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

Kisuke Urahara felt that this Shikari Nanatsu was the Shikari Nanatsu he knew.

Otherwise, they definitely wouldn't accept his instrument testing.

"Ms. Kiryu also knows about this..." In July, Kisuke Urahara told him about Shikato Hakunsai's spiritual pressure core cultivation plan, but did not mention the Zero Division and the Shadow of the Soul King.

“I see. The spirit skeleton technology is really worth exploring... It’s amazing.” Kisuke Urahara looked at Nanatsu Shikatori with curiosity in his eyes.

In order to enable Kisuke Urahara to develop a spirit particle detection instrument, Kiryu Hikifune granted him access to view spirit body technology.

Therefore, Kisuke Urahara also had some knowledge of spirit remains.

According to his understanding, the spirit skeletons created by the Twelfth Division using the spirit skeleton technology have two defects—incomplete mental capacity and the inability to naturally grow spiritual pressure.

However, Shikari Nanatsuki broke both of these points, possessing a sound mind and having grown in strength to the level of a captain.

July smiled and said, "It was just a series of coincidences... Ms. Kiryu also said that it could not be repeated."

"That's a real pity. However, the unknown force that secretly creates spirit remains has also upgraded its spirit remains technology. They have solved the mental problem of the spirit remains."

Kisuke Urahara thought of 'Bukyuu' who had been lurking in Kiryu Hikifune's laboratory and continued, "Based on my observations, they can collect the spiritual pressure of the main body and create spirit bodies with considerable spiritual pressure."

"The spiritual pressure level of that 'Bukyu' spirit body is already no weaker than that of an ordinary Shinigami. As for whether it can unleash its Zanpakuto like a Shinigami, we don't know."

“These guys hiding in the shadows are quite skilled... It couldn’t have been done in a short time…” July stroked her chin, suddenly realizing a possibility, “Could it be that the spirit remains you found in Rukongai were actually their previous experimental subjects?”

Kisuke Urahara quickly understood Nanatsu Shikari's idea, and frowned:

"It's not impossible..."

"If they had started using the souls of the Rukongai for their experiments on spirit remains a long time ago..."

"The sheer number of souls in Rukongai provides them with an almost endless supply of experimental material..."

"This way, their skeletal technology can iterate rapidly..."

Kisuke Urahara felt he was close to the truth, but his face quickly fell: "Thinking about all this doesn't change the fact that we need to screen out the spirits mixed in with the Rukongai. These guys were thinking of replacing the Shinigami, secretly manipulating the 13th Division, and even the execution captain was killed because of it. The spirits in Rukongai can't be left unattended, otherwise they will always be an unknown hidden danger."

Kisuke Urahara gets a headache just thinking about the terrifying workload.

"With so many souls to be tested, we need more efficient equipment." July picked up the spirit particle detector. "I'll take this one with me."

After Shichitori left, Kisuke Urahara breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out his communication device to contact Kiryu Hikifune.

He was cautious by nature and wouldn't believe Lu Quqiyue's one-sided story; he needed to verify it from multiple perspectives.

"Captain! Something terrible has happened! The barracks hall has been invaded by spirits!"

"What?! You stall for time, I'm coming right away!"

"It was Shikari Nanatsu who invaded."

"..."

"My spirit particle detection instrument has shown that the spirit particles of Shikatori Nanatsuki and Shikatori Hakunsai are over 90% similar!"

...

After completing his daily training, Aizen Sousuke went to the laboratory alone.

As soon as he arrived at the lab, he sensed something was wrong. The lab door was open, even though he had closed it when he left the day before.

The teacher went out with Captain-Commander Yamamoto, and Hoshino Rie has been staying in the Fourth Division for the past two days and hasn't returned, but someone came to the laboratory.

However, the person inside seemed to have sensed Aizen Sousuke's arrival and released a familiar spiritual pressure fluctuation.

Aizen Sousuke entered the laboratory, quite surprised: "Sensei's back?"

“I have some urgent business to attend to.” July pointed to the spirit particle detector on the table. “This is a spirit particle detector that can be used to identify spirit remains.”

"However, its data collection efficiency is a bit low and needs to be optimized."

Aizen Sousuke flipped through the manuscript on the table: "It's a bit complicated. Is this matter urgent? I'm currently trying to create a spirit body using the ancient Hollow fragments that my teacher brought back."

Their experiments with ethereal spirit remains over the past few years have hit a bottleneck. The power of the void is too strong and aggressive, while the spirit remains they create are too weak to resist the erosion of the void.

Now they plan to change their approach.

First, create a Hollow spirit body, then provide the Hollow spirit body with the Shinigami's spiritual pressure.

