"Good, power is surging in endlessly."
Bai Yuetong clenched his right fist, a satisfied smile on his face, like a greedy gourmand finally tasting a delicacy.
Steal a Bankai?
No, after going to such great lengths, how could he settle for just stealing a Bankai?
Shikai, Bankai, the power of the Zanpakutō itself, the soul of the Zanpakutō... and all of Kisuke Urahara's own power.
He was going to plunder all of Urahara's Soul Reaper power, right down to his very spiritual essence!
Before long, even the prison Quilge had just built seemed to be squeezed dry and crumbled, revealing the imprisoned Kisuke Urahara inside.
However, Urahara was in a terrible state, lying on the ground, gasping for breath, naked and white-haired, his skin wrinkled, as if his flesh and blood essence had also been hollowed out, leaving him nothing but skin and bones.
Bai Yuetong did not continue to suck the marrow from his bones and plunder his power. Instead, he thoughtfully stopped there, inserting Negación Threads into his body to download all of Kisuke Urahara's data, including everything in his memory.
"He's turned him into a 'whole' with no spiritual power at all? Why did you leave him alive? Why not just turn him into a skeleton?" Quilge raised an eyebrow, feeling that Bai Yuetong was up to something strange again.
For an existence marked as a Special War Power by His Majesty for his endless 'means', the best way was to kill him completely to eliminate future trouble.
Otherwise, with the corresponding intelligence, the other party might be able to formulate countermeasures.
Just draining his power was not a surefire way to deal with a scientist like Kisuke Urahara. After all, with Urahara's help, the head of the Special War Powers, Ichigo Kurosaki, had recovered his power multiple times. If he was given a chance to breathe, he might be able to make a comeback.
Although Quilge despised Soul Reapers and was proud of everything Quincy, he also held Yhwach's words as gospel. His Majesty's golden words could not be wrong.
"Of course, it's to extract more value. Kisuke Urahara's greatest value is not in the power he possesses, but in his intelligent brain and the fruits of his wisdom in scientific research," Bai Yuetong said as he walked up to Urahara, grabbed his withered head, and spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Could it be... you can even take an abstract concept like wisdom? Or can you inherit everything directly by absorbing my brain?"
Even though he was old and weak, on the verge of having his head crushed by the enemy at any moment, Kisuke Urahara still showed no fear. Instead, he managed a smile on his wrinkled face and asked probingly.
He was still trying to gather more intelligence on Bai Yuetong.
"How can you call it 'taking'? 'Taking' is a power that only His Majesty possesses. The 'taking' part is already over.
"What we're doing now is sharing and mutual help. I got everything I wanted, and you got the joy of helping others. It's a win-win!" Bai Yuetong's lips curled into a cheerful smile.
If someone was unwilling to share and help him voluntarily, then beating them to their knees worked just as well. The conditions for activating Bai Yuetong's ability were not rigid, but very flexible, just like his moral bottom line.
To be honest, 'wisdom' was too abstract. Bai Yuetong didn't think that by sharing with Urahara, he could become exactly like him in terms of strategy and planning. After all, even with the same computer hardware, different operators with different ways of thinking would produce vastly different results.
Unless he had the ability to imitate like the 'Y' brothers, possessing the other's configuration while forcibly imitating their memory and way of thinking.
But that was not the result Bai Yuetong wanted. He had his own personality and will, and his own way of doing things.
However, with the same, or even superior, scientific research talent configuration after stacking, Urahara's memory, and the vast amount of experimental data left by Szayelaporro, Bai Yuetong could now directly transform into a research-oriented talent.
The so-called cultivation in this fantasy world was essentially more like an athlete's training. A talented player, with scientific training methods, could continuously progress and approach the upper limit of their talent.
But the highest they could reach was their innate limit. They couldn't break through bottlenecks through cultivation alone like in a fantasy novel.
However, just as athletes could use various technologies, such as doping or even human modification, to surpass their limits through various prohibited means, this world could also use similar scientific means to break through upper limits.
Of course, if a kind rich man were to casually throw money at you and give you more power for free, that could also directly break your talent limit.
Unfortunately, Yhwach was a lender, not a kind angel investor like the Soul King. Without special means, he would eventually be forced to collect the debt, and might even have to pay with his life. And the one with the potential to throw money around, Ichigo Kurosaki, was in the enemy camp. So now he had to rely on himself.
However, Urahara's greatest help to Bai Yuetong, besides the pile of inventions in his head that Aizen had used and praised, and the data on the Hōgyoku, was that he had given him the talent and ability for scientific research, turning him from a novice into a master in the field of research overnight.
Some fantastic ideas could perhaps be realized through technology in the future, no longer just empty thoughts in his head.
And if he encountered some special situations, he would have more means to deal with them, even developing specific countermeasures, instead of just relying on brute force.
Urahara, on the other hand, was very puzzled. Bai Yuetong had only held his head for a moment before letting go, and he hadn't felt any changes during that time.
"Should we take him back?" Quilge asked.
"No, I'm going to let him go," Bai Yuetong snapped his fingers, and a Garganta tore open behind him.
Urahara's head shot up, as if he realized something, but before he could react, he was enveloped in a large amount of Reishi by Bai Yuetong and thrown out. "Off you go!"
Urahara rolled into the Garganta like a bowling ball. He didn't need to bother concentrating Reishi to pave the way or run with his legs; the Reishi enveloping his body directly transported him as he rolled and slid.
"What a reckless guy," Quilge shook his head, clearly having a bit of a headache. "Looks like I have one more thing to report to His Majesty when I get back."
He was well aware that Bai Yuetong's action couldn't possibly be just letting the enemy go. Bai Yuetong must have done something to Urahara, using him as a spy to gather more intelligence on the enemy.
But Urahara himself must have thought of that and would surely take countermeasures when he got back.
So, unless Bai Yuetong could directly brainwash and control Urahara, or make him switch sides at a critical moment, letting him go wouldn't be very useful. And since Urahara had lost his power, it wouldn't make much sense anyway.
Could it be that Bai Yuetong was hoping Urahara would recover his power so he could absorb it again?
"Mr. Urahara... Thank goodness, Mr. Urahara is alive, he's not dead," Orihime Inoue, not far away, clutched her chest and let out a long sigh of relief. It was clear that Bai Yuetong's very straightforward act of blowing up Grimmjow had left a lingering fear in her heart.
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