Recaps

After dying from exhaustion, Nangong Ling woke in Soul Society in the body of a starving fifteen-year-old and struggled to find food in a remote district. He looted provisions and a uniform from dead Soul Reapers, then fled a village after its thugs tried to rob him.

• Nangong Ling died after reaching Gold rank in League of Legends and awoke in Soul Society, merged with the soul of a boy named Ling.
• Nangong Ling wandered hungry through West District 68 until he found three dead Soul Reapers and ate their rice balls.
• Nangong Ling took more food and a Soul Reaper uniform from the corpses, then ran when approaching Soul Reapers began searching for a clothes thief.
• Nangong Ling reached a village where three spiritual-power-wielding thugs tried to demand his food, so he drew an Asauchi and ran.
• The three thugs chased Nangong Ling out of the village, demanding his sword and clothes as he protested that he had no food.

Nangong Ling killed the Three Skinny Fiends and took control of their village while recovering from his wounds. The next morning, he went to catch fish and shrimp, then defeated a bald man who tried to rob him.

• Influenced by the original Ling’s resentment, Nangong Ling turned to fight the Three Skinny Fiends, awakened his Reiryoku, and killed them.
• Nangong Ling returned to the village, declared that he was in charge, and ordered Hayama to show him the dead men’s home.
• Nangong Ling treated his wounds and slept in the hut, then woke the next morning and sent Hayama to find food.
• Nangong Ling caught fish and shrimp in a nearby stream and spotted fruit at the belt of a bald man who confronted him.
• Nangong Ling distracted the bald man by throwing him the pot, then drew his sword and defeated him.

Nangong Ling drove off human challengers in District 68, then fought a powerful Hollow and fled after it overwhelmed him. He learned from Genji that the Hollow invasion had driven people toward District 67, where a large organization controlled scarce food.

• Nangong Ling heard that Hollows were attacking and decided to stay behind to test his strength against them.
• A red-haired Hollow ambushed Nangong Ling, blocked his sword, and struck him hard enough to make him flee.
• Nangong Ling escaped the Hollow, then met three Soul Reapers and directed them toward the village where it was hunting.
• Genji invited Nangong Ling to join his group, and explained that District 67 was controlled by a large organization that seized scarce food.
• Nangong Ling learned that the Hollow invasion had forced many souls from District 68 into District 67.

Nangong Ling joined Genji’s group as they gathered strength to seize West District 67, learning how to develop his Asauchi while surviving an attempted theft. After the group entered West Fallen Silver Town and challenged its ruling force, Ling fought Wuliang in the ensuing battle and killed him.

• Nangong Ling joined Genji’s group, quarreled with Yamabi over their meager food, and learned from Genji how an Asauchi could become a Zanpakuto.
• A new recruit tried to steal Nangong Ling’s Asauchi while he slept, but Ling killed the attacker and Genji explained the man’s motive.
• Genji’s band grew to thirty-three members, entered West Fallen Silver Town in small groups, and sent Nangong Ling and Yamabi to challenge its ruling force.
• When a red-haired guard demanded food or money, Nangong Ling cut off his hand and killed his companion, then ordered the town’s leader to meet them outside town.
• Genji led his men into battle against the town’s force, and Nangong Ling held back until Wuliang attacked him; Ling caught Wuliang’s blade and cut open his chest.

After helping Genji defeat Pinglang, Nangong Ling strengthened the Fallen Silver Group and trained while his spiritual pressure grew. After Ling’s intense spar with Genji, he infused his Asauchi with spiritual power and dreamed of a mist-shrouded man whose name he could not hear; the Asauchi began to change overnight.

• Ling joined Genji in killing Pinglang, and the surviving members of Pinglang’s group surrendered or fled.
• Genji’s group took control of West Fallen Silver Town, grew into the Fallen Silver Group, and made an arrangement to provide food to two veteran Soul Reapers in exchange for payment.
• Ling refused the Soul Reapers’ suggestion that he attend Shin'ō Spiritual Arts Academy, choosing to grow stronger outside the Seireitei.
• Ling used spiritual pressure to enhance his Asauchi during a spar with Genji, sending him crashing through a courtyard gate and ending the fight.
• Ling channeled spiritual power into his Asauchi before sleeping; its hilt cord and guard changed, and he dreamed of a scarlet landscape where a misty man called to him by an unintelligible name.

After awakening his Zanpakuto, Rei took Zhuye and two others to challenge a powerful group in Marino Town. He cut down the group’s first fighters and confronted their leader, Demon Scythe.

