Chapter Summaries

Lumine fought the Dark Calamity at Xuanwu Gate while Phanes and Paimon discussed the preparations made to help her survive. The Chat Group watched Lumine’s battle as Hermes recognized that Phanes and Herta had helped set the crisis in motion.

• Paimon questioned Phanes about putting Lumine through the Dark Calamity, and Phanes said Lumine needed to master the Cosmic Light and that she had arranged support with Herta.
• Lumine opened the Chat Group’s Live Stream Room while fighting the Dark Calamity, hoping to summon help if she was overwhelmed.
• Luo Qianqiu and Index praised Lumine’s radiant appearance, while Index prepared to return and keep watch over her.
• Asuka Kudō asked Hermes when he would return because the Halloween Queen had awakened after Zhongli’s arrival, and Hermes replied that he had never left the Star Crown Garden.
• Hermes surveyed the Dark Calamity and praised Phanes’s judgment, realizing that she and Herta had joined forces to create the incident.

Hermes recognized Phanes's transformation into Humanity as a vast force nurturing worlds, while the Chat Group discussed Ichigo Kurosaki's response to Soul Society's corruption. Unohana Retsu began a livestream as Ichigo's confrontation reached its exciting part, leaving the Gotei 13 assembled before a formidable woman.

• Hermes saw Phanes's immense Humanity power and understood how closely it resembled his Pure Beauty.
• Chen Nan asked Unohana Retsu whether Ichigo had caused trouble after returning to Soul Society, and the Chat Group discussed whether he would challenge its corrupt order.
• Aozaki Touko and Konan pointed out that Ichigo's heritage made him an example of noble bloodlines, leaving Luo Qianqiu and Dragon speechless.
• Unohana Retsu announced that events had reached an exciting point and opened a Bleach Live Stream.
• The Gotei 13's captains, vice-captains, and seated officers stood before a graceful woman in a kimono, terrified by her gaze.

Unohana Retsu held the captains outside the First Division while Ichigo Kurosaki confronted Captain Commander Yamamoto over the Soul Society’s decay. The captains reacted with divided loyalties as Sajin Komamura prepared to force his way past her.

• Shunsui Kyoraku cautiously asked Unohana Retsu to let the captains enter and arrange a meeting with Yamamoto, but she refused.
• Aizen sensed Unohana’s overwhelming Spiritual Pressure and was shaken by its apparent divinity.
• Unohana explained that Ichigo had challenged her and argued that the Soul Society oppressed Rukongai souls, citing the suffering of the little girl he had believed he sent to safety.
• Soi Fon condemned Ichigo’s ideals, while Byakuya remained silent, Mayuri focused on Ichigo’s power, and Kenpachi complained that Ichigo had avoided fighting him.
• Sajin Komamura declared that the Soul Society’s order could not be challenged, drew his hand to Tenken, and prepared to act against Unohana.

Ichigo Kurosaki challenged Soul Society’s corrupt order, earning Sosuke Aizen’s respect while the captains weighed whether to intervene. Sajin Komamura failed to rally anyone against Ichigo, and Captain Unohana said Ichigo would soon reach an agreement with Captain Commander Yamamoto.

• Sosuke Aizen listened to Ichigo Kurosaki and came to respect his courage and ideals.
• Sajin Komamura moved to stop Ichigo, but Captain Unohana’s killing intent frightened him into retreating.
• Sajin Komamura urged Captain Unohana to wait for Captain Commander Yamamoto and pursue gradual reform, but she assured him Ichigo would soon reach a consensus with the Commander.
• Sajin Komamura signaled Byakuya Kuchiki to intervene, but Byakuya chose not to defend the noble class.
• Soi Fon also stayed out of the dispute because she worried about Yoruichi Shihoin’s connection to Ichigo Kurosaki.
• Sajin Komamura gave up trying to recruit the other captains, concluding that none of them would help him oppose Ichigo.

