Original God, But It's a Chat Group

This smile made the Sage of Six Paths feel that something was off, but he still chose to attack.

The black Truth-Seeking Orbs instantly changed shape, turning into spikes that pierced through Aizen Sousuke's body. Yet the pierced Aizen Sousuke slowly dissipated under the Sage of Six Paths' gaze.

"Hmm? An afterimage!"

The Sage of Six Paths immediately raised a hand.

"Shinra Tensei!"

A massive repulsive force rapidly spread outward with the Sage of Six Paths at its center. The powerful shockwave directly blasted away Aizen Sousuke, who had appeared behind him.

"Repulsion, huh? It really packs quite a punch."

Aizen Sousuke, who had been pushed away, adjusted his glasses and remained utterly calm.

The Sage of Six Paths pointed his free left hand at Aizen Sousuke. The black Truth-Seeking Orbs appeared beside Aizen Sousuke again, this time directly forming an encirclement around him.

"Though you are fast, it is not a spatial ability. Once you are surrounded, you will not escape!"

"Is that so?"

Crack—

Aizen Sousuke swung Illusion, cutting a huge gap through the encirclement formed by the Truth-Seeking Orbs, then leisurely walked out.

"He can actually cut through Truth-Seeking Orbs!"

The Sage of Six Paths could not help looking at Illusion in Aizen Sousuke's hand. A strange light flickered across its blade.

What exactly was this sword? This was the sword that had injured him before as well. A sword capable of hurting souls—how had it been forged? Or was it actually some kind of special technique?

"A blade with a special ability, then. But you yourself cannot defend against my Truth-Seeking Orbs."

"Cannot defend? Then I shall simply attack."

Aizen Sousuke raised his left hand.

"Hadō #63: Raigō Hō."

Golden lightning burst from Aizen Sousuke's hand and flew toward the Sage of Six Paths.

The black Truth-Seeking Orbs instantly unfolded before the Sage of Six Paths, forming a shield to block it.

A massive lightning explosion erupted. Even the Sage of Six Paths, hiding behind the shield, was startled by the powerful impact, for some of the lightning blasts had curved around the shield and directly burned his arm.

This was not Ninjutsu! And... sixty-three? That meant there were even higher-numbered spells!

He could not be allowed to use them!

The Sage of Six Paths clenched his left hand toward Aizen Sousuke. A massive attractive force dragged Aizen Sousuke straight toward him, while the Truth-Seeking Orbs returned to their original forms before transforming into spikes and launching another attack.

Aizen Sousuke swung Illusion, repeatedly cutting apart the incoming Truth-Seeking Orbs. He barely held off their assault, yet could not stop his body from being pulled toward the Sage of Six Paths.

Lightning Release!

As Aizen Sousuke drew near, powerful lightning burst from the Sage of Six Paths' palm. Aizen Sousuke slashed backward, cutting apart the lightning, but once he had done so, what greeted him was a black Tin Staff.

Aizen Sousuke hurriedly raised Illusion to block it, but having just cut apart the Lightning Release, he could only barely defend himself. He failed to notice that the Sage of Six Paths' left hand had already pressed against his chest.

"Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei!"

"Nani!"

Aizen Sousuke finally revealed a panicked expression.

A massive attractive force erupted with Aizen Sousuke at its center. The ground of the Pure Land was torn apart, then gathered toward him.

Aizen Sousuke swung his sword, pulverizing the flying chunks of earth, but new massive chunks kept flying toward him. He had no time to destroy them all. After struggling for a while, Aizen Sousuke finally could not resist any longer and was forcibly enclosed by gigantic masses of earth, which eventually merged into an enormous sphere over ten thousand meters wide floating in the sky of the Pure Land.

Looking at the massive sphere in the sky, the Sage of Six Paths let out a sigh of relief. He had created a moon outside the Earth, and now he had created another moon within the Pure Land.

But the Sage of Six Paths did not relax.

"Who exactly is he... That so-called Bleach is definitely a lie."

"No, it is not. My name is Aizen Sousuke, and I truly am a Bleach."

