeared.

With so many outrageous individuals gathered together, it would be a miracle if the spiritual energy accumulated in Karakura Town didn't far surpass that of the surrounding areas.

So, what do these people who turned Karakura Town into a place of spiritual rebirth have in common?

That's right! This group of people were all forced out of Soul Society by Aizen!

The Visoreds, having escaped to the human world, would undoubtedly band together for mutual support. Logically, given the threat of Aizen outside, they would not choose to act alone in order to help Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin, who have been labeled as traitors.

So, where they choose to settle down is actually irrelevant. They settle in Karakura Town, which is a place of spiritual rebirth; they settle in Kamiyama City, which is also a place of spiritual rebirth.

Aizen, that guy, he didn't fail to capture the Visoreds. He was clearly using the Visoreds and Kisuke Urahara to help him create the heavy spiritual land necessary for the King's Key.

Of course, Karakura Town does have some locational advantages.

For example, Masaki Kurosaki, a top-tier Quincy who is said to be able to defeat Captain-level Shinigami, and Ryugen Ishida, a Quincy whose strength is unknown but is most likely also Captain-level, both settled here.

Furthermore, before these two were born, their ancestors, the Quincy families of Kurosaki and Ishida, had probably already been established and operating here for many years, laying the foundation for Karakura Town to become a spiritual land.

Well, perhaps we should also include those equally "heavy" Fullbringers?

In short, after reviewing the various demons and monsters gathered in Karakura Town, Gu Shi couldn't help but feel that Karakura Town, this place of spiritual power, was artificially created by Aizen.

Since there are successful precedents already, creating a spiritually rich place by ourselves shouldn't be a problem, right? The only minor challenge might be how to gather enough spiritual energy, enough "heavy" spiritual energy?

To solve this minor problem, Gu Shi specially asked Tian Peng to prepare a whole box full of blue crystals, each containing the concentrated spiritual power of at least one Gillian.

Captain-level Shinigami are rare, but Killian, whose spiritual pressure is slightly lower than that of a captain, are abundant in Hueco Mundo. As long as Hueco Mundo is the main base, it is only a matter of how much time it takes to gather enough spiritual particles to build a new spiritual land.

But the Great Void is never short of time.

It's a pity that Stark was unwilling to help; otherwise, if he had come to the mortal world and settled down for a hundred years or so, he probably could have created a whole new spiritual land all by himself.

Chapter 143 My World~

Based on some information about the spiritual lands and the plot he had seen in his previous life, Gu Shi made a conjecture. Although he couldn't guarantee that his guess would be correct or successful, he was very confident when he answered Asido, full of confidence that he would definitely succeed.