The Alchemist in Bleach

However, this also makes it a good experimental base for Ichiro. The strongest here is the newly promoted Adjuchas, and it's almost impossible to encounter one. Under normal circumstances, the strongest here is the Gillian, and with Ichiro's strength, he can just slaughter them all here!

Of course, this doesn't mean Ichiro can act recklessly. After all, Hueco Mundo isn't a complete mess. Before Aizen established Las Noches, there was already a certain order here, such as the Hueco Mundo king, Baganle.

So Ichiro continued his usual style, shooting and moving on to a new location, never staying in the same place for long!

That day, Ichiro finished practicing Kido as usual, and then habitually reconstructed the Hollow's corpse into a Spirit King fragment. Suddenly, he paused and pulled out a Spirit King fragment that was much larger than usual from his pocket. This size is a bit abnormal, isn't it?

If he remembered correctly, this was supposed to be a small Hollow reconstruction, not even a Hollow, but now this fragment was actually bigger than a Hollow!

This is not normal!

Ichiro and Sekai exchanged a glance. For some reason, they thought of the Hollow that evolved directly into Adjuchas. That was a similar case. Although they couldn't turn it into a Soul King fragment in the end, Ichiro's intuition told him that the two should be the same!

Ichiro gripped the Spirit King fragment, said nothing, and put it back in the bag before quickly leaving with the world to avoid causing a greater commotion.

.......

Back at the base, Ichiro placed the larger fragment of the Spirit King alongside the other normal fragments for analysis and comparison.

Unsurprisingly, nothing was found, since it had been reconstructed.

Ichiro rubbed his head, his brows furrowed. It seemed he could no longer casually reconstruct Hollow corpses. He felt this thing was very valuable for research, and might even be useful for his spiritual pressure enhancement medicine.

After all, both this and the previous examples demonstrate one thing: the spiritual pressure within their bodies is definitely abnormal, but their strength is extremely weak, showing no tendency to fight beyond their level. It's as if this spiritual pressure doesn't exist.

This is very unusual in a battle system where spiritual pressure reigns supreme!

While pondering, Ichiro casually made a storage bag to hold Hollow corpses. Currently, it only has the ability to store and preserve food. Whether it can actually store Hollow corpses still needs further testing.

But there's no rush. Ichiro put it aside, walked to the computer, and began to extract data from it. He was preparing to advance the research on another technology to enhance the Void Crow, which was currently working fine.

However, Ichiro needs to conduct a large-scale investigation of the entire Hueco Mundo to find this special Hollow, or even the source of this Hollow. This requires a very high level of intelligence, and the current Hollow Crow is not enough to meet his requirements. No matter how many times it is strengthened, it will be the same.

Only by allowing it to undergo a deeper evolution, that is, to become Fullbring!

Therefore, he needed to conduct research beforehand—extracting the power of the Spirit King from the fragments of the Spirit King and achieving relatively perfect control. This was also a core part of the plan to create the Spirit King; otherwise, it would be quite awkward to only know how to create it but not how to activate it.

......

Time flies, and this time it really seems like a long time has passed. With Ichiro fully immersed in his work, a year has quickly gone by.

A year later, in a much larger underground space, Ichiro, with a single spiritual eyepiece hanging from his right eye and a pair of small tweezers in each hand, occasionally twisted and engraved a mechanical arm floating in the air.

This thing that looks like Iron Man's hand is Ichiro's most important research result over the past year - the Soul King's Hand!

It can extract the power of the Spirit King relatively perfectly, with a loss of only about nine percent. Unfortunately, it can only utilize about sixty percent of the power of the Spirit King at present, so its efficiency is slightly low.

But at least it's taken shape, and we can gradually optimize it later, which is already a big step forward. At this point, the idea of ​​transforming the Void Crow into Fullbring can be implemented.

Now only the final debugging and data processing and comparison are left. After a while, Ichiro got up and let out a long sigh, removed the spirit glasses on his right eye used to collect and compare data, put the tweezers aside, took the World's tea, and while drinking it, looked at the Hand of the Spirit King and thought about whether there was anything that could be improved.

Over the past year, although Ichiro has focused his main efforts on the Soul King, he has not neglected other areas of research. Most of the basic research on Kido has been completed. As for forbidden techniques, only the time-stopping technique remains a mystery.

Now, all he really needs to do are these four research projects. The first three projects in the plan, plus the time stop, have been basically completed.

Of course, things like writing callbacks are a different story.

