Chapter Summaries

Lu Li brought Ichigo Kurosaki to the Spirit King Palace while Aizen revealed his strength against the Sternritter in the Seireitei. After disarming Nimaiya Oetsu, Lu Li asked him to reforge Ichigo’s Zanpakuto.

• Yamamoto trapped Yhwach's double with his Bankai while Kenpachi Zaraki fought through the Quincy army.
• Aizen arrived to aid Komamura Sajin, defeated Bambietta and Candice, and trapped Meninas with Black Coffin.
• Lu Li brought Ichigo Kurosaki to the Spirit King Palace and explained that the Soul King was probably the first Quincy.
• Nimaiya Oetsu confronted Lu Li and drew Sayafushi, but Lu Li swiftly took the Zanpakuto from him.
• Lu Li returned Sayafushi to its water tank and told Oetsu to reforge Ichigo's Zanpakuto.

Lu Li confronted Nimaiya Oetsu over Ichigo's broken Zanpakuto and Inoue's detention, then turned Oetsu's attempt to exploit Prison Demon's backdoor against him. After controlling Oetsu to help Ichigo reforge Zangetsu, Lu Li faced the other Zero Division members and demanded to know why they had kept Inoue.

• Oetsu refused to reforge Ichigo's Zanpakuto and claimed Inoue was being kept safe in the Spirit King Palace, prompting Ichigo to demand to see her.
• Lu Li seized Oetsu, who tried to use a Zanpakuto backdoor to control Prison Demon, but his consciousness was dragged into its terrifying inner space and he collapsed in agony.
• Lu Li used his ocular power to control Oetsu and sent Ichigo with him to forge a new Zangetsu, while Lu Li went to find Inoue.
• Tenjirō Kirinji, Kirio Hikifune, and Shutara Senjumaru confronted Lu Li on the western plaza and urged him to avoid fighting during Yhwach's invasion.
• Lu Li demanded to know what Zero Division intended to do with Inoue, and Hikifune insisted they had no intention of harming her.

Lu Li defeated Shutara and Kirio Hikifune after they attacked him in the Spirit King Palace, then declared his intention to change the Three Realms. He continued toward the Soul King's chambers, where Ichibei Hyōsube confronted him.

• Shutara unleashed her Bankai and trapped Lu Li in a series of deadly weaving worlds, while Kirio Hikifune joined the attack.
• Lu Li used Bankai—Demon Advent to tear apart Shutara's Bankai and kill her with a single slash.
• Kirio Hikifune attacked Lu Li, but Lu Li wounded him fatally; Kirio Hikifune urged Lu Li to turn back, and he refused.
• Lu Li told Kirio Hikifune that the Three Realms' rules should change and that its broken systems were no longer needed.
• Lu Li reached the Soul King's chambers, where Ichibei Hyōsube questioned his ambitions and explained why he had not intervened to save the other Zero Division members.

Lu Li confronted Ichibei Hyōsube at the Soul King's palace after discovering that Ichibei intended to make Orihime Inoue create a replacement Soul King. Ichibei attacked Lu Li with his name-based powers, but Lu Li endured the Unreturnable All-Killing Mausoleum through repeated destruction and reconstruction, leaving Ichibei shocked as the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared behind him.

• Lu Li accused Ichibei Hyōsube of guarding his position and learned that Ichibei planned to make Orihime Inoue help create a new Soul King.
• Orihime Inoue warned Lu Li that Ichibei intended to turn him into a replacement, while Lu Li challenged the logic of installing a Soul King without defeating Yhwach.
• Ichibei released Ichimonji and attacked as Lu Li activated his buffs, raised his attributes into the Seventh Order, and unleashed devastating blade intent across the Spirit King Palace.
• Ichibei chanted and used Unreturnable All-Killing Mausoleum to disintegrate Lu Li, but Lu Li's body repeatedly reconstructed as Spirit Particles gathered around him.
• Lu Li stepped toward Ichibei and revealed the phantom of the Six Paths of Reincarnation behind him.

