The Supreme Soul, Starting with Death

Chapter 151 I'm About to Die

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Chapter 152 Name

"I am the false side of you."

The moment he heard those words, Gu Shi acted without hesitation. At the exact moment the other party finished speaking, a compressed crimson flash illuminated the empty mental world. The glass doll turned to ashes, and several stone pillars not far away were also affected and broke apart.

The flying tin doll in the sky opened its mouth and quietly flew a little further away. It had long known that Gu Shi was ruthless, but it never expected him to be this ruthless.

It should be noted that whether it was him, the wooden puppet, or the glass puppet, their faces were nine-tenths similar to Gu Shi's original appearance. Moreover, the glass puppet had just been speaking up for Gu Shi, yet Gu Shi was still able to so decisively kill him.

The crimson flash lasted for a full ten seconds before finally fading away. Gu Shi frowned and clicked his tongue, surprised that using Cero in the Mind Space would still make him feel thirsty.

However, will the Hollow aspect of the Great Menace be resolved so easily?

As Gu Shi was thinking this, another small hole appeared in the air, and another glass doll crawled out, still with a body covered in cracks and a calm, indifferent expression.

"It's no use. Instinct won't be killed so easily. If you can get the doll that Kisuke Urahara developed to awaken his Bankai, materialize me in the real world and then kill me, it might weaken me to some extent."

Gu Shi quickly recalled the Bankai doll that the glass doll mentioned. In the story, Urahara Kisuke did use such an outrageous tool to help Kurosaki Ichigo awaken his Zanpakuto, which directly pulled the Zanpakuto from the mental world into the real world.

But... why would a glass doll offer a way to weaken itself?

As one aspect of Gu Shixu, the glass doll understood him no less than the Zanpakuto, and immediately saw through his doubts, calmly offering an explanation.

"The reason why the instinct of emptiness is so hard to resist is that it amplifies the desires that are already in our hearts. Under its influence, the arrogant will become more arrogant and the greedy will become more greedy. Your greatest desire is unrestricted freedom. As your empty side, I crave freedom even more than you, but I can only reside in your spiritual world, without even a moment of freedom."

"If I can leave this prison for a moment by being eliminated by you, I am willing to pay such a price."

"I see."

Gu Shi nodded, seemingly understanding the glass doll's words. The next instant, a blood-red phantom flash shot out again, turning the glass doll into ashes.

A moment later, the glass doll reappeared, its face still showing no sign of shame, anger, or remorse.

"If you still need to try, I can cooperate with your actions."

"No, no need. It seems that destruction in the mental world really can't weaken you."

Gu Shi shook his head and rejected the glass doll's suggestion. After destroying the glass doll twice, he secretly timed it in his mind. Unfortunately, the return time was exactly the same both times. The glass doll's return did not slow down because it was destroyed.

Since there was no immediate solution, Gu Shi decided not to waste any more time on the matter. He shifted his attention back to the Zanpakuto, looked at the wooden doll in his palm, and shook it by the collar.

"Little one, what's your name?"

From the very beginning, the wooden puppet seemed to have a good impression of Gu Shi. When Gu Shi asked, it smiled and said its name. Unfortunately, when Gu Shi heard it, it was as if its voice was covered by some noise and it was impossible to hear it clearly.

The white iron puppet flying nearby couldn't help but let out a disdainful sneer.

"Your brain really isn't working properly. You actually want to know the name of your Zanpakuto so easily? Are you on the same page as that blockhead? Or have we figured things out? You want to know the name of your Zanpakuto without any information? You're really dreaming!"

Gu Shi wasn't really surprised by the result. Knowing the name of the Zanpakuto meant mastering its Shikai, but that was by no means easy. Although there were many Shinigami in the Seireitei, some Shinigami might graduate decades or even centuries ago and still not be able to master their Shikai, only able to use their Zanpakuto as ordinary samurai swords.

Therefore, it's not surprising that you can't hear the name of your Zanpakuto when you ask for it the first time.

Thinking this, Gu Shi shot out a phantom flash from his fingertip, accurately hitting the white iron puppet's head and piercing through its annoying mouth.

After instinctively making a move, Gu Shi realized something was wrong. It was one thing to act decisively against his weak side before, since it was something harmful to him. But the Zanpakuto should be considered one of his own, so why did he instinctively kill it just because it said a few foul words?

Does emotion become more "direct" in the realm of the mind?

The wooden puppet patted his paw with some concern and offered a gentle admonition.

"Let's go back today, Gu Shi. We are your Zanpakuto, you will definitely know our names. There's no need to rush. After Tie Tou Nao recovers, I will find a way to persuade him to cooperate with you."

