Chapter 469

After sending Ye Yi away, Feng Ye stood alone in the palace with his hands behind his back. He looked up at the sky and fell into deep thought.

Gradually.

Not long after, his body floated up and sat down in the air. His entire body floated about a meter above the ground, quietly and motionlessly.

Feng Ye slowly closed his eyes.

After absorbing the power of all the Annihilators in the Invisible Kingdom and the Annihilator King, Yhwach, it was impossible to say that he was not affected at all.

The remaining power of Yhwach and the power of all the Annihilators in the Invisible Kingdom was not a small force to him. It was at least a medium force.

In fact.

The total power that the Soul Corpse World and the Void Ring possessed now was greater than the power that the Spirit King had possessed in the beginning. The reason was very simple. Although the Spirit King had created the Soul Corpse World and the Void Ring, the lives in the Soul Corpse World and the Void Ring were not created by him.

Every soul came from the present world and was born in the present world. The present world was a part of the universe, and every soul born there had the power of the mind, soul, and so on.

This power did not belong to the Spirit King.

After these souls died, they entered the Soul Society and absorbed the spiritual droplets to become Death Gods. Although most of the power in this process came from absorbing the spiritual droplets of the Spirit King, they still had a part of the power that belonged to them. At least their souls did not belong to the Spirit King.

Therefore, after a million years, the Soul Society and the Void Circle had developed to their current scale, and the complete power they possessed was actually much more than a million years ago.

This came from every soul, every life.

No matter who, no matter what, no matter how high or low their status was, as long as they were born in the present world and returned to the Soul Society, they would become the cornerstone of this world.

The current Soul Society and the Void Circle were made up of thousands of ordinary souls like this, who had contributed to it bit by bit, and finally developed to their current scale.

The Annihilator was one of them.

Although their power also came from the Spirit King, the part of the soul and the part of the bloodline was their own power, and it belonged to this vast and boundless universe. Therefore, it was of great benefit to Feng Ye.

The most direct observation was that the time it would take for Feng Ye to transform had shortened, and he would not need 60 years. He felt that he would only need another 50 years to reach that critical point.

The critical point of collapse and qualitative change.

It would not be too much of a problem to compare the current Feng Ye to a dark star.

His complete power was that of a medium-sized star that had partially collapsed and turned into an extremely dense neutron star. Right now, it was developing in the direction of a strange star. Once it reached the final critical point, it would become a black hole.

In reality, celestial bodies like black holes were a manifestation of pure power reaching the extreme. If one wanted to discuss which was stronger, between natural laws and pure power, the black hole would be the critical point.

After breaking through to this level, no matter if it was time or space, all sorts of natural laws and powers would be immune to them or greatly weakened, rendering them ineffective.

Take the current Feng Ye for example. If a Soul King at its peak used its spatial ability against him, then it would be possible to slice off a piece of nearby space and instantly teleport him outside of the Star System.

However, if one's power broke through to the next level and reached the level of a celestial body like a black hole, it would be almost impossible to accomplish such a feat. Feng Ye would be immune to all spatial abilities. Even if his spatial abilities were of an extremely high level, they would still be greatly weakened.

"Forty years …

"Since that's the case, I'll just take a short nap," Feng Ye muttered in his heart.

Feng Ye muttered in his heart. Then, he withdrew his consciousness and gradually fell silent.

His entire body floated in midair, and a white halo of light could faintly be seen forming a sphere around him that enveloped him. From afar, he looked like a star that hung in the sky, unchanging for all eternity.

…

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, forty years had passed.

Ye Yi had long since adapted to her identity as a member of the Zero Division, but in the forty years after that, she had never seen Feng Ye again. She had always wanted to tell Feng Ye about Aizen, but she had never been able to do so.

She had originally planned to greet the Zero Division and find an opportunity to talk about this matter, but she never expected that she would have to wait forty years for this opportunity.

She had also thought about whether she should directly enter the Spirit King Palace to look for Feng Ye, but she was always stopped by Fei Zhen and Lilith. Lilith was absolutely obedient to all of Feng Ye's orders. When Feng Ye was in a deep sleep, unless something major happened, she wouldn't allow anyone to disturb him. She was the real deal.

Even if Riana wanted to go in, Lilith would also stop her.

In the Four Maple Courtyard, Ye Yi couldn't get past Lilith's guard, so she naturally couldn't tell Feng Ye about Aizen. Helpless, she could only try to deal with Aizen herself.

But there was a problem.

Although the Zero Division was an existence second only to the Soul King and Void King, and their status was above the Central Room 46, they couldn't enter and exit the Soul King Palace as they pleased.

