Recaps

Seinosuke Yamada discovered that Ashido Kanō had been absorbing Hollow corpses for years, gradually changing his soul and reishi. Ashido chose to return to Soul Society and continue serving as a Soul Reaper, while Su Feng stayed behind and noticed white bone emerging from Azashiro Soya’s cheek.

• Seinosuke Yamada and Mayuri Kurotsuchi realized that Ashido Kanō had been eating Hollow corpses and examined him.
• Seinosuke Yamada concluded that Hollow influence had begun changing Ashido Kanō and could eventually turn him into a Menos.
• Su Feng stopped Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada from dissecting Ashido Kanō, and Ashido chose to return to Soul Society.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi opened a Mimic Garganta, and Hanataro Yamada, Ashido Kanō, and the others entered it.
• After the Garganta closed, Su Feng saw a trace of white bone appearing on Azashiro Soya’s cheek.

Su Feng learned that Azashiro Soya was developing Hollow traits after fusing with Hueco Mundo’s reishi and told him to stop expanding the fusion until researchers found a countermeasure. Su Feng then confronted Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck in the Forest of Menos and demanded that she become his subordinate, but she fled after their clash.

• Azashiro Soya explained that his Bankai had fused him with Hueco Mundo’s reishi, giving him Hollow traits and making the change seemingly irreversible.
• Su Feng advised Azashiro Soya to hold his current territory and wait for Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada to develop a countermeasure to Hollowfication.
• Su Feng fired Hado #88: Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō into the Forest of Menos, revealing Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, who had come to investigate the battle.
• Su Feng asked Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck to become his subordinate and help build a Hollow Kingdom, then challenged her to fight when she tried to decline.
• Su Feng and Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck exchanged a powerful blow, and Nelliel fled into the darkness after realizing she could not defeat him.

Su Feng became the twenty-third head of the Tsunayashiro Family, inherited its dangerous ancestral Zanpakuto, and continued his training and research projects. Forty years later, Byakuya Kuchiki visited him with Black Soul Wine and an unresolved question.

• Su Feng left Hueco Mundo after asking Azashiro Soya to watch for unusual Menos, and he proposed researching whether Hollows could acquire Shinigami traits.
• Su Feng enlisted Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada to study Menos Arrancarization using Ashido Kanō as their research subject.
• Tsunayashiro Akizuki gave up the Family Head position, and Su Feng was inaugurated as the Tsunayashiro Family's twenty-third head.
• Su Feng inherited Katen Kyokotsu Karamatsu Shinju from the family ancestral hall, despite its ability to copy Zanpakuto at the cost of its wielder's soul.
• Forty years later, Byakuya Kuchiki arrived alone with a jar of Black Soul Wine and told Su Feng there was something he could not understand.

Byakuya Kuchiki came to Su Feng drunk and revealed that family rules were keeping him from marrying Hisana, whom he had met and fallen in love with in Rukongai. Su Feng urged him to marry her, and Byakuya asked Su Feng to protect Hisana while he persuaded his family.

• Byakuya Kuchiki drank Black Soul Wine in Su Feng's room and rambled about his family's honor and rules while Su Feng blocked Rangiku Matsumoto and Nanao Ise from eavesdropping.
• Byakuya passed out before he could explain what had troubled him, and Su Feng took incriminating photos of him.
• The next morning, Byakuya told Su Feng that he had fallen in love with Hisana in Rukongai but felt trapped between marrying her and obeying the Kuchiki Family's rules.
• Su Feng dismissed the family rules as unworthy of his concern and told Byakuya to marry Hisana, promising to support him even against Ginrei Kuchiki.
• Byakuya asked Su Feng to go to Rukongai and protect Hisana while he tried to convince his family, and Su Feng agreed while asking to be paid more.

Su Feng met Hisana and learned that she had abandoned her younger sister, Rukia, in Inutsuri District. He tasked the Arisugawa Clan with finding Rukia, while Rukia was caught stealing food at the chapter’s end.

• Su Feng met Hisana in Junrinan District and promised to protect her while Byakuya handled his family affairs.
• Hisana told Su Feng that she had abandoned infant Rukia in Inutsuri District and had failed to find her again.
• Su Feng asked Gin Ginjiro to summon the Arisugawa Clan and promised them the district’s water-resource management rights if they found Rukia within three days.
• Kawakawa Kuranosuke and Arisugawa Ryo accepted the task and began searching for Rukia.
• Rukia stole a bundle of food from a stall in Inutsuri District, but a man intercepted her and took it away.

