Recaps

Su Feng used his defeat of Kaname Tosen to establish authority over the Ninth Division, then assigned a group of Rukongai-born members to accompany him on a mission in Inuzuri. Tosen was taken to the Fourth Division for treatment by Seinosuke Yamada, whose unorthodox methods left his recovery uncertain.

• Yanagawa Ki and Satoya brought the gravely injured Kaname Tosen to the Fourth Division, where Seinosuke Yamada began treating him with a strange Kido-infused operating table.
• The Ninth Division members accepted Su Feng's authority after witnessing his battle with Tosen, and he dismissed most of them from the central courtyard.
• Su Feng ordered ten Ninth Division members from Rukongai to prepare Spirit-Restraining Devices and accompany him on a mission.
• Su Feng explained that they would go to Inuzuri, South 78th District, to arrest members of the Arisugawa Clan who had monopolized drinking water and caused casualties.

Su Feng led the Ninth Division to Inuzuri to confront the Arisugawa Clan, whose illegal activities included gathering souls with high Spiritual Power. He reached the clan’s base at Fushimi Mountain and destroyed its outer perimeter with Raikoho, leaving his squad to witness his unconventional style firsthand.

• Nanao Ise explained that the Arisugawa Clan had been gathering souls with high potential for Spiritual Power, and Su Feng ordered the squad to depart for Rukongai.
• Su Feng bypassed the usual First Division approval by traveling under the Tsunayashiro Family’s name, and Bigau Inudō opened the Seireimon for him.
• The Ninth Division reached Inuzuri and learned from Nanao Ise that the Arisugawa Clan’s base stood at Fushimi Mountain.
• Rangiku Matsumoto suggested recording evidence of the clan’s water trade, but Su Feng dismissed the idea and told Nanao Ise to watch him.
• Su Feng cast Hado #63: Raikoho and blasted the manor’s outer perimeter, engulfing the Arisugawa Clan base in dust.

Su Feng and the Ninth Division confronted the Arisugawa Clan over its monopoly on drinking water in the Inutsuri District. After crushing the clan’s resistance, Su Feng identified Arisugawa Ryo and ordered the survivors tied up.

• Arisugawa Ryo celebrated the clan’s recruitment efforts at an outpost, where the clan had gathered talented souls by monopolizing the district’s drinking water.
• Su Feng attacked the outpost with Raikōhō, destroying its gate and drawing Arisugawa Ryo and his followers into battle.
• Arisugawa Ryo and Rangiku Matsumoto each led their group in casting Shakkahō, and Su Feng blocked the resulting blast wave with Enkosen.
• The explosion overwhelmed Arisugawa Ryo’s group, and Su Feng pinned Ryo to the ground and demanded his name.
• Su Feng accused the Arisugawa Clan of monopolizing water and attacking a captain, then ordered his soldiers to tie everyone up.

Su Feng crushed the Arisugawa Clan’s operation in Inutsuri District, where they had seized the water supply and gathered spiritually gifted souls. He brought the prisoners to the Arisugawa estate and accused Family Head Kawakawa Kuranosuke of plotting against the Five Great Noble Clans.

• Su Feng subdued Arisugawa Ryo and the other clan members, then had soldiers restrain them with Spirit-Restraining Devices.
• Arisugawa Ryo recognized Su Feng and confessed that the Arisugawa Family Head had ordered them to gather souls with talent for Spiritual Power.
• Su Feng left Nanao Ise with the testimony and said the clan’s crimes would be judged after he met its Family Head, Kawakawa Kuranosuke.
• Su Feng leveled the Arisugawa Clan’s base in Inutsuri District and restored the mountain spring for local souls to use.
• Su Feng led his soldiers to the Arisugawa estate, blasted through its gates and walls, and accused Kawakawa Kuranosuke of secretly preparing to overthrow the Five Great Noble Clans.