Only two people could enter and exit the Soul King Palace as they pleased. One was Lilith, and the other was Riana. As for the others, even if they were members of the Zero Division, they had to report to Feng Ye before they could take action, or ask the First Guard of the Soldier Division to make a decision.

Ye Yi had told the First Guard of the Soldier Division about Aizen.

The First Guard of the Military Leader's First Guard fell into deep thought for a long time. However, his final judgment was that Feng Ye was omnipotent, so Feng Ye should know everything. Since Feng Ye didn't respond to this, it meant that Feng Ye didn't want to pay attention to this matter.

Simply put, Feng Ye didn't want the Zero Division to take action.

Even though Feng Ye didn't deny or affirm Feng Ye's will, this was the responsibility of the Zero Division, which served the Emperor, to assume. They had to figure out whether Feng Ye's will was more inclined to deny or affirm Feng Ye's will. They had to ask for instructions or take action.

Ye Yi hit a wall with the First Guard of the Soldier Division, so he could only think of a way by himself. On the one hand, he contacted the Second Division's captain, Shattered Bee, and on the other hand, he contacted Ping Zi and the others.

But.

In the past 40 years, Aizen returned to his previous state. He didn't make any movements and just diligently served as the captain of the Fifth Division.

The only major event in the past 40 years was when the captain of the Tenth Division, Yoshinobu Shiba, encountered an abnormal event and went missing.

The news that Ye Yi got from Urahara Kisuke was that Yoshinobu Shiba was plotted against by Aizen and almost went into nothingness. Although he was rescued, the two forces reached a balance and conflicted with each other, causing Yoshinobu Shiba to temporarily be unable to return to Soul Society.

And so.

Yoshinobu Shiba changed his name to Shinozaki Isshin and temporarily lived in the modern world.

Although Ye Yi interfered, so that the Central Unit 46 knew about Yoshinobu Shiba's situation and said that it wouldn't interfere, but Aizen still didn't reveal anything in the whole incident. He even had various alibis, which made him seem extremely innocent.

This matter finally ended with Hibantani Toshio replacing Yoshinobu Shiba as the captain of the Tenth Division, and Yoshinobu Shiba resigned from the captain position and stayed in the modern world to 'recuperate'.

On this day, 40 years later.

Soul King Palace.

Maple, who had closed his eyes and slept for 40 years, finally opened his eyes again.

He hadn't rested for such a long time for a long time, and this sleep also made him feel very comfortable. On the one hand, there was no enemy in this world that could deal with him, and on the other hand, there were two daughters, Lilith and Riana, so he didn't have to worry about any troublesome things happening during his sleep.

"It's almost time."

Maple opened his eyes, and the light on his body retracted. He sensed the state of his body, and he noticed that he was really close to the critical point of transformation.

But.

After a brief moment of sensing his own state, Maple slightly furrowed his brows, because he noticed that at this critical point, he seemed to be lacking a little bit of power to cross over.

It was like a roller coaster that came to a mountain peak, and when it neared the highest point, its speed became incomparably slow, and it seemed that he was just a little bit away from crossing over.

"My power is a little bit less."

Maple muttered in a low voice.

Originally, his complete power was about half the power of a complete sun, and after absorbing the power of the Soul King, it became slightly larger than a complete sun. After that, he devoured the power of all the annihilators in the Invisible Empire, and his overall power increased a little.

However, the current problem was that this amount of power was still insufficient to cross over to the critical point.

Although under his own control, the transformation wouldn't be as difficult as the transformation of a planet with no consciousness, requiring ten times the power of a sun, he was indeed lacking a little bit.

However.

This little bit wasn't enough for him to be stuck, because there were still many powers in this world that he could absorb.

"Should I absorb some of Void's power?

"Or should I absorb some of the Death God's power, or perhaps absorb all of Hell?"

Maple fell into deep thought for a moment.

Forget about the Death God's power, he could absorb Void's power. However, the problem was that if he absorbed a large amount of Void's power in one go, it would be similar to how the annihilators destroyed Void, which would cause some problems in the world's balance.

Absorbing Hell's power would also cause some problems in the world's balance.

"Right."

Maple suddenly thought of something and said, "Let's take back the Complete Manifestation Technique and the remaining power of the annihilators in the real world. It should be enough."

The Complete Manifestation Technique was a fragment of the Soul King's power that had fallen into the real world. Even if he took back all of it, it wouldn't affect the balance between the Soul World and the Void Sphere. Furthermore, it would make the real world more stable.

As for the annihilators' power, it was the same.

Previously, he had absorbed the power of all the annihilators in the Invisible Empire, but there were still many annihilators like Ishida Ryuxian who had wandered around in the real world. He had ignored them before, so this time, he could take them all back at once.