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

A dozen minutes later, Saito Shizuku's wound was completely healed.

Saito Akane also brought back the medicine from Unohana.

"Miss Shizuku's spiritual body is severely depleted and she needs to recuperate properly during this period," July instructed. "Also, prepare these medicines that suppress the spiritual pressure core into a decoction as soon as possible and give them to Miss Shizuku."

"Then I'll hurry and go brew the medicine." Shechang Qiantie picked up the medicine packet and went out to brew the decoction.

"Thank you so much!" Saito Akane bowed.

“I have already promised to treat Miss Shizuku, and I will not go back on my word.” July paused, and seeing that Iba Senteki had already left the medical room, she revealed the truth, “Miss Akane, I hope you are mentally prepared.”

Saito Akane trembled slightly, a sense of foreboding creeping into her heart.

“Please speak, Shikato-kun…” Saito Akane nodded with difficulty.

"Miss Shizuku's injuries this time have greatly worsened the damage to her spiritual pressure core. Even with Captain Unohana's medicine, it can't be suppressed for long..." July sighed softly.

"How much time does Shizuku have left?" Saito Akane's voice trembled slightly.

"I'm afraid we won't even last a month," July said in a deep voice.

Chapter 231 Assessment

Plans can't keep up with changes. In July, she originally planned to spend one or two years cultivating Saito Shizuku's spirit body and replacing her spiritual pressure core.

In this way, we can observe whether there are any side effects from doing this in July through the case of Saito Shizuku, and prepare for the subsequent treatment of Shikato Hakunsai.

As a result of Saito Shizuku's unexpected injury, the damage to her spiritual pressure core worsened.

Given her current physical condition, she probably won't last even a month.

"Is the situation really that bad?!" Upon hearing this news, Saito Akane felt as if all her strength had been drained away.

She never expected that such an accident would happen when Saito Shizuku was just on a mission to deliver supplies to the Grim Reapers stationed in the human world.

"Miss Shizuku's spiritual pressure core is on the verge of collapse; a month would be considered an optimistic estimate." July sighed softly, then changed the subject, "However... there is still one way..."

"Is there any other way?" Saito Akane pleaded. "Please save Shizuku!"

“I can speed up the cultivation of Miss Shizuku’s spirit body and replace her spiritual pressure core as soon as possible, but doing so would greatly increase the risks, and I can’t say for sure what the consequences would be,” July said in a deep voice.

By increasing the dosage of the spirit growth agent in the nurtured spirit remains, the growth of the spirit remains can be accelerated.

However, this would cause the spirit body of the spirit corpse to rapidly accumulate ethereal particles, and it might even undergo ethereal distortion.

It's hard to guarantee that replacing Shizuku Saito's spiritual pressure core won't have any negative impact.

July naturally wanted Saito Shizuku to accept the proposal to replace her spiritual pressure core; such a case is more representative.

If such a spiritual pressure core doesn't have a significant impact on Shizuku Saito, then it means that this plan is very safe.

"Whatever the consequences, I'm willing to bear them..."

July turned her head and saw that Saito Shizuku had woken up.

"The worst that could happen is death..." Saito Shizuku tried to push herself up from the bed, but found she didn't have the strength to do so.

"You'd better lie down now to minimize the consumption of your spiritual energy." July stepped forward and pressed her down.

“Even without replacing the spiritual pressure core, I can’t hold on for much longer…” A resolute glint flashed in Saito Shizuku’s eyes. “I might as well cooperate with Shikato-kun’s treatment plan and try to fight for that last chance of survival.”

...

A group of death gods searched the rift with instruments that detected spiritual particles.

Cilantro from Mole City led the search of the boundary.

Since Saito Shizuku fell into a coma shortly after returning, they did not obtain accurate location information, so they needed to use instruments to detect the location of the spiritual pressure left by Saito Shizuku.

"Everyone, be alert! The Hollow that attacked Saito Shizuku might still be in the Dangai!" Kana Azajo observed her surroundings, carefully using her spiritual senses to perceive the situation within the Dangai.

After a moment, a commotion was heard from ahead.

"We've discovered it's a trap!"

"Follow me!" Kana Azashiro also sensed the Hollow's spiritual pressure fluctuations and quickly led her people forward to provide support.

The three Hollows are besieging the two Shinigami.

Just as the wolf-shaped phantom suddenly pounced, a beam of light struck its head, instantly piercing through the mask.

The other two Hollows were quickly killed by the surrounding Death Gods.

“These three Hollows are of average strength…” Kana Mochi sheathed her sword, convinced that the spiritual barrier of the severing boundary was not destroyed by these three Hollows.

