Chapter 1468: Flower

"Your gaze... makes people very uncomfortable."

Matsumoto Rangiku frowned. Just now, that feeling that Su Xiao might eat her at any time became more obvious.

"Is that so."

Su Xiao smiled, looking harmless and casual.

"We're here, it's this place."

Hitsugaya Toshiro stopped in front of a two-story wooden building. This place was already relatively close to the central area of the Seireitei.

Pushing open the sliding door, this should be a room that hadn't been lived in for a long time. Soon, Su Xiao, Hitsugaya Toshiro, and Matsumoto Rangiku sat opposite each other at the wooden table in the room, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

"I'm very busy, so I'll keep it short," Hitsugaya Toshiro's arm rested on his knee, and he continued after pondering for a moment: "I'm not interested in your background. What I want to know is, what exactly do you want to do."

Hitsugaya Toshiro was very straightforward, or rather, he was testing Su Xiao.

"Purpose? Haven't thought of it yet."

Su Xiao was in the Reincarnation Paradise, and what he lacked most was old schemers. To avoid being schemed against among a group of old schemers, the best way was to integrate into them.

Su Xiao was not good at layout, but he was good at disguising. This point was even stronger than Qing Yan. After all, he was a killer by origin. If he wasn't good at disguising himself, the grass on his grave would already be several meters high.

"This answer can't satisfy me."

Hitsugaya Toshiro's eyelids drooped. This little brat was not easy to deal with

"To tell you the truth, I could make up a purpose at will. Revenge? Becoming stronger? Or perhaps seeking status?"

Su Xiao's fingers tapped lightly on the table. His expression was very natural, and while speaking, he was still examining the structure inside the house.

"The pity is that I haven't thought about what purpose I should make up yet. My reason for coming here is simple: wandering in Rukongai is just too boring. It just so happens that I am good at making various potions, so I came to the Seireitei to try my luck. Perhaps I could even become a Shinigami?"

"Become a Shinigami..."

Hitsugaya shook his head. With Su Xiao's aura, it was unlikely that the Seireitei would acknowledge a Shinigami like him.

"The killing intent you sensed? Or rather, bloodthirst—most of it was caused by me killing people before I died. The evil of humans is something you can't imagine. Interrogation, infiltrating enemy camps, assassinations behind enemy lines, sabotage behind enemy lines—these are all things I am good at, I just haven't done them for a long time."

"……"

Hitsugaya's brows were tightly locked. He felt that Su Xiao was being too frank; these things should have been hidden.

"I didn't come here to seek a high position, so I don't need you to trust me that much. Compared to wandering in Rukongai, this place is clearly more interesting."

"Is it that simple?"

"You can use your eyes to observe. If you discover anything abnormal, kill me. Of course, I won't just sit back and be captured."

"Let's end this topic here."

Talking until now, Hitsugaya didn't feel anything abnormal, but because Su Xiao was too suspicious, it was precisely this suspiciousness that made him feel doubtful. If a thief wanted to infiltrate the Seireitei, would they really do it in this way?

"Can the potion you made earlier be mass-produced?"

"No."

"As expected."

Hitsugaya was somewhat disappointed. Although Shinigami had medical personnel, recovery potions used in combat were very scarce. This was caused by the special constitution of Shinigami; potions that didn't contain a large amount of Reishi had very limited healing effects on Shinigami.

"What I gave you earlier was just a prototype, which was cobbled together using a few common materials. Of course, there's no need to mass-produce such trash."

"You mean..."

Hitsugaya's hand pressed on the wooden table. The reason he was talking to Su Xiao was because of the strategic value of alchemical potions to Shinigami. With this kind of potion, the casualty rate of Shinigami fighting Hollows would be greatly reduced. When Shinigami went out to hunt Hollows, it was impossible to always have medical personnel following them.

Su Xiao's gaze turned to Rangiku Matsumoto, asking her for paper. Soon, he wrote down dozens of materials on the paper. He was preparing to make a weakened version of the Ancient Secret Medicine, reducing its recovery ability and adding a large amount of solid Reishi to it.

Possessing the Devour Core, it was very simple for Su Xiao to obtain solid Reishi. The difficulty was in integrating solid Reishi into the liquid potion; the two couldn't just be mixed together, they needed to be fused.

