Chapter 181 Prelude to Destiny!

The ancestor of the Quincy, Yhwach, was a great hero a thousand years ago.

He ruled the Quincy's empire, the "Empire of Light". At that time, the Gotei 13 had not yet been formed and the Shinigami had not yet united, but the Quincy had already formed a powerful group with unparalleled strength.

It would be fine if the other party chose to coexist peacefully with Soul Society and the Shinigami.

But he didn't.

Instead, he led the Empire and brazenly launched an expedition towards Soul Society.

After that war, the entire Soul Society was devastated and the Empire of Light was destroyed.

Yhwach was also defeated by Captain-General Yamamoto.

But at the last moment, for some reason, Captain-General Yamamoto did not destroy Yhwach's body, but allowed the remaining Quincies to take away Yhwach's body.

Since then, the Quincies, a group that once competed with the Gods of Death and was once more prosperous than the Gods of Death, have completely fallen into the sewer and been eliminated by the times.

Even though there were still some Quincy left in the world, they were ultimately unable to form the "Empire of Light". On the contrary, because the Quincy were extremely dependent on blood, after their numbers dropped sharply, it became increasingly difficult to maintain pure-blood families. In the end, only a few pure-blood families survived, and most were half-bloods. Their strength was further weakened, which led to the situation two hundred years ago when the God of Death wielded the knife against the Quincy, but the Quincy failed to organize an effective resistance and allowed themselves to be slaughtered.

But these are just small things.

The real big event is the discovery of the spirit dimension hidden in the shadow of Seireitei.

It turns out that the Empire of Light of the past has never disappeared.

Instead, they turned from light into darkness and became the "Invisible Empire", and they hid in the shadows.

By doing some investigation into the Invisible Empire.

Soul Society finally succeeded in blowing up the spirit dimension.

It looked like it was over.

But it's just an appearance.

After what happened today, when Natsuki said this, Urahara Kisuke thought of the song he learned from some Quincies in the world after the Spirit Space incident.

"Nine hundred years to get the heartbeat back!"

"Ninety years to regain consciousness!"

"Nine years to regain power!"

"And then—conquer the world in nine days!"

It is said that this was a prophecy left by the Quincy's ancestor, Yhwach, before his complete death. It was later compiled into a ballad. The specific lyrics are of course not like this, but the general meaning is this.

At first, Urahara Kisuke didn't take it seriously.

Even if the original Youhabach was still alive and not dead.

But when the spirit dimension was destroyed, Yhwach, who did not regain his power at that time, should have also perished along with that dimension.

But what happened now made him realize something unusual.

"I'm going to report to the captain."

Urahara Kisuke spoke in a deep voice.

"Go!"

Natsuki did not stop Urahara Kisuke.

Such a big thing naturally needs to be informed to the captain.

Xia Mu was also very curious about how the captain would deal with the situation.

Should I ignore it?
Or actively preparing for war?

Over the years, the once extremely conservative Captain Yamamoto has become a pioneer of reform.

The Soul Society, which was originally extremely backward, under the leadership of Captain-General Yamamoto, underwent earth-shaking changes.

The system of Central Room 46 is basically dead in name only.

Although there are some references to Central Room 46 in the textbooks, in fact, there is no Central Room 46 anymore.

Some of these nobles also tried to stir up unrest.

But facing the Gotei 13 who had mastered the power of force, they were ultimately unable to make any waves.

In today's era, the commoner Grim Reaper is truly on the same starting line as the nobles.

But Xia Mu knew that this balance was extremely fragile and was maintained only by the immense strength of Captain Yamamoto. If Captain Yamamoto died one day, the balance would be broken instantly.

Soon, Urahara Kisuke went to the first team.

After learning the seriousness of the matter from Urahara Kisuke.

Captain Yamamoto did not take the strategy of doing nothing.

Instead, he continued to support Kisuke Urahara in developing new weapons.

At the same time, the Gotei 13 also conducted many practice drills.

The idea of ​​the internship drill was not proposed by Xia Mu to the captain.

Instead, it was a suggestion from an officer in the first detachment named "Kiratsuki Shusuke".

Kisaragi Shusuke is the same Shusuke Amagi who once served as the captain of the third squad for a period of time in the animation.

Because the misunderstanding was resolved early.

He did not hide his identity, but grew up safely in Rukongai under the care of Captain-General Yamamoto. Later, he was admitted to the Maou Spiritual Academy. After graduation, due to the influence of his father, he chose to join the First Squad.

Now, he has obtained a very advanced position in the first team and has won the trust of the captain-general.

The First Division is the general division.

Compared with the other squads which each have their own responsibilities, the responsibility of the first squad is to summarize the matters reported by the other squads, then make response plans, and then distribute the tasks.