After resting for a while, Ichiro took a deep breath, exhaled, walked to the Spirit King's Hand, and extended his left hand. With a series of clicks, the Spirit King's Hand perfectly fit Ichiro's left palm and left forearm. The entire thing was silver, like an arm guard. At the center of the forearm, there was an empty space, which was where the Spirit King fragment was placed.

However, Ichiro did not rush to put the Spirit King fragment into it. Instead, as usual, he first tested the other functions. If these functions were not normal, then even if he could extract the power of the Spirit King, this thing would not be of much use to him.

With a thought, Ichiro's spiritual pressure slowly converged towards the Spirit King's hand, emanating a faint white light. The next moment, Ichiro's palm faced the stone pillar that had been erected not far away, and he slowly gathered his spiritual pressure.

"Hado No. 4: White Lightning!"

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Chapter 100: The Hand of the Spirit King and Touching the Forbidden Zone!

This was not a broken chant, but merely a command. Yet, in that instant, hundreds of bolts of lightning surged forth, blasting the stone pillar not far away to smithereens!

The Kido Simulation Device is a rather boring device used solely to verify Ichiro's theories. Its function is to simulate Kido amplification levels below number ten. A few hundred Kido at once looks impressive, but in reality, its power is less than that of two Red Fire Cannons.

However, it's worth noting that these random inventions might prove useful in the future. They could come in handy in future battles. So, this is another purpose of the Soul King's Hand: to carry Ichiro's little inventions that are neither useful nor worth discarding.

Of course, there are also practical devices. The Body Amplification Device can increase physical attributes by up to two times after activation, depending on spiritual pressure. The higher the basic physical attributes, the more spiritual pressure is required. The Spiritual Shield Generator can instantly open a spiritual shield that can defend against attacks from Hakudo below level 50.

Then there's the ability Ichiro values ​​most: the gravity generator, which allows him to apply gravity to himself or his enemies, making it suitable for both combat and training.

Over the next period of time, Ichiro tested over a hundred functions of the Soul King's Hand, and they all worked normally.

The reason why so many functions can be achieved in such a small hand is mainly due to Ichiro's research results over the past year. The dream simulation system, which was modified from the Spirit King fragment of Suzaku, can perfectly simulate the data as long as it is provided. It also borrows the technology of mimicking Zanpakuto.

This system is also the most important part of the Spirit King's Hand, because these more than one hundred functions are just the current data. He will definitely invent more tools in the future, which will save a lot of effort.

Finally, it's time to refine the power of the Spirit King!

Under the tense gazes of Sekai and Ichiro, four or five fragments of the Spirit King were placed into a round, gem-like container on his left forearm.

Ichiro watched intently, and with a thought, his spiritual pressure slowly gathered, and lines radiating white light extended toward the Spirit King fragment, turning the transparent container into a slightly dazzling white!

The next moment, the power of the Spirit King filled the entire Spirit King's hand!

For a moment, Ichiro seemed to have the illusion that he was omnipotent!

However, this wasn't the first time he'd done this kind of experiment in the past year, so he knew very well that it was just an illusion. With a slight clench, he slowly dissipated the power of the Spirit King. This was just the beginning; whether it would succeed depended on the fastest activation speed.

Ultimately, after numerous tests, the power of the Soul King could be activated in as little as ten seconds. While this speed is still slow in actual combat, it is the limit that Ichiro can currently achieve. He can only optimize it gradually in the future. Perhaps a breakthrough can be found in practical application?

Of course, the most important thing about this experiment is that the materials prepared this time were finally able to withstand the power of the Spirit King!

Unlike the previous ones, which became useless after only a few uses.

After the experiment ended, Ichiro breathed a sigh of relief, removed the Soul King's hand, handed it to the World to keep safe, and then walked to another room, quietly looking at the Hollow's remains through the glass.

Although Xu Wu's efficiency was not high over the past year, he had at least found some special Xu after a year of searching. Three of them died, and one survived, but the one that survived was not far from death. If Xu Wu had not found it in time, it might have really died.

Yes, it was him, not it!

Ichiro examined the bodies of the three who died and found that they had all eaten something that caused their spiritual pressure to increase rapidly. However, this increased spiritual pressure was extremely inert, so their strength did not change at all.

There's definitely something wrong with this spiritual pressure. Unfortunately, the Hollow is already dead, and Ichiro hasn't found the problem yet. He did consider letting other Hollows consume this spiritual pressure for observation, but unfortunately, the other Hollows seem to hate it and refuse to absorb it no matter what, even running away when they see it.

Faced with this, Ichiro could only focus on the one who hadn't died, but an even more troubling situation arose: this Hollow was indeed special, but different from the others...

