Feng Hou Qimen Unleashed! Master of Space! Soul Society's Strongest Barrier!

Thinking of something, he pushed up his glasses.

"Come to think of it... Vice Kidō Chief Kyōsuke found someone awfully quickly."

"He was only gone for a day, yet he immediately brought back someone... on the level of a monster to inherit the name Kenpachi."

"Not at all. It was just a coincidence."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Kyōsuke Kuchiki entered the Kidō Corps headquarters with Tessai Tsukabishi and completed all the necessary paperwork.

While he was there, he also met the previous vice Kidō chief, Hachigen Ushōda.

Just like in the original story, he was a chubby, gentle middle-aged man.

Funnily enough, this enormous man also had red hair and red eyebrows, exactly the same color as Yachiru Kusajishi's, whom Kyōsuke had just met.

If Kyōsuke Kuchiki hadn't known where Yachiru Kusajishi came from, he might really have thought the two were related.

Ushōda seemed not the least bit unhappy about Kyōsuke Kuchiki taking his place. He even gave a relieved smile.

"With Young Master Kuchiki taking over for me, I can rest easy."

"After working for so long, I can finally take a break."

Tessai Tsukabishi immediately gave him a disapproving look.

"How can you do that?"

"Hachi, you're still young. Even if you want to retire, you should retire with me."

Hearing Tessai Tsukabishi's words, Hachigen Ushōda smiled and nodded his agreement.

Compared to Aizen, he was the one who seemed like a genuinely good person, gentleness radiating from every part of him.

Kyōsuke Kuchiki remembered that in the original story, the Visored called Hachigen Ushōda "Hachi."

It seemed this kindhearted man's image really had taken root in people's hearts, and everyone liked him.

After the handover, Kyōsuke Kuchiki officially assumed his post.

Tessai Tsukabishi thoughtfully reassigned some of the vice Kidō chief's paperwork.

Basically, Kyōsuke Kuchiki only needed to research Kidō every day, periodically provide some research results, and lend a hand at critical moments.

His days were so leisurely that he was nearly ready to drink tea and slack off with a certain admiral next door.

Kyōsuke Kuchiki could only say that Tessai Tsukabishi knew his way around an office and was an excellent judge of character.

After dealing with the Kidō Corps' affairs, Kyōsuke Kuchiki returned to the Kuchiki Clan estate, feeling refreshed.

He had slept for a full day and night, and Kuchiki Ginrei and Byakuya had been very worried about him.

Only after briefly explaining the situation and reassuring them did he return to his room.

Kuchiki Ginrei and Byakuya Kuchiki were both Soul Reapers who fought on the front lines. What dangerous situations hadn't they encountered?

By comparison, Kyōsuke Kuchiki had merely slept a little longer. It was nothing at all.

Once they saw that the awakened Kyōsuke Kuchiki was full of life and vigor, the two of them were reassured.

In his room, Kyōsuke Kuchiki took stock of his current condition and nodded with satisfaction.

After his grueling battle with Kenpachi Zaraki, his physique, which had already reached its limit, had grown a little stronger.

He had slept for so long partly because he had truly been exhausted, and partly to meet the needs of his body's evolution.

Ultimately, it was because he was too young.

Kenpachi Zaraki might have looked like a man in his prime, but he had lived for nearly a thousand years.

It was only natural that Kyōsuke Kuchiki couldn't match him in physique and Reiatsu.

But with the Six Treasury Immortal Thief at the perfected realm, Kyōsuke Kuchiki could catch up to and surpass him at a tremendous speed, even with his thousand years of accumulation.

That was the power of the Eight Extraordinary Skills.

Besides, after this battle, Kyōsuke Kuchiki had gained a wealth of practical combat experience and grasped the various ingenious ways Dijiang's abilities could be applied in a real fight.

That was why he had fought with all his might.

Some things, without actually trying them, were ultimately just warfare on paper.

"Having defeated Kenpachi Zaraki, I've gained a foothold in the Seireitei."

Having experienced a fight with a true powerhouse like that, Kyōsuke Kuchiki felt much more at ease.

He also had a clear understanding of his own strength.

Compared to ordinary Soul Reapers, and even Captain-level Soul Reapers, he was already very strong.

But Kyōsuke Kuchiki knew full well that it was far from enough.

In the great battles to come, Captain-level fighters would be nothing more than cannon fodder.

Never mind Kiganjō—even a monster like Kenpachi Zaraki had been taken down in an instant during the Thousand-Year Blood War.

Although a disadvantageous matchup had played a part, it was enough to show how terrifying the enemies the Soul Reapers would face in the future would be.

With that thought, Kyōsuke Kuchiki's heart, which had been a little stirred up, slowly calmed again.

The days that followed passed without a ripple.

Thanks to Tessai Tsukabishi's thoughtful arrangements, Kyōsuke Kuchiki quickly grew accustomed to life in the Kidō Corps.

Whenever he had time, he went to work and slacked off; when he didn't, he studied Kidō on his own.

At the same time, he spent most of his free time grinding proficiency in the Heaven Communicating Talisman Art.

To that end, Kyōsuke Kuchiki even took on several missions to purify Hollows.

When it came to missions, unlike Soul Reapers who couldn't choose freely, the Kidō Corps had the privilege of choosing their own.

That was also an important reason Kyōsuke Kuchiki had chosen to join the Kidō Corps.

He had also reluctantly crossed blades with Kenpachi Zaraki a few times.

