Death's Hidden Mobile

Unlike Toshiro Hitsugaya, who had been given the time-reversal drug, Xia Yan was ordered to kill Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and thus the order was repeated over and over again.

But Xia Yan was different; his potion was more potent than Hitsugaya Toshiro's, yet he didn't issue the order.

Xia Yan did not choose suicide, as suicide would have been the easiest way for him to return to the past.

However, if Xia Yan were to have even the slightest deviation in his consciousness, he would not immediately commit suicide, but would instead consider other methods.

For example, first go to the Spirit King's Palace and kill the Spirit King.

Xia Yan left Soi Fon's side and flew into the Spirit King's inner palace, walking up to the Spirit King.

The Spirit King, however, was encased in crystal, had no hands or feet, and looked like a sealed person.

"To be a Spirit King, yet possess only a shell, how pitiful."

Xia Yan walked up to the Spirit King and recalled the Spirit King in the original work, who was unable to react even when faced with danger and could only be killed.

The wedge that maintains the Three Realms is just an object.

"A mere shell? You're right."

A voice rang out, as if it were right next to his ear. Xia Yan looked directly at the Spirit King and asked blankly, "Was that you speaking?"

"Of course, I never expected that someone else could achieve this besides me, entering a state of time stagnation."

The Spirit King spoke slowly, his gaze fixed on Xia Yan.

"Time stopped?" Xia Yan frowned, looking at the Spirit King in confusion.

The Spirit King smiled and said, "It's your current state. Your nerve reaction speed and the speed at which your senses receive information are tens of thousands of times faster than normal people. Your physical abilities can keep up with your reaction speed. Therefore, your speed has reached close to the speed of light, and you are stationary relative to others. You cannot communicate with others, cannot get responses from others, and everything you see is so slow. The world is like it's frozen. So I describe this state as time standing still."

"You call this time standing still, and I think that's quite a vivid description. If you could reach a point where time stands still, then everything would make sense."

Xia Yan thought to himself that in the original story, when the Soul King was killed by Yhwach, he did not show any consciousness, but the Soul King's consciousness appeared many times.

For example, all members of the Zero Division had bodies modified by the Soul King, the last one being Kiryu Hikifune from 120 years ago. In other words, until 120 years ago, the Soul King had his own power.

Furthermore, in the original work, Hyosube Ichibei came to Seireitei, found Kurosaki Ichigo, and said that even the Soul King was watching him.

The fact that the Soul King is paying attention to Ichigo Kurosaki is itself a manifestation of his consciousness.

But why, later on, did they just let King Ling be killed?

Xia Yan frowned, but the Spirit King smiled and said, "It's simple, because I was going to have Yhwach kill me anyway."

"Do you know what I'm thinking?"

Xia Yan suddenly looked at the Soul King, who smiled slightly and said, "Of course, my ability is omniscience and omnipotence, the knowledge of all things in the future. Unlike Yhwach, my omniscience and omnipotence is not about the future of what I see, but about all objects in the future. What you think, what you ponder, what you have seen, I know it all. And in a future that you haven't changed, I was killed by Yhwach, which is exactly what I hoped for."

Xia Yan narrowed his eyes and asked, puzzled, "Why do you want to die?"

The Spirit King countered, "Don't you want to? You've tried to commit suicide many times, but each time the time-travel potion erased your consciousness. Why do you want to commit suicide?"

"So that's how it is. I've not only been drugged with the Superman drug, but also with the Time Travel drug."

Xia Yan understood the problem from the Spirit King's words. He rubbed his temples and then said, "I committed suicide because I am now unable to communicate with people. I can write, but it takes at least tens of seconds for others to see it and respond. For me, that time is as long as thousands of years."

The Spirit King nodded and said, "That's right. From the time I was born hundreds of thousands of years ago until now, I have been enduring this kind of pain, staying alone in the cracks of time, slowly spreading in loneliness. Because I am too powerful, neither my physical body nor my consciousness can kill me. In this process, I cut off my own arms, my legs, my heart, and threw them out, turning them into individual parts, but they could not kill me as a whole."

