Free Web NovelChapter 849: Chapter 658: The Lineage of Master and Disciple—Students Who Betrayed Their Teachers (2)
"..."
All the captains of the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads nodded slightly.
What Aizen Sousuke said did make sense. If the one who attacked and tried to assassinate them back then was also a human-shaped Arrancar Hollow, then that person was definitely a mortal enemy of their Soul Society and the Quiet Spirit Court!
Because that guy, or the one behind him, had tried to assassinate the Patriarch of the Uehara Race; this was clearly an attempt to provoke conflict between the Uehara Race and the Quiet Spirit Court, with the intent to overthrow or even destroy the Soul Society!
"Then there’s nothing left to say, is there..."
Tosen Kaname followed Aizen’s lead, speaking in a deep voice, "If those people are our enemies... then we must Purify all evil!"
"That’s what I think too..."
Ichimaru Gin narrowed his eyes and nodded lazily, chuckling as he continued, "And it just so happens we haven’t had a proper battle in a long time..."
"You’re not wrong to put it that way..."
Yamamoto Genryuusai Shigekuni closed his eyes, slowly nodded, and spoke in a deep voice, "Then from this moment on... I ask all of you to prepare the troops for war! For this war to take back the Mortal World, plan thoroughly!"
After all, they were Shinigami!
Once Shinigami and Arrancar Hollows waged war in the Mortal World, it was hard to say the space of the Mortal World wouldn’t be damaged; even just a few tricks, or a single Captain Level Bankai, might annihilate an entire city or region of the Mortal World...
So their best choice was to lure those Arrancar Hollows into a wide-open area, or into the Soul Society; that way, the Shinigami would have no scruples about unleashing their full power.
Before that...
They had to deploy their forces!
The entire Soul Society and Quiet Spirit Court grew tenser than ever before. From every Squad of the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads, elite Shinigami from each division were urgently recalled to the Quiet Spirit Court, because this time they had to face hundreds of human-shaped Arrancar Hollows!
Every human-shaped Arrancar Hollow...
Required power approaching that of a Captain Level Shinigami to handle!
Which meant each Squad could only send out its seated officers—and only the ones with formidable combat strength. Every one of them was an elite of the entire Guardian Court Thirteen Squads!
Just as the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads were urgently summoning their elites...
Urahara Kisuke and Tsukabishi Tessai, still operating in the Hollow World, finally infiltrated one of Orochimaru’s underground research bases beneath the Hollow Night Palace with the help of White Zetsu.
The size of this research base far exceeded their imagination.
Even Urahara Kisuke was a little amazed; even back when he’d been Captain of Squad 12, he’d never had such a luxurious base...
All kinds of slumbering Hollows...
All sorts of Zanpakuto...
All kinds of strange experimental instruments...
And an archive room as wide as a warehouse, crammed with shelves full of files!
Some of the names written on those shelves were experiments Urahara Kisuke had only ever heard about from Yakushi Kabuto’s mouth, but had never seen with his own eyes!
Many of them were Kinjutsu development experiments...
If he could stay in this archive room for a year—no, even just a single day—Urahara Kisuke felt he could gain as much as in the past hundred years of his life!
This was once the research base of the cold lord Orochimaru. All of this was experimental data left behind by Orochimaru. It was no exaggeration to say that this alone could push forward the technological progress of the Soul Society!
Especially since most of it was Kinjutsu...
Kinjutsu that had only ever appeared in rumored documents!
Like the artificial human technology Urahara Kisuke was most interested in.
This technique transplanted a powerful soul into a cloned body to create a true human indistinguishable from an ordinary person, even retaining complete Spiritual Power...
Such a human could completely hide in the Mortal World, living just like a real human being, one step beyond a Gigai...
This already bordered on bringing the dead back to life.
Urahara Kisuke had coveted this technology for a long time.
All these years, to conceal his activities in the Mortal World, Urahara had been constantly developing stealth Gigai. In fact, he’d already grasped the general outline; he only needed a bit more inspiration or guidance to dramatically speed up his research process!