Su Feng arrested most of the Arisugawa Clan over its water monopoly in Inutsuri District and its attack on him, then sent the clan members to Prison. After Rangiku Matsumoto coaxed Nanao Ise into going shopping with her, Su Feng entered Prison to deal with Ikkaku Madarame and the other inmates.

• Nanao Ise documented the Arisugawa Clan’s water monopoly and Arisugawa Ryo’s attack on Su Feng, and Kawakawa Kuranosuke collapsed as the arrests began.
• Su Feng ordered the captured Arisugawa Clan members imprisoned and told the First Division to notify Central 46 without delay.
• Rangiku Matsumoto persuaded Nanao Ise to leave the case files behind and go shopping in Junrinan, while Su Feng refused to handle the paperwork.
• Su Feng brought the Arisugawa Clan prisoners to Prison, where the Eleventh Division inmates watched their arrival.
• Su Feng approached Ikkaku Madarame and said he had a good idea about his punishment.

Su Feng exposed Ikkaku Madarame’s Bankai and sentenced him to train the Ninth Division’s soldiers, then Yamamoto Genryusai received alarming reports about Su Feng’s recent actions. The chapter ended with Yamamoto stunned to learn that Su Feng had taken most of the Arisugawa Clan, including Kawakawa Kuranosuke.

• Su Feng tested Ikkaku Madarame and confirmed that he had initially mastered Bankai.
• Su Feng ordered Ikkaku Madarame to serve as the Ninth Division’s instructor and begin extreme training the next day.
• Ikkaku Madarame agreed to the punishment, then asked Su Feng to free his head from the prison bars.
• Okiya Genshirō reported that Kaname Tosen had challenged Su Feng for the captaincy and been critically injured.
• Okiya Genshirō reported that Su Feng had raided the Arisugawa Clan’s main gate and taken most of its members, including Kawakawa Kuranosuke, leaving Yamamoto Genryusai astonished.

Yamamoto Genryusai learned why Su Feng had arrested the Arisugawa Clan and ordered him to report to the First Division Barracks. Meanwhile, Su Feng arranged the clan members’ imprisonment and planned to use the captured Eleventh Division members for training before a message arrived.

• Yamamoto Genryusai heard that Arisugawa Kuranosuke had monopolized Inutsuri District’s drinking water to gather spiritually gifted souls for his clan, based on Nanao Ise’s report.
• Yamamoto Genryusai learned that Nanao Ise had transferred from Shunsui Kyoraku’s division to become Ninth Division Third Seat because of her Ise Family identity.
• Yamamoto Genryusai ordered Okiya Genshirō to summon Su Feng to the First Division Barracks.
• Fujio Ryukawa told Su Feng that the Ninth Division Prison lacked room for the Arisugawa Clan members and still held unresolved cases from Kensei Muguruma’s disappearance.
• Su Feng ordered the Arisugawa Clan members placed together in one cell and assigned the Eleventh Division prisoners to train and spar with Ninth Division members.
• A purple-glowing black butterfly flew into the prison and landed on Su Feng’s shoulder.

Su Feng left Ikkaku Madarame in charge of training the Ninth Division and went to the First Division Barracks to answer Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto’s questions about his arrests. Su Feng defended his actions by citing his earlier report to Central 46, the Arisugawa Clan’s attack on his squad, and his status as a member of the Tsunayashiro Family.

• Su Feng received Yamamoto’s order to report to the First Division Barracks and left Ikkaku Madarame to train the Ninth Division members after securing the Arisugawa Clan prisoners.
• Ikkaku Madarame ordered Fujio Ryukawa to gather the Ninth Division members for hellish training and directed him to lock up the Arisugawa Clan members first.
• At the First Division Barracks, Su Feng drank the tea Yamamoto had prepared and dismissed the Captain-Commander’s interrogation with confident remarks.
• Yamamoto accused Su Feng of violating Soul Society’s laws by acting without approval from Central 46 and warned that he would not tolerate neglect of justice.
• Su Feng argued that he had already reported the Arisugawa Clan to Central 46, that Arisugawa Ryo had attacked his squad, and that the clan’s assault on a Tsunayashiro family member justified arresting or even executing them.