In layman's terms, their chief officer can actually be called a "staff officer."

Sometimes, in addition to summarizing the affairs of other squads.

They themselves will also put forward many suggestions that will be beneficial to the development of the Gotei 13.

Kisaragi Shusuke, the founder of the "joint exercise" in the original work, not to mention that his purpose in proposing the joint exercise in the original work was to take the opportunity to assassinate the captain-in-chief, the simple joint exercise does have its benefits.

The Gotei 13 have their respective duties and responsibilities clearly defined, which is a good thing.

But on the other hand, because each division is independent of each other, it is difficult for them to coordinate perfectly in a large-scale war.

The several joint exercises have greatly enhanced the cohesion among the Gotei 13.

As expected, such joint exercises will be conducted many times in the future.

In the 10th Squad training ground.

It is true that Hitsugaya Toshiro has become the captain, but Natsuki's training of him has not ended.

The reason why I asked Hitsugaya Toshiro to take the captain assessment was because I thought his strength was about the same.

But as long as Hitsugaya Toshiro has not grown to his limit, training is still necessary.

Hinamori Momo's coming to serve as vice-captain has greatly reduced the pressure on Hitsugaya Toshiro. He doesn't need to deal with any team affairs at all. He is young and has so much free time. It is impossible for him to just stay in the team barracks and sleep, right?
How could he sleep?

It would be better to use this kind of time for cultivation.

Hitsugaya Toushirou attacked Natsuki fiercely with a knife in hand.

His sword-killing skills, under Xia Mu's diligent teaching, have matured. He no longer swings his sword randomly, but with purpose.

Not everyone can adopt the fighting style of Geng Mu.

Zaraki is a brainless reckless man with beast-like instincts beyond those of ordinary people.

It is enough for them to fight based on instinct.

And Hitsugaya Toshiro is the candidate for the future captain-general.

Captain Yamamoto wanted to train him into an all-round talent with both literary and military skills.

Xia Mu thought so too.

During the training process, Xia Mu does not simply teach the other party one ability.

Facing Hitsugaya Toushirou's slashing technique.

Xia Mu's figure flashed.

With the help of flash step, he easily dodged it.

"The twenty-first binding method - Red Smoke Escape!"

The next moment, a cloud of smoke came.

It affected Hitsugaya Toushirou's vision.

Even though he quickly used his spiritual perception to find Xia Mu's location again.

But the loss of vision at this moment has already made him lose the initiative.

Xia Mu's hand fell on his shoulder.

"Sixty-one of the Dao of Binding - Six-Stand Light Prison!"

Six brilliant rays of light appeared around Hitsugaya Toshiro's body, restricting his movements.

Although he couldn't move, Hitsugaya Toshiro could still swing his arms.

He swung his knife and attacked Xia Mu beside him.

Xia Mu's figure flashed again.

Shunpo allowed him to dodge Hitsugaya Toushirou's attack once again.

As he raised his hand, countless light sticks fell from the sky. When they touched Hitsugaya Toushirou's body, Hitsugaya Toushirou found that not only was he unable to move, but even his hands and feet were restricted.

"The Sixty-Two of the Binding Path - The Hundred-Step Railing!"

In just a short moment, Xia Mu performed a series of binding techniques one after another.

Hitsugaya Toshiro was in a great disadvantage.

He was unwilling to give in.

So, in order to break the shackles of these binding paths.

A deep voice came out of his mouth.

"Swastika!"

A powerful spiritual pressure erupted, and the sky was filled with dark clouds. The surrounding celestial phenomena changed in an instant and became extremely cold.

An ice dragon emerged and clung to Hitsugaya Toushirou's body.

With the help of the powerful force brought by Bankai and the surging spiritual pressure.

Bang!
In an instant, all the light sticks and light pieces that bound him broke apart.

The frost wings behind Hitsugaya Toshiro flapped, carrying his body into the air and instantly heading towards Natsuki.

And when he rushed to Xia Mu.

What greeted him was still a knife.

But this time, it was not the powerful sword pressure that Natsuki used when he used Bankai for the first time.

But -

"The Seventy-Eighth Breaking Path - Cutting the Flower Wheel!"

The extremely powerful Ghost Blade destroyed all attacks in front of it.

Fortunately, this time Hitsugaya Toshiro learned his lesson.

After using Bankai, he created a substitute out of ice to take the attack on his behalf. However, this ability can only be activated once after Bankai and cannot be used all the time.

"Next, it's my turn to counterattack."

Hitsugaya Toshiro's eyes were focused.

"Burial of Ice Sky and Hundred Flowers!"

When he used his first Bankai, he used the Thousand Year Ice Prison, but it didn't work on Xia Mu.

