"Captain Cheng Gong! You must be from our Zero Division, there's no mistake!" Wang Yue said with certainty.

Guan Liyuan thought to himself: I didn't lie to you, I just followed the forum's confidentiality agreement and said that I forgot things that were not related to the "World of Death God", and the rest were all your own imagination!

"Eh? Is that so? I think you might have made a mistake, right?" Guan Liyuan said deliberately.

"No, no, no, there's no mistake... I'm not saying this just to get out of the situation, the power of the Soul King is definitely not wrong." Wang Yue said firmly. "

Soul King... sounds a little familiar, by the way, I'm really sorry that you came here in person for my Zanpakutō." Guan Liyuan saw that the other party insisted on treating him as one of his own, so he had to accommodate him and acquiesce.

"No, I know this is all Aizen's doing! And he must have discovered something, so he wants to use you... By the way! Maybe he wants to use you to enter the Soul King Palace, so he helps you restore the power of the Death God!" Wang Yue said angrily.

"Then do you know who 'Cheng Gong' is?" Guan Liyuan asked.

"Cheng Gong... you still remember your name, right? Sorry, I haven't heard of this name either, nor have I heard Monk Zhenming Hu mention a captain named 'Cheng Gong'. Captain Cheng Gong should be from two thousand years ago, or even longer." Wang Yue speculated.

"What's the matter with the Spirit King's death you just mentioned?" Guan Liyuan asked.

On the one hand, Guan Liyuan was curious about the Spirit King's situation, and on the other hand... if the Spirit King was still conscious, Guan Liyuan would not dare to fool the people of the Zero Squad too much.

"Does Captain Cheng Gong still remember Lord Spirit King?" Wang Yue asked.

"This... I still remember the two words 'Spirit King', but I don't know the rest." Guan Liyuan said.

It may be because the Spirit King is a derivative of the will of the universe, and the information is subject to some restrictions, so it is not presented too much in the original work.

At present, we only know that Aizen disdains the Soul King, Urahara calls the Soul King "the wedge of the world's existence", the death of the Soul King will lead to the collapse of the Three Realms, and Yhwach calls the Soul King "father"...

However, their impressions may not be the same as the impression of the Soul King held by the Zero Squad, which is the king's former guard, so Guan Liyuan did not say much.

But after Guan Liyuan's eyes turned, he added: "But Aizen said that the Soul King should be something that does not need to exist."

"Nonsense! The Soul King is the core of the world's existence!" Wang Yue really refuted.

"The core of the world's existence?" Guan Liyuan was skeptical.

As one of the captains of the Zero Squad, Nimaiya Wang Yue really couldn't help but explain...

In Nimaiya Wang Yue's impression, since thousands of years ago, the Soul King who maintained the stability of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the real world has lived in Soul Society and dominated all the nobles in Soul Society. The so-called "nobles" also dominated the civilians, and the class was in order.

At that time, there were almost no Yasukachu-class Hollows in Hueco Mundo, and the highest-level Vastode-class Hollows were even more legendary.

The Soul King taught the nobles the Kidō based on their own strength, and released some of his own strength, so that they could practice Kidō, improve their spiritual pressure, and have the strength to compete with the "Hollows".

However, as time went on, more and more intermediate and advanced Hollows were born among the "Hollows".

Although during this period, the ancestors of the Shihouin clan created the "fist", which is the "white fighting" series of skills, and the ancestors of the Kuchiki clan created the "walk", which is the "instant step" series of skills, but with only the three abilities of "fist", "walk", and "ghost", it is difficult for spirits to compete with the increasing number of Yasukachu-class Hollows.

In addition to the "technical" reasons, it is also because it is difficult for spirits to increase their spiritual pressure to the level of Yasukachu-class Hollows, let alone Vastode-class Hollows...

After all, "walk" and "fist" are simple skills, and only the "ghost" passed down by the Soul King has some effect of increasing spiritual pressure.

Fortunately, more than 2,000 years ago, "Nimeiwu Wangyue" invented the "Zanpakuto" made of the soul power of the spirit after death!

After the prototype of the "Zanpakuto" was forged, the spirit could create "its own Zanpakuto" based on it. From then on, the strength of the Shinigami side was greatly improved, and the "Zankenzoki" system was gradually improved.

The most important thing is that the initial release and final release of the Zanpakuto are not only the liberation of the Zanpakuto itself, but also the liberation of the spirit itself, which makes it easier to improve the spiritual pressure of the spirit - compared with before, it can be said that it has broken a long-standing shackle.

The "Death God" system gradually emerged, and began to call powerful spirits "Death Gods".

However, this also caused a problem - Zanpakuto is different from Kidō. As long as you get the Zanpakuto, any spirit can practice on its own, even if the lack of systematization reduces the progress of practice, but it is different from Kidō after all, "you must be taught by someone to learn and use it"!

It can be said that this is the basis for the Royal Court's control over "power" to begin to collapse, but it is not out of control at this time, because as long as they don't forge a large number of Zanpakutō, it will be fine. After forging Zanpakutō, Nimaiya Oyue was also recruited to the Royal Court, so the problem is not big.

But just a thousand years ago, Yhwach led the Quincy to attack the Soul Society, aiming directly at the Soul King...

At that time, the Quincy's comprehensive strength was able to suppress the Shinigami, and ordinary spirits were even more crushed, so the Soul King began to expand the establishment of "Shinigami". The auxiliary squads that were originally only under the Zero Squad also began to issue "Soul Zanpakutō". The Soul King also opened his power to the nobles, and the ghosts above ninety were no longer taboos.

And recruited the then-chief teacher of the Yuan School "Yamamoto Shigekuni" as the captain of the counterattack force, reused and promoted civilian Shinigami, and the prototype of the Gotei 13 gradually took shape.

Unexpectedly, it was out of control. In the end, Yhwach was severely injured by Yamamoto Shigekuni, and lost his heartbeat, consciousness and power. The Quincies in the world were constantly cleared by the God of Death, and they never recovered.

But at the same time, it also contributed to the ambition of the "God of Death". The nobles established the Soul Court in the name of protecting the royal court. Yamamoto Shigekuni also named the counterattack force "Gotei 13". In addition to the responsibility of "protecting the Soul King", he added another "protecting the Soul Court". The Soul Court was controlled by the "Central 46 Rooms" composed of nobles...

Of course, in name, the "Central 46 Rooms" are also subordinates of the Soul King.

But Wang Yue also mentioned that when he joined the Zero Squad, the Soul King's consciousness was "sometimes absent and sometimes absent". During the rise of Yhwach, the time of "sometimes absent" became more and more, and the "sometimes present" became more and more rare. After Yhwach

brazenly attacked the Soul Society and the Soul King completely opened his power to the nobles, the Soul King's consciousness dropped further.

Moreover, part of the body was separated afterwards. When Yhwach was defeated, the Soul King himself had already become unconscious. Over the past thousand years, he had transmitted his consciousness to Squad Zero only a few times. In the past hundred years, the Soul King has not been awake even once!

Therefore, in the early days of the establishment of the Soul Society, the Soul King Palace still had control over it. The captains of the Gotei 13 would be selected into the Soul King Palace if they made great contributions to the Soul Society.

However, with the "death" of the Soul King, the two sides were almost separated. The Soul Society was completely controlled by the nobles of the Soul Society. Some new Shinigami even had no concept of the "Soul King". With Kenpachi Kuriyashiki's refusal to join the Zero Squad, the Zero Squad completely lost control of the Soul Society.

The Zero Squad also closed the Soul King Palace and maintained a nominal coexistence with the Soul Society...