Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

Hassward had barely finished speaking.

"...!"

Sasuke's body stiffened abruptly.

A piercing pain erupted from his left shoulder.

At the edge of the wound, there were even tiny black and white arcs of electricity crackling.

That is......

He himself just unleashed the damage from the White Lightning!

"and--"

Haschwald seemed to thoroughly enjoy Sasuke's reaction, a slight smile playing on his lips. "The 'misfortune' absorbed by this scapegoat shield will, in order to maintain the balance of the world, be reflected back and befall the person who launched the attack."

"The more you try to kill me, the more you will be hurt."

A gentle breeze swept across the top of the tower. Sasuke stood there, looking down at the deep, bone-revealing wound on his shoulder.

It was only for a moment.

A milky white substance surged out from the depths of the wound. The terrifying self-healing ability of the Six Paths Power activated instantly. The charred flesh peeled off and regenerated rapidly. In just a few breaths, the hideous wound was completely healed.

Sasuke casually moved his left shoulder, which had recovered completely, and raised his head.

"To take the damage and then reflect it back to the caster...?"

While the body's self-healing abilities can easily smooth over trauma of this magnitude, it is indeed extremely bad news.

When this man was introducing his abilities, he didn't mention anything related to swords, but judging from the brief exchange and the power of his shield...

That ability to "bestow misfortune" is very likely to be mediated by a "sword".

In other words, if you want to fight this person normally, you should avoid fighting him head-on.

Ranged attacks would be the best option, but the shield in his hand can also reflect damage.

Whether in defense or offense, he seemed invincible.

“Despair,” Hasward whispered. “You are destined to fail.”

..........

Squad 12.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi frowned as he analyzed the experimental report that the team members had just sent over.

Behind the control panel, Chojiro Sasakibe's mangled body was riddled with holes.

However, he still has no clue how to deal with the Quincy's strategy of "stealing" Bankai. Thousands of experiments have only verified one fact: his current ideas are completely wrong.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi couldn't believe that there really was such an unsolvable technique.

If you keep making mistakes, it only proves that your approach is wrong and needs to be readjusted. But you've just done thousands of experiments and used at least hundreds of approaches.

I need to come up with something new myself; maybe I can if I have the time.

But what they lack most right now is time, and Seireitei can't wait that long.

Should I really ask Kisuke Urahara for advice?

As he was struggling with this decision, Nemuru knocked on the door and entered: "Captain, the Thirteenth Division just sent back a message."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi waved her hand impatiently: "Didn't I say not to bother me with any casualty reports before I reach a conclusion?! A few deaths are no big deal, what I'm doing now concerns the entire..."

"It's not a casualty report, Lord Mayuri." Nemuro said gently, continuing, "The Quincy did indeed attack the substitute Shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki."

"When that Quincy attacked Ichigo Kurosaki, he also used the Star Sign ability to seal his Bankai."

"However, the seal failed."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi was taken aback, his impatience vanishing instantly. He abruptly turned his head and asked, "What do you mean by failure?"

"Did Ichigo Kurosaki use special methods to interfere with his seal, or is the seal ineffective against him?"

“It’s the latter.” Nemuru nodded obediently. “Information from the 13th Division: Ichigo Kurosaki allowed the enemy to fully unleash the seal, but nothing happened at the last moment.”

"The enemy was also very surprised."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

Is it impossible to seal Ichigo Kurosaki?

why?

Mayuri Kurotsuchi bit her nails as her brain began to work.

Is it because he is human that he is special?

If that's the reason, then isn't that a bit too absurd?

Chapter 276 Yhwach

Because he is human?

No, that's absurd.

Quincy are a branch of humanity, and since the Star Seals were developed by them, how could they be blocked by the mere physical constitution of humans?

Because he is a substitute Grim Reaper, his Grim Reaper powers are not pure.

That's not right either. Didn't Ginjo Kugo, the first substitute Shinigami, also strip away his Fullbring power himself?

Hypotheses were proposed one after another, only to be quickly overturned.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi walked to the lab table, his eyes growing brighter and his breathing becoming more rapid.

If all external factors are ruled out, then the reason can only lie in Ichigo Kurosaki's extremely unique 'power composition'.

What is Ichigo Kurosaki's most distinctive feature?

Is it the power of the Grim Reaper?

Was it that immense spiritual pressure?

No, neither.

