"Hmph-hmph~ Hmph-hmph-hmph~~ Hmph~"
Under the bright sunlight, Duan Mu lazily lay on a reclining chair outside the Yorozuya on the second floor of the tavern.
Compared to winter, he still preferred spring and summer. The feeling of lying on a reclining chair while basking in the sunlight was incredibly comfortable.
So comfortable!!
"Ah~ I feel like it's been a long time since I've had this much free time."
As the range of business Duan Mu accepted grew wider, the number of his customers also increased. Especially over the past six months, he hadn't had a single day of rest. At most, some less urgent commissions had even been scheduled for a week later.
Today was the first time in half a year that he had received absolutely no commissions!
Of course, although he was busy, Duan Mu hadn't neglected his training. Every day, he set aside several hours to cultivate.
He was cultivating all four combat skills of Zanpakuto, Kido, Hakuda, and Shunpo simultaneously. As before, he basically only used experience points when he encountered bottlenecks. The only difference was that... after experiencing his battle with Gen'nai Kura, Duan Mu had begun to place greater importance on training his Spiritual Power.
Whenever he had free time, he would go to the Shiba Clan and borrow Kūkaku's training hall. Whenever he had enough experience points, he would invest some of them into his Spiritual Power.
Gen'nai Kura had personally allowed Duan Mu to understand the meaning of the phrase, "A Shinigami's battles are contests of Spiritual Power." No matter how strong his combat skills were, without abundant Spiritual Power as support, he couldn't even break through the Spiritual Power defense covering Gen'nai Kura's body.
However, blindly pursuing overwhelming Spiritual Power while neglecting technique would also lead to the same result as