The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

Chapter 166 Logging into the Soul Society

"Something's wrong with you." That night, in the apartment that Ishihara Sho had rented to log into the Naruto world, Emiko, who was lying on top of him, said breathlessly.

"What's wrong?" Ishihara Sho asked, puzzled.

“Let me think… Oh right, Misako!” Then, Yumiko’s expression changed, and she looked at Ishihara with a somewhat unfriendly expression: “As expected, you have feelings for Misako.”

"Uh……"

"You can't explain this anymore. So, if you men's words are believable, pigs can fly." With a disgruntled look, Yumiko rolled over and lay down next to Ishihara Akira.

"But you have to admit, your sister Misako is indeed very charming."

"That's no reason for you to make a move on her."

"Isn't Kamisako currently struggling with life's challenges?"

“Then she can go find other men, instead of having you, my boyfriend, help her.” Yumiko turned around, grabbed Ishihara Sho’s hand, and said viciously.

"Fine, then I don't want to think about it." Ishihara Akira lay back down indifferently.

"Really?" Yuemiko asked doubtfully.

“Really,” Ishihara Akira said with his eyes closed.

"Hmph, you're smart to know what's good for you." Yue Meizi snorted and rested her head on his shoulder. After a pause, she said again, "Tell me honestly, besides me, you don't have any other women outside?"

Ishihara Akira wasn't stupid; how could he possibly tell her the truth? He simply denied it in a casual tone.

"But your behavior doesn't seem like it."

"How can it not look like it?"

“You decide to go yourself,” Yumiko scoffed.

He even dared to make a move on Misako, and right in front of her, Misako's sister, and he even honestly admitted it. Such courage and shamelessness are not something an ordinary man would have!

Therefore, Yumiko doubted whether Ishihara Akira was telling the truth when he said he didn't have any other women.

However, she couldn't really pursue the matter, and since Ishihara was indeed very skilled in certain areas, Yumiko simply turned a blind eye. As long as the matter wasn't directly presented to her, she would pretend not to know.

She has no evidence.

Nothing more was said that night, and the next day arrived in the blink of an eye.

"When you leave work, remember to bring back some saline solution, vitamins, and glucose," Ishihara Shoko said as Yumiko changed her clothes and prepared to leave for work, standing at the door changing her shoes.

"What?" Yuemiko was taken aback and asked in surprise.

“Just like last time, my cultivation has reached a certain stage, and I need to go into seclusion and slumber,” Ishihara Akira replied.

"I understand. When will you start?" Yuemiko asked, having changed her shoes.

“It will begin after you leave,” Ishihara Akira said.

"Is it really necessary to be in such a hurry?" Yuemiko frowned.

"Yes." Ishihara Akira nodded seriously.

"OK then."

Then, Ishihara Akira went up and hugged Yumiko and kissed her for a while until Yumiko was a little out of breath. He then let go of her and watched her leave the apartment and gradually disappear from his sight.

Afterwards, Ishihara Akira closed the door, returned to the bedroom, sat back on the mattress that was now supported by a bed board, took out his phone, told Hanako-nee and Aunt Dianzi that he was going out to run errands, then let out a long sigh, lay back on the bed, closed his eyes, and entered the dream world.

Next comes materialization, materializing various characters from the Bleach world—

For example, Yoruichi Shihouin, Suifu, Matsumoto Ransuke, Kotetsu Isane, Unohana Retsu, Ise Nanao, Hinamori Momo, Kuchiki Rukia, Yadomaru Lisa...

He interacted with every female character he could think of related to the world of Bleach, playing games and joking around with them until he summoned the portal to the world of Bleach. Only then did he step out from the crowd and walk firmly into the portal. In a flash, he found himself in a street filled with messy houses and streets that resembled those of the lower classes in Japan's Edo period.

"Damn, it's Soul Society..." Ishihara Sho said speechlessly, looking at the environment before him.

You see, his initial goal was Karakura Town. That way, even if he couldn't enter Soul Society and participate in the story, he could still try to get his hands on the Spirit Particle Training Method from Isshin Kurosaki and Uryu Ishida's father.

Unexpectedly, they ended up directly in the Soul Society...

While it's not impossible, it's certainly not as convenient as just following the main character.

