Why are all of us who transmigrated at the same time demons?

However, Szayelaporro already had Barragán's research data, so this process could be shortened.

Ultimately, Barragan's abilities still rely on spiritual pressure. As long as your spiritual pressure is strong enough, you can still shield yourself from this influence by expending enough spiritual pressure.

Barragán was defeated in the original story because his opponent directly transferred his power into his body.

Internal defense and external defense are not the same concept. Just look at how Sun Wukong tormented the monsters who swallowed him to understand.

The Ice and Flower Burial was meant to wear down Barragan and distract him; the real killing move was already brewing.

The snow and ice in the sky seemed endless, each flake containing a terrifying threat. Barragan dared not relax for a moment, simultaneously dealing with the threats from the sky and guarding against Loran's attack.

"You want to wear me down? How arrogant. I admit your spiritual pressure is stronger than mine. But after fighting all the Espada continuously, how much spiritual power do you have left? A war of attrition is to my advantage." Barragan held his great axe, wary of Loran, who was circling around him with ill intent.

"Wait a minute? Judging from his previous fighting style, he has always been a fast and fierce attacker, and he often uses one move to cover up another. Why is he only focused on the ice and snow in the sky this time and not making any other moves?"

Barragán sensed something was wrong and, without hesitation, threw out his Death Axe.

To his surprise, the axe struck his opponent directly without any obstruction.

Loran's body shattered into ice, which was Hyōrinmaru's ability—the Remnant Ice Humanoid. It could create a clone that looked exactly like itself to take damage in its place. In Loran's hands, it also developed a clone that could move on its own. The clones had the same aura but no fighting power; they could only be used to bluff people.

"Oh no! Where is he in person?"

Barragán was horrified.

"I just realized, it's too slow." Loran suddenly appeared, formed hand seals, and began to chant.

"The Ruler! The chains of the star anchor, the folds of dimensions, the dragons and serpents tearing through the warp and weft."

"Gravity surges into vortices, time freezes into frost."

"All the edges of the myriad phenomena are reduced to dust, and the Three Enclosures and Four Symbols are transformed into vortices. This is the moment when all laws return to nothingness!"

"Forbidden Breakthrough - 'Severing the Two Realms'"

The spirit crystals that Loran left on the sand began to glow, their auras intertwining to form an array, releasing the power to distort space and time, in conjunction with Loran's spell.

A terrifying ghostly path, powerful enough to tear space apart, ignored Barragan's decaying power defense and struck his body instantly, cleaving him in two.

The "Severing the Two Realms" technique was his own creation and a byproduct of his research on the Flying Thunder God Technique. Those spirit crystals were another form of the Flying Thunder God Technique, which could be used in conjunction with distorting space.

Currently, he needs to use these spirit crystals to unleash a forbidden attack that tears through space and time. Attacks at the spatial level are invisible and formless, and almost impossible to defend against.

Moreover, even with all his might, Barragan could only counteract the spatial rifts covered by his spiritual pressure; he had never heard of making spatial rifts age and heal.

Moreover, the spatial rifts are continuous and interconnected. By the time Barragan's power began to come into contact with the spatial rifts, Loran's ghostly magic had already struck him, unless Barragan's reaction was faster than the spatial spell.

This attack on the Ghost Path also consumed a considerable amount of spiritual pressure, no less than the previous Ice Heaven Hundred Flower Burial, and it required the assistance of a specially made spirit crystal.

He only managed to set up the formation by using his invincible power to instill fear and restraint in Barragan. Otherwise, if Barragan had cut off his broken ice humanoid form earlier, Loran would not have had the chance to activate the Void Severing the Two Realms.

It's not impossible to defeat Barragan directly, for example, by using Hyōrinmaru's Bankai technique, Shikai Freeze, or by unleashing Kidō Bombardment with overwhelming spiritual pressure, but that would require much more effort and cost.

In a sense, Aizen's ability to suppress Barragan was due not only to his own combat prowess, but also to the indispensable role played by Kyoka Suigetsu.