• Rei discovered that his Asauchi had become a Zanpakuto and that his injuries from fighting Genji had healed, though he could not remember the name he had heard in his dream.
• Rei ate chicken congee cooked by Yamabi and his wife, Reiko, then asked Zhuye about nearby settlements and decided to visit Marino Town to find stronger opponents.
• Rei traveled to Marino Town with Zhuye and two others, learned where Demon Scythe’s group was based, and ordered them to break down the gate.
• Rei killed Karoyi with one sword strike and defeated four more men alone while preventing Zhuye and the others from helping.
• Rei entered the courtyard and faced Demon Scythe, who mistook him for a Soul Reaper and questioned his killing of the group’s men.

Rei took over the Fallen Silver Group and killed the men who had challenged Genji’s authority, then grew impatient to learn his Zanpakuto’s name. After hearing that Hollows had appeared around Fallen Silver, Rei decided to seek them out as opponents.

• Rei defeated Demon Scythe, who had used his subordinates to wear him down, and reflected on why powerful people might refuse to become Soul Reapers.
• Rei and Zhuye moved on, and over the next half month Rei crushed more than a dozen factions around West Fallen Silver Town, earning the nickname Red Blade Berserker.
• As the Fallen Silver Group expanded, Genji struggled to manage its members and handed the leadership to Rei.
• Rei summoned the men who had demanded Genji step down to a valley and killed them all.
• Rei asked Genji whether Zhuye had returned, explaining that he wanted to find opponents to help him learn his Zanpakuto’s name.
• When Genji warned him about Hollows, Rei decided that fighting them would be better training than fighting ordinary Reiryoku users.

Ling took his subordinates to a cave near a village and killed five lowly Hollows, learning that their masks were their weak points. He returned to meet Shinye, who recognized Ling’s Zanpakuto and hinted that Seireitei had been monitoring the Fallen Silver Group.

• Maki and Yinchuan found a village where Hollows were said to live in a nearby cave and led Ling there.
• Ling fought three Hollows outside the cave, discovered that wounds could regenerate but broken masks caused them to dissolve, and killed them.
• Ling entered the cave and killed the two remaining Hollows before leading his subordinates away.
• Shinye arrived and questioned Ling about the Hollows, then noticed his Zanpakuto and praised his strength.
• Ling realized Shinye’s praise was also a probe about his future, while the narration revealed that Seireitei had been watching the Fallen Silver Group’s growth.

Ling joined Niino on Hollow hunts to strengthen himself, but the rising number of Hollows culminated in a giant Long-Legged Hollow attacking West Fallen Silver Town. After Ling and the Fallen Silver Group defeated it, a Menos Grande appeared and began releasing more Gillians.

• Ling persuaded Niino to take him Hollow hunting five days a week, and Niino noticed that Hollow sightings had become unusually frequent.
• Ling sensed a Hollow near the Fallen Silver Group's compound and led his subordinates into the street, where a ten-meter-tall Long-Legged Hollow was devouring residents.
• Ling, Genji, Maki, and the Fallen Silver Group attacked the Long-Legged Hollow together, and Ling split its head and mask with his Zanpakuto.
• Niino arrived and ordered Ling to evacuate the district because a Menos Grande had appeared nearby.
• A Garganta opened in the sky, and a hundred-meter Gillian emerged before its mouth began releasing more giant Gillians.

Rei and the Fallen Silver Group were overwhelmed by a massive Hollow invasion in West Fallen Silver Town. On the brink of death, Rei released his Zanpakuto, Blood Drink, and began cutting down the Hollows, though his Reiatsu was nearing its limit as larger enemies closed in.

• Dozens of Gillian and thousands of lesser Hollows attacked West Fallen Silver Town, prompting Niino and Rei to order a retreat.
• Captain-Commander Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai dispatched the 11th Division to attack and the Third and Fifth Divisions to rescue souls, while the Fourth Division prepared treatment.
• The Hollows killed most of the Fallen Silver Group, including Zhuye, Genji, and Niino, leaving Rei and Maki surrounded.
• As a crab Hollow attacked Rei, he entered his inner world, heard his Zanpakuto's name, and released Blood Drink.
• Rei's Shikai absorbed Reishi from Hollow blood to strengthen his attacks and heal him, allowing him to protect Maki and kill more than a thousand Hollows.
• After sustaining Shikai for ten minutes, Rei neared his Reiatsu limit as Hollows over ten meters tall advanced toward him.

Rei and Maki survived a Hollow assault after Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and the Soul Reapers arrived, but Rei learned that he was in an era far earlier than the one he remembered. He declined an offer to join the 11th Division and planned to travel Soul Society with Maki after the war ended.