Lu Li used his Asura Path power to battle Ichibei Hyōsube, who erased the color from the world and renamed him Black Ant. After revealing that he had used a Shadow Clone, Lu Li fought Ichibei head-on and overwhelmed him with an inexhaustible sea of lightning, leaving the monk near death.

• Lu Li activated Six Paths Reincarnation’s Asura Path, boosting his damage as Ichibei Hyōsube unveiled Shinuchi. Shirufude Ichimonji.
• Ichibei erased red from the world and wrote “Black Ant” on Lu Li, then sent him falling from the Spirit King Palace.
• Lu Li’s falling body proved to be a Shadow Clone, and his true body pierced Ichibei’s shoulder with Prison Demon.
• Lu Li charged Ichibei directly, but Shirufude Ichimonji failed to alter Prison Demon’s name and suffered a backlash.
• Lu Li filled the Spirit King Palace with lightning and Thunder Beasts, exhausting Ichibei as his injuries and damage mounted.
• Lu Li’s Thunder Beasts devoured Ichibei Hyōsube’s last trace of Life Source.

Lu Li killed Ichibei Hyōsube, entered the Soul King's palace, and extracted a World Core fragment after promising the Soul King he would preserve the Three Realms while creating a more stable world. He prepared Ichibei's body as a possible replacement lynchpin, then went to the Phoenix Palace, where Ichigo was still struggling to make the Asauchi submit.

• Lu Li killed Ichibei Hyōsube a second time, leaving no trace of his true spirit.
• Lu Li entered the Soul King's palace with Orihime Inoue, learned she had located five of the Soul King's body parts, and stored them away.
• Lu Li communicated with the Soul King, promised to protect the Three Realms, and extracted a World Core fragment without killing him.
• Lu Li fused the Soul King's legs into Ichibei's spiritual body to prepare a possible replacement lynchpin.
• Lu Li arrived at the Phoenix Palace and told Ōetsu to stop Ichigo Kurosaki's training because Ichigo still could not make the Asauchi submit.

Lu Li sent Ichigo Kurosaki back to the Living World to speak with his father and strengthen his resolve, then headed to the Seireitei to aid Head Captain Yamamoto. Yhwach revealed that he had anticipated Lu Li’s arrival and trapped him with the Royal Guard, where Lu Li prepared to fight his way out.

• Lu Li sent Ichigo Kurosaki and Orihime through Yomotsu Hirasaka to Kurosaki Clinic so Ichigo could speak with his father and prepare to reforge his Zanpakuto.
• Lu Li told Kirio Hikifune that someone else would ascend the Throne of Heaven, then left to help Head Captain Yamamoto in the Seireitei.
• Head Captain Yamamoto fought Yhwach while Aizen went to help the other Captains contain Yhwach’s double, Lloyd Lloyd, and the Arrancar.
• Head Captain Yamamoto regretted his failure to reconcile with Lu Li, but Yhwach said his Royal Guard had intercepted Lu Li and trapped him in an alternate dimension.
• Haschwalth confronted Lu Li with the Royal Guard, and Lu Li dismissed Yhwach’s foresight before unleashing his murderous aura.

A'Huo joined Head Captain Yamamoto against Yhwach, while Lu Li remained trapped in an alternate space facing the Schutzstaffel. Ishida was forced to attack Lu Li under Haschwalth's scrutiny, and Lu Li struck him down as Lille Barro's shot pierced him too.

• A'Huo blocked Yhwach's arrows and helped Head Captain Yamamoto relieve the pressure of their fight.
• Lu Li faced Haschwalth, Ishida, Gerard, Askin, and Lille Barro in the alternate space, while Ishida secretly hoped Lu Li could defeat Yhwach.
• Lille Barro pierced Lu Li's shoulder with All Things Piercing, but Lu Li healed the wound immediately.
• Lille Barro ordered Ishida to fight Lu Li at close range, and Haschwalth demanded that Ishida prove his loyalty.
• Ishida charged Lu Li with a Reishi Vibration Blade, but Lu Li vanished and stabbed him through the chest as Lille Barro also pierced his abdomen.

Lu Li fought the Schutzstaffel and repeatedly decapitated Gerard, whose Miracle ability restored him and transformed him into a colossal giant of light. The chapter left Gerard battling Lu Li at full power as Lu Li halted his attack with Five Dragons Destruction.