"It's my fault too. I initially manifested characters from Soul Society, otherwise I wouldn't have been directly teleported here. In that case, I can only take the path of the Shinigami Academy. It's a good opportunity to get my Zanpakuto, but I don't know if the Shinigami Academy accepts people with Shinigami aptitude who come out of Rukongai at any time, or if they only accept students at specific times," Ishihara Akira pondered to himself.

"Kid, if you don't want to get beaten up, stay put and don't move." Just as Ishihara Akira was figuring out how to move around in Soul Society, several ragged but relatively burly young men, who weren't skin and bones compared to the surrounding residents, swaggered over and called out to Ishihara Akira, who hadn't moved since he appeared, with a mocking expression.

"Huh?" Ishihara Akira was taken aback and looked at the group.

What's going on? Am I being robbed?

Ishihara looked down at his clothes. Although they were ordinary modern attire, they were indeed much more upscale and wealthy compared to the group of people in front of him who still dressed in Edo-era style. No wonder some fools would take the risk and try to cause trouble.

Of course, the main reason is probably the way he appeared—he suddenly appeared, much like those 'all-powerful' beings descending from the human world. He shouldn't be a high-ranking noble or anything like that from Soul Society. Otherwise, these thugs from Rukongai wouldn't have taken the risk of coming to cause him trouble.

"Kid, be more proactive and hand over your clothes and belongings, or else I won't be so polite to you," the gaunt young man said menacingly as he approached Ishihara Sho.

But who is Ishihara Sho? He's the guy who dared to instigate a war between major powers in the Naruto world and act as the mastermind behind the scenes in the real world. How could he be intimidated by a few petty thugs?

He let out a cold laugh, swung his fist, and the expressions of the thugs in front of him all froze—

Magic Phoenix Illusion Fist.

Then, Ishihara Akira ignored the few thugs who were doomed to die and walked toward the other nearby residents.

"Auntie, could you tell me where this is?" Ishihara Akira walked up to an old woman sitting by the door and asked her.

Chapter 167 Registration

By asking around among the residents, Ishihara Yu roughly determined his current location.

No. 64, West Ward, Rukongai, a district called Sabin.

Oh, the Soul Society is mainly divided into two parts: the Seireitei and the Rukongai. The Seireitei is where the Gotei 13 is located. It is mainly inhabited by Shinigami, but in essence, it is the private land of nobles, and the Gotei 13 are their gatekeepers and protectors.

Rukongai is the place where the souls of humans descend after death. It has a total of 320 wards, divided into four major regions according to the cardinal directions. Each region has 80 sub-wards. Ward 1 has the best security and is the main area where wealthy people or those with connections to Shinigami live. Ward 80 has the worst security and, due to the scarcity of resources, battles are almost always taking place there.

Just like the thugs who tried to rob him before, that was practically a daily occurrence there, and even deaths were commonplace. Compared to that, even the equally impoverished and resource-poor District 64 was like paradise.

In addition, Ishihara Akira also learned about the Shinigami Academy from the surrounding residents. They recruit students there at any time, meaning that as long as you have the aptitude to become a Shinigami and the intention to do so, you can go to the White Gate, register with the gatekeeper Jidanbo, enter the outer wall of Soul Society, and then walk about 100 meters south to find the corresponding applicant, complete the registration, and become a current student of the Shinigami Academy.

The study period is six years, and the content is the four disciplines of the Grim Reaper: Slash, Fist, and Demon Walk.

That is, swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat or physical techniques, swift footwork, and demonic arts.

As for questions like when the Zanpakuto will be distributed, that's something these ordinary residents wouldn't know.

Even concepts like "slaying fists and chasing ghosts" were figured out by Ishihara Sho based on the original source material, rather than through information provided by the residents.

Then, Ishihara Akira asked for directions to the First District and set off towards it.

Then, on his way to Zone 1, Ishihara Akira discovered his own difference.

It wasn't the fact that he possessed spiritual power. As a celestial demon, or rather, a monk who had attained the first stage of Arhatship, the lack of spiritual power would be a problem; having spiritual power would be normal. So what truly made him realize the difference was that he could freely absorb the spiritual particles existing in the Soul Society through breathing!

And it's very fast!

Even if he were willing to give up traveling and cultivate directly on the road—even if it's just basic yoga breathing techniques—his speed of cultivating spiritual power would increase exponentially, even forming visible spiritual particle tides.

