Bleach: I'm picking up attributes in Seireitei

As night deepened, the Second Division gradually fell silent.

The team members who had finished training returned to their respective dormitories, but some team members who were still on missions moved around in various hidden corners.

Kisuke Urahara, who should have returned to the barracks, appeared instead in front of the heavy iron gate of the Maggot's Nest.

"Squad Leader Urahara, are you here to inspect the work so late?"

"Why ask so many questions? Open the door."

"Yes."

Kisuke Urahara stepped over the stairs and walked down into the maggot's nest.

The maggot's nest was now dark, and the prisoners had returned to their huts to sleep, with only a faint nightlight illuminating the corners.

Urahara walked straight to his hidden laboratory.

Pushing open the door disguised as a wall, the interior reveals a scene completely different from the outside.

On one side of the lab bench, various instruments flickered with a faint light, and the papers on the table recorded all sorts of complex data.

On the other side, it has been transformed into a small ecological zone.

Around that area, a demonic barrier was set up to amplify the concentration of spiritual energy.

In several neatly arranged fields, the plants are growing vigorously, their lush green leaves stretching out under the simulated fluorescent lights.

In a small area enclosed by a fence, several chickens of unusually large size were dozing in a corner, while in the distance, several rather fat pigs huddled together, grunting and squealing.

These experimental subjects, cultivated by Urahara using the Ghost Path Barrier and Spirit Particle Control Technology, grow much faster than their counterparts in the outside world, and are also part of his collaborative project with Wang Xun.

However, after learning about it, Vice Captain Ōmaeda expressed that he was also very interested in the project.

If the application is then submitted to the 46th Division for approval, given their appallingly low work efficiency, it would require Vice Captain Ōmaeda to pull strings and influence the process quickly.

At that time, he will probably get involved in this project as well. I wonder how he will negotiate the cooperation with Wang Xun and how much profit he can get from it.

However, Kisuke Urahara quickly put these things out of his mind.

He walked straight through the idyllic area and came to a seemingly ordinary wall at the end.

He triggered a hidden mechanism again, and the wall opened, revealing the true core behind it.

A secret laboratory filled with all sorts of instruments.

On the cold stone tabletop, there were complex wires and pipes and various containers that shimmered with strange light.

He walked to the experimental table, opened an encrypted spiritual particle storage device, and began organizing the experimental materials inside.

On the experimental table, there was a detailed spiritual pressure sample analysis report.

Aside from the complex charts and terminology, the report highlights the core conclusions.

"The spiritual pressure of the sample revealed a stable 'hollow' spiritual particle property, which is highly integrated with its host's soul, ruling out any signs of external contamination."

"Preliminary speculation suggests that the host possesses the potential for 'controllable virtualization,' but further verification is still needed."

Kisuke Urahara finished tidying up his things, turned around, and stared at the report.

This is what he has been busy with recently, and he has already achieved some results.

The spiritual pressure contained within Wang Xun's body is very unique.

The spiritual pressure of a normal Shinigami is pure soul power, balanced and peaceful.

However, the spiritual pressure of the void is mixed with desires, obsessions, and distorted soul qualities, resulting in chaos and disorder.

However, Wang Xun's spiritual pressure seemed to have a trace of Hollow spiritual pressure characteristics forcibly mixed into the pure power of the Shinigami, but it was unusually docile and stable.

This is a phenomenon he still cannot understand.

"What lurks deep within his soul?"

"Or is it a special individual whose soul composition naturally contains the dual characteristics of Hollow and Shinigami?"

"There is a group of Fullbringers in the present world who seem to have been born after their mothers were attacked by Hollows during their pregnancies, and the Soul King fragments within their bodies reacted with them. But they are different from Wang Xun, after all, he is a Shinigami..."

It is common knowledge in Soul Society that Shinigami infected with Hollow Poison will undergo a phenomenon called soul suicide and disappearance.

Wang Xun, a Shinigami with Hollow powers within him, is almost unprecedented in the history of Soul Society.

"I wonder if he can mobilize the spiritual pressure within him..."

Kisuke Urahara frowned in thought, as if he had found something important.

The next moment, he put down the report, got up and walked to the innermost wall of the laboratory.

He reached out and pressed on several specific spots on the wall, and the wall slid open silently, revealing a small storage room behind it.

There was nothing else in the storage room except rows of specially made spirit particle containers.

His gaze shifted to the other side of the laboratory. There stood a huge storage cabinet of unknown material.

He walked over and opened the cabinet door.

In an instant, a spiritual pressure aura, a mixture of distortion, hunger, and rage, spread out, like a tangible cold current, exuding an ominous feeling.

Kisuke Urahara looked at the densely packed, neatly arranged transparent sealed jars inside the cabinet.

Each container once contained a murky, twisting, and writhing mass of dark spiritual pressure.

Those are purified spiritual pressure samples of Hollows extracted from different Hollows.

The sources of these samples are quite complex.

Some of them he extracted privately from Hollows that appeared in the human world or Soul Society, while others came from some less-than-compliant channels.

These malevolent spiritual pressures are sealed here like specimens.

However, most of the bottles were already empty.

A dark red light flowed across the surface of the jar, illuminating Kisuke Urahara's pensive face.

He picked up a small, crystal-clear test tube containing Wang Xun's latest spiritual pressure sample and examined it closely.

Inside the test tube, the wisp of spiritual pressure belonging to Wang Xun calmly lingered, appearing gentle and harmless, completely out of place with the frenzied spiritual pressure of the surrounding void.

Kisuke Urahara walked further in until he reached the innermost part, where he carefully opened a hidden seal, revealing what was inside.

It was a special object sealed within an irregular polyhedral barrier inside a unique glass container.

Bōgyoku.

That's what he called it.

Kisuke Urahara stared at the Hogyoku, his gaze shifting back and forth between the Hogyoku and Wang Xun's spiritual pressure, yet he could not make up his mind.

Kisuke Urahara recalled the reason for creating the Hogyoku: it was because he had sensed the upper limit of his abilities.

After achieving Bankai, his spiritual pressure began to increase slowly, seemingly only able to accumulate over a long period of time.

This was undoubtedly agonizing for someone with such extraordinary talent.

Therefore, Kisuke Urahara started to have some crooked ideas.

In an attempt to break the upper limit of the Shinigami's power, the Hōgyoku was created in his hands.

Concentrating a massive amount of spiritual pressure into a single point might create something that can break through the limits.

With this in mind, he began research and development.

This Hogyoku was created by him using his Hollow spiritual pressure; however, he clearly underestimated his creation this time.

The Hogyoku's desire to devour grew stronger and stronger. He had poured countless Hollows' spiritual pressure into it, but it still could not satisfy it.

At this moment, the Hogyoku was clearly beyond his control, as if it had developed its own consciousness, constantly conveying to him its desire to devour.

This time, it wasn't just the spiritual pressure of a void.

It also wants the spiritual pressure of the Grim Reaper.

Kisuke Urahara was a little scared.

He wanted to destroy it, but he couldn't. The cost of destroying it was too great for him to bear, so he could only seal it away temporarily and deal with it later.

He had already planned to give up on the experiment with the Hogyoku.

But Wang Xun's appearance seems to offer a glimmer of hope.

After pondering for a long time, Kisuke Urahara finally reached out and carefully removed the container that sealed the Hogyoku.

The laboratory door closed silently behind him, completely isolating the gloom and depth of the place from the quiet interior of the laboratory.