Unless these three Void beings possess some special abilities, they should be unable to break through the spiritual particle barrier of the severing boundary.

"Have you found the place where the barrier between the spiritual particles was broken?" Kana Azajo asked the Shinigami who was holding the spiritual particle detection instrument.

"We found a damaged area, and the remaining spiritual pressure on it is the spiritual pressure of one of those three Hollows from before," the Shinigami said.

"Could this Void have the special ability to destroy barriers?" Cilantro Mochi frowned slightly.

Occasionally, some exceptionally gifted individuals will appear in the void, possessing rather unique abilities.

The three Hollows have already been dealt with, so no one can answer her question.

"Continue the search, lest we miss anything!" Kana Mochishiro dared not be careless. The Dangai was an important passage between the Soul Society and the real world, frequently used by Shinigami, and must be taken seriously.

The Grim Reapers continued their investigation.

After thoroughly investigating the entire rift passage, the Grim Reapers finally determined that there was only one abnormally damaged spot in the spiritual barrier of the rift.

However, the spiritual barrier of the severing boundary cannot be repaired by ordinary Shinigami; it needs to be handled by the Kido Clan.

Cilantro Mochi took out her communication device and informed the vice-captain: "Vice-captain of the shooting range, the void in the severing boundary has been dealt with, and the location where the severing boundary's spiritual particle barrier was abnormal has been found."

The voice of Iba Senetsu came through the communication machine: "Saito Shizuku has woken up. She said that the three illusory heads that attacked her, you didn't miss them, did you?"

Cilantro Mochi replied, "Nothing was missed. The three-headed Hollows we discovered have all been dealt with."

Shechang Qiantie said, "That's good. You stay there and don't let other voids invade through that barrier loophole. I will contact the Ghost Path Clan and have them send Death Gods to repair the spiritual particle barrier of the Broken Realm."

"Yes!"

...

A day later, in July, she received news that Ge Kuang's graduation assessment task had been approved.

These past few days in July have been incredibly busy, as I've been tending to and adjusting Saito Shizuku's spirit remains.

However, he still took the time to find out about Ge Kuang's graduation assessment tasks.

Ge Kuang filled in "Ghost Path Sect" as her application form, so her assessment task was related to the Ghost Path Sect.

Kaku needs to follow the Shinigami of the Kido Clan to the Severed Realm to repair the Spiritual Barrier.

The former head of the Kido Department of the Spirit Arts Academy, Hachigen Arishoda, was transferred to the Kido Clan two years ago. He had a good relationship with Shichigatsu when he was at the Spirit Arts Academy, so Shichigatsu asked Hachigen Arishoda about the mission.

"The difficulty of this assessment task should mainly lie in the mastery and application of knowledge of the Ghost Path. The Grim Reapers of the Ghost Path Sect will test you when they are repairing the Spirit Particle Barrier," July analyzed to Ge Kuang. "The focus may be on the Spirit Particle Barrier and the seal, which is actually a bit beyond the scope of the students of the Spirit Arts Academy. Go to the Ye Family today to find relevant information."

Ge Kuang's assessment task involved the spiritual particle barrier that severed the boundary, which was quite difficult, so in July she was asked to prepare more.

"Thank you, teacher! I will definitely pass the test!" Ge Kuang said gratefully.

"Don't let your guard down even in the Dangai. A Shinigami was attacked by a Hollow in the Dangai just two days ago," July reminded him, recalling the accident that had happened to Shizuku Saito in the Dangai a couple of days ago.

July was neither an examiner for the assessment nor a teacher for the Ge Kuang class, so he couldn't go with them for this assessment.

"I'll be careful!" Ge Kuang nodded repeatedly.

"Cilantro is also on a mission in the Boundary. Go find her if you get into trouble."

...

Chapter 232 Replacing the Spiritual Pressure Core

In the laboratory in July, the cultivation of Saito Shizuku's spirit body is being accelerated.

"Teacher, Saito Shizuku's first spirit body has undergone a holographic distortion." Aizen Sousuke frowned as he saw the spirit body's hand deforming.

Clumps of white flesh grew from the spirit's hand, and these clumps of flesh condensed together, quickly making the entire palm larger.

"What about the other remains?"

"The first, second, fifth, and sixth remains have all undergone ethereal distortion."

"The three and four remains were treated with a low-dose, high-frequency approach, and so far no ethereal distortion has occurred."

"Luckily, I prepared two plans just in case..." July breathed a sigh of relief, somewhat glad that she had been so farsighted.

