Soul Supreme Starting from Death

Glaring at Urahara Kisuke, who was trying to appear serious but was actually a bit pretentious, Gu Shi rolled his eyes speechlessly. Not wanting to argue any more, he patted the "dead tree" behind him with his backhand.

"This is it, Ludburn, nicknamed Xiaolu."

"...Mr. Gu Shi, I reiterate again, please don't call me by this damn nickname."

The dead tree shook its branches unhappily, protesting in a very polite tone but with words that were subtly a little rude, and then greeted Urahara Kisuke in a soft voice that sounded no more than five years old.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Disgusting Death, it's really unpleasant to see you."

Urahara Kisuke, who is considered the most sinister person in the world of Bleach after Aizen, immediately smiled happily upon hearing this and waved to the dead tree in a friendly manner.

"Hello, hello, lovely Xiaolu, I'm very happy to see you."

"I said, please don't call me Xiaolu!"

Having successfully angered the cute Koji, Urahara Kisuke contentedly ignored the other's protests and looked at Gu Shi with expectation and confusion.

"So, what's so special about this lovely little Lu friend?"

Gu Shi did not hide anything and spoke out his ideas about spiritual crops in one breath.

After listening carefully to Gu Shi's story, Urahara Kisuke asked a question with a puzzled look on his face.

"That's it? In Soul Society, plants are everywhere. Big trees and weeds can be seen everywhere. There are also people in charge of crops that produce food. Don't you know that, Gu Shi?"

Urahara Kisuke was confused, and Gu Shi was even more confused than him.

"Kisuke, have you not realized yet? We are in the real world now."

There seemed to be a subtle deviation in the conversation between the two. Urahara Kisuke frowned, pressed his temple and thought for a moment before he understood what Gu Shi meant.

"Gu Shi, are you saying that plants from Soul Society cannot be grown in the real world? How do you know that?"

"I was going to ask you why you didn't know."

Gu Shi rolled his eyes at Urahara Kisuke. Asido, who was leading Urahara Kisuke to see Gu Shi, was also staring at Urahara Kisuke in disbelief.

In Asido's impression, Urahara Kisuke, like Gu Shi, has always been the representative of erudition. Whenever these two get together, they will start talking about all kinds of things that people can't understand. But Urahara Kisuke doesn't even know this kind of common sense?

"...Kisuke, it seems you are still standing too high."

Gu Shi thought about it briefly and finally understood where the two people's cognitive bias came from.

Hundreds of years ago, when the first batch of grassroots Shinigami were sent to the human world to perform garrison missions, some people considered that the mission period was too long, often lasting more than ten years or even decades, and hoped to bring some ornamental plants unique to Soul Society to the human world, so that when they were performing missions in the human world, they could miss Soul Society through these plants.

But the plants that this group of people brought to the world, without exception, all began to dissipate the moment they stepped out of the gate. Even if some people later did not believe in it and found various hardy plants, or directly moved large trees with vigorous vitality through the gate, these plants, without exception, would dissipate within a few breaths.

From then on, it became common knowledge among the lower-level Shinigami who might be assigned to guard the real world that plants from the Soul Society could not be brought into the real world.

But what about Urahara Kisuke? First of all, he is a noble, and secondly, he is a super genius and is highly regarded by the Shihouin family.

In Urahara Kisuke's social circle, the worst "mediocrities" are also the elites of various clans and divisions. The task of guarding the real world will never be the responsibility of these people, and they will not have too much intersection with the most basic Shinigami.

As a result, there was a gap in common sense between the two parties due to the lack of communication.

Just as in Kisuke Urahara's understanding, the team atmosphere of each team and the personality and style of each team captain are the most basic common sense, but these are important information that ordinary students need to spend a lot of effort to find out when they graduate and choose to join a team, which may affect their lives.

What is common sense in the eyes of grassroots Shinigami is also extremely unfamiliar to Urahara Kisuke.

And because these things are "common sense", neither side will regard them as valuable intelligence and provide them specifically to the other side, let alone record them in writing.

Thus, the cognitive gap between the upper and lower classes arose.

As Gu Shi explained, Urahara Kisuke couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

He has always been disgusted with those decadent and old-fashioned nobles, believing that they were the ones hindering the development of Soul Society. Therefore, he believed that he was on the side of ordinary Shinigami and called himself a commoner.

