Crossover: A Different Inuyasha.

Chapter 140 The Soul Balance in the Bleach World, Urahara and His People Who Were Captured

As the meeting concluded, the team leaders gradually left, their footsteps fading into the distance.

With his cane resting under his hands and his white eyebrows lowered, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni called out to Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who was about to leave with the crowd.

"Mayuri Kurotsuchi, you stay."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi paused, turned around, and narrowed her eyes slightly behind her mask, guessing the reason. She then quietly returned to her original position.

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni gazed at the director of the Technology Development Bureau. His eyes, worn smooth by time, seemed to hold the depths of a bottomless pool of still water, and his voice was low and steady.

"I'll ask you one more time—has the balance not been broken?"

The balance of the three realms in the world of Bleach is essentially a dynamic balance of the number of souls.

The souls of living beings endlessly cycle between the present world where humans exist, the Soul Society where the Shinigami reside, and Hueco Mundo where the Hollows reside.

After people die in the mortal world, they go to the Soul Society, spend a long time there, and then their souls return to the mortal world to be reincarnated.

If one's obsession is too deep, one will fall into emptiness, or be purified by death, or sink into the void.

The cycle repeats itself endlessly, and the total amount of souls remains roughly constant within this closed loop.

However, the Quincy, another power left behind by the Creator of the Three Realms, is the variable that completely breaks this cycle.

Their spiritual weapons completely annihilated the void, preventing it from returning to its cycle and disrupting the balance of the three realms.

To maintain the balance of the world, the Shinigami and Quincy waged a bloody war, which ended with the demise of the Shinigami. However, the progenitor of the Quincy, the son of the Soul King...

Yhwach did not die.

Faced with the Captain-Commander's calm yet weighty questioning, even the somewhat eccentric Mayuri Kurotsuchi dared not act rashly and replied in a deep voice.

"Whether the Quincy kill Hollows or Hollows die in large numbers for some reason, we, who are responsible for maintaining the balance, must take measures to 'replenish' the souls."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi speaks of this "replenishing" of the soul in a plain tone, but it is extremely cruel in essence.

The logic is simple: if they become less simple and honest, then we should also become less so.

"However," Mayuri Kurotsuchi's tone shifted slightly, "according to Captain Aizen's statement, Toga and Sesshomaru killed countless Hollows in Hueco Mundo, and I have not detected any signs of the balance being disrupted."

Therefore, there are only two possibilities.

Under the watchful gaze of Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Mayuri Kurotsuchi raised a finger. "Firstly, Captain Aizen is lying. There is an intentional or unintentional factual deviation in his statement, but the possibility of that is extremely slim."

Aizen Sousuke is known as a kind-hearted person in Bleach.

Even though Mayuri Kurotsuchi hadn't had much interaction with him, she knew quite a bit about him.

A highly respected captain of the Fifth Division would not risk his reputation being ruined for a lie that could be exposed with a little investigation.

"Secondly," Mayuri Kurotsuchi's voice rose slightly, "given the large number of Hollow deaths, the balance of the Three Realms has not been broken. This confirms that the arrival of outsiders has brought an undiscovered increase to the Three Realms!"

When he uttered the word "increase," the fervor in his voice almost overflowed through the gaps in his mask.

The operation of the three realms of death has always been based on "existing resources".

The total number of souls is fixed. The dead go to the Soul Society, their resentment dissipates, and they are reincarnated before returning to the mortal world.

Everything revolves in a closed loop, which, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than maintaining a slow consumption within limited resources.

The emergence of "incremental growth" means that this cycle, which has been maintained for countless years, may finally be broken!

This is precisely the fundamental reason why Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni agreed to include Toga and Sesshomaru in the Gotei 13.

Otherwise, you might really think he's kind and gentle. Take off your clothes, and you're still a big shot!

After speaking, Mayuri Kurotsuchi quietly lowered his eyes, waiting for the Captain-Commander's response.

Only the occasional crackling of the candlelight and the two people's breathing remained in the hall.

"Then," Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's voice fell again, "where do you think this increase came from?"

Mayuri Kurotsuchi's gaze was intense. "This is exactly what I'm eager to understand."

His voice was laced with an almost greedy curiosity: "The power structures of Toga and Sesshomaru are completely different from any other living being we know. The energy flowing within them contains unknown components that I cannot yet categorize."

"If their very existence can generate incremental growth," then the question becomes whether they carry an extra amount of soul energy, or whether they bring some kind of external soul cycle into our world as they traverse it.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi continued, her tone growing increasingly fervent.

