I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

At the same time, as if he had been electrocuted, he flung the knife out and tried to undo the initial release method in the same way. Fortunately, the method worked. The moment the Reverse Moon Rain was inserted into the wall, it flashed and returned to its familiar form.

The other two bodies remained normal; only here did such a terrible thing happen.

Mizhen, still shaken, took several heavy breaths.

“What…what’s going on…”

The body that came into contact with the blue divine sword was seriously injured by the excessive spiritual pressure flow at that moment, but Mima only used Kido to numb the pain nerves for a moment before carefully reaching out and touching the Ryugetsu stuck in the wall.

Thankfully... nothing else went wrong.

Mima breathed a sigh of relief, pulled it out, put it back in its sheath, and then activated the Mind Beacon with one eye.

The light shifted, blurring the scene before my eyes.

The scene reflected in one of the eyes... was a room in complete disarray.

Like a model room being shaken around, this once orderly place has been completely transformed. The bed, table, and cabinets have been overturned in unbelievable ways, and other furniture is scattered everywhere. Only the culture tank in the center of the room remains relatively stable.

He looked around and immediately spotted Liuyue clutching the computer tower tightly in the corner of the room.

Mima: "..."

Her own hair and clothes were a mess, but the thing she was holding in her arms was perfectly intact... This is probably the stubbornness of a shut-in.

"what happened?"

Mima sighed, stepped forward to help her up, and then asked while pressing her temples, "What happened here?"

"You're asking me...?"

But before she could finish speaking, a series of hurried footsteps came from outside the room.

The door was kicked open with a bang by a foot in a high heel, and then, Nizuki Shigure strode in, breathing heavily, and raised her hand to cup Mima's face, looking at it from left to right, before finally letting go after a long while.

Overwhelmed by the strange pressure emanating from her, Mima didn't resist: "Huh...huh? What's wrong?"

"Thank goodness...you're alright."

A clear sense of relief appeared on her usually cold face, so much so that Liu Yue couldn't help but complain.

"Then... what about me? Am I indifferent?"

“If you weren’t holding that thing, I would have comforted you first.” Ni Yue Shi Yu glanced at her. “Since you still have the mind to protect your computer, it means it’s not a big deal.”

Liu Yue glanced sideways at him: "That's true..."

"So...what happened?"

Mima interrupted the bickering between the sisters (or mother and daughter?), shrugged, and said, "If you don't know either, I'll find out the reason myself."

“You’ve achieved Bankai,” Shigure answered directly. “But your body couldn’t withstand my power or keep up with my demands, which is why you were injured.”

“I already know that.”

Mima's lips twitched a few times: "Although I'm very curious about what kind of power you have, it's more important to figure out why I inexplicably activated Bankai—do you have any clue?"

To his surprise, Shigure Uesugi nodded directly.

"Huh?" Mima blinked. "Do you understand?"

Nizuki Shigure maintained her usual straightforward style: "Simply put, it's because you ate the wrong thing."

"What the heck?!" The bewildered answer left Mima completely baffled. "What can I eat to instantly unleash Bankai? A magic pill?"

"To be honest, that thing does seem to resemble an elixir of immortality."

Nizuki Shigure sighed: "Take a look at the Ancient Void Fragment. If I'm not mistaken, it should undergo a significant change."

"Ok?"

Mijin, who was inside the cave, was immediately shocked.

He immediately took out the box containing the fragments of the Ancient Void, opened it, and then stared intently at it.

This thing has been shrunk by half!

Mizhen fell into deep thought.

No...why?

There has to be a reason for everything, right? This thing stayed in An Cang Yu Shou's body for so many years without any movement, how come it turned into this when it came into my hands?

Could it be that I sleepwalk? That I wake up in the middle of the night and put strange things in my mouth?

But you can't lick or bite through ancient fragments...

How did something that was supposed to be as hard as a divine sword in terms of hardness inexplicably shrink by half?

Let me tell you everything from beginning to end.

Nizuki Shigure straightened the overturned chair, sat down, and sighed, "But I must first clarify that I only witnessed the course of events; as for the reasons and justifications behind it, I know nothing about them."

“Just tell me, it’s better than being kept in the dark.” Mi Zhen rolled her eyes. “I finally got a good night’s sleep, and then this bizarre thing happened… It’s like even God won’t let me slack off.”

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Let's rewind time a little.

Ultimately, sleep is just a ritual to relax the brain. Even in deep sleep, some bodily functions are still operating, such as breathing, heartbeat, cell division—and the "spiritual pressure expansion" that is crucial to death.

Just as humans develop basic muscles even without conscious exercise, the "maximum spiritual pressure" of a Shinigami (death god) is constantly growing in a very slow way. Exercise increases efficiency, but not exercising won't stop it either; however, most souls experience very limited growth throughout their lives.

But there are always exceptions.

There are always some souls that become stronger far more efficiently than others, such as Aizen Sousuke, Hitsugaya Toshiro, and Kurosaki Ichigo—

For example, there's Mijin, who absorbed the torrent of anger.

