The Alchemist in Bleach

Of course, this was also the time for the captain to stop. Every time before, the captain would stop at this point to maximize the effect of the training while avoiding any harm to him.

After all, this time they're going to Hueco Mundo, a place that's still quite dangerous for Ichiro right now, especially if it's for causing trouble. If it were just to accompany the next head of the Shihouin family and get some credit, that would be fine; he could just wander around the periphery and make it look good.

But she knew they were there to cause trouble...

The team leader didn't know the specific research plan, but she knew one thing: this kid was definitely going to practice those forbidden techniques there!

Those forbidden techniques are incredibly powerful and disruptive; that alone makes them impossible to conceal, not to mention they might have other malicious plans...

That's why the captain changed his mind and made time specifically for Ichiro's special training. But it looks like the training should be over soon...

Ichiro's increasingly sharp swordsmanship made the captain's lips curl up slightly. Although this level was nothing to her, at least, combined with his bunch of messy methods, it was enough to save her life when she encountered Vastod.

With that thought in mind, the captain dodged, and what was originally a back-and-forth fight was instantly neutralized by Ichiro's sword strike. Then, the captain moved behind Ichiro and gently tapped the back of his head with the hilt of her sword, causing Ichiro to fall into her arms.

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Chapter Ninety-Two: Chanting the Way Back (Part 1) (2/5)

"Ah~ an unfamiliar ceiling~"

In the barracks of the Fourth Division, Ichiro slowly opened his eyes, stared at the ceiling for a moment, and after not hearing "the surgery was a success," he suddenly came to his senses. He seemed to have gone crazy while "sparring" with the captain, and then he seemed to have been knocked unconscious by the captain.

He had no recollection of what happened after that, not even how he got back.

'World, how long have I been asleep?'

"Lord Ichiro, I slept for a week after training ended. The training lasted for two weeks in total. It's been almost a month since I became the third seat."

'Has it been almost a month? Has anyone come to see me while I was asleep?' As I got up and tidied my clothes, I mentally and in the world confirmed what had happened in the meantime.

"Lord Urahara and Lord Yoruichi have come to see you. Their training will take some time, so the start of the plan may be delayed for a while. As for the others, the Captain and Seinosuke-senpai have also checked on your condition."

'Okay, I understand. By the way, you haven't transformed into your Grim Reaper form during this time, have you?'

'No.'

'Very well, you'll have to endure this for now. Once we resolve the Mirror Flower Water Moon issue, you can freely transform into your Grim Reaper form.'

'Yes, I understand.'

Preventing the world from turning into a Shinigami form was also to prevent Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu. Actually, Ichiro only thought of this later. At first, he didn't think that much about it; he simply wanted to turn the world into a Shinigami.

Later, after the world remained in its Zanpakuto form for a long time, Ichiro suddenly thought of Aizen's problem and realized that the world, which could transform into a Shinigami, might be his trump card to deal with Aizen!

What is the power of "Mirror Flower, Water Moon"?

Control your five senses!

But a knife has absolutely no senses!

Therefore, in the world beneath her Zanpakuto form, regardless of whether she has seen Kyoka Suigetsu or not, Aizen's abilities cannot affect her, unless she sees it in her Shinigami form.

This was indeed unavoidable, but when Ichiro realized the problem, there was still hope. He couldn't be sure if he had fallen for the illusion of a mirage, but he was certain that he hadn't fallen for the world!

Because the Shinigami form of the world has only appeared in front of a limited number of people, and many people are unaware of the world's existence, Ichiro, who was still an unknown nobody at the time, naturally did not attract Aizen's attention.

After that, it becomes quite simple. Indeed, the Grim Reaper form is used in many scenarios in the world, as it is indeed convenient. However, what if the world immediately resets its spiritual state afterward?

Simply put, it involves reconstructing the spiritual particles to revert the state to the previous moment!

Even if we don't know how the illusion of a mirage works, the affected state has definitely disappeared!

But that's not enough.