At this moment, since Hitsugaya Toshiro has already used his Bankai, it is natural that he would not hold back.

In addition to the abilities of his Bankai's true form, he has already used the most powerful move in his current form.

The ice and snow on the frost wings behind him melted, and under the control of Bingrinmaru's power, they flew towards the sky. Countless snowflakes fell from the sky and covered Xia Mu's body in an instant.

Ice flowers bloom, and the vitality of all things is frozen.

Hitsugaya Toushirou's eyes were full of anticipation.

This time, it should be his turn to win.

All the ice flowers exploded.

A black rectangle emerged from the ground, swallowing up all the ice flowers that had previously enveloped Xia Mu.

"Broken Dao No. 90 - Black Coffin!"

This is a powerful breaking technique, and logically speaking, it should be used against the enemy.

Hitsugaya Toshiro never imagined that Natsuki would use this move as a defensive measure and use the black coffin to break up the Ice Sky Hundred Flower Burial.

He was shocked by Xia Mu's attainments in the way of ghosts.

Soon, he discovered again.

Black rectangles appeared around him, swallowing him up in the shadows.

Since everyone has used the black coffin, of course it should be treated equally, one person at a time.

Countless shadow blades attacked.

Hitsugaya Toushirou was injured immediately.

The black coffin disappears.

He was covered in blood and looked extremely miserable.

Even so, he still held the knife, ready to continue fighting.

"That's it!"

Until Xia Mu's voice was heard.

Hitsugaya Toshiro's fighting spirit finally disappeared.

Next, it’s time to heal.

Natsuki did not send Hitsugaya Toshiro to the Fourth Division. Instead, he used Kaido to treat Hitsugaya Toshiro's injuries on the spot.

While he was treating his injuries, he also told him about the follow-up arrangements for Hitsugaya Toshiro.

"You have almost learned the art of beheading. The next thing you need to practice is the art of ghosts!"

"When you have learned the way of ghosts, I can teach you a unique skill."

"Kidney way?" Hitsugaya Toushirou already had the answer in his heart as to what Natsuki would teach him next.

During the previous confrontation.

Xia Mu used the binding method and the breaking method successively.

There are no chanting versions of these skills, but their power is extremely impressive.

This gave Hitsugaya Toshiro a new understanding of his teacher Natsuki.

As Kenpachi.

It is understandable that abilities such as slashing techniques, instant movement, and white-handed fighting are powerful.

After all, the 11th Division is a front-line combat unit, and Kenpachi, as the captain, often leads the battle.

But why is the ghost path so powerful?

He couldn't understand how Xia Mu learned it.

To be fair, Hitsugaya Toshiro still wants to be such a person who has no shortcomings and has all the abilities.

At the same time, he was also looking forward to the unique skills that Xia Mu mentioned.

……

This world.

Ichigo Kurosaki's personality began to change.

Because he was born with powerful spiritual powers, he was able to see spirits when he was very young. In the beginning, he often made jokes because he could not distinguish spirits from normal humans. Later, he gradually developed the ability to distinguish spirits.

In order to avoid being regarded as an oddball, I rarely talk about such topics in front of others.

But being attacked together with his mother also made Ichigo understand something.

The other world doesn't seem safe.

In addition to the undead souls that linger around after death and refuse to leave, there are also some monsters.

He was so powerless when facing that monster.

I could only watch my mother get hurt.

This made Ichigo Kurosaki hate himself.

However, because Kurosaki Masaki did not die, he did not become autistic and lonely as in the original work.

As a little man, he wants to protect his mother in his own way.

The only solution Ichigo could think of was to work hard to become stronger.

So he picked up the karate that he had given up.

I found a gym and continued practicing.

I have to say, it's quite a coincidence that this dojo happens to be the one where Ryuki Arisawa practices karate.

When he was a child, just starting to learn karate, he was beaten and cried by Arisawa Ryuki.

Later the two became good friends.

Seeing Ichigo pick up karate again, Arisawa Ryuki was extremely happy, but he did not teach Ichigo a lesson as he did when they were children. Instead, he actively helped Ichigo adapt to the rhythm of karate.

Thus, several years passed.

Until this day.

His karate coach quit.

And a new coach arrived.

The new coach is a man wearing glasses and looks very gentle.

……

Rukia Kuchiki's life as a shinigami was not a good one.

Even if she was lucky.

Not long after she was admitted to the Maou Spiritual Arts Academy, she was adopted by the Kuchiki family. It was only after entering the Kuchiki family that she understood why the Kuchiki family adopted her.

Because the wife of the head of the Kuchiki family was actually her biological sister who had been lost for many years.

How to determine this?
This fact can be easily confirmed from their extremely similar faces.

But entering the Kuchiki family doesn't mean that her life will be smooth sailing from then on.

