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

However, he has not yet mastered Bankai, and his strength is not yet sufficient to serve as captain. He still needs to hone his skills.

What he didn't know was that Shikatori Nanatsuki, who was standing next to him at that moment, was also trying to take over the position of captain of the 12th Division.

Chapter 190 The Secrets of the Past

In July, he met Kiryu Hikifune in the laboratory and asked her about the former third seat of the 12th Division.

"Shikatori-kun wants information about Miyamoto Tetsuya?" Kiryu Hikifune asked, somewhat surprised.

July nodded: "Yes, Miss Kiryu should also know that the Captain-Commander and I encountered the 'Gates of Hell' in Rukongai, and later, Bayunzai told me some information about Hell."

"It has been discovered that Miyamoto Toru may also be connected to something that can communicate with hell..."

In July, I told Kiryu Hikifune about the loss of the 'Voice of Hell', but I didn't go into details about the source of the information.

Miyamoto Tetsuya's disappearance is not a secret. The disappearance of a vice-captain is a big deal in the Gotei 13. Just ask the older Shinigami, and you'll find out that Miyamoto Tetsuya is missing.

Furthermore, Kiryu was well aware that the management of a squad without a captain was very lax, and she would later send someone to the Ninth Squad to check on the loss of 'Hell's Voice'.

Kiryu recalled, "I also remember Miyamoto Toru. He was originally the third seat of the 12th Division, but was later transferred to the 13th Division as the vice-captain."

"But not long after he was promoted to vice captain, he disappeared while on a mission in the real world."

"After Captain Ukitake became captain, he also asked me about Tetsuya Miyamoto. After all, the disappearance of a vice-captain level Shinigami is no small matter."

"He specifically looked into this matter, but ultimately couldn't find the reason."

"I can still find Miyamoto Tetsuya's mission logs from when he was in office."

Yizhou Tongsheng went to a device, operated it, and brought up a spiritual light screen.

As her fingertips slid across the screen, lines of subtitle data composed of spiritual particles continuously changed in the air.

"Ms. Kiryu's lab has such advanced technology! I wish this method of data storage could be implemented in all squads!" July exclaimed.

July felt that the spiritual technology in this laboratory was no less advanced than the technology of the 21st century.

His lab still uses paper documents to record data; there is no such computer-like instrument that can project data into the air.

"It's a bit difficult. This kind of spiritual particle technology still has a lot of room for improvement. Currently, it has a relatively high learning threshold. The spiritual particle control level of ordinary Shinigami soldiers is not enough to operate these instruments." Kiryuki chuckled.

"Found it, Miyamoto Tetsuya's file and mission log, but I only have his mission log from when he was in the Twelfth Division." Kiryu Hikifune pulled up Miyamoto Tetsuya's information.

"Miyamoto Tetsuya, formerly the third seat of the 12th Division, was transferred to the 13th Division and became the vice-captain of the 13th Division... This information doesn't seem unusual; it's a very common transfer."

Kiryuki continued to browse through Tetsuya Miyamoto's mission log. After a moment, she paused slightly when she saw a certain message on the spirit screen.

"On December 21st, the remains of Kirinji Tenjiro were completely destroyed..."

"On December 22nd, the remains of Shutara Senjumaru were completely destroyed..."

"..."

"On December 28th, the remains of Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni were completely destroyed..."

"Responsible for destroying the remains of the spirits in the lab..." Kiryu frowned and muttered, "When Captain Ukitake came to investigate before, he didn't think of this possibility..."

July's heart skipped a beat, and she pressed for details: "Destroy the spirit remains? Miss Kiryu, could you tell me about that?"

Kiryuu gathered his thoughts and replied, "This matter is actually quite related to Shikatori-kun."

"Shikatori-kun should already know about the 'Captain Instrumentality Project', right?"

"The so-called 'Captain Instrumentality Project' is mainly aimed at creating captain-level spirit remains to supplement the captain-level combat power of the Gotei 13."

"Later, Shikatori Hakuunsai's injuries worsened, and Kirinji Tenjiro proposed a treatment plan to cultivate her spirit body and replace her spiritual pressure core."

"And the ones responsible for nurturing the spirit remains are Shutara Senjumaru and me."

"But the creation of our spirit remains back then had huge flaws: they were mentally incomplete and unable to grow."

"We estimated the time required to improve the spirit body technology and came to a very regrettable conclusion—Shikatori Hakunsai's injuries would not be able to hold out until then."

"In addition, the 46th Chamber opposes the continued research on spirit body technology. Many people believe that once a spirit body comparable to an ordinary soul is successfully created, it will disrupt the balance of the three worlds. This is a technology that will lead the Soul Society to destruction."

"Therefore, the spirit skeleton technology was sealed away."

“During the execution of the ‘Captain Instrumentality Project,’ we created many spirit remains. We collected the spirit particles of Shinigami with Captain-level and Vice-Captain-level strength and created spirit remains for them.”