Su Xiao tossed the potion formula to Hitsugaya. The more Hitsugaya looked at it, the deeper his brows furrowed. He recognized the characters on it, but after they were put together, he was surprised to find that he couldn't understand the meaning of this formula at all.

Hitsugaya glanced at Rangiku Matsumoto. Rangiku Matsumoto's expression was calm; although she couldn't understand it, she couldn't show it, as that would lose the demeanor of the Seireitei.

Rangiku Matsumoto picked up the formula, examined it carefully for a few minutes, and then said, "Just like this?"

Judging from her tone, Rangiku Matsumoto seemed to understand a little.

"That's right. The T24 solvent and the Life Cohesion Essence are both replaceable materials. In essence, they..."

Of Su Xiao's words, Rangiku Matsumoto only understood the first two sentences, and after that, it was like listening to a heavenly book.

"So that's how it is."

Rangiku Matsumoto folded the formula and tucked it into her neckline.

"Is there any problem finding these materials? If there's no problem, this kind of potion can be mass-produced. Its effect is more than ten or even dozens of times that of the prototype. In principle, it can even replace..."

"Let's stop here for now. We need to consider this matter."

Rangiku Matsumoto interrupted Su Xiao. She knew that she must not be led astray.

Hitsugaya coughed lightly, feeling fortunate for his decision to bring his assistant Rangiku Matsumoto along. Since a few minutes ago, the three of them had started chatting on different frequencies.

Su Xiao deliberately made alchemical pharmacology sound obscure and difficult to understand, while Rangiku Matsumoto "understood a little" about everything; even if she was completely confused, she had to pretend she understood.

Hitsugaya was on a completely different channel, not understanding at all, and his head was starting to ache faintly.

Hitsugaya took Rangiku Matsumoto and left, leaving Su Xiao in this two-story wooden house. The reason the two were so at ease was that the Second Division's outpost was nearby.

Su Xiao waited for about an hour before Rangiku Matsumoto pushed open the door. This time Hitsugaya didn't come; he probably really didn't want to hear Su Xiao talk about those obscure and difficult-to-understand alchemical secrets.

This time, accompanying Rangiku Matsumoto was a kind-faced mature woman who gave people a very gentle feeling.

The person who came was Retsu Unohana, the captain of the Fourth Division (Medical Division). She looked gentle, but before joining the Seireitei, she was a villain; her personality had changed drastically since then.

"Hello, I am Retsu Unohana."

Retsu Unohana was surprisingly polite. She sat sideways at the wooden table, smiling at Su Xiao.

Su Xiao's heart sank. If Hitsugaya's scheming was 10, then Retsu Unohana's was at least 80 or above; she was very difficult to deal with.

"Byakuya."

It was very obvious that the code name "Byakuya" was very common in the Bleach world.

"The materials or formulas you wrote down don't seem to be things that exist in the Soul Society."

"Is that so? Then use materials that exist in the Soul Society to replace them."

"……"

The corners of Retsu Unohana's mouth curled up. She was probing Su Xiao. Her sentence, "not things that exist in the Soul Society," was a trap. If Su Xiao introduced the origin of these formulas in detail and spoke in a mysterious way, Retsu Unohana would give an order, and the dozen or so Shinigami outside the door would take Su Xiao down and escort him to the administrative agency of the "Central Underground Meeting Hall" to be dealt with.

"What is the origin of this potion?"

Retsu Unohana continued to press.

"Family heritage. Counting my generation, it has been passed down for... I've forgotten."

Su Xiao took the potion formula he had written himself and began to mark the properties of various materials. Twenty minutes later, he pushed the formula in front of Retsu Unohana.

"As long as there are materials with these properties, I can manufacture the finished potion."

What Su Xiao was about to do was to manufacture a large amount of Reishi-based alchemical secret medicine for the Seireitei. First, he would provide it in large quantities, then limit it due to "physical reasons," and finally produce it in small amounts. If he didn't let the Seireitei get a taste of the benefits, he wouldn't be able to gain a voice in a short time. The subsequent process would be much simpler: find a way to get a Zanpakuto.