Chapter Summaries

Kurosaki Ichigo accused Ichimaru Gin of killing Inoue Orihime, but witnesses and surveillance gave Gin an alibi while Ross’s stance kept the charge from being pursued. Byakuya Kuchiki confirmed that Jushiro Ukitake’s Spiritual Pressure was on Orihime’s corpse alongside an unidentified trace, leaving the real killer unknown.

• Ichigo accused Gin of attacking Aizen and killing Orihime, while Gin denied the charges and Rangiku Matsumoto supported his account of the attack.
• Byakuya said the Spiritual Pressure on Orihime’s corpse was about seventy percent similar to Gin’s, but not enough to identify him as the killer.
• Momo Hinamori, Toshiro Hitsugaya, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi established that Gin had remained under supervision in the 12th Division laboratory during the time of Orihime’s death.
• Ichigo could not explain away Gin’s alibi and asked Ross to find the real murderer, while Gin suspected Ross had orchestrated the defense.
• Byakuya reported that Orihime’s corpse carried traces of Spiritual Pressure from Jushiro Ukitake and another concealed, unidentified source.
• Yoruichi Shihoin suggested that Ukitake might have moved Orihime’s body, but the captains reached no conclusion.

Ross assigned an investigation into the corpse found in Kurosaki Ichigo’s lounge while ordering Mayuri Kurotsuchi to pursue a Hollowfication experiment. A month later, Shunsui Kyoraku and his allies entered Hueco Mundo to attack the True King's Palace, only to find Harribel and the Espada waiting for them alongside Yhwach’s arriving Quincy army.

• Ross set aside accusations over Jushiro Ukitake’s role in the corpse incident and assigned Byakuya Kuchiki, Tōshirō, and Kurosaki Ichigo to investigate.
• Ross ordered Mayuri Kurotsuchi to create a Hōgyoku replica and test whether Shinigami evolution was possible, and Mayuri promised results within a month.
• Shunsui Kyoraku, Jushiro Ukitake, Tessai Tsukabishi, the Visored, and Uryu Ishida entered Hueco Mundo through a Garganta to attack the True King's Palace.
• Yhwach warned the group that their enemies had already anticipated their arrival, and six powerful Spiritual Pressures surrounded them.
• Tier Harribel appeared with Lilynette, Nel Tu, Ulquiorra, Stark, and Grimmjow, while Yhwach summoned ten Quincy soldiers to join the battle.
• The Shinigami and Quincy forces matched the Espada in a clash of Spiritual Pressure, but Harribel mocked their hopes and fired a golden Cero at them.

Harribel and the other Espada clashed with Uryu Ishida’s Quincy forces, and their overwhelming power quickly turned the battle into a series of brutal matchups. As Ulquiorra fought the regenerating Gerard and Neliel pressed Askin, the Quincy and Shinigami began moving to support their allies.

• Tsukishima tried to block Harribel’s Cero, but it vaporized him; Uryu ordered the remaining Sternritter to spread out and unleash The Still.
• Lilynette and Stark merged and used a barrage of Ceros to counter the Quincy arrows, while Ulquiorra pierced Gerard’s heart and Gerard regenerated.
• Ulquiorra regenerated his torn-off arm, decapitated Gerard, and drove the giant, resurrected Quincy across the sand; Lille flew in to help, and Love and Hiyori rushed to support Ulquiorra.
• Neliel challenged the Quincy and Shinigami, and Askin approached her before she sliced him into pieces; he reappeared at a distance and claimed her body was being poisoned.
• Neliel told Askin his poison was useless against her and struck at his head with her twin blades.

Neliel fought Kyoraku, Askin, Gadis, Hachigen, and Lisa while the battle continued elsewhere. Lilynette overwhelmed Kensei and Isshin, then clashed with Minna in a brutal fistfight.

• Neliel revealed herself as the 30th Espada and nearly killed Kyoraku before Askin intervened; Gadis, Hachigen, and Lisa joined the fight against her.
• Lilynette challenged the invaders, and Kensei released Bankai but was defeated with one punch and a kick.
• Bambietta and Minna confronted Lilynette, and Minna matched her strength in a direct punch.
• Isshin attacked Lilynette from behind, but she kicked him away without turning around.
• Lilynette and Minna resumed their clash, trading powerful punches across the desert.

