Recaps

Kisuke Urahara and Isshin Shiba decided to avoid confronting Sōsuke Aizen and Yhwach directly and head to the Spirit King's Palace. Nara Dan slipped through its forty-two barriers and arrived before Ichibē Hyōsube and the captains, who were startled by his unexpected appearance.

• Isshin Shiba considered using his ultimate technique against Sōsuke Aizen and Yhwach, but Kisuke Urahara urged him to hold back unless they attacked.
• Sōsuke Aizen refused Yhwach's offer to help and left the Human World with him, hinting that he wanted Kisuke Urahara as an ally.
• Kisuke Urahara concluded that Nara Dan's position was unclear and chose to go to the Spirit King's Palace with Isshin Shiba.
• Sōsuke Aizen guessed that Nara Dan had taken Ryūjin Jakka to forge a Zanpakutō surpassing it, prompting him and Yhwach to hurry toward the Spirit King's Palace.
• Nara Dan used the World Tree's power to pass through the forty-two barriers and reach the Spirit King's Palace.
• Ichibē Hyōsube warned the arriving captains about Yhwach and prepared to approach Renji Abarai, but sensed Nara Dan's arrival and recognized him.

Nara Dan entered the Spirit King's Palace and tried to make a deal with Ichibē Hyōsube, but sealed Ichibē's Spiritual Pressure when he refused. As the captains moved against him, Kira Izuru and Renji Abarai sided with Nara Dan and fought to protect him.

• Soi Fon attacked Nara Dan over Yamamoto's death, but he seized her wrist and threw her aside before proposing an alliance to Ichibē Hyōsube.
• When Ichibē rejected his offer, Nara Dan used Divine Eight Trigrams Sealing to suppress Ichibē's Spiritual Pressure and knocked Soi Fon into a wall with a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Ichibē urged the captains to kill him so he could revive and break the seal, but Nara Dan blocked Retsu Unohana's attempt to strike him.
• As the captains drew their blades and moved to free Ichibē, Kira Izuru used Bankai to shield Nara Dan and slow them with doubled gravity.
• Renji Abarai joined Kira, clashed with Byakuya Kuchiki, and Kira activated the Eight Gates and Life Return to hold off the captains.

Nara Dan attacked the Spirit King's Palace and fought the Zero Division while seeking its Phoenix Palace to forge a Zanpakutō. After defeating or incapacitating several members, he drew Ōetsu Nimaiya's attention to the unusual Dharma Blade, which Ōetsu recognized as a new kind of Asauchi.

• Ichibē Hyōsube summoned the Zero Division and warned its members that Nara Dan had sealed his Spiritual Pressure.
• Nara Dan demanded access to the Phoenix Palace and used a Truth-Seeking Orb to silence Ichibē.
• Nara Dan struck Tenjirō Kirinji unconscious, cut Senjumaru Shutara in two, and countered Kirio Hikifune's Inner Hadō.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya examined Nara Dan's Dharma Blade and realized Nara Dan wanted to forge a Zanpakutō.
• Ōetsu Nimaiya recognized the Dharma Blade as an unusual Asauchi that strengthened its wielder without dividing the Shinigami's soul.

Nara Dan asked Ōetsu Nimaiya for help advancing his Dharma Blade by making it become his blade spirit, but their differing views and loyalties brought them into conflict. As the captains confronted Nara Dan, he unleashed a massive flood that engulfed the Spirit King's Palace.

• Nara Dan explained that he wanted his blade to become his blade spirit, and Ōetsu Nimaiya questioned how he could merge with a blade that was not originally part of him.
• Nara Dan asked Ōetsu Nimaiya to help him and said he had no interest in the Spirit King's Palace, but Ōetsu refused to let someone with unclear intentions enter it.
• Kira Izuru and Renji Abarai arrived at Nara Dan's side as Soi Fon demanded his surrender and Retsu Unohana urged him to unite with Soul Society against Yhwach.
• Nara Dan rejected the captains' appeal, and Sajin Komamura attacked him with Kokujo Tengen Myo'o.
• Nara Dan countered with Samehada's Explosive Water Wave, flooding the Spirit King's Palace and leaving the captains struggling to stand.

Nara Dan found the Spirit King frozen in the Spirit King's Palace, absorbed some World Origin, and then went to Phoenix Palace to begin reforging his Dharma Blade. He used Ryūjin Jakka to crack the blade, beginning the final step of his advancement.