Ichigo Kurosaki confronted the Royal Guard in the Soul King Palace, where the Soul King's power appeared to be returning to him. He proposed combining the powers of two Soul Kings as the Three Realms began to crack.

• Luo Qianqiu and Chen Nan discussed the captains' refusal to confront Unohana Retsu and praised Ichigo Kurosaki as the key to a happy ending.
• Unohana Retsu said Ichigo had grown powerful enough to withstand her full-strength strike and seemed to possess a strange version of The Almighty.
• Ichigo Kurosaki arrived at the Soul King Palace and faced Ichibe Hyosube, Oetsu Nimaiya, and the Royal Guard.
• Ichibe Hyosube questioned Ichigo's intentions, while Oetsu Nimaiya warned that the Soul King's failing power could destroy the Three Realms.
• The Soul King's heart began beating and appeared eager to return to Ichigo as cracks spread through the Soul King Palace.
• Ichigo Kurosaki asked what would happen if the powers of two Soul Kings were combined.

Lü Dongbin used a grand ritual to pit the Eight Immortals’ cycle of righteousness and evil against the Righteous-Evil Mechanism and the Heavenly Dao. As the Seven Immortals sustained the ritual with divine treasures, Lü watched Ichigo Kurosaki’s methods for inspiration.

• Lü Dongbin asked the Chat Group about Ichigo Kurosaki’s powers and wondered whether he was reconstructing his cosmology.
• The Seven Immortals formed the Xuantian Zhenwu Seven-Star Array while Zhang Guolao struggled to maintain it.
• The Holy Lord recognized the Eight Immortals’ plan and suspected Lü Dongbin had found a way to turn the Heavenly Dao’s own mechanism against it.
• Lü Dongbin bought divine treasures from Asuka Kudō’s exclusive store, and Zhang Guolao consumed them to sustain the ritual.
• Cao Guojiu, He Xiangu, and Tieguai Li discussed how Lü Dongbin had used a Zoroastrian dualistic cosmology to oppose the Righteous-Evil Mechanism.
• Lü Dongbin watched Unohana Retsu’s Live Stream Room and considered whether Ichigo Kurosaki’s complicated methods could inspire him.

Ichigo Kurosaki summoned Yhwach to the Soul King Palace and declared that the world’s unresolved karma had to be settled before the New World arrived. As Yhwach and two ancient Bleach moved against him, Ichigo’s Zanpakuto was shattered, and he sensed someone watching from nearby.

• Ichigo Kurosaki summoned Yhwach to the Soul King Palace, where Yhwach mocked the aged Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
• Ichigo Kurosaki said that the world’s karma had to be settled before the New World arrived, and Yhwach asserted his authority over all Quincy.
• Yhwach filled the Soul King Palace with Heilig Pfeil, but Ichigo Kurosaki made them disappear with a divine command.
• Yhwach activated The Almighty as the Monk Who Calls the Real Name and the God of the Sword targeted Ichigo Kurosaki’s Zanpakuto.
• The Monk Who Calls the Real Name named Zangetsu, the God of the Sword tried to crush it, and the two shattered it.
• Ichigo Kurosaki showed little concern over Zangetsu’s destruction and wondered who was watching from the empty space beside him.

Ichigo Kurosaki watched Yhwach prepare to use The Almighty against him while considering the betrayal of the God of the Sword and the Monk Who Calls the Real Name. In the Chat Group, Motoo Aiya complained about forging her own path to godhood and was told she already had unusually favorable circumstances.

• Luo Qianqiu and Hermes reacted to Ichigo Kurosaki detecting the Chat Group's livestream and praised his rapid growth.
• Motoo Aiya asked for an investor to support her Path of the Fiery Sword, explaining that she had to create her own route to godhood.
• Floze and Aozaki Touko rebuked Motoo Aiya, pointing out the advantages and support already available to her.
• The God of the Sword and the Monk Who Calls the Real Name realized their betrayal and the forced shattering of Zangetsu had turned Yamamoto and the Soul Society against them.
• Ichigo Kurosaki accepted Zangetsu's return to his soul and resolved to make Yhwach despair before killing him.
• Yhwach invoked The Almighty and declared that he would reclaim the power he had bestowed, while Ichigo Kurosaki watched without interrupting.