A voice suddenly answered from behind the Sage of Six Paths. He widened his eyes in horror, but he could not resist, because a blade was already piercing out through his chest.

"Sage of Six Paths, I did not lie."

Naruto, I Will No Longer Be Human!

The Sage of Six Paths, who had lived for a thousand years, ultimately fell beneath Aizen Sousuke's blade. After Aizen Sousuke pierced his chest with a single strike, all of his soul was absorbed by Aizen Sousuke's Hōgyoku.

This ancestor of ninjas, who had hidden in the Pure Land for a thousand years, was about to become Aizen Sousuke's research subject.

"Chakra was absorbed together with the soul. How fascinating. It is born from the soul, supports the soul, and follows the soul. And there is even a place like the Pure Land."

Aizen Sousuke held the Hōgyoku in his palm. Though it was merely an inferior version he had created himself, not fused with Kisuke Urahara's Hōgyoku to reach its future perfect state, this Hōgyoku could still accomplish most of what a perfect Hōgyoku could.

Putting away the Hōgyoku, Aizen Sousuke looked up at the massive moon in the sky.

The Sage of Six Paths had created this moon right before his eyes. Though the Sage of Six Paths had been easily controlled by his Illusion, Aizen Sousuke still thought this sealing technique was rather good.

Unfortunately, Aizen Sousuke had information provided by Li Yue, while the Sage of Six Paths knew nothing about Aizen Sousuke. This was the absolute advantage brought about by the information gap.

If the Sage of Six Paths had known information about Aizen Sousuke, then with the infinite Chakra he commanded here in the Pure Land, continuously unleashing wide-range Ninjutsu attacks, Aizen Sousuke truly would have found it troublesome.

Unfortunately, there were no ifs.

Li Yue was a good brother. If he had something good, he really shared it with you!

After inwardly marveling at how friendly Li Yue was toward his fellow Chat Group members, Aizen Sousuke set foot on the land of the Pure Land again. He had promised Li Yue that he would take away Senju Hashirama's soul to prevent Senju Hashirama from being revived through Impure World Reincarnation. Now that the Sage of Six Paths was in hand, Senju Hashirama was next!

While Aizen Sousuke stirred up wind and rain in the Pure Land, Li Yue was also preparing special training for Sasuke in Konoha.

To be honest, Li Yue knew absolutely nothing about Ninjutsu, because he had no Chakra!

The Bleach world emphasized overwhelming power. Challenging someone above your level was incredibly difficult, and once the gap between levels grew too large, there was simply no way to fight back. A single burst of Reiatsu could completely nullify your abilities and attacks. Even if the opponent stood there and let you cut them, you still could not break their defense.

Of course, even so, Li Yue still felt that Bleach were glass cannons. In battles between opponents of equal strength, Bleach were constantly getting one-shotted. There were far too many cases of Captain level fighters being killed in one strike by their peers. That was also why he wanted to improve his defense.

Ninjas, however, were different. The foundation of ninja combat was Chakra, but ninjas themselves truly were glass cannons. Aside from the Raikage family, whose secret techniques trained their bodies to be exceptionally powerful, and freaks with Adepti bodies like Senju Hashirama, most ninjas died the moment they were hit.

You might be powerful one second, only to get stabbed to death by a passing genin with a kunai the next.

Therefore, Li Yue did not intend to teach Sasuke how to use a ninja's power.

With Aizen Sousuke beside him, Li Yue intended to make Sasuke into a Bleach!

When the time came, Sasuke would be a Bleach while Blondie remained a ninja. If the two fought again, it would truly be Bleach versus Hokage.

"What should I do?"

At the training ground within the Uchiha clan compound, Sasuke stood in the center of the field and looked up at Li Yue.

"Do you know why I am so strong?"

Rather than answering Sasuke, Li Yue asked a question.

Sasuke frowned.

"Why?"

"Back when I met Indra, I was merely an ordinary human. I had no Chakra, much less Ninjutsu. But Indra admired me greatly and became my good friend."

Li Yue seemed to be reminiscing about the past, his expression exceptionally gentle.