• Nara Dan left Kira Izuru with a measure to help stop the Division Captains and then vanished into the Spirit King's Palace.
• Nara Dan found the Spirit King frozen in a crystal and concluded that the body was a puppet with great Spiritual Pressure but no Rank.
• Nara Dan absorbed some World Origin from the Spirit King's Palace while preserving enough to maintain the balance of the Three Realms.
• Nara Dan went to Ōetsu Nimaiya's forging platform at Phoenix Palace and placed the Dharma Blade there.
• Nara Dan poured God Tree Chakra and Yin-Yang Release into Ryūjin Jakka, causing a fissure to appear in its blade.

Nara Dan used Ryūjin Jakka’s final heat to melt the Dharma Blade and fuse it with the Hōgyoku and the Spirit King’s Right Arm, refining away the Spirit King’s imprint. As the blade began tempering, Sōsuke Aizen and Yhwach arrived, and Yhwach charged toward Nara Dan.

• Ryūjin Jakka shattered after unleashing enough heat to evaporate much of the surrounding seawater and melt the Dharma Blade.
• Nara Dan added the Hōgyoku and the Spirit King’s Right Arm to the molten blade, turning them into energy and divine essence.
• Nara Dan used stored World Origin Power to erase the Spirit King’s imprint from the Right Arm’s Immortal Divinity.
• Nara Dan sat down to supply Ryūjin Jakka with energy while the Dharma Blade continued tempering.
• Sōsuke Aizen and Yhwach arrived near the Phoenix Palace, and Yhwach used Hirenkyaku to approach Nara Dan.

Renji Abarai awakened Twin Kings Zabimaru and confronted Sōsuke Aizen while Nara Dan continued forging the Dharma Blade into an immortal Golden Nature Divine Ability. The chapter left Nara Dan pouring his essence, energy, spirit, and Swordsmanship into the blazing forge to complete his advancement toward the Transcendent.

• Nara Dan sent Samehada to block Yhwach, while a gray barrier around Sōsuke Aizen severed his connection to the Truth-Seeking Orb inside Aizen.
• Renji Abarai stepped between Nara Dan and Aizen, drew Zabimaru, and released his Bankai, Twin Kings Zabimaru.
• Renji Abarai revealed that his Bankai wielded two swords, including a black blade representing his Quincy power, and struck Aizen into the sea.
• Sōsuke Aizen recognized Renji Abarai's strength and fired a Cero at him, while concluding that Renji would keep him occupied.
• Nara Dan continued melting the Dharma Blade with the Hōgyoku and other materials, then poured his essence, energy, spirit, and Swordsmanship into the blazing forge.

Nara Dan’s clone forged a golden talisman by refining the solar core, but the Spirit King tried to seize it and claim its power. Nara Dan’s main body arrived from the Void Realm Sea to confront him, and the Spirit King unleashed a powerful Hadō.

• Nara Dan entered the furnace’s smelted materials, and a golden talisman absorbed the solar core’s heat to form an immortal golden aura.
• The Spirit King took control of Yhwach’s body and used the Reishi to pull the talisman toward himself, intending to claim its power.
• Nara Dan’s clone sighed from within the talisman and complained that the Spirit King had forced him to interrupt the final step.
• Nara Dan’s main body crossed a black hole from the Void Realm Sea and freed the talisman from the Reishi binding it.
• Nara Dan confronted the Spirit King, who raised a finger and cast “Hadō: Hundred Million—Black Heaven Spirit Burial.”

Nara Dan fought the Spirit King through a battle that devastated the Three Realms, losing an arm to the Spirit King's power over time and fate. He fused his laws of immortality and space-time to ascend into a godlike state, then challenged the Spirit King to face him again.

• The Spirit King unleashed hundreds of millions of Reishi pillars at Nara Dan, devastating the Spirit King's Palace and destroying dozens of cities in the Human World.
• Nara Dan endured the Spirit King's assault and shattered the other half of the palace with a punch, after which the two fought for ten days and ten nights across the Three Realms.
• The Spirit King wounded Nara Dan by striking across time and space, severing his right arm and infusing it with deathly power that threatened his Rank and soul.
• Nara Dan fused his golden and silver Runes, transforming his Talent Entry into [Divine] and becoming thousands of feet tall.
• Nara Dan declared himself the God of Immortality and Kongming, then asked the Spirit King what he thought of his ascension.