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

In July, she glanced at the sword skills section of the panel.

Previously, the thousand-piece unloading technique was at the beginner level, but now it has been improved to the proficient level, and I feel that I am only one step away from mastering it.

July felt that sparring with Bayunzhai and sparring with Maozhihua were completely different experiences.

Unohana's sword was too ruthless, putting him under a lot of pressure.

However, July also gained a lot from this battle.

Kensei Rokusha stared wide-eyed, speechless for a long time.

He couldn't even see Shikatoshi's movements clearly; before he could react, the leaves that had been floating up had already split into four pieces.

If he were struck like that, his fate would probably be no better than those leaves.

Shikatori Dojo really does have something special!

But now the problem is, how can he get Shikato-sensei to accept him as a disciple?

"Teacher, what's that move called?" Cilantro clapped her hands and said, "Wow, that's amazing—she managed to unleash so many slashes in an instant!"

"This move is called 'Thousand Slashes,' a very powerful sword technique. If you can master it, you can unleash hundreds or even thousands of slashes in an instant," July explained with a smile. "Once you've built a solid foundation, I'll teach you this move. Today, we'll learn 'Instant Strike,' a relatively easy sword technique to pick up."

"Kensei Muguruma..." July was actually a little surprised that Kana Momoshiro would bring Kensei Muguruma along.

Kensei Rokusha and Shinji Heiko were both on his watchlist, and he wanted to find an opportunity to take them as his disciples.

According to observations in July, Kensei Muguruma is not a student who likes to talk to girls. He also doesn't talk much with Kana Azajo during breaks, so they don't seem to be friends.

"Master Shikatori!" Kensei Rokugurashi suddenly knelt down in a dogeza posture. "I wish to learn kendo from you. Please accept me as your disciple!"

Unable to afford the cost of becoming an apprentice, Kensei Rokusha decided to seek apprenticeship in the most sincere way possible.

July was slightly taken aback; these six cartloads of Kensei had actually delivered themselves to her doorstep.

It really surprised him.

However, this saved him trouble. He had originally intended to take Rokusha Kensei as his disciple, so naturally he wouldn't refuse at this time.

"Seeing how sincere you are, I will accept you as my disciple. However, after entering my sect, you must respect your teachers and elders and never do anything to betray your master or ancestors. As long as you are loyal to the sect and diligently cultivate, I will teach you the way of the sword," July said solemnly.

"Yes, teacher, I will not let you down!" Kensei Rokusha said excitedly, he did not expect things to go so smoothly.

Kensei Rokusha requests to become a disciple; will you accept him as your personal apprentice?

July looked at the text that suddenly appeared in front of her, and without hesitation, immediately confirmed it and accepted Rokusha Kensei as her disciple.

[Successfully recruited Liu Chequanxi as his personal disciple]

[Kensei Rokusha's reputation level has increased; his current reputation level is Friendly.]

Chapter 14 Sword Technique Instruction

In July, he also sparred with Kensei to check his swordsmanship skills.

Kensei Rokusha came from Rukongai, and without a tutor to lay a foundation for him, his basic skills were not as good as those of Kana Mochijo.

So in July, he continued to practice the basics of swordsmanship, such as stances and footwork.

However, Kensei's spiritual pressure was higher than Kana's, so he was capable of practicing the Sailfish Stance. Therefore, in July, he had Kensei practice the Sailfish Stance after completing the basic training.

Kensei had no objections and began practicing according to July's instructions.

Meanwhile, in July, Quana plans to start teaching her swordsmanship.

He took two rolls of straw mats out of the house.

"Cilantro, you need to use a regular wooden knife to cut the upright mat in half." July rolled up and tied the mat, indicating that Cilantro should try it first.

"This is pretty simple, isn't it?" Cilantro thought it was easy to do. After mastering the technique of controlling spiritual pressure, she could unleash even greater power than before. Cutting this straw mat would be a piece of cake.

"Hah—" Cilantro gripped the wooden knife with both hands, shouted loudly, and slashed at the straw mat with the upper part of her body.

However, the straw mat did not break in two as she had expected. Instead, after being hit hard, it folded up from the middle, causing the straw mat to only fold into a curved shape, and the wooden knife did not cut into the straw mat.

