Chapter 346: Strange Soul Power

Chapter 346: Strange Soul Power

Chapter 346: Strange Soul Power

"So dangerous!? Li, you'd better not try it."

Nilu suggested from the side, her face full of worry.

"Please be patient. I believe that Sosuke called me here because he has a sound plan."

Lu Li comforted Nelue, then looked at Aizen, "So, Sosuke, what is your plan?"

Aizen smiled and stepped back, signaling his assistant, Sar Apollo, to pull back a curtain.

Behind the curtain was an Achukas who was restrained by a powerful ghost. He was looking at everyone with resentment, and it was obvious that he was still unwilling to accept being caught.

"I think it is most appropriate to use Yachukas, who is obviously weaker than Lu Jun, as the guiding force. Your spirit body is very strong, so it is not a problem for you to withstand Yachukas's power. In terms of the fundamental strength of the soul, Lu Jun is definitely better. In this way, there will be no risk in virtualization, and the duration of virtualization will also be guaranteed."

Aizen introduced that in his research, the Hollowed version of the Shinigami is inferior to the Shinigami version of the Hollow in many ways.

For example, the process of forming a Hollow is not only easy, but using the power of the Return to Blade is also risk-free. Apart from the consumption of one's own spiritual pressure, there is no obvious time limit for the burst.

But not only do Shinigami need external force to become hollow, but the time they can become hollow is also very short. After calculations by him and Urahara Kisuke, they believe that even an excellent Shinigami, who has a strong compatibility with Hollow, can only become hollow for a few hours at most, and a shorter one can even only become hollow for a few seconds.

Although he and Urahara Kisuke have analyzed the problem many times, they have not yet found a more reasonable way to hollow out the God of Death. They speculate that this is because the Zanpakutō in the God of Death system naturally divides part of the God of Death's power, resulting in the incompleteness of the God of Death's soul.

Because of the separation of the power of the Zanpakutō, the God of Death may have lost some fundamental characteristics of its ordinary soul period, such as the power of the Hollow part.

If we think further, judging from the form displayed by the Hollow after breaking the mask, Aizen believes that the part of the soul that represents the Hollow's power is hidden in the Zanpakuto.

If there is enough time, Aizen believes that he can research out the true Hollowification of a Shinigami, but the so-called true Hollowification of a Shinigami is too difficult. After all, he cannot overstep his authority to communicate with the other party's Zanpakutō. The Zanpakutō naturally forms a protective barrier after separation. He believes that this may also be a design made by the person who invented this system after risk assessment.

What's more, Lu Jun's Zanpakutō is difficult to deal with and he still can't use Bankai. He can't even think about helping Lu Jun to hollow out his Zanpakutō. He can only find a way to help Lu Jun master the power of hollowing out by injecting external souls.

As for himself, he personally was not planning to become a Hollow. It was not a question of beauty or ugliness, but he had already discovered a more fatal problem in his experiments on Arrancars, which was that no matter whether it was the Hollow of a Shinigami or the Hollow Arrancar, they could not truly break through their limits.

Many Vastod-class Hollows, including Stark, did not improve much after becoming Arrancar, which meant that his and Urahara Kisuke's conjecture failed.

For ordinary Hollows or Shinigami, breaking the boundaries can indeed bring significant improvements, but for someone like him who already has extremely high spiritual pressure, it is almost useless.

On the contrary, since Lu Jun's spiritual pressure is not that high, he should be able to get a significant improvement after using the power of virtualization.

"Yachukas? That's fine too. Let's try it."

Lu Li said after hesitating for a moment that he also felt that this experimental method was relatively safe. As for whether the power of virtualization would limit his subsequent improvement, he didn't need to worry.

Because according to his current understanding of the power system of the world of death, as well as the state in which he entered the world, he believed that after the virtualized power entered his body, it would be judged as a bloodline.

He currently has four bloodlines, namely the Thunder God Fruit, the Clear Heart bloodline, the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and the Sage Body, and his Chaos Spirit Seed has four slots. Including the one bloodline he originally had as a pioneer, he actually has a total of five bloodlines.

When the time comes, after he has mastered the power of virtualization, he will place it as a bloodline into the grid of the Chaos Spirit Seed, and then he can perform adaptive adjustments. Not only that, when he does not need this power, he can also completely erase the function of the Chaos Spirit Seed.