He's rational...

Although it is weak, it does exist, and unlike other Hollows, its rationality is innate!

It is important to know that the Void is a creature created from the depravity of humanity. In the beginning, they still retained some of the rationality and emotions of humans, but due to the emptiness in their hearts, they would constantly devour other souls or their own kind to fill their hearts.

In this process, a large number of memory fragments will overwhelm their already limited rationality, driving them to madness. Then, through continuous devouring, they will evolve a completely new way of thinking and intelligence, namely, Adjuchas!

But this guy is different from them; his rationality seems to have started the moment he became a void.

This void has not gone through the human stage!

In other words, he was born with an empty body!

This is different from the existing definition of "virtual"!

Hollows are incapable of reproduction, which is the fundamental contradiction between them and humans and death gods. Hollows are transformed from human spirits, and they will involuntarily crave human souls. If human spirits are surrounded by Hollows, they will also be assimilated into Hollows.

Assimilation isn't quite accurate; to be precise, it's degeneration!

All voids are created from the corruption of human spirits, so they are naturally hostile to humans!

But what if virtual creatures could also reproduce on their own?

What if the void no longer feeds on humans?

This phenomenon is very interesting. Nature is amazing, especially this extraordinary world, so it's not surprising that something like Ichiro evolved in this world.

Ichiro now only wants to seize this opportunity to gradually transform the entire Hueco Mundo. If the Hollows no longer feed on humans, then the human situation will undoubtedly be much safer, and at the same time, it will greatly reduce the pressure on the Shinigami.

(Note: The purpose of the Shinigami is not to kill Hollows, but to maintain the balance between the two worlds, so it would be better for the Shinigami if the Hollows did not kill humans.)

So for the past six months since he was found, Ichiro has been trying to find a way to save him. Unfortunately, he can only keep him alive so far. His mother's fertility seems to be impaired, which means that he is now similar to a deformed child.

The way to save him is quite simple: human transmutation...

Without the door to alchemy, Ichiro could now perform human transmutation without paying any price, and he understood the principles perfectly, but he wasn't mentally prepared yet...

If he were to take this step, he would have to place himself in the position of the Creator, essentially hypnotizing himself and elevating his status infinitely. Only in this way could he avoid falling into depravity to the greatest extent possible.

Ichiro devised a method to cover up the evil thoughts that arose from his moral self-satisfaction.

As his research progressed, Ichiro gradually discovered that human experimentation seemed to be an unavoidable problem for him!

He knew that as time went by, the ever-increasing weight would eventually break down his bottom line...

And to be honest, he despised himself. He didn't believe he could resist temptation. Human nature is inherently fragile. Under certain circumstances, a person can withstand all temptations, but once that environment is lost, it's hard to say...

This is a point that Ichiro firmly believes in: human nature is inherently evil!

Therefore, in order to avoid that situation, Ichiro needs to be prepared to avoid that outcome. For the past six months, or rather, for the past year, Ichiro has been mentally preparing for this.

As usual, after looking at the data for a while, Ichiro went to the side to begin his alchemy practice for the day. Various materials were transformed in Ichiro's hands, such as steel, wood, and water, changing continuously as if they were illusions.

The things in his hands changed, and so did Ichiro's heart.

When Ichiro woke up in Rukongai and found himself transported to another world, he was somewhat devastated. He had succeeded on his second attempt, only to be back to square one overnight before he could even enjoy the fruits of his labor...

And this time they've gone even further, starting with just a few bowls and cups of water!

Later, Ichiro slowly came out of his shell and casually set a few goals for himself. The most perfunctory one was what he had told Kirinji Tenjiro back then: to find the truth of the world.

This was originally pure nonsense, because the absolute truth of the world is something that humans can never find. What humans can find is only relative truth, which is infinitely close to absolute truth!

However, it was precisely this factor that made Ichiro decide to make this his goal, because that way he would never succeed! He might not die or be reincarnated inexplicably again!

Of course, it was just a casual remark at first, but as time went on, whether it was self-hypnosis or self-deception, it slowly began to become what Ichiro truly pursued!

That's why he said those words when he was under the pressure of Kirinji Tenjiro's spiritual pressure, because those were truly his deepest thoughts.

But now...

He hesitated, he was afraid; he was afraid that he would be changed because of human experimentation...

He was afraid of becoming a pervert like Mayuri Kurotsuchi...

but......

Should we give up our dreams because of this?

The frequency of the changes in the items in Ichiro's hands gradually slowed down, and his gaze became more determined.