This only gives Ichiro the conditions to truly fight Aizen, not the conditions to defeat him, because the other people's five senses are still controlled by him.

Based on this, he estimated that the reason why Urahara hid the Hogyoku in Rukia's body in the original work was probably for this reason as well. Rukia is a member of the Kuchiki clan, and it would not be easy to extract the Hogyoku from her body.

In the end, Aizen succeeded, but at the same time, he also left Soul Society!

This is the most advantageous terrain for him!

Even if one person is immune to illusions, it's useless because the world they see is different from the world others see. Therefore, Urahara ultimately chose to entrap them in Soul Society.

The Hogyoku is another possibility. At the moment of fusion with the Hogyoku, Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu might be ineffective!

Because at that moment, his will as a Shinigami had deviated from the realm of Kyoka Suigetsu. Given the characteristics of a Zanpakuto, as long as he calmed down, his Shikai would indeed return, but for that instant, he might not be able to use it.

But this is just speculation. Ichiro's current actions are actually based on Urahara's plan in the original work, and then he adds his own ideas to scheme against him!

So if you can break free from illusions, then I'm sorry, no amount of Boruto spins can stop you from turning to ashes!

......

As Ichiro walked towards the team, he mentally devised a plan to take down Lan. He felt he could never be too harsh on Lan, no matter how many layers of pressure he applied; after all, he currently held the advantage, and should...

At least, Aizen didn't know that he knew about him, while he knew that Aizen didn't know about him, and knew that Aizen might know about him. (This logic shouldn't be too difficult, lol)

Lost in thought, Ichiro arrived at the singing troupe, the independent unit that obeyed his orders. After a month of formation, it now had a formal structure with a total of 30 members.

Unlike the knife-wielding squad, whose direct captain and number of members never change, the chanting squad is different. They are more like Ichiro's students, who come to learn chanting-style responses from Ichiro than team members.

After completing their training, some of the members will be distributed among the Fourth Division to serve as teachers, teaching others to chant the sermon, thus expanding the team's numbers.

Theoretically speaking, for a chanting team to be officially established, the chanting system must be basically completed, most members of the Fourth Division must master it, and relevant courses must be offered at the Shinigami Academy.

Only then will the choir be truly established and become an elite team; right now? They're just a bunch of apprentices.

Upon arriving at the choir, Ichiro discovers that in addition to his best friend who had joined from the beginning, Seinosuke has also included Suzurangetsu at Ichiro's request.

When he entered the training ground, everyone was chattering and discussing the difficulties of chanting the return path. It was chaotic, but the learning atmosphere was excellent and they were extremely self-disciplined, so much so that no one noticed Ichiro's arrival.

This is natural, after all, some of them will become teachers in the future. If they can't even learn well themselves, how can they teach others?

Ichiro didn't disturb them, but listened quietly from the side, analyzing their understanding of the chanting and response through these chaotic discussions. After all, Seinosuke had already taught him before him. As a vice-captain, he shouldn't be that bad. Teaching a group of novices the chanting and response should be more than enough for him.

However, after listening for a while, Ichiro realized he was wrong...

"That idiot Seinosuke doesn't know anything about chanting!" Seinosuke replied.

Seinosuke's method of learning to chant the sermon was a reverse deduction from the traditional sermon, so although he learned it quickly, he had actually deviated from the original intention of chanting the sermon.

Using this method to teach them is pointless.

As mentioned earlier, most members of the Fourth Division can use the Reincarnation Technique, but very few Shinigami can use it for healing. This is another high requirement besides the inherent difficulty of learning the Reincarnation Technique itself.

Studying Taoism is difficult enough as it is, but now I also have to study medicine...

Who can stand this?

Therefore, the members of the choir would naturally not use the method of healing, so Seinosuke's teaching method is completely wrong!

He's essentially making these people learn the traditional way of responding to the call to prayer first, and then learn to chant it. What's the point of that? Just to recite a few lines and show off?

Is chanting a way of returning to the Way such an inconvenient thing?

