Chapter Summaries

At Sleeping Boar Palace, Rukia told Feng Ye she wanted to become an excellent Soul Reaper, and he agreed to let her go to the Soul Society. Liana received permission to go with her, while Feng Ye planned to visit the Wandenreich hidden in the Seireitei’s shadows.

• Kirio Hikifune hosted Feng Ye, Hizana, and Lilith at a banquet in Sleeping Boar Palace.
• Liana told Feng Ye that she had helped Rukia obtain an Asauchi and train because Rukia wanted to become an outstanding Soul Reaper.
• Rukia explained that she wanted to grow stronger so she could better serve Feng Ye, and he approved her going to the Soul Society to pursue that goal.
• Liana asked to go to the Soul Society too, and Feng Ye granted her permission because she and Lilith had gained better control over their powers.
• Feng Ye revealed that he planned to visit the Soul Society and the Wandenreich hidden within the Seireitei’s shadows.

Liana left the banquet to have Oetsu Nimaiya forge her a Zanpakuto, and Feng Ye stepped in to complete the final strike when Oetsu collapsed. Liana awakened Still Water and its Bankai, Sever Desire, Stop Water, whose area-wide emotional attacks Feng Ye judged less impressive than its Shikai.

• Liana rushed off to find Oetsu Nimaiya and request a Zanpakuto, while Feng Ye explained to Lilith that Liana understood more than her playful behavior suggested.
• Oetsu struggled to forge an Asauchi from Liana’s immense Reiatsu and collapsed before the final strike, so Feng Ye caught his hammer and finished the blade.
• Liana took the Asauchi and fused with it, sending a surge of Reiatsu through the Spirit King Palace that drew the attention of Hyōsube Ichibē and the others.
• Liana released Still Water, causing those around her to overlook her presence, and Feng Ye explained how the Shikai worked.
• Liana activated her Bankai, Sever Desire, Stop Water, which stirred and detonated the emotions of enemies within its range, and Feng Ye assessed it as weaker than her Shikai.

Feng Ye took Rukia back to the Soul Society after suppressing the emotions stirred by Liana’s Bankai, then reunited with Yoruichi and Soi Fon at the Second Division barracks. The chapter ended with Feng Ye teasing Yoruichi about joining him at the Spirit King Palace.

• Liana’s Bankai overwhelmed Oetsu Nimaiya, Rukia, and Hizana with powerful emotions until Feng Ye used his God’s Eye to dispel its effects.
• Feng Ye forbade Liana from using Bankai until she could control it and opened a Space-Time Corridor to the Soul Society, leaving Lilith behind.
• After arriving in the Seireitei, Liana sensed an exceptionally powerful Reiatsu and went to investigate while Feng Ye stayed with Rukia.
• Feng Ye walked with Rukia near the Second Division barracks and reassured her that he still regarded her as his younger sister.
• Yoruichi warned Soi Fon that Aizen was still plotting and joked that Feng Ye should promote her to Zero Division.
• Feng Ye appeared behind Yoruichi and said he was missing a cat at the Spirit King Palace if she wanted to join him.

Feng Ye left Rukia in Yoruichi’s care so she could train as an ordinary Bleach, but a battle in North Rukon interrupted her registration. After defeating and killing Kenpachi Zaraki, a nameless man from Zaraki District challenged the newly arrived Liana, whose strength caught his interest.

• Feng Ye told Yoruichi that he wanted to see how Aizen developed, then entrusted Rukia to her for training.
• Yoruichi sent Soi Fon to register Rukia with the Onmitsukidō reserves, but an unfamiliar Reiatsu erupted in northern Seireitei.
• In North Rukon, the nameless man defeated Kenpachi Zaraki without releasing his Zanpakuto, and Kenpachi died after naming him the new Kenpachi.
• Yachiru Kusajishi said Kenpachi had died, while the nameless man remarked that he needed to control his strength.
• Liana appeared and agreed to fight the new Kenpachi, who had Yachiru step aside before unleashing his full Reiatsu.

Liana fought Kenpachi Zaraki for the first time, using her Shisui ability to overwhelm him and leave him badly wounded. After the Captains arrived, they recognized Liana as the Princess and named Kenpachi Zaraki the new Captain of the Eleventh Division and Kenpachi.

• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Liana, but she released Shisui and wounded him while making herself difficult to perceive.
• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked by instinct, and Liana struck him down before ending their fight and giving him her name.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto and the other Captains arrived, and Retsu Unohana determined that Kenpachi Zaraki had killed the former Captain in a duel.
• The Captains recognized Liana as the Princess, and Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto assigned Yoruichi Shihoin to accompany her around the Seireitei.
• Retsu Unohana treated Kenpachi Zaraki, who accepted the Captaincy and the title of Kenpachi, and Shunsui Kyoraku was told to prepare his promotion ceremony.

Feng Ye entered the Wandenreich and reflected on how the Quincy had secretly built a vast empire beneath the Seireitei. He met the young Bambietta Basterbine, who threatened to make him a sacrifice when he refused to become her subordinate, and she began gathering Reishi to attack him.

• Feng Ye walked toward Silver Frame City and considered how the Quincy had survived and expanded in the Seireitei's shadows for nearly a thousand years.
• Bambietta Basterbine hunted a deer with a Spirit Particle Arrow while her attendants praised her talent and her chance of becoming a Sternritter.
• Bambietta noticed Feng Ye across the river, crossed to meet him, and questioned him about his family and why he was not a knight.
• Bambietta threatened to make Feng Ye a sacrifice unless he became her subordinate, but Feng Ye refused.
• Bambietta gathered Reishi in her palm and told Feng Ye he had made the wrong choice.

Feng Ye killed Bambietta after she ordered her guards to seize him, then she woke in an unfamiliar estate with no injuries. She found Feng Ye there and feared her death had not been a dream.

• Bambietta ordered her guards to seize Feng Ye, but he swiftly incapacitated them and revealed himself as an aberrant Quincy.
• Feng Ye pierced Bambietta’s chest, removed her heart, and called it her first death.
• Bambietta woke unharmed in an unfamiliar villa and searched the empty estate for someone who could explain where she was.
• Bambietta saw Feng Ye eating in a side hall and wondered whether her nightmare had really happened.

Feng Ye imprisoned Bambietta and explained that he had made her immortal but left her vulnerable to pain and lasting injuries unless she returned to the bedroom on the third floor. After Feng Ye left her alone, Bambietta tried to resist the hunger his power caused, but eventually gave in and ate the steak.

• Feng Ye told Bambietta that she would not die from injuries but would not heal or escape pain outside the bedroom barrier, then cut off her left hand to demonstrate.
• Feng Ye said he would stay at the estate until the Bambietta Family found them and announced that Bambietta’s torture had begun.
• Bambietta decided to stay alive and look for a chance to escape rather than fight Feng Ye directly.
• Feng Ye left the estate with fishing gear and warned Bambietta that her immortal body would make her hunger unusually intense.
• Bambietta suspected the open front door was a trap, but hunger overwhelmed her and she staggered to the table to eat the steak.

Feng Ye went fishing while considering how to resolve the conflict between the Soul Reapers and Quincy. In Silver Frame City, Basterbine’s disappearance caused an uproar, and Jugram Haschwalth felt an inexplicable unease as Yhwach’s awakening drew closer.

• Feng Ye reflected on the competing arguments behind the Thousand-Year Blood War and went fishing beside a river.
• Basterbine disappeared, prompting the Bambietta Family to mobilize knights and accuse the other great families of possible involvement.
• The great families denied responsibility, and the Bambietta Family threatened to seek Sternritter judgment if the culprit was uncovered.
• Jugram Haschwalth sensed unease while watching northward, and Bazz-B dismissed his concern as imagination.
• Jugram recalled that Yhwach had reclaimed his heartbeat and was gradually recovering his consciousness, with seventy-seven years remaining.

Bambietta realized Feng Ye had altered her body and that escape or rescue would be difficult, but she was forced by hunger to leave her room. Feng Ye bound her in the courtyard and began shooting her with a Reishi bow, leaving her in pain and terror.

• Bambietta examined her blood and found her Quincy lineage unchanged, then suspected Feng Ye had modified her heart.
• Bambietta endured hunger for a day before leaving her room to eat the breakfast Feng Ye had prepared.
• Feng Ye summoned Bambietta to the courtyard, bound her to a wooden post, and recreated a shooting game from her memories.
• Feng Ye shot Bambietta with arrows, first wounding her abdomen and then repeatedly piercing her body.

