Chapter Summaries

Old Man Yama fought the Quincy while Grimmjow and other Arrancars arrived to attack the Wandenreich. As Grimmjow was trapped by Wenlai, Yhwach sensed Ryūsaki Ishida and fired a beam of Holy Light toward him.

• Old Man Yama confronted Royd Lloyd, defeated Askin with a slash, and prepared to fight Royd while Nianzol used Bankai.
• Grimmjow emerged from a Garganta, killed Nianzol, and destroyed the missile before its blast tore through the Shadow Domain into Seireitei.
• Grimmjow declared the end of the Quincy and charged toward Silbern, while Ulquiorra, Tier Harribel, Nel, and Yanis led Arrancars into the battle.
• Wenlai entered Vollständig and trapped Grimmjow in a cage of Holy Light as Grimmjow gathered a gigantic Cero.
• Yhwach sensed Ryūsaki Ishida and sent a beam of Holy Light toward him.

Ryūsaki stole Gremmy’s reality-altering ability after Gremmy’s body collapsed, while Yhwach ordered his troops to avoid him and faced an attack by Hueco Mundo’s leaders. Elsewhere, the fighting spread across the battlefield: Zaraki fell unconscious after defeating Driscoll, Yoruichi and Tessai confronted the Bambies, and Mask overwhelmed Ashido and Love as Bazz-B recovered near the fallen Rōjūrō.

• Ryūsaki used Auswählen-resistant Mithril armor to survive Yhwach’s power, stopped Gremmy’s collapse, and took Gremmy’s ability with Sankt Altar.
• Yhwach learned that Ryūsaki had acquired Gremmy’s power and ordered his troops to avoid Ryūsaki; Ulquiorra, Tier Harribel, and a third figure confronted Yhwach, who summoned the Schutzstaffel.
• Ryūsaki left the arena through a Spatial Gate, and Zaraki killed Driscoll before Giselle, Liltotto, Candice, and Meninas attacked him; Yoruichi rescued Zaraki while Tessai struck the four with Black Coffin.
• Renji carried the unconscious Zaraki toward the Temporary Hospital, while Love joined Ashido and Ikkaku in their battle against Mask and James; Mask knocked Love aside and James revived him after Ashido killed him.
• Bazz-B recovered in the ruins after defeating Rōjūrō, while Hachigen and Lisa found Rōjūrō dead and searched for the fire-wielding enemy.

Kensei defeated BG9, while the battle spread across Soul Society as Aizen began creating the Ōken by sacrificing souls and Yamamoto advanced on Yhwach. The chapter ended with Yamamoto facing Yhwach at the Ice Palace.

• Kensei defeated BG9 with Bankai and Hollowfication, then feared that Rose had also died.
• Rukia brought the gravely wounded Byakuya to Unohana for treatment, and Renji arrived carrying Kenpachi Zaraki.
• Ryūsaki returned from his infiltration mission as Aizen captured Kūkaku Shiba and began transforming Tōsen and Yushima Ōshō into Ōken using sacrificed souls.
• Yamamoto defeated Loyd, took Mayuri Kurotsuchi's pill, and headed toward Silbern as Grimmjow broke free and pursued the fighting.
• Harribel fought Pernida, Ulquiorra battled Gerard, and Nel pursued Lille Barro while Sasakibe stopped Lille from shooting Yamamoto.
• Yamamoto arrived at the Ice Palace, where Yhwach rose to meet him and greeted him.

Kyōraku and Robert continued their duel while Old Man Yama fought Yhwach and Haschwalth in the Ice Palace. Old Man Yama released Bankai and summoned the spirits of fallen Quincy, but Yhwach cut them down, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Kyōraku and Robert exchanged attacks as their forces fought elsewhere, and both sensed the clash beginning inside Silbern.
• Old Man Yama’s flames melted the Ice Palace, and he wounded Yhwach while taking a Heilig Pfeil through the abdomen.
• Haschwalth attacked Sasakibe, who fled, while Yhwach challenged Old Man Yama to use his full power.
• Old Man Yama released Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, and Yhwach failed to steal it with his Quincy Medallion.
• Old Man Yama summoned the vengeful spirits of Quincy he had killed, but Yhwach cut them all down with Heilig Pfeil.

