Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Hiko executed Love Aikawa for betraying the group, then received the Dragon Balls back from Kisuke Urahara as their relationship grew distant. With only twelve hours left, he searched Karakura Town for the Valley entrance after the Visored Army found no trace of it.

• Uchiha Hiko refused Shinji Hirako's plea to spare Love Aikawa, and the Visored Army left Urahara Shop without him.
• Love Aikawa called the Visored Army his brothers before he died, and his spiritual presence faded away.
• Kisuke Urahara asked why Uchiha Hiko had suspected Love Aikawa and returned the Dragon Balls to him.
• Shinji Hirako told Uchiha Hiko that the Visored Army had found no entrance to the Valley space at the marked locations.
• Uchiha Hiko flew above Karakura Town and searched the moat, Mountain God Temple, school, hospital, and police station, but found no entrance.

Uchiha Hiko suspected the Valley’s entrance was hidden inside the Senkaimon passage and confirmed that Rukia had been attacked from within it. After spotting Gai in the passage, Hiko forced his way into a narrow gap, where Gai appeared to move freely and mocked him.

• Uchiha Hiko deduced that the Valley’s entrance might be high in the sky or inside the passage, and asked Shinji Hirako to search the skies.
• Uchiha Hiko contacted Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, who confirmed that Rukia had been attacked from inside the passage and warned that the Kido Cannon would be fired the next day if the Valley remained unresolved.
• Uchiha Hiko opened a passage to Soul Society and searched it carefully but found no sign of the Valley.
• Uchiha Hiko saw Gai emerge from the passage wall, reopened the closing gate, and squeezed through a narrow gap to investigate.
• Uchiha Hiko found no entrance and realized Gai could move through the passage as Gai appeared again and mocked him.

Uchiha Hiko struggled through the passage toward Soul Society while Little Yi attacked him with Crescent Moon Blades. Unable to move freely, Hiko prepared to use his last dragon pearl against Little Yi.

• Uchiha Hiko covered himself in blazing flames and tried to force his way back through the passage, but Little Yi appeared at the far entrance.
• Little Yi threw Crescent Moon Blades at Hiko, and their impacts repeatedly hurt him even as the flames melted the blades.
• Little Yi taunted Hiko and continued attacking until Hiko stopped and held the blades against his body to halt the barrage.
• Hiko warned Little Yi that he had brought this on himself and took out his last dragon pearl.

Uchiha Hiko endured Little Yi’s Crescent Moon Blades while waiting for the Seven Dragon Balls to summon Shenron. As the Dragon Balls unleashed golden lightning that shielded him and darkened two worlds, Hiko warned Little Yi that he would make him suffer.

• Uchiha Hiko called for Shenron, and Little Yi mocked him while continuing to drive Crescent Moon Blades into his body.
• Shenron’s voice came from the Seven Dragon Balls, and Uchiha Hiko smiled as Little Yi mistook the sound for a recording.
• Little Yi fired six Crescent Moon Blades in succession, piercing Uchiha Hiko and forcing him to block the attack with Ryujin Jakka.
• The Seven Dragon Balls lit up, darkened the sky over Karakura Town and Soul Society, and sent golden lightning that deflected Little Yi’s fifth and sixth blades.
• Uchiha Hiko threatened Little Yi, who fired more Crescent Moon Blades, but the golden lightning deflected them all.

Uchiha Hiko forced the passage open with Shenron’s summoned lightning and trapped Little Yi inside a sphere of blue-white flames. After Shenron appeared, Hiko confronted the defeated Little Yi, who begged for his life, and Hiko answered with two swift strikes.

• Little Yi’s Crescent Moon Blades failed to stop Uchiha Hiko as the golden lightning forced the passage open.
• Uchiha Hiko revealed he had secretly sealed Little Yi’s escape routes with blue-white flames and removed the forty-six blades embedded in his body.
• Shenron fully appeared and asked Uchiha Hiko what wish he wanted, but Hiko asked it to wait while he went to Karakura Town’s entrance.
• Little Yi knelt and begged Uchiha Hiko for mercy, while Hiko mocked his cowardice and drove Ryujin Jakka into his palm.
• Uchiha Hiko rejected Little Yi’s plea and struck twice, drawing two screams.

Uchiha Hiko captured the wounded Little Yi and tortured him for information about Ryudoji Yanlong and the passage to the spatial “Valley.” The chapter left Little Yi still refusing to reveal what he knew as Uchiha Hiko continued questioning him.

