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

I've been practicing swordsmanship lately and haven't been here for quite a while, so it's accumulated a lot of dust.

The warehouse was filled with many things, and it was somewhat messy.

“This place hasn’t been cleaned in a long time. I need to find where I put ‘Sailfish.’ I remember it was over here…” July looked at the things in the warehouse and felt a bit of a headache.

Some of the items in this warehouse are older than the history of the Gotei 13, making them difficult to organize. So, they are simply placed wherever there is an empty space.

Fortunately, I remembered July correctly and quickly found what I needed.

"Why are these wooden knives so big?" Cilantro was a little shocked. This row of wooden knives had particularly thick blades and varied in size, some even taller than her.

“These ‘sailfish’ aren’t ordinary wooden knives. Try them out.” July pulled out a wooden knife with a blade ten centimeters wide, which looked like a large cleaver.

These wooden knives are called "sailfish" because when laid horizontally, their shape resembles a sailfish. The blade is much larger than the handle, which looks like the spines on the sailfish's head, while the blade resembles the sailfish's body.

"What are these wooden knives... They're so heavy!!!" Cilantro took the wooden knife with one hand, but it was much heavier than she had expected. She quickly put her other hand over it, but she still couldn't lift it.

Then her center of gravity shifted, and she fell towards July.

July reacted quickly, pressing down on Xiangcai's forehead and lifting her up before she could fall on him.

Cilantro froze in place in an odd posture, her hands gripping the heavy wooden sword, her body bent at a sixty-degree angle, as if she were bowing to July.

"It's so heavy!" Cilantro cried out.

"You can let go." July said helplessly, realizing that her apprentice was a bit stubborn.

"Oh right!" Cilantro finally realized, released her hands, and let the wooden knife fall to the floor.

thump—

The wooden knife fell to the floor with a heavy thud, shaking the dust off the roof.

"Cough cough—" Cilantro stood up and covered her mouth and nose, "This is definitely not a wooden knife!"

"It's definitely not a wooden knife; it just looks like wood. It's a special composite material."

July picked up the swordfish knife with one hand, leaving coriander speechless.

"Teacher, are you really that strong?" Cilantro exclaimed incredulously. "You can even hold it with one hand!"

"'Sailfish' is used to practice spiritual pressure." July swung the sailfish wooden sword in her hand, testing its feel. "Its material is very special; when you inject spiritual pressure, its weight becomes lighter."

"I see. Let me try." Cilantro took the swordfish knife from July again, infused it with spiritual pressure, and found that she could indeed lift it.

“Take this ‘Swordfish’ wooden sword to the dojo. You’ll use it to practice your spiritual pressure from now on. You need to practice spiritual pressure for an hour today,” July reminded her. “Don’t think it’s easy. You need to maintain the flow of spiritual pressure to swing it.”

Many of the sword techniques of the Shikatori school require the spiritual pressure to be condensed and attached to the blade.

There are quite a few techniques involved; you can't simply inject your spiritual pressure into your swordsmanship and expect to unleash the Shikatori-ryu style.

By practicing spiritual energy with a special sailfish, one will naturally learn the techniques of attaching, condensing, and compressing spiritual energy onto the blade.

Cilantro had no idea what she was about to face. She thought it was easy to do; it was just practicing vibration, what was so difficult about that?

After I finish training, I can get a free meal here!

Cilantro was already looking forward to what delicious food she would have for dinner.

...

"Huff—Teacher—Huff—Is it enough—an hour—now?" Cilantro Mochi asked, panting.

Cilantro's face was flushed, and her forehead was covered in sweat, with beads of sweat constantly sliding down her fair and delicate skin and into her white clothes.

The plain white cross-collar shirt was already soaked with sweat, and the damp clothes revealed glimpses of skin.

"It's still early, only 20 minutes have passed~" July's face was full of smiles. When he was laying the foundation, he had suffered a lot at the hands of Qiyu Suzhen. Now it was his disciple's turn.

Su Zhen simply uses the most basic slashing motion, constantly swinging a wooden sword, to let the body remember the feeling of slashing.

Ordinary spiritual practice is nothing for a Shinigami's physical spiritual practice, but if you are practicing spiritual practice with a sailfish-shaped wooden sword, you need to continuously inject spiritual pressure in order to swing the sword, which will consume a lot of energy.

If you don't plan carefully and squander your spiritual pressure and physical strength when you're at your peak, you simply can't last long.

Cilantro found itself in this predicament.

When she first started practicing Sujin with the sailfish wooden sword, she didn't take it seriously, thinking that practicing Sujin was not difficult. She didn't pay attention to allocating spiritual pressure and physical strength. By the time she realized what was going on, it was too late.

She could only try to reduce the amount of spiritual pressure injected, which made the swordfish-shaped wooden sword much heavier, but this also greatly consumed her physical strength.

"Huh???" Cilantro closed her eyes, swung the swordfish knife forcefully, and shouted, "Only 20 minutes? It feels like a whole day has passed!"

Cilantro became excited, and even her speech became fluent again.

"Just hang in there a little longer, I've already put the rice in. Once it's cooked, I'll go stir-fry the vegetables," July encouraged. "You can't eat it if it doesn't meet the requirements!"

At this moment, July was wearing a pair of specially made leg armors, which he had just found in the warehouse. The material of these leg armors was similar to that of the sailfish wood sword, and they could be used to train the spiritual pressure control ability of the legs, which would help improve his Shunpo level.