Su Feng brought Rukia from Inutsuri District to reunite with Hisana, then learned that Byakuya had secured the Kuchiki Family’s agreement to the matter. After revealing that both sisters had Spiritual Power aptitude, he asked whether they wanted to become Shinigami.

• Su Feng stopped Serizawa Tamon’s gang with help from the Arisugawa Clan and took Rukia away to meet her sister.
• Hisana embraced Rukia, and the sisters began reconnecting while Su Feng left them alone.
• Byakuya told Su Feng that the Kuchiki Family had agreed to the matter, and Gin Ginjiro explained that the clan changed its stance after Byakuya invoked Su Feng’s authority.
• Su Feng’s past actions and growing control over the Tsunayashiro Family were recounted, including his punishment of dissenting elders and appointment of Seinosuke Yamada and Isane Kotetsu to new roles.
• Hisana and Rukia thanked Su Feng, who told them both had Spiritual Power aptitude and asked if they wanted to become Shinigami.

Su Feng arranged for Rukia and Hisana to enter the Shinigami Academy, then recruited Toshiro Hitsugaya and Momo Hinamori after witnessing Toshiro’s dangerous spiritual pressure. He urged Isshin Shiba to accept his proposal to strengthen the Shiba Family, leaving Isshin’s decision unresolved.

• Su Feng invented a tragic love story for Rukia and Hisana, then Byakuya Kuchiki confronted him about the stories he had published about Byakuya’s past.
• Su Feng took responsibility for arranging Academy enrollment and visited Toshiro Hitsugaya and Momo Hinamori in Junrinan District.
• Toshiro Hitsugaya recognized Su Feng’s spiritual pressure from a battle forty years earlier and unleashed a cold wave that threatened Momo Hinamori.
• Su Feng calmed Toshiro Hitsugaya and persuaded him to accept enrollment at the Shinigami Academy to protect his family and Momo.
• Su Feng visited Isshin Shiba at the Shiba Family estate and pressed him to accept a proposal to keep the family from being removed from the Five Great Noble Clans.

Su Feng urged the Shiba Family to prepare for its declining status and suggested that Kūkaku and Ganju attend the Soul Reaper Academy. Meanwhile, a failed Hollowfication experiment caused Ashido Kanō to transform and lose control, and Su Feng received an urgent call about the accident.

• Su Feng told Isshin Shiba that upper nobles had repeatedly tried to strip the Shiba Family of its noble status, and Isshin admitted he lacked the strength to restore the family.
• Kaien arrived and agreed with Su Feng that Kūkaku and Ganju should be asked to attend the Soul Reaper Academy.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada’s Hollowfication experiment on Ashido Kanō failed, but Ashido began transforming as his spiritual pressure surged.
• Seinosuke opened a trapdoor beneath Ashido, and Su Feng received a call reporting that Ashido had lost control.

Su Feng entered the underground research space to subdue Ashido Kanō, whose Hollowfication had left him rampaging without consciousness. Su Feng overwhelmed Kanō in close combat, but Kanō regenerated and adapted before firing a Cero that swallowed Su Feng.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada explained that Ashido Kanō’s research had helped him discover how Shinigami and Menos souls could coexist, triggering his complete Hollowfication.
• Su Feng charged at Kanō, who broke free of the Bakudo restraints and attacked him on instinct.
• Su Feng crushed Kanō’s arm with a single blow, but Kanō regenerated it and grew bone armor over it.
• Kanō attacked again, and Su Feng used Shunko to shatter Kanō’s body with another punch.
• Kanō gathered spirit particles in his mouth and fired a Cero that engulfed Su Feng.

Su Feng subdued Ashido Kanō’s Hollow and the researchers confirmed their Arrancarfication experiments were progressing. Ten days later, Arisugawa Kuranosuke reported that his clan had found the red-haired target, but the boy had beaten their scouts and taken their Zanpakuto.

• Su Feng crushed Ashido Kanō’s Cero, restrained him with Kido, and forced the Hollow within him to recede.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada explained that blank artificial souls had enabled them to Arrancarify a Gillian, and Su Feng urged them to continue their research.
• Ashido Kanō regained his original spiritual pressure, and Seinosuke Yamada found him badly injured but alive.
• Ten days later, Arisugawa Kuranosuke told Su Feng that his clan had located the red-haired boy in Inutsuri District, where he had beaten their scouts and taken their Zanpakuto.

Su Feng confronted Renji Abarai after Renji defeated an Arisugawa Clan Shinigami and took his Zanpakuto. Renji challenged Su Feng to prove his strength, but Su Feng blocked his full-power strike with one finger and shattered the Zanpakuto.