The Three Realms have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, with each second equivalent to a hundred years. So how long did the Spirit King experience loneliness?

Xia Yanguang felt a chill run down his spine just thinking about it.

Since one cannot die, one can only die little by little over a long period of time.

"So you gave birth to Yhwach? And wanted him to kill you? He called you his father." Xia Yan asked curiously, thinking of Yhwach's identity.

The Spirit King replied, "This father does not refer to a father in the bloodline sense. My relationship with him is like two sides of the same coin. He carries my power, grows stronger, and possesses the ability to kill me."

"Two sides of the same coin? I understand."

Xia Yan thought of the God in his original world, whose only beloved son was Jesus. Jesus called God the Holy Father, but in reality, God was a Trinity. Father, Son, Holy Spirit—the Trinity, one entity with three faces.

Yhwach is equivalent to the Son of the Spirit King, while the Spirit King is the Father.

What about the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is Haschwald, who is the half-body of Yhwach, and whose power can be borrowed.

Omniscience and omnipotence are also the power of God.

Xia Yan instantly understood the source of the matter, looked at the Spirit King, and said, "According to history, you could have been killed, but my arrival changed everything."

Upon hearing this, King Spirit laughed and said, "You are wrong in three ways. First, you did not change history; history never existed. Second, you changed history, but history is not history. Third, Yhwach cannot replace me."

"What do you mean?"

Xia Yan frowned. The first two points were somewhat contradictory, and what did it mean that Yhwach could not replace him?

The Spirit King smiled and said, "Let's start with the third point. The history you see comes from a comic book, so you think this is the world of comics, right?"

Xia Yan nodded and said, "I've always thought so."

The Soul King shook his head and said, "That's not right. The Bleach manga only depicts one side of the real world. The world is real, and you'll understand the origin of the Bleach manga later. But what I want to tell you now is about Yhwach. I ask you, in the manga you've seen, Yhwach killed me, the world began to collapse, and then Yhwach was killed. What happened to the world then?"

"Ok?"

Xia Yan suddenly raised his head.

In the original work, the Soul King was killed by Ichigo Kurosaki, and his power was absorbed by Yhwach. Jushiro Ukitake used the Soul King's right hand to fix the world. The time limit for fixing it was mentioned in the text. As long as Jushiro Ukitake died, the power would disappear.

Later, Jushiro Ukitake was killed by Yhwach.

So why weren't the Three Realms destroyed?

The Spirit King was the wedge of the Three Realms. When the Spirit King died, his right arm also disappeared. With no one to stabilize the Three Realms, why did the Three Realms remain so intact ten years later?

Xia Yan felt that this was the biggest bug in the original work, but here it became the Spirit King seeing an incorrect future and erasing the future.

The Soul King said, "When I saw the most likely outcome of the future, I decided to kill myself in another way. So, among countless futures, I chose a way that would not destroy the Soul Society, nor harm the Three Realms. That is, to find you, my destined one, and inject your future experiences into your body, so that you know this outcome, and then change you."

"I see."

Xia Yan frowned and said, "But my understanding of Bleach comes from manga. Where did the Bleach manga come from?"

The Spirit King smiled and said, "You'll understand about the existence of the comic later. Right now, the most important thing is for you to kill me, seize my power, and become the Spirit King. That way, you'll achieve your goal. And I will fulfill my long-held wish."

Xia Yan sighed and said, "But becoming a Spirit King means that I will be stuck in the time rift forever."

The Spirit King laughed and said, "Even if you don't become the Spirit King, the result will be the same; you won't be able to leave this place. But if you want to become the Spirit King, you must devour me and take my place."

Xia Yan looked at the Spirit King and said, "But if you help me change my future, I can go back to the past."

