Recaps

He-El slaughtered the captains attacking him in the Soul King's Palace. Retsu Unohana died saving Kenpachi Zaraki, whose grief and rage awakened his power as he charged He-El.

• He-El killed Kensei Muguruma with a single slash and blasted Shinsuke Hirako through the palace wall with Hadō #4: Byakurai.
• He-El shattered Juushiro Ukitake's Bankai with a piercing sound and caused him to collapse, bleeding.
• Retsu Unohana and Kenpachi Zaraki attacked He-El together, but he transformed his Zanpakuto into Zanka no Tachi: East—Kyokujitsu Jin.
• Retsu Unohana shoved Kenpachi Zaraki out of He-El's strike and was cut in half; she confessed that her past with Kenpachi was her sin and died in his arms.
• Kenpachi Zaraki remembered their encounter a thousand years earlier, released his Reiatsu, and charged He-El after calling, "Devour, Nozarashi!"

He-El killed Kenpachi Zaraki with a single slash, then killed Soi Fon by trapping her Bankai missile inside a barrier. Toshiro Hitsugaya froze He-El as the Espada, Shunsui Kyoraku, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Yhwach, Aizen, and Jushiro Ukitake converged around the battlefield.

• Kenpachi Zaraki transformed with Bankai and attacked He-El, who countered with a slash that pulverized him completely.
• Soi Fon struck He-El with Suzumebachi, but her two-hit kill failed, and He-El attacked her.
• Soi Fon fired her Bankai, but He-El enclosed her and the missile in a contracting Dankū barrier, and the explosion killed her.
• Toshiro Hitsugaya increased his Bankai's power and froze He-El beneath the ice.
• The Espada arrived beside the frozen He-El as Shunsui Kyoraku, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, Yhwach, Aizen, and Jushiro Ukitake watched the battlefield.

He-El defeated Baraggan Louisenbairn by turning his power of aging against him. After killing the former king of Hueco Mundo, He-El threatened the gathered fighters and offered them one chance to flee.

• Toshiro Hitsugaya’s Hyōrinmaru: Daiguren Hyōrinmaru failed to hold He-El, who shattered the ice and emerged unharmed.
• Baraggan Louisenbairn released his Resurrección, Arrogante, and attacked He-El with black flames that aged everything they touched.
• He-El remained unharmed by the aging flames and absorbed them into his Zanpakuto.
• He-El sent the black flames back toward Baraggan Louisenbairn, whose own power consumed and killed him.
• He-El warned the Espada and the other fighters that they had one chance to flee.

As He-El defeated the Espada, Yhwach tried to reach the Soul King, but True Name Calling Monk, the Zero Division, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, and Shunsui Kyoraku blocked him. He-El severed the hand sustaining the Soul King and sent the Soul King flying toward Yhwach, as the Three Realms began to collapse.

• True Name Calling Monk and the four Zero Division members stood in Yhwach's way, while Shunsui Kyoraku and Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni prepared to stop him.
• Yhwach warned that the Almighty showed no future in which they could defeat He-El, and Aizen urged the others to let Yhwach absorb the Soul King.
• Shunsui Kyoraku chose to stand with Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and oppose Yhwach, leaving both sides poised for conflict.
• He-El wiped out the Espada and cut through the giant black hand emerging from Jushiro Ukitake, who collapsed and could no longer sustain the Soul King.
• The Soul King's Reishi connections snapped, causing Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, and the World of the Living to begin collapsing.
• He-El struck the Soul King toward Yhwach and challenged him to absorb the Soul King and try to shake him.

Yhwach began absorbing the Soul King as He-El faced Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni in battle. Aizen and Shunsui Kyoraku helped Yamamoto strike He-El from within, but He-El recovered and revealed that the attack had gone as planned.

• Yhwach used Hirenkyaku to reach the Soul King and began absorbing it as the Three Realms started collapsing.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni attacked He-El with Bankai, but He-El knocked aside Zanka no Tachi and reminded him of his promise to Sajin Komamura.
• Yamamoto relentlessly clashed swords with He-El, who said Yamamoto could no longer put pressure on him.
• He-El sensed Aizen's move as Yamamoto used Heaven and Earth Ashes to send Zanka no Tachi through connected black-sphere spaces into He-El's body.
• Shunsui Kyoraku coughed up blood as Yamamoto's strike destroyed more than half of He-El's body, but He-El recovered and knocked Zanka no Tachi aside.
• He-El told Yamamoto that his cooperation had been excellent as rows of black spheres appeared behind him.