Grimmjow attacked Giselle’s group while Shinji Hirako and Harribel discussed the Espada and the Quincy’s impending danger from Yhwach. As the battles continued, Harribel and Lilynette warned the Quincy that Yhwach would reclaim their powers and lives, sowing doubt among his followers; Neliel still held the advantage over Candice’s group.

• Grimmjow tore off Giselle’s arm after Giselle mocked his No. 10 rank.
• Shinji Hirako questioned Harribel, who revealed that the missing Espada included a Shinigami, a Hollow, and a Quincy.
• Harribel told Uryū Ishida that Yhwach would reclaim the Quincy’s powers and lives through Saint’s Selection, and offered them protection under Lord Ross.
• Lilynette repeated Harribel’s warning to Minna and Bambietta, weakening their resolve as they fought her.
• Candice struggled against Neliel while Askin’s Deathdealing proved ineffective, and Shunsui Kyoraku admitted their side had little chance of winning.

Kisuke Urahara infiltrated the True King's Palace to uncover how Ross tracked his allies, but Unohana defeated his duplicate and Ryuken Ishida destroyed his real body in Karakura Town. Ross’s forces eliminated Urahara, whom they had treated as a serious threat.

• Kisuke Urahara entered the True King's Palace in disguise and realized someone was monitoring his side in the Human World.
• Unohana confronted Kisuke Urahara, revealed she was the 4th Espada Unohana Yachiru, and overwhelmed him with her sword.
• Unohana told Kisuke Urahara that Ross had shown her a new path of strength beyond this world, then killed his duplicate after recognizing his plan to gather information.
• Kisuke Urahara awoke in the Urahara Shop, wounded by the backlash from his duplicate's death, and realized Unohana had targeted his real body.
• Ryuken Ishida revealed his allegiance to the True King's Palace and used concentrated Spirit Particles to destroy the Urahara Shop and kill Kisuke Urahara.

Neliel defeated Shunsui Kyoraku’s group and defended her loyalty to Ross, while Ulquiorra and Gerard continued an apparently endless clash of regeneration. The chapter ended with Askin Nakk Le Vaar leaving their battlefield to seek opponents elsewhere.

• Lilynette overwhelmed Bambietta and Minna, while Kensei Muguruma and Isshin Kurosaki remained buried beneath the sand.
• Neliel killed Lisa Yadomaru and Hachigen Ushoda, then left Candice incapacitated and Askin near death as she defeated Shunsui Kyoraku’s group.
• Shunsui Kyoraku challenged Neliel’s loyalty to Ross, but she insisted Hueco Mundo would survive in the next world and wounded him while sparing his life.
• Ulquiorra and Gerard repeatedly tore each other apart and regenerated, while Lille watched helplessly and Love Aikawa and Rojuro Otoribashi lay dead.
• Askin Nakk Le Vaar left the clash between Ulquiorra and Gerard to look for opponents on the other battlefields.

Neliel defeated Askin with her ability, Compassion, then taunted Uryu Ishida and Yhwach about the Wandenreich’s weakness and the True King's Palace’s control of the Three Realms. Shinji Hirako discovered that the passage to the Human World had been sealed, leaving Kisuke Urahara cut off.

• Neliel explained that her Compassion ability made her unharmed by attacks as long as she held no murderous intent, then killed Askin when he fled toward her.
• Uryu Ishida questioned Neliel about her ability, and she revealed that she had only intended to spare Askin until he ran into her path.
• Neliel told Uryu Ishida that the True King's Palace considered him the Wandenreich’s only worthy opponent and derided Yhwach’s judgment and abilities.
• Yhwach claimed he had seen the future, but Neliel mocked him and said the Three Realms had largely fallen under the True King's Palace’s control.
• Shinji Hirako opened a Garganta toward the Human World and found the passage sealed, prompting him to demand an explanation from Neliel.

