Chapter Summaries

Ye Yang defeated Kato Hisaya to become Third Seat, then Yoruichi challenged him and won to prove she deserved the lieutenant position. Shihoin Tōno appointed Yoruichi Shihōin as the next lieutenant.

• Kato Hisaya challenged Ye Yang for Third Seat and used Golden Snake’s venom to paralyze him, but Ye Yang released Silver Rend and defeated him.
• Shihoin Tōno warned Ye Yang to learn from his near defeat, and Ye Yang thanked Kato Hisaya before returning to the ranks.
• Yoruichi privately told Shihoin Tōno she wanted to become lieutenant because Ye Yang did not want the demanding role.
• Yoruichi challenged Ye Yang for Third Seat, and they fought with their Shikai while Ye Yang secretly held back so she could win.
• Shihoin Tōno named Yoruichi Shihōin the next lieutenant.

After becoming Third Seat, Ye Yang learned that he would command the Third Unit and guard the Maggot's Nest. He subdued the prisoners with his Hakuda and left them accepting his authority.

• Shihoin Tōno appointed Ye Yang Third Seat, Yoruichi unit captain, and Kisuke Urahara Fifth Seat.
• Shihoin Tōno told Ye Yang he would command the Third Unit, which guarded the Maggot's Nest, and explained that its commander had to subdue prisoners bare-handed.
• Shihoin Tōno brought Ye Yang, Yoruichi, and Kisuke Urahara into the Maggot's Nest without Zanpakuto.
• A prisoner attacked Ye Yang, who threw him aside and then fought off a mass assault from the other prisoners using Tai Chi and Hakuda.
• Ye Yang defeated the prisoners without killing them, accepted their submission, and declared himself in charge.
• Shihoin Tōno recognized that Ye Yang's Hakuda was comparable to a Captain-level fighter's.

Ye Yang, Yoruichi, and Kisuke Urahara settled into their roles in Soul Society as ten years passed, while Ye Yang and Yoruichi became Byakuya’s instructors. The chapter left Byakuya improving through their training as the young trio’s lives and reputations continued to grow.

• Ye Yang explained that he had created Tai Chi, refused to teach it to the Punishment Force, and left the Maggot's Nest with Shihoin Tōno, Yoruichi, and Kisuke Urahara.
• Yoruichi handled lieutenant duties while Ye Yang guarded the Maggot's Nest and Kisuke Urahara developed gadgets, including communicators and Spiritual Pressure controllers.
• Ten years passed, and Ye Yang, Yoruichi, and Kisuke Urahara matured into prominent figures in Soul Society; Sōsuke Aizen also rose through the Fifth Division after graduating first in his year.
• After Sōsuke Aizen’s close female friend died, Ye Yang attended the funeral and offered his condolences, but Aizen remained silent and emotionless.
• Ye Yang and Yoruichi became Byakuya’s teachers, with Ye Yang teaching basic Hakuda and Yoruichi teaching Shunpo through games of tag.

Kisuke Urahara showed Ye Yang and Yoruichi the Tenshintai, a device that materialized a Soul Reaper’s Zanpakuto to help them attain Bankai. Yoruichi fought her catgirl Zanpakuto until the device’s five-hour limit ended, then took out her frustration on Kisuke and planned to try again tomorrow.

• Kisuke Urahara told Ye Yang and Yoruichi he had invented the Tenshintai, which could summon a Zanpakuto’s true form for a wielder strong enough to attain Bankai.
• Yoruichi used the Tenshintai and summoned her Zanpakuto, a catgirl called Mongoose, before challenging her to learn Bankai.
• Yoruichi and Mongoose fought at high speed from afternoon until sunset, with Mongoose holding a slight advantage.
• The Tenshintai’s five-hour limit caused Mongoose to disappear, so Yoruichi challenged Kisuke Urahara and beat him up.
• Ye Yang suggested Yoruichi use his fist technique in her next fight, and Yoruichi resolved to try it against Mongoose tomorrow.

