Start from the God of Death and break through the world.

Chapter 1129 Rebirth, Great Catastrophe
When Lu Li first entered the End Space, he only felt a blur before his eyes, and he arrived at the transit area of ​​the End Space.

At that time, he felt that his body was no different from before, without wounds or disabilities caused by the explosion. It was very likely because he was in a spiritual state at that time. He just couldn't react under the power of the end and thought that his physical injuries had disappeared. He was sure that it was his own body.

At the time, his main focus was on whether he was in the company's virtual game. To test the realism, he mainly felt whether there was any conduction delay in his body. After testing, he found no problems and assumed that his body had been repaired by the End Space.

But if you think about it carefully, the End Space never said it helped repair its injuries, right?

Lu Li suddenly realized how stupid he had been. He had never noticed the differences between himself and other explorers in the details, or rather, the differences in his several trips to the world of death.

When he first arrived in the world of Bleach, he landed directly in Rukongai and joined the Shinigami Academy for training, always adventuring there as a spirit.

Teacher Unohana's reply was a method of repairing the soul. He had taken so many classes with Teacher Unohana, so why didn't he realize that he was a soul, and not a physical body disguised by space?
After joining the Gotei 13, he went to the human world to carry out missions, and he used a Gikai (artificial body)!

At that time, Lu Li was amazed by how clever the space was at disguising itself, even using remains as a tool, but he never imagined that he had truly lost his physical body.

After the world of Bleach ended, he returned to the space and became a formal explorer and even a pioneer. This process of returning was something he couldn't understand at all at the time.

Perhaps it was during his adventures in the world of death that the End Space created a brand new body for him. When he returned, his soul and body merged, and he never noticed anything amiss.

Upon closer reflection, Lu Li discovered even more details. For instance, when he later went to the Grim Reaper and walked on the streets of the mortal world, even people without spiritual power could see him.

Because Lu Li felt he was a living person, he didn't feel anything was out of place. However, when he was in the world of Bleach for the first time, he didn't use a cyborg, so people in the real world couldn't see him.

There were too many details and small things that Lu Li had never paid attention to before, mainly because he was not sensitive to these details. If it were Aizen, he might have sensed that something was wrong long ago.

But when Lu Li took over this body, he instantly felt that everything was connected. The truth is often absurd yet very simple.

That is, the body he is currently inhabiting is his real body, while his physical body in the space has always been 'fake'!
It wasn't that the space created a fake body of his as a smokescreen; rather, all his physical bodies within the space were backups!

After figuring these things out, Lu Li was deeply shocked, mainly because he suddenly felt as if a giant hand of fate had tightly grasped him.

After all, he didn't believe that every explorer's entry into the space would be the same as his, and the space wouldn't create a brand new body for every explorer.

Yes, just as Lu Xueqing said, the vast majority of explorers die in their own worlds before arriving in the space. But the space would never go to the trouble of going around in circles to give an explorer a new body and then leave the old remains in the world.

That doesn't fit the idea of ​​explorers extracting the unique original text, and it's also too convoluted to do so.

All the information indicated that the End Space had made an exception for him in this matter.

But...why?
Furthermore, that shadow, so powerful that it could annihilate even peak ninth-tier and forbidden realms with a flick of its finger, wasn't targeting the Divine Martial Continent at the last moment, but rather trying to do something to me. And why?
Lu Li never underestimated himself, but he also didn't have the naive idea that the world revolved around him. He knew from a young age that he was exceptionally talented, but he didn't think of himself as the most special person in the world.

But now all these things indicate that he seems to be somewhat special, otherwise there is no way to explain these things.

Lu Li sighed inwardly, stood up from the lab table, hid his complicated thoughts, and prepared to deal with the situation at hand.

"Gentlemen, could you please make this thing stop? It's really noisy."

Lu Li raised his finger and pointed upwards; the flashing red lights and warning sounds were annoying.

Those scientists were all fluent in languages ​​from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, so they naturally understood Lu Li's speech. Seeing that Lu Li could really communicate, they were all very excited and immediately blocked Talma's warning.

Among the group of scientists, Liu frowned as he looked at Lu Li, feeling that something was amiss. Initially, their boss had only wanted to try it out, intending to use this body, which had once been able to adapt to the Holy Soul, to nurture the Holy Soul and repair the damage within it.

But who would have thought that after the holy soul entered Lu Li's body, it actually came back to life.

"Holy Souls... We want to know the truth of the world!"

A scientist excitedly walked up to the experimental chamber and asked.

"truth?"

Lu Li roughly knew what these people wanted, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it, so he could only offer a perfunctory response for now: "Specifically?"

He has regained his body, but his essence is still a mess. If he weren't very familiar with his body, it would be difficult to control it.

Furthermore, his body is only at the first level of strength, which only allows him to move more comfortably than during his slime days. It does not mean that he can do whatever he wants under the company's military power.

The company is still useful to them right now, so he plans to fool these people and see if he can use the company's resources to help him and Lu Xueqing find some cultivation resources so that he can recover further.

Is this world an illusion? Does reality exist outside?

"A scientist asked."

Lu Li pondered for a few seconds, “Reality and illusion are just a thought away from you. What you think and feel is real. But if you want me to speak from an objective point of view, then this world is different from the real world. It is hard to distinguish between reality and illusion. And there is indeed a real world outside, the world sea is vast and boundless.”

His short sentence contained a wealth of information, prompting all the scientists present to ponder. These people, though seemingly fanatical, were actually quite shrewd. They activated a lie detector in the research lab—a program designed for living beings. Although they didn't know if it would work on the Holy Soul, the test results told them that the Holy Soul was telling the truth as it believed it to be.

In fact, Lu Li was not lying. There were indeed many real worlds outside, and the worlds in the Sea of ​​Worlds were as numerous as grains of sand.