• Rei urged Maki to fight beside him, and the two battled their way through the Hollows.
• Kuruyashiki Kenpachi arrived with the 11th Division, cleared the Hollows around them, and ordered his squad to pursue the Menos Grande.
• Rei exhausted his Reiatsu and fainted, then woke to learn that Kuruyashiki Kenpachi was the Seventh Kenpachi, not Kenpachi Zaraki.
• Rei declined the 11th Division's recruitment offer and decided to travel Soul Society with Maki, who pledged to follow him.
• Rei and Maki searched the Fallen Silver Group's headquarters for supplies, then accepted the Fifth Division's offer to shelter inside a Barrier.

Rei watched Kuruyashiki Kenpachi defeat the Vasto Lorde Ibulin and learned that Ibulin had served Baraggan, ruler of Las Noches. The chapter left Baraggan planning to strike at Soul Society’s expeditionary forces and gather intelligence on the Seireitei.

• Rei woke when Kuruyashiki Kenpachi and a powerful Hollow began fighting above the Soul Reapers’ barrier, then stepped outside to watch.
• Shiba Ika introduced herself to Rei and explained that the humanoid Hollow was a Vasto Lorde, the highest level of Menos Grande.
• Kuruyashiki Kenpachi’s Gluttonous Beans swallowed Ibulin’s Cero, and Kuruyashiki cut down the Vasto Lorde.
• Ibulin called out to Emperor Baraggan as he fell, and Rei recognized the name as the ruler of Hueco Mundo.
• Baraggan learned that Ibulin had been killed by Soul Reapers, ordered subordinates to attack the expeditionary forces, and sought volunteers to gather intelligence on the Soul Society.

Rei and Maki reached North District 67, where Rei killed three members of the Kujo Group after they tried to rob them. They captured Sanjo and learned the group was ambushing a caravan, then followed him to the ongoing fight to find his brother, Kujo.

• Ika Kyōshiba and Seigen Kyōshiba discussed Rei’s talent and agreed to see what he would do after growing stronger in Rukongai.
• After five days of travel, Rei and Maki arrived in North District 67 and stayed at an inn in Liuchuan.
• Rei and Maki left town the next morning for East District 67, but Sanjo and two accomplices blocked their path and tried to rob them.
• Rei and Maki killed Sanjo’s two accomplices, and Rei defeated Sanjo after cutting his Asauchi in two.
• Sanjo revealed that the Kujo Group was ambushing a caravan, so Rei and Maki followed him to the battle and identified Kujo among the fighters.

Rei rescued a caravan from Kujo's gang, defeated Kujo after releasing his Shikai, and forced him to reveal the gang's hidden wealth. Rei left Kujo a small share and set off with Maki, now rich enough to buy food in the inner districts.

• Rei attacked Kujo and his men after Kujo abandoned his bound younger brother Sanjo, and Rei had Maki kill Sanjo and another wounded gang member.
• Rei fought Kujo's steel-hard Zanpakuto ability but could not damage him, while Kujo cracked Rei's shoulder with a punch.
• Rei released Blood Drink, wounded Kujo, absorbed blood to heal his shoulder, and severed Kujo's lower leg with a follow-up attack.
• Rei broke Kujo's Zanpakuto and demanded the location of his stolen wealth, then promised to spare him in exchange for a share.
• Kujo led Rei and Maki to the gang's cave, where they found ten chests of money and jewelry; Rei gave Kujo the least-filled chest and declined the caravan owner's offer to work for him.

After ten months of travel, Rei and Maki reached North District 13 and stopped at a hot spring inn, where two spider Hollows attacked them. Maki survived the fight and formed his Zanpakuto, and the pair settled into a safer inn in town, where Rei overheard Soul Reapers discussing a rebellion and escaped rebels.

• Rei and Maki reached North District 13 after ten months on the road and visited a hot spring inn while considering whether to settle there.
• Rei and Maki sparred, then argued with a guest at the inn before going to sleep atop their chests of valuables.
• Two spider Hollows attacked the inn; Rei killed the red-marked Hollow and rescued Maki from the blue-marked one.
• Rei and Maki left the inn and slept elsewhere, and Maki formed his Zanpakuto the next morning.
• Rei and Maki moved their valuables to a guarded inn in town, explored North District 13, and overheard Soul Reapers discussing the Hollows and a Soul Reaper rebellion.

Rei and Maki reached North District 10 after witnessing Kuchiki Kōga suppress a Soul Reaper rebellion, and Rei refused Kuchiki Ginrei’s offer to become a clan retainer. Rei’s doubts about opposing the Gotei 13 grew, while Ginrei reported his arrival to Yamamoto; ten days later, Rei began building a base in District 10.