"Then let's get started without further ado."

Aizen had no intention of dragging his feet. The situation between the human world and the Soul Society was currently tense and a war could break out at any time. It was not suitable for them to stay in Hueco Mundo for too long.

"Saar Apollo, prepare the venue layout. Ulquiorra, you will be responsible for charging the spirit particle barrier."

Aizen began to give instructions and then looked at Nel, "Nel, please go call Harribel and Stark over. I may need to trouble you with something later. This is also for Lu Jun to master the power smoothly."

Nel was a little confused, but when she heard Aizen say it was for Lu Li's own good, she didn't think much about it and went straight to find the two men after taking the order.

Lu Li followed Aizen into the designated experimental site. This was the underground space newly opened up by Aizen and Sal Apollo. It was very solid and stable. With the reinforcement of the spirit particle barrier and the power supply from Xiaowu, even if a large spiritual pressure shock was generated later, it would not cause any damage to the Kyonyakū.

"Mr. Lu, lie here first. I will help you inject the power of the void."

Aizen let Lu Li lie on an experimental iron bed, while on the other side, Sal Apollo had already brought the Hollow over.

Under Lu Li's strange gaze, the Yachukas was directly transformed into a ball of white substance by Aizen using the power of the Collapsing Jade. It was as soft as plasticine, and had fluid properties, flowing and swirling in the air.

Immediately afterwards, Aizen's powerful spiritual pressure exploded, continuously compressing the mass of matter, and eventually it turned into a white stick as thick as a finger, which was sucked into the injection by Aizen.

"Mr. Lu, bear with it, it might hurt a little."

Aizen approached with the injection in hand and gave a kind reminder.

"It's okay, come on."

Lu Lixin said that he had experienced all the pain, so what was this?
After Lu Li was ready, Aizen injected the injection into Lu Li's spine and at the same time activated the power of the Hogyoku to help Lu Li reconcile the conflicting nature of the alien souls.

At this moment, he was also very nervous. Although the theory was complete and he had done many control experiments on the Hollow side, this was the first time that a Death God had been turned into a Hollow, and the experimental subject was his good friend.

Therefore, Aizen was highly concentrated, ready to use the Hogyoku and his powerful spiritual pressure to separate this part of Achukas' soul if he found anything wrong.

Just as the milky white virtual substance entered Lu Li's body, Lu Li's body shook violently, his veins were exposed, his muscles were tense, and he was obviously enduring great pain.

Aizen turned his head nervously and looked at the data display on the big screen, observing Lu Li's vital signs and the changes in his spiritual pressure data.

The numbers and bars on the big screen flashed rapidly, and several values ​​were soaring.

"Lord Aizen, the Spiritual Energy's Fury Value has broken through the red line. No, it has reached the peak!"

Sar Apollo reminded him loudly, but there was no worry or tension on his face, only the excitement of an experimenter. For the first time, Aizen frowned in front of outsiders. He held the Hougyoku in his hand and wondered whether to pull out the soul of the Hollow. At the same time, he looked at the data on the screen and thought quickly.

He was the one who set the programming in the experimental instruments. Since breaking the red line meant that the current situation was not what he expected, then which step went wrong?
He grabbed Lu Li's wrist with one hand, and without the help of any instruments, used his powerful spiritual perception to detect the changes in Lu Li's body, "How could it be..."

As if to confirm the surprise in his words, Sal Apollo also saw that the data on the big screen suddenly developed to another extreme.

"Lord Aizen, the OGA value is dropping rapidly, it has fallen below 80%, no, 70%, and is still dropping. At the same time, the Hollow's spiritual pressure is disappearing significantly. The Hollow... seems to be being swallowed by another energy!"

Sal Apollo reported in surprise, his expression affectionate, and his peripheral vision was full of curiosity as he glanced at Lu Li in the experimental field.

There was no need to look at the instrument data, Aizen could sense it very clearly standing next to Lu Li, and Lu Li seemed to have relaxed after the initial few seconds of pain, staring at him in confusion.

"Sosuke, is this considered a success?"

Lu Li asked in some confusion. He thought the process of virtualization would be very painful. After all, Sosuke's injection method seemed quite simple and crude.

Taking the rejection reaction into consideration, he was prepared for the painful shock, but in fact, apart from the initial pain when it was injected into the spine, he didn't feel anything when the power of the void spread in his body.