Su Feng defended his actions to Yamamoto Genryusai by exploiting his dual status, and Yamamoto chose not to punish him. Meanwhile, Aizen and Gin Ichimaru continued their secret experiment in Rukongai after the Eighth Division noticed it.

• Su Feng told Yamamoto Genryusai that the Arisugawa Clan had been spared out of respect for him and argued that the Gold Seal Council had no authority to restrain him.
• Yamamoto Genryusai warned Su Feng about relying on his status to evade the law, but let the matter go because Su Feng had acted to protect Soul Society's stability.
• Su Feng left the tea room resolved to grow stronger and went to find Nanao and review the next case file.
• At the Shinigami Academy, Gin Ichimaru told Aizen that the Eighth Division had noticed their experiment in the 73rd District of Rukongai.
• Aizen instructed Gin to continue with the original plan and said he hoped it would satisfy Captain Su Feng.

Su Feng and Nanao Ise investigated a plea for help from the Ryūdōji Clan remnants, who were being hunted by four Lower Aristocrat families. The file revealed that the Ukitake Clan was among the families involved, and Su Feng recognized the significance of Captain Jushiro Ukitake’s connection.

• Su Feng visited the Ninth Division Archives and asked Nanao Ise to recommend a target for their next mission.
• Nanao Ise gave Su Feng a sealed file containing a plea for help from the Ryūdōji Clan remnants.
• Su Feng learned that four Lower Aristocrat families were hunting Ryūdōji nobles in Rukongai and suspected they wanted the clan’s secrets or treasures.
• Su Feng dispelled the file’s protective Kido and discovered that the Ukitake Clan was one of the families involved.
• Su Feng pointed out that Jushiro Ukitake, Captain of the Thirteenth Division, was a prominent member of the Ukitake Clan.

Su Feng, Rangiku Matsumoto, and Nanao Ise investigated the Ryūdōji Clan’s ruined manor and found that the survivors had been taken or attacked before they arrived. Su Feng used Gakushi Tsuishou to locate them in Nigoku District, where Mimihagi’s legend pointed toward the Ukitake Clan’s hidden connection.

• Su Feng explained that Jushiro Ukitake was unlikely to interfere, but the Ukitake Clan’s ties to a ritual involving Mimihagi made it suspicious.
• Su Feng chose to handle the mission with Rangiku Matsumoto and Nanao Ise and led them to the Ryūdōji Clan’s remaining base in East Rukongai’s 32nd Snow District.
• The group found the manor devastated, with no clear signs of fighting inside and little useful evidence.
• Su Feng cast Bakudo #58: Gakushi Tsuishou and located the Ryūdōji Clan in Rukongai’s 76th Nigoku District.
• Su Feng hurried Rangiku Matsumoto and Nanao Ise toward Nigoku District, recalling its legend of Mimihagi, the Soul King’s Right Arm.

In Nigoku, the Ukitake Clan sacrificed Ryūdōji Clan captives to Mimihagi and claimed the Soul King's Right Arm's power, creating a powerful ritualist. Su Feng prepared to confront him, but an exhausted newcomer arrived and attacked with Hado #63: Raikoho.

• The Ukitake Clan brought wounded captives to an ancient building in Nigoku and sacrificed them to Mimihagi.
• Mimihagi's massive arm appeared above the building and froze the spirit particles across the wasteland.
• A Ukitake Clan member completed a Sacrificial Ritual, absorbed Mimihagi's power, and rose from Sixth-Class to Third-Class Spiritual Might.
• Su Feng recognized the ritual's purpose, while Rangiku Matsumoto and Nanao Ise reacted in shock.
• The ritualist spotted Su Feng and his companions and attacked, prompting Su Feng to tell Rangiku and Nanao to handle the others.
• An exhausted voice chanted Hado #63: Raikoho, and golden lightning struck across the wasteland.