He-El revealed that his Senkai’s apparent limits were an illusion and that his own power was the true threat. After he killed the four members of Zero Division, Yhwach called on Kisuke Urahara as the Soul King Palace suddenly changed.

• True Name Calling Monk canceled the Black Ant power he had given He-El, but He-El demonstrated that Senkai could produce infinite dark spheres and that their number did not determine his strength.
• Shunsui Kyoraku recognized that He-El used Senkai as a tool for calculations and attacks rather than merely as a means of escape.
• True Name Calling Monk admitted he had no effective way to stop He-El, who declared that he would end the fight.
• He-El used dark spheres to transmit the force of a sword swing beneath Tenjiro Kirinji, Hikifune Kirio, Nimaiya Oetsu, and Senjumaru Shutara, crushing the four of them into dust.
• Yhwach, having absorbed the Soul King, demanded that Kisuke Urahara act, and the Soul King Palace suddenly changed.

As Seireitei trembled, Rangiku Matsumoto and the other Bleach tried to evacuate its inhabitants while Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and the captains went to stop He-El at the Soul King Palace. The Spirit-Restricting Stone walls then turned into beams aimed at the sky, triggering a deadly riot and revealing that someone had prepared all of Seireitei as burial goods to attack He-El.

• Rangiku Matsumoto broke up a noble’s palanquin and helped guide the panicking crowds through the Eastern Azure Flow Gate.
• Yoruichi Shihōin and Kisuke Urahara issued a fabricated Central 46 Chambers alert ordering Seireitei’s inhabitants to evacuate, while Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and the captain-class Bleach headed to the Soul King Palace.
• Ichimaru Gin reassured Rangiku Matsumoto that the outcome had already been decided, while Kaname Tosen remained behind in Seireitei.
• The Spirit-Restricting Stone in Seireitei’s walls flared and shot beams into the sky, causing the evacuation crowds to panic and trample people to death.
• Rangiku Matsumoto withdrew her Reiatsu, rescued some of those who had fallen, and opened the eastern gate so the crowd could flee freely.
• Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tosen realized that someone had altered the Spirit-Restricting Stone across Seireitei to use the city as burial goods against He-El.

Kisuke Urahara arrived at the Soul King Palace with Yoruichi Shihōin, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and Ichigo Kurosaki, activating his Spirit-Restricting Stone arrangement to disrupt Reishi and prepare to fight He-El. The Seireitei faced destruction as the assembled fighters turned toward He-El.

• Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihōin arrived with Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Ichigo Kurosaki to face He-El.
• Yhwach said the completed arrangement was the only future in which He-El could be defeated.
• Kisuke Urahara activated the Spirit-Restricting Stone wave, which began disrupting Reishi around the Soul King's Palace.
• Aizen recognized Urahara's plan, while Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni realized it could destroy the Seireitei.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi accused Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni of having tacitly allowed Urahara to prepare the stones over the past hundred years.
• Urahara and his companions reached the Soul King's Palace as the assembled fighters looked toward He-El.

Kisuke Urahara used the Spirit-Restricting Stone to block He-El from manipulating external Reishi and reviving after his body died, while Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and Shunsui Kyoraku tried to use Enrakyoten against him. Their plan failed, Shunsui was erased by Yamamoto’s own power, and Yamamoto attacked He-El in fury.

• Kisuke Urahara explained that the Spirit-Restricting Stone prevented He-El from controlling external Reishi, restoring his Senkai, or rebuilding his body after death.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and Shunsui Kyoraku used Enrakyoten to send Zanka no Tachi: East—Kyokujitsu Jin toward He-El.
• He-El said he had already understood the technique and was unharmed by the attack.
• The power of Zanka no Tachi: East—Kyokujitsu Jin instead erased Shunsui Kyoraku, who burst apart after Yamamoto’s voice shook him.
• Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, overwhelmed by grief and rage, used Shunpo to slash at He-El.

He-El revealed that he had fused his body with his Zanpakuto and used his own power to overcome the fighters attacking him. He trapped them in his world and turned their attacks against them, but Yhwach welcomed the change and declared that He-El would die in the next moment.