Cilantro perked up her hands again when she heard it was time to eat.

"I will do my best!"

Chapter 12 Kensei Rokujo's Confidence

After a week of training, the duration of Cilantro Mochi's solo performance finally increased from half an hour to one hour.

On the first day, she still couldn't last an hour. Even with the incentive of delicious food, she only lasted an extra 10 minutes.

However, this was within July's expectations. He deliberately made the training time a bit longer and set a higher goal so that coriander could persevere a little longer.

She has now grasped the basics of how to properly allocate spiritual pressure.

[You have given a lesson to your disciple; reward settled.]

[Reward: 40 Swordsmanship Experience Points]

[Bonus Reward: 10000 Rings]

[Your disciple, Kana Azashiro, has made initial progress in spiritual pressure control techniques; additional reward awarded.]

[Gain 1000 swordsmanship experience points]

After Cilantro initially mastered the technique of controlling spiritual pressure, her feedback experience doubled, allowing July to gain 40 points of swordsmanship experience in one go.

With the feedback I received from teaching and instructing Xiangcai this week, plus the extra 1000 swordsmanship experience points, her swordsmanship level should be able to improve again in July.

Moreover, the rich woman has been getting more gold coins. In July, it was discovered that in addition to experience feedback, the guide coriander would occasionally receive other extra rewards.

Rings are the currency unit in Soul Society. He has already received several currency rewards from Kana, which has greatly eased his financial situation.

"That's all for today. From now on, you'll practice Suzhen for an hour every day. Starting tomorrow, I'll teach you swordsmanship," July said.

"Yes, teacher, I'm going to serve the dishes!" Cilantro nodded vigorously, put down the wooden sword for the marlin, and ran towards the kitchen.

"This kid from the Zhicheng family is really interesting. He's very motivated just by being encouraged with delicious food." When he had nothing to do, Ba Yunzhai would often sit on the side of the eaves and watch the two of them cultivate.

“Yes, I’m starting to suspect that the Mole City family isn’t feeding her every day,” July laughed. “But it’s good this way. With delicious food as an incentive, Xiangcai will work hard to cultivate. Her cultivation progress is quite fast now.”

“This child is a promising talent, but unfortunately she belongs to the Zhicheng family. Even if she trains like this every day, she won’t be valued by the clan. I’m afraid she will only receive attention from the clan when she truly matures,” Ba Yunzhai said softly.

"Why? Is there anything special about the Zhicheng family?" July raised an eyebrow.

July didn't know much about the Mole City family; from the story he knew, the Mole City family hadn't appeared.

"The Mochishiro family was originally a noble family known for its swordsmanship and demonic arts, but due to the descendants' indulgence in pleasure, the Mochishiro family has declined significantly in terms of martial prowess. For many generations, no one has even produced a combatant of the rank of Seat Officer. Many family members cannot even achieve the Shikai Zanpakuto."

Ba Yunzhai continued, "However, they were very successful in another direction. They acquired enormous wealth by investing in certain industries. They replaced 'force' with 'financial power,' using their vast financial resources to expand their business empire and accumulate even more wealth."

“But in Soul Society, without ‘force,’ it’s hard to protect wealth that’s beyond one’s capabilities…” July stroked her chin, not quite agreeing with the Azajo family’s approach.

July believed that without corresponding strength, such actions would sooner or later attract the attention of powerful enemies, and at that time, their enormous wealth would become a death knell for the Mole City family.

"The Soul Society still has the Gotei 13..." Baiyunzhai felt that with the Gotei 13 suppressing the situation, the Seireitei was relatively safe.

"Chicken soup is here!"

Cilantro from Mochi City came over with a plate, and the two stopped discussing the topic.

I went to the market today in July and saw someone selling old hens, so I bought one to make chicken soup.

Many places in Soul Society are not much different from the human world; they also have farmland, forests, and animals.

The only difference is that everything here is made up of "spiritual particles," while things in the real world are made up of "physical particles."

"How does it taste? I haven't tried it yet." July glanced at the oil stains on Cilantro's lips and knew she had secretly drunk some.

"Delicious!"

...

The Spirit Arts Academy, the main classroom.

The entire grade was taking general education classes in a large classroom.

"This question is very simple. I'd like to ask a student to help me answer it." The general education teacher pointed to the spot where the mole-covered coriander was. "The student who nodded, please answer this question."

Cilantro from the city of molehills nodded repeatedly, like a chick pecking at rice.

"Hey..."

"Hey!"

In the hazy light, Cilantro from Zhicheng seemed to hear a few shouts coming from behind.

She ignored it; half asleep, she seemed to see Shikato-sensei making chicken soup.

The general education teacher was nearsighted and didn't notice that Kana was dozing off. He thought she hadn't realized he was calling her. He glanced at the seating chart on the podium and said, "Kana, tell me your thoughts."

Cilantro Mochi was still in a half-asleep state when the girl next to her nudged her with her elbow, which startled her awake.

"The teacher is asking you a question!" the girl next to you kindly reminded you.

After waking up, Cilantro answered without hesitation, "Delicious!"

After Cilantro finished speaking, the entire classroom fell silent.

Then, the classroom erupted in laughter.

The general education teacher's face darkened. With his rich teaching experience, he knew perfectly well that the student had just been dreaming.

"Zhicheng Cilantro! Go back and copy this problem a hundred times! Hand it in before the next class!"

Cilantro turned pale and looked utterly dejected.

After class, Kensei Rokusha stopped the dejected Kana Mochi.