Su Feng and Nanao Ise arrived as Jushiro Ukitake confronted his brother, who had used nobles’ bodies and souls in a forbidden ritual to obtain Mimihagi’s remaining power. Jushiro fought his brother while Su Feng held back, intending to strike after both sides had weakened.

• Su Feng’s lightning destroyed the ancient building where the Ryūdōji Clan’s ritual had taken place, and Jushiro Ukitake arrived, claiming he had come to atone.
• Jushiro’s brother accused him of absorbing Mimihagi’s power as a child and declared that he would kill Jushiro to reclaim it and become the Soul King.
• Jushiro explained that Mimihagi had chosen him as its vessel when his parents prayed for a cure for his severe lung disease, then drew Sogyo no Kotowari.
• Jushiro’s brother attacked with shadows, and Jushiro dodged them despite coughing blood as the battle began.
• Nanao Ise urged Su Feng to help, but Su Feng told her to wait until both sides had suffered and said the prey would belong to him.

Jushiro Ukitake fought his older brother in Nigoku District after his brother stole the Soul King's Power to strengthen the Ukitake Clan. Ukitake unleashed a massive attack that destroyed the black creatures and shielded battlefield, but his brother's fate remained unclear.

• Jushiro Ukitake dodged his older brother's black patterns and broke free from a giant sphere with Hado #63: Raikoho.
• Black arms erupted across the wasteland, attacking Jushiro Ukitake and the gathered noble clan members as Nanao Ise and Rangiku Matsumoto assessed their power.
• Jushiro's older brother demanded the Soul King's Power, claiming he would use it to raise the Ukitake Clan to unprecedented heights.
• Jushiro declared he would not spare his older brother and cut down the black arms with Hado #78: Zanka no Tachi.
• Jushiro unleashed a massive inky-blue blast that obliterated the black forest, while his older brother raised a huge black shield to defend himself.

Su Feng defeated and executed Jushiro Ukitake’s elder brother after the shadow lost its remaining Soul King power. In the wasteland’s distance, Gin Ichimaru and Captain Aizen watched and questioned whether to continue their plan.

• Nanao Ise protected Su Feng from the shockwave as Jushiro Ukitake’s attack left both him and his opponent gravely weakened.
• Jushiro Ukitake admitted he could no longer fight and entrusted his elder brother to Su Feng.
• Su Feng attacked the shadow with Hado #73: Sōren Sōkatsui, while Jushiro Ukitake’s elder brother accused him of betraying the nobles.
• Su Feng stripped away the shadow’s remaining Soul King power and passed judgment, killing Jushiro Ukitake’s elder brother with a massive wind blade.
• Gin Ichimaru and Captain Aizen watched from the wasteland’s edge, and Gin asked whether they should continue their plan.

Su Feng killed Jushiro Ukitake’s Elder Brother, uncovered his plot to sacrifice nobles to Mimihagi for the Soul King’s Power, and captured the accomplices. After completing his mission, Su Feng’s spiritual pressure rose to Second-Class Spiritual Might, and he learned that Jushiro had thirteen elder brothers.

• Aizen warned Gin Ichimaru not to underestimate their creation, which had been strengthened since the version made three years earlier.
• Su Feng killed Jushiro Ukitake’s Elder Brother after stripping away the Soul King’s Power with wind and striking him with a forty-meter-long sword.
• Jushiro explained that his Elder Brother had destroyed the Ryūdōji Clan to sacrifice its survivors to Mimihagi and obtain the Soul King’s Power.
• Su Feng ordered Rangiku Matsumoto and Nanao Ise to bind the accomplices and send them to the Chamber of Penance for judgment or exile.
• Su Feng completed his mission and increased his spiritual pressure to Second-Class Spiritual Might.
• Su Feng asked Jushiro how many elder brothers he had, and Jushiro answered that he had thirteen.

