As Araki opened his system, a line of data appeared directly in his mind.
Daily Task: Serve one customer—completed. Obtained 1,000 experience points.
Daily Training Task: Perform one thousand slashes—completed. Obtained 2,000 experience points.
Main Quest: Take up a post in the Seireitei Gotei 13.
Note: The amount of the main quest reward depends on the rank of the position the host holds within the Seireitei Gotei 13.
Araki calmly looked at the quests displayed on the mission panel in his mind.
Aside from the newly appeared main quest...
He had successfully completed the two daily tasks that the system refreshed at fixed times every day.
His eyes remained as still as an ancient well as he skillfully used his thoughts to claim the rewards for the two completed daily tasks. In an instant, the blue-glowing daily mission panel in his mind turned gray.
"Open the Character Panel."
After claiming the experience gained from the completed daily tasks, Araki immediately switched his system from the daily task panel to his personal character panel.
Character: Araki Title: Genryu menkyo kaiden Fullbring: Ever-Blooming Flower (Awakening conditions not met) Reishi Manipulation: LV1 (+) Zanpakuto: Yakushi Rurikō (Shikai) Spiritual Might: Third Class (+) Spiritual Body: LV10 (+) Swordsmanship: LV10 (+) Hakuda: LV10 (+) Footwork Shunpo: LV1 (+) Kido Destructive Arts: LV1 (+) Binding Arts: LV1 (+) Kaido: LV1 (+) Haki: Observation Haki (Advanced) Armament Haki (Advanced) Conqueror's Haki (Advanced) Devil Fruit Ability: Ope Ope no Mi (Awakened) Experience: 1000001890
After opening his personal data panel, Araki stared at the long string of numbers in the experience field and gradually fell into thought. That string contained a full ten digits—in other words, one billion experience points! God knew how many years Araki had spent accumulating so much experience?!
Without wasting any words, Araki found the Spiritual Pressure section on his Character Panel and lightly pressed the (+) after his third-class Spiritual Might with his thoughts.
"System, add points for me!"
As Araki allocated his points, the ten-digit experience total on his Character Panel instantly dwindled to just 1,890, while his Spiritual Pressure successfully rose to second-class Spiritual Might.
That was right. Although every level-up in the system granted Araki immense power, the experience it consumed was equally outrageous.
The experience required for each upgrade was ten times that of the previous one!
After Araki spent 10 experience points to unlock his Spiritual Pressure and obtain innate tenth-class Spiritual Might, he had spent over one hundred million more experience points just to raise it to third-class Spiritual Might—the level of Spiritual Pressure that would later be considered standard captain-class Soul Reaper strength.
After that, Araki had relied on the 3,000 experience points he earned every day and kept steadily accumulating them. Only today had he finally gathered one billion experience points, raising his Spiritual Pressure to second class while unlocking the system's main quest.
By the standards of the Soul Society's First Generation Gotei 13, Araki's Spiritual Pressure had only now officially entered the realm occupied by captain-class Soul Reapers...
Yes, compared to the future Kensei Muguruma—whose third-class Spiritual Might barely qualified him to be appointed captain by the Soul Society, only to become a unit of measurement for combat power, and who preferred not to reveal his name too often—the First Generation Gotei 13 had much stricter requirements for captains. Its captains were also far stronger!
After all, this was the First Generation Gotei 13, where every member was a born killer! Every captain of the First Generation Gotei 13 had clawed their way up through battle after battle, bathed in blood! They were completely different from the greenhouse flowers cultivated at Shino Academy in later generations~
Now that his Spiritual Might had finally reached second class, Araki could not help feeling emotional.
"How many years has it been?! My Spiritual Pressure has finally reached second class..."
Even Araki himself could no longer remember how many years had passed since he transmigrated into this world.
He only remembered that he had been playing a passionate open-world game based on One Piece. After grinding nonstop for two and a half days, he opened his eyes, closed them, then opened them again... and he had gone from his warm bedroom to this remote Rukongai District!
At first, Araki had not thought much of it...
After all, it was not just he himself who had transmigrated. The powerful character data he had built in that One Piece-themed game through countless hours and enormous amounts of money had come with him as well!
Super Swordsmanship raised to the level of a max-level great swordsman. Powerful Physical Prowess with complete mastery of all Six Powers. A Super Recovery Ability that allowed him to recover completely from even fatal wounds through a healthy routine. A Max-Level Body that would not feel the slightest fatigue even after fighting for three days and three nights. All Three Types of Haki at the highest level. And an immensely powerful Ope Ope no Mi in its Awakened State...