But the facts proved that he was still a part of the aristocracy he despised. He had never really understood those ordinary people. He was just like other aristocrats, looking down on the world from a high position and taking it for granted what ordinary people should look like and how they should live.

Come to think of it, before he entered Maou, he already had four small private laboratories. After graduating and joining the Second Division, he was directly in charge of a small research institute built specifically for him. How could he be on the same side as those Shinigami who were stationed alone in the human world, unable to return to Soul Society for decades, with no one to communicate with, and who couldn't even feel homesick when seeing things?

The clear realization of this made Urahara Kisuke somewhat defensive.

After I go back, I must make some time to visit those "seniors".

By the way, I also want to develop a device that can communicate between the real world and Soul Society, so that the Shinigami stationed in the real world can communicate with their friends in Soul Society!

Slapping his cheeks hard, Urahara Kisuke forced himself to forget about this annoying thing for the time being and began to think seriously.

Putting aside the preconceived notion that "they are all plants, what's the difference?", Urahara Kisuke realized that his mistake this time was indeed a bit low-level.

If the plants from Soul Society could really be planted and grown in the human world, then even if only a few plants were brought into the human world over the past few hundred years, they should be everywhere by now.

After all, plants made purely of leptons cannot be seen by ordinary people and animals, let alone deliberately destroying or eating them. This means that they are in an environment with no natural enemies at all, so explosive reproduction is natural.

However, he had been to the human world several times, but had never seen a pure spiritual plant.

"This is really, really embarrassing."

Urahara Kisuke covered his face tightly and felt his ears burning red.

On the other side, Gu Shi had no intention of comforting Urahara Kisuke. In his opinion, Urahara Kisuke really needed to be ashamed.

In the books that Gu Shi found from the Mao Library, the foul-mouthed guy who was suspected to be Kurotsuchi Mayuri had already noticed the phenomenon that spiritual plants could not be cultivated in the real world, and he had the bad manners to write down his guesses about this in the blank space of the book.

As a researcher, Urahara Kisuke's talent and ability should be higher than Kurotsuchi Mayuri's. He did not think of what Kurotsuchi Mayuri thought of. If this is not carelessness, what is this?

Chapter 201: A global crisis?

The foul-mouthed madman who left a large amount of graffiti in the Mao Library boldly believed that the underlying rules of Soul Society were artificially modified, and the evidence he used to prove his conjecture happened to be the plants that existed in large numbers in Soul Society.

The foul-mouthed madman suggested that there are obviously a huge number of species and numbers of plants in the world, but with such a huge base, not a single blade of grass or flower can give birth to a soul. This proves to a certain extent that "plants should not have souls" is probably the basic rule of the world, just like "raindrops fall down instead of flying into the sky."

Therefore, those spirit plants that grow in Soul Society, which can be called plant souls, must be erroneous products born under the distorted rules of Soul Society. They are "illegal products" that violate the rules of the real world. That is why they are immediately corrected and disappear by the rules of the real world after entering it.

However, that madman obviously didn't know the truth about the birth of Soul Society, and mistakenly believed that it was really the Soul King who created Soul Society. So at the end of the graffiti, he was not at all subtle in his sarcasm towards the Soul King, as if he was disgusted by this behavior of arbitrarily playing with the underlying rules of the world.

Urahara Kisuke is a true genius after all. Gu Shi only revealed a little bit of the beginning of the foul-mouthed madman's thoughts, and he quickly deduced the rest of the content. So, Urahara Kisuke's gaze towards the dead tree path suddenly became burning.

"I see! What we need is not a spirit plant, but a soul that has all the characteristics of a plant but is not a plant in essence!"

A real spiritual plant is a disaster to the world. Even if it is really obtained, it must be carefully hidden. Once exposed, it will be "executed immediately" according to the rules of the world.

Only the plant-shaped Daxu, which has the characteristics of plants and is highly similar to plants in all aspects, but is not a real plant, can exist stably by exploiting loopholes in the rules of the present world.

Seeing that Urahara Kisuke finally understood the value of the dead tree path, Gu Shi nodded in satisfaction and continued to ask questions.

"Kisuke, how much do you know about the properties of plants?"

"This……"

Urahara Kisuke thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head helplessly.

“Almost no understanding at all.”

There is no doubt that both Gu Shi and Urahara Kisuke are biased in their studies. Most of the knowledge that Gu Shi possesses is more inclined towards the real world and material things, while Urahara Kisuke's knowledge and research are all based on the Soul Society and souls.

