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

In July, she quickly connected the spiritual pressure core of the spirit body with the lock and soul sleep of Miyano Matsuri.

Only after completing the connection did he remove the damaged spiritual pressure core from Miyano Matsuri's body.

I used tweezers to adjust the position of the spiritual pressure core, returning it to its original location.

After doing all this, July continued to use the Return Path to stimulate the Spirit Pressure Core and the Locked Knots and Soul Sleep.

Miyano Matsuri's lock and soul sleep were quickly activated, and the resulting spiritual pressure flowed continuously into the spiritual pressure core.

Meanwhile, the void power within the spiritual pressure core rapidly spread throughout the spirit body.

"Amazing resilience!"

A glint flashed in Aizen Sousuke's eyes.

Miyano Matsuri's body has begun to heal itself!

The surgical wound grew a lot of white material, which forcibly healed the wound at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As expected, after Miyano Matsuri replaced the spiritual pressure core with the Hollowfied Spirit Corpse, the Hollowfied phenomenon immediately appeared.

"Ah!!!" Miyano Matsuri suddenly woke up, white substance gushing from her mouth and quickly covering her face.

"Her spiritual pressure is increasing... The original dose of potent anesthetic is no longer enough to control her."

Aizen Sousuke recorded the constantly changing values ​​on the instrument.

"Matsunashi...Matsunashi...Can you hear me?"

Aizen Sousuke tried calling her name to check if she was conscious.

Miyano Matsuri struggled desperately on the operating table, breaking her own arms and ankles, which were bound by the murderous stone shackles.

"He has lost his mind."

"Immediately administer the virtual vaccine."

Aizen Sousuke picked up the prepared medicine and injected it into Miyano Matsuri's artery.

The virtualization vaccine gradually began to take effect, and Miyano Matsuri's struggles eased somewhat.

After a long while, some clarity returned to Miyano Matsuri's eyes, which had been filled with blackness.

The bony outer shell on its body also fell off and turned into powder.

"Matsuri, can you hear me?"

Aizen Sousuke reconfirmed Miyano Matsuri's consciousness.

"Lieutenant Aizen... Captain Shikatori..."

Miyano Matsuri glanced at Aizen Sousuke and Shikari Nanatsuki.

"Remember? You cooperated well with my experiment, you did a great job, you did it perfectly."

Aizen Sousuke's tone became increasingly gentle.

He has always been more patient with exceptional talents.

This is not the first time he has tested a virtualization vaccine.

But Miyano Matsuri was the first Shinigami to survive Hollowfication.

In recent years, for some unknown reason, the Quincy forces in the human world have resurfaced, and there have even been instances of them actively attacking Shinigami stationed in the human world.

However, this also gave Aizen Sousuke more opportunities to test Hollowfication vaccines.

"I know..."

Miyano Matsuri shook her head.

"I just saw another version of myself in the space of consciousness..."

"Oh? Tell me more, this is very important information."

Aizen Sousuke said gently.

"She was wearing a white Shinigami uniform, and she looked just like me, except her hair and skin were white, and her personality was completely different from mine..."

"She claimed to be the embodiment of the power of the void and tried to seize control of my body. After I defeated her, I woke up..."

Miyano Matsuri recounted her experience.

"I see... A contest in the realm of consciousness? Then it depends more on the will of the Grim Reaper himself."

Aizen Sousuke nodded slightly and wrote down what Miyano Matsuri had said.

“You did very well, overcoming the power of the Hollow with your own will,” Aizen Sousuke said gently. “Let’s test what changes have occurred in your body.”

...

In the courtyard of the Shikatori Dojo, a figure only slightly taller than the wooden sword was wielding a wooden sword.

"You can't wield your sword... Have you forgotten everything I taught you?"

"When swinging the sword, you must use the power of your back, arm, and wrist simultaneously!"

July, who was sitting under the eaves chatting with Bayunzhai, turned her head and glanced at Kuchiki Byakuya, who was practicing his sword in the courtyard. Seeing that he was slacking off, she spoke up to correct his incorrect way of swinging his sword.

Twenty years is a very long time for humankind.

But for the Grim Reaper, who has a lifespan of at least a thousand years, twenty years is nothing.

Twenty years have passed, and Byakuya Kuchiki still looks like a child.

The growth rate of a spirit varies from person to person.

Generally speaking, the better the spiritual quality of a spirit, the longer its childhood and adolescence will be.

Kuchiki Byakuya had excellent spiritual potential, and it took him nearly thirty years to grow from an infant to a height taller than a wooden sword.

"Teacher... I've been practicing all morning!" Byakuya Kuchiki gasped for breath. "I want to rest for a bit!"

Although Kuchiki Byakuya was still young and his spirit body was not yet fully mature, he was old enough to begin training. Kuchiki Sōjun then asked Shikagiri Nanatsuki to take Kuchiki Byakuya as his disciple.

July had a good relationship with the Kuchiki family, and Kuchiki Byakuya was also very talented, so she readily agreed to take Kuchiki Byakuya as her disciple.

"Take a break, we'll practice again this afternoon."

July nodded gently.

"Great!"

Upon hearing that he could rest, Kuchiki Byakuya immediately perked up and ran to the kitchen to rummage through drawers and cupboards.

A moment later, Byakuya Kuchiki came out carrying four glasses of chilled orange juice.

"Teacher, please use that bubble ghost path!"

Kuchiki Byakuya excitedly placed the chilled orange juice in front of Shikari Nanatsuki.

"Byakuya likes sparkling water so much..."

