Chapter Summaries

Quincy Knights ambushed Iori Aizen and Saitō Fuyōfushi, expecting to steal Iori’s Bankai, but Iori killed one Knight because he had no Bankai to steal. Meanwhile, Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni and Kuchiki Ginrei answered Central 46’s questions about the Shiba clan’s attack, with the clan’s protected members and secret technique confirmed safe.

• Two Quincy Knights discussed their plan to ambush the returning captains, relying on their badges to steal Bankai and on Soul Society’s turmoil to keep the Seireitei occupied.
• At night, Quincy forces surrounded Iori Aizen and Saitō Fuyōfushi, but Saitō cut down many attackers with a single Shikai strike.
• Iori called out Bankai, prompting the lazy Quincy Knight to try to steal it, then killed him before the Knight could understand why the attempt failed.
• The remaining Quincy Knight realized the badge had not worked and understood why the older Quincy had avoided the mission.
• Central 46 questioned Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni about the attack on the Shiba clan, and Yamamoto accepted responsibility while promising to rescue them.
• Kuchiki Ginrei reported that several Shiba clan members were protected and that their secret technique’s inheritance remained safe, easing the tension in the chamber.

Central 46 argued over the Quincy threat as the Seireitei’s barrier suddenly began to crack, prompting Yamamoto and Shunsui to respond to signs of an infiltration tied to the Research and Development Bureau. Quincy and modified souls attacked across the Seireitei, but Zaraki, Muramasa, and Esdeath countered them in separate battles.

• Central 46 debated the Shiba clan’s exile and the identity of the invading Quincy while Yamamoto warned that the new force was stronger than the Holy Son had been.
• Shunsui, Yamamoto, and Ginrei noticed the Killing Aura Stone barrier splitting, and Shunsui suspected the Research and Development Bureau had helped disable it before leaving to investigate.
• Zaraki and Yachiru cut down Quincy attackers, while more Quincy surrounded them and tried to keep their distance.
• Modified souls infiltrated the divisions and attacked the Thirteen Court Guard Squads, but Muramasa exposed and killed impostors who carried Zanpakuto-like powers.
• Quincy and modified souls seized the Senkaimon to destroy it, but Esdeath froze them and revealed herself as the Expeditionary Army’s commander-in-chief.

Esdeath and the Hueco Mundo reinforcements attacked the Quincy in the Seireitei, where she fought ReiKai Yamamoto with increasingly powerful ice techniques. Meanwhile, the Quincy invasion exposed Soul Society’s weakness and the Wandenreich’s hidden presence beneath the Seireitei, leaving the battle divided into contested zones.

• Esdeath returned to the Seireitei under Iori’s orders and led Humanoid Hollows through the Garganta to attack the Quincy.
• The Wandenreich sent ReiKai Yamamoto to confront Esdeath, and their clash pushed her into using the Eight Million Cold Hell Paradise Great Formation.
• Esdeath activated Mahakala Mind Demon God Liberation, freezing the surrounding space and thrusting her katana toward ReiKai Yamamoto’s heart.
• The Quincy and ReiKai overwhelmed the Thirteenth Division, while Yamamoto held back from confronting anyone until Yhwach appeared.
• The Seireitei discovered that the Quincy had hidden within its Shadow Domain for a thousand years, and the Wandenreich split the territory into war zones rather than destroy it outright.

Yhwach drew Yamamoto into a battle while Iori rallied Seireitei’s forces and helped turn the Quincy invasion into an even fight. The chapter revealed that the Yhwach fighting Yamamoto was a body double, while the real Yhwach watched from above.

• Yhwach told Haschwalth that the invasion was meant to occupy and weaken the Bleach while he prepared to reach the Soul King Palace through the Shiba clan’s secret art.
• Iori and his companions pushed into Seireitei, gathered scattered Bleach forces, and joined up with Shunsui as counterattacks spread across the city.
• Yamamoto confronted Yhwach and unleashed Ryujin Jakka, but Yhwach cut through his flames and prepared a powerful Quincy attack.
• Yamamoto’s battle with Yhwach briefly turned the invasion in the Bleach’s favor, while Haschwalth watched from the battlefield’s edge.
• The real Yhwach watched from above Seireitei as the Yhwach fighting Yamamoto was revealed to be a body double.

