Chapter Summaries

Seraphim Kaido and the Seraphims activated five pillars that formed a curtain around Soul Society, while Dark Wizards attacked the Soul Society Outskirts and fed the curtain with Reishi. The assault left the residents fleeing in panic, and the Seireitei’s Reiatsu Monitoring Tower detected expanding abnormal readings.

• Seraphim Kaido and the Seraphims planted five pillars in a pentagram and raised a curtain that began enveloping Soul Society.
• Dark Wizards descended on broomsticks and used magic to turn wandering souls into Reishi absorbed by the curtain.
• The Dark Wizards attacked residents, homes, and roadside stones as the curtain grew brighter and more solid.
• Residents fled in panic, while scouts rushed back to warn their gangs and organizations.
• Soul Reapers on watch at the Reiatsu Monitoring Tower saw alarms and expanding red readings pointing to the Soul Society Outskirts.

Abnormal Reiatsu and reports of thousands of deadly Intruders sent the Soul Society into emergency action. A force led by captains reached the devastated Outskirts and dispatched scouts to investigate.

• A Soul Reaper reported massive, unfamiliar Reiatsu fluctuations, prompting Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto to put the divisions on alert and order Mayuri Kurotsuchi to analyze them.
• Gin Ichimaru questioned Sosuke Aizen about the disturbance, and Aizen denied arranging it before assigning Kaname Tosen to gather intelligence on the Intruders.
• The captains of the 2nd, 9th, and 7th Divisions led hundreds of Soul Reapers into the Soul Society Outskirts, where they encountered fleeing residents and widespread destruction.
• A wandering soul told the force that at least ten thousand Intruders were killing anyone they saw.
• Sajin Komamura doubted the Intruders could have entered undetected, while Soi Fon sent Kidō Corps scouts to investigate.

Kidō Corps members were detected and killed by the Dark Wizards, revealing that the curtain monitored the Soul Society Outskirts. Soi Fon, Sajin Komamura, and Kaname Tosen then faced thousands of wizards, who surrounded them and unleashed four vast walls of fire.

• Kidō Corps members tried to ambush a Dark Wizard but were immobilized after the wizards detected them through the curtain’s surveillance.
• The Dark Wizards overwhelmed the Kidō Corps members, killing them and dispersing their Reiatsu.
• Soi Fon, Sajin Komamura, and Kaname Tosen sensed the deaths and prepared for the approaching enemy.
• Several thousand wizards surrounded the three captains and their Soul Reaper forces, while Zaraki Kenpachi recognized Soi Fon’s attack as a curse-type ability.
• Zaraki Kenpachi and the wizards cast Incendio, creating four enormous seas of fire that enclosed the Soul Reapers.

Sajin Komamura used his Bankai to extinguish the Wizards’ flames and attack their legion, while Soi Fon and Kaname Tosen joined the fight. The Wizards’ defenses began to crumble, and Soi Fon pursued Zaraki Kenpachi, threatening to kill him within three seconds.

• Sajin Komamura unleashed Bankai—Kokujō Tengen Myō'ō: Dangai Jōe, whose wind extinguished the fire and sent Wizards and trees flying.
• Komamura and Tengen Myō'ō struck the Wizard legion, but thousands of Wizards combined their spells to form armor that blocked the blow as cracks spread across it.
• Soi Fon and Kaname Tosen attacked the Wizards alongside Komamura, killing more than a hundred and throwing the legion into disarray.
• Soi Fon pursued Zaraki Kenpachi as he repeatedly used Apparition to evade her.
• Soi Fon said she would kill Zaraki within three seconds and readied Suzumebachi for a fatal strike.

Seraphim Kaido arrived to face Soi Fon, Sajin Komamura, and Kaname Tosen, overwhelming their attacks with his immense strength. He severely wounded Komamura and grabbed him by the head, leaving Tosen and Soi Fon in danger.

• Soi Fon nearly killed Zaraki Kenpachi, but she withdrew when she sensed Seraphim Kaido's killing intent approaching.
• Seraphim Kaido appeared, and Zaraki Kenpachi led the Wizard Legion away to fight ordinary Soul Reapers.
• Soi Fon struck Seraphim Kaido with Suzumebachi, but it could not pierce his skin, and his fist wind injured her arm.
• Sajin Komamura's Heavenly Punishment Myo-o struck Seraphim Kaido, who crushed its blade and punched through its chest.
• The damage rebounded on Komamura, shattering his ribs and caving in his chest, before Seraphim Kaido grabbed him by the head.

Seraphim Kaido killed Sajin Komamura and defeated Kaname Tosen, while Soi Fon escaped to warn the Seireitei. Her report of the powerful, unknown Intruders shifted the Soul Reapers’ attention from the Kuchiki Clan execution to preparing for the threat.

