The Alchemist in Bleach

"Stop fooling around. You don't need to prepare, but I do. Stop dawdling and follow me. The spiritual pressure here hasn't subsided yet, so we can't use spatial control."

Looking at the world that never looked back, Kamui sighed and followed.

On the way, seeing Kamui's gaze repeatedly lingering around her waist, Sekai asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Uh..." Kamui was a little embarrassed, touched his nose and asked, "What's that sword at your waist? Is it the same Zanpakuto as your father's?"

"This one?" World touched the Zanpakuto at his waist and smiled. "This is the Southern Bird Sparrow, a Zanpakuto that Ichiro-sama has mimicked. He has a lot of things to do there, so I'm the one who's optimizing it."

"A mimicry Zanpakuto?"

"It's a simulated Zanpakuto, possessing the same abilities as a Zanpakuto, but it's also different from a Zanpakuto. It doesn't have an independent will; it's just a simple sword."

"I see~ So, as a Shinigami, you don't have your own sword? And why did Father use a mimic Zanpakuto? Was he ostracized by them?"

The World glanced back at Kamui, knowing what he was thinking, and said, "Don't overthink it. The reason why Ichiro uses a mimic Zanpakuto and why I don't have a Zanpakuto is the same."

"What...reason?"

The world's gaze lingered on Kamui for a moment, a smirk playing on his lips. He turned to look at Seido and said, "Because Ichiro-sama's Zanpakuto."

"???" Kamui was stunned. He stopped in his tracks, his small head filled with great confusion. Faced with this shocking information, he couldn't quite process it.

Are Shinigami's Zanpakuto this advanced now? Not only can they fight, but they can also be used for romance?

"That's not right!" Kamui quickly caught up and asked, "How come you're a Zanpakuto now?"

"I was originally a Zanpakuto, but Lord Ichiro turned me into a Shinigami because, to him, I am not a weapon."

Seeing the happy smile on the world's face, Kamui suddenly felt relieved: "Then I'm at ease."

"What are you worried about?" Shijie asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Don't worry about me. This way you won't affect Father and Mother. After all, you are a Zanpakuto. How can a sword and a Shinigami be together? Besides, even if you become a Shinigami now, theoretically speaking, you, who were born from the depths of Father's soul, are Father's sister, Aunt?"

"..." Sekai turned around angrily and shouted, "I have no blood relation with Lord Ichiro! This is Lord Ichiro's decision!"

Well, this world isn't lying. After all, her body was created by Ichiro. His initial idea was that the world was his soulmate, and he didn't want to involve family or anything like that. Of course, there was also a tiny bit of desire that all men have, well, really just a tiny bit!

However, this doesn't stop the world from hating it when people bring it up, even though neither of them cares.

Shenwei shrugged, not daring to say anything, but in his heart, his sweet confidence in his mother's ability to win grew even stronger.

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Just to clarify, it wasn't cut.

Something came up, so I'll update tonight. I'm five chapters behind today, but I'll make up for it later.

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Chapter 107 The Choice (1/5)

On the other hand, six months have passed, and apart from a sack of spiritual energy crystals and a massive amount of data, Ichiro and his team have not made any substantial progress in their transformation experiment.

This is abnormal!

With Ichiro's bizarre talent in Kido and his alchemy, and Urahara's almost the most brilliant mind in Soul Society, the two of them working together should at least achieve something, if not a sure thing.

However, there was no real progress, although a lot of data was collected.

The root cause, however, lies with Urahara.

That bastard isn't even researching the transformation of the Spirit King fragments!

After repeated setbacks in his experiments, Ichiro, with his current confidence, naturally began to have doubts. Therefore, he carefully reviewed the data provided by Urahara again, and then discovered a speechless result...

What Urahara wants isn't just a fragment of the Soul King, but the Soul King itself!

Yes, that bastard is planning to use these materials to create a Spirit King!

There's no way this could possibly succeed.

Putting aside the technological and energy level gaps, the very fact that a Spirit King is unique makes it impossible to succeed. The Human Spirit King hasn't even died yet, how are you going to create one?

Not to mention that your technical skills don't even meet the standards.

Of course, after a little thought, he decided to go for it with Urahara!

Although the idea was crazy and had almost no chance of success, it should be understood that what they had been trying to do from beginning to end was to create a simulated Spirit King, not the Spirit King himself.

So, does it matter whether the experiment is successful or not?

unimportant.

The important thing is the various kinds of data they collected during this process. In fact, after studying the Spirit King for so long, they have discovered that their initial ideas were all wrong.

Ichiro wanted to create the body of the Spirit King in order to control the power of the Spirit King, while Urahara wanted to directly control the power of the Spirit King through the Kido technique.

Theoretically, it's feasible, but in reality, it's not.

Ichiro thought that this Spirit King's body was just a consumable. To put it bluntly, it was just a larger version of the Spirit King's hand. He had achieved it now, but what was the use?

The larger the size, the longer the activation time, and he doesn't lack casting time skills now.

Urahara's problem is the same as Ichiro's: the casting time is too long. Kido, simply put, is a technique for applying spiritual power. Using it to construct the power of the Soul King is too complicated.

So the two came up with a new idea, which, to put it bluntly, was to combine the two plans.

Ichiro creates the Soul King's body, while Urahara is responsible for completing the Kido technique for the Soul King's power and applying it to the Soul King's body. When it's time to use...

Well, let's build them first. If it doesn't work, we can just build two.

And so, the frustrating yet enjoyable experiment began.

During these six months, Ichiro didn't just research this; he also occasionally interspersed other research to switch his mind, such as Fullbring, Kyoka Suigetsu, and the development of Kido techniques...

