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

Meanwhile, the Second Division—

Shikatoshi Nanatsuki is sparring with Shihouin Yoruichi.

Yoruichi has been busy with many missions lately and hasn't been to the dojo much.

July had no classes today. After saying goodbye to Unohana, she didn't rush to leave Seireitei. Instead, she chose to come to the Second Division to check Yoruichi's training progress.

"You've improved quite a bit, Yoruichi." July casually grabbed Yoruichi's leg as she kicked him, a thought flickering in her mind.

His shadowy gaze, remaining outside Seireitei, detected something amiss.

"Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro?" July thought to herself.

Through the shadows, he saw two Grim Reapers dressed in white haori—Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro.

Based on his understanding of Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro, they would never come to collect Shikari Shichigatsu's spiritual pressure information.

So in July, they immediately confirmed their true identities—they were the remains of Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro!

"Teacher! You'll get a beating if you're not focused during the battle!"

Taking advantage of Nanatsu's distraction, Yoruichi turned around.

The rotation of her legs prevented July from holding onto them any longer. After breaking free, she lightly touched the air with her toes, flipped over, and jumped onto July's head.

Yoruichi landed on July's shoulder, her legs crossed and bent, tightly locking around his neck.

Immediately afterwards, Yoruichi's upper body fell backward.

With his hands on the ground, the muscles in his waist and legs tensed up quickly, and he seemed to turn into a slingshot, wanting to throw July away.

However, no matter how hard Yoruichi tried, Nanatsu didn't budge an inch and couldn't throw him off at all.

"Yoruichi, there's a big problem with that choke technique you used." July patted Yoruichi's leg, signaling her to put it down. "Get down right now."

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" Yoruichi gasped. "I used too much force just now, and I got a cramp! I can't move!"

July had no choice but to reach out and pull her up.

"Let me catch my breath!" Yoruichi sat on her teacher's shoulders, massaging her leg muscles.

"Did you see the problem with this choke technique?" July raised her hand and used the Return Technique to treat Yoruichi's strained thigh.

"The teacher's spiritual pressure is much stronger than mine, so her strength far exceeds mine, and I can't pull her away," Yoruichi said after thinking for a moment.

"You're not too stupid. Don't use that kind of choking technique against enemies anymore. Practice Shunko and combine Shunko with your Zanpakuto abilities. That will help you more," July said.

"I understand!" Yoruichi nodded thoughtfully.

"Get down quickly once you're healed, how long do you intend to sit here!" July said.

Yoruichi then realized that she was sitting on her teacher's shoulders.

He quickly let go of his leg and jumped down from the teacher's shoulder.

"That's enough for today, I'm going back now," July said.

"It's so late, teacher, won't you stay for dinner?" Yoruichi asked.

"No need, I have other things to take care of." July bid farewell to Yoruichi and left the Second Division's training ground.

After July left, Yoruichi sat under the eaves to rest for a while.

"I sat on your shoulders for so long just now, I hope you don't mind?" Yoruichi blushed slightly as she recalled the scene, though it was barely noticeable to outsiders thanks to her tanned skin.

...

After leaving the Second Division's training ground in July, he headed straight for the suburban forest where he had fought Unohana Retsu.

Shadow Vision can only serve as a remote monitoring tool; it cannot replace his actions.

These spirit remains have the exact same appearance as the original body, and even their spiritual pressure fluctuations are basically the same.

If it weren't for their actions this time allowing July to confirm their identities, even if they met face-to-face in the future, it would be impossible to tell whether they were the real person or not.

So this is a rare opportunity to catch them.

July blends into the shadows, using them to swiftly traverse the Seireitei.

This was the first time in July that she had entered the shadow of Seireitei after her spiritual pressure had increased.

He quickly noticed the difference.

He could vaguely sense a special spiritual energy fluctuation within the shadow of Seireitei.

“The Invisible Empire?!” July recalled her memories of her past life.

After Yhwach, the King of the Quincy, failed in his attack on Soul Society with the Quincy army, he faked his death and went into hiding.

He slept in the shadow of Seireitei.

Yhwach and the Quincy constructed a spiritual space within the shadow of Seireitei, and built an invisible empire within this spiritual space.

The spiritual space within the shadows was extremely secretive, remaining hidden for thousands of years without being discovered by the Grim Reapers.

After using his shadow abilities to infiltrate the shadows in July, he was already able to vaguely sense the spiritual space within Seireitei.

"My perception of the inside of the shadow has improved considerably," July thought to herself.

The space within the shadows has no boundaries, but previously in July, one could only wander in the surface area.

Now that his abilities have improved, he is able to dive into deeper areas.

He tried it, sinking into the depths of the shadows.

A moment later, he found a space deep in the shadows that was isolated by a spiritual barrier.

In July, she sensed a heavy spiritual pressure fluctuation above the spiritual barrier.

In the entire Soul Society, only Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's spiritual pressure can compare to this level of spiritual pressure.

The spiritual pressure above the spiritual barrier should be Yhwach's spiritual pressure.

July is not yet capable of forcibly breaking through this barrier.

"I'll explore again after I become a captain... The remaining Quincy of the Wandenreich are quite powerful, and even if I could go in now, it would be very dangerous," July thought to herself.

It's still early. Yhwach will need to remain dormant for a long time before he can recover and regain his abilities. There's no need to rush to deal with Yhwach's issues in July.

This discovery put his mind at ease. When he first gained the ability to use shadows, he had tried to find traces of the Wandenreich within the Seireitei, but to no avail. This made him vaguely worried about Yhwach's resurgence.