With a smile, Baiyunzhai picked up a glass of chilled orange juice; she preferred to drink it without bubbles.

"Orange juice with bubbles tastes better!"

Kuchiki Byakuya nodded.

In July, a faint light flashed at my fingertips, and some gas appeared in the chilled orange juice, causing it to bubble continuously.

"Master is amazing!" Kuchiki Byakuya exclaimed. "This Kido is so hard to learn... I just can't seem to get it!"

He loved sparkling water so much that he couldn't wait to learn the demonic arts created by his teacher.

Unfortunately, he tried several times but failed to learn it.

He did learn the Kido technique for making ice; the ice in the orange juice was made using Kido.

"This Kido requires a very high level of control over spiritual pressure. You're still far from that level. You should train hard!"

In July, with a flick of her finger, she added bubbles to the orange juice in her glass.

"Ah—" Kuchiki Byakuya took a sip of his orange juice, the intense icy sensation shooting straight to the top of his head. "Drinking iced sparkling water in the summer is so blissful!"

"Teacher, Grandmaster, I'm leaving now. I've arranged to go to the market with Miyu!"

Gin Miu is the daughter of Gin Ginjiro, the current vice-captain of the Sixth Division, and she and Kuchiki Byakuya can be considered childhood friends who grew up together.

"Go ahead, remember to come back and practice your sword this afternoon."

July glanced outside the door and sensed that Yin Meiyu had arrived at the entrance of the dojo.

"understood!"

Kuchiki Byakuya ran out with two glasses of chilled orange juice in his hand.

"So that's why Byakuya had four glasses of orange juice. He was preparing them for Miu."

Ba Yunzhai took a sip of orange juice, his eyes sparkling with curiosity. "The two of them are so close, maybe Miyu is Byakuya's future wife!"

"That's not necessarily true; it's still early."

July gently shook her head.

Ba Yunzhai guessed wrong; Kuchiki Byakuya's future wife was not Gin Miu, and the two did not develop a marital relationship.

It's hard to imagine that in the future, Byakuya Kuchiki would transcend social class and fall in love with a woman from Rukongai.

"You just said that my spirit body's spiritual pressure has broken through to the captain level?"

Ba Yunzhai brought up the topic they had just discussed.

“Yes, but once the spirit body reaches the limit of the vice-captain level, it becomes extremely unstable.” July nodded. “After testing, it was found that too much spirit growth agent was used, resulting in a large accumulation of ethereal spirit particles in the body.”

"Can you replace my spiritual pressure core now?"

Ba Yunzhai looked expectant; she had been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

“It is possible, but there is an uncontrollable risk of etherealization,” July explained. “The spirit skeletons that I cultivated for Saito Shizuku before also used spirit growth agents, but your strength is much greater than hers. The dosage of spirit growth agents used to cultivate your spirit skeleton to the captain level was also far greater than before, which caused a large number of ethereal spirit particles to accumulate in the spirit core of your spirit skeleton.”

"Etherealization?" Ba Yunzhai frowned slightly and asked, "Will it turn me into an ethereal being?"

“Yes, Hollowfication causes Shinigami to lose their minds and transform into Hollows.” July paused, then continued, “But recently, Sousuke has developed a Hollowfication vaccine.”

"The Hollowfication vaccine can forcibly block the Hollowfication of the Shinigami, allowing the Shinigami to regain its sanity and fight against the Hollow power within its body with its willpower," July explained. "Whether it succeeds or not depends greatly on the Shinigami's own willpower."

The virtualization vaccine only temporarily blocks the virtualization effect; it does not completely eliminate it.

To combat Hollowfication, Shinigami must fight it through their own will.

"Are there any successful cases?" Baiyunzhai asked.

"We used some spirit remains for testing, and without exception, they all failed. This is because the spirit remains we cultivated didn't awaken self-awareness. Even if they did, a nascent consciousness... its will is too weak to resist the void power within its body. Therefore, we cannot use spirit remains to test the voidification vaccine..."

July paused for a moment, then continued, "But there are successful cases among the Grim Reapers. Sosuke tried it on some seriously injured patients who could not be treated by normal means."

"A contest of wills..." Ba Yunzhai's gaze quickly hardened. "I believe in my willpower; I can withstand the Hollowfication!"

She was none other than Shikato Hakunsai, the first captain of the Eighth Division!

The first captains were all people who had emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Without extremely strong willpower, they could not have come this far!

She is not afraid of challenges!

Chapter 318 Replacing the Spiritual Pressure Core

Killing Stone Mine Laboratory.

Shichiru Shikatoki and Sosuke Aizen are conducting adaptive training on Shinigami who possess Hollowfication abilities.

Currently, there are already two Shinigami who have successfully regained their sanity and suppressed their Hollow powers with willpower after using the Hollowfication vaccine.

The success of the Hollowfication vaccine is not an isolated case. As long as one's willpower is strong enough, one can suppress the Hollow power within the body. Therefore, July allowed Bayunzai to choose whether to replace the spiritual pressure core of the Hollowfication Spirit Remains.

A bone-like mask materialized on Miyano Matsuri's face, and in the next moment, she instantly lost her mind.

Her reason had been pulled into the space of consciousness, where she was battling against the power of the void.

"Ha ha ha ha!!!"

The crazed Miyano Matsuri let out a strange laugh and kept slashing at the air.

"The complete hypnosis of 'Mirror Flower Water Moon' is really useful," July chuckled.

The crazed Miyano Matsuri, hypnotized by Aizen Sousuke, is desperately attacking a non-existent enemy.