Soul Supreme Starting from Death

However, "Tomie" is not a warm love story. The love that is surging enough to drown rationality will soon ferment and deteriorate under Tomie's demonic charm, turning into an extremely strong possessiveness and desire to kill, and finally killing and dismembering Tomie crazily.

In addition to her unreasonable charm, Tomie's greatest characteristic is her almost unsolvable immortality. Even if she is killed, dismembered, buried, corroded by acid, or built into a concrete pier, as long as one cell remains, she will be able to be resurrected.

Even when she has beyond friendly contact with men, Tomie's cells can actively enter the male's body, assimilate the male's own cells, and turn him into another Tomie.

In general, Tomie's story is a standard unsolvable horror story, but unlike the hideous and terrifying monsters in traditional horror stories, Tomie is just a super beauty.

In terms of storytelling, "Tomie" is actually not particularly outstanding. Its main focus is on curiosity, and it mainly relies on the setting of "an immortal peerless beauty" to bring readers a strange psychology of coexistence of fear and yearning, thus catching the reader's attention.

However, neither the Grim Reaper nor the Hollow are so easy to scare.

For the god of death, it's no big deal if he can't kill her. Can't he just seal her up? If that doesn't work, opening the gate and throwing her into the Broken World is also a solution. The Broken World is a terrifying place with multiple layers of space fractures and time vortices. If Tomie, an ordinary human, goes in, can she crawl out?

As for the Hollows, they are even more insulated from fear. Even the most timid big rabbit didn't think that Tomie was scary at all because "Fortunately, I'm not a human, just a rabbit, she can't charm me".

Therefore, everyone forgot Tomie's story after listening to it, and didn't take it to heart at all. Only Urahara Kisuke was extremely concerned about "Tomie". This was not because he was captured by Tomie's charm, but because -

In Tomie's story, Gu Shi mentioned a concept called "cell", claiming that this is the most basic component unit of living life. Cells of different forms and functions combined together can form a living body. Tomie's immortality is because each of her cells can divide and differentiate to re-form her own body.

Urahara Kisuke had never heard of this view before, and his curiosity was immediately aroused.

How did Gu Shi learn about the concept of cells? Do cells really exist? What is the process of cell differentiation? What are the functions of different cells?

How does the functional area in the cell that records the human body shape work? If this functional area is modified, can we customize a body for the god of death that matches his own image?

The biggest disadvantage of sending the Grim Reaper to guard the world now is Dugu.

Ordinary people cannot see the soul, and naturally cannot see the god of death. The god of death stationed in the world will be alone for five, ten, or even longer years.

During such a long time, they could only watch ordinary people laughing and making noises, but they didn't even have anyone around them to communicate with. Even if they were injured in fighting against the hollows to protect ordinary people, they could only bear it silently by themselves.

Being alone in a crowd is a feeling of disparity that is enough to drive you crazy.

This results in that most of the death gods stationed in the human world are full of enthusiasm at the beginning, but soon become jealous and even hate the living under the torture of loneliness, and gradually begin to slack off in their work, and even hurt the living in turn.

If we could create a body that could be used by the gods of death, then when they were stationed in the human world, wouldn't they be able to integrate into the lives of the living and no longer have to endure the torture of loneliness?

If loneliness can be relieved, then staying in the world won't be so frightening, right?

Even more so, if the god of death stationed in the human world made friends with living people, he would surely perform his duties more seriously and fight against the man-eating evil voids that broke into his jurisdiction, right?

No matter how you think about it, creating a body for the god of death to use is a great thing with only benefits and no harm. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why Kisuke Urahara is so enthusiastic.

Gu Shi certainly understood all of this. He chose to tell Tomie’s story and simply introduce cells in a “casual mention” way for exactly this effect.

If one wants to make friends with Urahara Kisuke, but at the same time avoid being attacked by him for his "duty as a god of death" before becoming friends, enthusiasm and sincerity alone are not enough. It is still necessary to come up with something that is attractive enough to the other party and makes him reluctant to kill him before getting the thing. Gu Shi has thought about this a lot.