"If the answer is the former, then it means that their world is not essentially the same as our world."

"Their souls can enter our cycle, but our souls may not be able to enter theirs."

"This will create an undeniable one-way flow. In the long run, our world will be filled," while their world will be "hollowed out."

"If it is the latter," Mayuri Kurotsuchi's voice rose slightly.

"They bring a completely new cyclical mechanism—that's even more interesting. The balance problem that has plagued us for countless years may find a completely new solution."

He bowed slightly, his tone unusually solemn, "Therefore, Captain, my interest in them is not merely out of fascination with the unknown."

The candlelight cast flickering shadows on Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's aged face, making his unfathomable eyes appear even more somber.

"You can observe and record secretly. Kenpachi Zaraki will challenge them. It won't be difficult to get some of his blood then."

The old man who had guarded the Seireitei for a thousand years reminded them, "They have been assigned to the Gotei 13, making them members of the Soul Society. Do not act rashly until you have conclusive evidence."

Knowing the strength of the two, Mayuri Kurotsuchi smiled and replied, "Understood."

He turned around, took two steps toward the door, and said as if he had remembered something.

"By the way, Captain."

"You've witnessed their strength firsthand. If the Soul Society were to clash with the world behind them, our chances of victory might not be as optimistic as you imagine."

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni slightly raised his eyelids. "With me here, there's no need to worry."

Meanwhile, Inuyasha, who was secretly hoping Sesshomaru would make a big splash, was driven back by a few words from Toga.

"Stop stirring things up, kid. If you have nothing better to do, go back and hang out with your wives."

"I don't want anyone coming to complain that you're irresponsible in the future."

Inuyasha pursed his lips, too lazy to pry into Toga's past, and shifted his gaze to casually look around the Seireitei, discovering many beauties he had seen on the Paradise app.

Matsumoto Rangiku leaned against a pillar, her golden curls shimmering in the sunlight.

Nemu stood quietly behind Mayuri, her head bowed and eyes downcast; Nanao Ise carried a stack of documents and walked briskly down the corridor.

Kusajishi Yachiru sat on Kenpachi Zaraki's shoulders, her two little legs swinging back and forth.

Suddenly, Kenpachi Zaraki raised his head, his beast-like gaze fixed on the empty wall, prompting Yachiru Kusashi to tilt her head and ask, "Kenpachi, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just thought someone was watching me." Kenpachi Zaraki shook his head, then his expression became excited as he strode forward. "Let's go, let's invite Toga and Sesshomaru to join the team. My Eleventh Division needs opponents like them."

Even using conventional methods to spy on captain-level Grim Reapers, there's still a possibility of being discovered.

Inuyasha withdrew his gaze and then wondered if he should capture some people now.

He pondered for a moment, then abandoned the idea, deciding not to cause trouble for his older brother and father in Soul Society.

After all, he has no shortage of lower-end options, and he also has options for higher-end ones.

As Inuyasha pondered this, the projected image followed a Shinigami to the mortal world.

The scene depicts crisscrossing streets and scattered buildings, with glass curtain walls bathed in the warm orange hues of the setting sun, radiating the glow of civilization.

The fact that Soi Fon and Mayuri Kurotsuchi can become captains means that Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihouin have already settled down in Karakura Town, a place of spiritual rebirth.

The term "spiritual land" refers to "a special place in the present world that possesses spirituality."

This place will move with the times, and it is the place in the world at that time that is most likely to gather supernatural things and has spirituality.

Karakura Town is also the hometown of the main characters, and all the stories begin here.

A place blessed with outstanding people and abundant resources, yet also plagued by numerous disasters.

They brought Yoruichi Shihouin, Kisuke Urahara, and others along with them.

Both of them are intelligent people, especially Kisuke Urahara, who is also the founder of the Technology Development Bureau and has even better talent than Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Together with Harribel and others, they can integrate the Netherworld Hell more quickly.

Inuyasha thought to himself.

As for betrayal and scheming, he didn't care much.

He could easily suppress these two with a single slap. Any so-called conspiracies or schemes are based on the premise that the difference in strength is not significant.

Moreover, Kisuke Urahara might even be eager to bring the world of the East into the world of the Shinigami, thus creating a new cycle.

In addition, Kisuke Urahara's half-finished Hogyoku, formed by fusing a large number of Hollows, is also a rare treasure.

