Seeing Mr. Hawking agree, Kisuke Urahara immediately opened a passage to the Soul Society.
"So this is the Soul Society?"
After passing through the passage, a world entirely made up of souls appeared before his eyes.
On the surface, the Soul Society resembled heaven or paradise, but in reality, it was an extremely unequal feudal world, mainly divided into two parts: the Seireitei and Rukongai.
The Seireitei lay at the center of Rukongai and was where the Reapers lived, while Rukongai was where people went to live in the Soul Society after dying in the Human World.
Rukongai was divided into eighty districts surrounding the Seireitei. The lower the number, the better the security and living conditions; the Eightieth District was the worst.
After death, people were randomly assigned to different districts of Rukongai. If they awakened Spiritual Power, they could enter the Reaper system's academy, the Shinigami Academy, and graduate to become Reapers.
Once they became Reapers, they could live in the prosperous Seireitei.
In the Soul Society, ghosts would not die of hunger, but without food, they would endure the suffering of starvation. Souls could also fall ill, so every ghost living in Rukongai wanted to become a Reaper.
The Seireitei was mainly divided into two major parts: the Gotei 13 and Central 46.
The Gotei 13 was established by Commander Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni. Its primary duty was to protect the Seireitei's safety and maintain order between the Soul Society and the Human World.
Central 46, on the other hand, was the Soul Society's highest judicial body. It was composed of nobles and elders, and even Commander Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni could not defy its orders.
Thus, the true supreme authority of the entire Soul Society was still in the hands of the Four Great Noble Clans, who had