The Alchemist in Bleach

This is something that most Shinigami wouldn't know about. Only a handful of people in the entire Soul Society know about it. The Captain-Commander is one because he possesses the King Key, and the Captain is another because she is friends with Tenjiro and knows about its existence. As for Shiba Kaien, the head of the Shiba family, one of the five noble clans, it's no surprise that he knows about it.

Seeing the three shocked people, Ichiro's lips curled into a smile. He was about to raise his right hand in the classic gesture of pushing up his glasses when he realized he had forgotten to wear them. Helpless, he could only touch his nose and say, "It seems that you, Captain-Commander, know. Then I won't say any more."

"Has your research reached this stage...?"

"More or less, but it's not complete yet, there's still room for improvement. Let's not talk about that for now. Oh, and remember to keep this a secret. Anyway, Captain Ukitake's head will use this method to eliminate the effects of these energies, and after this step is completed, Captain Ukitake will be reborn!"

It's important to note that this plan has two problems. First, no matter how well the limbs are trained, they will never be as good as one's own, so Captain Ukitake's strength will be significantly weakened upon completion. Second, what do you plan to do with the energy source? That's a hot potato, isn't it?

The captain paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "You don't need to worry about that. I'll figure something out. But the second plan you mentioned, it wouldn't be......"

Ichiro grinned and said, "That's right, it's a complete overhaul! By fully integrating the energy source into Captain Ukitake's body, not only will there be no side effects, but their strength will also increase dramatically! The only problem is... I wonder, Captain-Commander, what is your choice?"

"..." The captain paused for a moment, then asked, "What about safety? Which of the two plans is safer?"

"Is it safe? If I were to personally carry out the procedure, both options would be 100% safe. However, setting aside my technical issues, in terms of execution alone, Option 1 would be extremely dangerous because the body replacement can only be done step by step. During this process, Captain Ukitake's combat strength would be reduced to its lowest level."

"Is that so? Then I'll entrust Fuzhu's body to you. Safety is the most important thing. He's my student, so I'll take full responsibility for any problems that arise! Just go ahead and do your job!"

Ichiro smiled slightly, bowed slightly, and replied, "I understand, Captain-Commander."

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Chapter 183 Art is an Explosion!

Thus, the matter of Ukitake was settled. As expected, the second option was chosen: a complete overhaul of his body, including the reshaping of the Spirit King's right hand and the reconstruction of his lungs. This was the safest option, and it also showed how much the Captain-Commander valued Ukitake, since it would be somewhat disrespectful to the Spirit King.

This is destined to be a long process. Although Ichiro has mastered the Transcendental Transformation, there is still a considerable gap between it and the Transcendental Transformation of the Zero Division. Fortunately, they have survived for hundreds of years, and Ukitake is not short of time. Ichiro has plenty of time to perfect it.

Although this takes a long time, the benefits are definitely numerous. As for Ukitake, it goes without saying that only the Zero Division is qualified to enjoy the Transcendental Modification. Even the Captain-Commander has not undergone the Transcendental Modification. He only wields a King Key that can enter the Spirit King Palace. Moreover, the members of the Zero Division only use the power of the Spirit King, while Ukitake uses the entire right hand of the Spirit King!

For Ichiro, although he may not gain as much combat power as Ukitake, the process itself is the most precious treasure.

Firstly, it would allow him to use the power of the Spirit King more skillfully. Secondly, it would be very useful for his next stage of research, which focuses on spirit particles. He wants to know why.

He already knew how spirit particles could combine to form new matter and what abilities they could produce, but now he wanted to go further and understand why this structure had this effect.

Ichiro had wanted to do this for a long time, but the research didn't offer any significant help to combat power, at least not now, so he had to keep putting it off. Now that he was strong enough, it was time to conduct the research.

And so, time passed day by day, and Ichiro's life returned to its cycle once again: Fourth Division – Thirteenth Division – Research and Development Bureau – Fourth Division, and so on.