Aizen’s bizarre Menos devoured the spiritual energy left by the battle, destroyed Mimihagi-sama’s shrine, and drew Su Feng and his companions’ attention. Su Feng rushed to confront the creature, which recognized him as a Soul Reaper.

• A bizarre creature crossed Rukongai and consumed the reishi and spiritual pressure left behind by the battle.
• The creature reached Mimihagi-sama’s shrine and bit down on the ancient structure, causing it to collapse.
• Su Feng, Jushiro Ukitake, and Nanao Ise sensed the creature’s immense spiritual pressure and learned that Nigoku District had been protected from Hollows and Menos while Mimihagi-sama’s shrine stood.
• Jushiro Ukitake offered to hold the Menos back, but Su Feng went ahead to confront it himself.
• Su Feng found the Menos eating the shrine’s remains, and it turned its many eyes toward him and said, “Soul Reaper...”

Su Feng faced an Aizen-modified Adjuchas that had devoured Mimihagi’s residual power and overwhelmed it in their first exchange. The creature regenerated and unleashed spiritual pressure close to a Vasto Lorde’s, prompting Rangiku Matsumoto to seek reinforcements as Squad 12 detected the threat.

• The Adjuchas attacked Su Feng, but he dodged its strike and wounded it with Storm Howl before blasting it with Hado #63: Raikoho.
• The Adjuchas lost nearly half its body and an arm, then regenerated its wounds and grew even more eyes.
• The Adjuchas unleashed enough spiritual pressure to tear open the clouds, and the force caused weaker nobles traveling with Jushiro Ukitake to collapse.
• Rangiku Matsumoto sent Nanao Ise to watch over the nobles and rushed toward the Seireitei to seek reinforcements.
• The Spiritual Wave Measurement Research Division detected a Menos near Vasto Lorde level in the Nigoku District and sounded the alarm.

Su Feng fought an unusually powerful Adjuchas in Nigoku District while reinforcements rushed from the Seireitei. Aizen observed that the creature’s unique evolution might create more possibilities for his plan.

• Tenteikūra and the Department of Research and Development announced that Su Feng was fighting an Adjuchas near Vasto Lorde strength, and Shinigami reinforcements headed for Nigoku District.
• The Adjuchas renewed its body, launched itself into the sky, and attacked Su Feng like a spinning meteor, but he evaded it with Shunpo.
• The Adjuchas fired successive Ceros, and Su Feng’s gale swallowed the first blast and tore through the surrounding dust before the creature dispersed the remaining wind with another Cero.
• Gin Ichimaru and Aizen watched the battle, and Aizen explained that Su Feng had mastered his Zanpakuto’s True Name.
• Aizen concluded that the Adjuchas’s fusion of a Shinigami soul, a Menos core, and Mimihagi’s power had set it on a new evolutionary path that might aid his plan.

An Adjuchas evolved rapidly after devouring the Soul King's lingering power, but Su Feng overwhelmed it in battle. Su Feng pierced its mask with Storm Howl as a cloaked observer watched in shock.

• The Adjuchas devoured the Soul King's Power left in Nigoku District and gained the ability to evolve rapidly.
• After the Adjuchas neutralized his attack, Su Feng examined its new power and prepared to fight seriously.
• The Adjuchas charged Su Feng, but he wounded it with Storm Howl and blasted it into the ruined shrine with Sokatsui.
• Su Feng confronted the badly injured Adjuchas again and released Storm Howl's power, piercing its bone mask.
• A cloaked figure with azure eyes watched the attack and reacted with shock.

Su Feng killed an unusually powerful Adjuchas and suspected Aizen and Gin Ichimaru had been watching his display. Aizen and Gin arrived pretending to respond to an emergency, while Su Feng considered finding researchers in Squad 12 to investigate the creature.