Correspondingly, Aizen also possessed another semi-finished product made from a large number of Shinigami souls.

In the story, the complete Hogyoku is formed by combining the "Finger of the Soul King" with the souls of many Hollows and Shinigami.

Provided that the person you come into contact with has the corresponding potential, you can enter a timeline where you have become better through your own development.

For example, "let an elephant evolve into a mammoth, let a serpent evolve into a celestial dragon," but you can't let a pig evolve into an elephant.

Perhaps my chance to break through to the fifth realm won't have to wait for the fourth [All Heavens Are Mine], but will be right there on the Hogyoku.

Inuyasha summoned the Mirror of Time, which replaced the projection. After randomly selecting a few lucky viewers to ask for directions, the image in the mirror changed, and he arrived at Urahara Shop in Karakura Town.

A little girl with two braids was holding a bamboo broom, her head down, slowly sweeping the fallen leaves in front of the door.

Her face wore a bewildered expression, like that of a natural punching bag.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed the back of her neck from behind, and before Pie Wuyu could make a sound, she vanished from the spot.

The bamboo broom lay askew on the ground, a few withered leaves at its tip being swept up by the evening breeze and then falling back down.

Inside, the red-haired boy, Hanakari Jinta, was squatting beside a bucket, clutching a wet rag and scrubbing it vigorously. He casually called out towards the door, "Hey! Pyo-yu, come in and wipe things down after you're done sweeping!"

But there was no response from the door-to-door aqua. Hanakari Jinta, who often bullied her, raised his voice and called again, but there was still no response from outside the door.

Shen Tai clicked his tongue impatiently, threw the rag onto the rim of the bucket, got up and walked towards the door, "Pie Wuyu, I'm calling you—"

There was only a bamboo broom lying askew on the ground by the door, and not a soul in sight.

Where are they?!

Before Hanakari Jinta could even peek out to look at either side of the alley, a hand reached out from behind him and grabbed the back of his neck.

At the front desk of the store, a tall man named Wō Rin-tsai, wearing glasses, was bending over and carrying several heavy cardboard boxes.

He suddenly straightened up, his gaze behind his glasses narrowed slightly, and one or two streams of spiritual pressure disappeared completely.

"What...is it raining outside the house?"

Before he finished speaking, a hand reached out from the void beside him.

Even Tessai Tsukabishi, who once served as the commander-in-chief of the Soul Society's Kido Clan and whose strength was comparable to that of a Shinigami captain, did not have time to react.

At the foot of the Ruri Shrine, Tessai Wakihira, regaining his senses, discovered that all his power had been sealed, and he couldn't even make a sound.

His body involuntarily knelt down to one side, beside him were the terrified Hana Yoshita and Pyoya Ame.

The moment the two saw Tetsuzai Wakami, they seemed to have found their pillar of support, and their uneasy expressions were somewhat calmed down.

Ignoring their gazes, Wo Ling Tiezhai quickly scanned his surroundings.

Bathed in the light of the setting sun, the courtyard was illuminated in a magnificent light.

In front of them sat a handsome young man with silver hair on the veranda.

Just one glance from the other party made Woling Tiezhai feel as if he had fallen into an abyss.

They had lost all will to resist.

Where he was no longer important; only one thought churned in Tsukasa Rin's mind: Manager Urahara—danger is coming!

Just as he was lost in thought, a familiar figure suddenly appeared beside him.

His short, light yellow hair was topped with a green and white fisherman's hat, and his military green eyes scanned the surroundings the instant they adjusted to the light.

The person who arrived was none other than Kisuke Urahara, the former captain of the 12th Division, the first director of the Technology Development Bureau, and now the store manager.

Just moments ago, before he could even react, he was pulled directly out of the store's underground research lab.

Tetsuzai, Hanakari Jinta, and Tokuya Ue were speechless, but the shock surging in their eyes clearly conveyed the same thought: How come the shop manager was arrested too!

Urahara Kisuke met their gazes, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, and involuntarily knelt down as well, watching Inuyasha silently capture and seal him away in the corridor. Does the Captain-Commander have that kind of strength?

Inuyasha glanced at the four stunned people and casually said, "One more person and you'll be all here."

He wants to capture Yoruichi?! Is she one of Aizen's people? No—if Aizen had that kind of power, he would have already swept across the land.

Kisuke Urahara was startled, but even more confused—who exactly was he?

In the blink of an eye, a black cat with a look of human-like shock appeared in its eyes and landed in Inuyasha's arms, unable to move.

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