The Shinigami's spiritual pressure is relatively peaceful and not as corrosive, so it might be possible to create a product that combines the power of Hollows and Shinigami through this method.

July said, "This research topic has a high priority, and we need to address this issue first."

Then, July revealed his true purpose in taking on this task: "This instrument records the spiritual data of the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 and the nobles of Seireitei. Let's extract this data first."

July wanted the spiritual data collected by Kisuke Urahara, which is why she had Urahara demonstrate the use of the equipment to her on the spot.

If the instrument does not record any data, he will ask for a copy of the collected spiritual particle data under the pretext of optimizing the function of the spiritual particle detector.

However, the instrument already recorded the collected spiritual particle data, which saved July the trouble of asking for the data.

The reason why July needs spiritual information data is because of something we received as a reward for feedback before – bacteria for surveillance.

Chapter 176 Laboratory Achievements

With the Shinigami's spiritual information data in July, the secrets of Seireitei can be collected on a larger scale through the 'surveillance bacteria'.

[Surveillance bacteria: By providing the host with spiritual information, they can automatically lock onto the host, observe the host's movements, and collect intelligence about the host.]

"This instrument also records the spiritual data of the Shinigami of the Gotei 13 and the nobles of the Seireitei?" Aizen Sousuke's eyes lit up slightly. "Then it definitely needs to be given higher priority..."

If he were willing, he could also collect these spiritual particle information data, but it would take a considerable amount of time to collect them without anyone noticing.

"Teacher's ambitions are indeed considerable..." Aizen Sousuke sighed inwardly.

"I'm going to be 'studying' with Captain-Commander Yamamoto for a while longer, so I'll leave this to you." July walked to the glass jar in the laboratory and examined the contents of the jar.

The glass jar was filled with nutrient solution, and floating inside was a tiny fleshy ball smaller than a quail egg.

The little fleshy ball was very small, and its spiritual pressure fluctuations were barely perceptible.

This is a spirit skeleton created using the spiritual particles left over from the ancient Great Void.

“The remains of this ancient Hollow are quite unstable. I had to modify the nutrient solution formula several times before I was able to keep it alive,” Aizen Sousuke explained.

“There is a big difference between the Void and ordinary souls and Grim Reapers. The Spirit Remains technology we have is, after all, designed for ordinary souls and Grim Reapers.” July nodded. “However, this direction is highly feasible and worth continuing to invest in.”

"Teacher, there's another problem..." Aizen Sousuke looked troubled, "I'm afraid we don't have enough funding for the lab..."

"We failed several times in creating the remains of the ancient Hollow and improving the nutrient solution formula, which consumed a lot of resources. The materials left in the laboratory can't support a few more experiments."

Conducting experiments on spirits requires a lot of resources. The funding to build this laboratory in July is also thanks to the gift of gratitude given by the Mole City family a few years ago.

After several years of expenditure, the funds are almost depleted.

July pondered that the spiritual experiments required a lot of resources. If she wanted to conduct her research to her heart's content, she would have to become the captain of the 12th Division and use the resources of the Gotei 13 to carry out her research.

However, he still needs to wait for Kiryu Hikifune to be promoted to the Zero Division in the next couple of days before he can become the captain of the Twelfth Division.

Right now, we need to find a way to solve the immediate problem.

“Let’s skip the optimization of ‘Na Ling Wan’ and go straight to the market. Although its effect is only one-tenth of the original, its advantage lies in its low cost,” July said.

Over the past three years, the laboratory has successfully simplified the 'Spirit Gathering Pill' and developed a cheaper 'Spirit Gathering Pill'. However, it suffers from a high loss of spiritual pressure, and its effect of restoring spiritual pressure is only one-tenth that of the original 'Spirit Gathering Pill'.

He originally wanted to further optimize the spiritual pressure loss before launching the product, but now research funding is scarce and there is no time to optimize it.

Although the effect of the 'Spirit Gathering Pill' is only one-tenth that of the 'Spirit Gathering Elixir', it still has a significant effect on restoring spiritual pressure for ordinary Shinigami soldiers and can be widely promoted.

In July, I plan to cooperate with the Mochi City family and have their trading company help sell 'Spirit-Gathering Pills' to earn research funds.

“I will communicate with Xiangcai about the ‘Naling Pill’ using the communication device. You will be responsible for handing it over to her.”

After explaining things to Aizen Sousuke, July left the laboratory and returned to the Flower Withering Zone.

Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and others were still waiting for Shikari Shichigetsu at the shrine.

"Did the charlatan and the fooled people all leave?" After returning to the shrine in July, he did not see the white-robed priest or the white-clad believers.

“Let’s go. That white-robed priest is obviously a fraud. We wouldn’t dare stay here any longer,” Kyoraku Shunsui said.