• Aizen and Gin Ichimaru observed Su Feng's attack while concealed by black cloaks and Bakudo #26: Kyokko.
• Su Feng combined his Kendo with Storm Howl's wind control to kill the Adjuchas in one strike, deliberately showing off for the hidden observers.
• Su Feng examined the creature and considered seeking help from Squad 12, while deciding to avoid Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Aizen Sosuke and Gin Ichimaru arrived and pretended they had hurried to Nigoku District after receiving Lieutenant Matsumoto's Tenteikūra.
• Su Feng told them the Adjuchas had extraordinary abilities and suggested it had not evolved naturally.

Su Feng sealed the Adjuchas corpse and arranged for the Fourth Division to transport it for research. He sought access to the dissection and its data, but Seinosuke Yamada said he needed Retsu Unohana’s approval.

• Su Feng told Aizen and Gin Ichimaru that noble members led by Jushiro Ukitake had massacred the Ryūdōji Clan and sacrificed themselves to Mimihagi.
• Su Feng sealed the Adjuchas corpse with Enkōsen to protect it from damage.
• The Fourth Division arrived, and Seinosuke Yamada examined the corpse with enthusiasm and asked to take it to the barracks.
• Su Feng agreed to the transfer but insisted on observing the dissection and reviewing its data.
• Seinosuke Yamada said he needed Retsu Unohana’s approval because the Research Lab contained important unfinished test subjects.

Su Feng brought the massive Adjuchas corpse to the Fourth Division and asked to observe its dissection and research. Retsu Unohana agreed, but requested a Kendo discussion with him, and Su Feng accepted with a smile.

• Seinosuke Yamada led the Fourth Division officers carrying the Adjuchas corpse through the barracks to the General Relief Station.
• Retsu Unohana returned from gathering medicinal herbs and approved researching the Adjuchas as long as it did not interfere with patient care.
• Seinosuke Yamada explained Su Feng's request, and Retsu Unohana agreed to let him observe the dissection.
• Retsu Unohana praised Su Feng's Kendo during his battle with Kaname Tosen and asked him to discuss Kendo with her.
• Su Feng recognized that refusing was difficult and told Retsu Unohana he admired her Kendo mastery too.

Su Feng joined Retsu Unohana for a kendo exchange in the Fourth Division dojo, where her blood-soaked aura and fierce swordsmanship pushed him to test his skill. As they traded blows, he began integrating the many styles he had learned into his own.

• Retsu Unohana invited Su Feng to train with her in the dojo, and Seinosuke Yamada followed after making sure the Adjuchas was delivered to the Sixth Research Lab.
• Retsu Unohana changed into a kendo uniform and she and Su Feng took bamboo swords without using their Zanpakuto.
• Retsu Unohana's oppressive presence impressed Su Feng, while his focused gaze stirred her memories of formidable opponents.
• Retsu Unohana opened the exchange with a strike from the Heavenly Heart Degree Famous Style, and Su Feng blocked it before countering with his strength.
• Retsu Unohana praised Su Feng's No-Dwelling Heart Sword Style as they continued their fast-paced duel.
• Su Feng drew on the kendo styles in his mind and began merging them into his own under the pressure of Retsu Unohana's attacks.

Su Feng and Retsu Unohana fought an intense Kendo match that pushed him to improve under her guidance. The match ended with Unohana’s Bamboo Sword at his neck, and she invited him to visit the Fourth Division for more exchanges.

• Seinosuke Yamada and the others watched as Su Feng and Retsu Unohana’s Kendo exchange battered the dojo and overwhelmed their ability to follow.
• Su Feng realized that Unohana was suppressing him with her unmatched Kendo skill and a seamless succession of techniques.
• Unohana eased the pressure, allowing Su Feng to absorb her knowledge and rapidly develop his own fierce style.
• Unohana drew Su Feng back into her rhythm, and their Bamboo Swords shattered as the exchange ended with her broken sword at his neck.
• Unohana lowered her sword, praised the satisfying match, and invited Su Feng to visit the Fourth Division for more Kendo exchanges.