Yhwach defeated Yamamoto by taking his power, and the Captain-Commander's death devastated the Soul Reapers as the Wandenreich gave way to the Seireitei. Yhwach ordered the surviving Sternritter to finish their battles and prepare to attack the Soul King Palace, while fighting resumed across the city.

• Gerard celebrated Yhwach's battle, while Ulquiorra maintained that his position had never changed and Lille moved aside to watch.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi emerged near Yoruichi and Tessai as the Quincy forces overwhelmed much of the battlefield, and he welcomed the prospect of collecting materials from the dead.
• Yhwach severed Yamamoto's hand, used Sankt Altar to take his power, and killed him after Yamamoto destroyed Yhwach's severed limb with Hadō #99.
• The Quincy celebrated Yamamoto's death, while Kyōraku lost an eye and the Soul Reaper Captains recovered from their shock; Mayuri warned that the Third Division's leaders had likely defected.
• The Wandenreich's ruined buildings dissolved to reveal the Seireitei, and Yhwach ordered the surviving Sternritter to finish their opponents and attack the Soul King Palace in half an hour.
• Love Aikawa and Hachigen Ushōda resumed fighting Mask de Masculine, with Hachigen's Raikōhō reducing James to ash; NaNaNa Najahkoop's fight against Kaien Shiba and Kōga Kuchiki turned against him as other battles continued near the Fourth Division hospital.

Aizen’s sacrifice transformed Kaname Tōsen and Yushima Ōshō as Urahara urged the Soul King Palace to prepare for several catastrophic outcomes. In the Seireitei, Unohana killed PePe and joined the battle, while Yhwach watched the fighting and reassured himself that Aizen was prepared to ascend to the Soul King Palace.

• Aizen sacrificed more than two hundred thousand souls, transforming Kaname Tōsen and Yushima Ōshō into beings approaching the realm of gods.
• Urahara proposed preparing the ritual in advance, banishing the Soul King’s Inner Palace, and creating a new Soul King because Yhwach and Aizen posed severe threats.
• PePe controlled Rukia and Abarai and attacked Miyako until Unohana arrived and killed him, freeing the two Soul Reapers.
• Unohana asked Miyako to guard the Fourth Division, then hurried toward the fiercest fighting near Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Yhwach temporarily closed The Almighty after seeing that Aizen had prepared to ascend to the Soul King Palace, while the Schutzstaffel’s battles continued nearby.

Grimmjow fought Askin in Silbern, while Lille Barro battled Nel in Seireitei as the fighting intensified. Aizen selected six allies to travel with him toward the Soul King Palace, leaving the rest to attack Seireitei and hold off the Soul Reapers and Quincy.

• Grimmjow repeatedly blasted and battered Askin, but Askin survived and eventually poisoned him with The Deathdealing.
• Lille Barro wounded Nel with The X-Axis, but she countered with Gamuza and discovered he could let attacks pass through his body by opening his left eye.
• Jugram Haschwalth stood beside Yhwach after killing Chōjirō Sasakibe, while the battles against Ulquiorra and Tier Harribel grew more serious.
• Aizen asked Tōsen and Yushima how their new power felt, then chose Tōsen, Yushima, Ginjo, Ryūsaki, Szayelaporro, and Amagai to accompany him.
• Aizen left the remaining fighters to attack Seireitei and hold off the Soul Reapers and Quincy as Kūkaku Shiba launched the group toward the Soul King Palace in the Tenchūren.

Grimmjow used his evolved destruction power to kill Askin, while Yhwach prepared a Magic Circle and ordered the Schutzstaffel to assemble. At the Soul King Palace’s barriers, Ryūsaki used Imagination to erase the first barrier and offered to clear a path for Aizen’s group.