Gu Shi narrowed his eyes, ignoring the advice to leave immediately, and began to silently recall the things that caused him pain.

Sure enough, those things that had been in the past and would no longer cause such heartache suddenly became painful again when recalled in the mind's world, and that long-lost feeling as if the heart was being torn apart returned.

At the same time, the mental world quickly darkened, with boundless dark clouds covering the sky, and a forest of thunderbolts crashing down. The stone pillars in his vision collapsed with a deafening roar, and then hundreds of long swords rose from the ground. One of these swords "just happened" to pierce the stone pillar beneath Gu Shi's feet, splitting his body in two.

Gu Shi's vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he was back in Hueco Mundo.

Gu Shi subconsciously touched his body, and only after confirming that he hadn't actually been split in two did he breathe a sigh of relief.

However, when Ichigo Kurosaki's negative emotions rise, his mental world is just flooded by a torrential downpour, but when it comes to me, it turns into a hellish mountain of knives? Isn't that a bit unfair?

Gu Shi remained silent. In his mental world, the little puppets were also having a hard time, dodging the lightning strikes from the sky while arguing loudly.

The wooden doll complained that the tin doll was too willful, saying that if they had told Gu Shi their names earlier, they could have seen the outside world more clearly sooner.

The white iron puppet cursed the wooden puppet for being brainless, saying that it was clearly because Gu Shi didn't trust them that he couldn't hear their voices, and even if they called out their names, it wouldn't make a difference, so why should they blame him for being willful?

The two had only been arguing for a few minutes when the glass doll, seemingly annoyed by their bickering, suddenly put on a bone mask and, without a word, rushed forward and beat both of them up.

After a while, as Gu Shi adjusted his mood and became optimistic and happy again, the storm in his mental world finally stopped. The puppets also lost the strength to argue and lay panting in the air, staring blankly at the vast world that made them feel uneasy.

Being a resident of Gu Shi's inner world is not a pleasant experience at all; this world is far too empty.

Chapter 153 The Spirit King?

Having exited the world of the mind in a less-than-pleasant manner, Gu Shi quickly adjusted his mood and subtly removed the shallow weapon from the void.

The tin dolls are afraid of the glass dolls, and the wooden dolls and tin dolls are at odds with each other. These behaviors clearly tell him that these little guys were probably not born today, but have probably lived together in his mind for a long time.

In other words, this shallow sword is actually just a key to unlock the door to the inner world.

The problem is, why would a perfectly normal Hollow have a Shinigami's Zanpakuto in his heart all along? It can't be because he absorbed a few Arrancar's Zanpakuto, right? Although they are both called Zanpakuto, they are not even from the same system.

Or is it because it has absorbed the chains of cause and effect?

This doesn't seem to make sense either.

Gu Shi knew before that his void was not normal, but he never expected to discover new abnormalities in himself today.

The anomaly of the void can also be explained as Gu Shi's special ability as a void.

Just like Ulquiorra can remove his eyeballs and project the images he remembers;

As long as Yami has enough spiritual particles, his size can increase indefinitely;

Aaroniero can transform into the creatures he devours, and he can even recreate the Zanpakuto of a Shinigami.

As a virtual being, it's not unreasonable for it to have some strange abilities.

However, it's a bit absurd that a Hollow, who is the opposite of a Shinigami, already had a Zanpakuto in his mind before he even came into contact with Asauchi. It's like a virgin pregnant for six months, leaving Gu Shi unsure whether to thank God for the gift or suspect that someone did something to his body while he was asleep.

[Hiss, while being a transmigrator inherently implies abnormality, aren't the abnormalities in my case a bit too abnormal?]

Unconsciously, Gu Shi looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with doubt.

Just like when you travel to Honkai Impact 3rd, if something bad happens, people will suspect Otto of doing it. When you travel to the prehistoric world, if something is slightly wrong, people will suspect that the Heavenly Dao is secretly arranging things. When you travel to the world of Bleach, and Aizen has not yet grown up, Gu Shi's first suspicion will naturally be that of the Soul King.

According to the established lore, the Spirit King had long been rendered neither alive nor dead by the ancestors of the five noble families, and his body had been torn apart.

However, once he reached the omnipotent realm of the Spirit King, it was said that the five noble families could seal him away, stripping him of all his power...

Anyone who believes that is a fool!

What god would be so low as to lose the ability to resist just because their body has been dismantled? Is it really that difficult for a being of this level to create a new body?

