Bleach: The Forbidden One of Soul Society
Chapter 72

Brief Respite

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In less than a minute, Lin Nan felt a change in his body. An extremely strong sense of heat came from Saketsu and Hakusui, as if there were red charcoal hanging near his chest and Dantian, burning his skin.

This is a radiation-like thermal energy reaction produced when Reishi interact and collide with each other after the concentration of Reishi is increased. Lin Nan heard Katori talk about it in those days of Xiaozao classes.

Within a few dozen seconds after the heat sensation was generated, the rapid spiritual pressure poured into the body from Saketsu and Hakusui. In an instant, Lin Nan felt a vague itching sensation from the wound on his shoulder. At the same time, as the body continued to absorb it, the originally surging and unbalanced spiritual pressure in the body gradually calmed down, and as the total amount increased, it gradually became stronger.

Rei-Pressure Shell, which had become weak in the battle, was now re-arranged on the body surface, and even slightly increased in thickness compared to before.

Lin Nan tentatively moved his arms, and said to Hongyuan Haili with some joy, "It works! I feel that the spiritual pressure is restored very quickly!"

Hongyuan Haili also nodded happily. The two of them looked at Ukitake on the hospital bed with concern, looking forward to the results.

Ukitake still hasn't woken up, but his frown has gradually relaxed.

"It seems that he is at least out of danger." Hongyuan Haili checked Ukitake's physical characteristics and judged.

Lin Nan finally felt relieved. As his tense nerves relaxed, a strong sense of fatigue instantly engulfed him.

"You have consumed too much just now. The process of restoring spiritual pressure will also bring some burden to the spirit. Ukitake's current condition has stabilized. You might as well go and rest for a while. I will take care of you here. Nothing will happen."

Hongyuan Haili saw Lin Nan's eyelids twitching and pointed at a chair in the laboratory.

"There are no extra beds here, so I can only let you sit on the chair for a while."

Lin Nan glanced at Ukitake who was still sleeping. "Reishi-Gathering Pill won't bring too much burden to him, right?"

"The body and spiritual pressure are complementary to each other. His trauma is a bit serious, so we must ensure that the spiritual pressure level does not drop, which in turn stabilizes his vital signs." Hongyuan Haili explained,

"Compared with his trauma, this mental burden is nothing to mention. Don't worry."

Lin Nan heard this, nodded, came to the chair and sat down. "I can't sleep for too long, please wake me up in fifteen minutes."

After saying that, he leaned his head on the back of the chair and fell into a deep sleep.

In the corridor shrouded in moonlight, Lin Nan slowly opened his eyes.

"I wanted to really take a rest, but I was dragged here." He complained, but he quickly walked into Playback Room.

There are very important contents to be analyzed in this battle. The first one is the "Soul Art" of these men in black.

When he was fighting Iwamoto Raizo before, he lost consciousness and did not collect relevant information. It was only later when he heard the two brothers Kyoraku mention the scene at that time that he learned that the other party had such fighting skills.

Today, I finally got a rare opportunity for close analysis. Moreover, since the door next door opened, the equipment on Playback Room's side has also unlocked a new function, which can analyze the flow of Reishi in the screen.

Maybe today's harvest will be more than before.

Lin Nan couldn't wait to open the battle replay and directly positioned the screen to the moment when the opponent released Soul Art.

On the screen, several faint rays of light appeared again. He looked at the colorful screen and controlled the equipment to start the analysis process. While the equipment was analyzing, Lin Nan turned around and left, entering the Reishi experimental analysis room next door.

After 24 hours, the reverse research on "Reishi-Gathering Pill" has been completed. At this moment, a small blue light is floating quietly at the bottom of "Reishi Experimental Analyzer".

Lin Nan stepped forward, reached out and touched the blue light, and a detailed text description was projected into the space in front of him.

"Sure enough, this thing doesn't directly allow people to absorb Reishi." Halfway through, a smile appeared on his face that said, "As expected."

If the body is compared to a furnace, and spiritual pressure is the heat generated by combustion, then Reishi is the fuel such as firewood.

The function of Reishi-Gathering Pill is not to add new firewood to the stove, but to introduce oxygen to promote combustion, making the combustion more intense and thus generating more heat.

In a short period of time, there is indeed a lot more heat, but in the absence of subsequent replenishment, the burning time of the furnace fire will inevitably be shortened. Even if the heat generated in a short period of time is too high, the furnace itself may be burned.

"Forcibly squeezing the body's potential, allowing the spiritual pressure in the body to break through to a new level in a short period of time and maintain it for a period of time. As the number of uses increases, the body will develop drug resistance.

Moreover, every time Reishi-Gathering Pill increases the spiritual pressure output, it will strongly weaken the original spiritual pressure..." Lin Nan read the research results, his expression gradually became weird,

"Ukitake and I just took the concentrated version. Isn't this going to end our lives?! The drug Hongyuan Haili is researching is a special stimulant...

It's no wonder that grandpa can only eat three pills at most, because his already weak body doesn't have much potential to squeeze out."

With a trace of anxiety, he continued reading. "Is there any solution? We can't just let our spiritual pressure be weakened forever, right?"

However, the report had been read to the last word and no optimization plan had been seen. Then, the research report projected by blue light disappeared from sight.