Yhwach watched his artificial double battle Yamamoto while the Quincy war strengthened him, but Iori Aizen appeared in the void and confronted him. Yhwach could not distinguish Iori’s original from his clone and became furious at the pity in Iori’s gaze.

• Yhwach used ReiKai Technology to create a powerful double from his blood and will, and the double forced Yamamoto into a fierce Bankai battle.
• Yhwach absorbed the returning power of fallen Quincies and watched the battlefield shift as Iori’s forces pressed the Quincy lines.
• Yamamoto feigned weakness, then unleashed the Great Fire Sword and burned apart Yhwach’s double.
• Yhwach prepared to seize Ryujin Jakka, but stopped when Iori Aizen appeared on the Reishi platform in the void.
• Iori explained that his clone and original were indistinguishable to Yhwach, then dismissed the King of the Quincy’s strength and showed him pity.
• Yhwach rejected the implication that Iori could surpass him and demanded to know what gave Iori the courage to show such disrespect.

Iori trapped Yhwach in a vast, frozen world and struck him with the divine white horse, leaving him severely burned before he regenerated and drew on the Soul King’s power. Meanwhile, Haschwalth led the Quincy in retreat from Seireitei, realizing Yhwach had been forced to use Sankt Altar.

• Iori transported Yhwach to a vast snowfield and declared that he would bury him there.
• Yhwach attacked Iori with his Quincy blade, but Iori’s Divine Warrior struck him through an iceberg and his bare hand stopped Yhwach’s flaming sword.
• Iori summoned a divine white horse whose solar flames overwhelmed Yhwach and shattered his protective armor.
• Yhwach survived by adapting to the heat and regenerating, while Iori watched without interrupting him.
• Yhwach released Sankt Altar, drawing Reishi from the sky to restore his strength as Haschwalth led the Quincy retreat from Seireitei.

Yhwach used Sankt Altar to reclaim power from Quincy and survived Iori’s devastating White Horse attack by relying on Soul King fragments and rapid regeneration. As Iori examined Yhwach’s recovery, Yhwach confined them in a ring of Reishi flames and declared him a terrifying enemy.

• Haschwalth recognized that Yhwach had begun reclaiming soul fragments from Quincy in the Seireitei and World of the Living to restore his strength.
• Yhwach tried to close in on Iori, but Iori trapped him inside a massive Kurohitsugi and unleashed the White Horse’s Solar Explosion Flames.
• Iori survived behind Dankū while the flames engulfed Yhwach, who used Sankt Altar to absorb his subordinates and recover.
• Iori identified the Soul King's Heart and the Brain in a Vat inside Yhwach’s body and realized Yhwach had also absorbed other Soul King fragments.
• Yhwach recovered enough to summon pillars of Reishi flames around himself and Iori, then praised Iori as a more frightening foe than Yamamoto or Hyōsube Ichibē.

Yhwach reached his godlike peak, but Iori overwhelmed him with the Sun Wheel White Horse and Platinum Star. After Yhwach’s final counterattack was crushed, a black torrent filled with blood-red eyes emerged, and Yhwach laughed that he had survived.

• Yhwach judged Iori more dangerous than Yamamoto and unleashed the power he had gained by crossing the boundary and absorbing the Spirit King.
• Iori summoned the Golden Ark and a vastly empowered Sun Wheel White Horse, whose flames began melting Yhwach’s giant form.
• Yhwach offered Iori a partnership to remake the Three Realms, but Iori refused and called him unworthy of cooperation.
• Iori sent Platinum Star crashing into the Sun Wheel White Horse, creating a black hole that destroyed the horse and swallowed Yhwach’s final Reishi-flame attack.
• A black torrent bearing blood-red eyes emerged from the remains, and Yhwach laughed that Iori’s victory was premature.

Iori cornered Yhwach inside the Mountain and River Scroll and destroyed him with the Divine Blade Mandala Array and World-Saving Divine Lightning. Yhwach resolved to defy the Soul King and Iori, but Iori struck him through the chest with the Platinum Divine Blade.

