Chapter 794: Chapter 628: The Origin of the Rift (Part 2)
Orochimaru didn’t intend to hide anything either. He looked at Aizen Sousuke, slowly revealing a sinister smile on his face: "It seems there’s no need to hide from you... You must have gradually noticed, right, the relationship between me and the Uehara Race..."
"Yes."
Aizen Sousuke slowly lifted his head, speaking leisurely: "During this time, it seems I have the fortune to hear an interesting story from thousands of years ago..."
"Heh heh heh heh..."
Orochimaru’s smile suddenly turned a bit neurotic. His hand suddenly tightened on the teacup on the table, his hoarse voice somewhat eerie: "Then listen to this story, a story about the King of the World..."
"Thousands of years ago..."
When Orochimaru got to this point, he slightly furrowed his brows and continued: "Perhaps even earlier, when the entire world was still in cycle, even the Hollow was just a part of the spiritual particles, only with a slight deviation in between...
The Hollow began to devour spiritual particles.
This meant something was wrong with the world’s cycle.
If the Hollow were to continue devouring, the world would be annihilated, all spiritual particles would be devoured by the Hollow, turning into a terrifying Hollow, until the entire world plunged into silence.
And just at that time, the creator of this world, a deity named the Spirit King, emerged and destroyed the Hollow using the Power of Quincy..."
"Spirit King..."
Aizen Sousuke instinctively furrowed his brows.
Because Aizen also desperately wanted to know what this so-called Spirit King truly was, only knowing that the Spirit King was mysterious and ungraspable, yet never having seen it...
However, Aizen Sousuke was aware of the existence of the Soul King Palace!
One needs the King’s Key to enter the Soul King Palace, and coincidentally, Aizen had recently been researching methods to create the King’s Key...
"Heh heh heh heh..."
Orochimaru’s eyes slightly squinted, revealing a strange and eerie smile: "For the Soul Society, the Spirit King is indeed the supreme deity... But for us, it’s just an experiment!"
"Experiment?"
A flicker of surprise in Aizen Sousuke’s eyes quickly vanished.
Orochimaru watched Aizen Sousuke, chuckling as he spoke: "Heh heh heh heh... No need to be so surprised, isn’t the current Zero Squad also treating the Spirit King as an experiment?"
At this point, Orochimaru shifted the topic away from the Zero Squad and brought up the past again: "Thousands of years ago, when the Soul Society was slowly forming, that era could be called a dazzling galaxy, even I was but an unknown pawn..."
"That doesn’t quite sound right..."
Aizen Sousuke couldn’t help but chuckle softly: "Even after thousands of years, Mr. Orochimaru is still quite renowned in the Soul Society! Just the Reanimation..."
"Do you also think I researched the Reanimation Jutsu?"
A peculiar smile suddenly flashed across Orochimaru’s lips, as if observing something amusing: "No, or perhaps you could say it isn’t wrong... In fact, there were truly only three who researched the Reanimation Jutsu..."
"Three?"
"Indeed."
Orochimaru watched Aizen Sousuke and glanced at Ichimaru Gin beside Aizen. With a light chuckle, he said: "Yakushi Kabuto and I merely perfected this jutsu... The first one to research the Reanimation Jutsu was Senju Tobirama, who defected to the Uehara Race... Yet he abandoned it halfway due to Uehara’s orders..."
"The first Patriarch of the Uehara Race?"
Aizen Sousuke slightly raised an eyebrow.
Within the secrets of the Soul Society, it was mentioned that the first head of the Uehara Race was named Uehara and was a close friend of Orochimaru.
"You also thought he was my friend, right?"
When Orochimaru spoke to this point, he couldn’t help but sneer: "I indeed treated that guy as a friend once, but he betrayed my trust time and again..."
Orochimaru slowly gritted his teeth, a flash of anger passing across his face: "Every time you want to trust him, he blatantly betrays you..."
These words...
were truly Orochimaru’s thoughts.
"So..."
A shine flashed across Aizen Sousuke’s glasses as he spoke softly, almost like a demon’s temptation: "You broke off, and Mr. Orochimaru and the Uehara Race became deadly enemies wanting to destroy each other..."