Those exchanges, however, were only sparring matches.

Kyōsuke Kuchiki's goal was clear: he was grinding proficiency.

Finally, after some time had passed, Kyōsuke Kuchiki looked at the Eight Extraordinary Skills panel in his room one day, his face full of wild delight.

Kenpachi Zaraki was very displeased about this and declared that he wanted a real challenge.

"Heaven Communicating Talisman Art, proficiency 100%, perfected!"

"Feng Hou Qimen, proficiency 1%, beginner!"

The Heaven Communicating Talisman Art at the perfected realm could only be described as overwhelmingly powerful.

Kyōsuke Kuchiki's low-level Kidō was now comparable to a Soul Reaper captain's high-level Kidō.

More importantly, he had unlocked another of the Eight Extraordinary Skills!

Chapter 61: Feng Hou Qimen Unleashed! Master of Space! Soul Society's Strongest Barrier!

Feng Hou Qimen!

The pinnacle of Qimen!

For spells that other sorcerers needed to step into the proper positions and seek out auspicious and inauspicious aspects to use,

a person who possessed Feng Hou Qimen only needed to fix a central point and lay out a Qimen formation around himself.

He could then change the positions within the configuration at will, causing changes to the things inside the formation!

Within the formation, everything became something he could control!

Even time was merely a scale that recorded changes in things, one that could be twisted and altered at will!

Naturally, the user didn't have to be bound by the arrangement of time and configuration when casting spells, and could cast them at will!

Within this Qimen configuration, the caster himself was the position, and he himself was fortune and misfortune.

Time, space, and the cycles of generation and destruction among the four plates were all determined by the caster?!

Though it looked somewhat complicated, it was actually simple to explain.

Once he laid out Feng Hou Qimen, Kyōsuke Kuchiki could control everything within the formation!

The earth, flowing water, air, time... everything would become a chess piece in his hand, and he would be the absolute master of that space!

A flicker of excitement instantly flashed through Kyōsuke Kuchiki's eyes.

Wasn't Feng Hou Qimen the strongest barrier?!

Moreover, the size of the formation it could create depended entirely on the user's own strength.

It was very convenient to practice, so grinding proficiency in it would naturally be just as quick.

After his fight with Kenpachi Zaraki, even he couldn't help feeling a slight urge to improve.

A monster like that improved at a terrifying rate, so he had to work harder, grind his proficiency up, and unlock new Eight Extraordinary Skills as soon as possible.

Without delay, Kyōsuke Kuchiki immediately sat down cross-legged and began training Feng Hou Qimen.

For a time, even Kyōsuke Kuchiki, with his many techniques, was amazed by Feng Hou Qimen's power.

He constantly experimented with Feng Hou Qimen's abilities, finding their mysteries inexhaustible.

The feeling of doing as he pleased and controlling everything was exceptionally intoxicating and utterly enthralling.

While Kyōsuke Kuchiki was absorbed in the powerful Eight Extraordinary Skill he had just unlocked, two major events occurred in the Seireitei, one after another.

Moreover, both events were inextricably linked to Kyōsuke Kuchiki.

The first was that Kenpachi Zaraki officially succeeded Kiganjō as the eleventh Kenpachi;

the second was that Kenpachi Zaraki, having just become captain of the 11th Division, immediately challenged Captain-Commander Yamamoto.

The two fought a great battle, and then Kenpachi Zaraki was sent to the Fourth Division.

The training ground on the back mountain where they had fought, however, had been burned to the ground.

The great fire there burned for a long time, dyeing more than half the sky red, and the Kidō Corps spent several days dealing with it completely.

Only then did the captains learn that this newly appointed captain of the 11th Division had actually forced the Captain-Commander to use his Shikai.

After all, as the oldest and strongest fire-type Zanpakuto, Ryūjin Jakka in its normal state already surpassed other Zanpakuto in Shikai.

As for Ryūjin Jakka in Shikai, it was equivalent to the Bankai of other captains.

It could only be said that everyone who had faced it in that state had died.

Over the past thousand years, enemies capable of forcing Captain-Commander Yamamoto to use his Shikai had been few and far between.

The many Soul Reapers of the Seireitei were shocked.

They hadn't expected the strange man Kyōsuke Kuchiki had found to be so strong.

For a time, the few 11th Division members who had still been thinking of bristling with defiance all fell in line.

Yet another piece of news spread at this point.

Even the immensely powerful Captain Zaraki had been defeated by the super genius Kyōsuke Kuchiki.

At first, many people didn't believe it.

A group of 11th Division brutes whom Kenpachi Zaraki had thoroughly beaten into submission went so far as to boast wildly, clamoring to teach Kyōsuke Kuchiki a lesson.

But Kenpachi Zaraki personally stepped in to teach those arrogant fellows a lesson, and admitted with his own mouth that he had once lost to Kyōsuke Kuchiki.

When those words came out, they struck like a stone shattering the heavens.

The captains had thought Kyōsuke Kuchiki would become a super powerhouse, but that was supposed to be in the future.

They had never imagined that Kyōsuke Kuchiki would fulfill his potential so quickly.

Regarding this young genius whose growth was as monstrous as a monster's, the powerhouses had only one thought.

Terrifying to such a degree!

Because of this, the 11th Division Soul Reapers who had previously barked orders at the Kidō Corps all reined themselves in considerably.

With the "mighty powerhouse" Kyōsuke Kuchiki holding the fort, the Kidō Corps, which had previously been unwelcome, also received respect.