• Grimmjow’s Resurrección healed him, and his destruction power erased Askin’s Poison Ring before Grimmjow crushed Askin’s heart.
• Askin’s dying Poison Domain spread deadly poison, forcing Grimmjow to flee and use destruction to purge the poison from his body.
• Yhwach learned that Askin had died, ordered Jugram Haschwalth to gather the Schutzstaffel, and began drawing a Magic Circle with the power of three hundred Holy Soldiers.
• Nel, Tier Harribel, and Ulquiorra saw their opponents escape through the Shadow Domain or with Jugram Haschwalth’s intervention.
• Aizen’s group reached the Soul King Palace’s barriers, but the Imitation Tenchūren broke apart and left them falling.
• Ryūsaki imagined a flying disc, then erased a barrier by imagining it had never existed and offered to clear a path ahead.

The Soul Reapers and Quincies resumed their battered battle as Aizen’s attack on the Soul King Palace became known, while Yhwach prepared to advance. Ryūsaki’s group reached a strange spatial barrier and found Kisuke Urahara waiting for Aizen.

• Yoruichi and the others saw the Hanakaku Cannon launch toward the Soul King Palace, and Mayuri revealed that Sōsuke Aizen had been hiding and was attacking it.
• Bambietta’s fight with Kyōraku continued as Mask charged Hirako, and the Captains and Tōshirō activated their Bankai against the Quincies.
• Giselle summoned the Zombies As Nodt, Soi Fon, and Sajin Komamura, while Yoruichi destroyed Driscoll with Shunkō and Retsu Unohana arrived to attack NaNaNa Najahkoop.
• The Sekki-seki gate opened as more fighters entered Seireitei, and Yhwach summoned additional Holy Soldiers to speed up his preparations.
• Ryūsaki’s group passed through the barriers and entered a starry spatial Barrier, where Aizen called out Kisuke Urahara.
• Urahara emerged from the darkness in a Zero Division haori and greeted Aizen.

Urahara and the Zero Division trapped Aizen’s group in the Infinite Sin Domain, where Aizen began fighting Ichibē Hyōsube. In Seireitei, Ulquiorra and the others withdrew on Ryūsaki’s orders as a new force attacked, and Ulquiorra prepared to locate Ryūsaki and open a Garganta.

• Urahara, Ōetsu Nimaiya, and Kirio Hikifune confronted Aizen’s group and activated the Infinite Sin Domain, dividing the intruders into separate spaces.
• Szayelaporro analyzed the domain’s ability to absorb Reiatsu, while Ginjo, Ryūsaki, and Szayelaporro were trapped with Urahara.
• Aizen fought Ichibē Hyōsube, endured the weakening effect of Ichimonji through the Hōgyoku, and activated Kyōka Suigetsu.
• In Seireitei, Ulquiorra stopped Nel from attacking Yhwach’s array and led her and Tier Harribel away on Ryūsaki’s orders.
• Yhwach and Haschwalth discussed the Arrancar’s withdrawal as a force in white robes charged through Seireitei, attacking Quincies and Soul Reapers alike.
• Ulquiorra told Harribel that Ryūsaki had ordered them to locate him and prepare to open a Garganta.

Rudbornn Chelute’s army attacked Seireitei as four resurrected Soul Reaper Captains fought the Quincy guarding the array. At the Soul King Palace, Ryūsaki escaped Urahara’s battle and reached the Monk’s Detached Palace, where the Seal was hidden.

• Rudbornn Chelute sent his army against Seireitei, and Kyōraku and Bambi cleared out Skeleton Soldiers before Rudbornn confronted Bambi.
• Shigyō Nobutsuna, Sakazaki Saizō, Shuren, and Kokuto appeared by the array and attacked the Schutzstaffel and the Holy Soldiers protecting it.
• Urahara fought Ginjo, Szayelaporro, and Starrk in the Infinite Sin Domain while Ryūsaki used his power to open a passage out.
• Ryūsaki emerged among the Zero Division Detached Palaces and followed Rei’s presence toward the Soul King’s Inner Palace.
• Ryūsaki defeated four Third-Level Divine Soldiers and reached the Monk’s Detached Palace, where the Seal was hidden.