• Renji Abarai celebrated defeating an Arisugawa Clan Shinigami and claimed the Shinigami's Zanpakuto as his trophy.
• Su Feng and Kawakawa Kuranosuke arrived at Renji Abarai's courtyard, where Renji mistook them for a revenge party.
• Su Feng said he had come to ask Renji Abarai whether he wanted to become a Shinigami, but Renji refused to consider it unless Su Feng could defeat him.
• Renji Abarai attacked Su Feng with all his strength, and Su Feng stopped the Zanpakuto's blade with one finger.
• Su Feng's spiritual pressure shattered Renji Abarai's Zanpakuto into fragments.

Su Feng broke Renji Abarai’s Zanpakuto and convinced him to become a Shinigami, then gathered Renji and four other gifted youths to enroll at the Shinigami Academy. There, he met Aizen, who took an interest in Renji and asked whether he would join the Fifth Division after graduation.

• Su Feng crushed Renji Abarai’s Zanpakuto, overwhelmed the Arisugawa Clan Shinigami with his spiritual pressure, and persuaded Renji to meet him at Hakutōmon in three days.
• Kawakawa Kuranosuke said the Arisugawa Clan would take over Inutsuri District and care for Renji’s lackeys, and Renji thanked him before leaving for Hakutōmon.
• Three days later, Su Feng gathered Hisana, Rukia, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Momo Hinamori, and Renji Abarai and led them to the Shinigami Academy.
• Su Feng introduced the five youths to Aizen, highlighting their talents and revealing that Renji had defeated an elite Arisugawa Clan Shinigami.
• Aizen praised Renji’s talent and asked whether he would consider joining the Fifth Division after graduation.

Su Feng oversaw the enrollment of five Rukongai youths at the Soul Reaper Academy, where Toshiro Hitsugaya and Renji Abarai quickly impressed their classmates and Rukia resolved to grow stronger. A month later, after discussing Hisana’s health and Hell’s instability with Byakuya Kuchiki, Su Feng received news from Mayuri Kurotsuchi about Hueco Mundo and opened a Garganta.

• Su Feng joked with Aizen about recruiting students and teaching Kendo at the Soul Reaper Academy, then brought the five youths from Rukongai to enroll.
• Toshiro Hitsugaya demonstrated sixth-class spiritual might, and Renji Abarai defeated a Kendo instructor during an in-class test.
• Su Feng spotted Izuru Kira among the elite students and thought Rukia would need extra tutoring to catch up.
• Byakuya Kuchiki asked Su Feng to help secure Hisana’s survival, and Su Feng recommended the Shin'ō Reijutsuin Medical Division and Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
• Byakuya told Su Feng that the Gokuzai Family wanted help developing Kido to stabilize the Gates of Hell, and Su Feng assigned the work to the Kido Corps with Nanao Ise and Seinosuke Yamada assisting.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Su Feng that Azashiro Soya had found new information about Nelliel and an entirely new female Vasto Lorde, and Su Feng opened a Garganta.

Su Feng met Azashiro Soya in Hueco Mundo and learned that Nelliel was hiding among stone pillars. After Su Feng defeated her again, Nell surrendered, while the search for another female Vasto Lorde remained unresolved.

• Su Feng escaped the Kōtotsu in the Dangai and reflected on his strange ability to attract it.
• Azashiro Soya met Su Feng and revealed that his Hollowfication had worsened as he merged with Hueco Mundo's reishi.
• Azashiro Soya led Su Feng to Nelliel's hiding place and mentioned traces of another female Vasto Lorde.
• Su Feng released Storm Howl and destroyed the rocks concealing Nelliel, who attacked him with a Vasto Lorde Cero.
• Su Feng split Nelliel's Cero and defeated her in close combat, and Nelliel surrendered.

Su Feng persuaded Nel to join his plan to bring Hueco Mundo under control and gave her a Zero ring, then took her with Azashiro Soya to investigate another Vasto Lorde. A cloaked observer watched Su Feng leave and anticipated his future moves.

• Su Feng convinced Nel that controlling Hueco Mundo could reduce harm to humans, and Nel agreed to join him because she trusted him.
• Su Feng gave Nel a ring marked with the character “Zero,” which she wore as a necklace.
• After Nel recovered her spiritual pressure, Su Feng introduced her to Azashiro Soya and explained that he would help her if she faced danger.
• Azashiro Soya used his Bankai to travel toward the nearby Vasto Lorde, and Su Feng and Nel followed him.
• A cloaked figure watched Su Feng depart and wondered whether he was trying to become a player rather than a pawn.