The Spirit King is comparable to God, and I could even say that he is the God of the world of death. Yet Jesus, the Holy Son, was able to rise from the dead. But you tell me that God was sealed away by mortals and lost the ability to resist because of his physical disability. Do you think I would believe that?

In Gu Shi's view, rather than saying that the Spirit King saw the future and chose to sacrifice himself for some unspeakable righteousness, voluntarily being sealed by the ancestors of the five noble families, it would be more accurate to say that after completing his mission of starting the world's cycle anew, the Spirit King was too lazy to play with these fragile little insects like humans and the Grim Reaper. He was just wondering what reason to use to abdicate when the five noble families walked right into his arms.

With the steps of the five noble families already laid out before him, the Spirit King, who was just about to flee, simply abandoned his useless body and played the so-called game of betrayal with the ancestors of the five noble families. As for the Spirit King's true spirit and consciousness, it is probably long gone to some corner of the world to sleep or play games in the mortal world.

After all, judging from the final development of the Bleach storyline, Yhwach's corpse was able to maintain the stability of the three realms even after absorbing the Soul King's power, which shows that what the three realms needed was the Soul King's power, not his spirit.

Under this premise, unless the Spirit King has lost his mind, he would be willing to leave his consciousness in the Spirit King Palace to serve time unnecessarily.

[So, could it be that the Spirit King's spirit discovered the transmigrator, thought this thing was quite rare, having only been seen a few times in thousands of years, and secretly tinkered with it, adding something to it?]

Gu Shi was quite certain that no divine old man had appeared when he transmigrated, offering to give him some golden fingers as a blessing. Apart from the slight possibility that he was special enough on his own, the most suspicious of all the peculiarities about him was indeed the true god of this world, the Spirit King.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Shi waved gently at the sky and silently prayed in his heart.

"How about you consider giving me another Quincy's power?"

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After waiting quietly for a few seconds without any new power emerging in his body, Gu Shi shook his head helplessly, but he didn't think he was being delusional.

After all, the limits of the Bleach world are what they are. Apart from the Soul King and the Hogyoku, he didn't think there was anything else that could allow a Hollow to possess a Shinigami's Zanpakuto for no reason, especially without coming into contact with Asauchi.

From Tianpeng's perspective, Gu Shi was stunned after putting the shallow knife into the void. When he came to his senses, he started touching himself. After touching himself, he began to ponder. After thinking for a while, he waved to the empty space above his head as if he were greeting someone.

This series of quick moves is enough to make one worry about Gu Shi's mental state.

"True Lord, are you alright? Would you like to rest for a bit?"

Gu Shi snapped out of his daze, smiled and shook his head to indicate that he was alright, then his gaze fell on the shallow object in the jade rabbit's hand.

"Jade Rabbit, have you shown any signs of awakening your Zanpakuto in these three years?"

Logically speaking, the Arrancar has already broken the boundary between Hollows and Shinigami, and his power already has the characteristics of a Shinigami. In order to infiltrate Soul Society, he had already absorbed the Zanpakuto of the Jade Rabbit using Hollowhole. He is currently in a state of "possessing Shinigami power but not having a Zanpakuto". Theoretically speaking, he fully meets the prerequisites for awakening a Zanpakuto.

Unfortunately, under Gu Shi's expectant gaze, the Jade Rabbit shook its head firmly.

"No, I can vaguely sense the power in the shallow strike, but I've never been able to establish an effective connection with it."

Gu Shi squinted and nodded slightly, pointing to the jade rabbit's chest.

"How about we put the shallow strike into the void?"

The Jade Rabbit's Void Hole is located in a rather traditional spot, right in the center of its chest. At this moment, it is completely blocked by a net woven from the chains of cause and effect. Gu Shi wanted to see if the Broken Face would put Asada into the Void Hole and enter the spiritual world like he did.

Yu Tu still trusts Gu Shi as before, but it has to be said that the environment really can change a person's habits and personality.

Before going to Soul Society, the Jade Rabbit, who was not human in her previous life, had no concept of the difference between men and women. Even after becoming human after being a Arrancar, she felt from the bottom of her heart that wearing clothes was unnecessary.

But after living in the Soul Society for three years, when Gu Shi pointed to her chest, she actually blushed and quickly turned her back. Only then did she shyly ask Tian Peng to help her tear apart the web of cause and effect.

On the contrary, Gu Shi, who was human in his previous life, had long forgotten the so-called difference between men and women after living in Hueco Mundo for so long. He only realized when he saw the Jade Rabbit blush that his behavior just now was indeed inappropriate for a woman, and could only laugh awkwardly.

Chapter 154 The Meaning of Zanpakuto

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