Ryūsaki reached the Underground Prison while the Monk fought the Arrancar and Aizen, but the Monk arrived too late to stop the Seal from breaking. Nangong Ling emerged, and his release sent tremors through the Three Worlds, alarming Urahara, Aizen, and Yhwach.

• Ryūsaki's Arrancar allies rescued him from the Third-Level Divine Soldiers and held them off as he rushed toward the temple and the Seal.
• The Monk escaped Aizen's Infinite Sin Domain, while Aizen dissolved the rings restraining him and wondered what had happened outside.
• Yhwach ordered the Schutzstaffel and Jugram Haschwalth to use Vollständig as his Magic Circle neared completion.
• Urahara released his evolved Bankai, Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame, and trapped Ginjo, Szayelaporro, and Starrk beneath cages as meteors fell.
• The Monk reached the Underground Prison and killed Ryūsaki's apparent body, but Nangong Ling emerged from the shattered Seal.
• Nangong Ling's appearance rippled the space of the Three Worlds, and Urahara, Kirio Hikifune, Ōetsu Nimaiya, Aizen, and Yhwach sensed the disturbance.

Rei defeated the Monk and the other Zero Division members, then led the Arrancar toward the Soul King's Inner Palace to complete a crucial step. Aizen escaped the Infinite Sin Domain and found that Zero Division had disappeared.

• Rei revealed that he had absorbed Mimihagi, crushed the Monk's throat, and watched him regenerate.
• Tier Harribel, Grimmjow, Nel, and Ulquiorra reunited with Rei as the Monk summoned Kisuke Urahara, Ōetsu Nimaiya, and Kirio Hikifune.
• The Zero Division members trapped Rei in a sealed space, but Rei shattered it and used Stillness and a chain to immobilize them and take the Monk's heart.
• Rei bound the Monk and the other Zero Division members, then took the Arrancar toward the Soul King's Inner Palace, leaving Aizen inside the Infinite Sin Domain.
• Aizen escaped the domain and searched the Soul King Palace, finding Zero Division gone; Yushima then emerged with Tōsen and Amagai through a spatial opening.

Rei absorbed the Soul King’s power, causing the world’s Reiryoku lines to snap and the Soul King’s Inner Palace to collapse. As Aizen fought Rei’s guards, Rei sent him crashing through the barriers beneath the palace.

• Rei brought his subordinates before the Soul King and learned that Yhwach had formed from the Soul King’s blood after his dismemberment and sealing.
• Rei absorbed the Soul King’s power through Blood Drink, which became an independent Divine Artifact as the Soul King and his crystal vanished.
• The Soul King’s death snapped the world’s Reiryoku lines, and Rei sent his five guards to confront Aizen and the others.
• Ulquiorra entered his Hōgyoku Form and fought Aizen, but Aizen overpowered him and advanced toward the Soul King’s chamber.
• Rei used a giant red palm to smash the Inner Palace and drive Aizen through the barriers below the palace.

Yhwach and his followers tried to reach the Soul King Palace, but Nangong Ling struck them down with a gigantic Reishi palm that also devastated Seireitei. Aizen evolved after surviving the blow and proposed joining forces with Yhwach, just as Nangong Ling appeared.

• Kokuto fled as the Togabito were defeated, and Lille Barro killed Shūji Naobu, leaving Yhwach free to ascend.
• Yhwach and four followers rode a Reishi disk toward the Soul King Palace, but a gigantic red palm smashed through the barrier and drove them back to Seireitei.
• The palm devastated the battlefield, while Lille Barro, Gerard, Jugram Haschwalth, Pernida, Yhwach, and Aizen survived; Aizen was badly injured.
• Aizen evolved after the blow and told Yhwach that Nangong Ling, the New Soul King, had knocked him down.
• Aizen proposed that he and Yhwach join forces, but Nangong Ling appeared and questioned Aizen about gaining an ally so quickly.

