LRAB Chapter 4 Fantasy and the Creator
Chapter 4 Fantasy and the Creator
Adnes, the Soul King, a Quincy who existed millions of years ago, did not seek revenge against the Grim Reaper after breaking free from his seal.
Although he left the Spirit King Palace, he would not even interfere with the development of the Three Realms.
Because this is a deal between him and Li Lin, the Three Realms will be reborn in Li Lin's hands.
Li Lin intends to transform the Three Realms into his own divine kingdom, while simultaneously utilizing the resources of the Death God's world to enhance his power and symbolism.
This is a great opportunity. After all, the energy system in the world of Death doesn't have many traps, unlike in the world of Mystery, where recklessly absorbing power could drive you insane.
Although the Bleach world has only shown a few people and things in the manga, it is still an independent universe, and he might be able to thrive in this universe.
The power of the Spirit King was being dragged into the depths of his own dimensional concept by him as a 'higher-dimensional observer'. The world in his eyes became layered, like a faded and damaged painting being collected into another, larger, but blank scroll without any content.
Having fully absorbed this power, he now possesses angelic power at roughly Sequence Two level.
This level of power is actually very strong, but he has to replace the Spirit King to maintain the world. Normally, angels are not enough, but as mentioned before, he has the status of an ancient being!
For angels of the old order, or even lords of dimensions, supporting a world is not a difficult task at all.
After all, right now all we need to do is prevent the Three Realms from collapsing; restoring the Three Realms and making them stable is a matter for the future.
He now understands the current situation of the Three Realms.
The current timeline is 1200 years before the start of the story. At this time, even the Gotei 13 in Soul Society have not yet been officially established!
That's good, it means he can start changing the world sooner.
He looked at the newly established connection between himself and the Three Realms. It was no longer a forceful support like the Spirit King's massive power, but rather a connection that used himself as the origin to temporarily fix the Three Realms on a relatively stable dimensional coordinate.
So he simply disappeared from the Spirit King's Palace!
Then the scene that the monks witnessed at the beginning occurred.
In fact, it wasn't just the Soul King's Palace; almost everyone in the Soul Society, the Human World, and even Hueco Mundo saw a large mass of darkness appear in the sky.
The sun in the sky seemed to be devoured by an invisible giant mouth, rapidly spreading into an absolutely dark realm.
Sunlight, spiritual particles, clouds, and even sight itself all quietly melt away when they touch the boundary of that darkness.
Darkness is not lifeless; it flows and expands, like a giant living thing!
In the heart of that deep, chilling darkness, an even more profound outline vaguely emerges—
It wasn't a specific shape, but rather a feeling of being "watched".
It was as if countless indifferent, ancient, and incomprehensible eyes were slowly opening behind the dark curtain, calmly looking down at the tiny world and all living beings below.
"..."
In Soul Society, Yamamoto looked up at the scene and felt a sense of foreboding. Even in the depths of his eyes, which had witnessed countless battles, a clear sense of unease flashed.
"What... what happened?"
Someone next to him asked
Yamamoto, of course, didn't know either, but he did know that a bloody storm was about to break out.
At this time, the Soul Society was still in the midst of a chaotic war.
Yamamoto is searching for heroes in Soul Society to form an assassin organization to protect the Seireitei, which will become the Gotei 13.
The appearance of this darkness will inevitably make the situation in Soul Society even more chaotic.
After all, unusual celestial phenomena can give ambitious people a reason to start a rebellion and can also make people's hearts unsettled.
This unusual phenomenon was also recorded in various historical books of later generations.
In the sixteenth year of the Zhenyuan era of Emperor Dezong of Tang, on the day of Xin Si in the third month, an unusual celestial phenomenon occurred. At midday, the sun suddenly darkened as if into twilight. A giant shadow emerged from the sun's disk, initially as small as a fingertip, then spreading to the size of a mat, and in an instant filling the sky, making all the daytime stars visible. Its color was jet black, neither cloud nor fog; light could not penetrate it, nor could sound travel through it. Looking up, it was as if the heavens had been ripped open, and the dark underworld appeared in the nine heavens. Within the black shadow, there were faintly visible double pupils and overlapping images, seemingly real yet not real, like ghosts and gods peering through a window, menacingly looking down. The capital was shaken; the emperor avoided the main hall, reduced his meals, and stopped the music, issuing an edict to inquire about the celestial signs. The Grand Astrologer reported: "This is no ordinary eclipse; it is a sign of celestial upheaval, a sign of great division, great upheaval, and the arrival of strange gods." That year, the military governors became increasingly arrogant, the Hebei region was again unsettled, and the Tibetans repeatedly harassed the borders. Those who knew better whispered among themselves that this was a celestial warning, the beginning of the collapse of order and discipline.
In the corresponding island nation of the present world, there are also folk tales circulating—
After that day, the howls of mountain spirits became more frequent, and tales of kappa, tengu, and other creatures appearing in the form increased. In Izumo Province, it was said that a slight tremor occurred where Susanoo-no-Mikoto slept. In Hizen Province on Kyushu Island, a fishing village claimed that a huge, pale shadow, resembling a skeleton, suddenly appeared on the sea and sank instantly, suspected to be the wrath of the sea god. The later legend of the "Eight Hundred Bhikkhunis" who gained immortality by eating piranhas also traces its origins to these strange coastal tales from around this period.
Within the Soul Society, their unease and panic were even greater.
Of course, while some were afraid, others were happy. While most people were apprehensive about the strange phenomenon in the sky, some believed it was a sign of divine intervention and even developed a sense of worship towards it.
The island nation was in the Heian period, while Europe further away was in the Middle Ages. The former was a time when ghost stories and the Yin-Yang Way were prevalent, while the latter was in the Middle Ages, a time when theology was at its peak.
In just a short while, Li Lin felt as if he had gained hundreds of thousands more believers.
Tsk, it seems I haven't even spread my name yet.
At this moment, Li Lin appears to have left the Spirit King Palace, but his true form is still above the Spirit King Palace, supporting the Three Realms in a dimension that even the monks cannot perceive.
However, just as a shadow in three-dimensional space is a two-dimensional plane, Li Lin's shadow in four-dimensional space is a three-dimensional entity.
Therefore, while the true body supports the three realms, its actions in the external world are essentially its shadow.
Since we promised the Spirit King to transform the Three Realms, we naturally have to do the work.
His transformation plan, as he had stated before, was to turn the Three Realms into his own divine kingdom within a painting.
The higher-dimensional observer has a prestigious title: the creator of the world depicted in the painting.
He also has another ability, which is imagination. He can bring the creatures in his imagination out of the scroll and into reality, or he can bring creatures into the scroll.
However, his strength is still too weak, and he cannot directly turn the Three Realms into his painting world.
Then we can only proceed gradually.
The method is also very simple.
That is to paint the entire canvas of the Three Realms with one's own fantasies. When his fantasies spread throughout the world, then this world is a painting he has painted, and it can be said to be his world in a painting!