"After the decision to terminate the 'Captain Instrumentality Project', all the remains must be destroyed."

"However, before that, Senjumaru brought back one of Hakuunsai's spirit remains to the Rei... Zero Squad. That spirit remains is Shikatori-kun's current spirit body."

"When I saw you again, I found that you had become the younger brother of Baiyunzhai."

"I don't know what Senjumaru did to turn a mentally unstable, immature spirit into someone like Shikatri-kun, who is no different from an ordinary soul. There must be some secret about Shikatri-kun that I don't know about..."

Kiryuu was unaware of the matter of cutting out the Spirit King's shadow and sewing it onto the spirit remains.

"In short... after the 'Captain's Instrumentality Project' was terminated, the spirit remains created during that period needed to be destroyed."

"And the one in charge of destroying the spirit remains was Miyamoto Tetsuya, the former third seat of the 12th Division."

"When Captain Ukitake came to investigate Tetsuya Miyamoto's disappearance before the incidents of the spirit's remains being leaked and the will of hell descending occurred, we didn't think about it in that direction..."

"Now it seems that Miyamoto Toru, who has gone missing, is also a prime suspect. He was a chief officer in the 12th Division who was skilled in spirit technology and also mastered spirit body technology."

“I see.” July nodded. “If Miyamoto Tetsuya’s disappearance was a method he used to hide, then the spirit remains that infiltrated the Seireitei before, and the spirit remains that are now hidden in the Rukongai, were very likely created by him.”

“Yes, that’s what I think too. It seems we should reinvestigate the disappearance of Miyamoto Tetsuya.” Hikifune Kiryu sighed slightly. “But Miyamoto Tetsuya has been missing for more than ten years. It’s been too long, and it’s probably difficult to find anything now.”

"Is Miyamoto Toru also from the Miyamoto family?" July had some recollection of this surname.

“He is indeed from the Miyamoto family, but Captain Ukitake already investigated the Miyamoto family when he investigated this case last time, and he didn’t find anything unusual.”

Kiryuu smiled and said, "Shikatori-kun's information has given us a new target for investigation. We hope to follow the clues on the spirits hidden in Rukongai and find the whereabouts of Tetsuya Miyamoto."

The intelligence in July gave them a target. Before that, Kiryu Hikifune and Yamamoto had never thought of focusing their attention on a vice-captain who had been missing for more than ten years.

...

After leaving the 12th Division in July, he took Aizen Sousuke through the Black Hole and arrived in Hueco Mundo.

In July, they need to come to Hueco Mundo to find suitable materials for creating the 'Sounds of Hell', while Aizen Sousuke wants to come to Hueco Mundo to collect some sand suitable for cultivating fungal Hollows, and also to broaden his horizons.

The two left the dark chamber and arrived at the vast Hueco Mundo desert.

"Teacher, I read in the books at the Spirit Arts Academy that the Soul Society is heavily guarded, and I thought it would take some effort to get into the Black Hole."

“It is pointless to accuse a net of having holes, Sousuke.”

Aizen Sousuke narrowed his eyes and gazed into the distance.

“The concentration of spiritual particles here is really high…” Aizen Sousuke said, sensing the spiritual particles in the atmosphere. “It’s even higher than most areas of Rukongai, but the spiritual particles here aren’t as ‘pure’ as those in Soul Society.”

“The Hollows in Hueco Mundo are constantly devouring each other. Every second, Hollows die. Although most of the spiritual particles of these devoured Hollows become part of other Hollows, a small portion still dissipates into the air. Therefore, the air and geology of Hueco Mundo contain a high concentration of Hollow spiritual particles,” July explained softly.

"Pathetic creatures, succumbing to instinct, evolving by devouring their own kind," Aizen Sousuke commented on Hollows.

“Not all Voids succumb to instinct. Some exceptionally gifted Voids can evolve to a very high level simply by absorbing Void particles from the atmosphere,” July said with a smile.

The difference between two illusions may be greater than the difference between a death god and an ordinary soul.

For example, many small animals in Hueco Mundo are born with little intelligence; they are at the bottom of the food chain in Hueco Mundo and have no chance to evolve.

Some exceptionally gifted Hollows are born with the strength of a Great Hollow.

"Are there Hollows that can evolve without absorbing anything...? There's no record of that in the books at the Spirit Arts Academy." Aizen Sousuke doesn't know much about Hueco Mundo right now. Most of the books he saw in the noble district were about things and history within Soul Society.

"The Spirit Arts Academy's descriptions of Hollows are mostly 'Gilian' level Hollows. Ordinary Shinigami can't deal with Hollows above 'Gilian' level," July said.

After arriving in Hueco Mundo's Great Desert in July, he expanded his spiritual perception to the maximum, searching for the Hollows within his spiritual perception range.

July's spiritual perception range is extremely large; when he was in Seireitei, his spiritual perception could even cover the entire Seireitei.