• Uchiha Hiko refused to spare Little Yi, even after Little Yi offered to reveal the entrance to the “Valley.”
• Uchiha Hiko demanded that Little Yi tell him everything he knew about Ryudoji Yanlong, but Little Yi claimed he knew little about his Eldest Brother.
• Uchiha Hiko began slicing flesh from Little Yi while promising to let him go if he survived and finished telling him Ryudoji Yanlong’s secrets.
• Little Yi screamed and remained unable to move as Uchiha Hiko cut into his calves, while the divine dragon watched from the passage in fear.
• Uchiha Hiko asked Little Yi if he was ready to talk, but Little Yi had not yet revealed any information.

Uchiha Hiko tortured Little Yi to learn about the passage to the Senkaimon “Valley” and how Little Yi controlled Menos Grande. The entrance’s unpredictable appearance left Hiko with little time to reach the Valley and save Shizuku, while Little Yi’s evasive answers renewed Hiko’s threats.

• Uchiha Hiko threatened to force Little Yi to eat slices cut from his body, and Little Yi agreed to answer his questions.
• Uchiha Hiko asked where the passage to the Senkaimon “Valley” was, and Little Yi revealed that entrances appeared ten thousand meters in the sky, shifted locations, and lasted only ten minutes.
• Little Yi said the entrances appeared at irregular times and that they had to wait half a day or longer before returning from the Valley, leaving Uchiha Hiko doubtful he could reach it in time to save Shizuku.
• Uchiha Hiko concluded the passage could only be used to exit the Valley, then demanded to know how Little Yi controlled Menos Grande.
• Little Yi claimed he did not know how it worked and said he and his group could absorb and control Menos Grande because the creatures obeyed their orders.
• Uchiha Hiko accused Little Yi of hiding information about his brothers and Eldest Brother, and Little Yi nervously insisted he knew nothing else.

Uchiha Hiko killed Little Yi and confronted the Space Dragon, demanding that it return to the black spheres. When the dragon refused, Hiko threatened to destroy it unless it agreed to accompany him to the Valley.

• Little Yi cursed Uchiha Hiko after realizing Hiko had never planned to spare him, and Hiko beheaded him, leaving his body and traces to vanish.
• Uchiha Hiko questioned the Space Dragon and told it that he came from a different world.
• The Space Dragon doubted Hiko's claim, but Hiko's spiritual pressure dispersed its Dragon Might and made it sense danger.
• The Space Dragon offered extra benefits in exchange for Hiko taking it to his world, but Hiko insisted it return to the black spheres.
• Uchiha Hiko threatened the Space Dragon, saying he would drag it down with him if the world was destroyed.

Uchiha Hiko learned that the Space Dragon could remain in his world for a day and a night, but the defective black pellets would only support one wish. He demanded that the dragon enhance his Soul Reaper power, open a passage to the Valley of Senkaimon, and accompany him there, leaving the dragon weighing whether to resist his threat.

• The Space Dragon explained that the black pellets were defective, could only be used once, and could sustain it for a day and a night.
• Uchiha Hiko realized the dragon wanted to see his world and used the tiny passage gate to establish that they were on equal footing.
• Uchiha Hiko explained that his Soul Reaper power could only open a small passage between worlds, and the Space Dragon offered to grant one wish before leaving.
• Uchiha Hiko demanded three things: greater Soul Reaper power, a passage to the Valley of Senkaimon, and the Space Dragon's help inside the Valley.
• The Space Dragon refused to grant three wishes, so Uchiha Hiko threatened to keep it trapped in his world, prompting it to silently compare their strengths.

Uchiha Hiko insisted that the Space Dragon grant all three wishes needed to save the world, and it agreed in exchange for his help finding Ignil, a Western fire dragon it had loved a thousand years earlier. Hiko accepted, though he could not promise he would find Ignil.

• The Space Dragon offered to grant two wishes, but Uchiha Hiko refused and insisted all three were indispensable to prevent the world’s destruction.
• The Space Dragon agreed to Hiko’s demands on the condition that he help it find a dragon named Ignil.
• The Space Dragon explained that Ignil was a handsome, powerful Western fire dragon and that Hiko might be able to reach other worlds to search for him.
• The Space Dragon revealed that it and Ignil had shared a romance a thousand years earlier and said it was female.
• Uchiha Hiko agreed to help find Ignil but warned that he could not guarantee success.

