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

The Return of the Grim Reaper is effective on all spirits, and Hollows are also spirits, so the Return of the Grim Reaper can also heal Hollows.

"Can you heal them?" Heribel was a little doubtful, thinking that this was a Hollow with special abilities. Without thinking too much, she agreed, "If you can heal them, I am willing to fight."

Chapter 291 Nel vs. Harribel

A faint glow of light emanated from July's hand, healing the large void that resembled a deer, a snake, and a lion.

Heribel agreed to be Nel's sparring partner, and in exchange, she would treat Nel's friends who were injured by Black Shark King in July.

"This is...?!"

Herribel's eyes flickered slightly.

She sensed the spiritual pressure fluctuations, but it wasn't an empty spiritual pressure!

Harribel originally thought this was a Hollow with special abilities, but she never expected it to be a Shinigami.

Harribel sized up the cloaked Grim Reaper before her, then carefully examined the mask on Nel's head, and murmured:

"Can Shinigami (death gods) and Hollows get along peacefully...?"

She felt like her worldview was being reshaped!

Since arriving in Hueco Mundo, almost all the information she's heard about Shinigami has been negative.

Not long ago, I heard that Barragan, who was known as the King of Hueco Mundo, also died under the blade of the Grim Reaper.

She never imagined that even Death could coexist peacefully with Hollows.

"Thank you, mighty Lord Vastod, I'm all healed now..."

"This spiritual pressure is so strange, it doesn't seem like a Hollow..."

"What amazing ability! Such a serious injury was healed in no time."

A moment later, the Great Hollow, which resembled a deer, snake, and lion, got up again, its wounds having been healed by July's return.

However, they were not as knowledgeable as Heribel; they had never seen Death and could not even recognize that it was Death's spiritual pressure.

"Isn't my teacher amazing!"

Nilu stood with her hands on her hips, looking very proud.

"Teacher?" Harribel was surprised again. "You two are actually master and student?"

She had just imagined many relationships between the Grim Reaper and the Hollow, but she never expected that they were actually master and disciple.

In her understanding, the abilities of Shinigami are quite different from those of Hollows.

"Yes, I came to you for sparring because I want to refine the moves my teacher taught me!"

Nilu explained enthusiastically.

She felt that Heribel, like herself, was a great void whose rational and emotional side outweighed its instinctive and illusory nature.

From Heribel, one can sense her deep affection for her companions.

This made Nel feel nostalgic for her two companions from Hueco Mundo.

"What did you learn from Death?"

Heribel couldn't help but feel a surge of anticipation for the battle to come.

She wasn't keen on meaningless fighting, but it would be different if she could see what Hollow had learned from the Shinigami.

“Let’s begin, Little Her!” Nilu jumped into the air and found a relatively open spot in the stone forest.

During the conversation just now, Nilu already learned the name Halibel.

Herribel's eyes twitched. She felt a little uncomfortable with Nilu's overly familiar manner, but she did not reject the somewhat overly intimate way of addressing her.

Along the way, this was the first time she had encountered a Great Hollow with whom she could communicate on an equal footing and who was not influenced by the Hollow's instincts.

Even her three companions were more in awe than anything else.

"Lady Harribel!"

Shikadai rubbed his head against him, looking worried. "Are you going to fight that powerful Vasto Lorde...? The healing... his spiritual pressure is strange, he doesn't seem to be a Hollow..."

Lu Daxu did not hear the conversation on this side.

However, it also sensed that Shikatoshi Nanatsu's spiritual pressure fluctuations were somewhat abnormal, but due to its limited knowledge, it was unable to distinguish that it was the spiritual pressure of a Shinigami.

"Don't worry, they mean no harm."

Halibel patted the deer's head, offering words of comfort.

Harribel leaped lightly into the air and landed at the spot Nil had found.

"Come on, let me see what you've learned from Teacher Death!"

Harribel raised the greatsword in her right hand, her fighting spirit palpable.

"Then be careful~" Nilu placed her right hand on the hilt of the knife and leaned down slightly.

Clang——

A flash of light rose from the scabbard.

In the next instant, the blade light transformed into countless blades.

After the blade light separated, it resembled a fine, dense drizzle.

"What a quick knife!"

Herribel's expression changed slightly when she saw the 'raindrops' pouring down.

He swung the giant shark-tooth sword, and torrents gushed from its tip.

Nilu's blades fell like raindrops, so she would drown the raindrops with the ocean!

The raging torrents whipped up towering waves, crashing against the dense shadows of blades.

Some virtual beings possess innate talents.

Harribel's talent lies in controlling and creating water.

As Harribel evolves, this talent also grows stronger.

If she could evolve to the level of a Vasto Lorde Hollow, her innate abilities would likely be enhanced to a degree even stronger than ordinary "water-type Zanpakuto".