Lin Nan suddenly panicked, stretched out his hand and patted the Reishi Experimental Analyzer hard. "That's it? It's gone?"

Will I and Ukitake be in a weakened state from now on?!

A moment later, another projected text was projected in front of his eyes again.

"Reishi-Gathering Pill improvement plan--"

Lin Nan, whose heartbeat had just accelerated, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and couldn't wait to move forward.

"Use the pill itself as a medium to absorb and release Reishi, and through absorption by the body, achieve the effect of supplementing spiritual pressure. The improvement plan is as follows..."

It can be said that in the new transformation plan, only the name of Reishi-Gathering Pill is the same as before, and the rest of the details have been changed beyond recognition.

The previous Reishi-Gathering Pill forced oxygen into the "stove" to force the wood to burn; the new plan adds coal with better burning effect to the stove, and also adds some combustion accelerants to ensure continuous and efficient combustion.

Not only can it truly achieve the purpose of replenishing spiritual pressure, but it can also offset the side effects of the old version of Reishi-Gathering Pill without weakening the original spiritual pressure.

"This looks much more reliable." Lin Nan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this, "In the future, you can make an improved Reishi-Gathering Pill by micro-modifying the objects in Soul Society."

I and Ukitake have already taken Reishi-Gathering Pill from Hongyuan Haili. Before the effect of the drug ends, a new and improved Reishi-Gathering Pill must be produced in time to offset and avoid side effects to prevent another unexpected situation.

Putting aside his worries, he returned to Playback Room again. The results of the battle replay had also come out.

All the shimmering traces of spiritual pressure have been marked with corresponding attributes in detail. The result is similar to what Lin Nan guessed, this is the power of the soul itself.

The fundamental reason why each Soul Reaper's Zanpakuto form is different is because the essence of each person's soul is different.

Different souls resonate with Asauchi and "shape" Asauchi. The soul's ability merges with Asauchi itself, eventually forming different forms, achieving the liberation of Zanpakuto.

"It seems that before Oetsu Nimaiya created Zanpakuto, people with spiritual talents fought in this way..." Lin Nan caressed his chin and analyzed, "Unfortunately, I cannot dismantle and learn the power of this soul itself, and I cannot even imitate it in the simplest way."

He did not get hung up on those fancy Soul Art, but instead refocused on his newly developed fighting method.

Although this move caused considerable damage, the burden on the spiritual pressure and the body was too great. Moreover, the intense compression of spiritual pressure in a short period of time also had an unstable effect on the spiritual pressure in the body, and even directly led to a decrease in subsequent combat effectiveness.

"In tonight's battle, if my spiritual pressure hadn't fluctuated severely during the battle, I should have been able to use more special slashes." Lin Nan looked at the screen, analyzing the results of his attacks, thoughtfully.

Using compressed spiritual pressure to enhance attack is essentially the same as the principle of Rei-Pressure Shell. It compresses and solidifies spiritual power to achieve the corresponding purpose.

The war is urgent now. Before you can master Shikai, this can be regarded as a practical method. It just needs to make a series of improvements, but how to improve it?

Lin Nan can't help but think of Kido.

Isn't it true that Kido uses the spirit of speech to drive the Reishi in the atmosphere to condense into entities to achieve its purpose...

Entity attacks with natural element attributes are Hadō such as Byakurai and Shakkaho; while condensed into entities, they become defense or control Bakudō.

Now that I have the ability to transform Reishi, why not create a Kido based on the principles of Kido that enhances the attack power of Asauchi?

Thinking of this, Lin Nan's eyes suddenly lit up.

Fifteen minutes passed immediately.

Hongyuan Haili tentatively patted Lin Nan on the shoulder. "Wake up, time is up."

Lin Nan was excited and opened his eyes.

Hongyuan Haili looked at Lin Nan, who was still a little tired, and said with concern, "You haven't had a good rest at all, why don't you take some more sleep!"

"No, time is running out - what about Ukitake?" Lin Nan shook his head vigorously to wake himself up.

"He just opened his eyes and looked for a moment, and then went back to sleep."

Lin Nan stood up and walked to Ukitake's bed to check. Ukitake was still sleeping, but his expression relaxed a lot.

Lin Nan thought of the research results in the Playback Room space, and quickly asked Hongyuan Haili for two pieces of the original Reishi-Gathering Pill. At the moment, this is the only thing that can be found around that can be eaten and is small enough to be easily transformed.

Hongyuan Haili didn't ask why and just gave him two pills. Lin Nan took the pills and held them in his palm, then quietly started to Reishi transform the pills.

Then, Lin Nan suddenly thought of something, turned to Hongyuan Haili and said, "By the way, you and your family have to pack your things immediately and go to 8th Division's station with me."

After speaking, he reached out and summoned Hell Butterfly, who had been following him, to prepare to announce the news to the headquarters.

Hongyuan Haili was confused by Lin Nan's meaningless words. "What's wrong? Why do you want us to go to Soul Reaper's residence with you?"

Lin Nan poured some spiritual pressure into Hell Butterfly to enable the remote calling function. Then, he looked back at Hongyuan Haili and replied:

"Because you and your family may be in danger next."

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