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

"Broken Path 4: White Thunder!"

Mochi City Shuang also made a move, and a bolt of lightning shot towards the water snake at lightning speed.

zizi——

The water snake actually went to meet the 'white lightning' on its own, and the lightning struck its body instantly.

The lightning released by Shiro Souya coiled around the water snake, but it did not cause it any harm.

The water snake, crackling with lightning, moved even faster, lunging at Tosen Kaname with incredible speed.

"Yes! It absorbed the lightning I released!"

Mole City Shuang also reminded him.

The water serpent, wrapped in lightning, was incredibly fast, but Tosen's keen senses allowed him to prepare in advance, holding his Zanpakuto in front of him.

thump—

Tosen was slammed into the rock wall by the water snake.

When the water snake attacked Dongxian Yao, Zhaocheng Shuang did not waste the opportunity.

"Hado #58: Kennyan!"

The whirlwind that emanated from Shiro's palm rapidly expanded.

The terrifying air currents quickly stirred up the entire underground river.

The water snake seemed to be inside a washing machine, tumbling and rolling with the airflow.

Hiss--

The water snake let out a scream as its body was quickly torn into several pieces by the airflow.

After the water snake fell silent, Mochishiro Shuang suddenly remembered that Tosen Kaname was also in that direction, and quickly stopped the Ghost Path.

As the turbulent currents gradually subsided, Shiro Sō found Tōsen Kō hiding inside the rock wall.

"Yes! Are you alright?"

"Zhicheng Shuang also asked with concern."

"I have something to do." Tosen pulled himself out of the rock wall. "Next time, could you please not use techniques that endanger your comrades?"

If he hadn't been knocked into the rock wall by the water snake, he probably would have been tumbling in the water with it.

"I was just trying to get you out of that predicament..."

Mole City Shuang also scratched his face.

"It's just an ordinary Hollow. Besides, even if it has the ability to control water and lightning, it's not that strong," Tosen Kaname said softly.

“We’ll be more careful next time. This snake-shaped Void should be the one that caused the twenty-one souls to disappear. Now that this problem is solved, let’s go.” Mochishiro Shuang didn’t want to stay here any longer. “It’s too dark here, we can’t see anything.”

“To me, there’s no difference between here and up there,” Tosen Kaname said calmly.

Dongxian arrived in front of the water snake's remains and confirmed that the water snake was definitely dead.

The water snake's remains were slowly decomposing into spiritual particles and gradually dissipating.

The two found their way back and left the underground river.

A moment later, in an ordinary spot in the underground river, the water flow became slightly out of sync.

The water flowed out from both sides like a curtain being drawn back.

The two who had been hidden by the water curtain swam to the spot where Tosen Kaname and Azashiro Sōya had just been.

"The spirits of these two Grim Reapers are far more alluring than ordinary humans. If I could absorb them, I would definitely become stronger!"

A woman wearing a floral kimono said.

"This would attract the attention of Death, and it would be a losing proposition."

The silver-haired man beside him said, "You're moving too much; you've already attracted the attention of Death."

"I will lure some souls into becoming Hollows, so that the Grim Reapers will think that the Hollows have devoured those souls."

The woman in the kimono seemed somewhat dismissive of the silver-haired man's words.

She had made thorough preparations, and Death would not notice her actions.

Using extreme emotions to induce the soul can accelerate its fading away.

The women in kimonos used this method to create illusions to attract the attention of the Grim Reapers, while simultaneously hunting human souls.

"What you're doing is just walking a tightrope."

The silver-haired man, Kariya, shook his head. "I only assign one or two companions to each 'hunting ground' because we need to absorb too many souls to become stronger. This takes a long time to do slowly so as to avoid being noticed by the Grim Reapers."

Kariya-gami is the leader of the Soul Hunters.

The woman in the kimono next to him, Izumi, was the companion he had come to the Naruki region to recruit.

However, this new accomplice had a history of committing crimes while on the run and was somewhat unrepentant.

Wherever it goes, it will frequently absorb human souls in a short period of time.

Although she had taken some precautions, Kariya still felt that her actions would be easily detected by the Shinigami.

The spiritual pressure that ordinary human souls can provide is negligible; the evolution of a Soul Hunter requires the absorption of a large number of souls.

Strengthening one's capabilities is a long-term endeavor, and Quan Ya's actions are tantamount to destroying the hunting grounds by draining the pond to catch all the fish.

"Humans are everywhere. If we can't stay here, we can just find another place," Quan Ya chuckled. "Is it possible we can't find food?"

Izumi's abilities allowed her to hide herself well, and she didn't think that Death could catch her.

"You'd better watch yourself. I've already warned you."

Kariya no longer tried to persuade him and turned to leave.

He also had his own things to do, and didn't have much time to keep an eye on Quanya.

As the leader of the Soul Hunters, Kariyagami's strength is naturally considerable.

However, his strength has reached a bottleneck.

Absorbing ordinary human souls is no longer of much use to him.

With the Grim Reaper watching over the world, soul hunters cannot hunt human souls with impunity.

If they continue to hunt human souls in such an inefficient way, even if Kariya God grows for another thousand years or so, he probably still won't be able to gain the power to launch a counterattack against the Soul Society.

However, if one absorbs the soul of a human with spiritual particle aptitude, the increase in spiritual pressure is hundreds or thousands of times greater than that of absorbing an ordinary soul.

His target is humans with spiritual potential; high-quality food can help him shorten his growth time significantly.

...

Sōya Azashiro and Yōka Tōsen returned to the Shinigami base and submitted a mission report to Isshin Shiba.

