I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

"What are you saying?" King Ling looked at her helplessly, then stretched his hand out even further. "Give it to me now."

Urahara Ryouka stared at the Soul King silently for two seconds, then reluctantly took off the thick chain slung over her shoulder and handed it over, her complaints still lingering: "If Lord Soul King causes any problems with this child, I will definitely protest by going on strike."

"Don't do that, it will cause big problems if you go on strike."

The Spirit King accepted the chains with both hands, displaying none of the dignity befitting a superior.

But Urahara Ryoka's cold gaze remained unchanged, as if she were looking at a pile of unburnable garbage rather than her boss.

This scene feels strangely familiar... Are Lisa and Chunshui the reincarnations of you two?

In this atmosphere, the Soul King took the chain, found the last piece, poked and prodded it for a while, and then handed it back to Urahara Ryouka.

The latter, carrying it, looked it over with a gloomy expression, clearly extremely worried.

The Spirit King seems a bit unreliable...

After finishing his work, the Spirit King looked at Mi Zhen again and briefly explained: "The method is very simple. After you leave, release the Number One Breaking Path on Ling Hua's spirit weapon once, and what I've hidden inside will be revealed. It's a token, and anyone who knows will know you're my messenger as soon as they see it."

Chapter 33: Law of Cause and Effect

"Who exactly are the experts..."

Mima said somewhat helplessly, "Also, what kind of job is this messenger... If you want to help me, at least put an instruction manual in what you give me..."

"Generally speaking, it's the high-ranking nobles and the Forty-Sixth Bureau, which your captain also knows."

The Spirit King casually made two gestures that no one else could understand, and his tone became increasingly casual: "As for the messenger, that's just the literal meaning—think about it, before I became the wedge, if I wanted to manage a place, I couldn't always go there in person every time... Although I did do that before, the children all resented it."

It's easy to understand... If my boss had to personally come to me every time to give me work instructions, I would definitely want to curse his whole family...

"Later I came up with a plan to have Linghua act as my mouthpiece for issuing orders, so she was also known as the 'messenger of the Spirit King'."

Mizhen thought for a moment, then slowly typed out a question mark.

What's the use of this! Everyone in the upper nobility and the Forty-Six Chambers knows that the Spirit King is a mute stick!

"Lord Spirit King, let me speak."

Urahara Ryouka, who was standing to the side, sighed, then looked around and followed the Spirit King's gaze toward Mima.

“A guest from the future…is his name Watanabe Yama?” She looked blankly at the empty space. “To Lord Spirit King, a messenger is just a subordinate who delivers messages, but not to mortals. Simply put, conveying the Spirit King’s decrees is a power of the Urahara family, so a messenger can represent the will of the Urahara family head to a certain extent, and even if Lord Spirit King…then it won’t change.”

I see. We can't invoke the Spirit King's banner, but we can at least wear the Urahara family's coattails. That's not bad either.

“That’s right,” King Ling added.

"You don't need to worry about Urahara Kisuke seeing through you. He is not the head of the Urahara family. Even if he has any questions about you, you can just say, 'This is the head of the family's order.'"

"I understand now."

Mizhen thought for a few seconds, then nodded and asked one last question: "'Divine Sword,' what should we do with that thing?"

"Do whatever you want, I won't tell you too much."

The Spirit King shrugged and said, "I'll say it again: revealing too much will disrupt the law of causality—you'd better keep that in mind, or it will cause a lot of trouble and even shake the very foundation of the world's existence."

Mima frowned, carefully memorizing these heavy words.

The grandmother paradox or something like that... Although it seems far away from him now, a trouble that the Spirit King calls "very big" is certainly no small matter, and it will probably be too late to pay attention to it by then.

After saying this, the Soul King stopped looking at the camera and began talking to Urahara Ryouka, his voice gradually becoming softer.

The scene sped up again.

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In the proving ground.