• Lille Barro accidentally shot Uryu Ishida while aiming at Lu Li, and Lu Li stabilized Ishida with Healing Kidō.
• Gerard charged Lu Li and was decapitated, but his Miracle ability revived him in Vollständig form.
• Lu Li released Bankai, Demon Advent, and decapitated Gerard again with its healing suppression.
• Gerard transformed into God's Authority: Final Form, and Lu Li fought him while testing the limits of the Spirit King's Heart.
• Lu Li used Five Dragons Destruction to immobilize Gerard and knocked his descending Sword of Hope aside.

Lu Li defeated Gerard and faced Lille Barro in the alternate space, exposing the limits of Lille Barro’s intangibility with Soul Intent and Thunder God Domain. After Lille Barro transformed into his Vollständig and unleashed X-Axis attacks, Lu Li killed him and pinned Haschwalth and Askin with Thunder Beasts.

• Lu Li severed Gerard’s head and destroyed the Quincy Cross in his body, preventing him from reviving.
• The God Realm Space Explorers realized Yhwach might sacrifice them and withdrew from the Seireitei as the alternate space’s seal weakened.
• Lille Barro opened his left eye and claimed attacks could pass through him, but Lu Li wounded him with Soul Intent.
• Lille Barro transformed into his Vollständig and fired X-Axis shots while Haschwalth and Askin retreated and Haschwalth used World Harmony to aid him.
• Lu Li expanded Thunder God Domain, electrocuted Lille Barro, pinned Haschwalth and Askin with Thunder Beasts, and beheaded Lille Barro.

Lu Li survived Haschwalth’s and Askin’s countermeasures, exploiting Askin’s self-imposed electrical immunity to render him helpless before killing him. As Haschwalth’s misfortune manipulation drove Lu Li’s Luck below zero, Lu Li grew angry over his lost rewards, and Haschwalth charged to attack.

• Haschwalth used World Harmony and the Scapegoat Shield while Askin adapted to Lu Li’s lightning, leaving Lu Li poisoned by Deathdealing.
• Uryu Ishida warned Lu Li to escape, but Lu Li noticed Askin had stopped worsening the poison and realized Askin’s electrical immunity had silenced his body’s neural signals.
• Lu Li dispelled the Thunder God Domain, explained Askin’s predicament, and healed Ishida after he abandoned his cover as a mole.
• Lu Li rejected Ishida’s offer to help and beheaded the incapacitated Askin while Haschwalth held back to seize the initiative.
• Lu Li discovered Haschwalth had reduced his Luck to zero and below, grew angry about the loss of potential rewards, and Haschwalth rushed in with his Reishi Sword.

Lu Li defeated Haschwalth despite his misfortune-manipulating abilities, then killed him after Yhwach’s Auswählen stripped away his power. Lu Li sent Ishida to the Living World before returning to Seireitei, where Yhwach used Auswählen to drain his own forces and faced a weakening Yamamoto.

• Haschwalth gathered the world’s misfortune and attacked Lu Li, but Lu Li overwhelmed him and explained that the ability had worked while their strength gap remained too great.
• Yhwach’s Auswählen stripped Haschwalth of his Quincy power, and Lu Li killed him before Yhwach could claim the kill.
• Lu Li told Ishida that Auswählen had killed his mother and Ichigo’s mother, then sent him through Yomotsu Hirasaka to the Living World to prepare for the Spirit King Palace.
• Lu Li returned to Seireitei as Aizen, the Captains, and the Espada gained the upper hand against Yhwach’s forces.
• Yhwach activated Auswählen across Seireitei, draining and killing many Quincies, while Yamamoto confronted him despite his wounds and fading strength.

Head Captain Yamamoto fought Yhwach after Auswählen, recalling his life and unleashing a final attack before Yhwach struck him down. Lu Li returned in time to save him, and Yamamoto handed the battle over to Lu Li and Aizen as they prepared to face Yhwach together.