"Incredible! You've actually discovered a Hollow that even a proper Shinigami couldn't find!" Isshin Shiba laughed loudly. "Looks like you've already become qualified Shinigami!"

"Hehe... Kaname, you got lucky!" Souya patted Kaname's shoulder smugly. "This time, it's all thanks to my cleverness that we discovered the Hollow hidden in the underground river!"

Tosen Kaname pursed his lips and didn't say much. The fact that he was able to discover the void this time was indeed mainly due to the efforts of Souya Azashiro.

"Your performances were all excellent. Tosen Kaname also performed very well in the previous routine missions, so I'll give you full marks." Shiba Isshin took out the scoring sheet and gave Azashiro Sōya and Tosen Kaname full marks.

“You have passed the test, but my duty in the Naruki area will continue for a while, so you will stay here with me for a while longer,” Shiba Isshin added. “If you stay here to perform your duties, you will receive the same duty allowance as regular Shinigami.”

Shinigami who perform duties in the human world can receive more duty allowances than those for duties in Soul Society.

"no problem!"

Zhicheng Shuang nodded repeatedly. Since he had come to the real world, he wanted to stay a little longer before going back.

Dongxian had no objections; he was the poorest person there and was happy to receive the duty allowance for an extended period.

Chapter 313 Clues (Thank you for voting!)

July arrived in the Naruki region.

"teacher!"

Shiba Isshin, Mochishiro Sōya, and Tōsen Yōya greeted them at the foot of the mountain.

"happy graduation."

July nodded gently.

He had contacted Shiba Isshin before he came and knew that Azashiro Souya and Tosen Kaname had already passed their graduation exams.

"How did the teacher turn into a human?"

Zhibo, eager to discover that his teacher possessed a special body, couldn't help but ask.

“We came to the mortal world mainly to test the ‘artificial body,’ which can give the Grim Reaper a physical body,” July explained.

"A physical body?" Souichi Shiro seemed to understand. "Having a physical body makes it much easier to communicate with humans when carrying out missions in the real world!"

After this period of duty, he also felt that sometimes it was necessary to communicate with humans to obtain intelligence.

If it weren't for the little shrine maiden in the Naruki region who frequently came into contact with the Grim Reaper, their process of obtaining information about humans would have been much more difficult.

"That will definitely make missions in the real world much easier. Maybe the way Shinigami and humans interact will be greatly changed because of it." Shiba Isshin said approvingly, "The Technology Development Bureau is really amazing. It has only been established for a short time and it has already developed such a product."

"This is also my original intention in establishing the Technology Development Bureau. Advances in spirit particle technology can benefit more Grim Reapers."

July paused, then brought up the matter she had mentioned earlier in the telegram.

"When we were testing 'artifacts' near Karakura Town, we stumbled upon Soul Hunters devouring human souls."

According to the information obtained from them... the leader of the Soul Hunters is in the Naruki region.

“Soul Hunters…” Shiba Isshin frowned. “After receiving the news from my teacher, I immediately contacted the Soul Society and looked up some information about Soul Hunters…”

Centuries ago, there were incidents of soul hunters devouring human souls, with a wide-ranging impact, prompting the Seireitei to launch a purge...

Have they resurfaced now?

July nodded: "There were some who escaped during that cleanup operation. After the cleanup operation, the Soul Hunters have become more cautious in their actions."

They divided different regions into different 'hunting grounds', and each 'hunting ground' only had a single-digit number of soul hunters.

To prevent a large number of souls from disappearing and alerting Death.

"They actually treat the mortal world as a hunting ground!" Zhicheng Shuang exclaimed indignantly. "We must strike hard and wipe out these soul hunters in one fell swoop!"

"Speaking of which..." Shiba Ichishin began, recalling his observations during his time on duty in the Naruki region, "Human souls do indeed disappear from time to time in the Naruki region..."

However, the Naruki area is a place of great spiritual activity in the mortal world, where phantoms often appear, so we assumed that the incidents of human souls disappearing were just hoaxes.

Now it seems that perhaps some of the missing souls were preyed upon by soul hunters.

“The Soul Hunters are very well hidden; we will have to wait until they reappear to commit crimes before we can find them.”

When July came, I tried the same trick again.

By examining the shadows of the city's residents, they can identify the humanoid beings hiding their spiritual pressure.

However, the Soul Hunters did not disguise themselves as residents and hide in the city.

"Captain, I have an idea."

Kisuke Urahara stroked his chin thoughtfully, "I've read about Soul Hunters before. They can increase their spiritual pressure by consuming human souls..."

Compared to the souls of ordinary humans, they actually prefer human souls possessing spiritual particle potential!

"Consuming the souls of humans with spiritual particle potential allows them to gain more spiritual pressure for growth. You mean..." July understood Urahara Kisuke's idea, "...to use humans with spiritual particle potential as bait?"

“That’s right!” Kisuke Urahara nodded. “In fact, those of us who wear ‘Gigai’ can also be considered as humans with spiritual particle aptitude, right? Because as long as we don’t completely hide our spiritual pressure, the spiritual particles around us are quite active!”

Soul Society has instruments to test the aptitude of spirit particles. In addition, one can make a rough judgment based on the activity level of the spirit particles around them.

Once they put on the 'artificial bodies', as long as they release even a slight spiritual pressure fluctuation, they look almost the same as humans with spiritual particle aptitude.

“Then we’ll wander around the city during this time and lure the Soul Hunters out.” July nodded.

"With the teacher himself acting as bait, those Soul Hunters are doomed!"

Shi Cheng Shuang couldn't help but start to look forward to it.

Once those soul hunters realize that their 'prey' has become 'hunters,' they will have no chance to escape!