When Lu Li first entered End Space, his vision merely blurred, and he arrived in End Space's transfer zone.
At the time, he felt that his body was no different from before. There were no wounds, no disabilities from the explosion. Most likely, he had been in a Spirit Particle state at the time, but under Doomsday's power, he had been unable to process it. He thought his physical injuries had vanished and firmly believed that was his own body.
Back then, his attention had been focused entirely on whether he was inside the company's virtual game. To verify its realism, he had mainly tested whether there was any transmission delay in his body and the like. After finding no issues, he assumed End Space had repaired his body.
But thinking carefully, End Space had never said it had repaired his injured body, had it?
Lu Li suddenly felt that he had been truly stupid. He had never noticed the subtle differences between himself and the other Explorers, or rather, the differences in his several visits to the Bleach World.
During his first visit to the Bleach World, he had landed directly in Rukongai District, joined the True Spirit Arts Academy for training, and had always adventured there in a soul body.
Teacher Unohana's Healing Kidō was a method of healing that worked on the soul. He had attended so many classes with Teacher Unohana—why had he never realized that he was a soul body rather than a physical body disguised by the space?
After joining the Gotei 13, he had used a Gigai when he went to the Living World on missions!
Back then, Lu Li had marveled at how brilliant the space's disguise was, thinking it could even use corpses, without ever considering that he had truly lost