The powers included in Araki's cheat gave him the confidence to survive. He believed he could thrive in this unknown New World.
To the Araki who had not yet grown out of his chuunibyou phase, this was practically a chance bestowed by heaven—a chance to recreate Overlord in another world! All that remained was for him to use his max-level character and powerful special abilities to slaughter his way through this unknown world!
Even if Araki had transmigrated into a highly dangerous world like One Piece, he was confident that as long as he did not provoke top-tier figures such as Admirals or the Four Emperors, did not antagonize those damned Celestial Dragons, was not discovered by that old schemer Imu, and did not end up pursued by the Holy Knights or blown up by the Mother Seed, he could still safely live out his life!
Then Araki saw someone dressed in a black kimono known as Shinigami Robes, carrying a katana called a Zanpakuto at their waist—a being known as a Soul Reaper—slowly walk past him! Araki's heart utterly collapsed. He knew that he was probably dead beyond death, with only a soul left now~
The good news was that Araki apparently did not need to go to the underworld, chat and laugh with the judges, bitterly complain about the injustices of his previous life before King Yama, drink a huge bowl of Meng Po Soup, and then reincarnate! The bad news was that his chance to reincarnate was gone. He had been assigned directly to the Soul Society.
At that time, there was only one sentence in Araki's heart: "Fuck! This isn't One Piece—this is the world of Bleach!"
That was right. Although Araki did not understand why he had clearly been playing an open-world game based on One Piece before his death, only to transmigrate into the world of Bleach afterward, he knew it did not matter whether he understood it or not!
The fact was that he had transmigrated, and into a manga he had read in his previous life—a manga called Bleach, also known as Soul Reaper...
Once Araki gradually calmed down and confirmed that he had transmigrated not into One Piece but into the world of Bleach, much of the passion in his heart immediately cooled...
After all, the world of Bleach—especially the Soul Society where Araki was—was far more dangerous than the world of One Piece!
Honestly, if Araki had truly transmigrated into the world of One Piece, he could have simply fled to East Blue, the symbol of peace among the Four Blues, and lived out his life in comfort! After all, the strongest pirate there was no more than Krieg...
But Araki, who had directly transmigrated into the Soul Society, seemed to have no path other than becoming a Soul Reaper... And after becoming one, the absurd abilities of the many great villains he would have to face were simply outrageously powerful!
Not even counting Yhwach, the final and strongest boss of Bleach—the "great Son of the Soul King," the "ancestor of the Quincy"—and his unreasonable ability, The Almighty, which could directly "change the future"...
Just the lesser bosses under Yhwach, with flashy abilities like The Balance, The Compulsory, The X-Axis, The Deathdealing, and The Miracle, left Araki with no idea how he was supposed to deal with them.
Thus, still confused after first transmigrating, Araki wandered throughout the Soul Society while contemplating his future. After spending several years making something of a name for himself there, he somehow stumbled into a Swordsmanship Dojo called the Genji School and became the disciple of its head instructor...
That was probably the most painful period Araki had experienced since arriving in this world. After all, his teacher had been terrifyingly strict with his disciples~
Still, the results were indeed gratifying! Perhaps because Araki already had a foundation in swordsmanship from the Pirate World, he learned the swordsmanship of the Soul Reaper world very quickly~ In only a few short decades, Araki learned every sword technique his teacher possessed!
Then, at a ceremony that would now be called a graduation ceremony, he carved a slash-shaped scar into the head of his master—the head instructor of the Genji School, whose severely receding hairline made it obvious that he would definitely go bald someday...
At the same time, he received the Genryu menkyo kaiden from that cheap master of his. The moment Araki obtained menkyo kaiden, the game panel that had been frozen by an unknown factor finally updated.
From then on, Araki's game panel changed from the original One Piece world panel into this Character Panel infused with the characteristics of the world of Bleach. What surprised Araki even more was that, aside from Soul Reaper abilities, this body of his apparently also possessed the potential for Fullbring...
In truth, Araki had done some rather "in-depth" research on the manga Bleach.
After the main manga concluded, he had also watched the official sequel novel Can't Fear Your Own World on Bilibili—the story commonly known as the Bleach: Five Great Noble Clans Arc. Araki had also watched plenty of Uploaders on Bilibili explain Bleach and its Side Story Novels.
So Araki knew that Fullbring was not actually as simple as Ginjo Kugo, the minor boss of Bleach's Fullbring arc, had told protagonist Ichigo!