• Yhwach fled through the collapsing space, while Iori condemned him for mistaking survival for victory.
• Iori unleashed the Divine Blade Mandala Array, pinning Yhwach’s scattered eyeballs and streams of Black Water with divine artifacts.
• Iori released World-Saving Divine Lightning, nearly erasing Yhwach and leaving him unable to control the Reishi in his body.
• Yhwach realized the Soul King had never entrusted the Three Realms to him and vowed to resist both his father and Iori.
• Yhwach fired a Reishi arrow at Iori, who answered by piercing Yhwach’s chest with the Platinum Divine Blade.
• The system recorded Yhwach’s CG and awarded Iori attribute increases, Art Style Value, a Dimensional Gate, and the Vandenreich Letter A.

Iori defeated Yhwach, then appeared in the Seireitei disguised as him and forced his way into the Soul King Palace. He confronted Hyōsube Ichibē, declaring that he had come to be the final boss.

• Haschwalth and Lille Barro lost their composure after sensing Yhwach’s death, and Lille’s rampage ended when Yamamoto killed him and the Kido Corps sealed his fragments.
• Iori watched Yhwach dissipate inside the Mountain and River Scroll, then emerged above the Seireitei disguised as Yhwach.
• Yamamoto tried to stop Iori’s ascent with Zanka no Tachi, but Iori passed through a barrier and reached the Soul King Palace Omotesando.
• Iori unleashed immense Reiatsu to draw out the Royal Guard, and Hyōsube Ichibē appeared and challenged his confidence.
• Iori told Ichibē that he was not entering a dungeon as a newbie but had come to be the final boss.

Iori confronted Hyōsube Ichibē, who revealed that he had monitored Iori and intended to make him a future Soul King. When Iori refused to submit, Ichibē summoned Zero Division, but Iori unleashed overwhelming spiritual pressure and prepared to destroy the Soul King Palace.

• Hyōsube Ichibē explained that Iori had drawn his attention by forging a Zanpakuto without an Asauchi and that he had watched Iori’s inexplicable rise in power.
• Ichibē revealed that he expected Iori to become a Spirit King Candidate and urged him to accept his fate and return to the Seireitei; Iori refused.
• Iori attacked Ichibē with his Shikai, but Ichibē countered it by turning himself into pure black and explained that Iori’s reflections could not affect him.
• Ichibē summoned Zero Division to restrain Iori, but Iori’s spiritual pressure overwhelmed the Divine Generals and forced them to their knees.
• Iori changed into a combat outfit, declared that he would destroy the Soul King Palace, and invoked Hadō Zero: Kai.

Iori overwhelmed Zero Division at the Soul King Palace, defeating Nimaiya Ōetsu, Tenjirō Kirinji, and Shutara Senjumaru before confronting Hyōsube Ichibē. The chapter ended with Iori drawing the World-Saving Divine Blade and cleaving through Hyōsube’s attack and the Soul King Palace.

• Nimaiya Ōetsu challenged Iori, who struck him with such force that he vanished and carved a trench through the Soul King Palace.
• Iori caught Tenjirō Kirinji despite his speed, broke free of Shutara Senjumaru’s needle trap, and wounded her with a silver thread.
• Senjumaru revived with increased spiritual pressure and unleashed her Bankai, but Iori’s Reishi flames overwhelmed it and left her unable to fight.
• Hyōsube Ichibē explained that he had let the others fight so he could study Iori’s powers, then attacked when Iori drew a platinum greatsword.
• Iori awakened the World-Saving Divine Blade and cleaved through Hyōsube’s massive hand and the Soul King Palace.

Iori battled Hyōsube Ichibē in the collapsing Soul King Palace, overpowering his ink-based abilities with the Platinum Divine Blade. Just as Ichibē used his Bankai to try to rename Iori, Ōetsu emerged from the ink and stabbed him with an Asauchi, leaving Iori weakened by Ichibē’s final stroke.

• Iori’s strike shattered the Soul King Palace, but Hyōsube survived and declared he would erase Iori from history.
• Hyōsube released Ichimonji and used its ink to weaken Iori, who recognized that the blade altered names and their effects.
• Hyōsube spread his black domain across the palace and attacked, but Iori dispelled the ink and overwhelmed it with a vast Platinum sphere.
• Hyōsube began his Bankai while Iori prepared another attack, then rushed in to write a new name on him.
• Ōetsu emerged from the ink and stabbed Iori through the chest with an Asauchi as Hyōsube wrote “whole” on him, causing Iori’s spiritual pressure to plummet.