After enduring Feng Ye’s torture, Bambietta rapidly advanced her Reishi control and decided to kill him to escape. On the seventh night, she attacked him in his sleep, engulfing his body in a powerful beam of Reishi.

• Feng Ye shot Bambietta repeatedly, and she used Ransō Tengai to drag herself back to her room and heal.
• Bambietta discovered she had reached the second stage of Reishi concentration and resolved to assassinate Feng Ye.
• Over the following days, Feng Ye severed Bambietta’s limbs, prompting her to master knight-captain-level Reishi threads to return to her room and recover.
• On the seventh night, Bambietta quietly entered Feng Ye’s bedroom and gathered Reishi for a close-range attack.
• Bambietta unleashed a beam of Reishi that illuminated the bedroom and swallowed Feng Ye’s body.

Bambietta attacked Feng Ye to prove her Reishi control, but he effortlessly subdued her and revealed power comparable to Sklaverei. He punished her by forcing her to swallow compressed Reishi until she exploded, leaving the villa’s barrier to contain the blast.

• Bambietta blasted half the villa, but Feng Ye and the bed remained unharmed as the damage rewound and the building restored itself.
• Feng Ye stripped Bambietta of control over Reishi, bound her with Reishi ropes, and demonstrated power she recognized as Sklaverei.
• Feng Ye told Bambietta he would not let her die easily and created ten pillars of Reishi light, matching the attack she had used against him.
• Feng Ye compressed the Reishi into dense balls and forced Bambietta to swallow them; she struggled to control the first three inside her body.
• Feng Ye fed Bambietta the remaining seven Reishi balls, causing her to explode in a blast that tore through the villa until its barrier stopped it.

Bambietta woke in her bedroom after surviving Feng Ye’s torture and considered escape, but he told her that neither she nor the Sternritter could help her. When Giselle Gewelle arrived at the manor while searching for Bambietta, she revealed that an invisible barrier blocked the gate.

• Bambietta woke unharmed after Feng Ye’s latest torture and wrestled with her fear and lingering gratitude toward him.
• At breakfast, Feng Ye deduced that Bambietta planned to escape or seek help and warned that even the Sternritter would be useless.
• After three uneasy days, Feng Ye left the manor to fish, and Giselle Gewelle arrived with four knights while searching for Bambietta.
• Giselle recognized Bambietta, who was surprised that he and his knights had entered the manor without trouble.
• Bambietta touched the area beyond the gate, where an unseen barrier destroyed part of her fingernail, then told Giselle to try it.

Bambietta told Giselle that Feng Ye had imprisoned her, but Giselle stabbed her to eliminate a potential rival for a Sternritter position. Feng Ye intervened, punished Bambietta for seeking help, and killed Giselle and the fleeing knights with Palm Star River.

• Bambietta told Giselle that a fallen Quincy had imprisoned her and asked him to report the situation to the Sternritter.
• Giselle stabbed Bambietta, explaining that she wanted the Bambietta Family's potential Sternritter candidate to disappear.
• Bambietta survived the chest wound and fought back, but Giselle's Blut Vene and Reishi blade overwhelmed her.
• Feng Ye appeared, shattered Giselle's blade with one finger, and severed Bambietta's left arm as punishment for seeking help.
• Giselle and her knights fled, but Feng Ye used Palm Star River to crush them all, leaving Bambietta alone.

Bambietta struggled with her feelings about Feng Ye and learned that he came from outside the Wandenreich, while fearing the Soul Reapers might attack. When Sternritter Cang Du arrived to investigate Giselle’s death, Feng Ye killed him instantly, leaving Bambietta terrified and blaming herself for not understanding the danger sooner.

• Bambietta recovered from her injuries and spent three uneasy days wondering why Feng Ye had stopped punishing her.
• Cang Du learned that Giselle had vanished and set out alone to investigate, unwilling to ask Uryu Ishida for help.
• Bambietta recalled Feng Ye’s denial that he was born in the Wandenreich and feared the Soul Reapers might be preparing to attack it.
• Cang Du arrived at Feng Ye’s estate and destroyed part of its wall and gardens while searching for the source of Giselle’s disappearance.
• Feng Ye appeared and crushed Cang Du to powder with a giant hand, and Bambietta collapsed in terror, calling herself stupid.

Feng Ye tested Bambietta by making her endure scorching Reishi and then ordering her to control it herself. As Bambietta continued obeying despite being able to escape, Feng Ye watched from his study and prepared to bring his journey through the Wandenreich to a close.