"Exactly..."
The corners of Orochimaru’s mouth curved into a smile again, looking at Aizen Sousuke as if he were an innocent child: "Just as I want to destroy the Uehara Race... The entire Uehara Race has been secretly hunting me."
Orochimaru turned to glance at the Hollow Forest in the darkness, speaking coldly: "Initially, our collaboration was quite pleasant; however, when I wished to research the Spirit King, for us to all become true gods, the supreme rulers of the entire Soul Society!"
"Researching the Spirit King... becoming gods..."
Aizen Sousuke’s eyes narrowed slightly.
First, Orochimaru’s words definitely contained lies, Aizen didn’t believe Orochimaru would share the chance to become a god with others, for Aizen himself wouldn’t share the chance to become a god with anyone else.
However, the critical point wasn’t there.
Both were focused on how to become gods through the Spirit King...
"Correct."
A flicker of madness flashed on Orochimaru’s face, speaking coldly: "Just... by obtaining the Spirit King, one can obtain the largest spiritual particle aggregation in this world..."
Orochimaru seemed to have hidden a part of his words.
He deliberately concealed the part on how to become a god through the Spirit King.
This was the most crucial part and the part that caught Aizen Sousuke’s attention the most; however, Aizen Sousuke had also found a way himself, and he was very aware Orochimaru wouldn’t easily reveal such things...
Moreover, Aizen Sousuke understood Orochimaru’s intent; this guy wanted to collaborate with him to acquire the Spirit King...
After a moment of silence, Aizen Sousuke suddenly changed the subject: "Come to think of it, the Spirit King was the root of your split with the first Patriarch of the Uehara Race..."
"Heh heh heh heh... Indeed."
Orochimaru turned to look at Aizen Sousuke, sneering: "Uehara deceitfully claimed that the Spirit King was the source of maintaining world stability, swallowed all my experiment results, and dispatched the Thirteen Deadguard to hunt me for engaging in forbidden experiments. With no choice left, I had to flee the Soul Society and hide in the Hollow World..."
Orochimaru slowly clenched his hand, a glint of viciousness flashing over his face: "Even to this day, the Thirteen Deadguard are still tracking my whereabouts; those minions of Uehara still carry out his orders, wanting me dead..."
At this moment...
He seemed truly like an old friend betrayed by Uehara!
Aizen Sousuke slowly processed the part of the truth he grasped, nodding: "Indeed, otherwise, Mr. Orochimaru might have become the Master of the Hollow World before me..."
To be honest,
Aizen Sousuke actually trusted Uehara more.
Because Aizen Sousuke had witnessed Uehara Naraku, the current head of the Uehara Race, an innocent and kind little fellow who seemed to excel in nothing aside from having extraordinary talent and formidable spiritual pressure...
Yet a person like that...
surely gains more trust and followings.
Aizen Sousuke was more inclined to believe the words of the first head of the Uehara Race, that if the Spirit King were to die, it might indeed result in the world’s destruction or something.
However...
Aizen Sousuke didn’t concern himself with this problem.
Regarding the world, if it were destroyed, so be it...
Aizen Sousuke was more interested in another issue. He slowly lifted his head and calmly addressed Orochimaru: "To return to the Soul Society to obtain the Spirit King, to destroy the Uehara Race, Mr. Orochimaru has secretly been searching for suitable people..."
"Heh heh heh heh... Correct."
Orochimaru chuckled, nodding, a glint of appreciation flashing over his face: "Aizen Sousuke, when I saw you conquer the Hollow World, I knew the person I wanted had arrived..."
"Is that so?"
The corners of Aizen Sousuke’s mouth also lifted into a smile. He reached over to the box that Tosen Kaname had been holding all along, slowly placing it in front of Orochimaru.
Aizen Sousuke opened the box slowly, looking at the piles of Snake Shedding inside as if he were gazing at a treasure, and spoke with a smile: "No, perhaps it was even earlier... maybe hundreds of years or even longer ago..."
Aizen Sousuke looked at Orochimaru, chuckling lightly: "Because a little earlier, my spiritual pressure wasn’t sufficient to notice the traces of Mr. Orochimaru’s pet monitoring me..."