• Rei’s group encountered nearly a hundred Soul Reapers fighting at a valley junction, and Kuchiki Ginrei ordered Kuchiki Kōga to end the rebellion.
• Kōga’s Zanpakuto caused the rebels’ swords to turn against their owners, but three fleeing rebels attacked Rei’s group; Rei released Blood Drink and knocked them back.
• Ginrei stopped Kōga from executing the captured rebels, reprimanded him for letting innocents face danger, and invited Rei to join the Kuchiki Clan as a retainer.
• Rei refused Ginrei’s offer and reflected that the Gotei 13 might be better than the world he had planned to create; Ginrei later reported Rei’s arrival in District 10 to Yamamoto.
• Ten days later, Rei bought land in North District 10 and ordered the laborers to build him a stone castle.

Rei built the Nangong family’s fortune and reputation in Rukongai, then set out alone to grow stronger through combat. In East District 21, he challenged the young Shinji Hirako, and the chapter ended as Rei unleashed his full power without Shikai.

• Rei screened applicants for the Nangong household and opened hot pot and raw-fish restaurants that quickly became profitable.
• Ryōnosuke Yamada and the Eight Dragons Group demanded protection money, but Rei defeated them and took over their gambling dens.
• Rei arranged for Maki to attend the Shin'ō Spiritual Arts Academy, then departed alone to travel through Rukongai.
• In East District 21, Rei encountered Shinji Hirako, who accused him of being connected to disappearances in the area.
• Rei and Hirako fought, and Rei’s superior swordsmanship and toughness became clear as he inflicted cuts on Hirako.
• Rei released his full Reiatsu without using Shikai, startling Hirako as their fight continued.

Rei defeated Hirako, then fought off Hollows attacking the town and confronted Yanis, an intelligent Adjuchas. The chapter ended with Rei blocking Yanis’s repeated attacks as their battle continued.

• Rei overwhelmed Hirako in their duel and left him badly wounded but alive.
• Yanis, a scout sent by Baraggan, gathered Hollows and Gillians to attack two powerful souls in the town.
• Hollows attacked the town, and Rei released Blood Drink to slaughter them and protect the fleeing souls.
• Yanis directed two Gillians to fire Ceros at Rei, but Rei survived and struck back with Blood Drink.
• Rei recognized Yanis as a powerful Menos Grande, and the two exchanged attacks, with Rei blocking Yanis’s blade and evading his stinger.

Rei fought Yanis through a ruined town and forest, using Blood Drink to heal and power his attacks as he struggled against Yanis’s Gillians and Bala. Rei finally killed Yanis with a new technique, then destroyed his mask after Yanis’s last attempt to stab him.

• Hirako and his companions fled from Giant Hollows while Rei battled Yanis, who ordered Gillians to fire Ceros at Rei.
• Rei wounded Yanis and replenished Blood Drink by striking nearby Hollows, but Yanis used Bala and Ceros to keep the sword’s blood groove from filling.
• Rei killed five Gillians as Soul Reapers arrived, while the main force rescued the survivors in Hirako’s group and Yanis retreated toward the forest.
• Rei and Yanis continued fighting in the forest, and Yanis pinned Rei’s sword and left hand before nearly severing Rei’s left arm.
• Rei unleashed a red blade wave that pierced Yanis’s mask and defeated him, then blocked Yanis’s final tail-needle attack and shattered his mask.

After defeating Yanis, Rei discovered that the Green-Skinned Hollow had invaded his body and was trying to possess him. He dislocated and disabled his own left arm, then entered his inner world to confront Yanis with Kurenai.

• Rei told Lieutenant Gosuke and the 11th Division Soul Reapers that he had defeated the Adjuchas, and Gosuke arranged for a Fourth Division medic to heal him.
• Rei settled into a room in the ruined town, where Yanis’s black Reiatsu spread through his left arm while he slept.
• In a dreamlike inner world, Rei watched Kurenai fight a black figure and recognized it as Yanis, the Green-Skinned Hollow he had killed.
• Rei woke to find Yanis controlling his left hand and trying to gouge out his right eye, while Kurenai urged him to enter the inner world.
• Rei dislocated his left arm and severed its tendons to stop it from moving, then sat down with his Zanpakuto to confront Yanis.

Rei and Kurenai suppressed Yanis’s consciousness in Rei’s inner world, but Yanis’s invasion still threatened Rei’s body. Seeking a way to survive, Rei traveled to a nearby town to find people he could use to replenish Blood Drink’s blood supply, and confronted the guards at the Kira House.

