Chapter 535: Breaking Tradition or Maintaining Stability?

Except for Hiroe, the protagonist of this ceremony, and Yamamoto who was a little further away, the rest of the captains of the Gotei 13 gathered together, as if sending some kind of signal, waiting for the ceremony to begin with Ichigo and others who were supposed to be out of tune.

The more powerful the nobles in the Soul Society, the more arrogance they have, but this arrogance also depends on the object. With the support of almost all the captains, they no longer dared to whisper and comment on Ichigo and others.

In front of Yamamoto, the heads of the two families, Tsunayashiro and Jinji, also glanced in that direction. Although they were not very afraid, the actions of the eleven captains, either spontaneously or under the instructions of Hiroe, shocked them greatly even with their identities.

Hiroe and the Collaboration Bureau he created have already had considerable influence, which seems to have become an irrefutable fact.

The Gotei 13 is an organization whose primary responsibility is to protect the Soul Society. The captains of each division should be the most loyal performers of this duty. These beings who represent the highest combat power of the Soul Society must unconditionally stand on the side of the Soul Society, regardless of right or wrong!

But Hongjiang and the humans he brought have been quietly changing this absolute, not starting from the behavior that seems to release some kind of signal in front of him, but this clue should appear earlier, as early as when Ichigo and others invaded the Soul Society as a travel disaster.

As early as that time, Kenpachi Zaraki had already begun to openly stand on the opposite side of the will of the Soul Society, and the situation of Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro was even more serious. They actually chose to cooperate directly with the "potential threat" Yoruichi at that time!

It can only be said that if the mastermind behind that time was not Aizen, even if it could be proved afterwards that assisting Ichigo and others was the right thing to do, Zaraki and Shunsui and others would not have a good ending.

What the Soul Society needs after a long time is not absolute correctness, but absolute stability. It is completely acceptable to make mistakes at the cost of a few, dozens or even hundreds of Shinigami.

This is also the fundamental reason why Hong Jiang and others are still feared even though their actions have completed the mission of the Gotei 13.

The correctness that requires a lot of energy to verify and a lot of time to wait for will also be accompanied by huge risks. For a simple example, if Yoruichi and others were not wronged at that time, and three captains betrayed the Soul Society for the so-called "truth" and "correctness" at one time, what a painful loss it would be?

Moreover, the way Hong Jiang obtained the captaincy of the fifth division and established the joint work bureau later made it difficult for people to believe that he had no selfishness. How many people would not worry about such a person who said that he was wholeheartedly for the Soul Society?

What the Soul Society needs is a simpler and more efficient stability, not absolute correctness. Obviously, Hongjiang does not agree with such a rule. With his deep thoughts and increasingly unfathomable strength, he and the forces he represents will inevitably have a fierce conflict with the Soul Society in the future!

Conflict is not the worst result. In the eyes of the Jinji and Tsunayashiro families, the most terrible result is that this man quietly controls the Soul Society.

Fortunately, with the existence of Yamamoto, the most terrible result will hardly occur. This old man who represents the history of the Soul Society will always be the most solid backing of the Soul Society!

But who can compete with a young man for time? Time is the most powerful weapon of Chouzuka Hongjiang, at least before this wedding.

But with Hongjiang insisting on holding the wedding and promising to step down as the captain of the fifth team after a hundred years, the terrible ending that the Tsunayashiro and Jinji families fear the most is almost impossible to appear.

In just a hundred years, he has subtly controlled the entire Soul Society? Even Chouzuka Hiroe could never do it. Even if he had a way, with Yamamoto's presence, they believed that even if they took the initiative to challenge Hiroe at the right time, the old man would definitely agree.

Just as decisively as the other party's decisive extermination of the Quincy clan.

It can be said that in their view, from the moment Hiroe said that he would step down as the captain of the Fifth Division after a hundred years, the other party's influence in the Soul Society was destined to disappear.

Of course, this difficult little guy will definitely find a way to inherit this influence, but the Tsunayashiro and Jinji families will not do as he wishes. If he spends this hundred years smoothly, the "internal troubles" of the Soul Society will be gone.

At the same time, with the restriction of one hundred years, if Hiroe still wants to change the Soul Society, he must act as soon as possible while he still has the ability, but this will inevitably lead to the birth of mistakes.

Just like at this moment, the heads of the Tsunayashiro and Jinji families turned their eyes away from Ichigo and others. You know, according to the rules of the Soul Society, let alone these humans, even captains without noble status rarely enter the shrine.

In order to allow Ichigo and others to enter the shrine, Hongjiang will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among many nobles. The foreshadowing of the conflict between the nobles and the common people and even these humans has been laid.

Maybe Hongjiang wants to use the possible conflict in the future to strike the noble forces, but when that time comes, Tsunayashiro and the Jinji families don't mind letting this little guy know what it means to suffer the consequences of one's own actions!

In short, the next hundred years will be the time for them to fight Hongjiang, and they will definitely let the Soul Society return to its most reasonable track.

The head of the Jinji family, Jinjimiya, put away his thoughts, pointed his finger at the lake in front of him, and without opening his mouth, the sound seemed to reach everyone's ears.

"Shrine, open!"

With Jinjimiya's hoarse command, the entire lake was instantly shrouded in dense white fog, and the clear lake like a mirror seemed to disappear completely.

While Ichigo and the others were still puzzled by the sudden change, a black dot suddenly appeared in the thick fog in front of them. The black dot became larger and larger, gradually revealing its square outline.

The fog around them was still dense, but strangely, the black outline in the distance became clearer and clearer, until its figure was fully revealed in front of them, and everyone was surprised to find that it was actually a huge and towering black torii.

The torii was at least a kilometer away from them, but even so, they had to look up to see the top of the Kasa tree.

"Look down!"

Inoue's exclamation quickly attracted the attention of others. I saw that a stone staircase appeared from the torii at some point, making people curious about where it would lead to.

On the lake surface that had been covered by thick fog, stone platforms suddenly began to rise one after another, extending from the bottom of the torii to the front of everyone.

"Okay, let's go over there." Fengqiao turned around and said, and then walked up to the stone platform with Kensei. With just one step, the figures of the two disappeared from the sight of others.

In the distance is the towering Torii, and the stone path that spreads out like a giant python is also clearly visible, but Fengqiao and Kensei, who just stepped onto the stone path, are nowhere to be seen.

The most mysterious shrine in Seireitei has not yet completely unveiled its mysterious veil.

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