Sora took out the items he had collected from Miyamoto Tetsuya's laboratory.
Fortunately, his lab was built at the bottom of a mine, so there was enough space. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to fit so many life-support pods.
"Professor, where did you bring back so many Reigai and machines from?" Sōsuke Aizen was very surprised to see his Professor take out so many Reigai and life-support pods.
Aizen couldn't help but wonder if his Professor had gone and emptied out Kirio Hikifune's laboratory.
The number of these Reigai and machines was not small, and creating them would require a vast amount of resources. There weren't many labs in the Soul Society with such capabilities.
"I went on a mission to the World of the Living with Yoruichi yesterday and dealt with Miyamoto Tetsuya, the person behind the frequent Reigai incidents in recent years," Sora explained while moving a life-support pod. "These Reigai and machines were all brought back from Miyamoto Tetsuya's lab."
"For that Miyamoto Tetsuya to be able to build a lab of this scale in the World of the Living, he must have had support from the Soul Society, right?" Sōsuke Aizen was quite sharp, instantly deducing that Miyamoto Tetsuya was not working alone.
"That's right. Very perceptive, Sōsuke," Sora said gently. "Miyamoto Tetsuya was controlling the Mizutani family from behind the scenes, using them to obtain souls with Shinigami potential and resources from the Soul Society. The phenomenon of rampant faith I discovered in the Rukongai earlier was also a result of Miyamoto Tetsuya screening for souls with Shinigami potential."
"I see. Spreading faith to make contact with the residents of the Rukongai... that is indeed a way to quickly expand one's influence," Sōsuke Aizen said thoughtfully.
Next, Sora brought out the largest life-support pod.
Maintained by drugs, the human-faced Hollow's spiritual body remained active.
"Is this a Vasto Lorde Arrancar?" Sōsuke Aizen's question was the same as Katori Sora's when he first saw this human-faced Hollow.
"This human-faced Hollow is arguably my greatest gain from this trip," Sora said with a light laugh.
Sora had brought back one to two hundred Reigai in various phases of development and intact life-support pods, but the combined value of all those things was not as high as this human-faced Hollow.
Reigai could be replicated, but a human-faced Hollow was the product of an extremely low probability.
Even if Miyamoto Tetsuya spent the same amount of time and resources again, he might not be able to create another one.
"Is it even more valuable than all these Reigai and machines? If it were a living Vasto Lorde, it would indeed be very valuable, but she just looks like a corpse, or..." Sōsuke Aizen carefully sensed the human-faced Hollow's condition. "Is she not an ordinary Vasto Lorde?"
From the Spiritual Pressure fluctuations he sensed, the human-faced Hollow's Spiritual Pressure signature was dormant, like a pile of high-density spirit particles. It was completely different from the Spiritual Pressure fluctuations of a living being. It was undoubtedly a corpse.
"It's not that simple. She isn't a Vasto Lorde. She is half-human, half-Hollow, born this way," Sora said as he adjusted the life-support pod, planning to draw some blood from the human-faced Hollow.
"Half-human, half-Hollow! Miyamoto Tetsuya actually reached this stage?" Sōsuke Aizen's eyes shifted slightly. He and his Professor had experimented on Hollowfied Shinigami Reigai for several years, all of which resulted in uncontrollable mutations. Yet the human-faced Hollow before him looked very stable.
Under Sora's operation, an empty tube inserted into the human-faced Hollow's back began to draw blood.
"Miyamoto Tetsuya's approach was different from ours. He chose to start from the embryonic phase, having a human soul conceive a child that was a hybrid of human and Hollow," Sora said, placing a test tube at the end of the pod's external tube. A moment later, the test tube had collected some blood.
"He used a massive amount of materials to create this one relatively stable half-human, half-Hollow, but in the end, he still couldn't bring her to life. He could only use drugs to maintain the activity of her spiritual body." After taking the blood, Sora went to analyze its components.
Sora's lab now had the ability to differentiate between Hollow, Shinigami, and human soul types by analyzing blood composition.
"It really does possess both human soul and Hollow spirit particles..." Sōsuke Aizen came closer and saw the changing colors on the test strip.
"This half-human, half-Hollow will be our main research project from now on," Sora said.
"If a combination of a human soul and a Hollow can be this stable, why can't the more resilient Shinigami Reigai withstand the power of a Hollow..." Sōsuke Aizen fell into deep thought.
"I have a theory... The mother of this half-human, half-Hollow might have been different from other souls," Sora said, remembering something.
After the Soul King was split into many parts, the fragments fell to various places in the three worlds. Some fragments even merged with souls, circulating with them throughout the realms.
Some became part of humans, some became part of Shinigami, and some even became part of Hollows.
Sora himself had once obtained a Soul King fragment from the remains of an ancient Menos Grande.
Sora guessed that the mother of this half-human, half-Hollow was very likely a soul that contained a Soul King fragment.
Soul King fragments possessed miraculous power.
It was only through the effect of the Soul King fragment that this half-human, half-Hollow was able to be born.
All other souls without a Soul King fragment had failed.
Miyamoto Tetsuya's success was accidental, but in a sense, it was also inevitable.
Unfortunately, Sora hadn't found the body of the half-human, half-Hollow's mother in Miyamoto Tetsuya's lab, so he couldn't verify this theory.
"Sōsuke, you've probably heard of the Soul King, right?" Sora didn't stop, taking out some chemicals to prepare a mixture.
Sora didn't want to waste the extracted blood. He tried to follow a formula he found in Miyamoto Tetsuya's lab to create a spiritual body growth agent.
Two of the fingers on Sora's left hand were still immobile, but the Professor and disciple had worked together in the lab for years and had excellent coordination. Sōsuke Aizen immediately stepped forward to help grind the medicinal herbs.
"Of course, I have. The Soul King is the true ruler of the Soul Society, residing in the Soul King Palace high above," Sōsuke Aizen nodded. For the past few years, he had often used his Kyōka Suigetsu's ability to go to the noble district and read the books in their collections. He already had a considerable understanding of the world.
"That's from the nobles' private libraries, right?" Sora smiled faintly.
Aizen's heart tightened. The hand grinding the herbs couldn't help but pause for a moment.
Professor found out!
Back then, Aizen had just joined the dojo and didn't fully trust the people there. He would sneak out every night to read those books.
He thought he had hidden it well, but he never expected his Professor to find out.
So, did Professor also discover the ability of Kyōka Suigetsu?
If he did, would he think I've been deceiving him?
Sōsuke Aizen's mind raced.
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