Kensei, Lisa, and Little Red Riding Hood were all badly injured. The intense battle had almost exhausted everyone's strength. The reason they had been able to hold on until now was not because of spiritual power, but because of things like momentum. However, the disadvantage was clearly on the side of the Grim Reaper.

Although Little Red Riding Hood's body was covered with dents and wounds, its body, which was over ten meters long and weighed hundreds or even thousands of tons, was an advantage in itself. Although it increased the area it could be hit, it could also bleed more. Wounds that would be fatal to a human were just a drop in the ocean for it, not to mention its advantages in strength and spiritual energy storage.

But the problem is...

Little Red Riding Hood gritted her teeth, glancing at Kisuke Urahara next to the crystal out of the corner of her eye.

If that man hadn't kept interfering with its replenishment of spiritual pressure, things wouldn't have turned out this way. It could have directly healed its own injuries with spiritual pressure. For minor injuries like this... if it were still connected to the divine sword, it would have been healed in three to five seconds at most!

But right now... that man is just blocking its spiritual energy channels, with almost no consumption of his own energy. If it wants to defeat the two Death Gods who have been hindering it, it will have to pay a much higher price. By then, even if the man releases the blockade, it will still take some time before it can reconnect with the divine sword.

But would that man give it that kind of opportunity?

Damn it... I can't lose! I can't lose! If it were Quincy coming, that would be one thing... but I absolutely cannot let the Grim Reaper get the Divine Sword!

"This is……"

As Little Red Riding Hood made up her mind, Urahara also discovered something new.

He once modified Benihime, adding many extra functions to her Zanpakuto, which was originally just a weapon, such as collecting spiritual pressure and automatically releasing the Blood Mist Shield.

During the time he used Benihime to isolate the divine sword and Little Red Riding Hood's spiritual pressure, he was analyzing the former.

However, the spiritual pressure of the divine sword is very strange. Sometimes it can cause Benihime to rust, and sometimes it can reverse aging. The two states alternate back and forth, which made Urahara involuntarily come up with a conjecture.

These properties all seem to be explained in a single word.

"Could the power of the 'divine sword' be... time?"

The scene continues to move forward.

He watched as Urahara Ryouka returned to the Urahara family, commanding her family members to fight against the evil spirits of hell who wanted to enter the three realms, in an endless cycle, until the Urahara family moved away from the newly established Seireitei and rebuilt around a hell gate that was difficult to close.

The process was short, but Mi-jin learned a lot of unknown secrets from it.

For example, "spirit weapon".

This is a crude and primitive weapon, created by Hyosube Ichibei before Nimaiya Oetsu invented the Zanpakuto. As an early standard weapon of Shinigami, its effect is quite simple, almost exclusively "releasing spiritual pressure".

In other words, a million years ago, almost every Grim Reaper carried a Zangetsu...

However, as is well known, most products are divided into a basic version and a paid version, and Lingbing is no exception.

The spirit weapons given to ordinary Shinigami are basically the same as those given to Asauchi, with nothing special about them. However, the VIP products personally crafted by Hyosube Ichibei come in a variety of styles and have many additional modules, making the "external spiritual pressure release" function more diverse.

Take Urahara Ayaka's chains as an example. She likes to use them as whips, and enemies hit by them will fall into an abnormal state where they cannot move. Only by consuming a lot of spiritual pressure can they break free of the restraints. However, very few people have this opportunity. Urahara Ayaka basically immobilizes enemies with one whip and kills them with two whips. When clearing out small fry, she simply skips the immobilization process. In short, she relies on her superior combat power to play a crushing style, making the enemy's game experience quite unpleasant.

However, the wicked in hell do not die, so this kind of head-smashing maniac behavior almost never gets them any kills.

Just as Mima was getting a little impatient, the sex scene finally arrived.

On that day, the Spirit King became the wedge between the three realms.

Chapter 34: What is a "Binding Gear"?

A group led by the head of the Tsuna family planned to replace the Spirit King and become the new god—but the awkward thing was that their strength was far inferior to that of the Spirit King.