• He-El absorbed Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni's Bankai and knocked him unconscious with a strike to the temple.
• He-El scattered Kisuke Urahara's Hadō #31: Crimson Fire Cannon and cut apart Yhwach's Heilig Pfeil.
• Uryu Ishida, Ichigo Kurosaki, Yoruichi Shihōin, Aizen, and Yhwach attacked He-El from multiple directions.
• He-El chanted “Minor World” and enveloped the Soul King Palace in darkness, reversing the fighters' attacks against them.
• Uryu Ishida, Ichigo Kurosaki, Aizen, Yoruichi Shihōin, and Yhwach were struck by their own attacks.
• Yhwach laughed and declared that He-El would die in the next moment.

Yhwach and Ichibē Hyōsube used the darkness of He-El’s Minor World to channel the Soul King’s power into his dark spheres, tearing his body apart. As Aizen, Kisuke Urahara, Ichibē, and Ichigo Kurosaki attacked the ruined He-El, Yhwach shot Uryu Ishida, only for Uryu to invoke Complete Reversal.

• Yhwach unleashed undigested Soul King power inside the Minor World, but He-El calculated that it was not enough to destroy it.
• Ichibē Hyōsube tore apart the Minor World’s darkness, allowing Yhwach’s power to enter He-El’s Senkai and detonate the dark spheres within him.
• The explosions reduced He-El to a battered skeleton and destroyed the Minor World, exposing the Soul King’s Palace to sunlight.
• Aizen, Kisuke Urahara, Ichibē Hyōsube, and Ichigo Kurosaki rushed to attack He-El while Yoruichi Shihōin, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni, and Uryu Ishida remained incapacitated.
• Yhwach saw a future that horrified him, then fired a Heilig Pfeil through Uryu Ishida, who responded with Complete Reversal.

Uryu Ishida used Complete Reversal to take He-El’s injuries onto himself, but He-El learned the ability and restored Uryu while continuing to fight. As He-El began rebuilding his body, he revealed that Yhwach’s visions could not reach as far as his own.

• Yhwach fired a Heilig Pfeil at Uryu Ishida, who used Complete Reversal to exchange his injuries with He-El’s.
• Uryu Ishida collapsed after Yhwach’s arrow worsened his injuries, but He-El used Complete Reversal to return Uryu to normal and repel Aizen’s and Ichibē Hyōsube’s attacks.
• He-El cut through Ichigo Kurosaki’s Getsuga Tenshō and sent Kisuke Urahara flying, while Urahara realized his Bankai could not alter He-El’s body.
• He-El began rebuilding his body as Yhwach recoiled in horror at an outcome absent from his visions.
• He-El told Yhwach that he had affected the future within the Minor World and that Yhwach’s vision did not reach as far as his own.

He-El gained The Almighty, leaving Yhwach and the others convinced they could no longer defeat him. After Aizen’s strongest attack failed to harm He-El, Aizen knelt and greeted him as his king.

• He-El revealed that he had acquired The Almighty, and Urahara explained that it let him see and alter the future.
• He-El said The Almighty had finished calculating and that the others could no longer harm him.
• Aizen unleashed an evolved Ultimate Hollow King Flash at He-El, but He-El emerged completely unharmed.
• Aizen’s strength gave out, and he knelt before He-El and said, “Hello, My King!”

Aizen revealed that he had gathered the others to test himself against He-El, then submitted to him as the king he would follow. He-El confronted Yhwach and killed him without resistance, leaving the battle at the Soul King's Palace decided.

• Ichigo Kurosaki, Kisuke Urahara, and Yhwach reacted with shock as Aizen knelt before He-El.
• After He-El nodded, Aizen explained that he had used the others to test his strength against He-El and declared that He-El was the king he would follow.
• He-El ordered Aizen to stand down, and Aizen withdrew to the wall of the Soul King's Palace.
• He-El asked Yhwach whether he had seen a hopeful future, then slowly pierced him with his Zanpakuto.
• Yhwach withdrew from The Almighty, showed despair, and died.

After He-El killed Yhwach, Aizen explained that Yhwach had resisted by trying to alter the future, but He-El had sealed every possible escape. Ichigo Kurosaki, Ichibe Hyosube, and Kisuke Urahara refrained from challenging He-El, until Mayuri Kurotsuchi's voice called Urahara a coward from outside the Soul King's Palace.