Of course, returning to the Fourth Division now is just for rest. The work of the Fourth Division was eventually taken over by the World, which is unavoidable. After all, other things are easy to deal with, but the chanting team can no longer be led by the captains. Moreover, the captains did not learn all the chanting techniques; they only learned some specific ones.

As mentioned before, many of the chanting techniques used in the return spells are based on the captain's techniques. If you already know them, there's no need to learn the corresponding chanting techniques.

Therefore, although I feel somewhat sorry for the world, I still have to entrust it to her...

After being reminded by the captain, Ichiro realized this and ultimately forced himself to take on some of the tasks from Sekai. It was at this moment that he realized how inhuman he had been before. Even capitalists weren't this ruthless!

hetui!

The treatment in Ukitake is quite simple. You just need to go there every day for a transformative modification, which takes about thirty minutes. The progress is extremely slow, but it is stable. After all, this involves reconstructing an entire Spirit King's arm, which is no joke.

Overall, the workload is not heavy. It's just a matter of going there at a set time every day, like checking in, collecting some data, and then coming back.

As for the work at the Technology Development Bureau, Ichiro fulfilled his promise to Senjumaru, acting entirely as her tool in her first research project, with her taking the lead in carrying out the research activities.

As expected, Senjumaru chose the Shinigami uniform. With a slight obsessive-compulsive tendency, she felt that the current uniforms of the 13th Division were too chaotic, with each division basically wearing different ones. For example, in the 2nd Division, most of the Shinigami dressed like ninjas.

Compared to the Sixth Division, the Second Division is actually better off. At least their uniforms are combat suits. The members of the Sixth Division all wear noble clothes and various clan emblems, which not only affects their combat but also makes it difficult to cultivate relationships among the team members.

In the Sixth Division, you can tell at a glance who is a commoner and who is a nobleman, which leads to extremely serious discrimination.

There have been countermeasures to this, but they have been useless. Some free countries in the world have even written the prohibition of discrimination into their laws. Has it been effective?

It's useless.

Therefore, it is understandable that Senjumaru would have such an idea. Moreover, in order to prevent her subordinates from coming up with countermeasures, the Shinha armor she planned to make was, just as Ichiro guessed, a high-level Shinha armor with laws involved!

In other words, you can't change your clothes. Once you put it on for the first time, no matter how many times you change it, it will eventually become a Shinhaka outfit.

Ichiro truly admired her for this; she not only had courage, but she also had some insightful ideas. However, there was one thing that Ichiro hadn't considered.

You've already made your Death Knight outfit so high-end, can't you add some special effects to the clothes?

For example, things like increasing attack power, defense power, or other miscellaneous functions.

But no!

Aside from binding, this outfit has no other functions!

This is ridiculous! Such technically advanced clothing, and you didn't even include any special effects?

However, Ichiro had no choice. As he had already said before, he was only responsible for helping with this research, while the main person in charge was Senjumaru. Therefore, he suggested that she make the suggestion, and whether or not it was adopted was up to her.

After all, Ichiro also has his own research. Ichiro's current research mainly focuses on four areas: first, continuing the development of Gundam; second, the Hollowfication of Bleach, but this needs to be done secretly, at least not in the open for now; third, the analysis of spirit particle structures; and fourth, the writing of chanting verses.

These are the main ones at present. Among them, the first, third and fourth ones are mainly developed by the Technology Development Bureau. The Hollowfied Ichiro of Bleach is placed in the private laboratory of the Fourth Division, which is relatively safe and secretive.

Of course, there is one thing that never stops: to continue perfecting the Moon Spirit's body. However, unlike Hueco Mundo, obtaining spirit particles is not as convenient here, so we can only take it slowly, like a slow and steady process, and there's no rush.

However, in general, because there are too many things to do, Ichiro must have a focus, otherwise the final result will be nothing but emptiness and inability to accomplish anything.

His energy was naturally focused on Gundam, which had a clear direction and a large amount of data, unlike the analysis of spiritual particle structures, which had only just begun to collect data.