Rei revealed himself as the new Soul King, and Yhwach and Aizen joined forces to attack him. Rei overwhelmed them, shattered the Hōgyoku, and watched as Aizen reformed into human shape.

• Rei told Yhwach that the previous Soul King had given him his power, and Yhwach agreed with Aizen to overthrow him.
• Aizen used Kyōka Suigetsu while Yhwach attacked Rei, but Rei blocked Yhwach’s arrow, caught Aizen’s slash, and shattered Kyōka Suigetsu.
• Rei struck Yhwach with the Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon and blasted him into the Seireitei wall, while Aizen’s Radiant Ruin carved a vast crater around Rei.
• Rei cut down Yhwach, immobilized Aizen with Stillness, and hit the Hōgyoku with Reishi Annihilation.
• Aizen crumbled into Reishi and vanished as the Hōgyoku shattered, but he soon gathered back into human form.

Rei confronted the resurrected and evolving Aizen and Yhwach, using The Almighty to expose Yhwach’s origins and weaken him. Rei then struck Aizen through a Seal on the Hōgyoku, but Aizen reappeared unharmed as space cracked.

• The Hōgyoku resurrected Aizen and began evolving him as Yhwach used Auswählen to drain the surviving Quincy across the Seireitei.
• Aizen deduced how the Hōgyoku had shaped his and Rei’s evolution, while Yhwach recognized Rei’s connection to Ryūsaki Ishida and tried to alter the past.
• Rei blocked Yhwach’s attempt to reach his past self, showed him his origins and the former Soul King’s plan, and left Yhwach weakened after he escaped Rei’s mental world.
• Aizen used Bankai, Kyōka Suigetsu False Life, but Rei’s Seal severed the Hōgyoku’s connection to him, and Rei’s sword drained Aizen’s life force.
• Aizen fell, but a crack rang through space and the dead Aizen vanished as an unharmed Aizen appeared.

Rei defeated Aizen and captured Yhwach, sealing them and the Hōgyoku after explaining that his power as the New Soul King surpassed theirs. When the Gotei 13 Captains arrived, Rei told Kyōraku that the Zero Division had been wiped out but remained alive.

• Rei foresaw Aizen's Bankai, which let him negate unfavorable realities, and killed him despite Aizen's repeated attempts to revive himself.
• Rei halted Yhwach with Stillness, destroyed his Sankt Altar, and captured him with a chain that pierced his heart.
• Aizen unleashed the Ultimate Radiant Blast against Soul Society, but Rei erased it with Reishi Annihilation and sealed the Hōgyoku again.
• Rei made Aizen forget his Bankai's name, then explained that Aizen and Yhwach could not surpass him after he devoured the Soul King.
• Aizen asked Rei to execute him, but Rei decided to trap him and the Hōgyoku between life and death to supply Soul Society's remote regions.
• Kyōraku and Unohana arrived with the Gotei 13 Captains, and Rei confirmed that the Zero Division had been wiped out but kept alive.

Rei took over as the New Soul King, reformed Soul Society, and transformed Hueco Mundo into a habitable world. Twenty years later, the Age of Balance had brought technological growth and new financial burdens, and Rei left Spirit Communication City for the World of the Living after hearing Yuki complain.

• Rei revealed the truth about the former Soul King, won the Captains’ support, and ordered the Togabito eliminated from Hell.
• Rei killed Yushima Oko, detained Szayelaporro and Aizen, and assigned the surviving Zero Division members to build a new city and maintain the Three Worlds’ balance.
• Rei created a sun, ocean, vegetation, and five safe cities in Hueco Mundo, giving Yanis, Ulquiorra, Nel, Harribel, and Grimmjow responsibility for order there.
• Rei established Spirit Communication City, stripped the nobles of their privileges, created the Justice Squad, and appointed Kyōraku Captain-Commander.
• Over the next twenty years, Mayuri’s technology and new industries transformed Soul Society, while Rei imprisoned dangerous enemies and devised a way for Quincy to purify rather than destroy Hollows.
• In Langyun, Yuki complained about his housing installments, and Rei heard him from Spirit Communication City and set off for the World of the Living.