• Head Captain Yamamoto reflected on his past as a ruthless killer and advanced through Yhwach's attacks, determined to protect Soul Society.
• Yamamoto unleashed Heaven and Earth Ash, burning Yhwach but exhausting his own strength, and Yhwach brought down his Quincy Cross Sword.
• Lu Li appeared and blocked Yhwach's strike, while Aizen and the Gotei Captains welcomed his return.
• Lu Li healed Yamamoto and explained that he would take over the fight with Aizen; Yamamoto ordered the Gotei 13 to clear the Seireitei and reinforce the barrier.
• Yamamoto withdrew from the battlefield, and Lu Li and Aizen pointed their Zanpakuto at Yhwach and began to release Bankai.

Lu Li and Aizen challenged Yhwach while concealing their true intentions, and the three fought amid destruction across the Seireitei. Lu Li wounded Yhwach with Prison Demon, but Yhwach used The Almighty to erase the wound, leaving Lu Li facing the full difficulty of overcoming his power.

• Aizen activated Bankai as Lu Li gathered his abilities and entered Deva Path state, while Yhwach dismissed their strength and prepared to fight.
• Lu Li probed the limits of The Almighty as Aizen’s strategy aimed to make Yhwach lower his guard before they could carry out their plan involving the Soul King.
• Yhwach attacked with overwhelming power, and Aizen and Lu Li countered as the Gotei 13 reinforced the Seireitei’s barrier to protect Rukongai District.
• Lu Li and Aizen coordinated an assault, with Aizen trapping Yhwach in Black Coffin while Lu Li struck him with Prison Demon and inflicted a severe, rapidly worsening wound.
• Yhwach used The Almighty to erase the wound, and Lu Li recognized that Yhwach could alter futures he had seen and understood.

Lu Li and Aizen fought Yhwach in the sky above Seireitei, but The Almighty repeatedly erased the effects of Lu Li’s attacks and left them unable to break the deadlock. As Explorers watched anxiously, Lu Li searched for a way to force Yhwach toward the Spirit King Palace, while Valkyrie advised that Soul Intent could counter him only if its realm was high enough.

• Lu Li attacked Yhwach, but Yhwach used The Almighty to evade him and knock him from the sky before Aizen intervened with Hadō.
• Luo Mo Juan Cai began livestreaming the battle to Fat Dragon’s group chat, where veteran Explorers discussed Yhwach’s overwhelming abilities and Lu Li’s chances.
• Lu Li and Aizen continued their fight with Yhwach high above Seireitei, and Aizen claimed Kyōka Suigetsu was ineffective while hinting that Ichigo Kurosaki might join the battle.
• Yhwach declared that Ichigo would come as his son and become his blade, while Lu Li kept attacking and tried to force Yhwach to expend power using The Almighty.
• Luo Mo Juan Cai asked the group how Lu Li could defeat Yhwach, and Valkyrie said Lu Li’s Soul Intent was not at a high enough realm to resist Yhwach’s altered causality.

Lu Li unleashed God Tree World Birth to draw power from the Three Realms and strengthen himself against Yhwach, while Ichigo and Uryu prepared to stop the Quincy King. Yhwach manipulated Ichigo into killing the Soul King, but Lu Li’s God Trees stabilized the collapsing realms as Yhwach began his plan to create a new era.

• Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryu Ishida arrived at the Spirit King Palace through a rift and joined Kirio Hikifune while Ichigo prepared to reforge Zangetsu.
• After Ichigo reforged his twin blades, Lu Li and Aizen broke through the final barrier and confronted Yhwach above the Soul King’s chamber.
• Lu Li activated God Tree World Birth, causing God Trees to rise across Hueco Mundo, the Living World, and the Soul Society and channel their power into him.
• Yhwach reached Uryu and challenged his loyalty, but Lu Li cut Yhwach in half before he reappeared unharmed inside the Soul King’s chamber.
• Yhwach redirected Ichigo’s attack into the Soul King, shattering the crystal and killing the Soul King as the Three Realms shook.
• Lu Li used the God Trees to stabilize the Three Realms, while Yhwach approached the Soul King and declared that he would create a new era.