Regarding Gundam, Ichiro's achievements so far are very limited. Although the Burst God Frame demonstrated extraordinary combat power in the battle of Las Noches, it is worth mentioning that it is not actually a Gundam. At most, it is just a few combat parts forcibly combined together.

What Ichiro needs to do now is to connect them together in a more natural way.

Ichiro has two solutions. One is to design a powerful energy system and then assimilate it from top to bottom. By using the power of a higher level, he can forcibly merge the various systems into a whole. The difficulty of this solution is that the energy requirements are too high. Currently, the only things that meet the requirements are the spirit crystals and the power of the spirit king that were accidentally formed during Urahara's previous experiment.

Another method is related to Senjumaru.

By assisting Senjumaru, Ichiro discovered a special thread she used to construct the Shinha Armor, a thread that could be woven into the rules of the world. If this could be used on Gundam and made into the "meridians" of Gundam, then it would be possible to connect them!

This is also what Ichiro is currently mainly doing. The previous method, Spirit Crystals, is not cost-effective, and the power of the Spirit King is too dangerous. After considering all the options, only this thing is reliable.

Therefore, when the members of the Fourth Division arrived at the Technology Development Bureau one after another, they all stared in disbelief at Ichiro lying on a large robot, studying something.

After watching for a while and seeing that Ichiro still hadn't come down, a newly arrived member of the Fourth Division pushed up his round-framed glasses, then walked over to Suzuran Tsuki and asked in a low voice, "What are Suzuran's seventh seat and Tenshin's third seat doing? Shouldn't we be studying the Return Path?"

Linglan Yue glanced at him and first corrected his statement: "First of all, don't use the team's titles here. You should call me Minister Tianxin or Lord Tianxin. Just call me Linglan. We need to distinguish myself from the team members."

“Oh, I see, Suzuran Shichi… um, Miss Suzuran.” Murashita, the bespectacled man, shrank back and replied somewhat awkwardly.

"As for why we don't study the Returning Dao, this is the Alchemy Department, not the Medical Department or the Returning Dao Department, so naturally we won't be focusing on these things. Just stay aside for now, and Lord Tianxin will come to assign tasks later."

After saying that, Suzuran Yue quietly stood aside with Tensei Shiro, watching Ichiro until he finished his work.

"Huh? What happened to these two wires? How did they break... Holy crap!!!"

To everyone's astonishment, Ichiro, who had been quiet just a moment ago, suddenly screamed and appeared in front of them in an instant. Before they could even greet him, Ichiro raised his arms and began chanting repeatedly, "%……()……￥……"

Everyone: "???"

Because Ichiro spoke too fast, the others didn't hear any actual words, but it seemed as if the words "Dan Kong" floated by.

However, the next moment, a horrifying scene directly confirmed their thoughts. Ichiro was indeed reciting the Bound Spell Number 81: Breaking the Void, and it was the 24th layer!

The incredible speed of 24 broken incantations in a single second completely overturned their view of the Ghost Path. Damn, with such speed, what are the others supposed to do?

But this is just the appetizer...

"boom!"

The moment the quadruple cube formed by the 24 broken sides took shape, the Gundam inside it turned into a beam of light, and the violent explosion almost deafened them!

Everyone stared at Ichiro in shock, partly because of his Kido level, and partly because of the enormous explosive power of that thing. It shattered two of the four layers of the Void Breaker and cracked the first layer. Although this was done without incantation, its power was definitely weakened.

But it's number eighty-one after all!

Are you being so disrespectful?

However, only the newcomers were surprised. Some of the "veterans" who had arrived a few days earlier just glanced over, clicked their tongues twice, marveled at the minister's grand gesture, and then continued to bury themselves in their work.

The Grim Reapers patrolling outside were doing the same thing, skillfully reporting information and submitting applications again, hoping that the higher-ups would agree to lift the Ghost Path restrictions on areas 80 to 89 in the Technology Development Bureau area. Otherwise, with these visits every few days, who could possibly withstand it?

