"What is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind?"
Aizen savored Arima's words carefully.
Arima explained to Aizen: "The Kuchiki family seems glorious, but in reality, it has been ruined. It is difficult to maintain the Kuchiki family's glory with Kuchiki Ginrei alone. After all, he is old."
"Recruiting Kuchiki Kōga as his son-in-law was his last resort."
"His idea is quite clever. He hopes that Kuchiki Kōga will help maintain the Kuchiki family's appearance and support them until a new strong leader is born. By that time, the Kuchiki family will still be the head of the five noble families."
"But you must not forget that the relationship between the five noble families is not as harmonious as it may seem."
"In the past, the Tsunayashiro family was at the top of the five noble families, with the Shiba family being the second most powerful."
"The Kuchiki family came from behind and eventually became the leader of the five noble families."
In other words, that is the situation.
Arima let Aizen process this information. Aizen, being an intelligent man, clearly understood the meaning.
Even if the tree is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it.
The Kuchiki family is the large tree standing tall in the forest.
Large trees attract the wind easily.
If the tree is still tall and strong, it will naturally not fear the winds and frosts.
However, the big tree of the Kuchiki family has gradually decayed, which has attracted many people who covet it. Many do not want to see the big tree of the Kuchiki family come back to life; instead, they seek ways to completely destroy it.
"By the way, how did your experiment go?" Arima asked, shifting the topic.
After discussing Kuchiki Kōga, Arima now asked Aizen about the experiment.
Aizen had come up with an idea after learning about the theory of temporary souls from Arima earlier.
His idea was to stack many Shinigami souls together, hoping that quantitative changes could lead to a qualitative change and break through the boundaries of a Shinigami's abilities.
As for whether the souls would have a main consciousness after accumulating, Aizen didn't really care. He simply wanted to verify if such an experiment could break the boundaries.
When Arima asked about the progress, Aizen narrowed his eyes and answered honestly, "The experiment failed."
"By simply piling up souls, the powers within the souls conflict with each other. In the process, they destroy themselves before they can break through the boundaries."
Upon reflection, this was a reasonable outcome.
Hikifune Kiryu's temporary soul theory involves cultivating a group of souls with the same origin through external means, then implanting them into the original soul to enhance the soul's strength.
Since they are souls of the same origin, there will be no conflict, and Reiatsu can be strengthened without issue.
However, Aizen had merely stacked souls together without taking their consciousness into account. As a result, the spiritual powers within the souls conflicted, causing them to destroy each other. The souls could not fuse together.
Only when one consciousness overpowers the others can a main consciousness form.
This process is similar to the birth of a Hollow.
The birth of Menos Grande occurs when many souls devour and kill each other, eventually determining one main consciousness to lead.
After Aizen admitted his failure, he bluntly said, "I thought it was too simple. After the failure, I realized that what I was doing was essentially the same process as creating a Hollow."
"Since the accumulation of pure souls results in resistance and annihilation due to the consciousness within them, could we try to annihilate the consciousness in the soul, then designate a main consciousness instead of trying to simply integrate all the souls together?"
Arima thought about Aizen's failure and then made a suggestion.
"Master consciousness?" Aizen looked at his master.
Arima explained: "There is no distinction between high and low among Shinigami souls.
The only difference is the strength of the spiritual power contained in the soul.
You want to gather high-intensity spiritual power through the accumulation of souls, but because of the self-awareness within each soul, it is difficult for them to merge directly."
"So, we can try to think differently."
"Find something with a higher soul level than Shinigami, use it as the main body, and integrate all souls into it..."
"Because its personality is stronger than that of ordinary souls, even if many souls are integrated into it, it will be difficult for them to shake its stability. In fact, it will only make it stronger."
"But, does such a thing really exist?" Aizen thought carefully about Arima's words.
Simply accumulating souls was recreating the process of Menos Grande's birth.
Although souls could devour each other, it led to evolution.
Just like Menos Grande, multiple ordinary Hollows consume each other, merging to become more powerful Hollows. Then, Menos Grande evolves further, from Gillian to Adjuchas, and then to Vasto Lorde.
But in Hueco Mundo, where many souls are fused together, the most powerful being is just a Vasto Lorde.
As souls merge and evolve, their power depletes, preventing the full condensation of their strength.
While the accumulation of enough souls can lead to qualitative changes, the number of qualified souls available is limited.
After all, only a few souls are capable of becoming Shinigami.
And Aizen could collect even fewer souls.
Therefore, every soul was a precious resource, and Aizen must use them wisely to avoid wasting any of their power.
"Shinigami, though they have the title of 'god,' are not truly gods after all," Arima said to Aizen.
Aizen immediately understood.
Indeed, there is a higher being than Shinigami.
Shinigami, Hollow, and Quincy may have powers that counterbalance each other, but in terms of personality, they are similar. They form a triangular relationship between the three worlds.
Above them, there is a being superior to Shinigami, Hollow, and Quincy.
That being is the Spirit King.
In the past, the Spirit King was murdered by the ancestors of the five noble families and became the cornerstone of the world. Many of his body fragments were scattered across the world.
If they could find a suitable fragment of the Spirit King and use it as the core to integrate many souls into it, they might be able to use the power of the Spirit King as a wedge to break through the boundaries.
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