Lu Li and Sōsuke Aizen trapped Yhwach inside Eternal Prison after Aizen deceived him into absorbing the Soul King, leaving The Almighty restricted. Yhwach remained confident that his newly increased power could crush them.

• Ishida and Ichigo tried to stop Yhwach, but Yhwach absorbed the Soul King's remains and knocked Ichigo out of the Spirit King Palace.
• Lu Li revealed the temporary Soul King, which Ōetsu Nimaiya took over to stabilize the Three Realms, then activated Eternal Prison and trapped everyone above the palace inside.
• Aizen revealed that he had used Kyōka Suigetsu to show Yhwach countless logical futures in which Yhwach won, concealing the trap until Yhwach's guard was down.
• Lu Li told Ichigo that he had deliberately placed the Soul King for Yhwach to absorb, and explained that they had needed Yhwach to see a favorable false future before activating Eternal Prison.
• Yhwach realized that The Almighty could no longer show him branching futures, but he remained confident that his amplified power could defeat Lu Li and Aizen without it.

Lu Li and his allies trapped Yhwach in Eternal Prison, where his Almighty was severely restricted, and Lu Li began fighting him with overwhelming physical force. Yhwach adapted to the prison’s limits and continued to heal from Lu Li’s attacks, leaving the battle unresolved as Lu Li’s borrowed power began to run out.

• Lu Li inspected Yhwach and realized the prison had weakened his attributes, though Lu Li’s own temporary power would fade within about ten minutes.
• Aizen admitted that Kyōka Suigetsu had nearly exhausted his Reiatsu, then trusted Lu Li to finish the fight.
• Yhwach attacked the group, but Lu Li met his blade with Tide Severance and wounded him despite his ability to neutralize Prison Demon’s familiar effects.
• Yhwach reasoned that he could alter his choices to refresh the limited futures visible to The Almighty, while Lu Li warned that he intended to defeat him by force.
• Ichigo attacked with Getsuga Jujisho, and Yhwach targeted Uryu Ishida; Lu Li intervened, severed Yhwach’s arm, and nearly struck his neck.
• Lu Li cut off Yhwach’s left leg in another exchange, but Yhwach reattached it and remained dangerous despite the prison’s restrictions.

Lu Li fought Yhwach inside the Eternal Prison while Ichigo, Uryu, and Aizen tried to support him. After Yhwach regained his combat rhythm and believed Lu Li was weakening, Lu Li entered the Human Path and boosted his Soul Intent.

• Luo Mo Juan Cai and the chat group worried that Yhwach could outlast Lu Li despite being trapped in the Eternal Prison.
• Lu Li revealed that his regeneration and the Fairy Spirit Seed let him recover and absorb energy while Yhwach’s Reiatsu could decline.
• Ichigo Kurosaki joined the fight, but Yhwach wounded Lu Li and shattered Ichigo’s reforged Zangetsu before releasing black matter.
• Lu Li warned Ichigo to protect Uryu and told Aizen to use Kyōka Suigetsu at the right moment, while keeping Uryu’s arrow as a backup plan.
• Yhwach focused on swordsmanship and Quincy techniques, drove Lu Li back, and declared that he foresaw Lu Li’s defeat.
• Lu Li entered the Human Path, increasing his Soul Intent abilities by 50%.

Lu Li unleashed his Soul Intent and repeatedly wounded Yhwach, but The Almighty let Yhwach choose futures that kept him alive. After their relentless exchange, Lu Li announced that he had figured out how to kill Yhwach, while Yhwach still believed Lu Li’s power would soon fade.

• Lu Li gathered his Soul Intent as Yhwach and the others struggled to understand why his Reiatsu was falling while his threat grew.
• Lu Li released his concentrated Soul Intent and split Yhwach in two with a single slash, then pursued him and severed one of his arms.
• Uryu Ishida asked Ichigo Kurosaki to clear a path for him, while Luo Mo Juan Cai watched Lu Li and Yhwach trade devastating injuries.
• Yhwach demanded to know what Lu Li was, and Lu Li insisted that he was human before parrying Yhwach’s attack and knocking him away.
• Lu Li told Yhwach he had figured out how to cut him to death, as the battle continued inside the Eternal Prison.