• Seraphim Kaido crushed Sajin Komamura’s head after Komamura refused to submit, devastating the Soul Reapers’ morale.
• Kaname Tosen trapped Seraphim Kaido in his Bankai barrier, but Kaido blocked Tosen’s attack and emerged alone when the barrier vanished.
• Soi Fon fled from Seraphim Kaido, used Shunkō and a technique that created three doubles, and escaped when he let her go.
• Soi Fon returned to the Seireitei as the sole survivor and reported the loss of three captains and hundreds of Soul Reapers.
• Jushiro Ukitake and Mayuri Kurotsuchi discussed the unknown Intruders as the Seireitei focused on how to confront them.

As the Wizards led by the Seraphims ravaged the Soul Society Outskirts, Aizen manipulated Seireitei into advancing Rukia Kuchiki’s execution while ordering the Gotei 13 to fight the Intruders. Yoruichi’s group sought Kokaku Shiba’s help entering Soul Society, and Seireitei learned that the ten Seraphims were equally powerful.

• The captains argued over how to respond as refugees fled the devastated Soul Society Outskirts, but the nobles ordered Soul Reapers to keep them out of Seireitei.
• Gin Ichimaru questioned Sosuke Aizen about the crisis and Captain Tosen’s sacrifice, while Aizen dismissed Tosen and revealed no concern for events beyond his control.
• Central 46, secretly controlled by Aizen and Gin Ichimaru, ordered Rukia Kuchiki’s execution moved to three days away and directed the Gotei 13 to annihilate the Intruders.
• Yoruichi brought Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and their companions to Kokaku Shiba, who agreed to help them enter Soul Society despite Seireitei’s heightened alert.
• The Wizards advanced toward Soul Society as Seireitei gathered intelligence on the ten Seraphims; Soi Fon recognized Seraphim Kaido, and Shunsui Kyoraku and Jushiro Ukitake concluded the Seraphims were equals in strength.

Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto ordered the Gotei 13 to mobilize against the ten Seraphim, with Kenpachi Zaraki and the 11th Division serving as the vanguard. As both forces advanced toward battle, Seraphim Hawkeye and Seraphim Zoro chose which of the two Kenpachis to challenge by flipping a coin.

• Kenpachi Zaraki left to fight, and Shunsui Kyoraku told Jushiro Ukitake that Yamamoto intended him to lead the vanguard.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto sent the Gotei 13 into battle, keeping the 1st Division behind to guard the Seireitei headquarters.
• Kenpachi Zaraki led the 11th Division, followed by other divisions and the Kidō Corps, while the 4th Division brought medical supplies.
• Seraphim Kuzan showed no interest in fighting as Seraphim Hawkeye and Seraphim Zoro discussed challenging a Kenpachi.
• Seraphim Hawkeye flipped a coin to decide which Kenpachi he and Seraphim Zoro would face.

Retsu Unohana faced Seraphim Zoro alone and unleashed her Bankai, while Kenpachi Zaraki was defeated by Seraphim Hawkeye. Ikkaku Madarame challenged Hawkeye and revealed his Bankai as the chapter ended.

• Retsu Unohana blocked Seraphim Zoro’s Flying Slash and ordered Isane Kotetsu to lead the 4th Division away.
• Retsu Unohana activated Bankai—Kaijin and began a fierce sword fight with Seraphim Zoro.
• Seraphim Hawkeye severely wounded Kenpachi Zaraki and dismissed him as a disappointment.
• Ikkaku Madarame confronted Seraphim Hawkeye and activated Bankai—Dragon Crest Demon Lamp Maru.

Ikkaku Madarame sacrificed himself attacking Seraphim Hawkeye, who killed him with a single strike. Kenpachi Zaraki recovered and confronted Hawkeye, but Hawkeye still held the advantage and demanded that Kenpachi reveal his Bankai.

• Ikkaku Madarame charged Seraphim Hawkeye with his Bankai, but Hawkeye cut through his blades and killed him in one strike.
• Seraphim Hawkeye said he would remember Ikkaku Madarame's name as Ikkaku's body dissolved into Reishi and vanished into the sky's mysterious curtain.
• Yumichika Ayasegawa mourned Ikkaku Madarame as Kenpachi Zaraki suddenly recovered, released his Shikai, and attacked Hawkeye.
• Yumichika Ayasegawa retreated as Kenpachi Zaraki and Seraphim Hawkeye exchanged powerful blows that devastated the battlefield.
• Seraphim Hawkeye urged Kenpachi Zaraki to use his Bankai, but Kenpachi struggled to break free of Hawkeye's overwhelming strength.