Now that July has confirmed that he can use his shadow abilities to find the Unseen Empire hidden in the shadows, he has the confidence to deal with the Unseen Empire before Yhwach revives.

It rose rapidly, returned to the surface of the shadow, and continued its journey towards the suburban mountains and forests.

Chapter 141 Insider

The outskirts of Seireitei——

The two Shinigami, dressed in white haori, have completed the collection of spiritual pressure.

They now had several blue glass tubes in their hands, containing the collected spiritual pressure.

"I've finished collecting them here."

"Me too. I was lucky this time, and I was also able to improve Unohana Retsu's data."

"Yes, Retsu Unohana rarely fights these days, so it's not easy to collect the spiritual pressure she releases during battle."

"Looks like we'll have two more companions. The first version had no self-awareness at all, and actually went to provoke her true form."

"Heh, those first-generation spirit remains should be scrapped, otherwise we'll be implicated by them one day."

"Don't say that... Without the original spirit remains, there would be no us."

"That's different."

"Unfortunately, our strength still cannot grow normally."

After exchanging words for a while, the two left the forest.

What they didn't know was that their shadows had already acquired something new.

After arriving in the mountains in July, I slipped into the shadow of Kyoraku Shunsui's spirit.

July overheard their conversation and fell into deep thought.

These "Kyoku Shunsui" and "Ukitake Jushiro" do not appear to be spirit remains created using the first-generation spirit remains technology.

"The spirit skeleton technology has been upgraded?" July was very surprised.

According to his understanding, the number of forces or individuals capable of researching spirit remains technology is quite limited.

He was eager to know who was behind the research on spirit skeleton technology, so he did not take action to deal with the two spirit skeletons.

The place that "Kyoraku Shunsui" and "Ukitake Jushiro" visited felt somewhat familiar to July—

Squad 12!

Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro arrived near the 12th Division, where a strangely-looking Shinigami had been waiting for a long time.

His appearance had transcended human form; he had a huge head, eyes that looked like they might pop out of their sockets at any moment, green skin, and wore a white lab coat worn by researchers.

July had some recollection of this frog-like Grim Reaper; he had seen this researcher in Kiryu Hikifune's laboratory.

However, he couldn't recall the name of the Grim Reaper.

"It's even connected to the researchers of the Twelfth Division..." July frowned. In her memories from her previous life, this frog-like Grim Reaper shouldn't have any connection with the spirit corpse.

The appearance of this frog grim reaper made July realize that his time travel might have already had a profound impact on this world.

"Have you collected them all?" the Frog Grim Reaper asked.

"All collected." One of them handed over several blue glass tubes.

The Frog Death took the tubes and inserted several glass tubes directly into Lingzi's body.

“Very good, with these spirit particles, we will have new companions.” After saying this, the Frog Reaper bid farewell to the two, “Then I will go back first.”

As Kyoraku Shunsui and the Frog Death approached, the shadows on the ground silently shifted direction, and July moved into the shadow of the Frog Death.

After parting ways with the two, the Frog Reaper returned to the Twelfth Division.

Moreover, he entered the Twelfth Division openly and legitimately through the main gate.

The frog grim reaper will even greet the grim reaper soldiers he encounters on the road.

He encountered Kisuke Urahara in front of Kirio Hikifune's laboratory.

Kisuke Urahara waved enthusiastically: "Bukyuu, have you finished comparing your data?"

The Frog Reaper grinned, revealing two rows of neat teeth: "After comparing, Asada Tetsuya should not be lying. He did go to these locations the day before, but... he also did go to the Shinigami Institute. The Eighth Division has found witnesses."

To verify Tetsuya Asada's words, Kisuke Urahara created a lie detector that could detect whether Tetsuya Asada was lying based on various indicators of the spirit.

Kisuke Urahara scratched his face: "It seems this lie detector isn't very accurate. After all, some people can lie without batting an eye."

“It’s already quite useful, since most people aren’t mentally strong enough.” The Frog Reaper nodded and walked into the elevator with Kisuke Urahara.

"Then I'll take it as a compliment," Kisuke Urahara chuckled, then casually asked, "By the way, I think I just saw you, Captain Kyoraku, and Captain Ukitake walk into the same alley..."

The Frog Grim Reaper's finger paused slightly as he pressed the elevator button, but he quickly recovered and pressed the button for the third basement level, explaining, "Oh, Captain Kyoraku is still investigating Asada Tetsuya's matter and came to ask me if there have been any discoveries in the lab."

"I see... It's rare to see the Kyoraku band leader so enthusiastic." Kisuke Urahara smiled and said nothing more.

Kisuke Urahara is meticulous and has been in contact with the Frog Reaper in the laboratory for a long time. He has already noticed that something is wrong with the Frog Reaper.

However, he has not yet conducted an investigation and has not yet obtained any evidence against the Frog Death.

After overhearing their conversation in July, Kisuke Urahara felt that he might have noticed something unusual about the Frog Reaper.

The three of them took the elevator to Kiryu's laboratory.

Just as the Frog Reaper and Kisuke Urahara stepped into the laboratory, the lights above their heads suddenly started flashing.

"Alarm—Alarm—Unauthorized intruder detected—"

At the entrance to Kiryu Laboratory, there is an invisible spiritual particle wall. Only Shinigami with granted permissions can pass through this spiritual particle wall without triggering an alarm.

When Kiryu visited the lab last time in July, he turned off this defense, so he was unaware of this matter.

The alarm quickly alerted all the researchers in the laboratory, including Kiryu Hikifune.

"An intruder? Where is the intruder?!"

Kiryu arrived at the door, only to find Kisuke Urahara and the Frog Reaper.