Barragán's abilities were indeed a huge problem, and in the original story, he died more from his own arrogance.

However, Lorraine also gained a lot this time.

Even if the Espada are down, aren't there still some Arrancar and that Shinigami hiding in Las Noches?

Loran raised his head, as if meeting the gaze of the hidden Gin Ichimaru from afar. Now it was Gin Ichimaru's turn to be drenched in sweat.

Loran copied all the Arrancar's abilities from across Hueco Mundo, then beat up Gin Ichimaru, copied his ability Gungnir, and made a promise to fight Aizen together sometime in the future.

Loran, like a bandit, looted everything of value from the Hueco Mundo, leaving behind a mess, before driving the Shadow Blade with Nelliel and driving away back to his base.

This time, they copied enough power, collected a large amount of combat data, and captured a precious Hollow, Aaroniero. Loran had a feeling that this Hollow might be able to evolve the entire universe again, and he was very happy.

Chapter 65 Death God: The Soul King Sleeps

In the most secluded laboratory of his base, Loran examined the fragments floating in a transparent container, which emanated a powerful spiritual pressure.

During the battle at Hueco Mundo, Loran noticed a foreign object inside his body.

This is a fragment, hidden within Loran, or rather, Kusakabe Sojiro's body. It remains completely still and is perfectly integrated with his body, so Loran was unaware of it before.

However, as Loran's fighting spirit intensified, the fragment began to be fully activated under the influence of Loran's will, thus making Loran aware of its existence.

After this period of research, Loran can confirm that this thing is indeed a fragment of the Spirit King.

What is the Spirit King? This involves an extremely ancient story.

Millions of years ago, the world was vast and many things were ambiguous.

There is neither life nor death, neither progress nor regression. It simply sways gently, slowly, spending millions of years waiting for the world to cool down.

Even becoming a void is part of the spiritual particle cycle.

However, eventually the Hollows began to devour humans. At this point, the cycle finally ended.

If this continues, all souls will eventually become a vast void, and the world will fall into complete stillness.

Under such circumstances, whether due to some unseen force of balance or the world's instinctive rejection, the Spirit King "Adnes" was born.

He destroyed the void, transforming it into spiritual sands that would allow the world to begin its cycle once more.

But even so, the world has not improved.

Countless imaginary beings were destroyed by the Spirit King, but these imaginary beings were also formed from the souls of highly intelligent beings, including humans, and were part of the spirit particle cycle.

The destruction of countless souls by the Spirit King caused the development of life in the world to gradually stagnate.

Therefore, there were some life forms that were born at the same time as the Spirit King in the chaos, and they had completely new ideas.

Despite their individual plans, their choices share a common goal: to separate the physical body from the spiritual body, to separate life and death, and to establish a new cycle and an orderly world of life and death.

These individuals are the progenitors of the five noble families of Soul Society—Shiba, Tsunayoshiro, Kuchiki, Shihouin, and the most mysterious progenitor family.

The progenitors murdered the Spirit King, turning him into a wedge that plunged him into a cycle of neither birth nor death. They used the Spirit King's power to separate chaos and define the three realms: Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the Human World.

Fearing the Spirit King's revenge, the ancestor of the Tsunami clan continued to dismember the Spirit King's body over the long years that followed, scattering his body parts throughout the Three Realms to prevent them from accumulating.

King Soul Reaper's left hand, which governs "advancement," was used by the monk to assassinate Yhwach, and eventually became Penida Pakaja of the Quincy.

The right hand of the Spirit King is in charge of "stagnation," which is the indigenous god of the Rebellious Bone District—Mimihagi—who resides in Jushiro Ukitake's body.

The Soul King's heart, which governs "miracles," became Gerald Valkyrie, a Quincy in Yhwach's personal guard.

The Soul King's fingertips scattered within Matsumoto Rangiku's body, and were later taken by Aizen and incorporated into the Hogyoku.