Baraggan Louisenbairn ambushed Tier Harribel and her three subordinates, demanding that Harribel submit as his Adjuchas attacked them. Just as Baraggan’s Power of Senescence was about to consume Harribel, Tsunayashiro Su Feng intervened with Hadō #90: Black Coffin and confronted the king of Hueco Mundo.

• Baraggan Louisenbairn ordered his Adjuchas to hunt down Tier Harribel and her three companions after learning they had entered his territory.
• Harribel and Sun-Sun, Franceska Mila Rose, and Emilou Apacci encountered Baraggan and refused his demand that Harribel become his subordinate.
• Baraggan’s modified Adjuchas overwhelmed Harribel and her companions, forcing Harribel to fight desperately to protect them.
• Baraggan unleashed his Power of Senescence after Harribel refused to submit, and its black energy surged toward her.
• Tsunayashiro Su Feng appeared behind Harribel, used Hadō #90: Black Coffin to block Baraggan’s attack, and introduced himself to Baraggan.

Su Feng confronted Barragan and his army after blocking the King of Hueco Mundo’s Power of Senescence, then revealed overwhelming spiritual pressure and prepared to unleash his Zanpakuto. The chapter ended as he began his Forest of Thunder Prison attack.

• Su Feng blocked Barragan’s Power of Senescence, shocking Tier Harribel, her subordinates, and the fleeing Adjuchas.
• Barragan recognized Su Feng as the Soul Reaper who had transformed Szayelaporro and offered him a place in Las Noches, but Su Feng refused.
• Nel and Azashiro Soya joined Su Feng, and Barragan ordered more than a hundred Adjuchas to attack.
• Su Feng released overwhelming spiritual pressure that surpassed the gathered Adjuchas and left Tier Harribel and Nel stunned.
• Several Adjuchas charged Su Feng, but lightning from his Zanpakuto froze them in place as he told Azashiro not to blink.
• Su Feng raised his lightning-wreathed Zanpakuto and began his Forest of Thunder Prison attack, stirring unease in Barragan.

Su Feng unleashed overwhelming wind-and-lightning attacks against Baraggan, destroying the Adjuchas and overpowering Baraggan’s Power of Senescence. Just as Su Feng’s Heat-Afflicting Wind was about to hit Baraggan, an unknown being arrived and stopped the attack, leaving the true king of Hueco Mundo in question.

• Su Feng’s lightning prison annihilated the Adjuchas and devastated the Gobi as Baraggan watched in shock.
• Baraggan unleashed his Power of Senescence and declared himself the supreme king of Hueco Mundo, while Tier Harribel, Sun-Sun, and the other Hollows suffered under the clash.
• Su Feng reminded Baraggan of his history with the Ancient Menos and challenged his claim to supremacy.
• Su Feng used Heat-Afflicting Wind to erase Baraggan’s black energy and drive his attack toward Baraggan.
• An unknown being arrived in a flash of azure light and stopped the remaining Heat-Afflicting Wind before it reached Baraggan.

Coyote Starrk arrived to intervene in Su Feng’s fight with Baraggan, then revealed a powerful solo Resurrección and clashed with Su Feng. The battle ended with Baraggan fleeing and Starrk escaping after unleashing a barrage of Ceros.

• Coyote Starrk appeared and urged Baraggan to focus on escaping Su Feng rather than fighting him.
• Starrk completed his Resurrección alone, revealing overwhelming spiritual pressure and a pair of blades.
• Su Feng rejected Starrk’s request to take Baraggan away and attacked him, beginning a fierce close-combat battle.
• Baraggan fled the Gobi while Azashiro Soya, Nel, and Tier Harribel watched Su Feng and Starrk fight.
• Starrk unleashed a wave of Ceros from his blades, then used Sonído to escape beyond the horizon.

Su Feng healed Harribel’s companions and persuaded her to join his plan to establish a Hollow Kingdom. Meanwhile, Barragan returned to Las Noches and found an unfamiliar figure seated on his throne.

• Su Feng used Reverse Healing Kido to heal Sun-Sun and the other injured Hollows while Harribel watched.
• Su Feng explained the balance between Hollows and Soul Reapers, then offered Harribel a place in his new Hollow Kingdom and the promise of power equal to Barragan’s.
• Harribel agreed to serve Su Feng, and he gave her a silver ring marked “White” as Nel welcomed her into their group.
• Barragan returned to Las Noches and found a bespectacled man seated on his throne, who mocked him for his weakened state.