His spiritual talent was already quite good; even without the system's support, he could naturally grow to the level of fourth-grade spiritual power within a hundred years—but everything changed after the surge of anger entered his body.

To use a slightly more martial arts-like term, this thing is like some kind of elixir of immortality. After being absorbed, it expands the "meridians" in an extremely mysterious way, turning a small stream into a great river, and making the efficiency of the "internal energy" flow more than double or triple.

In conclusion, Yama's current "talent" may not be as good as that of pure cheat-like characters like Aizen and Ichigo, but it can still be compared to the level of Gin Ichimaru.

But the power of the surging anger doesn't stop there.

It comprehensively enhances Mizhen's speed of absorbing spiritual energy, expands the maximum spiritual pressure limit, and even improves the efficiency of spiritual energy circulation... In addition to these, it can do other things as well.

For example... absorbing things that are normally impossible to break down.

"Wait a minute, you mean..."

Mi Zhen rubbed his temples, summoned a dark, round object from his hand, and pointed at it, saying, "Did it absorb the fragments of the Ancient Void?"

"This is the only possibility."

Ni Yue Shi Yu nodded: "I don't need to sleep, so I sensed the whole process—after you fell asleep, the Ancient Void Fragment 'collapsed' partly like a sand dune, and the parts that turned into dust quickly flowed into your body along the channel of the raging torrent, and then 'melted' away."

Upon hearing this, Mizhen closed her eyes and carefully sensed the changes that had occurred within herself.

Indeed, as Shigure Uesugi said, something seems to have subtly changed...

The channels through which spiritual energy circulated seemed to have been given a new skin, shimmering with extremely fine, yet dense, "light" like half the starry sky.

Fragments of the Ancient Void?

But what's the use of this thing?

Mi Zhen frowned and continued to use her spiritual power to sense every detail of herself—and upon closer inspection, she discovered many astonishing changes.

Chapter 152: From Hell

First, there's the connection with Ryugetsu—let's use a more fantastical analogy here. As a "natal magic weapon," the Zanpakuto has a mysterious connection with the Shinigami. The Shinigami can transmit spiritual pressure into the Zanpakuto through this connection, thereby releasing the Zanpakuto's power. But no matter how close this connection is, the Zanpakuto and the Shinigami are ultimately different entities, and the transmission of spiritual pressure inevitably has limitations in efficiency.

From Asahi to Shikai, and then to Bankai, in addition to the changes in strength, the connection between them is also getting closer and closer. The ultimate goal of this path is probably to achieve "man and sword as one" like Mugetsu and Aizen of the Hogyoku.

And now... the connection between Ryugetsu and Mima has completely exceeded the closeness that should exist in the initial release; the former is almost becoming an extension of the latter's limbs.

Is it because of this change that he was able to perform Bankai in his sleep?

Fortunately, this Bankai seems to have happened silently without causing any commotion, otherwise it would have been quite a mess.

Besides that, there is another change...

That's the virtualization experience card issued by the system.

That thing should have had a 2/3 count indicator on it, but now... that indicator has disappeared.

Could it be that……

Mizhen gasped, manipulating her body in the cave, and summoned the mask with a wave of her hand.

Then it disperses.

The holographic experience card remains unchanged.

He gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and repeated it again.

The "experience card," which should have reached its limit and become useless, is still lying perfectly fine in the system interface, without any changes.

Does this mean... the experience has become permanent?

After trying it four or five times, and exhausting a large portion of his spiritual pressure, Mima finally confirmed the accuracy of his conjecture.

All attributes are increased by 1.5 times, and four new skills are added: "Steel Skin", "Super Speed ​​Regeneration", "Spinning Spin" and "Cero Flash", lasting for a full five minutes.

You gain an extra trump card just by sleeping; I wish there were more of these good things.

"I don't know the specific reason, I can only speculate."

Nizuki Shigure said, "The ability to become Hollow goes without saying. You swallowed a piece of the Hollow's ancestor, so it makes sense that your experience became permanent. But the Bankai part is due to other reasons. According to my speculation, the 'distance' between us was forcibly shortened by the ancient Hollow fragment through 'devouring'."

You mean...like this?

Mima frowned, tried to conjure a small water vortex in mid-air, then picked up a candy wrapper from the ground, tore it in two, and threw it in, watching it swirl and become a mess in the center of the vortex.

During this process, the distance between the two candy wrappers did indeed "get closer".

“That’s right.” Nizuki Shigure nodded and said, “Originally… in order not to hurt you, I deliberately made it much more difficult for you to get close to me, but the Ancient Void Fragment shortened the distance to the point where you could reach out and touch it, which is why you were able to use Bankai without even knowing it.”

“That’s how it is…” Mima clenched her fists a few times. “It sounds dangerous, but I don’t seem to feel any harm.”

"I am not sure as well."

Ni Yue Shi Yu shook her head: "Perhaps the torrent of anger offset the harm of the ancient void fragment, or perhaps such a small fragment was not harmful to begin with... But judging from the current situation, it seems that eating it only has benefits."