Neliel revealed that the Urahara Shop and its coordinates had been erased, while Ulquiorra defeated Gerard and took the Soul King's Heart. As the battles turned against the Shinigami and Quincies, Lilynette offered the defeated Minna and Candice protection, leaving Minna to suspect Candice had already joined True King's Palace.

• Neliel showed Shinji Hirako and the others that the Urahara Shop had been destroyed and explained that its location was trapped in Spirit Particle turbulence.
• Ulquiorra appeared with Gerard's Soul King's Heart after Gerard's Spiritual Pressure vanished, and Harribel sealed the heart in a spiritual box.
• Ulquiorra left to join Grimmjow's battlefield, while Minna and Bambietta recognized that Yhwach had abandoned the Quincies to die.
• Lilynette defeated and sat on Bambietta, then offered to protect her and Minna as her Subordinate Officers.
• Lilynette knocked Candice down and sat on her, prompting Minna to suspect Candice had defected and to envy her apparent chance to join True King's Palace.

Ulquiorra and Grimmjow crushed the remaining defenders on Grimmjow's battlefield, while Shunsui Kyoraku tried to kill Jushiro Ukitake rather than leave him trapped in Ross's control. Hiyori stopped him, and the chapter ended with Candice revealing that Lilynette was cooperating with her.

• Ulquiorra killed Tessai Tsukabishi, and Grimmjow defeated Jushiro Ukitake and Pernida.
• Ulquiorra and Grimmjow brought the defeated Shunsui Kyoraku and Jushiro Ukitake back to the main field, where Ulquiorra said Jushiro had been spared by Ross's order.
• Shunsui fired a Byakurai at Jushiro, but Hiyori kicked the lightning aside and rebuked him and Shinji for giving up.
• Hiyori urged the survivors to keep fighting Ross, while Shunsui remained convinced their resistance was part of Ross's plan.
• Minna realized that the Quincy figure watching from behind Uryu Ishida had vanished, and she and Bambietta feared what awaited them after defeat.
• Candice pushed Lilynette away, and Lilynette obediently moved aside, revealing that Candice had defected.

Gadis revealed her true identity as the Noveno Espada and challenged Uryu after rejecting Yhwach and the Wandenreich. As Gadis and Uryu began fighting, Neliel and Lilynette took in Bambietta and Minna, while Uryu discovered that Gadis's lightning could overwhelm his defenses.

• Gadis merged with her true self, revealed herself as the Noveno Espada, and declared that she would no longer serve Yhwach.
• Minna argued that returning to Yhwach would not save the survivors, and Gadis challenged Uryu while Harribel and the other Espada gave them room to fight.
• Lilynette carried Minna and Bambietta away; Bambietta asked to become Neliel's Subordinate Officer, and Neliel healed her injuries.
• Gadis attacked Uryu with a lightning spear, but his World Harmony weakened and redirected the strike.
• Gadis transformed into lightning and struck Uryu with a powerful kick, blasting him away despite his defenses and making him recognize the danger of her hybrid energy.

Candice and Uryū Ishida fought to a mutual defeat, while Ross watched from True King's Palace and ordered the survivors sent back to the Wandenreich. Minna and Bambietta were brought toward Las Noches to meet the Hollow King, as Uryū resolved to gather resistance against Ross.

• Ross and Sun-Sun watched Candice battle Uryū Ishida, and Ross judged that Candice’s inexperience had kept her from winning sooner.
• Candice and Uryū fought to a mutual defeat, with Candice still standing and free of her fear of Yhwach.
• Harribel relayed Ross’s order to send the Shinigami and Uryū back to the Wandenreich and bring Minna and Bambietta to True King's Palace.
• Minna and Bambietta used their shadows to transport the defeated Shinigami, while Isshin Kurosaki angrily looked toward True King's Palace.
• Uryū rejected Minna’s shadow passage, opened his own, and returned to the Wandenreich, resolving to unite forces for a strike against Ross.
• Lilynette led Minna and Bambietta toward Las Noches to meet the Hollow King.