Yoruichi trained to defeat Mongoose and unlock Bankai, developing a dangerous technique that combined Kidō and Hakuda. On the tenth day, Shunkō let Yoruichi defeat Mongoose, who then vanished.

• Yoruichi summoned Mongoose with the Tenshintai and used Half-Step Crushing Fist and Ye Yang’s One-Inch Punch, but Mongoose revealed her superior speed and overwhelmed her.
• Ye Yang and Kisuke Urahara watched Yoruichi collapse after the fight, and Ye Yang carried her home.
• Over the next ten days, Yoruichi fought Mongoose daily and steadily improved, eventually lasting half an hour against her.
• On the final day, Yoruichi gathered Kidō into her limbs and used explosive power to combine it with Hakuda, gaining enough speed and strength to overpower Mongoose.
• Mongoose admitted defeat and asked the move’s name, and Ye Yang suggested Shunkō before Mongoose vanished.

Yoruichi explained her new technique combining Hakuda and Kidō, and Kisuke Urahara and Ye Yang summoned their Zanpakuto with the Tenshintai. Ye Yang challenged Silver Rend to a sword fight, escaped a devastating strike with Utsusemi, and left Kisuke and Yoruichi discussing the Stealth Step.

• Yoruichi explained how she concentrated Kidō in her hands and feet to combine it with Hakuda, then warned Kisuke Urahara and Ye Yang not to summon her technique casually.
• Kisuke Urahara summoned Benihime, and Yoruichi privately warned him not to call Benihime out whenever he pleased.
• Kisuke Urahara defeated Benihime in three days and asked to see Ye Yang's Zanpakuto.
• Ye Yang summoned Silver Rend, who challenged him to win with an ordinary sword; Ye Yang fought him with Wudang Swordsmanship and the Tai Chi Sword Technique.
• Silver Rend unleashed a powerful strike, and Ye Yang escaped it with Utsusemi, leaving his outer garment behind.
• Yoruichi identified Ye Yang's move as Utsusemi, and Kisuke Urahara asked whether she could use the Stealth Step too.

Ye Yang used the Nine Swords of Dugu to wound Silver Rend, but Silver Rend revealed the neglected powers of his space-type Zanpakuto and challenged Ye Yang to trust him. The battle continued as Silver Rend attacked with his full strength.

• Ye Yang used Utsusemi to escape Silver Rend’s strike, but Silver Rend overwhelmed him and sent him crashing through buildings.
• Ye Yang emerged from the rubble and used the Sword-Breaking Stance of the Nine Swords of Dugu to suppress Silver Rend and cut his shoulder.
• Silver Rend praised Ye Yang’s technique with sorrow, then unleashed a spatial rift and a Dimensional Slash that forced Ye Yang to evade by abandoning his shihakusho.
• Silver Rend used his space ability to shorten the distance before striking Ye Yang from behind, then confronted him for neglecting his powers and treating him as a tool.
• Silver Rend declared that he would show Ye Yang his strength and charged at him again.

Ye Yang accepted Silver Rend and passed the Bankai test, then returned to Seireien with Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara. The three were ordered to become instructors at Shin'ō Academy starting the next day.

• Silver Rend fought Ye Yang for three hours, pushing him to use the Nine Swords of Dugu while sparing him at the last moment.
• Ye Yang let Silver Rend run him through to prove he trusted and accepted his Zanpakuto, and Silver Rend declared that he had passed the Bankai test.
• Silver Rend disappeared as the Tenshintai's time limit ended, leaving Ye Yang with his Bankai and a warning that he still had other abilities to discover.
• Yoruichi suggested a Bankai spar, but Kisuke Urahara explained that Benihime was suited only to fights to the death, so the three went home instead.
• A member of the Punishment Force summoned Yoruichi, Ye Yang, and Kisuke to the Second Division, where Shihoin Tōno informed them they had been appointed Shin'ō Academy instructors.
• The appointment assigned Yoruichi to teach Shunpo, Ye Yang to teach Hakuda, and Kisuke to teach Kidō, with all three starting the next day.