Ichigo Kurosaki overwhelmed Yhwach and began transforming him into the Chronicle of Ages, then claimed the Soul King’s throne and took control of the world’s sovereignty. His family recognized him in the Soul King Palace as he ascended to become the new Soul King.

• Ichigo explained that although Yhwach could theoretically reproduce his power, Yhwach could not wield it at the same level and would be made into a living book.
• Yhwach tried to find a way to seize the powers of Jugram Haschwalth or his Royal Guard, but Ichigo began taking the Soul King’s power, standing, and sovereignty.
• The Soul King Palace appeared, and Ichigo ascended toward the Soul King’s throne, imprinting his authority upon the world.
• Ichigo took control of the world’s sovereignty, becoming its second-generation Soul King.
• Yuzu Kurosaki wondered if she was seeing her brother, while Karin recognized Ichigo as the brother who had gone to Soul Society.

Ichigo Kurosaki became the new Soul King and began imprinting his authority across the world, alarming Kisuke Urahara and drawing Aizen’s attention. He then focused on the shopkeeper who had drawn his younger sister Karin into the path of a Bleach, and contemplated a fate-based role for him.

• Isshin Kurosaki learned that Ichigo had become the Soul King and marveled at his children's mixed-blood talents.
• Kisuke Urahara realized the new Soul King was imprinting his authority on the world and worried about his past actions involving Karin.
• Sosuke Aizen recognized that Ichigo’s power could make the world and its inhabitants the Soul King’s private property.
• Ichigo dismissed Aizen and Urahara’s old schemes as harmless, but grew angry that the shopkeeper had led Karin toward fighting Hollows.
• Ichigo imagined making the shopkeeper one of the Three Goddesses of Fate alongside Yhwach and Ichibe Hyosube.

Ichigo Kurosaki began transforming Bleach’s Worldview under Hermes’s guidance, creating Divinity and the Taishan Fujun Mythic Foundation. The change birthed new timelines that all converged on Taishan Fujun, who would unify Yin and Yang and command life and death.

• Ichigo Kurosaki asked Hermes what to do after claiming World Sovereignty, and Hermes told him to regulate the Worldview.
• Hermes explained that a Worldview was the foundational seed from which a world’s existence and laws emerged, and said Bleach’s flawed Worldview required deeper transformation.
• Hermes introduced the Taishan Fujun Mythic Formula, designed to unify Soul Society and Hell as counterparts to the Human Realm and make Ichigo the ruler of Yin and Yang.
• Ichigo used World Sovereignty to begin transforming the Worldview, causing Divinity to be conceived and the world’s underlying logic to change.
• Ichigo wove the Taishan Fujun Mythic Foundation, forming an imperishable radiance that subtly altered the past and future.
• Hermes observed new timelines splitting from Bleach’s former single-axis timeline, all converging on Taishan Fujun.

Hermes wondered whether a path beyond multiversal truth and transcendence existed, and began studying worldview for clues. He watched the Bleach world undergo changes driven by Kurosaki’s World Sovereignty and Hermes’s Mythic Formula, hoping to learn whether they could alter its worldview.

• Hermes reflected on reaching the limits of his power and considered whether transcendence offered a further road.
• Hermes recognized that his control of the Sea of Trees Infinite Multiverse gave him the resources to reach his peak, but not necessarily a qualitative leap.
• Hermes studied worldview as a possible source of a path forward and considered how it could command even powerful outsiders within a world.
• Hermes accepted that he could patiently explore any future path or eventually yield the multiverse’s resources to juniors such as Herta.
• Hermes watched the Bleach world change under Kurosaki’s World Sovereignty and his Mythic Formula, while Unohana Retsu broadcast from her own perspective.
• Luo Qianqiu praised Hermes and began recording the view of the world through his perspective.