Unfortunately...
They didn’t have time to stay here.
This was the underground of the Hollow Night Palace; they could be discovered at any time by patrolling Arrancar Hollows, and by then escape would be extremely difficult.
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Urahara Kisuke scratched his head. As he slowly reached out to pick up a stack of data, his gaze landed on another line of text!
Compared to the artificial human technology...
The Kinjutsu marked by that line of words tempted Urahara Kisuke far more!
The most perfect Gigai Technology in the world, the legendary foundation upon which the Uehara Race had established themselves in the Soul Society—the legendary Reanimation Jutsu!
If he could obtain the Reanimation Jutsu...
He might not even need to keep risking his life searching for evidence; as long as he could decipher the secrets of Reanimation, he could directly force the Uehara Race to release their people!
Of course...
This plan was a little dangerous.
Even without carrying out such a dangerous plan, just a single look at the Reanimation Jutsu would already leave Urahara Kisuke perfectly satisfied; or rather, there wasn’t a single researcher in the Soul Society who could remain unmoved by this Kinjutsu!
Without a doubt...
This could very well be the highest secret text of the entire Soul Society!
Just as Urahara Kisuke casually reached out toward the Reanimation Jutsu, a cold voice halted his movement: "I heard you’re Kabuto’s student?"
"Who’s there!"
Tsukabishi Tessai and Urahara Kisuke snapped their heads around!
A tall, skinny figure with deathly pale skin stood at the entrance to the archive room. A long tongue slowly slid out from his mouth, licking his lips...
The sight...
Was eerily disturbing!
Orochimaru!
The cold lord Orochimaru!
Urahara Kisuke didn’t need to ask. As researchers, they had once especially admired Orochimaru; there was no way they would mistake his appearance!
"Hehehehe, isn’t this the time you should be bowing to me?"
Orochimaru licked his lips, a sinister, horrifying smile hanging on his face. "Hasn’t your teacher Yakushi Kabuto ever told you... who his teacher is?"
"..."
Urahara Kisuke fell into Silence.
Clearly, Orochimaru wasn’t making this up out of thin air.
For Orochimaru to bring up Yakushi Kabuto at this moment meant that he indeed had a very close relationship with Yakushi Kabuto, even a direct master–disciple lineage.
Perhaps this could also explain how Yakushi Kabuto had managed to develop the Reanimation Jutsu; it might have been data he obtained from Orochimaru in the first place?
"Lord Orochimaru."
Urahara Kisuke took a deep breath, sweeping Tsukabishi Tessai behind him with one arm, and spoke in a low voice, "My lord... do you know me?"
"Even though I’ve been hiding here, I’ve always kept an eye on the Soul Society..."
Orochimaru’s laughter grew more chilling, enough to send a shiver down one’s bones. "A clever prodigy like you, who could help me take revenge or become my finest piece on the board, is not someone I’d be willing to let go. Unfortunately, that guy Kabuto seems quite fond of you; he beat me to it and spirited you away under his protection..."
"Teacher Kabuto..."
A flicker of surprise flashed across Urahara Kisuke’s face.
In that instant, Urahara’s gaze shifted. He recalled Yakushi Kabuto’s cultivation and care of him, and how he’d always shielded him; the two of them were almost like father and son. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
Hearing Orochimaru’s words now...
It seemed Yakushi Kabuto had done far more for him than he knew.
Based on Urahara Kisuke’s own analysis, he had guessed that Orochimaru might be a traitor of the Uehara Race. Now it appeared that besides defecting from the Uehara Race, Orochimaru also seemed intent on taking revenge against them.
Just as Urahara Kisuke was about to try probing for information, Orochimaru’s laughter suddenly turned shrill, filled with endless resentment. "I almost forgot... you brat betrayed Kabuto as well... It seems the teachers and students of our lineage truly share the same nature... all of us betray our own teacher’s teachings..."
