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Chapter 54 These are all Urahara Kisuke's schemes!

Rather than letting these things rot in his hands, Shen Yi felt it would be better to use them to exchange for some benefits. Wouldn't it be much better to use these funds to create a technology development bureau or something than to be an agricultural sage?

"Perhaps, we can let Ryutama do these things."

Kisuke Urahara pondered for a long time before finally speaking.

Let the wandering souls grow spirit rice?

Shen Yi was taken aback when he heard this. This suggestion was like a key that suddenly opened a door in his mind that had been half-closed.

He had always worried about the future, but with his current strength, even with the chat group as a cheat, he couldn't possibly defeat Aizen. At most, he could only fight ten Kensei Rokusha. That was only because he had mastered the Shinigami's sword-slaying technique, which allowed him to fight ten.

Kensei Rokusha: ...

After all, Kaido-sensei said it well: Haki surpasses everything, oh no, I mean spiritual pressure surpasses everything.

At least before the Sternritter's strange tactics came out, even Aizen, after seeing Ichigo Kurosaki with no spiritual pressure, subconsciously felt that the latter was using spiritual pressure as energy to strengthen his body and had gone down the wrong path.

Of course, he could also grow stronger over the past hundred years through training, even becoming stronger than Yamamoto, but the problem is that Aizen is an old fox, and who knows if he will scheme against him.

Having the wandering souls grow spirit rice is undoubtedly a good choice.

First, if he wants to become stronger, he naturally needs a large amount of spirit rice as a cultivation ingredient.

Secondly, he could use this opportunity to test the monk's eyes. After all, he guessed that the Zero Division was unwilling to make changes, but perhaps the Zero Division really just wanted to reward those who had contributed to Soul Society?

Finally, he can disrupt the situation. Anyway, the plot has already been messed up because of his intrusion. For one thing, Shiba Isshin had already found Rukia for him a couple of days ago, and he's been staring at Hisa for a while now. After all, for Rukia, Hisa is a stranger, even though she looks a lot like her, especially since this person who claims to be her older sister abandoned her.

Shen Yi naturally wouldn't get involved in such an awkward situation, so he left the matter to Shiba Isshin, and casually mentioned that if Rukia wanted to become a Shinigami, she could go to the Shinigami Academy.

According to his observation, Aizen may have already begun researching the Hogyoku, but he certainly hasn't started experimenting yet. After all, there are no legends of Rukongai disappearing, which means that he doesn't plan to go to Hueco Mundo, or more precisely, he doesn't plan to become an enemy of Soul Society.

In a sense, Kisuke Urahara and Aizen are the same kind of people, except that the former chose to maintain the status quo after learning the truth about the world, while the latter wanted to rewrite the rules of the world after learning the truth about the world.

Otherwise, how do you think the Hogyoku came about? Aizen had to extract the Soul King's remnants from Matsumoto Rangiku, but Urahara Kisuke didn't.

If Spirit Rice were to become widely available, the nobles would certainly pay more attention to Wandering Souls.

Ironically, from the perspective of the Grim Reapers, their purpose in going to the mortal world to receive souls is to prevent those wandering souls from falling into the void or being devoured by it. Ultimately, it is to maintain the stable cycle that was built by the five noble families and has been running for millions of years.

So, for the Grim Reaper, it's actually of little use.

You're saying that you can become the Grim Reaper?

Indeed, it is possible. Every year, a group of ordinary students from the Shinigami Academy pass the examinations to become official members of the Gotei 13. Even Shen Yi himself became a Shinigami and even the captain of the 10th Division in this way.

The problem is that the Shinigami had existed for thousands of years before the Shinigami Academy appeared. Those Shinigami from noble families passed down their lineage from generation to generation, and there was no need for commoners to join them.

In a sense, the whole thing was like sand brought in by the tide for the Seireitei—too much, too much to be a hindrance.

From a utilitarian perspective, only a very small number of these souls possess the spiritual power to become Shinigami (death gods). The vast majority of wandering souls are just ordinary souls without any special abilities. They cannot fight, work, or create any value for the Seireitei.

And their numbers are so vast it's despair-inducing!

After all, people die every moment, and the normal death process takes at least a hundred years. If someone has some spiritual power, like Shen Yi when he transmigrated, they might live for a hundred or two hundred years. Just thinking about so many wandering souls is enough to make the Grim Reapers despair.

This creates an awkward situation: the Shinigami cannot simply ignore the wandering souls, as allowing them to roam the mortal realm would lead to the creation of Hollows, nor can they allow them into the Seireitei, since even the spiritual pressure of ordinary Shinigami would have some impact on these ordinary souls.

Therefore, they could only use a compromise: to isolate them in the Rukongai, which is located on the outskirts of Seireitei.

Of course, you could say you're too lazy to care.

After all, for the Shinigami, as long as they don't die at the hands of Hollows, the deaths of the Ryukon are just part of the cycle of reincarnation.

But Lingmi is different; its value is so great that it can tempt even the most aloof nobles.

Shen Yi could even imagine how quickly those nobles who had previously ignored Rukongai would change their attitude once they realized that Rukongai could create wealth for them.

They would even take the initiative to improve the treatment of wandering souls, not for any moral or ethical reasons, but simply because a shrewd farmer wouldn't let his livestock starve.

After all, even an ordinary creature needs a small amount of water to survive, let alone work, and it certainly needs food containing spiritual particles as well.

Although this may seem like no change, the biggest change is that the original Shinigami, who had little spiritual pressure, will gradually gain spiritual pressure over time. This also means that the boundary between Shinigami and Shinigami will become lower and lower, and there will be no scenario where Hisa and Byakuya die a few years after they get together. Shinigami and Shinigami are no longer two kinds of beings separated by power.

What's even more terrifying is that the land in Soul Society has its limits!

So this brings us back to Aizen's future trip to Hueco Mundo. In the past, while Soul Society would send expeditionary forces to Hueco Mundo to eliminate Hollows, it was to maintain balance and they didn't usually go deep into the region. This is also why Aizen built Las Noches in Hueco Mundo without the Shinigami's knowledge, because Hueco Mundo is too big.

Although Hueco Mundo appears to be a barren land composed of white desert and quartz deadwood, the concentration of spiritual particles in its atmosphere is far higher than in other spaces, making it a veritable black soil for farmers.

"You're so cunning, Urahara!"

Upon realizing this, Shen Yi's gaze toward Urahara Kisuke became quite strange. Although Urahara Kisuke had only mentioned it casually, the thought of his future face immediately led him to attribute all the evil plans he had deduced to Urahara Kisuke.

This is all part of Kisuke Urahara's conspiracy!

Urahara Kisuke:? ? ?

Do you believe me if I say I don't understand what you're saying?