Ye Yang Shihoin, Yoruichi Shihōin, and Kisuke Urahara began teaching at Shin'ō Spiritual Arts Academy after Captain-Commander Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai appointed them. Their first class introduced them to the students, and Kisuke taught Kidō while explaining his research into its rules.

• Ye Yang Shihoin, Yoruichi Shihōin, and Kisuke Urahara reported to Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai and learned that they would teach at Shin'ō.
• The three received their schedules and met the third-year students, who recognized them as the Shin'ō Golden Triangle and crowded Ye Yang with questions and flirtation.
• Kisuke led the class to the Kidō training ground and explained how incantations, Reishi, and Incantation Abandonment worked.
• Kisuke said his research suggested Kidō could not be released without calling its true name, even by the Captain-Commander.
• Kisuke demonstrated a powerful Incantation Abandonment Shakkahō and began coaching students as they practiced.

Ye Yang, Yoruichi, and Kisuke Urahara supervised their students’ practical combat exercise in the World of the Living, where the class defeated a real Hollow together. After they returned to Soul Society, a Punishment Force messenger reported that the commander-in-chief was critically ill.

• Ye Yang led the students through the Dangai and assigned them to defeat simulated Hollows in groups before practicing Konso.
• Ye Yang intervened when two students were injured, then reunited the class with Yoruichi and Kisuke Urahara after the morning exercise.
• In a town, the students encountered a real Hollow, and one student fired a flare to summon help.
• The students coordinated their Kidō attacks and destroyed the Hollow with a combined Sōkatsui, then performed Konso on the rescued soul.
• Ye Yang led the students back to Soul Society and ended the exercise; a Punishment Force messenger then announced that the commander-in-chief was critically ill.

Shihoin Tōno died after entrusting the Shihoin Clan to Yoruichi and Ye Yang, giving Yoruichi the clan-head’s ring and Ye Yang a one-use Pardon Writ. At Tōno’s funeral, Yamamoto cautioned Ye Yang against excessive bloodshed as he took charge alongside his sister.

• Ye Yang and Yoruichi rushed to Shihoin Tōno’s bedside and learned that he was near death.
• Shihoin Tōno asked the siblings to lead the clan together, naming Yoruichi its new head and asking Ye Yang to assist her.
• Shihoin Tōno gave Yoruichi the clan-head’s ring and handed Ye Yang the ancestral Pardon Writ before he died.
• Ye Yang and Yoruichi grieved with their parents after Shihoin Tōno’s death.
• At Shihoin Tōno’s funeral, Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai privately warned Ye Yang not to cause too much bloodshed, and Ye Yang promised restraint.
• Ginrei Kuchiki paid his respects and patted Ye Yang’s shoulder, his hand trembling.

After Shihoin Tōno's funeral, Shihoin Nishimura tried to seize the clan head's position, but Ye Yang and Yoruichi revealed the ancestral token and established Yoruichi as clan head. Nishimura left furious and began plotting, leaving the clan's political turmoil unresolved.

• After the funeral, Shihoin Ishikawa and other elders backed Shihoin Nishimura as acting clan head, and Shihoin Seigen reluctantly agreed to the temporary appointment.
• Ye Yang and Yoruichi objected, arguing that the clan's direct descendants had a claim to leadership.
• Ye Yang explained that the ancestral token could override the elders' approval requirement, and Yoruichi revealed the ring their grandfather had entrusted to them.
• The clan members knelt to recognize Yoruichi as clan head, and Shihoin Nishimura reluctantly followed the ancestral rule and knelt as well.
• Shihoin Nishimura left with Shihoin Ishikawa and other elders, then angrily vowed in an underground chamber that he would not accept losing the position.

Shihoin Nishimura plotted to seize the Shihoin Clan leadership, but Ye Yang and Yoruichi confronted him after defeating his assassins. Nishimura revealed his Zanpakuto, Yomi, and began fighting Ye Yang, who severed one of his arms before Nishimura unleashed his Bankai.