Fortunately, Gu Shi's judgment was correct, and the effect was even a little too good. Urahara Kisuke completely became a plaster stuck to his body, and could not be torn off.

After all, the knowledge in Gu Shi's mind is completely different from what Urahara Kisuke learned in Soul Society. Many of the things he knows are full of temptation to Urahara Kisuke.

For example, it might be:

When talking about cells, we can't avoid mentioning microscopes.

What is a microscope?

Okay, let's talk about microscopes first. When talking about this, we can't avoid mentioning convex lenses.

Wait, what is a convex lens?

When talking about convex lenses, we cannot avoid mentioning light.

What is light? Is light linear?

Kisuke Urahara originally only planned to ask about cells, but the more he listened to Gu Shi's explanation, the more he wanted to ask. Every time he barely understood a point of knowledge, there would be a dozen more things he didn't know, making him more and more confused.

Finally, when Yoruichi Shihouin finished listening to "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" and invited Kisuke Urahara to return to Soul Society together, Kisuke Urahara said the words that Gu Shi had been waiting for for a long time.

"Yoichi, you can go back first. I will stay in Hueco Mundo for a few more days. You don't have to wait for me. Just tell the old man that I have gone to play in the human world."

Chapter 94: Fire Control

According to the rules, after completing a mission, the God of Death must return to Soul Society as soon as possible to report to his superiors. Without special reasons, he must not stay in the real world, Hueco Mundo, etc., so as not to cause a negative impact on the local ecology.

However, Shihouin Yoruichi is obviously not someone who cares about rules.

Faced with Urahara Kisuke's declaration of "not going home", she just raised her eyebrows indifferently and had no intention of persuading him at all.

Anyway, Urahara Kisuke hasn't graduated yet, so he can't be considered a real Shinigami. There's not even any record left in the 13th Division, so no one will care if he disappears for a while. Moreover, he used the Shihouin family's private world-traversing gate to come out this time, so he doesn't have to worry about anyone pursuing him. He can just find a convincing excuse to fool the old man.

"Okay, I knew this would happen. I'll go back first and come back to see you in a few days. By the way, Kisuke, you'd better find some time to get a good night's sleep. You look like you could die at any moment."

Nodding, Shifengyuan Yoruichi picked up the black mummy that had been placed aside for several days, waved goodbye to Gu Shi and others with a smile on his face, and strode into the black cavity that Tianpeng helped open.

"Everyone, I'm leaving now. Don't miss me too much. I'll come back in a few days after I finish the mission."

Gu Shi smiled and waved without saying anything else, while Erlang snorted in disgust and waved his hand as if to chase him away.

"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense, let's go."

Instead of being angry, Shifengyuan Yoruichi smiled and winked at Jilang. Jilang had already promised to help write down all the stories that Gu Shi told during the time she was away and tell them to her when she came back. She would not go against Jilang now.

Logically speaking, with Urahara Kisuke around, Yoruichi could just ask him for help. There was no need for her to say good things to Jiro and silently admit that the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms was stronger than the Great Shift of the Universe.

But the problem is that recently Urahara Kisuke's mind is full of things like cells, division, genes, DNA, etc. He listens carefully when Gu Shi is lecturing, but when Gu Shi is not talking, he writes and draws on the side, muttering things that no one can understand.

After a few days, Urahara Kisuke's average sleep time was less than two hours a day. The dark circles under his eyes were frighteningly dark, and he looked like he would die at any time. Apart from the new knowledge in his mind, he almost forgot his own name. We really can't expect him to help remember stories.

Shifengyuan Yeyi walked away gracefully and soon disappeared into the black cavity. Tianpeng closed the black cavity and turned to walk towards his own alchemy furnace.

The meals of several Daxu changed from eating Killian directly to Tianpeng's elixir. In order to ensure an adequate supply of elixir, and also due to his own interest, Tianpeng spent almost all of his free time on refining elixirs.

As the number of times of alchemy increased, the newly excavated earth pit alchemy furnace also completed the complete crystallization of the inner wall under the action of spiritual flames and high pressure, which could block the spiritual power in the furnace to the maximum extent. The quality of the pills refined yesterday has returned to its original peak state.