Luo Qianqiu, Chen Nan, Lü Dongbin, Kikyo, and Yagami Taichi discussed recent advances in the Chat Group and their own plans. The chapter ended with the group reacting to Yagami Taichi’s long timeline for mastering a Digital Truth.

• Luo Qianqiu watched the ongoing [Re-Genesis] in the Bleach World and admired Hermes’s latest benefits.
• Chen Nan ordered Sumire Muroto to distribute the safely adapted Misaka Gene Simulation Technology so his Demon God-level Civilization Project could begin.
• Lü Dongbin considered using the world’s will and the balance between good and evil to mobilize the world’s resources.
• Kikyo complained that Index had surpassed her and estimated that creating a relatively independent Cosmic Truth would take her decades.
• Motoo Aiya and Yagami Taichi called Kikyo’s progress a humblebrag, and Yagami Taichi said mastering a Digital Truth could take him centuries or longer.

Floze considered creating a Gourmet Cosmic Truth by joining forces with Gourmet Gods across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, and Hermes offered to help gather the necessary sovereignty and resources. He explained that the plan might work because the group would be hitching a ride on a Cosmic Truth that already possessed reality.

• The Chat Group praised Yagami Taichi’s extraordinary success, and Floze reflected that ordinary effort alone could not reach Cosmic Truth.
• Floze asked Hermes whether she could seize some Gourmet Cell sovereignty and collaborate with gourmets in Star Crown Garden to create a Gourmet Cosmic Truth.
• Hermes welcomed Floze’s proposal and offered to gather Gourmet Cell sovereignty from across the Gourmet Great Universe and invest in the project.
• Floze questioned whether a group collaboration could satisfy the many prerequisites for attaining a Cosmic Truth.
• Hermes explained that they would not need to attain the Cosmic Truth themselves if the thing attaining it already possessed reality.

Hermes and Index showed Aozaki Touko ways to evade the Counter Force and repurpose Alaya, prompting her to consider using her puppetcraft to reshape it. The chapter ended with Touko ready to discuss the technical details of the plan to make Alaya serve humanity.

• Hermes guided Floze through a practical way to claim a share of the Cosmic Truth, and Floze realized she had been approaching the problem incorrectly.
• Aozaki Touko complained that she was still limited to improving her puppet Path while her sisters advanced.
• Luo Qianqiu and Index discussed Touko’s talent and proposed using puppetcraft to deceive Gaia and Alaya.
• Index suggested severing Alaya from parallel worlds and reshaping or refining it into a tool under Touko’s control.
• Hermes urged Touko to learn from Index, and Touko agreed to discuss the technical details of sacrificing Alaya for humanity’s benefit.

Aozaki Touko realized the Vortex of the Root might let her surpass others, then hid her thoughts from supernatural observation. Li Hanyi reflected on her fragile sword heart and resolved to test herself, ending with a world-shaking strike that embodied her Heaven-Intercepting Dao.

• Aozaki Touko considered using the Vortex of the Root to overcome her limitations, then concealed her thoughts with the Chat Group’s secret-hiding function.
• Hexi lamented that she seemed to be becoming a nobody in the Chat Group, while Li Hanyi congratulated Touko and asked her to find supreme Sword Dao arts.
• Li Hanyi decided it was time to settle matters in her home world and prepared by bathing, changing into plain green clothes, and tying up her hair.
• Li Hanyi reflected on her past, her talent, and how her sword heart had been shaken, concluding that her own shortcomings mattered more than Heavenly Mandate.
• Li Hanyi drew Iron Horse Ice River on her mountaintop and unleashed a peak sword strike, declaring her Heaven-Intercepting Dao.