• Uryu Ishida stopped Ichigo Kurosaki from confronting He-El and explained that He-El would rule rather than destroy the Three Realms.
• Aizen told Ichigo Kurosaki that Yhwach had tried to change the future but He-El had made his death inevitable.
• He-El threw Yhwach's corpse down and asked who else wanted to resist.
• Ichigo Kurosaki stayed still, and Ichibe Hyosube indicated that he would not fight.
• Kisuke Urahara hesitated over using his final measure, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi called him a coward from outside the Soul King's Palace.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi activated his century-old attack, destroying the Seireitei to strike He-El with its gathered Reishi and the chaotic thoughts of its people. He-El emerged from the fading pillar unharmed and declared that he stood above the world.

• Kisuke Urahara decided against using his final means because it would destroy the Seireitei and everyone in it, but Mayuri Kurotsuchi crushed the remote's button and activated his attack.
• A chaotic force of gravity and time and space struck the Soul King's Palace, forcing Kisuke Urahara, Ichibe Hyosube, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Aizen to flee with the survivors they could carry.
• The attack tore apart the Seireitei, and Ichimaru Gin dragged Rangiku Matsumoto away as its people and buildings turned into Reishi.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi sent the Reishi pillar formed from the Seireitei's destruction surging into the Soul King's Palace to attack He-El.
• He-El emerged from the fading pillar and declared, "From this day forth, I stand above this world!"

After the war, Rangiku Matsumoto grieved over He-El’s impending departure and asked him to leave her with a child before he left Soul Society. He-El took control of the Soul King Palace, assigned rulers and guards to the Three Realms, and departed to conquer other worlds.

• Rangiku Matsumoto told He-El she was afraid to leave the Shinigami World and feared losing him, and he accepted her choice to stay.
• Rangiku Matsumoto cried as she embraced He-El, recalled what he had said before leaving her a hundred years earlier, and asked him to give her a child.
• He-El spent several days and nights with Rangiku Matsumoto, left her pregnant, and departed Soul Society for the Soul King Palace.
• He-El made Yhwach the Three Realms' Keystone, placed True Name Calling Monk and the other members of Zero Division as his guards, and assigned Aizen and Uryu Ishida to rule Hueco Mundo and the Quincy.
• He-El revived the Bleach who had died by his hand, prompting Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni to pledge allegiance to him.
• He-El ordered Zero Division to create a new system and Gigai for travel between worlds, urged Aizen and the others to grow stronger, and stepped into the Traversal Vortex.

He-El returned from the Shinigami World with tighter control over his power and a personal universe that could protect the people and forces he brought across worlds. He assigned Zero and Athena to study the Shinigami system and organize the Three Realms, then asked for a report on what had happened during his meditation.

• He-El returned to his body aboard the Zero aircraft carrier after the Reishi energy he had brought back collided with the particles of the DC World and dissipated.
• He-El absorbed his experiences in the Shinigami World and gained more precise control over his body and soul-based power.
• He-El realized his consciousness space had become a universe of his own that could shelter people and forces brought from other worlds.
• He-El ordered Zero to classify the Shinigami cultivation system, have Athena explore combining it with the divine system, establish a Shinigami Academy, and develop a plan to maintain order in the Three Realms.
• Zero reported that 94,708,000 seconds had passed during He-El's meditation and that Dr. Ciri had given birth to 320 babies.

After returning from three years of meditation, He-El learned about Ciri’s 320 children and the escalating war between Apokolips and Oa Star’s allied civilizations. Hades had secretly joined Darkseid’s campaign, so He-El ordered him to stop before his actions exposed their plans and triggered a wider war.

• Zero told He-El that Ciri had given birth to 320 children while he meditated and that New Krypton had rejected Apokolips’ repeated requests for troops.
• Zero reported that Apokolips had spent years attacking civilizations under Oa Star, using the conflict to demand support and drain the alliance’s strength.
• He-El learned that Hades had secretly sent death emissaries to harvest intelligent life for Apokolips, while Athena concealed his actions from the Olympian Pantheon.
• Zero reported that New Genesis was not mobilizing on a large scale and that Athena continued covering for Hades.
• He-El ordered that Hades be warned he had entered the war too early and threatened to help Zeus and the Guardians of the Universe seal him away if he was discovered.

He-El reviewed New Krypton’s military and magical progress while Zero reported that the Three-Body World’s microscopic channels had been blocked. Nearby, He-El 320 and the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization panicked at He-El’s presence, then decided to call him Dad as Ciri dragged the baby to meet him.