Uchiha Hiko enlisted the Space Dragon to take him through the Senkaimon toward Valley, and she began forcing open the unusually strong Space Barrier. She broke through after nearly ten minutes, leaving Hiko ready to enter the void with about five hours remaining.

• The Space Dragon gave Uchiha Hiko an eighth black orb for communication and exits, healed him, and explained that she could follow the dead man's aura through space.
• Uchiha Hiko collected the glowing black orbs and climbed onto the Space Dragon, who traveled through the passage without obstruction because she could move through spaces freely.
• The Space Dragon struck the void with golden lightning, but the unusually thick Space Barrier resisted her attacks for nearly ten minutes.
• Uchiha Hiko worried whether the Kido Cannon could destroy Valley, while the Space Dragon eventually split the barrier and opened a hole into the void.
• The Space Dragon explained that she could use her void-breaking power only in that space, and that without Hiko's wish's blessing, its user could not enter.

Uchiha Hiko traveled with Space Dragon through a dark static space where light specks represented souls and the origins of worlds. He used Kisuke Urahara’s device to absorb a speck, beginning to recover and increase his strength as they continued toward a new chaotic space.

• Space Dragon carried Uchiha Hiko through darkness filled with light specks that passed through his body and vanished.
• Space Dragon explained that the specks were souls abandoned by their worlds and that they could gather and evolve into new worlds.
• Uchiha Hiko recalled how Menos Grande formed and tried using Kisuke Urahara’s device to absorb a light speck.
• The device attracted a speck, then captured and digested it with an amber-golden thread, sending a cool, tingling sensation through Uchiha Hiko.
• Uchiha Hiko felt his strength recovering and growing while Space Dragon continued onward.

Uchiha Hiko absorbed clusters of silvery-white lights while traveling through the strange space, but the Space Dragon warned that attracting them could draw dangerous red lights. The pair reached a glowing exit, though Hiko remained alarmed that the dragon had spent thousands of years in the space.

• Uchiha Hiko absorbed an increasing number of silvery-white lights with Kisuke Urahara's device, refining and restoring his power.
• The Space Dragon warned Uchiha Hiko that red lights were aggressive, could detect invisible beings, and might self-destruct to attack them.
• Uchiha Hiko learned that the Space Dragon had spent more than ten thousand years in the space and demanded to know why she had brought him there.
• Uchiha Hiko spotted a glowing white opening ahead, and the Space Dragon confirmed it was the exit.

Uchiha Hiko and Space Dragon raced through a field of dangerous red light clusters, with Hiko trapping dozens of them in Kisuke Urahara’s device. They reached the cave entrance in time, but Hiko kept the volatile clusters close as he prepared to enter, leaving Space Dragon too frightened to approach him.

• Uchiha Hiko ordered Space Dragon to charge through the red light clusters and promised to capture any that blocked her path.
• Space Dragon rushed forward while Uchiha Hiko used the device to bind nearly thirty red light clusters without detonating them.
• Space Dragon corrected their course and carried Hiko beyond the encirclement with dozens of clusters still trapped in the device.
• Uchiha Hiko and Space Dragon reached the cave entrance within ten minutes, and Hiko looked inside before pulling back.
• Uchiha Hiko told Space Dragon to wait until he threw the red light clusters away before approaching so they could enter the cave.

Uchiha Hiko used the red light clusters to set a trap in Space Valley while preparing to enter it with the Space Dragon. The clusters exploded above Ryudoji Yanlong and his group, striking the enormous tree formed by Shizuku.

• Uchiha Hiko placed the red light clusters into the passage and tapped the last one as it entered Space Valley.
• Ryudoji Yanlong and his subordinates saw the clusters appear above them, and Ryudoji Yanlong sent Little Beauty to investigate.
• Little Sword reported that Little Yi had gone to inspect an unusually long-lasting passage and had not returned; Ryudoji Yanlong suspected he was dead.
• Uchiha Hiko and the Space Dragon finished preparing in frozen space, and an explosion signaled the start of their move.
• The red light clusters exploded over Ryudoji Yanlong and his group, sending red shockwaves into Shizuku’s enormous tree.

Ryudoji Yanlong and his followers watched a colossal Azure Dragon break through the Space Barrier with Uchiha Hiko riding on its head. After Ryudoji Yanlong cautiously introduced himself and offered help, the Space Dragon said that her young friend wanted to borrow something from him.