Li Hanyi fought the Heavenly Mandate Will with her Heaven-Intercepting Sword Dao, seeking to establish her Sword Principle as the world’s path and advance the world into a High Martial realm. As the battle continued, Luo Qianqiu worried about Li Hanyi’s weaker foundation, but Hermes confidently predicted her victory.

• Li Changsheng sensed Li Hanyi’s sword strike tearing at the Heavenly Mandate and feared its backlash would destroy her.
• Li Hanyi chose to fight the Heavenly Mandate because she realized their clash could either complete its control over the world or let her become the Sword Ancestor while advancing the world.
• Ghost Immortal Mo Yi recognized the battle as a Dao Struggle and hoped it would bring back his Sister.
• Li Hanyi battled the Heavenly Mandate in a hidden battlefield, manifesting her Heaven-Intercepting Sword Principle.
• Luo Qianqiu worried that Li Hanyi’s foundation was weaker and asked Hermes whether she would win, and Hermes answered that she would.

Ichigo Kurosaki completed the final step of the Great Mythic Ritual and became the world’s sovereign, but dreaded working for a thousand years as Taishan Fujun. Hermes offered him a path to eventually divide his divine and human selves, while Ichigo tried to persuade Hermes to take the position instead.

• Hermes assured Luo Qianqiu that Li Hanyi could fight without interference, and Luo Qianqiu secretly placed chess pieces to help her at a critical moment.
• Luo Qianqiu and Hermes returned their attention to Bleach, where Ichigo Kurosaki reached the final step of the Great Mythic Ritual as new timelines converged on Taishan Fujun.
• Ichigo Kurosaki worried that World Sovereignty would force him to work without rest for eternity, and wondered whether anyone capable of ruling the Three Realms was trustworthy enough.
• Hermes promised Ichigo Kurosaki Heart-Cultivation Secret Transmissions and said that after roughly a thousand years he could divide his divinity from his human self.
• Ichigo Kurosaki worried about being separated from Inoue and his sisters for a thousand years, then pleaded for Hermes to become Taishan Fujun and accept World Sovereignty in his place.

Ichigo Kurosaki secured Hermes’s backing for the world and reshaped Ichibe Hyosube, Oetsu Nimaiya, and Kisuke Urahara into divine servants and artifacts. The newly created Goddess of Fate Urahara then decided to help Sosuke Aizen pursue his dream by making him a Fate Maiden.

• Hermes agreed to lend her name to the world after Ichigo Kurosaki pleaded with her and relinquished its sovereignty.
• Ichigo Kurosaki transformed Ichibe Hyosube into the Brush of Fate and Oetsu Nimaiya into the Death God Scythe.
• Ichigo Kurosaki turned Kisuke Urahara into the Goddess of Fate, who awakened in Urahara Shop as Yoruichi Shihoin arrived.
• Goddess of Fate Urahara resolved to appoint Sosuke Aizen as a Fate Maiden and give him a chance to pursue the Throne of Heaven.

Ichigo Kurosaki entrusted Taishan Fujun and World Sovereignty to Hermes after arranging his mother's reincarnation and criticizing his father's irresponsibility. Hermes revised and activated the Great Mythic Ritual, beginning a profound transformation of the Bleach world.

• Ichigo Kurosaki arranged for his mother to reincarnate into a happy family rather than return to his father, whom he blamed for endangering their family through his inaction.
• Ichigo Kurosaki handed Taishan Fujun and World Sovereignty to Hermes and returned to the Soul King Palace to prepare for his work as supervisor.
• Hermes absorbed Taishan Fujun's name and World Sovereignty, then revised the Great Mythic Ritual to fit his role in the coming Re-Genesis.
• Hermes activated the revised ritual, and the Bleach world's original rules began fusing with foreign rules.
• Unohana Retsu sensed the changes in the Soul Society and wondered whether Shinigami were becoming officially registered civil servants.