The Soul King's chain is contained within the Fullbringer Aura Dohane, making her the strongest Fullbringer in terms of fundamentals, possessing unparalleled power to manipulate souls and spirit particles. This led Tsunayoshiro to use Aura almost as a wish-granting device.

Similarly, almost all Fullbringers in the present world were born from fragments of the Soul King.

In order to seize the power of the Soul King fragments, the Tsunayo family even slaughtered a group of Fullbringers and ultimately used these fragments to create the Soul King candidate—Murakumi Hikomi.

Yhwach should also be a part of the Soul King, and probably a very large part at that, but it's unclear which part it is.

The Soul King is the source of Quincy, Shinigami, Fullbringers, and other supernatural beings; therefore, the Soul King possesses the same physical structure as Shinigami.

The Shinigami has two extremely important organs: the Lock, which represents the source of spiritual power, and the Soul Sleep, which represents the driving force of spiritual pressure.

Therefore, the Spirit King must have two organs: Lock Knot and Soul Sleep. Lock Knot is clearly located in Dao Yu Gen Aura's body, but what about Soul Sleep?

Loran's research over this period can prove that the fragment inside Kusakabe Munjiro's body should be the Soul King's Soul Sleep, or rather, a part of the Soul Sleep.

He speculated that another large piece of the Soul Sleep might have been transformed into the so-called royal treasure—the Royal Seal—by the five noble families of Soul Society.

Kusaka Soujiro, who possesses a fragment of the Soul Sleeping Blade within him, has a mysterious connection to the Royal Seal, which shares the same origin. This is why Kusaka Soujiro is able to wield a Zanpakuto like Hitsugaya Toshiro, and why he was able to be reborn in Hueco Mundo bathed in the light of the Royal Seal.

Hyōrinmaru may not be his original Zanpakutō, but rather a fragment of his Zanpakutō that was shaped into Hyōrinmaru by the psychological influence of his long-standing envy of the first-place Toshiro Hitsugaya, as the second-ranked Zanpakutō.

Just like Aizen's Hogyoku, most of the Soul King's fragments possess the ability to grant the owner's wishes.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Kusakabe Sojiro, who also possesses the power of the Spirit King, accidentally broke through the framework of "name" set by the monk.

Just like Tsukishima's "Book of the End," its power can still influence the past. Isn't this also a breakthrough from the "name" that the monk had already set?

Now, Loran is hesitating whether to use the "Soul Eater" to swallow this fragment.

To be honest, as an outsider, he didn't want to get too involved with the Spirit King.

Furthermore, Loran was unsure of the extent to which the "Soul Eater" could deal with the fragments of the Spirit King. After all, these were parts of the Spirit King's body, the highest quality and highest level soul fragments in this world. Could the "Soul Eater" really continue to work as if it were devouring other souls?

But Loran's appetite was undeniable; his soul craved this fragment. The fact that he had managed to study it and not devour it yet was already an astonishing display of Loran's willpower.

What's there to worry about, Spirit King? If the opponent's omniscience and omnipotence were really as powerful as they claim, then the Spirit King should have noticed him when he descended upon the Three Realms. There must be a reason why the opponent hasn't made a move yet.

If the other party hasn't discovered him yet, it means that the power of the Spirit King is nothing but a facade. He, Loran, can just swallow it without hesitation. What's there to be afraid of?

This time, Loran did not use the Spirit Pivot to devour.

He threw the fragment directly into his mouth, activating the full power of the 'Soul Eater'.

The surface layer of soul particles was quickly digested, and the information contained within was broken down and extracted by the Soul Eater. However, this layer had already been swept by the Myriad Manifestations, which had fused with the ability of the Anti-Membrane Silk. Apart from the increased spiritual pressure and some fragmented information, there was nothing else.

As the fragments of the soul were digested, a vast and fragmented stream of memories and information flooded into Loran's mind.

He saw a divine figure standing in the chaotic void, wielding a divine sword. The endless swarm of voids was annihilated by his attack, turning into spiritual sand. His four bright eyes shone brilliantly.

He looked toward Loran, as if he wanted to say something, but as darkness descended, Loran could no longer hear him.