Seraphim Hawkeye killed Kenpachi Zaraki after Zaraki transformed and attacked him in a berserk state. Seraphim Zoro then defeated Retsu Unohana, whose Bankai failed once her Reiatsu ran out.

• Kenpachi Zaraki transformed, gaining speed and power but gradually losing his reason as he fought Seraphim Hawkeye.
• Seraphim Hawkeye used a lightning-fast strike to cut Kenpachi Zaraki in two and left the battlefield.
• Retsu Unohana sensed Kenpachi Zaraki's Reiatsu disappear, while Seraphim Zoro transformed into his three-headed, six-armed Asura Form.
• Seraphim Zoro overwhelmed Retsu Unohana with nine-sword attacks and trapped her in his Nine Sword Style Mad Dragon Tornado.
• Retsu Unohana's Reiatsu ran out, releasing her Bankai, and the tornado shredded her body.

Shunsui Kyoraku and Jushiro Ukitake learned that several captains’ Reiatsu, including Retsu Unohana’s and Kenpachi Zaraki’s, had vanished before Wes Erwin revealed himself as the invasion’s mastermind. Wes stopped Gin Ichimaru’s Bankai and knocked Jushiro unconscious while probing the nature of the Soul King.

• Shunsui Kyoraku and Jushiro Ukitake realized that Retsu Unohana’s, Kenpachi Zaraki’s, and several other Soul Reapers’ Reiatsu had disappeared.
• Wes Erwin appeared and identified himself as the mastermind behind the invasion, then effortlessly nullified Shunsui Kyoraku’s attack.
• Sosuke Aizen and Gin Ichimaru emerged from their Invisibility Cloaks, and Aizen asked Wes how he had detected them.
• Gin Ichimaru unleashed Bankai: Kill Him, Kamishini no Yari, but Wes stopped the blade with The Interspace.
• Wes seized Jushiro Ukitake and hypnotized him unconscious while saying he wanted to see what the Soul King was.

Wes absorbed the awakened Soul King's Right Hand, killed Jushiro Ukitake and Shunsui Kyoraku, and tore open the boundary between the Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. As Hollows and the Espada poured through the passages, Wes prepared to draw out those hiding in the shadows.

• The Soul King's Right Hand awakened inside Jushiro Ukitake, but Wes stopped it, pinned it down, and absorbed its power.
• Shunsui Kyoraku unleashed his Bankai in fury over Ukitake's death, but Wes destroyed him, while Gin Ichimaru watched in fear.
• Sosuke Aizen deduced that Wes came from another world, and Wes trapped Aizen and Gin Ichimaru in Negación.
• Wes tore the Soul Society apart and connected it directly to Hueco Mundo, but the spatial upheaval destroyed Negación and sent Aizen and Gin falling.
• Hollows, Menos, and the Espada entered the Soul Society through the passages, while Aizen realized his actions had helped Wes locate Hueco Mundo.
• Wes said he would use the chaos to draw out those hiding in the shadows.

Wes gathered the factions of Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, the Wandenreich, and the World of the Living, then divided the battlefield and confronted their strongest fighters. After killing most of the Sternritter and stopping Yamamoto’s first Bankai strike with The Interspace, Wes faced Yamamoto’s scorching flames as they began to pierce his spatial defense.

• Yhwach and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto confronted one another before turning their attention to Wes, and the Royal Guard arrived.
• Wes opened a gate for the Seraphim and divided the battlefield into three sections, isolating himself with Yhwach, Yamamoto, Sosuke Aizen, Ichibei Hyosube, Ichigo Kurosaki, and the Sternritter.
• Wes warned that he stood above them in soul power, then killed nearly all the Sternritter with his black eyes, sparing the four Schutzstaffel and Jugram Haschwalth.
• Yamamoto activated Bankai—Zanka no Tachi and attacked Wes with Rising Sun Blade, but The Interspace stopped the slash.
• Yamamoto enveloped himself in Scorching Sun Prison Garb, and its heat began breaking through The Interspace as Wes reacted with surprise.

Wes fought the Soul Society and Quincy survivors, resisting Ichibei Hyosube’s word-based techniques and countering their coordinated attacks. He left Lille Barro fatally disintegrating while Askin Nakk Le Vaar realized his power could not harm Wes.

• Ichibei Hyosube tried to bind Wes with ink chains, but they collapsed when they touched him.
• Wes absorbed Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s flames, redirected them as arrows, and froze Yamamoto in ice.
• Yhwach bypassed Wes’s spatial defense and attacked him, but Wes blocked the Black Cross Saber with his staff.
• Lille Barro fired a powerful arrow while Yhwach clamped space, but Wes deflected it back and the arrow pierced Lille Barro, whose body disintegrated.
• Askin Nakk Le Vaar used The Deathdealing to search for a way to poison Wes, but found his ability ineffective and feared for Lille Barro.