"Tsk~ It exploded again. What went wrong?" Ichiro frowned as he looked at the wreckage of the Gundam.

This constant bombing isn't going to work; the Alchemy Department's budget for this year has almost been blown up in half!

At most, there will be one more explosion, and then this experiment will have to be terminated. After all, the alchemy department has other projects to complete the year-end assessment and train new people, and they can't throw all the money into this.

After standing there pondering for a while, Ichiro, still unable to figure it out, glanced at the people behind him, shook his head, temporarily gave up thinking, and turned around to call the members who had come from the Fourth Division.

After glancing around and finding that everyone had arrived, he walked up to Suzuran Tsuki and Tensei Shiro, having them stand behind him like two guardian generals, and then spoke.

"I think Linglan has already told you the general situation. I'll reiterate it again: this is the Alchemy Department, not the Medical Department. The main focus here is on alchemy experiments based on my research area. At the same time, we are temporarily conducting medical research. However, this is only temporary. In the future, this part will be separated to establish a dedicated Medical Department, which will be the main place for researching medical skills. The department head will be chosen from among you. So, work hard. This is probably your best chance to become the department head."

Of course, this is the Technology Development Bureau. If you don't want to research my alchemy and return paths, you can choose to join other departments or simply not join at all and work on what you want to research under Director Urahara's leadership. Of course, you'll need to apply for funding from Director Urahara. Overall, it's quite free here. Each department has regular assessments, and those who fail will be dismissed, so don't think about just coasting along. Good luck!

At that moment, Ichiro saw a rather thin female team member with a braided hairstyle raise her hand, nodded, and said, "Do you have any questions?"

"Tianxin San... Minister, may I ask if it is possible to learn your alchemy techniques in the Alchemy Department?"

Upon hearing this, a hint of anticipation flashed in everyone's eyes.

Upon hearing this, Ichiro smiled and casually replied, "Of course, but I think you probably don't understand what my alchemy is. In your opinion, what is my alchemy?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, opened their mouths, but found that they couldn't say anything. They could also make tools, but they couldn't do as much or as fast as Ichiro. It was the same with making potions. They could also do that, but they couldn't do as much or as fast as Ichiro.

But is this alchemy?

They don't know...

In fact, this is indeed Ichiro's alchemy.

Ichiro has a habit of creating a corresponding Kido technique for anything that can be achieved through alchemy. In other words, most things that can be done through alchemy can also be done through Kido, except for things as subtle as the spiritual particle structure, which is something that is still under research.

So in a sense, this can also be considered Ichiro's alchemy!

"It seems you have some guesses. Let me clarify for you. My so-called alchemy is just the research on metals and potions. There's nothing mysterious about my alchemy. It's just the alchemy of the modern world. Many people have heard of it. The one who's strong is me, not the alchemy itself. Don't overthink it."

Seeing the thoughtful looks in everyone's eyes, Ichiro nodded in satisfaction and continued, "Next, we'll divide into groups. Those who are going to study the Dao, stand to my right. Those who are going to study alchemy, stand still. Those who are going to study other fields, stand to my left. This is just a preliminary grouping, and we'll have two more chances to change it later, so feel free to be casual. Let's begin."

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Chapter 184 Destiny

Ultimately, only a few, one or two, chose to go to other departments. The rest mostly chose to stay in Ichiro's alchemy department. Among them, most chose to continue researching the Dao, and only a handful chose to learn alchemy from him.

One of them was a thin girl with braided pigtails, Uzaki Hana. I had some impression of her. In the Fourth Division, she was the best at mastering the various medicines invented by Ichiro, and even improved many of them. She was a rather talented Shinigami.

After dividing the team into groups, Ichiro asked the team members who had chosen other departments to stand aside, sent a few who were going to stay in the Alchemy Department to the database to look up information, and then gathered the team members who were going to continue their research on the Dao separately.