After finalizing Saito Shizuku's treatment plan, in order to be on the safe side, July decided to create several more of Saito Shizuku's spirit remains.

Now these remains have come in handy.

In July, the remains were divided into multiple groups and accelerated to maturity using different methods.

Different approaches yield different results.

Accelerated maturation made the spirit bodies of these spirit remains extremely unstable, and most of them underwent ethereal distortion.

“The spiritual pressure of the third spirit body is growing the fastest, and it has already reached the standard of tenth-level spiritual power. The spiritual pressure of the fourth spirit body is currently only at the level of twentieth-level spiritual power.” Aizen Sousuke recorded the detection data displayed on the life support pod.

“A tenth-rank spiritual power... should be able to barely support Saito Shizuku’s spirit body, but it’s estimated that her strength will be difficult to recover to the state before her spiritual pressure core was damaged,” Aizen Sousuke continued.

Before her spiritual pressure core was damaged, Saito Shizuku was a high-ranking officer of the sixth rank of spiritual power, possessing considerable strength.

His strength declined significantly after he was injured.

The spiritual pressure of the third spirit body reached the level of tenth-grade spiritual power. Although it was still quite different from Saito Shizuku's original spiritual pressure, the spiritual pressure core of the spirit body was already capable of supporting the operation of Saito Shizuku's spirit body.

However, it is foreseeable that Saito Shizuku, after replacing the spiritual pressure core with the third spirit body, will definitely not be able to recover her strength to the level of the original seated official.

"Time is of the essence; it would be good enough if we could save her life," July said. "Besides, her strength had already dropped significantly after her injury, and she would only be better after the spiritual pressure core was replaced."

"So, teacher, you've decided to replace Saito Shizuku's third spirit core with her spiritual pressure right now?" Aizen Sousuke asked with some regret, as his idea was actually more radical.

Aizen Sousuke wasn't really concerned about Saito Shizuku's life or death; he was more interested in seeing what level the third spirit body could reach when pushed to its limit.

After years of trying, they have long since confirmed one thing.

Even if the original bodies are spirit remains from the same source, there are still differences in their physical constitution.

Saito Shizuku's third spirit body has an exceptional physique; Aizen Sousuke even believes she has the potential to reach the level of Saito Shizuku's original body.

“Saito Shizuku’s injuries could flare up at any moment, and waiting any longer might make things worse,” July said softly. “Furthermore, if we continue to accelerate the maturation of the third spirit body, it could cause it to undergo a ethereal distortion. So it’s best to replace Saito Shizuku’s spiritual pressure core as soon as possible.”

“Then I will stop administering the medication to Reanimation Corpse Number Three.” Aizen Sousuke nodded.

Although Aizen Sousuke felt somewhat regretful, the laboratory still prioritized his teacher's opinion, and he wouldn't object to anything his teacher had decided.

In July, he used the communication device to inform Saito Akane and the others to prepare. Of course, the surgery to replace the spiritual pressure core could not be performed in the laboratory; he had no intention of exposing his laboratory.

However, surgery cannot be performed in the Third Division, and creating a spirit body violates the Forty-Six Chambers' prohibition; this cannot be done openly.

Therefore, the surgery was performed at the Saito residence.

A moment later, July arrived at the Saito residence with surgical instruments and the third corpse.

Hoshino Rie had been watching over Saito Shizuku here for a long time so that Nanatsuki could know the status of Saito Shizuku's spirit at any time.

The surgery to replace the spiritual pressure core is quite complicated, and it's inconvenient for July to do it alone. Hoshino Rie can also be his assistant here.

"How is the situation?" July asked.

“The potent anesthetic has taken effect. She suddenly fainted once this morning, but recovered quickly. I judge that her spiritual pressure core is severely damaged, causing her spiritual pressure to be unable to maintain her daily activities,” Hoshino Rie said.

"Then let's have the surgery as soon as possible." July nodded.

He was also very familiar with the situation of sudden fainting; this had happened frequently to Rokuto Hakunsai in the past few years.

Now that he replenishes spiritual pressure, this situation has never occurred again.

In July, Hoshino Rie entered Saito Shizuku's room and took out instruments to set up the surgical environment.

Performing surgery on a spirit is not as complicated as it is in the real world.

Spiritual pressure can be used to do many things that ordinary humans cannot.

In July, she could sense the location of the spiritual pressure core without even using any instruments.

In July, she picked up a scalpel and made a gentle cut. The scalpel pierced through Linghai's skin and entered his body, cutting open his skin and muscles.

However, he did not deal with the spiritual pressure core of the spirit body for the time being, but instead looked at the situation of Saito Shizuku.