The scientists present wanted to know if there was a real world outside that was manipulating them, but Lu Li referred to "above" as "outside," and naturally, there were many worlds outside.

Next, the scientists asked a series of questions, which Lu Li answered one by one. He also demonstrated a power that was different from the scientific side, which excited them even more.

Lu Li disguised himself well, claiming that he was indeed the Holy Soul everyone spoke of, and that the other red egg was also a Holy Soul, possessing complementary power to him.

Unfortunately, they are now severely damaged and cannot exert more power, nor can they help everyone uncover the mystery of illusion and reality. If they could be restored, perhaps the stalemate could be broken.

Everyone felt very sorry to hear this, but after all, they were scientists. On the surface, they were fanatical and respectful to Lu Li, but in reality, they all regarded Lu Li as research material.

After changing his mindset, he wanted to start researching Lu Li. To this end, he sent many silicon-based warriors outside the research institute to prevent accidents from happening.

Lu Li understood all of this, but he didn't expose it. He already knew how people in the company did things. Besides, to these scientists, he was indeed an unknown being. It was always right to be cautious. If the other party communicated and interacted with him without any defenses, then Lu Li would really think that the other party was up to something.

Regarding routine research, Lu Li stated that he would cooperate and would impart some extraordinary methods to the current technological civilization. Each time he casually posed a topic, it would keep these scientists studying it for a long time.

His condition was simple: he hoped these scientists could mobilize the resources of the top ten companies to help him find legendary items, such as elixirs.

And so, Lu Li settled down in the research institute, where he spent his time, apart from cooperating with some basic research, cultivating with Lu Xueqing.

He had previously said that his power complemented that of the 'Red Egg,' which would allow him to recover from his injuries. The scientists believed him and even used advanced equipment to observe the process of Lu Li and Lu Xueqing exchanging their origins, helping Lu Li analyze the efficiency of that special energy.

Unfortunately, although the technology in their hometown is now very advanced, the computing power of these instruments is limited and cannot compare to Lu Li and Lu Xueqing's natural instincts, so they cannot optimize a better solution.

Time passed, and several more years went by. The company had obtained nothing from what Lu Li needed. Talma had also used a lot of computing power to deduce that what Lu Li was talking about might have existed on Earth in the past, but it no longer did.

At the same time, Talma also gave a new explanation that made the company's people somewhat suspicious of Lu Li: when the Holy Soul appeared in history, regardless of whether it was because of the Holy Soul, it seemed that some civilizations different from those with technological power would appear in this world. The power system of those civilizations was obviously using energy that has now disappeared.

However, Lu Li and his group's appearance this time did not cause the lost energy to reappear. Talma, comparing it with its previous deduction records, still firmly believes that there is only one Holy Soul. The appearance of the Holy Soul is often related to the changes of the times. Therefore, Talma believes that Lu Li may not be the Holy Soul recorded in the records.

Or rather, at least one of these two holy souls is not a true holy soul.

Talma's probability analysis suggests that it is more likely that neither the black nor the red egg is a Holy Soul.

Lu Li was surprised when he learned of Talma's analysis through special means. He didn't expect that this artificial intelligence was quite good at analysis.

Lu Xueqing is certainly not a Holy Soul, nor is he. If one had to say, the Holy Soul might still be deep within his origin.

However, Lu Li was also puzzled by the ancient times that Talma mentioned, those periods when spiritual energy existed.

Yes, why is there no spiritual energy in this world now?
At first, he thought it was related to the virtual world theory mentioned by scientists, but Lu Li later felt that it was not quite right, because there are also various kinds of magic in the world of the Undead King. Whether there is special energy or not is entirely a matter of world setting, and has nothing to do with illusion and reality.

Even if the world is virtual, like the Undead King world that Lu Li visited, its virtual nature is different from that of a typical game virtual world. If you descend into such a world to cultivate, even if you leave, your cultivation level will still be there, indicating that the world is based on a virtual reality.

Lu Li later stopped having the company search for those spiritual objects, because he knew that if this was the world's setting, then no matter how hard they searched, they wouldn't find what they wanted before the spiritual energy of heaven and earth revived.

After discussing it with Lu Xueqing, they could only resort to traditional methods to treat the injuries for the time being.

However, this period of good fortune was short-lived. An incident occurred that proved to the world that the company's top management and these mad scientists were not just being overly pessimistic.

A sudden pandemic killed more than half the world's population in just six months.

This matter made the company's senior management very nervous, and the scientists were also frowning all day long.

This doesn't mean they care about their people. Even though time has changed and Earth now seems to be a unified world, it's really just a human experiment by the company.

Their anxiety stems from the fact that diseases were completely conquered by humankind over a million years ago. Theoretically, the genes of all existing humans have been optimized to the extreme, and even those in impoverished mountainous areas would probably never get sick in their lifetime, only suffering from a shortage of living supplies.

However, this great plague broke through the perfect gene chain they had researched, causing a devastating blow to humanity. Scientists believe that this was an attack from a higher dimension, an attack on them from the 'source code' level, which is why they were able to evade all the disease prevention measures they knew.

Scientists are currently arguing fiercely, shifting blame to each other, with some even arguing that it is precisely because they have optimized the human genome too perfectly that this mass extinction disaster has occurred.

That scientist believed that, from the perspective of the entire human race, it is better for humans to have both excellences and flaws, and for everyone to be different. If all genes were close to perfection, then they would become homogenized. When highly similar gene chains face unpreventable diseases, the result would be total extinction, rather than some people getting the disease while others do not.

Regardless of whether the current situation is an attack by higher-dimensional forces, the scientist believes that optimizing the human genome to this extent is fundamentally flawed, and that finding a way to target this genetic template would destroy all of humanity.

(End of this chapter)