Tianpeng planned to refine more pills while the quality of the alchemy furnace met the standards.

"Wait a minute, Tianpeng, slow down over there and take a look at what this is."

Gu Shi called Tian Peng and showed her what he had in his hand.

In Gu Shi's hand, there was an object with three thick curved legs, an overall spherical shape, and a lid on the top, standing quietly. Tianpeng was stunned, and could not recognize what it was at first, but he quickly realized that although he was not familiar with the appearance of this thing, he recognized the material.

Isn’t this the extremely hard stone that they made a special trip to dig out?

"This! This is an alchemy furnace!"

Tianpeng's surprised voice resounded through the sky, and she immediately rushed to Gu Shi. Although she had heard the description of the appearance of the alchemy furnace more than once in the story, this was the first time she had seen a real, authentic alchemy furnace. She wanted to reach out and hold it in front of her to observe it carefully, but she was worried that she would be too rough and break this small thing that was only four meters high.

"Don't worry, after all, it's carved out of that kind of stone, so it won't break that easily."

Smiling, he stuffed the small alchemy furnace into Tianpeng's hands and shook his head with some regret.

"As far as I remember, the alchemy furnace should have some air holes. However, that kind of alchemy furnace requires the ability to control the flame and use a slow fire to slowly refine the elixir. Tianpeng, you have always been refining with a high fire, relying on high pressure to force the spiritual power to solidify, so you can only make it like this fully enclosed."

Tian Peng had long known that he had only just begun his journey on the path of alchemy, and there was a huge gap between him and the immortals who could truly refine elixirs. Although he felt a little disappointed when he heard this, the excitement in his heart did not diminish at all. He nodded excitedly while holding the alchemy furnace.

"I know, I know I still have a lot of room for improvement! I will definitely continue to study hard and learn the real method of alchemy!"

Tenpeng was excitedly expressing his determination when Urahara Kisuke, who was drawing a cell structure diagram on the ground, suddenly looked up.

"As for controlling fire, there are many kinds of fire in the ghost way."

Among the special Hadō used for attack, fire and lightning account for more than half. Among them, Urahara Kisuke can easily name a lot of fire-related and more commonly used Hadō:

No. 31 Red Fire Cannon, No. 32 Yellow Fire Flash, No. 33 Blue Fire Pendant, No. 54 Waste Flame, No. 73 Double Lotus Blue Fire Pendant...

Although the external manifestations of these ghost ways are all spiritual flames, there are significant differences in their nature.

The flame characteristics of the Red Fire Cannon are mainly focused on explosion, relying on the impact of the explosion after hitting the enemy to injure the enemy.

The flame properties of the Yellow Fire Flash mainly focus on instantaneous high temperature, relying on extremely high temperature to hurt the enemy. The enemies hit are more likely to be scalded than burned.

The flame characteristics of Cang Huo Zhui mainly focus on continuous burning. After the enemy is hit, if the flames on his body cannot be extinguished as soon as possible by spiritual pressure, the flames will quickly spread throughout the body.

The nature of Waste Flame is similar to Yellow Fire Flash. It is a thin flame shaped into a disc that instantly burns a "line" on the enemy's body, causing damage similar to a slash.

The Twin Lotus Cang Huo Zhui is an advanced use of the Cang Huo Zhui. In addition to the characteristic of rapid burning, it also gives the flame the characteristic of "heaviness". After hitting the enemy, it will "sink" into the enemy's body, burning from the outside to the inside at an extremely fast speed. It is often used to replace heavy weapons to achieve the effect of armor-piercing.

Using different ghost methods to create different flames should be considered as "fire control", right?

There was a hint of uncertainty in Urahara Kisuke's eyes, but Gu Shi and Tianpeng's eyes lit up instantly. Tianpeng wanted to ask Urahara Kisuke for help without thinking, but when he met Urahara Kisuke's eyes with heavy dark circles, as if he would die suddenly at any time, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his lips and turned around to look for the trace of another god of death.