• Zero told He-El that Magic Academy graduates had joined New Krypton’s corps and that their cooperation was expected to boost combat power by around 40%.
• Zero reported that progress in the Three-Body World had stalled because an unknown force had blocked access to its microscopic realms.
• He-El 320 watched He-El from behind a wall, while the collective consciousness inside him feared the interuniversal overlord and argued over how to survive.
• The collective consciousness realized He-El was their biological father and resolved to call him Dad for protection.
• Ciri caught He-El 320 after he left the formation and dragged him toward the command room to meet He-El, followed by the other 319 babies.

He-El and Zero investigated the microscopic blockade in the Three-Body Problem world and learned that a Unified Biological Consciousness Collective had infiltrated the cosmic mothership by hiding in a soldier’s thoughts. He-El chose to watch the civilization’s next move, just as Ciri arrived with their children.

• He-El asked Zero whether research from the Bleach world could break through the microscopic blockade, and Zero said their available Divine Particles and Reishi energy were insufficient.
• He-El recognized that the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective had taken up residence in He-El 320, his son with Ciri.
• He-El showed Zero footage revealing that the collective had entered the cosmic mothership by blending into a soldier’s thoughts.
• Zero contacted her main body and apologized for failing to detect the infiltration, but He-El told her she was not to blame.
• He-El decided to observe what the invading civilization would do, and Ciri entered with their children to see him.

Ciri presented He-El with 320 naturally conceived, divinely blessed babies, each with the potential to become extraordinarily powerful. He-El appeared satisfied with them, while He-El 320 remained an unusual presence whose thoughts Zero could not read.

• The 320 babies marched into the command room, where He-El 320 panicked at seeing Zero and tried to conceal their collective consciousness.
• Zero used multiple detection methods on the babies but could not decipher He-El 320's thoughts.
• Ciri ordered the babies to greet He-El, and they introduced themselves in formation.
• He-El observed that the babies had different mixtures of Kryptonian, Transformer, and enhanced human bloodlines, while Athena's blessings gave all of them strong potential.
• Ciri explained that the children could choose or change their talents as they grew up, then asked He-El whether he was satisfied with them.
• He-El asked what Ciri would do if he were dissatisfied, and she casually replied that they would use the babies for experiments.

He-El assigned his 320 newborn children paths to serve New Krypton while reassuring them that they could choose their own futures. The children left to consider their options, while He-El asked Hae-320 to stay behind.

• The babies feared Ciri would use them as experimental subjects, but He-El told her to let them grow up normally.
• Zero volunteered to train Hae-33 through Hae-64, and He-El assigned Hae-1 through Hae-32 to Krypton Academy.
• He-El told the remaining children to apply to Zero for placements in academies or legions and promised not to force their choices.
• He-El reassured the children that Ciri was simply learning how to be a mother, though they remained wary of her.
• Ciri sent the children away to consider their futures, and He-El asked Hae-320 to stay behind.

He-El revealed that He-El 320 contained the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization from the world of The Three-Body Problem, which had been sent to infiltrate his universe. The civilization immediately decided to defect to He-El, and he asked Ciri to put the child down because he was still his son.

• The Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization panicked over being discovered, then celebrated its decision to abandon Zero and treat He-El as its father.
• Ciri questioned He-El 320 after recalling his unusual potential, and He-El revealed that a universe-level civilization from The Three-Body Problem inhabited the child.
• He-El 320 lost his disguise as Ciri seized him with a tentacle and slammed him onto the command room floor.
• The civilization assessed its chances of survival and decided to tell He-El everything about Zero and help him defeat Zero.
• He-El suspected the civilization knew he could hear its flattery, then asked Ciri to put He-El 320 down because he was his son.

He-El and Ciri questioned whether the Unified Biological Consciousness Collective Civilization had erased their son He-El 320’s original consciousness, while He-El investigated the strange child. He-El offered the civilization a choice between becoming his son and helping Zero, or returning to the Three-Body Problem universe, and it began leaning toward him.

• Ciri threatened He-El 320 until He-El assured her that the civilization had not erased an existing consciousness.
• Zero reported that she could detect no abnormality in He-El 320 except unusually high psychic fluctuations.
• He-El told He-El 320 to choose between joining his family and helping Zero or returning to the Three-Body Problem universe, promising not to kill or imprison it either way.
• He-El’s psychic waves passed through He-El 320 without affecting him, leaving He-El concerned about why his psychic power did not work.
• The voices within He-El 320 debated the offer and quickly agreed that they would choose to become He-El’s sons.