Then Loran felt an unprecedented surge of energy, a powerful spiritual force that could overturn the heavens and the earth, which was propelled by this surge of energy and transformed into the primordial power that distinguished Yin and Yang and propelled the evolution of all things.

Loran's own spiritual power was insignificant in the face of this force, and the way he had painstakingly explored the operation of spiritual power seemed so crude in the face of this mysterious soul force.

Loran knew that this was the Spirit King's spiritual energy, the Spirit King's spiritual pressure driving His immense power, enough to create the heavens and the earth. Loran instinctively tried to imitate this mysterious spiritual energy, just as Dohko in the Saint Seiya world tried to learn the way God breathes.

Driven by this new surge of spiritual energy, the power of the "Soul Eater" was unleashed with unprecedented efficiency. The fragment of the Soul King's Soul Sleep from Kusakabe Sojiro was rapidly decomposing, releasing a massive amount of spiritual power that was absorbed by Loran.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

It was like the heart of a world-devouring dragon beating.

An unprecedented spiritual pressure fluctuation emanated from Loran and was then sealed off by the spiritual pressure-insulating spiritual bone material placed in the laboratory.

The time spent in the outside world was short, but Loran's mental world experienced a long period of time.

Finally, following the mysterious connection, Loran looked up at a certain place.

Looking towards the highest point of Soul Society, inside the Soul King's inner palace, behind a curtain, the Soul King was sealed in crystal like a human stump.

Suddenly, the Spirit King's eyes, which were said to be 'omniscient and omnipotent,' turned slightly downwards, meeting Loran's gaze directly.

"You came!"

Loran heard this almost imperceptible sound.

Then, just as the CD playback ended, the connection was instantly severed, and Loran was able to return to his senses from the mental world.

Inside the Spirit King's Palace, the "Eye Monk" Hyōjube Ichibei suspiciously lifted the curtain covering the Spirit King's seal. There seemed to be something here just now.

He tried to use the power given to him by the Spirit King to spy, but found nothing.

Hyōsuke Ichibei stroked his thick, glossy black beard and asked softly, "Lord Rei, is this what you intend to do?"

But only deathly silence responded to Hyōjutsu Ichibei, just as it had been for millions of years. The Spirit King remained silent, merely gazing at the Three Realms like a clay or wooden puppet.

Chapter 66 Bleach: Aizen's Arrival

In the laboratory, Loran emerged from a golden cocoon of spiritual particles.

However, something else appeared on his face: a white mask with red patterns. In the center of the mask's brow was a jade stone that resembled a crimson eye, and long horns on both sides coiled like the winding Yellow Springs, exuding both ferocity and holiness.

Loran squeezed the incredibly hard mask. This mask was probably a condensed version of some of the remnants of his soul that had been optimized and cut off during his transformation.

"Perhaps it can be used to forge a magical weapon, like Inuyasha's fang blade," Loran thought to himself.

Leaving aside the matter of forging the treasure for the time being, during the process of absorbing the fragments of the Spirit King, Loran seemed to have sensed the Spirit King through the power of the 'Soul Eater'.

The other party seemed to want to say something to him, but due to limited contact and his own poor condition, he only managed to say one sentence.

But frankly, contacting the Spirit King at this time might not be a good thing.

The current position of the Spirit King is the same as the Golden Throne of Terra, both constantly tormenting their respective masters.

The Emperor's spiritual energy was constantly drained by the Golden Throne, which sustained the precarious human empire. This torture machine, which the Bloodwalkers admired, tormented the Emperor for ten thousand years, turning him into a schizophrenic skeleton.

The Spirit King was dismembered and turned into human stumps, trapped in this cycle of neither life nor death for millions of years. The Three Realms were maintained by His power; once He was removed from His position, the world would be destroyed.

The experiences of these two people are so similar, both tragic, and they even share similar cultural origins.

The Spirit King's real name was "Adhonay," derived from the Christian god's name "adhonay" (a Hellenized variant), which means "Lord."