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Chapter Ninety-Three: Chanting the Way Back (Part 2) (3/5)

The chanting of the return path was conceived and created by Ichiro in order to change the drawbacks of the current return path. Under such circumstances, how could he possibly need to learn the original return path first?

Before discussing the chanting of returning to the Dao, it is necessary to mention the two major difficulties of returning to the Dao. The first is to transform spiritual energy into life force, and the second is to use this transformed life force to treat patients, which requires a certain level of medical knowledge.

The former is fine, but the latter is the most troublesome. Even in the modern society of Ichiro's first life, after medicine has been divided into such a refined level, there is still the saying that "advising someone to study medicine will get you struck by lightning." This is enough to show how difficult medicine is.

In Soul Society, the difficulty is even greater!

Because it's not a system!

Modern medical knowledge is all here, but it's not systematic and requires self-study. In other words, the medicine in Soul Society now is actually more inclined towards the empirical medicine of ancient Chinese medicine.

It's not that it's weak, but it lacks replicability...

The chanting of the return path provides a relatively perfect solution to these two issues and integrates them with the traditional return path.

First, while chanting the return path is still more difficult than breaking the path and binding the path, it is far less difficult than the traditional return path, as it does not require you to master the skill of converting spiritual energy into life force.

Secondly, Ichiro systematically categorized and organized the medical knowledge that existed in Soul Society and that he possessed. Of course, this required the help of others; he couldn't have accomplished such a large workload by himself.

After completing the systematic classification and organization, he also organized all the curable injuries and illnesses, and then divided them into corresponding serial numbers according to their difficulty.

Simply put, it's like a binding path, categorized. The original path was like this: confirm the illness - use the path to cure - recover and rest; but now it has become: confirm the illness - choose the appropriate path - recover and rest.

The previously ambiguous parts have been refined and summarized. Previously, only a Grim Reaper skilled in the Resurrection Technique could heal the same injury. But now, as long as there is a corresponding Resurrection Technique for the injury, it can be healed by finding a Grim Reaper who knows how to perform it.

This will greatly enhance the healing capabilities of the Fourth Division.

Of course, no matter how small the injury, there will always be some injuries that do not correspond to the chanting response. What should we do then?

At this point, we must return to the traditional way of returning to the Tao. Another essence of chanting the way of returning to the Tao is actually to break down the traditional way of returning to the Tao from one type into ninety-nine types. Therefore, the process of learning to chant the way of returning to the Tao is actually the process of systematically learning the way of returning to the Tao.

So when you encounter this situation, just be creative. It's similar to developing your own Kido in the current Kido system. There are indeed only ninety-nine Kido and Bakudo, but there are countless Kido and Bakudo without numbers.

The same applies to return paths. For example, Ichiro's life weaving is a relatively strong return path outside of sequence.

So how could they possibly succeed using Kiyonosuke's method under these circumstances?

One is top-down, the other is bottom-up, completely reversed.

Ichiro immediately clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention.

"Everyone, stop for a moment and assemble!"

The discussion gradually subsided. They glanced at Ichiro standing at the door, exchanged bewildered looks, but quickly lined up. Apart from the extra's best friend, the rest of the singing team were veteran members, and Ichiro's reputation was quite useful to them.

After everyone had lined up, Ichiro coughed twice, put his hands behind his back, and said, "I was delayed by some things before, so it was Seinosuke-senpai who taught you the chanting of the return path on my behalf. I am very pleased with your serious attitude in learning."

Everyone smiled.

"but!"

The smiles on everyone's faces froze.

"I want you to forget everything that Seinosuke-senpai taught you these past few days!"

The smiles on everyone's faces vanished.

"What does Seinosuke know about chanting?" he replied.

"Ahem~ I'm really sorry I only know nothing about chanting and replying~" Kiyonosuke's slightly gloomy voice came from behind Ichiro.

"..." Ichiro remained silent. Was Seinosuke-senpai's stealth ability really that high? Or was it a side effect of being slashed that caused his sensory impairment?