• Rei and Kurenai cornered Yanis, exhausted his Reiryoku, and restrained him with Blood Drink’s chain while they whipped him in the inner world.
• Rei returned to his body after spending the night suppressing Yanis and found that the Hollow’s markings had spread from his left palm to his temple.
• Rei decided to replenish Blood Drink’s blood reservoir and then try to destroy Yanis’s consciousness, hoping the Zanpakuto could heal him if his invaded body exploded.
• Rei met Tokisuke, learned that only three people from his group had survived, and asked where to find a vicious gang.
• Tokisuke directed Rei to a town in East Rukongai District 21, where the Kira House supported a gang that preyed on the weak.
• Rei reached the Kira House, removed his cloak after the guards challenged him, and continued through its gates while calling them bastards who deserved to die.

Rei used the blood from Kira House’s guards to power Blood Drink and force Yanis to surrender inside his inner world. After confirming Yanis had discarded his Body Possession ability, Rei discovered he could absorb Reiryoku through his transformed left hand and planned to test it, while knowing the Seireitei would hunt him if it learned he carried a Hollow.

• Rei tied up Kira Kagekiyo, the lady of the house, the guards, and the servants, then dragged them into the dojo and began his ritual.
• Rei cut the guards and servants to fill Blood Drink’s blood gauge, but spared Kira Kagekiyo because his father was a Soul Reaper.
• Rei stabbed Yanis with Blood Drink in his inner world, and Yanis begged for his life and offered to become Rei’s tool.
• Yanis promised to discard the core Reishi of Body Possession and let Rei inspect his memories, then withdrew his consciousness into Rei’s left hand.
• Rei verified that Yanis could no longer take over another body and found that Yanis could devour Hollows and souls to feed him Reiryoku.
• Rei’s left hand gained black markings and a pitch-black index finger that could absorb an opponent’s Reiryoku, and Rei went to find someone to test the ability on.

Rei developed a way to permanently increase his power by devouring Hollow masks and draining souls’ Reiryoku. After discovering that the souls he drained could not recover their Reiryoku, he abandoned his plan to repeatedly drain them and decided to turn their sacrifice into deliverance.

• Rei tested Stinger Devour on Ragged Hollows, then had Yanis modify his left hand into a mouth that could devour Hollow masks while preserving the fingertip’s draining ability.
• Rei traveled to East 22nd District and lured the Idiot Trio away from town after they bullied a child.
• Rei had Yanis drain the Trio’s Reiryoku from their Hakusui and Saketsu, leaving them alive.
• Rei fed the Trio and waited a day, then found that they could no longer regenerate their Reiryoku.
• Rei realized that draining weak souls permanently took away their ability to regain Reiryoku and decided he could turn sacrifice into deliverance.

Rei drained Reiryoku from starving souls across East Rukongai, believing it would let them survive without hunger, until the Seireitei’s Soul Reapers tracked him down. After they attacked him and set the nearby huts ablaze, Rei’s overwhelming Reiatsu surged through the flames.

• Rei drained Reiryoku from more than twenty starving children in East Rukongai 22nd District, and they thanked him before he left and asked them to keep his deeds secret.
• Soul Reapers learned of Rei’s ability and sent investigators after him; Rei continued draining Reiryoku in East Rukongai 23rd District, where a girl misunderstood his offer to end her hunger.
• Rei absorbed the girl’s Reiryoku, then sensed three Soul Reapers surrounding her hut and ordered her to flee.
• The three Soul Reapers demanded Rei surrender, but he drew his Zanpakuto and threatened them; Yamada released Hundred Flying Swallows and set the surrounding huts ablaze.
• The short Soul Reaper and the elderly Soul Reaper attacked Rei while Yamada detonated eighteen flaming birds around him, but a crushing pressure rose from the flames.

Rei fought three seated officers of the Tenth Division and used Blood Drink’s blood-absorbing power to overwhelm them. With Yamada and He Liang gravely wounded and Furukawa’s right hand severed, Rei stood poised to finish the fight.

• Rei released his Shikai and learned that Yamada Ryūki, Furukawa, and He Liang held the Fifth, Fourth, and Third Seats of the Tenth Division.
• Rei charged the officers, wounded Yamada with Blood-Coagulating Piercer, and revealed that Blood Drink absorbed their blood and healed his injuries.
• Rei kept He Liang from leaving Yamada’s side while he fought Furukawa and grew stronger as the officers bled.
• Rei defeated He Liang’s attacks, slashed him badly, and cut through Furukawa’s fully chanted Sōkatsui.
• Furukawa discovered that Rei had severed his right hand.