By altering Xia Yan's future, the outcome of Xia Yan returning to the past after committing suicide can be changed, allowing Xia Yan to commit suicide and then be resurrected, thus achieving the state set by the resurrection point.

By then, Xia Yan will be no match for his current self, and he will not attempt to become the Spirit King again.

Xia Yancai realized that to become a Spirit King, one needed to live in the cracks of time, forever unable to communicate with people outside.

Xia Yan was unwilling to accept this outcome.

The Spirit King said, "I will not help you. I will no longer allow myself to stay here, so I will continue to change history. If you insist on doing so, then the past me, because he saw a different future at this time, will make a completely different choice in the past, and then you will disappear, and all fates will change."

How could I possibly be willing to do that?

I've been through so much, made so many friends, and even met Soi Fon.

How could it be possible to go back to the past?

Having changed the fate of many people and saved their lives, how could I possibly want them to die again?

Xia Yan looked at the Spirit King, sighed, and said, "If you are unwilling to help me, I will remain in the time rift forever, and the outcome will be no different from if I help you. So I agree to your request. I only hope that you will not change the past."

Staying in the cracks of time, as long as I can still survive and watch the people I love live on, that's enough.

The Spirit King smiled and said, "Very good. Next, I will enter your body and merge with you. Then you can use your own abilities, the power of dreams coming true, to erase my consciousness."

As soon as the Spirit King finished speaking, he suddenly transformed into flowing water, covering Xia Yan's body and then entering it.

boom.

Xia Yan's body suddenly changed, little by little.

This process was incredibly slow and became increasingly lengthy. Under the control of the Spirit King, Xia Yan's consciousness fell into a deep sleep, and the Spirit King took over Xia Yan's body.

Ten days later, Xia Yan awoke and discovered that his body had changed.

His abilities are more powerful, but also more controlled, and he has mastered omniscience and omnipotence.

The Spirit King's consciousness spoke, "Now, use your dream-come-true ability to erase me, take over this body, and you will become the Spirit King."

Xia Yan used his ability to make dreams come true to erase the Spirit King's consciousness and completely transform into the Spirit King.

The moment Xia Yan transforms into the Spirit King, both the Superhuman Drug and the Time Reversal Potion become ineffective, meaning he can commit suicide.

However, Xia Yan dared not commit suicide, because if he did, he would return to the state of the set node and lose his identity as the Spirit King.

The true Spirit King is dead, and if he loses his status as the Spirit King, the Three Realms will collapse.

Therefore, for the safety of the Three Realms, Xia Yan cannot commit suicide or return to the past.

But is there really no other way?

The Soul King's power is omniscience and omnipotence, while my own power is the ability to make dreams come true plus omniscience and omnipotence.

Therefore, Xia Yan closed his eyes, and the next moment, his time slowed down more and more.

Xia Yan did not weaken himself, but rather weakened time.

All the time that affects Xia Yan is slowed down by fifty million times. One second passes in the outside world, but the time in Xia Yan's body is one fifty millionth of a second. Xia Yan's speed is one fifty millionth of a second, which is exactly in line with time, so he is unified with the outside world.

If a battle ensues, Xia Yan only needs to free up time to increase his speed until it approaches the speed of light.

After changing himself, the first thing Xia Yan did was to find Soi Fon. He discovered Soi Fon's experiences and plans, and also learned about the actions of Yamamoto Genryusai and Abarai Renji.

Xia Yan found the Zero Division and asked them to gather all the captains, the Visoreds, the Hueco Mundo Arrancar, and others, while he went to rescue Soi Fon.

After rescuing Soi Fon, they reunited with the others and then explained the whole story.

Of course, the process that Xia Yan told others did not involve any choices, the past, comics, or anything like that. It only involved the existence of the Spirit King, the Spirit King's plans, and his own journey to becoming the Spirit King.

"That's all I wanted to say, can you please let me go?"

Xia Yan looked at the angry crowd in front of him and said weakly.

"No."

Xia Yan received unanimous opposition.