In fact, Fullbring was not a power granted by Hollows. It was power brought about by Body Fragments of the Soul King, who supported the Three Worlds. That was why every Fullbringer's ability held immense potential.
Therefore, in Araki's view, the fact that his body possessed Fullbring potential was definitely good news!
Moreover, top-tier Fullbring abilities were exceptionally powerful! In the words of a certain person who preferred not to reveal his name and spent all day wanting to stand in the heavens, some Fullbring powers could even intrude upon the domain of Gods.
Among them, the Soten Kisshun of Orihime Inoue, one of Bleach's protagonists, and the Book of End of Shukuro Tsukishima were both among the finest Fullbring abilities.
For Araki, it would naturally be wonderful if he could directly awaken a powerful Fullbring like Soten Kisshun or Book of End, one capable of interfering with certain phenomena. That would give him much stronger means of self-preservation.
With excitement in his chest, Araki opened the information regarding Fullbring in his system...
Fullbring: Ever-Blooming Flower (Unawakened) Ability: Bind the lives of the user and someone who deeply loves the user together. As long as one party remains alive in the world, the other will not die. No matter what form of attack either party suffers, they can recover by consuming Spiritual Pressure. Before both parties exhaust their Spiritual Pressure, no attack can take the life of either party.
After seeing the effects of his Fullbring, Ever-Blooming Flower, Araki gained a rough understanding of how powerful it was.
"Divine Skill! This ability has absolutely no offensive power, but it is definitely a Life-Saving Divine Skill!"
"It's basically a combination of Gyutaro and Daki's ability from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and the Bankai Fushi no Kojyo of Shuhei Hisagi, the future vice-captain of the Ninth Division..."
"Furthermore, according to this ability, as long as one of the two linked parties has not exhausted their Spiritual Pressure, all damage either party suffers can be healed. And since the ability only disappears when both linked parties are dead..."
"In other words, the stronger the Spiritual Pressure of the person I choose to link with, and the harder they are to kill, the more beneficial it is for me~"
After examining the effects of his Fullbring, Araki was immediately delighted.
Although it was not as strong as Book of End or Soten Kisshun in terms of practicality and versatility.
When it came to preserving one's life, it was absolutely the strongest Fullbring ability Araki knew of, without question!
"Let's see the awakening conditions for this Fullbring ability."
Thinking this, Araki opened the awakening requirements.
The awakening conditions for Fullbring abilities came in all kinds of strange forms. Araki only hoped the method for awakening his Fullbring would not be too bizarre.
Ability Activation Conditions: A person with a favorability rating above eighty toward the ability user, and someone loved by the ability user.
Araki froze slightly as he looked at the awakening conditions for his Fullbring. Most people's Fullbring awakening conditions involved some sort of object, but his activation condition was a person?!
Could a person also serve as the condition for activating Fullbring?
So, had the Fullbring ability ultimately discovered that Araki was a lecherous pervert?
No, more accurately, Araki could deceive others and even deceive himself, but he absolutely could not deceive his pure heart. Still, that was not important. In Araki's eyes, as long as his Fullbring could awaken and be used, that was enough! Araki was completely a strength-focused player~
"Besides, it doesn't say that I can only bind with one person. In other words, as long as I 'play' my cards right, perhaps I can bind with multiple people..."
"Isn't this ability telling me to become a scumbag?! Damn it! Am I that kind of person? I'm a respectable man!"
Araki stared at his ability and fell into deep thought. He always felt that this ability gave him the potential to become a scumbag.
In truth, he was an exceptionally pure and respectable person, ahem ahem...
Besides that, Araki looked toward the note beneath his ability.
Note: Ever-Blooming Flower will receive an ability bonus based on the Spiritual Pressure of the first person bound to it! The higher the Spiritual Pressure of the first bound person, the higher the level of the Fullbring's inherent skill, Reishi Manipulation!
As though responding to Araki's thoughts, the moment he began wondering whether his Fullbring ability, Ever-Blooming Flower, could bind with multiple people, a system notification immediately sounded in his mind.
"So that's how it is. In other words, the stronger the person I bind with for the first time, the stronger the power I gain!"
"By that logic, if my Fullbring ability, Ever-Blooming Flower, binds with the strongest woman in the Soul Society, wouldn't that make me invincible?!"
"Got it. I'll go marry Unohana Retsu first!"
Araki raised an eyebrow.
After figuring out his Fullbring ability, a firm thought immediately formed in Araki's heart.
The first thing to do after transmigrating: marry Unohana Retsu first!
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