Bleach: Getting Stronger Starting from Teaching at the Spiritual Arts Academy.

Two doors in the air opened, and two figures dressed in white haori stepped out, followed closely by more than a dozen Grim Reapers.

"This is utterly reckless. The modern world can't withstand this kind of destruction." Unohana frowned slightly as she looked at Karakura Town, which was almost half destroyed.

Karakura Town in this era was not large; a single Cero by a Hollow destroyed a quarter of it.

“It seems there are no more powerful enemies here, but there are still some ordinary Hollows.” The man next to him raised his hand and said to the soldiers behind him, “Go and wipe out the remaining Hollows.”

"Yes!"

The man next to Unohana is none other than Kenpachi Kuruyashiki, the captain of the 11th Division.

His appearance was somewhat wild, with sharp eyes and a head of black hair that looked like weeds.

Unohana sensed the spiritual pressure in Karakura Town and the surrounding area and found that there were still many wounded people, so she sent the members of the Fourth Division to treat the wounded.

Then Unohana and Kenpachi Kuruyashiki went directly to Nanatsuki's side.

They sensed that July was the month with the best spiritual pressure here, and wanted to come and ask about the situation.

“Shikatori-kun, your student is badly injured,” Unohana said softly.

She had received intelligence before coming that the students of the Spirit Arts Academy were conducting practical assessments here.

"Captain Unohana, you've come at just the right time. There are two seriously injured students here, and I can't handle them all by myself," July said.

"The intelligence we received indicated that there were Hollows and Quincy here. Have all the enemies been dealt with by Shikatori-kun?" Unohana's hand glowed with a faint light as she treated the student.

“I defeated the Hollows, but not the Quincy. They left on their own initiative, probably because they guessed that Kurumatani-kun and I had reported the situation here, so they were in a hurry to leave,” July said.

"Are the requirements for teachers at the Spirit Arts Academy this high now?" Kenpachi Kuruyashiki stroked his chin, sizing up Shichiru Shichiru. "He was actually able to kill multiple 'Gillian' single-handedly!"

The "Ghilian" Hollow is not something an ordinary Shinigami can handle. Even a lower-ranking Seat Officer might not be able to defeat "Ghilian." At least a Vice-Captain or a higher-ranking Seat Officer would be needed to reliably suppress "Ghilian."

"It seems that Shikatori-kun's strength has improved quite a bit again." Unohana's gentle smile seemed to wash away all worries.

However, in July, she inexplicably felt that Unohana's gaze was a little too intense. Thinking of the experience of being slashed down by her before, she couldn't help but feel a phantom pain in her abdomen.

“I encountered three Quincy.” July quickly changed the subject. “Kurugaya-kun and I encountered two Quincy on our way to Karakura Town.”

"Yamashita-kun, Kawada-san, and those Shinigami from the Onmitsukito Squad must have died at their hands. When we got there, we could no longer sense their spiritual pressure."

"Then Kurumatani-kun blocked the two Quincy, allowing me to leave and go to Karakura Town to support the students."

Unohana nodded and said, "Kurugaya-kun is still alive. I just sensed his spiritual pressure and have already sent a team to treat him."

July continued, "Later, I encountered the third Quincy in Karakura Town. Although we never fought, I felt that she was stronger than the other two Quincy, at least at the level of a vice-captain."

"That's a real shame. These Quincy might be 'big fish.' I wish they had arrived sooner. I really want to fight a pure-blooded Quincy!" Kenpachi Kuruyashiki said with a face full of regret.

Quincy are a group that highly values ​​bloodline; pure-blooded Quincy are generally much stronger than mixed-blood Quincy.

Based on Shikatori Nanatsuki's description, Kenpachi Kuruyashiki judged that the Quincy he encountered was most likely a pure-blooded Quincy.

Pureblood Quincy are extremely rare; even Kenpachi Kuruyashiki himself has never encountered one.

In July, she took out a clump of spiritual particles, which were fragments of souls containing "bait" collected from the infant's body.

If left untreated, these fragments of souls would dissipate on their own, so July sealed them away using spiritual particles.

"Captain, these are the things I collected from the baby's body. I'm afraid these things are the cause of this accident." July handed the Spirit Particle Swarm to Unohana.

“The scent of ‘bait’.” Unohana immediately recognized what it was, and her expression darkened slightly.

She also realized that this accident was not an accident, but a man-made disaster!

“Judging from the Quincy’s conversation, it doesn’t seem to be their doing,” July said.

However, the Seireitei would not take the Quincy's words as evidence, especially since these Quincy had killed many Shinigami in this incident.

"I will report this to the Captain-Commander." Unohana put away the spirit particle cluster.

After the 11th Division's Shinigami cleared out the Hollows that had been attracted by the "bait" aura in Karakura Town and the surrounding area, the group returned to Soul Society with the wounded.

This practical assessment has taken such an unexpected turn, and the evaluation criteria will need to be determined after further investigation.

...