On the contrary, because of the Kuchiki family's great reputation, she suffered a lot of criticism in the academy, and even her best friend distanced herself from her. This made Kuchiki Rukia very depressed for a time. What was even more uncomfortable was that she couldn't make any strong counterattack in the face of criticism.

Her grades are really not that good.

Originally, she was a little confused about whether she could join the Gotei 13 after graduation.

Unexpectedly, when graduation was approaching, her brother actually used the privileges of the Kuchiki family.

Let her join the 13th Division in advance.

He joined the Gotei 13 as he wished.

Rukia Kuchiki originally thought that the Gotei 13 would have an easier time than the Maou Spiritual Academy.

But it's not much better.

Even the captain Ukitake Jushiro, the vice-captain Shiba Kaien, and some of the officers were all very nice people and took good care of her.

But after all, there are still some people who alienate her and ignore her because of her experience.

As a commoner, she did not have strong qualifications, but she was adopted by a great noble, which made some people of noble birth look down on her.

Similarly, those who came from commoner backgrounds did not envy her for this. Instead, they stayed away from her because of the aura of the great nobility that surrounded her.

In the blink of an eye, many years have passed since Rukia Kuchiki joined the 13th Division.

She practiced hard, worked hard to improve her strength, and even mastered the initial release, but she still couldn't get a seat.

This is different from the 11th Division's approach where they only need to defeat the superior to take over.

The seat in the 13th Division was determined by the captain, Jushiro Ukitake.

Of course, Kuchiki Rukia didn't know that the reason she failed to get a seat was actually because of Byakuya Kuchiki's secret conspiracy.

Over the years, Feizhen's health has been deteriorating and getting worse.

After all, it's just an ordinary integer.

Even though she was able to continue living in Soul Society because of Urahara Kisuke's tools, and her appearance was temporarily frozen at that time and did not age, but several decades had passed since her marriage, and her life span was almost coming to an end.

Feizhen has only two biggest regrets.

The first was that he was unable to leave a child for Byakuya to continue the Kuchiki family's bloodline.

For this reason, she kept telling Byakuya that he could marry someone else after she left, after all, the Kuchiki family still had to continue.

The second reason is that Hime is worried about her younger sister Rukia.

In the original novel, she died with regret for not being able to find Rukia.

Now, after finding Rukia, he is worried about her safety.

After all, the world of death is too dangerous and requires fighting against the hollows.

As the wife of the head of the Kuchiki family, Hime lives in the Soul Society. Even though she is not a god of death, she knows everything about them.

Byakuya Kuchiki cares a lot about his wife.

Of course I have to fulfill my wife's wish.

He knew very well that different positions faced completely different dangers.

The enemies encountered by the chief officer are far more powerful than ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, even though Rukia mastered the Shikai and actually had the strength of a seat officer, under his secret influence, Ukitake Jushiro never gave Rukia a seat.

This is certainly against the rules.

But since the Kuchiki family is the head of the noble family, Ukitake still has to give Byakuya some face.

However, there is one thing that cannot be avoided.

That is to stay in the present world.

Squad 13 is the purification team.

The team members have the task of guarding the present world.

The minimum period is one month.

On this day, it was finally Kuchiki Rukia's turn to carry out this mission.

The place where she was stationed was a sacred place called Karakura Town.

After learning some key points of the mission of garrisoning the present world from the captain and vice-captain, Rukia stepped into the gate and, under the leadership of the Hell Butterfly, officially entered Karakura Town.

It was also when Kuchiki Rukia went to Karakura Town and the wheel of fate slowly turned.

In the eleventh squadron.

A guest came who surprised Xia Mu.

"Captain Kuchiki, what brings you here?"

Natsuki was very leisurely, looking at Byakuya Kuchiki in front of him and asked.

He had dealt with Xiumu Yinling several times.

To be honest, I have never had much contact with Byakuya Kuchiki, so I am not familiar with him.

However, Natsuki knew that Yoruichi was very familiar with Byakuya Kuchiki. When Byakuya Kuchiki was a child, she often sneaked into the Kuchiki family to tease Byakuya.

"For some reason, Ginjiro, the vice-captain of our Sixth Division, retired, and the position of the vice-captain of the Sixth Division is vacant. I came to Captain Xia Mu to ask Captain Xia Mu to transfer a member to our Sixth Division to serve as the vice-captain!"

Kuchiki Byakuya was very polite and even said the word "request" and told him the purpose of his visit.

"Oh? Who does Captain Kuchiki have his eyes on?" Xia Mu already knew the answer in his heart, but he still had to ask.

"Abarai Renji!"

Before coming here, Byakuya Kuchiki had already collected information about Abarai Renji and had already made a decision in his heart.

(End of this chapter)