The Fullbring technique progressed slightly due to the addition of Soi Fon's Fullbring data, but it soon stalled and is currently waiting for other Shinigami to learn Fullbring.

The study of "illusory beauty in a mirror" yielded no results, just as before.

However, this is alright, because he didn't have much hope to begin with, so he won't be disappointed. Although "illusory beauty" is his third major research target, in reality, he has very little data.

Currently, we are focusing on only one research direction: the soul level!

The illusion of flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water directly governs your five senses, rather than affecting or interfering with them; otherwise, it wouldn't be so unsolvable. Therefore, people who are governed by the illusion of flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water will inevitably have abnormalities in their bodies, that is, their souls.

But the current problem is the same as with Fullbring: he has no data. He doesn't know who has been affected by the illusion and who hasn't. Without data, there's no way to crack it.

As for defensive measures, it's easy to fall into the same mistake many people in the original work made: you think you've broken the illusion, but in reality, "you think you've broken the illusion" is itself an illusion!

This move was so unsolvable that, although it was listed as the third target, Ichiro didn't actually study it much.

"Bang~"

Hearing the noise, Ichiro, who was checking the data, turned around and saw that Yoruichi and the others had returned from the hunt. The noise was caused by a pile of Hollow corpses that had been thrown out.

"Wow~ There are quite a few more of them again. Did you guys go to the Great Void Forest?"

"Hmm, there's been some breakthrough in the research on the second stage of Shunko. I'll go test it out." Yoruichi rubbed her shoulders and handed a set of data to Ichiro.

She's not just researching the Shunko Second Stage anymore; Urahara is also helping her because it's too dangerous, and Ichiro has joined in after he arrived.

Of course, Yoruichi herself did the main optimization work. The two of them had two tasks: one was to help analyze the data, and the other was to find a way to make up for Yoruichi's shortcomings.

For example, the development of Fullbring, such as a Fullbring technique that would prevent Yoruichi from being defeated in one hit, or other means of survival. For instance, the Kido technique used by Ichiro in the battle to become the Seat Commander was developed by Urahara for Yoruichi, but unfortunately, it is incompatible with Shunko.

"How's your research going?" Yoruichi asked with a smile, leaning against a stone pillar.

"It's not very good; this path might still be the wrong one."

"I think your entire idea is wrong! It's outrageous."

Ichiro shrugged and said nonchalantly, "You might be right, but when it comes to scientific research, you always have to try, proving that it can't be done is also a very necessary thing."

"Alright, you guys are always right. I'll go prepare some food for you. What do you want to eat?" Yoruichi stretched and walked towards the other end of the base.

"Anything is fine, just not cat food."

.......

A little while later, Ichiro left his conclusions at the end of Yoruichi's data report and then handed it to Urahara. They wouldn't give Yoruichi any technical guidance; they were only responsible for simplifying the complex data so that Yoruichi could more intuitively understand the shortcomings. As for how to improve it, that was her business.

Aside from that, they only offered some inspirational ideas, nothing more. Everyone has their own path to walk, and frankly, in terms of developing Shunko, they might not even be as good as Yoruichi.

Although their Kido (demon arts) is stronger than Yoruichi's, their Hakuda (hand-to-hand combat) and Shunpo (flash step) are far inferior...

Instantaneous Silence is a unification of White Strike and Ghost Path; in this respect, they are not good at it.

After handing the data to Urahara, Ichiro resumed his research—assembling the Soul King's body!

After six months of rapid learning about the power of the Spirit King, Ichiro is now able to refine fragments of the Spirit King using alchemy. His next goal is to piece together the complete Spirit King!

This is not a simple matter. First, he does not know the overall structure of the Spirit King and can only imitate it based on the structure of a human. Second, he does not know whether the Spirit King he assembles will still be the Spirit King due to the influence of the uniqueness factor.

But Ichiro still has to do it, just as he just told Yoruichi, proving the impossible is also one of the things that scientific research involves.

However, the final result was somewhat beyond Ichiro's expectations...

In Ichiro's memory, the Soul King he saw online was supposed to be a naked man (maybe without a genital area), but at least he was depicted in a simple manner.

However, Ichiro looked at the simulated Spirit King he had pieced together and was somewhat speechless...

A head of flowing, white hair, reaching about calf height, and over three meters tall. Her appearance was feminine, but she had no male or female characteristics. She wore a magnificent robe and an ornately decorated haori, with three or four palm-width ribbons wrapped around her body. Behind her floated a huge cursor, which was circular with serrated edges resembling flames. Further outwards, there were thirteen slender isosceles triangles.

It looks exceptionally gorgeous!

The magnificent sight made Ichiro wonder if he had calculated it himself, or if he had designed it based on his fetishes and preferences...

There was no way around it; aside from lacking any sexual characteristics, this appearance perfectly matched Ichiro's tastes, including that long hair. Even though it was a sketch, and the colors of the clothes were unknown, he could tell at a glance that the hair was silver...

He wasn't the only one who thought so; anyone who saw this hair would subconsciously assume it was silver, even before the overall shape was fully formed.

However, it was precisely because of this strange point that Ichiro realized that the path he was on might be the right one!

Then the rest is simple. The overall structure is complete; all that's left is to wait for Urahara's technique. However...

"Haven't you already accomplished a lot? What are you confused about?" Seeing Ichiro sigh, Soi Fon put down the plate in her hand, walked over and looked at the simulated Spirit King, asking curiously.

"The same question remains: should we give them consciousness...?"

Don't you want to give it consciousness?

"Yes, it's too powerful. This will inevitably affect the existence of the Soul Society. The uniqueness of the Soul King must have its reasons for existence."

Soi Fon asked curiously, "But didn't you say that the power of the Soul King is almost omnipotent? It might very well develop its own consciousness, right?"