Wes absorbed Pernida Parnkgjas and moved to seize Gerard Valkyrie, but Yhwach absorbed Gerard first. Aizen freed Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto from the ice, and Yamamoto joined forces with Yhwach against Wes.

• Pernida Parnkgjas disobeyed Yhwach, touched Wes, and crashed under the flood of information it absorbed.
• Wes absorbed Pernida Parnkgjas and created three solid clones, sending them toward Yhwach and Ichibei Hyosube while he and another clone attacked Gerard Valkyrie.
• Gerard Valkyrie transformed to fight Wes, but Yhwach absorbed him before Wes could take his power.
• Aizen transferred his Reiatsu to Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, helping him break free from the ice.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto set aside his doubts about Aizen and asked Yhwach to work with him against Wes; Yhwach agreed.

Wes battled Yhwach, Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Ichibei Hyosube, and Aizen, capturing Yamamoto and killing Askin Nakk Le Vaar and Ichibei Hyosube. The fight left only Yhwach, Aizen, and Ichigo Kurosaki facing Wes, while Ichigo demanded to know what was happening.

• Yhwach and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto coordinated their attacks with Ichibei Hyosube and Aizen, while Wes used Deathly Stillness to wither Yamamoto's arm, forcing him to cut it off.
• Yhwach urged Ichibei Hyosube to let him absorb the Soul King, but Ichibei hesitated because losing the Soul King would destroy the balance of the three realms.
• Wes trapped Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto inside a golden sphere made from a sun he had created and began reforging it to make Yamamoto the core of a new sun.
• Aizen trapped Wes in Black Coffin, but Wes emerged unharmed and unleashed his own black attack, draining the Reiatsu from survivors and making Askin Nakk Le Vaar disappear.
• Wes pierced Ichibei Hyosube, transported him to the World Consciousness Space, and left him unable to use his naming power before the space tore him apart.
• Ichigo Kurosaki found himself in the battle instead of on his way to rescue Rukia Kuchiki and demanded to know what was happening as only Yhwach and Aizen remained beside him.

Ichigo Kurosaki Hollowfied after Wes pierced his chest, but Yhwach subdued him and sent him into his inner world to master Bankai. As Yhwach began training him, Aizen confronted Wes to keep him from interfering.

• Wes's attack pierced Ichigo Kurosaki's chest, triggering his transformation into a Minotaur Hollow.
• Ichigo Kurosaki tried to flee the battlefield, but an invisible barrier blocked him, and Wes's Black Flames burned him despite his High-Speed Regeneration.
• Yhwach dispersed the flames, ended Ichigo Kurosaki's Hollowfication, and sensed his highly pure Quincy blood.
• Yhwach sent Ichigo Kurosaki into his inner world and told him he would stay there until he mastered Bankai, while pain and death would not truly kill him.
• Aizen blocked Wes from attacking Yhwach, but Wes's white light pierced through Aizen's Dankū barriers.

Wes unleashed a Lava Giant to devastate Soul Society and headed for the Soul King Palace after obtaining the King Key. He dissolved the Soul King and began devouring the palace and the world, while Yhwach sensed the impending destruction.

• Yhwach and Ichigo Kurosaki awoke in time to resist Wes’s attack, but Yhwach lost his right arm and could not regenerate it.
• Wes summoned a Lava Giant that set Soul Society ablaze, then left a magical clone to hold off Yhwach.
• Wes reached the Soul King Palace and shattered the Divine Soldiers who tried to stop him.
• Wes found the Soul King in a crystal coffin and dissolved him into spiritual fluid.
• The fluid spread through the Soul King Palace and began devouring the world, which Yhwach sensed as a world-ending crisis.

After Wes devoured the Soul King, the worlds collapsed and their inhabitants disintegrated. Back in the magical world, Wes began building a Netherworld and completed its initial form, leaving it ready to receive souls.

• Wes devoured the Soul King, triggering the collapse of the Soul Society, Hueco Mundo, the World of the Living, and hell.
• Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincies disintegrated as the destruction swept through the worlds.
• A group of Wizards returned to the magical world and began arranging military merits and rewards for their victory.
• Wes carved out an extradimensional space and anchored it with five pillars containing refined soul power.
• Wes formed the Netherworld's soil, sky, mountains, canyons, Nether River, and central lake.
• Wes created Nether Spirits to guide newly deceased souls and finished the Netherworld's initial form.