"Uh—it failed..." Cilantro stared blankly at the wooden sword and straw mat. "The wooden sword wasn't sharp enough..."

“Yes, the wooden swords in the dojo are not sharpened, so it’s very difficult to cut through the straw mat using only the sharpness of the wooden sword. No matter how strong your strike is, you can only break or shatter it,” July said.

He set up another roll of straw mat, held a knife in his right hand, and with a swift stroke, the straw mat was instantly cut in half.

"How did the teacher do that?" Cilantro examined the cut of the straw mat; it was perfectly smooth. "This cut looks just like it was made with a real sword!"

“Reiatsu not only allows you to unleash greater power, but it can also make your swords sharper.” July held out the wooden sword in his hand. “Touch the blade and carefully feel the difference in reiatsu.”

Cilantro reached out and touched it; it didn't feel like normal wood. She sensed spiritual pressure on the blade.

Moreover, it's not simply about gathering spiritual pressure into the wooden sword; rather, a layer of spiritual pressure is attached to the surface of the wooden sword, forming a sharp "spiritual pressure blade."

In other words—spiritual pressure became the blade of the wooden sword!

"I understand. I need to shape my spiritual pressure into a sharp blade and attach it to the wooden sword, but that seems really difficult." Kana scratched her face. This kind of operation requires even stronger spiritual pressure control skills. No wonder her teacher only taught her this after she had a basic grasp of spiritual pressure control.

"That requires you to practice hard. These are the basics. Swordsmanship is never something that can be mastered overnight. Only by mastering the basics can you go further," July said earnestly.

"I will try my best!" Cilantro nodded emphatically. She was working very hard to be able to come and eat at her teacher's house.

...

Two weeks later.

At the Shikatori Dojo, Kana Azajo and Kensei Muguruma were both diligently training.

Cilantro is still practicing cutting grass mats with a wooden sword. Cutting grass mats with a wooden sword is more difficult than she thought. She only spent a week to reach the standard set by the teacher, but she still couldn't master cutting grass mats with a wooden sword after two weeks.

On the other side, Liuche Quanxi was practicing the sailfish shojin.

Kensei's foundation is weaker, and his control over spiritual pressure is much worse than Kana's.

It took me two weeks to get a basic grasp of spiritual pressure control techniques.

Today he has also gained a basic understanding of how to properly allocate spiritual pressure.

"Teacher, I'm done. I've swung for a full hour today." Kensei put down his sword and let out a long sigh of relief.

He finally reached the standard of being able to continuously vibrate the sword with a sailfish-shaped wooden knife for an hour.

"Very good. From now on, you must persist in the sailfish vibrating training every day until your foundation is solid."

"Yes—I will keep training!"

July glanced at the pop-up message.

[You have given a lesson to your disciple, Rokuche Kensei. Reward settled.]

[Reward: 20 Swordsmanship Experience Points]

[Bonus Reward: 20 Free Experience Points]

[Your disciple, Kensei Rokugurashi, has made initial progress in spiritual pressure control techniques. You have received an additional reward.]

[Gain 1000 swordsmanship experience points]

The rewards for mentoring apprentices will increase as your reputation level rises.

After Kensei has mastered the basics of spiritual pressure control, he can give July 20 points of swordsmanship experience per day.

Cilantro's reputation level is one level higher than Kensei's, and it can give July 40 swordsmanship experience points per day.

In other words, the rewards for mentoring others are doubled as your reputation level increases.

In July, she glanced at her basic stats and saw that her swordsmanship level had increased to 52.

Also.

In July, it was discovered that, in addition to feedback on experience, mentoring disciples occasionally yielded other extra rewards.

Furthermore, the extra rewards you receive from Cilantro are different from the extra rewards you receive from Kensei.

The extra rewards you get from guiding Kana are Soul Society currency or extra swordsmanship experience.

The extra reward for guiding Kensei is either free-fighting experience or additional swordsmanship experience.

Furthermore, July felt that the probability of obtaining extra rewards was related to reputation level, and the probability of obtaining extra rewards from Kana was significantly higher than that from Kensei.

"Alright, Cilantro, stop for a second." July waved to Cilantro, who was still practicing cutting straw mats with a wooden sword, and gestured for her to come over.