Although there are spirit plants in Soul Society, compared with the Shinigami and Hollows, which each have their own magical features, plants are too insignificant. Urahara Kisuke had never thought of studying this before.

Gu Shi was not surprised by this answer. After all, he had known about Urahara Kisuke's academic imbalance five years ago. So he just nodded calmly and continued talking without any concern.

"Then listen to me. Theoretically, every living cell of a plant has a high degree of omnipotence. In other words, if I pick a leaf, a branch, a root, or even just a cell from a tree, as long as I cultivate it properly, I should be able to grow a new plant."

Kisuke Urahara was not unfamiliar with the concept of cell totipotency. He had heard Gu Shi mention it five years ago. His current secondary research project, "Creating a complete soul through spirit particle editing," adopted some of this concept.

His general idea is to use lepton editing to first create a "body" that has all the information of the finished product and has the ability to self-replicate, and then let the body spontaneously select the information of each part to express according to a pre-set program, and finally form a complete individual like growth.

Therefore, after hearing Gu Shi say that every living cell of a plant theoretically has a high degree of omnipotence, he was a little surprised at first, and then he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and his disbelieving gaze moved back and forth between Gu Shi and the dead tree path.

"...Gu Shi, he is very dangerous."

If this plant Hollow is like a real plant, and each cell can cultivate a new Hollow, then if it falls into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, I'm afraid that within ten years, the Hueco Mundo and the real world will be filled with these Hollows.

That would be the most terrible disaster!

Seeing that Urahara Kisuke's hand had already touched his Zanpakutō, and it seemed that he was about to take action to "save the world", Gu Shi finally couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Kisuke, calm down. Xiaolu is a Hollow, not a real plant. Based on the results of my tests so far, he does not have such high omnipotence."

Gu Shi's comfort could not completely reassure Urahara Kisuke. He still stared at the path of dead trees with vigilance, as if if he wasn't careful, this plant Hollow would explode into pieces that would float all over the world, and then in an instant, every piece of debris would become a new Hollow and fill the entire world.

Seeing that Urahara Kisuke's hand was still holding his Zanpakutō and his face was gloomy, Gu Shi helplessly patted the tree trunk on the dead tree path.

"Xiaolu, give me some fruit."

"Mr. Gu Shi, your meanness and exploitation are enough to shame the devil. If I hadn't lost my brain after my evolution, I would never have accepted your invitation."

Xiaolu complained a few words in dissatisfaction, but still mobilized his spiritual power to produce a skull-shaped fruit on his branch. Then, without Gu Shi's help, Xiaolu took the initiative to cut off the branch with the fruit hanging on it, letting the fruit and a branch about one meter long fall down together.

"Kisuke, this is the good stuff I said I would share with you. You can take the branches and fruits back and study them slowly. Judge for yourself whether the path is as scary as you think."

He seriously stuffed the branches and fruits into Urahara Kisuke's hand, looked straight into Urahara Kisuke's eyes, and made a promise without any guilt.

"If after your research you still think that Xiaolu is a major threat, then you can report all the information about Xiaolu and me to the higher-ups in Soul Society. I am only an Achukas now, and if Soul Society determines that we are a threat, they can just send out one or two captains to completely wipe us out. The situation is far less dangerous than you think."

Hearing Gu Shi's serious guarantee, in which his attitude could be said to be as if he were using his own life to guarantee the plant Hollow, Urahara Kisuke's attitude finally softened.

"Gu Shi, you...you don't have to say that. I know you're not the kind of madman who disregards life. Look, in order not to affect ordinary people, you specifically chose such a remote meeting place. If the small road really caused a major crisis, you would definitely..."

The words he tried to use to comfort Gu Shi only convinced himself instead. Urahara Kisuke scratched his hair in annoyance, then stood up abruptly and gave Gu Shi a standard 90-degree bow.

"Feel sorry!"

Gu Shi thought about it for a moment, swallowed the polite words "no need to apologize", accepted Urahara Kisuke's apology calmly, and then pushed the branches and fruits in front of him again.

"I received your apology. Anyway, take these two things back. If there is no problem after checking, you can take some time to help me study the transformation method. I hope that Xiaolu can eventually bear fruit containing spiritual power without absorbing external spiritual power, as long as it is watered and exposed to sunlight."

Urahara Kisuke did not find this goal strange and agreed to it solemnly.