After the Shinigami returned to Soul Society—

Three men in black robes appeared in the ruins of Karakura Town.

They carried instruments to measure spiritual pressure and went around testing it.

The operation did not achieve its intended results; they need to identify the problem.

"Sixth-rank Spirit Might?!"

"What's going on? Last time in Soul Society, I clearly got an eleventh-rank spiritual power!"

"How could there be such a big difference?!"

Is there something wrong with the instrument?

"No wonder he was able to defeat the Hollow!"

The three men in black robes were incredulous at the values ​​displayed on the instrument.

"Release your spiritual pressure and use the instrument to measure yourself," a man in black robes said to his companion.

After the three people finished testing, they found that there was nothing wrong with the instrument.

"He was hiding his strength while in Soul Society?"

"Was this really necessary... Damn it... We're going to get punished by the adults now."

"Never mind, let's hurry back and report to the adults."

After the three Grim Reapers put their cloaks and hoods back on, they disappeared again.

After they left, something changed in a shadowy spot on the ground.

Upon closer inspection, a dark eye occasionally blinked in the shadows, staring at the spot where the three men in black robes had just lingered.

Chapter 64 The Man Behind the Scenes

"Eleventh-level Spirit Might...?" July pondered the scene she had just witnessed.

During this period, he focused on developing the initial solution capability and has now discovered many ways to use it.

The dark eyes that remain in the shadows of the ruins of Karakura Town in reality are one of the abilities he developed.

As long as you leave your spiritual pressure in the shadow, you can make the shadow a monitoring point for yourself until the spiritual pressure disappears.

July felt that the "bait" in Karakura Town this time might not have been released by the Quincy.

Therefore, before leaving the ruins of Karakura Town, he left some monitoring points to see if anyone behind the scenes came to check the results of the battle.

As expected, he managed to ambush them.

The cloaks worn by the three had the function of invisibility and concealing spiritual pressure fluctuations. If they hadn't revealed themselves while collecting the remaining spiritual pressure on the battlefield, the monitoring points left by July probably wouldn't have been able to detect them.

In July, it became clear that this group of people were after him.

The residual spiritual pressure these people collected from the ruins belonged to him!

Moreover, judging from their conversation, this was not the first time they had collected his spiritual pressure.

"Eleventh-level spiritual power...that is, when the spiritual pressure on the panel is level 50 to 54, is that before the autumn assessment?" July carefully recalled her attack records.

Although a Shinigami will release a trace of spiritual pressure even when not in combat if they don't intentionally suppress it, the spiritual pressure collected in this situation is too weak to measure their actual strength.

Therefore, in order to test his strength, these people must have been collecting spiritual pressure aura from the places where he had fought.

I thought back to the places he had attacked.

First, we can rule out the Spirit Arts Academy. When he was at the Spirit Arts Academy, he never used spiritual pressure except when demonstrating sword techniques that required spiritual pressure.

He only demonstrated his swordsmanship at the Spirit Arts Academy twice.

The first time was shortly after the start of the school year.

The second time was when we conducted a preliminary assessment of the sixth-year students' class.

The spiritual pressure information revealed in both instances did not match the black-robed man's examination results.

The Shikatori Dojo can also be ruled out.

Although the dojo is the place where spiritual pressure information is most frequently exposed in July, Baiyunzhai stays in the dojo every day. If these black-robed men dared to collect spiritual pressure information in the dojo, they would have been killed by her with her sword long ago.

"The back mountain?" July suddenly remembered that she had once killed a Void creature in the forest behind the mountain.

If it was that time, it would match the test results of the man in the black robe.

"It seems that encountering Xu in the back mountain that time was not a coincidence..." July felt it was necessary to mention this matter to Bayunzhai.

He wanted to ask Baiyunzhai to check the records for him and see what the outcome of that matter was.

After encountering the Hollow that day, he reported to the 10th Division and asked them to investigate whether there were any remaining spatial rifts.

Hollows appearing in Soul Society occasionally occur, but they are not very common.

They usually come through occasional gaps in the space.

The closer you are to the Seireitei, the more stable the space becomes.

The back mountain is located in the higher-ranked outer district, so the probability of it being a fake is even smaller.

He doesn't have the authority to investigate the mission files of the 10th Division, but as a veteran captain, Ba Yunzhai should have a way.

...

A week later.

In July, we received news that all the students who participated in the assessment passed.

Yoruichi Shihouin's squad received an excellent rating for discovering and thwarting the Quincy's plot.

July felt that an invisible hand was pushing this matter, shifting the blame for releasing the "bait" onto the Quincy.

Because, as Baiyunzhai had just told him, the Tenth Division's archives room had caught fire some time ago, and a lot of documents were burned, including the mission archives he wanted to look at.

Both he and Bayunzhai suspected Xia Dalu Xin.

The reason is that this series of events only occurred after Shin's attempt to acquire the dojo failed.

Before this, July had not offended anyone, so it's unlikely that anyone would go to such lengths to get rid of him.