Minina Macaron and Bambietta Basterbine entered True King's Palace, encountered its powerful Espada, and pledged themselves to Ross. Ross then addressed Yhwach, who was secretly watching through the Saint letters he had given the Quincies.

• Minina Macaron and Bambietta Basterbine were overwhelmed by the Spiritual Pressures inside True King's Palace as Neliel explained how its Arrancar had grown stronger under Ross's guidance.
• The two women passed the Espada thrones, where they encountered Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Candice, Kurosaki Masaki, Ryuken Ishida, Sun-Sun, Ulquiorra, and Retsu Unohana.
• Minina Macaron and Bambietta Basterbine reached Ross's throne, where his presence awed them, and they knelt as he welcomed them into True King's Palace.
• Ross asked whether they had anything to say while their people abandoned darkness for the light, revealing that Yhwach could observe them through the Saint letters he had granted them.

Ross rebuffed Yhwach’s threat and ordered the Espada to invade the Wandenreich in one month. He removed Yhwach’s marks from Minna and Bambietta, who then pledged themselves to him and were assigned to attend to his daily needs.

• Yhwach appeared from Minna and Bambietta’s shadows, but Ross overwhelmed his projection with his aura and dismissed his threats.
• Ross ordered the Espada to prepare to invade the Wandenreich in one month and retaliate against Yhwach.
• Ross stopped Minna and Bambietta from leaving and summoned them to sit beside him on the throne.
• Ross erased Yhwach’s spirit-particle marks from Minna and Bambietta, removing the danger of Saint’s Selection and marking them as belonging to the True King’s Palace.
• Minna and Bambietta thanked Ross and pledged their loyalty, and Ross told them they would attend to his daily needs.

Uryū Ishida returned to the Wandenreich with news that its invasion force had been crushed, only for Yhwach to punish him and name Uryu Ishida his successor. Meanwhile, the Captains of the Thirteen Court Guard Squads completed their evolution, leaving Soul Society close to or stronger than the Wandenreich.

• Uryū Ishida told Bazz-B and the gathered Sternritter that the Wandenreich force had been wiped out, its Royal Guard members were dead, and Candice, Bambietta, and Minna had defected.
• Uryu Ishida described how the Espada had overwhelmed the Quincy fighters, including how Candice defeated Uryū Ishida, and Bazz-B tried to attack him before Yhwach arrived.
• Yhwach ordered Uryū Ishida to mark himself for his failure, then stripped him of his highest Sternritter rank and named Uryu Ishida as the Quincy with the potential to inherit his power.
• Yhwach took control of Uryu Ishida and led him into the palace, while Uryū Ishida remained wounded and the surviving Sternritter and Shinigami stood in silence.
• In Soul Society, Aizen and Mayuri Kurotsuchi oversaw the Thirteen Court Guard Squads' completed evolution, with several Shinigami gaining enhanced spiritual power through Hollow traits or Zanpakuto fusion.

Ross led the Espada and his newly empowered handmaidens through Garganta in a direct invasion of the Wandenreich. Yhwach, fully revived with The Almighty awakened by more than half, prepared to meet them with Uryū Ishida and Uryu Ishida at his side.

• Ross called the Espada to battle, and they knelt before him before opening eleven Garganta to the Wandenreich.
• Minna and Bambietta followed Ross through a Garganta, while the other Espada entered their own passages to separate battlefields.
• Shinji Hirako, Shunsui Kyoraku, Jushiro Ukitake, and their allies watched the invasion begin as Isshin Kurosaki recognized Kurosaki Masaki among Ross's forces.
• Yhwach fully revived and awakened more than half of The Almighty, while Uryū Ishida and Uryu Ishida stood beside him, empowered as his strongest knights.
• Yhwach formed a Quincy Spirit Particle battle sword and led Uryū Ishida and Uryu Ishida out of the palace to face the invaders.

Grimmjow, Candice, Minna, and Bambietta attacked the Quincy forces, while Minna and Bambietta explained to Liltotto why they had turned against Yhwach. Elsewhere, Isshin confronted Kurosaki Masaki, who described her past and allegiance to Ross, and he charged at her in anger.