"Ashido! Give me a favor!"

Chapter 95 Urahara Kisuke’s Ambition

New attempts are always bound to fail, especially when there is a lack of theoretical guidance. When Tian Peng followed Gu Shi's advice and put several pills into the small pill furnace, trying to fuse them and further compress and purify them, he failed as expected, and failed repeatedly.

In order to take into account both portability and sturdiness, the space inside the small alchemy furnace is only about three cubic meters. It is conceivable how great the internal pressure would be if all the spiritual power of multiple thirty-meter-class Killians were to be crammed into such a small space. Even if Tian Yipeng used all his strength, he could not hold down the furnace cover. After many consecutive attempts, the furnace cover and Tian Peng were blown away together, and the spiritual power inside the alchemy furnace instantly exploded and dissipated.

After more than ten consecutive failures, Gu Shi, who was watching, became a little unconfident and started to wonder if his suggestion of a portable alchemy furnace was too fantastical.

Tianpeng, on the contrary, showed no sign of discouragement. She had no doubt about Gu Shi's words and continued to explore in different ways.

She tried digging a very deep hole in the ground, placing the small alchemy furnace at the bottom of the hole, and then filling it up immediately after lighting it to level the hole. She then lifted a huge rock and stepped on the top of the filled hole, hoping that the soil, the rock, and her own weight combined would be able to hold down the furnace cover.

As a result, the furnace cover was forced to squeeze out some soil due to the internal pressure of the furnace, and all the spiritual power escaped into the ground, and the attempt failed.

Tianpeng also invited Urahara Kisuke to help him seal the furnace and its lid together with his binding technique after the fire was ignited. The result was self-evident. Even with Tianpeng's full pressure, the pressure was still enough to overturn the lid and Tianpeng together. In less than two minutes, it broke through the layers of reinforced seals and caused the furnace to explode again.

After trying various methods, Tianpeng even came up with a bizarre plan to sneak into Soul Society and capture the god of death named Ibuki.

Because according to Asido, after Ibuki's Zanpakuto is released, as long as it is swung continuously, its weight will continue to increase. Tenpeng wants to catch him back, make him dance with the stick for a day, and then use his Zanpakuto to press the Danlu.

However, this plan was ultimately not implemented, as it was not feasible for the Hollow to sneak into the Shinigami's base and capture a specific Shinigami.

"Damn it! Why do Shinigami have such a natural advantage? Everyone's Zanpakutō has different abilities, but we Hollows only have the ability to use our flash and fists and kicks."

Tianpeng, who failed for the seventeenth time, angrily smashed the huge stone used to press down the furnace cover, and rarely envied the god of death.

Asido, who was helping on the side, scratched his head awkwardly. As a god of death, it was difficult for him to respond to this. Urahara Kisuke didn't have so many concerns. While helping Tenpo clean up the mess, he gave a straightforward answer.

"Because we have a legacy. The original Shinigami had nothing. The things you envy, whether it's Kidō, Shunpo, or Zanpakutō, were all created by our ancestors after repeated failures and sacrifices, and then passed down to us."

The original Urahara Kisuke would definitely not be so straightforward. No matter what he wanted to express, he had to go around in circles and act mysterious.

After all, the Urahara family is just a small and impoverished noble family. When communicating with other "superior" nobles, he must be careful not to give others a chance to talk about him, in order to ensure the safety of himself and his family, and not bring disaster to the family by saying the wrong thing.

But after spending a long time in contact with Gu Shi and others, Urahara Kisuke gradually got used to the Hollow's way of communicating, and began to say whatever he thought. He was too lazy to beat around the bush, and even more too lazy to spend his precious time thinking about how to express himself in a tactful way.

If he had the time, wouldn't it be better to deduce the composition process from microscopic cells to macroscopic individuals? Anyway, Gu Shi and the others wouldn't be angry because he told the truth, so why bother?

Sure enough, although Urahara Kisuke's words sounded a bit sarcastic, neither Tenpon nor Gu Shi and the others seemed angry, and Jiro even nodded in agreement.