After realizing that the Spirit King had not appeared for a long time, the Three Realms were thrown into chaos.

On the eastern side, there were death gods, Quincy, and Hollows; on the western side, there were wizards, dragons, and even small forces that were rarely seen. They all planned to take advantage of the chaos to get a share of the pie. The entire Three Realms were thrown into chaos within a few years. It was a scene of heroes rising up everywhere. The excitement of the scene was definitely greater than that of the Thousand-Year Blood War. The dazzling light effects of the various big moves almost blinded Mi Zhen.

Against this backdrop, he finally got to see Little Red Riding Hood make her appearance.

To be precise, it should be its relatives.

Before the East and West Bureaus were separated, Little Red Riding Hood's parents were already following the Spirit King. Later, when the Three Realms were at peace, their family was invited by the Spirit King to settle down in a small world to guard the divine sword. Little Red Riding Hood, who was born there, naturally took on this responsibility.

This way of life continued until King Ling "died".

Somehow, Little Red Riding Hood's parents realized that this was Death's plot, so they decided to take their family and go after the four noble families of TM.

To be honest, Mi really admires this kind of loyalty.

But the problem is... the first family those two old dragons came after was the Urahara family.

The two old dragons left Little Red Riding Hood to guard the house and never returned. When Little Red Riding Hood herself couldn't wait any longer and decided to go out to search for them, Urahara Ryouka personally came to the trial grounds, gave Little Red Riding Hood a good beating, and threatened her, saying, "Your parents are in my hands. You better stay here and fulfill your duty, or I will kill your whole family."

From Mima's perspective, Urahara Ryouka clearly had other plans; otherwise, she would have gone straight for the kill and then run away with the divine sword.

But Little Red Riding Hood seems to be quite naive, and she believed it as soon as she was told that.

So many years have passed, I wonder if it has figured it out yet.

What? How does Mima know all this?

Because he watched the entire tragic scene of Urahara Ryoka going to the training grounds to get the chain and beat Little Red Riding Hood, and all this information was extracted from their conversation.

Perhaps due to the rapid pace of equipment upgrades during the war, coupled with the formidable strength of Little Red Riding Hood's parents, the chains were modified into "binding devices" specifically designed to target their kind during the battle between Urahara Ayaka and Little Red Riding Hood's parents. Using these chains to strike them could deliver devastating blows with every strike, while also having a deterrent and repelling effect, making it easy for someone far weaker than them to defeat them.

This is also what Urahara Ryoka said.

There's not much else to see after that. The chains were phased out by new equipment and stayed in the Urahara family's storeroom for a very long time before being lost again. After changing hands several times, they were finally acquired by Koya Shinji of the 46th Chamber.

The video ends here.

Mi Zhen transformed into a burst of white light and reappeared in the cave.

After reviewing the intelligence in his mind, he quickly decided on his strategy.

"Great, now I can make up a really good story."

Mima clenched her fist and breathed a sigh of relief.

Now there's just one last thing to do.

He picked up the chain, found the end, held it in his hand, and used his other hand to unleash the first of his Hado techniques, Rush.

The chains remained unmoved after being hit by a relatively weak white shockwave.

But the white light formed by the ghost path was sucked in by it like a whale, followed by a series of rustling vibrations. Suddenly, a large mouth opened at the end of the chain and spat out an ancient wooden plaque.

Mizhen bent down and picked up the wooden sign.

This thing is about two centimeters thick, shaped like a kite shield, and the character "信" (trust) is engraved on its surface in an intaglio style.

After studying it for a while, Mima discovered that it seemed to be able to absorb spiritual pressure, so he tried to input some into it.

After absorbing the spiritual pressure, a white light shone from the groove of the wooden plaque, quickly transmitting a wave of demonic energy back to Mima.

"This is……"

Mima raised her hand and saw a mosaic whose shape could only be barely discerned.

What is the function of camouflaging appearance?