"Teacher, what's the matter? I think I'll succeed soon!" To reduce the interference of swinging the knife, Cilantro tied the wide sleeves on both hands with rope.

"Oh? Really? Then you can continue. I was thinking of inviting you to dinner," July said with a smile.

Cultivation also requires a balance between work and rest. In July, I didn't want my disciple to force growth and ruin her body before she had fully developed.

"Looks like you're not hungry yet, teacher. Let's go. I feel really hungry today. You can leave the cilantro portion for me!" Kensei laughed and ran to the kitchen.

"What! Wait a minute! You're not allowed to eat my food!" Cilantro hurriedly chased after her.

After tasting the delicious food his teacher made, Kensei felt that the food at school was tasteless and started staying here for dinner every night.

After finishing their meal, the two of them would help the teacher clean up before going back.

The two now have a clear division of labor: Quanxi is responsible for cleaning the kitchen, and Cilantro is responsible for cleaning the yard and sweeping up the fallen leaves.

Originally, Cilantro was in charge of cleaning the kitchen, and Kensei was in charge of cleaning the yard.

However, one July, seeing that she had been in the kitchen for a long time without coming out, I went in to look for her and found her squatting in the kitchen eating raw radishes. After that, I never asked her to clean the kitchen again.

In July, she glanced at the pop-up message and saw that Cilantro's teaching feedback reward had been settled.

[You have given a lesson to your disciple, Zhicheng Xiangcai; reward settled.]

[Reward: 40 Swordsmanship Experience Points]

[Bonus Reward: 40 Swordsmanship Experience Points]

...

Chapter 15 Shallow Fight

July arrived at the office. Today, in addition to teaching, I also had to arrange for students to receive "shallow tea".

The "Asauchi" that the Spirit Arts Academy is going to distribute is actually an unnamed Zanpakuto.

By constantly communicating with Asauchi, the Shinigami inscribes the essence of their soul into Asauchi, thus creating their own Zanpakuto.

The shape, state, and abilities of a Zanpakuto are forged based on the soul of the Shinigami (death god).

"Why does Ms. Sakai look so worried?" As soon as July entered the room, she saw the green-haired teacher sitting opposite her with a furrowed brow, as if she had encountered something troublesome.

Ms. Sakai teaches Kido, and she and Nana teach the same class, so they've been interacting quite a bit lately.

"Ah, it's Shikato-sensei. Sigh, I just heard from our Kido Club president that the exams are coming up soon. You know our class's situation; our grades are definitely going to be at the bottom." Sakai-sensei said listlessly, propping her face up with her hand.

The students in the class taught by July and Sakai-sensei are mostly from Rukongai, so their foundation is relatively weak. It will definitely be difficult for them to outperform those students from Seireitei in the placement test.

"It's only been a month since school started, and we already have exams?" July frowned slightly. The students in his class were indeed not very good at their basic skills. Even with the help of vocabulary, he couldn't improve them much in such a short time.

"This fall assessment is also to get a feel for the new students. It will be held in two weeks," Professor Sakai explained.

Just then, a message appeared in July's field of vision.

The Autumn Examination is about to begin. After the examination, rewards will be distributed based on the disciples' performance.

July was somewhat surprised that the autumn exam had triggered a task that could settle rewards.

"Thank you for the news, Sakai-sensei. Our swordsmanship club president is never here. If I hadn't heard from you, I don't know when I would have found out about this," July said gratefully.

The head of the swordsmanship club was seconded to the Spirit Arts Academy and is now in a semi-returned state. He no longer leads classes and rarely comes to the Spirit Arts Academy.

"Ah, it's nothing." Ms. Sakai waved towards the door. "Good morning, Ms. Tsunayoshi."

A short-haired young man entered through the door. He simply nodded to the two men, then walked past them and went inside.

I met this teacher in July; he was the swordsmanship teacher of the class with the best students—Tsunayoshi Tokinada.

This person has a cold personality and rarely speaks when he comes to the office.

Moreover, I heard that he often skips classes, and attending his swordsmanship class is no different from attending a self-study class.

In July, before he had gone far, she took the opportunity to check his profile.

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