• Feng Ye bound Bambietta and used scorching Reishi orbs on her while she pleaded and endured the pain.
• When Bambietta tried to shield herself with Reishi, Feng Ye ordered her to disperse it, and she obeyed.
• Feng Ye told Bambietta to control the orb and make the scorching Reishi fall on her herself, and she followed his instructions.
• Feng Ye left to make tea while Bambietta continued obeying, even though she could destroy the rope or disperse the orb.
• Feng Ye watched Bambietta from his study and reflected that she chose to obey despite wanting to resist.
• Feng Ye anticipated that a Sternritter's death would shake the Wandenreich and lead to the Sternritter gathering, and he decided it was time to end his journey there.

After Feng Ye subdued Bambietta, he forced her to walk back to her room while still bound and suffering from her burns. Two days later, Haschwalth learned that Cang Du had disappeared and led the Sternritter and 404 knights toward the northern Wandenreich estate.

• Feng Ye told Bambietta she could have become a Sternritter, then severed the ropes and ordered her to walk back to her room without removing them.
• Bambietta endured the pain and made the journey to her bedroom, leaving wet footprints along the way.
• Two days later, Haschwalth learned from Cang Du's subordinates that Cang Du had been missing for more than forty-eight hours.
• Haschwalth assembled the Sternritter and warned them that Cang Du might be dead and a threat to the Wandenreich had appeared.
• Bazz-B and the other Sternritter agreed to defend His Majesty, and Haschwalth led them and 404 knights toward the estate in the northern Wandenreich.

Feng Ye offered Bambietta a choice as the Sternritter approached: return to the Quincy camp or remain with him. She chose to stay, and Feng Ye crushed the assembled Quincy with his power, leaving Bambietta to recognize him as one of the Two Kings.

• Feng Ye told Bambietta that the Sternritter were arriving and offered to restore her freedom or keep her with him.
• Feng Ye went outside the manor to meet the approaching Sternritter, led by Uryu Ishida.
• Bambietta refused to return to the Quincy camp and declared that she wanted to remain with Feng Ye.
• Askin and Bazz-B questioned Feng Ye about Bambietta and Cang Du, and Feng Ye released a crushing wave of pressure.
• Feng Ye forced more than four hundred Quincy to the ground, while Uryu Ishida remained kneeling and Bambietta realized Feng Ye was one of the Two Kings.

Feng Ye stopped Yhwach’s Auswählen, chose to preserve the Bleach, and reclaimed the Quincy’s powers without taking their lives. He transported the Wandenreich’s people to the World of the Living, where Uryu Ishida declared the war over while worrying about Yhwach’s fate.

• Yhwach instinctively activated Auswählen across the Wandenreich, but Feng Ye suppressed it before it could take effect.
• Uryu Ishida pleaded with Feng Ye, who chose the Bleach because the two groups could not coexist and he judged Yhwach a threat.
• Feng Ye reclaimed the powers of every Quincy, including the revived portion of Yhwach’s power, but left the Quincy alive.
• Feng Ye transported the Wandenreich’s residents to the World of the Living and told Uryu Ishida they could live as ordinary people.
• Uryu Ishida told the gathered Quincy that the war was over, then worried about what Feng Ye would do to Yhwach.

Feng Ye erased the Quincy, stripped Yhwach of his power, and sent the survivors toward new lives before settling in the Wandenreich palace with Bambietta. In Seireitei, Yoruichi Shihoin and Byakuya Kuchiki visited Liana to investigate the spatial disturbances, and she confirmed Feng Ye had caused them.

• Feng Ye told Bambietta that he had ended the Quincy’s lives as Quincy and given them ordinary lives in the World of the Living, then took her to Silver Frame City.
• Feng Ye reclaimed Yhwach’s power, left his incomplete soul to fend for itself, and sent it to the World of the Living.
• Feng Ye entered the palace and sat on the throne while Bambietta waited beside him.
• Shunsui Kyoraku reported the spatial disturbances to Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, who dispatched Yoruichi Shihoin and Byakuya Kuchiki to question Liana.
• Liana’s power briefly overwhelmed Yoruichi and Byakuya with despair, and the two greeted the Princess after recovering.
• Liana confirmed that Feng Ye had caused the spatial disturbance.