• Shihoin Nishimura ordered his allies to prepare a coup before Yoruichi's inauguration as clan head.
• Ye Yang mobilized the Punishment Force and asked Kisuke Urahara to protect Shihoin Seigen and Tsukiyo while he and Yoruichi went to confront the plotters.
• Ye Yang interrupted Shihoin Nishimura and the elders as they celebrated Nishimura's planned takeover, then revealed Ogawa Kagenashi's severed head.
• Nishimura released Yomi and attacked Ye Yang, but Ye Yang used Dimensional Slash to cut off Nishimura's arm.
• Nishimura activated his Bankai, Yomi Water, as Ye Yang dismissed his accumulated strength.

Ye Yang defeated Shihoin Nishimura with his Bankai, Spatial Domain, and killed him after learning that Nishimura had tried to have Ye Yang’s parents assassinated. With the assassins dead and the remaining elders captured, Ye Yang ordered a purge of the conspirators and planned to reshape the noble families.

• Shihoin Nishimura attacked Ye Yang and Yoruichi with his Bankai, Yomi Water, but Yoruichi struck him with Shunkō and he healed himself with the water.
• Ye Yang revealed his Bankai, Spatial Domain, and used Spatial Rift to swallow all of Nishimura’s Yomi Water, leaving him powerless.
• Nishimura admitted defeat and asked Ye Yang to spare his innocent family; Ye Yang promised to investigate, then killed him and returned to the Shihoin mansion.
• Shihoin Ishikawa revealed that he had sent assassins after Ye Yang’s parents, but Kisuke Urahara arrived with the assassins’ severed heads, and Ye Yang killed Ishikawa.
• Ye Yang ordered the remaining elders killed and said he would also target the other nobles involved in Nishimura’s scheme, while Yoruichi and Seigen warned that killing the elders could weaken the family.

Ye Yang wiped out the noble families that had backed Nishimura while Yoruichi prepared to become the Shihoin Clan’s twenty-second head. After watching her procession, he met Shaoling Fon, the young girl who would become Soi Fon, and offered to teach her about the Punishment Force.

• Ye Yang rejected Yoruichi’s hesitation and set out to eliminate the nobles who had supported Nishimura.
• Ye Yang killed the Ueno Clan’s head and his son, then the Punishment Force helped him eradicate more than a dozen noble families.
• Yoruichi prepared to succeed as the Shihoin Clan’s twenty-second head while Ye Yang stayed away from the formal ceremony.
• Ye Yang watched Yoruichi’s procession and met Shaoling Fon, who admired her and vowed to become her bodyguard.
• Ye Yang recognized Shaoling as the future Soi Fon and told her he had once served in the Punishment Force, prompting her to ask him to explain how to join.

Ye Yang promised to teach Little Shaoling Bajiquan, then traveled through Rukongai and encountered Kenpachi Zaraki fighting Ikkaku Madarame in District 79. Ye Yang accepted Zaraki’s challenge, wounded him, and continued fighting as Zaraki unleashed his spiritual pressure.

• Ye Yang declined to teach Little Shaoling the Punishment Force’s training and promised to teach her Bajiquan the next day.
• Ye Yang traveled through Rukongai’s districts and saw conditions worsen until he reached the violent Kusajishi District.
• Ye Yang watched Kenpachi Zaraki defeat Ikkaku Madarame while Yumichika Ayasegawa looked on, then Zaraki challenged Ye Yang to fight.
• Yachiru Kusajishi joined Ye Yang, gave him the nickname Little Ye-Ye, and moved aside as he accepted Zaraki’s challenge.
• Ye Yang deflected Zaraki’s attacks and cut his chest, prompting Zaraki to unleash his spiritual pressure as Ikkaku wondered if the fight was over and Yumichika said it was not.

Ye Yang fought Kenpachi Zaraki to a draw after using Silver Rend’s spatial ability, and both were badly injured. Recovering in the Fourth Division, Ye Yang told Retsu Unohana his opponent’s name and revealed that Kenpachi Zaraki carried only a battered Asauchi.