Nilu's knife plunged into the raging torrent, where she felt intense resistance.

Harribel infused her immense spiritual pressure into the torrent.

Nel didn't use her Resurrección form. She didn't have much spiritual pressure advantage over Harribel at the moment, and she didn't intend to take the hit head-on.

The next moment, a rapid drumbeat suddenly rang out.

dong dong——

Nilu's figure vanished from her spot in an instant, then flashed past in two other places.

Wherever Nel flashed, blades flashed toward Harribel.

Halibel reacted quickly, swiftly changing the direction of the rapids and making them swirl around her.

However, Nel's spinning speed and sword-swinging speed are still superior.

Click click click——

Several knife marks appeared on the posterior shoulder blade of Heribel.

The sound echoes, a thousand pieces are unloaded!

When Nel releases Thousand Strike, she can use the Sound Spin to adjust her position, thus achieving the effect of attacking from different directions almost simultaneously.

"Such fast moves..."

Harribel swung her greatsword, sending a torrent of water towards Nel's landing spot, but she had already turned and left, so the torrent had no chance and instead circled around Harribel.

On a high rocky mountain, July and the three members of the Animal Hulk trio were also watching the battle between Nel and Harribel.

"It's only just begun, and Lady Harribel has already been hit... As expected, fighting the powerful Vasto Lorde is still too much of a stretch!" said the Serpent Lord.

“Lady Harribel’s bone armor is very tough; it even withstood my Cero. She should be unharmed,” said the Lion-like Hollow.

The Lion King has a rather bad temper. When he first met Halibel, he was somewhat resentful and wanted to be the leader. He even got into a fight with Halibel.

Nilu also noticed that the bone armor on Heribel's body was very hard.

Her attack only penetrated the surface of her bone armor, without actually harming her.

"Looks like I'll have to use a more concentrated attack."

As she pondered, the torrents around Herribel grew stronger, and she never stopped releasing them.

The rushing water formed a thick, swirling shield around her.

She noticed that Nel's slashes were very fast, so she thought of using water infused with spiritual pressure to reduce the force of the slashes.

This method was extremely effective; when Nel's blade slashed down, it only left a few marks on her bone armor.

The giant sword pointed at Nilu, and more than ten jets of water split off from the surrounding torrent, rushing towards Nilu.

Chapter 292 Clash of Hollows

"His combat awareness is quite good; he knows how to utilize his strengths."

July on the rocky mountain nodded slightly.

Harribel's turbulent water shield is both offensive and defensive, and it would be difficult for Nel to deal with if she only used swordsmanship.

dong dong dong-

Nilu darted through the air, constantly using her spinning tops to dodge the oncoming torrents.

However, these torrents do not dissipate on their own if they fail to hit a target; they remain under Halibel's control.

After Nel dodged, the torrent turned back in mid-air and continued to rush towards her.

Nilu couldn't dodge in time and had no choice but to raise her knife to parry.

However, after she was hit by one torrent, a dozen or so other torrents followed.

The heavy water kept hitting the blade, and after Nilu caught seven streams of water, her arm went numb from the shock.

She was a fraction too slow in blocking.

The torrent instantly broke through the blade's defenses and struck Nel's body.

The remaining rapids also surged in.

Bang bang bang bang——

In the end, Nil was swept away by the rapids and crashed into the rocky mountain.

boom--!

The rocky mountain collapsed, and dust and smoke filled the air.

July and the three members of the Animal Hulk trio had to change their spectator positions.

The direction that Nilu was being swept by the rapids was the rocky mountain where they had just been standing.

"This move is still a bit weak. It's limited by spiritual pressure. If it could release hundreds of water columns, the pressure would be enough to kill someone." July looked at the dust and smoke over there. He could sense that Nel's spiritual pressure hadn't changed much.

Halibel's fighting style is considered quite clever among Hollows, after all, water control is a very rare ability for Hollows.

Without a corresponding system to learn from, Halibel had to start from scratch, and it's already quite remarkable that she's achieved this much.

However, "water-type Zanpakuto" are very common in Bleach, and the Shinigami have developed their water control abilities far more deeply than Haribel.

Just then, a streak of light pierced through the dust and smoke in the air and hurtled towards Harribel.

The light was moving very fast, but Heribel didn't intend to dodge it.

Under Harribel's control, most of the turbulent water shield around her split off, transforming into a water dragon.

The water dragon flew out of the water shield and swallowed the incoming stream of light.

But this stream of light is a spiritual pressure blade that Nel has compressed to the limit of her control!

Although the water dragon incorporated Harribel's spiritual pressure, the degree of concentration of its spiritual pressure was far inferior to that of the Flowing Light Spiritual Pressure Blade.