• More impacts struck near the earlier red spheres, and cracks spread across the Space Barrier as Ryudoji Yanlong ordered the Menos Grande to keep emerging.
• Uchiha Hiko arrived atop the thousand-meter-long Space Dragon, terrifying Ryudoji Yanlong and his followers.
• Ryudoji Yanlong identified the creature as the Eastern Space Dragon and explained the legend he knew about dragons from a powerful nation beyond their world.
• Ryudoji Yanlong approached the Space Dragon, introduced himself as the king of the world, and asked what brought her there.
• The Space Dragon said that her young friend wanted to borrow something from Ryudoji Yanlong.

Ryudoji Yanlong confronted Uchiha Hiko, who arrived atop the Space Dragon to stop him and take Shizuku. With their opposing plans centered on Shizuku, Yanlong abandoned thoughts of compromise and prepared to defend his revenge against Soul Society.

• The Space Dragon told Ryudoji Yanlong that its friend intended to borrow his life, alarming Yanlong and his three subordinates.
• The Space Dragon revealed its head, and Uchiha Hiko appeared from behind it, reminding Yanlong to stay away from Shizuku.
• Yanlong recognized Uchiha Hiko and realized their conflict over Shizuku could not be reconciled because she was essential to his plan to destroy Soul Society.
• Consumed by hatred for Soul Society, Yanlong accused Uchiha Hiko of interfering and taking Shizuku, then resolved to remove every obstacle to his plan.

Uchiha Hiko confronted Ryudoji Yanlong over Shizuku, then fought him while Space Dragon battled Ryudoji's three subordinates. Ryudoji and his men began a ritual to merge with Menos Grande, raising the stakes of the fight.

• Uchiha Hiko argued that Ryudoji Yanlong had not kept Shizuku safe and demanded that he hand her over or face being defeated.
• Ryudoji Yanlong charged Uchiha Hiko, while Space Dragon attacked the pale tree containing Shizuku and Little Sword, Little Cannon, and Little Hammer engaged her.
• Uchiha Hiko drew his transformed Zanpakuto and dodged Ryudoji Yanlong's attacks to adjust to his increased strength, gradually landing counterattacks.
• Ryudoji Yanlong stopped fighting after seeing his subordinates fail to break through Space Dragon's defenses and began chanting to merge with Menos Grande.
• Ryudoji Yanlong's three subordinates repeated the chant, and golden lights rose into the sky to form multiple vortices.

Uchiha Hiko and the Space Dragon tried to free Shizuku by breaking the giant white tree as Menos Grande swarmed Ryudoji Yanlong and the others. Hiko recognized a connection between the Menos Grande and the lights in the frozen space, then used a glowing bead to strike the creatures with amber-gold threads.

• The Space Dragon tried to crush the giant white tree while golden pillars and vortices formed around Ryudoji Yanlong, Little Sword, Little Hammer, and the others.
• The tree began cracking, and more than ten thousand Menos Grande emerged and covered the golden light around Ryudoji Yanlong and the others.
• The Space Dragon suggested that the Menos Grande's red and white parts carried the auras of red and silvery-white light, and Hiko ordered it to keep breaking the tree to free Shizuku.
• Hiko taunted Ryudoji Yanlong, then took out a glowing transparent bead that made Yanlong feel as if he were near a natural predator.
• Hiko activated the bead, and amber-gold threads shot into the Menos Grande's red heads, stopping them in midair as they struggled.

Uchiha Hiko used the spherical bead to absorb energy from Menos Grande and resume growing stronger while Ryudoji Yanlong remained immobilized. When Space Dragon failed to destroy the Thought Beads’ giant tree, Uchiha Hiko changed course and flew toward it, leaving Ryudoji Yanlong anxious about Shizuku being freed and his plan collapsing.

• Uchiha Hiko absorbed energy from Menos Grande through the spherical bead, and his strength began growing again.
• Ryudoji Yanlong remained frozen as Menos Grande covered his golden light, while Uchiha Hiko explained why he had not killed him.
• Cracks sounded from the giant tree, alarming Ryudoji Yanlong, who feared Shizuku would be exposed if it broke.
• Space Dragon said she could not damage the giant tree any further, and Ryudoji Yanlong looked pleased that Uchiha Hiko had no easy way to destroy it.
• Uchiha Hiko approached Ryudoji Yanlong, understood his muffled reaction, then turned and flew toward the giant tree with a new plan.