• Grimmjow charged into the Quincy formation, and Candice, Minna, and Bambietta joined the attack.
• Minna and Bambietta told Liltotto that Yhwach had abandoned them, while Candice asked whether Liltotto would fight them or join them.
• Candice, Minna, and Bambietta killed Driscoll Berci when he attacked them.
• Isshin asked Kurosaki Masaki why she had changed, and she recounted how Saint's Selection had taken her life and power before Ross saved her.
• Kurosaki Masaki called herself Ross's private possession, and Isshin shouted that she was not the woman he knew before charging at her.

Kurosaki Masaki killed Isshin Kurosaki, while Ryuken Ishida overwhelmed Uryu Ishida and sent him to Sun-Sun. Sun-Sun revealed that Ryuken had deliberately arranged for Uryu to reach her and approach Yhwach, as Ryuken continued slaughtering Quincy across the battlefield.

• Kurosaki Masaki crushed Isshin Kurosaki beneath her spiritual pressure and killed him, declaring their past bond over.
• Ryuken Ishida erased a Quincy watchtower and its defenders with a wave, then offered Uryu Ishida a planned future in the New World.
• Uryu Ishida rejected Ryuken's control, but Ryuken suppressed him and blasted him across the battlefield.
• Uryu Ishida encountered Sun-Sun beside the bodies of Quilge Opie and Pepe Wacabrada, and she introduced herself as the 60th Espada.
• Sun-Sun explained that Ryuken had sent Uryu to her so he could approach Yhwach and steal part of his power, while Ryuken slaughtered Quincy elsewhere.

Uryu Ishida learned that Yhwach’s Saint’s Selection had killed his mother and charged at him, but Sun-Sun knocked him unconscious. In the Wandenreich, Unohana confronted Shunsui Kyoraku and the others as a True King's Palace Espada, and Shinji Hirako charged her, ending with Unohana killing her in one stroke.

• Sun-Sun told Uryu Ishida that Yhwach’s Saint’s Selection had harvested his mother, Hae Katagiri, and Uryu charged toward Yhwach for revenge.
• Sun-Sun trapped Uryu Ishida in darkness and made him lose consciousness before he could reach Yhwach.
• Shunsui Kyoraku, Jushiro Ukitake, Shinji Hirako, Hiyori Sarugaki, Nemu Kurotsuchi, and Kensei Muguruma hid in an alley as the Quincy battle raged.
• Unohana appeared and revealed that she had joined the True King's Palace when Shunsui Kyoraku asked her to watch Captain Ross; she also confirmed she had exposed the Soul Reapers’ movements in Hueco Mundo.
• Shunsui Kyoraku pleaded with Unohana to spare Shinji Hirako and the others, but Hiyori Sarugaki rejected surrender and challenged her.
• Shinji Hirako charged Unohana, who appeared behind her and killed her with a single sword stroke.

Unohana killed Kensei Muguruma and Nemu Kurotsuchi but left Shinji Hirako alive, while Shunsui Kyoraku explained that Ross wanted her alive for his spectacle. On the main battlefield, Bazz-B revealed his betrayal and was stripped of his power by Yhwach, while Uryū Ishida spared him and charged Ross’s throne.

• Unohana cut down Kensei Muguruma and Nemu Kurotsuchi, leaving Shinji Hirako alive with a grave wound.
• Shinji demanded to know why Unohana had spared her, and Shunsui Kyoraku stopped Jushiro Ukitake from pursuing Unohana.
• Ross watched the battlefield from his golden throne as Harribel, Lilynette, and Neliel kept the Quincy at bay.
• Bazz-B used a wall of flames to reveal that Yhwach had gone to the Soul King Palace, then Saint's Selection drained Bazz-B of his power.
• Bazz-B confessed that he sought revenge on Yhwach, and Uryū Ishida refused to kill him despite condemning his betrayal.
• Uryū Ishida left Bazz-B behind and charged toward Ross’s throne, determined to follow his own chosen path.