In this era, the Shinigami (death gods) managed Rukongai (the mortal realm) with a laissez-faire attitude, and they cared even less about the faith of the spirits.

Believe whatever you want, since you'll be reincarnated in this world after death anyway.

As long as there isn't a large-scale disappearance of souls, they won't interfere too much.

"Is the child settled?" Jushiro Ukitake asked with concern.

"I've already handed it over to Miss Kiryu. I'm sure Miss Kiryu will take good care of her health," July said with a smile.

"It's getting late, let's stay at this shrine for the night," said Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.

After their round trip in July, it was already evening. The group decided not to continue their journey and chose to rest at the shrine for the night.

"Where is that werewolf?" July remembered Komamura Sajin and realized he wasn't at the shrine.

"He said he was going to catch some prey. That guy must be in his growth phase; he gets hungry quickly." Kyoraku Shunsui lay on the offering table, picked up a fruit offered as tribute, took a bite, but spat it out the next second. "Ptooey—what kind of fruit is this? It's so sour!"

"You dare to eat this even though you don't know me...you're really not afraid of death!" July chuckled.

"These are fruits placed on the offering table. The believers can't possibly offer poisonous fruits to their gods, can they?" Kyoraku Shunsui felt something was wrong with his tongue.

“It’s just wild fruit from the tree.” Jushiro Ukitake leaned closer to take a look. “And you know what, it’s really poisonous.”

"What?!" Kyoraku Shunsui exclaimed in shock. "Someone actually offers poisonous fruit to the gods?!"

"This fruit is poisonous when it's unripe. If the fruit you ate was sour, then it wasn't ripe." Jushiro Ukitake grinned smugly. "And this toxin is even effective against Shinigami!"

"I only took a small bite, it should be fine..." Kyoraku Shunsui was filled with doubt and quickly took out a sake pouch and drank a few mouthfuls of sake, trying to dilute the toxins.

"I forgot to tell you, drinking alcohol can trigger toxins," Ukitake Jushiro said with a laugh.

Kyoraku Shunsui found Ukitake Jushiro's smile very sinister, but he was speechless at this point.

Because his tongue was swollen!

“You only took one bite, you’ll be fine tomorrow,” Jushiro Ukitake patted Shunsui Kyoraku on the shoulder, comforting him.

"So you're not going to eat anything today? Looks like I'll have to show off my culinary skills!" July raised an eyebrow.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Kyoraku Shunsui's tongue swelled up, and he couldn't even close his mouth. He could only make muffled noises as he unleashed his impotent rage at Shikatori Nanatsuki and Ukitake Jushiro.

"Always so impulsive! When will you ever mature a bit!" Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni criticized verbally, but his expression softened.

"I'll go to the nearby market and see if I can buy anything to make something nice tonight." July kept her word.

The flower-withered area is less crowded, but there is still a market.

In July, I bought a few chickens at the market to make beggar's chicken. When traveling, it's not convenient to make anything too elaborate, so beggar's chicken, a simple and delicious dish, is perfect for the current situation.

Just as July was carrying several prepared chickens back to the shrine, she sensed Komamura Sajin's spiritual pressure in the market.

Chapter 177 Exposed

Although Shikatoki and the others were dressed in clothing commonly seen in Rukongai, Komamura Sajin could still tell that they had extraordinary bearing.

He assumed they might be nobles or merchants traveling, so he accepted their invitation to be a guard and get a free meal.

But after seeing the speed with which Shikatoshi Nanatsuki left, Komamura Sajin realized that this group didn't need him as a bodyguard at all.

Komamura Sajin felt embarrassed to continue eating and drinking for free with them, so he thought he could go out and see if he could catch some prey before Shikatori Nanatsu returned.

The area was desolate with withered flowers, and Komamura Sajin walked for a long time before finding a mountain forest with relatively lush vegetation.

However, instead of finding prey in the mountains, he encountered a group of bandits resting there.

These bandits are all spirits with spiritual pressure, and their strength is extraordinary.

However, Komamura Sajin's spiritual pressure was comparable to that of an ordinary Shinigami, and he easily defeated the bandits.

The bandits were poor; Komamura Sajin only found a little money on them. However, he also found a box of porcelain in the bandits' camp.

Komamura Sajin no longer wanted to go hunting; instead, he planned to take the porcelain to a nearby market and sell it for money.

What he didn't expect was that the box of porcelain was stolen goods, and the merchant who was robbed was in the nearby market!

The market was not large, and the merchants all knew each other. After Komamura Sajin brought the box of porcelain to the market, he was quickly stopped.

The people surrounding Komamura Sajin glared angrily.

"They stole our 'White Porcelain Workshop' products and dare to sell them here?!"