"Then one day, the inherently evil Asura appeared before Indra and rebelled against his elder brother. Indra crushed Asura in that battle, but he did not kill him, because Indra was proud. He believed that as long as he was around, Asura could not stir up any trouble."

Sasuke inwardly approved greatly of his ancestor.

Yes, that really was the kind of thing an ancestor of the Uchiha clan would do, because the Uchiha clan was just that proud!

"I trusted Indra, but I did not trust Asura, so I felt that someone had to keep Asura in check."

"At the time, I was merely a weak ordinary human. Even after I gained Chakra, I still could not contend with Asura at all. Whenever Indra purged those inherently evil Asura Clan members, I could only watch from the side."

"As Indra gradually grew old, the ninja world became increasingly chaotic because of the inherently evil Asura Clan. I gradually came to understand a truth!"

"What truth?"

"Temporary strength is useless. Even beings as powerful as the Sage of Six Paths and Indra would die of old age. They possessed such immense power, yet could not extend their own lives. The ninja world, which had once been peaceful, instead became chaotic because of their power. If they could have lived forever, the ninja world would have remained stable for a long time!"

"Therefore, I decided to stop being human!"

"Ah?"

Sasuke stared blankly at Li Yue, who had suddenly spread his arms, tilted back his head, and shouted.

"I abandoned the power of ninjas and chose to become a Bleach!"

"A Bleach?"

"That is right! Abandon the frail flesh and gain a powerful soul. The body dies, but the soul does not! That is why I have survived for over a thousand years, watching over you trash descendants on Indra's behalf!"

Could he stop mixing personal attacks into his speech?

Sasuke's eye twitched.

"So, if you want me to help you become stronger, there is only one way: become a Bleach like me!"

"What is a Bleach?"

Sasuke did not care whether the power he gained would make him a ninja or not, but he at least needed to know what it was.

"A Bleach is this!"

Li Yue suddenly drew his sword and struck Sasuke on the head with its hilt.

Sasuke's soul was directly forced out of his body.

However, unlike Li Yue, souls in the Hokage world were filled with Chakra, so they appeared blue, making Sasuke look exactly like a little blue man.

"This is..."

In his soul state, Sasuke looked at his blue body. Souls had no consciousness in the Pure Land, yet in reality they retained some degree of consciousness. It was rather strange. Soul Sasuke saw another version of himself lying on the ground beside him and froze for a moment.

"Right now, you are in a soul state. That is your body."

Unlike people in the Bleach world, whose souls remained connected to their bodies by chains after leaving them, when souls in the Hokage world left their bodies, they truly left them. In other words—

"You are already dead!"

"Nani!"

Sasuke's eyes widened.

No, he wanted to gain power, not die once right away!

"To become a Bleach, you must first die once. Only after transforming your soul into a Bleach can you live again!"

As Li Yue spoke, he clenched his left hand, forming a Spiritual Blade condensed from spiritual power.

Aizen Sousuke was a good foster father. If you wanted to learn something, he truly taught you!

"Next, you must absorb this power and become a Bleach!"

With that, he stabbed the Spiritual Blade into Sasuke's soul.

Blue light blossomed across the Uchiha training ground!

It Was Style Points, I Added Style Points!

A black Shinigami uniform, white socks, and straw sandals.

Bleach Sasuke made his grand entrance!

"So this is... a Bleach?"

Sasuke looked at himself. His body had changed from blue back to its normal color, and he even had an extra set of clothes.

So why did becoming a Bleach automatically come with an extra outfit, while students at the Soul Society academy could only become Bleach after graduating, joining the Seireitei, and receiving their Shinigami uniforms?

Looking at Sasuke in a Shinigami uniform, Li Yue could not help pondering it. It had been the same when he became a Bleach, and it had been the same when Ichigo became a Bleach. Everyone who became a Bleach outside automatically received a Shinigami uniform, while those trainee Bleach obediently wore school uniforms even after awakening their Zanpakuto.

"I have become a Bleach, right?"

After getting used to his body for a moment, Sasuke looked up at Li Yue.

"That is right. You have become a Bleach."

Then Li Yue pointed at Sasuke's body nearby.

"Now, you can get back into your body."

"How do I get back?"