• Ye Yang and Kenpachi Zaraki clashed in Rukongai, trading wounds until dusk without either gaining the upper hand.
• Ye Yang and Kenpachi Zaraki unleashed their final attacks; Silver Rend’s Dimensional Slash struck Kenpachi Zaraki, breaking his sword and leaving him badly wounded, while Ye Yang collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yachiru called the result a draw, and Kenpachi Zaraki promised to find Ye Yang in the Seireien.
• Ye Yang made his way to the Fourth Division, where he lost consciousness and later woke to find Yoruichi, Kisuke Urahara, and Kaien visiting him.
• After the visitors left, Ye Yang told Retsu Unohana about the fight and identified his opponent as Kenpachi Zaraki, whose Zanpakuto was a nicked Asauchi.

After recovering from his injuries, Ye Yang taught Little Shaoling the basics of Bajiquan before Yoruichi took him to meet Captain-Commander Yamamoto. Yamamoto accepted Ye Yang’s pledge of loyalty, appointed Yoruichi to take the captain’s test, and assigned Ye Yang to teach at Shin'ō every Wednesday.

• Ye Yang left the Fourth Division despite Unohana’s warning and began teaching Little Shaoling the Bajiquan frame in a maple grove.
• Little Shaoling learned the basic stance and agreed to practice until Ye Yang could return to teach her more.
• After spending three days in the Fourth Division, Ye Yang and Yoruichi met Yamamoto, who demanded an explanation for Ye Yang killing the heads of noble clans.
• Ye Yang promised to remain loyal to the Shihoin Clan and never harm Soul Society while the clan existed, and Yamamoto let the matter rest.
• Yamamoto ordered Yoruichi to take the captain’s test in three days to become Second Division Captain and commander-in-chief of the Stealth Force.
• Yamamoto appointed Ye Yang a consulting instructor at Shin'ō, requiring him to teach every Wednesday, and Yoruichi teased him about the assignment.

Over five years, Ye Yang trained Soi Fon in martial arts and Shunpo while the Second Division and its members changed around them. Soi Fon joined the Punishment Force and was left to spar with Yoruichi, unaware that Ye Yang was Yoruichi’s younger brother and the Second Division’s vice-captain.

• Ye Yang taught Soi Fon Bajiquan and Shunpo for five years as Yoruichi became a celebrated captain, Kenpachi Zaraki took the Eleventh Division, Kaien Shiba became vice-captain, Sōsuke Aizen rose to vice-captain, and Kisuke Urahara took charge of the Maggot's Nest.
• Soi Fon told Ye Yang she had passed the Punishment Force test but worried that its missions would keep her from their Wednesday training, and Ye Yang assured her they could still meet in the Second Division.
• Four days later, Yoruichi inspected the new Punishment Force recruits and met Soi Fon, who nervously introduced herself as a twenty-year-old recruit.
• With forty-one recruits and Soi Fon without a partner, Yoruichi told her to watch the others spar and offered to spar with her afterward.

Yoruichi tested Soi Fon in combat and was impressed by her Shunpo and hidden technique, then recruited her into the Bodyguard Corps. Soi Fon revealed that Ye Yang had taught her the technique, and Yoruichi disclosed that she and Ye Yang were enemies, leaving Soi Fon pleading for his safety.

• Yoruichi sparred with Soi Fon, who adapted to her speed and eventually forced Yoruichi to dodge her final attack.
• Yoruichi praised Soi Fon's performance and recruited her into the Bodyguard Corps under her direct command.
• Yoruichi asked about Soi Fon's powerful technique, and Soi Fon admitted Ye Yang had taught it to her.
• Soi Fon told Yoruichi that Ye Yang had served in the Second Division and the Punishment Force and that she called him Brother Ye Yang.
• Yoruichi said she and Ye Yang were enemies, and Soi Fon asked her not to go after someone important to her.