Aizen Sosuke used Kyoka Suigetsu to overwhelm Barragan and offered him power and a new world if he submitted. In Soul Society, Su Feng returned from Hueco Mundo with three wary Adjuchas for Arrancarization experiments, then learned that the geniuses he had brought from Rukongai had caused trouble.

• Aizen Sosuke redirected Barragan's Power of Senescence with Kyoka Suigetsu and urged him to submit for the chance to reach a new world.
• Su Feng arrived at Laboratory Nine with Sun-Sun, Apacci, and Mila, and Mila knocked Hiyosu aside as the three mistook the researchers for enemies.
• Su Feng reassured the Adjuchas, explained how he had treated them, and told Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada to proceed cautiously with Arrancarization experiments.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi told Su Feng that the geniuses he had brought back from Rukongai had caused trouble.

Captain Retsu Unohana taught a Kendo lesson at the Soul Reaper Academy, where Renji volunteered to spar with her and was swiftly beaten. Su Feng watched from the dojo platform with Isshin Shiba, while Unohana asked the terrified students for another volunteer.

• Oyunahara Genugoro warned Class One to behave for their important guest and decided Su Feng should handle Renji Abarai and Toshiro Hitsugaya's troublemaking.
• Retsu Unohana arrived to teach Kendo, surprising the students, and explained the fundamentals before offering to demonstrate them in a match.
• Renji volunteered to spar with Unohana, while Toshiro warned him that provoking her could be dangerous.
• Su Feng watched with Isshin Shiba and complained that Isshin had accompanied him instead of keeping a promise involving Kaien.
• Unohana overwhelmed Renji and sent him crashing into the dojo wall, then asked the silent students for another volunteer.

Retsu Unohana trained the academy students in Kendo, defeating each volunteer before sparring evenly with Su Feng. After Unohana left, Su Feng and Isshin Shiba faced the students, and Su Feng offered them good news and bad news.

• Retsu Unohana defeated Renji Abarai and Toshiro Hitsugaya in sparring, then advised them on their fighting styles.
• Isshin Shiba praised the young talents, and Su Feng identified Momo Hinamori and Izuru Kira as potential recruits for his division.
• Rukia volunteered to spar with Retsu Unohana, and the other freshmen followed, but Unohana defeated them in a few moves.
• Renji Abarai asked whether Retsu Unohana or Su Feng was stronger, so Unohana invited Su Feng to settle it with a Kendo match.
• Su Feng and Retsu Unohana fought an even Kendo bout, then arranged another meeting and ended the lesson.
• After Retsu Unohana left, Su Feng and Isshin Shiba addressed the students, and Su Feng asked whether they wanted to hear the good news or the bad news first.

Su Feng punished Toshiro Hitsugaya and Renji Abarai for fighting by sending them to train against Hanataro Yamada, while Rukia watched over the session. He then revealed that Hisana’s soul was deteriorating and suggested Kisuke Urahara might offer another way to help her.

• Su Feng announced that Toshiro Hitsugaya and Renji Abarai would be punished for fighting and that he would teach some of their Kendo classes.
• Su Feng took Toshiro and Renji to Hanataro Yamada and ordered him to beat them half to death, with Rukia assigned to supervise and provide emergency treatment.
• Su Feng placed Hisana inside a barrier designed to stabilize her condition and explained to Byakuya Kuchiki that she had a Deficient Soul.
• Su Feng told Byakuya that the barrier could not cure Hisana and that her condition might become fatal within a few years.
• Su Feng suggested that Kisuke Urahara, the exiled former director of the Department of Research and Development, might provide another solution.

Su Feng dealt with mounting work while Renji and Toshiro trained against Hanataro, and Rangiku Matsumoto ended the night by bringing him drugged tea and kissing him. The chapter left Su Feng abandoning his paperwork to take Rangiku into his bedroom.

• Byakuya Kuchiki took Hisana home and refused Su Feng's suggestion, while Su Feng expected him to return soon and bring Hagoromo Tea.
• Su Feng reflected on the Tsunayashiro Family's lack of valuable treasures and on Mayuri Kurotsuchi and Seinosuke Yamada researching Katen Kyokotsu Karamatsu Shinju's soul-diminishing effect.
• Hanataro Yamada repeatedly fought and healed Renji and Toshiro Hitsugaya until he knocked them unconscious, while Rukia watched and assisted with emergency treatment.
• Su Feng reviewed reports about stalled Reverse Kido research and Rebel Army attacks as the Sixth Division's investigation stalled.
• Rangiku Matsumoto brought Su Feng tea laced with Mengchun Wine, kissed him, and went with him into his bedroom.