The reason is simple: he opened up the seven chakras, which are energy nodes. Their existence is for storing energy. So as soon as the breathing technique is activated, the seven chakras will, like a turbine, draw in the free spiritual particles floating around them as the spiritual power in the central channel surges. This causes the unclaimed spiritual particles to swarm and gather around like bees that have discovered a good nectar source.

Although the effects were very appealing to Ishihara, for safety reasons, he began to abandon the idea of ​​openly absorbing free spiritual particles to strengthen his soul.

There's no other reason than that such a massive spiritual tide would inevitably attract the attention of the Soul Society's Shinigami, especially the captains. Whether for safety or other reasons, a captain would definitely come to check the situation. And if Aizen were to run into him...

Ishihara Sho thought about his own mind and realized that he was probably being played to death by the other party and wouldn't even understand why.

As for Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu...

As a demon specializing in mental matters, although he wasn't confident enough to use hypnosis or similar methods to break through the soul defenses of captain-level Grim Reapers and control them, he figured he could at least resist the influence of the Mirror Flower Water Moon on him.

But regardless of whether it will actually succeed, Ishihara Sho, who has no intention of experiencing it firsthand, is not planning to meet Aizen so soon.

So aside from normal breathing or activating one of the seven chakras to increase his spiritual pressure at a low frequency, Ishihara Sho made no exaggerated noises and quietly made his way to District 1 like an unnoticed little ant.

And this rush took several days; you never know what you'll find until you try!

This area is almost as big as a ward in Tokyo, isn't it?

Then Ishihara Sho spent the money he had taken from the guy he met on the road who wanted to rob him because he was alone. He treated himself to a meal of so-called Soul Society delicacies and then set off again toward the White Path Gate guarded by Sidanbo.

……

"Halt! This is the Seireitei. No one other than Shinigami or related persons is allowed to enter!" Just as Ishihara Sho reached the vicinity of the White Gate of the Seireitei, a thunderous voice suddenly boomed from the house next door, making Ishihara Sho's mind go blank. He turned his head to look at the person.

Suddenly, a burly giant, over ten meters tall, came into Ishihara Yu's view!

If Ishihara Akira hadn't known that this was Seireitei and that the guy in front of him was a so-called Shinigami, he would have seriously doubted whether he had come to the wrong place, whether he had traveled from the world of Shinigami to the world of Journey to the West, and whether what he saw in front of him was not the Rhinoceros Pill House but the Giant Spirit God...

In short, compared to most souls whose physical form is still that of an ordinary human, the giant-like Sidanfang really doesn't look like a person.

"You must be Lord Jidanbo. Hello, I am Ishihara Sho. I would like to enroll in the Shinigami Academy and become a Shinigami trainee. Could you please point me to the specific registration location, Lord Jidanbo?" Ishihara Sho composed himself and adopted the attitude of an ordinary person meeting a great master, humbly asking for help.

"You want to enroll in the True Central Spiritual Arts Academy?" Sidanbo walked up to Ishihara Sho and looked down at the petite man to confirm.

“Yes.” Ishihara Akira nodded.

"Then come with me." Si Danfang didn't sense anything unusual about the little guy in front of him, so he withdrew his gaze and turned around.

"Yes." Then Ishihara Sho followed behind Jidanbo towards the registration office of the Shinigami Academy, which was built almost against the outer wall of Seireitei.

"Sidanfang, what brings you here?" The Grim Reaper at the registration desk stood up from his slumped position on the table and looked at Sidanfang, who was approaching, looking weak and listless.

"Daisuke, you're slacking off again," Sidanbo laughed.

However, this is not his fault. Given the pace of life in Soul Society and the scarcity of Shinigami aptitude, it is possible that unless there are special circumstances, it may take one, two, or three years to encounter a rūon with Shinigami aptitude who is lucky enough to come here to register.

This gives you an idea of ​​how tedious and boring it must be to stay here.

“You’re still the same.” The Grim Reaper named Daisuke glanced at Jidanbo and said.

“I’m not. Look, there’s a wandering spirit here who wants to enroll in the Shinigami Academy.” Jidanbo moved his body, revealing Ishihara Sho, who had been hidden by him.

Chapter 168 Enrollment