At that time, Lu Li was opening the spirit seed menu of the End Space, waiting for the operation to pull the virtual power into the bloodline column. As a result, this power disappeared inexplicably before it could condense into substance and be determined as a new bloodline.

Because his attention was attracted by the spirit seed column, Lu Li didn't notice how the virtual energy in his body disappeared, which made him confused.

"I……"

Aizen was also a little puzzled, so he pulled Lu Li up, stuck instrument patches on Lu Li's body, and looked at the data on the big screen. As a result, all the data were normal, indicating that Lu Li was a healthy Grim Reaper.

Rather, all the data were almost exactly the same as before Lu Li's experiment, as if the Yachukas-level Hollow had never entered Lu Li's body.

"Mr. Lu, your soul is really in trouble."

After thinking about it, Aizen sighed, as if he had grasped the key to the problem.

"What do you mean?"

Lu Li was puzzled, and seeing that Aizen had no intention of continuing the experiment, he put on his clothes and jumped off the experimental bed.

"When I was studying the spiritual tissue you gave me before, I discovered something strange. I'm afraid that the strange disappearance of the Hollow is related to the characteristics of your soul."

Aizen said this in a serious tone, and with a wave of his hand, a barrier rose up in the experimental field, preventing Sal Apollo outside from hearing their specific conversation.

"The characteristics of the soul? Sosuke is trying to say that there is something special in my soul that has made the Hollow disappear?"

Lu Li felt strange when he heard this. He thought of the strange things he had seen in the demon-imprisoning world, and the fantastic scenes he saw in the demon-imprisoning world's shouts.

He thought to himself, could there really be something strange about his soul? Did all explorers have it? Or was he special?

"That's it, Mr. Lu, take a look for yourself."

Aizen produced a research report from somewhere and threw it to Lu Li.

Lu Li flipped through it for a few times and found that it was full of dense data and professional terms. He felt overwhelmed just looking at it, "Sosuke, you better tell me the conclusion."

"The conclusion is that there is some kind of substance or energy in your soul that is difficult to observe. Every time I try to observe it, it disappears, but it definitely exists."

Aizen explained, "I speculate that it was that kind of power that burst out in your body, devouring the external Hollow, eating it cleanly, and cutting it on the surface violated the law of conservation of energy."

"Why do you say that it violates the law of conservation of energy on the surface?"

Lu Li stretched his arms and legs, "I really haven't improved."

"Because I believe that the law of conservation of energy is one of the truths I currently know. So if the power of that void disappeared, it must have been transformed into other energies and stored in your body. It was only because of that substance that we cannot understand that it was swallowed up and hidden."

Aizen analyzed, "Another possibility is that after absorbing the power of the Hollow, that substance did gain its energy and was also enhanced, but its level was too high for us to perceive. That little bit of Hollow power might be even weaker than dust to it, so it couldn't cause any waves at all, and we certainly couldn't observe its changes."

"This is Yachukas, worse than dust... What kind of glutton is hidden in my soul?"

Lu Li complained that the Achukas that Aizen found for him was tailor-made, and the spiritual pressure level was not low, comparable to the captain level.

But how could the power of a captain be inferior to dust?

"That's the truth, Mr. Lu. We may have worked in vain. Your transformation into a virtual being is unlikely to be realized."

Aizen said with regret, but at the same time he became more curious about the power hidden in Lu Jun's body.

If his latter inference was correct, he felt that the power hidden in Lu Li's body might be even stronger than the legendary Spirit King. Then why did he develop the Collapse Jade? After helping Lu Jun figure out how to use that power, wouldn't he be invincible?
It’s a pity that Lu Li himself doesn’t know what that strange power is. At present, they can only think that the difficulty of Lu Li’s Zanpakutō Bankai has something to do with this.

"It's hard to say, Sosuke. Although the energy of the Yachukas level is no match for the things hidden in my body, it is absorbed very quickly."

Lu Li pondered, "I feel that the process from the energy of the void entering my body to completely dissipating is a few seconds, which means that there is not much of that strange substance, or it is quite difficult for it to absorb the power from the outside world."

"But according to my analysis just now, even if all the alien soul power in the world is injected into your soul, it is only a matter of time before it is devoured, right?"

Aizen said as he led Lu Li towards the main door of the experimental field.

(End of this chapter)