What makes him most difficult to define is that restless thing within him.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi's lips slowly parted, revealing a maniacal laugh.

"Yinmeng! Prepare centrifuge number three!" He slammed his hand on the lab table. "Bring over the spirit particle samples we collected in West Rukongai, the ones left behind by the Quincy attack! And get the highest concentration of Hollow Soul extract from the warehouse!"

"Yes, Lord Mayuri."

A completely new, even crazy, idea took shape in his mind.

For the next half hour, the only sounds in the lab were the hum of machines and Mayuna's nervous whispers.

He repeatedly collided the Quincy's spiritual particle samples with the Shinigami's spiritual power, and the results were the same. Although the two had different attributes, they did not produce an irreconcilable repulsion. In fact, under certain extreme pressure, they could be forcibly captured by the Star Seal's technique.

This confirms the underlying logic behind Seisho's acquisition of Bankai.

He then began the second set of experiments.

When a test tube containing a high concentration of Hollow Spirit Particles was dripped into a petri dish containing Quincy Spirit Particles, the Quincy Spirit Particles in the petri dish immediately disintegrated the moment they came into contact with the Hollow power!

"Hahahaha..." Mayuri Kurotsuchi laughed wildly, "Found it!"

"No wonder those self-proclaimed holy Quincy have been so determined for thousands of years to completely eradicate 'Hollows' from this world!"

In the understanding of the Gotei 13, Shinigami and Hollows are natural enemies, because Shinigami need to maintain a balance, while Hollows devour souls.

"But for those Quincy, the spiritual particles of 'Hollows' are simply incompatible, and even an absolute poison that kills upon contact!"

"When the Quincy's power factors absorb and fuse with the power of Hollows, they immediately trigger a rejection reaction at the soul level, causing the Quincy to disintegrate!"

So, this is probably why the Star Seal is completely ineffective against Ichigo Kurosaki.

"Now that we know the principle, how do we apply it to other team leaders?" He quickly calmed down, his brows furrowed slightly, and his fingers tapped on the table.

For Quincy, the power of Hollows is the most potent poison.

However, under normal circumstances, achieving this level of achievement is not so simple.

Normally, when the Quincy's power is not fused with the Hollow's power, but merely colliding, it will not produce this kind of "poisoning"-like, destructive situation.

The method of condensing Hollow power into something like a "bomb" to attack Quincy is also completely ineffective.

Childish tricks won't work.

Not to mention that applying a layer of "Hollow power" to the Zanpakuto would permanently prevent Quincy from having any thoughts of obtaining Bankai.

To solve this big problem, one must be like Ichigo Kurosaki and imbue one's "Bankai" with the power of a "Hollow".

To put it simply, it means achieving the Hollowfication of the Zanpakuto, but not "Shinigami Hollowfication"—these are two completely different things.

This is completely different from the "masked army" created by Aizen Sousuke a hundred years ago.

Shinji Hirako and his ilk are Shinigami whose souls have been corrupted by the power of Hollows; that is "Shinigami Hollowfication".

What Mayuri Kurotsuchi is trying to do now is to mix the poisonous properties of Hollows into the soul of his Zanpakuto, while the Shinigami's soul will remain pure "Shinigami power".

Only in this way, when the Quincy use the Star Sign to steal the Bankai, what they will take away will be a bomb that could explode and kill them at any moment.

"This is really, really bad."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi stroked his chin and muttered to himself.

Despite this, his face, covered in paint, showed no sign of worry, but rather overflowed with excitement and joy.

The boundary between "Shinigami" and "Hollows" has been an absolute taboo that the Gotei 13 cannot cross since the beginning of the Gotei 13.

Especially after the "Indigo Incident" a century ago, research in this area was strictly guarded by the Central 46th Bureau and the Chief Captain. Anyone who dared to touch it would face a life sentence in the maggot's nest.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi had actually been itching to get it for a long time.

He desperately wanted to conduct in-depth research in this area, but he had always lacked the opportunity and dared not challenge the bottom line of that rigid old man, Yamamoto Genryusai.

But it is different now.

"To fight against the 'Wanken Empire,' to reclaim the sealed Bankai, and even more so to protect the Seireitei and all the Captains..."

Mayuri Kurotsuchi spread his hands, laughing wildly, "Even the Captain-Commander would find it hard to refuse such a righteous reason, would he?"