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Teacher Unohana swiftly healed her injuries, though she did not completely erase the scars. "You've passed the assessment. You can graduate from the True Spirit Arts Academy now."

She walked over to Lu Li and picked up the arm she had severed. "Let me handle it. Your Healing Kidō still isn't good enough."

As she spoke, she reattached Lu Li's arm and began using Healing Kidō to restore it.

Lu Li had to admit that Unohana far surpassed him in the field of Healing Kidō. In just a few breaths, his arm had grown back. He moved it a little and found no lingering effects.

"Thank you for going easy on me, Teacher Unohana."

Lu Li said.

"Oh? I didn't go easy on you. You truly won that final move."

Unohana retied her hair into its original style, then glanced at the Japanese-style room that had been reduced to a complete mess. Her head ached a little. She had thought the battle would end quickly, but it had turned out like this. It seemed she would inevitably get scolded by the old man afterward.

"When I was injured several times during the fight, Teacher Unohana didn't press the advantage either, did you?"

Lu Li grinned. "If you'd kept pushing me at those moments, I might not have lasted until Shikai before losing."

Although he had told Aizen that he had grasped some of the tricks to Shikai, he had not been one hundred percent certain he could release it before. In the end, he had followed his instincts and taken a gamble, barely succeeding.

It was not that he could only fight when he was at death's door. Rather, if he entered that resonant state like before and lost consciousness, then he would truly have been doomed.

That was why he had first chosen to fight Unohana without using Shikai. Yet the conclusion he reached after their battle was that if he could not use Shikai, his chances of defeating Unohana were far too slim.

"A win is a win. And have you forgotten something?"

Unohana straightened her clothes, seeming to return to the gentle, beautiful Captain of the Fourth Division everyone knew from everyday life. "This is my examination hall, not my hunting ground."

Lu Li froze at that. "Come to think of it... Teacher Unohana, what exactly were the passing requirements for this assessment?"

Unohana wore a gentle smile. "Didn't I say? As long as you lasted ten minutes without dying against me, you passed."

Lu Li: ???

You never said that!

Thinking back carefully, Captain Unohana had already stopped attacking before he released his Zanpakuto.

At the time, he had thought Unohana had become excited by the sight of worthy prey and wanted to see how he would change. Calculating roughly, had he already passed by then? Was that why Teacher Unohana had stopped attacking?

Then he released his Zanpakuto, got carried away, and continued fighting Teacher Unohana until they decided the victor...

"Not only did you pass, but I'm personally giving you full marks. Don't worry. Tomorrow, you'll become a member of the Gotei 13."

Unohana said with a smile. She walked to the door and slid it open, then stepped out of the examination hall beneath Lu Li's bewildered gaze.

Lasting ten minutes without dying under the attacks of a captain-class figure was the assessment standard set by the Captain-Commander. But Unohana had to admit that she had gotten a little carried away midway through.

If Lu Li had not displayed new power through his Shikai, she would most likely have genuinely "slipped up" and killed him during the battle that had gone beyond the time limit.

After seeing that Unohana had left, Lu Li lowered his head and looked at the only remaining piece of cloth that could still preserve his modesty. He let out a long breath.

The moment Unohana vanished, he heard the prompt from End Space, informing him that the Main Quest had been completed.

He had obtained the qualification to return. Since the predetermined stay for this mission was only three months, he could remain in the Shinigami world for at most another two days. If he overstayed, End Space would forcibly pull him back.

Lu Li lowered his head and looked at Prison Demon. Although its Shikai had already been released, its appearance had still changed to some extent because it had transformed from an Asauchi into his exclusive Zanpakuto.

Vine-like engravings had appeared on the originally silver-white blade, while the plain white hilt had turned purple-black. The entire weapon gave off a mysterious and dangerous feeling.

When he used the space's appraisal function again, its information had changed.

Prison Demon

Origin: Shinigami (Derivative World No. 401118)

Rarity: Rare

Main Weapon: Bladed Weapon

Durability: 60/60

Sharpness: 20

Toughness: 20

Details: A Zanpakuto forged when Explorer No. 40440404 infused their soul into an Asauchi. Automatically bound. This equipment cannot be sold or traded, and other users cannot activate this weapon.

Weapon Skill 1 (Passive): Soul Nourishment

Skill Description: After the Explorer uses Prison Demon to kill an enemy, it will devour a small amount of the enemy's soul power to nourish Prison Demon, thereby increasing its growth potential. The Explorer may also feed Prison Demon with their own soul. This method can provide extremely high growth potential. (Warning: This method is extremely dangerous.)

Current Growth Progress: 0%

Weapon Skill 2 (Active): Shikai

Skill Description: After releasing Shikai, the Explorer's Soul Source will be continuously consumed, manifesting the form of Prison Demon. While in the Shikai state, the Explorer's overall combat attributes temporarily increase by 2 points, and neural reflex speed receives a certain boost. At the same time, Prison Demon's sharpness and toughness increase.

When Prison Demon damages an enemy, it also applies an Erosion effect. Enemies afflicted with Erosion have their natural recovery speed reduced by 10% and lose Erosion damage equal to 10% of this attack's maximum damage every second. The Erosion effect lasts 5S, and Erosion effects on the same wound can stack.

Cooldown: None

Rating: 100+ (30–100)

Evaluation: A Demon God is imprisoned within your heart.

After his Zanpakuto awakened, it had become his exclusive growth-type main weapon, and all of its values had improved by leaps and bounds. The effects after Shikai were also simple and brutal. He could regard the attribute boost as an increase to Reiatsu in this world.

The ten percent healing reduction might not seem like much, but it would have remarkable effects against enemies with powerful recovery abilities. During his earlier fight with Unohana, even her Healing Kidō speed had been affected. That Erosion damage over time was also fierce, equivalent to each of his strikes gaining a fifty percent delayed damage increase.

Most importantly, there was no cooldown on triggering this effect. That meant that in a prolonged battle, the damage he inflicted on an enemy would accumulate into something increasingly terrifying, until the enemy's health collapsed past the critical point.

During his battle with Unohana just now, not all his attributes had increased by two points. The main reason was the suppression of the force field here, which prevented him from breaking through the "Sixteenth Grade" Reiatsu limit. In a free state, he could unleash even greater combat power.

As for the space's ratings, over the past few months, Lu Li had learned the general ranges from the information End Space already provided.

With his current authority, the equipment quality grades he knew of were: Broken, Gray-White, Fine, and Rare. Anything above that was unknown.

Broken equipment was basically trash, with a rating of 0. Gray-White equipment was rated from 1 to 10, Fine equipment from 11 to 30, while Rare equipment had a much wider rating range.

Prison Demon was currently rated as a Rare-grade piece of equipment with a full score. By his analysis, it counted as a fairly good piece of equipment among novice Explorers.

After examining Prison Demon's attributes, Lu Li walked out of the examination hall and discovered that someone was already waiting outside.

It was Aizen, holding a fresh set of clothes.