This method of perception cannot detect spirits that deliberately hide their spiritual pressure, but it is very easy to use to search for small animal Hollows that are not good at hiding their spiritual pressure.

“The soil here is quite suitable for the proliferation of fungi.” Aizen Sousuke took out tools from his spirit space bag and collected sand.

"Teacher, since it's not difficult to come to Hueco Mundo, why don't we set up a laboratory there? Compared to Soul Society, it's easier to collect materials here, and it's also more discreet." Aizen Sousuke continued after shoveling some sand, "If others discover our research on Hollows and spirit remains, it will be very troublesome, won't it?"

"I had this idea before. Hollowfication of Shinigami and Shinigami becoming Hollowfied are both very dangerous research projects. Even with the Killing Stones protecting the laboratory, it is not foolproof."

In July, he revealed some of his thoughts to Aizen Sousuke.

"After I finish leading your class, I plan to become the captain of the 12th Division."

"At that time, routine research can be carried out in the Twelfth Division's laboratory, while research on Hollowfication Shinigami and Shinigami Hollowfication will be transferred to Hueco Mundo."

“Teacher is farsighted; he thought of all this long ago,” Aizen Sousuke said with a light laugh.

“Adjuchas?” July suddenly raised an eyebrow, sensing an Adjuchas-class Hollow within his perception range.

This is the Hueco Mundo Desert, not the Forest of Menos Grande, and Menos Grande of the 'Adjuchas' class are quite rare.

“Sousuke, I’ll take you to see the active ‘Adjuchas.’ You haven’t seen the true strength of an ‘Adjuchas’-class Hollow yet, have you?” July smiled.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before. The materials the teacher brings back are either wreckage or objects controlled by powerful anesthetics.” Aizen Sousuke also became interested.

July and Aizen Sousuke moved quickly and soon found the 'Adjuchas' that he had sensed.

"So this is 'Adjuchas'?" Aizen Sousuke examined the Hollow in front of him.

This is a half-human, half-antelope type Hollow. The entire head of the antelope Hollow is covered by an antelope skull, while its body is a flesh and blood body that is half-human and half-antelope.

“Death…Death God!!!” the antelope said in a trembling voice.

Her voice was clear and melodious, quite unlike her skull-like appearance.

Upon seeing the two, the antelope turned and ran.

July was slightly taken aback, but his surprise wasn't because Antelope Void had escaped, but because of the name he saw on the panel:

Nelielu du Odeschvank

[Talent: S]

[Spiritual Pressure: lv81]

[Reputation Level: Unknown]

[Status: Fear (The terrifying Grim Reaper!!!)]

call out--

July used Flash Step to appear in front of Nelliel, blocking her escape route.

"Miss Xu, would you like to stay and have a chat?" July asked slowly.

“Death God! I remember your spiritual pressure!” Nereel exclaimed.

"Have we met before?" July raised an eyebrow; he didn't recall ever seeing Nelliel.

“Just a few years ago! My companions and I wanted to go to the Great Forest of Hollows, but we sensed a terrifying spiritual pressure from the Shinigami there!” Nelielu looked around, thinking about how to escape.

"I see." July recalled the incident during the students' graduation exam; he had indeed released spiritual pressure in the Great Forest of Hollows.

“Teacher, there are also rational beings among the Hollows. She didn’t attack us immediately when she saw us. I encountered Hollows twice in Rukongai, and after testing them, I found that they don’t have the ability to predict the strength of each other.” Aizen Sousuke caught up and looked at the Hollow in front of him with the eyes of someone examining experimental material.

“She should be an Adjuchas that evolved on its own, so naturally she’s different,” July chuckled.

July was very interested in Nelliel. He wanted to test whether he could take a Void as a disciple, and what kind of reward he could get if he could.

Chapter 191 Nellielu

Neliel felt the pressure on her body ease, and the terrifying spiritual pressure that had been pressing down on her disappeared.

But she dared not relax at all, as the Grim Reaper's strength far surpassed hers, and the chance of escape was extremely slim.

“Two Grim Reapers, I have no intention of getting into a conflict with you. Can you let me leave?” Nelielu said in a deep voice.

“I sensed a peaceful spiritual pressure fluctuation from you, which means you are not an ‘Adjuchas’ that grew up through killing.” July said with a smile. “Sousuke, this ‘Adjuchas’ should have good potential. Go and test her skills.”

“Yes, teacher.” Aizen Sousuke stepped forward and slowly drew his Zanpakuto. “Miss Hollow, please show me your strength.”

“It seems a battle is unavoidable. Although you are powerful…” Neliel’s eyes narrowed as she brandished her bone spear, “I cannot fall here!”

Nellyel leaped high on her forelegs and thrust her raised bone spear at Aizen Sousuke.

clang--

Aizen Sousuke pressed the tip of his sword against the bone spear and commented, "The strength is decent, but there's absolutely no skill involved."

Nelliel was annoyed. She leaned forward and used even more power to suppress the arrogant Grim Reaper.