Iori revealed that the Soul King Palace battle had involved his clone, then reclaimed Sōfuku and defeated Hyōsube Ichibē and Nimaiya Ōetsu. He extracted a strange conceptual energy from Ichibē and left the defeated Zero Division members to revive eventually.

• Hyōsube Ichibē and Nimaiya Ōetsu tried to seal Iori’s Bankai and turn him into a masterless Zanpakuto, but Iori’s original body appeared with the Spirit King’s Eye.
• Sōfuku cut off Ōetsu’s fingers and returned to Iori, willingly recognizing him as its master.
• Iori defeated Ichibē and Ōetsu, while the two lost the will to oppose him.
• Iori admitted that he would not harm the Soul King and noted that the fallen members of Zero Division would eventually revive.
• Iori used the Altar of Usurpation to extract an ink-like conceptual energy from Ichibē and sealed it in frozen time and space.

Iori reached the Soul King and agreed to help free him and address Hell’s threat to the Three Worlds. Soul Society believed Yhwach had been sealed, but Haschwalth sensed Yhwach’s presence nearby in the Maggot’s Nest.

• Iori rebuilt the path and palace, then opened the crystal pillar holding the Soul King.
• Iori told the Soul King he would seek a replacement for him and help with Hell, which threatened the balance of the Three Worlds.
• Soul Society accepted the report that Zero Division had sealed Yhwach and focused on rebuilding, investigating Iori’s unauthorized alliance with Las Noches, and pursuing the Wandenreich.
• Haschwalth remained imprisoned and despondent after Yhwach’s apparent defeat.
• Haschwalth sensed Yhwach’s bloodline connection and Vandenreich Letter B awaken, then suspected Yhwach was nearby.

Iori Aizen freed Haschwalth from Maggot's Nest by imitating Yhwach, then revealed that Yhwach was dead and tried to speak with him. Haschwalth mistook Iori's approach for a trap, entered Perfected State, and attacked, only for Iori to stop his blade with one finger using Kekkou.

• Yhwach opened Haschwalth's prison cell, removed his restraints, and left traces that led him out of Maggot's Nest.
• Haschwalth followed the traces and sensed a figure he believed was the returned Yhwach, then knelt and swore his loyalty.
• Iori Aizen revealed himself and told Haschwalth that Yhwach was dead.
• Haschwalth suspected Iori was setting a trap for the Quincy and prepared to fight rather than betray his brethren.
• Haschwalth explained Perfected State and entered it, then charged Iori with a spirit-particle saber.
• Iori blocked Haschwalth's strike with one finger, and Haschwalth recognized the defense as Kekkou and questioned Iori's identity.

Iori defeated Haschwalth’s attacks and challenged him to confront his fear and dependence on Yhwach. Haschwalth recovered his resolve and asked about Iori’s connection to Yhwach before Iori began a powerful strike.

• Iori stopped Haschwalth’s sword with one finger and revealed that Yhwach had left behind only a brain sealed in crystal.
• Haschwalth entered his brief, destructive Perfected State, but Iori caught his attacks and offered to let him and the imprisoned Quincy leave as tools under his command.
• Iori exposed Haschwalth’s instinctive fear and trembling, prompting Haschwalth to realize that Yhwach’s death had shattered the belief supporting his strength.
• Haschwalth asked whether Yhwach had reincarnated inside Iori, and Iori denied it while saying Haschwalth could discover his true identity during their battle.
• Iori charged his Reishi Light Sword with spiritual energy, shaped it into a crescent, and raised it to strike.

Iori defeated Haschwalth, rejected the idea of exterminating the Quincy, and offered him a purpose under his command. Haschwalth broke Yhwach’s blade and swore loyalty to Iori, who planned to preserve the Quincy for the Soul King’s wishes and possible future needs.

• Iori overwhelmed Haschwalth with Quincy techniques and explained that he had no intention of ruling the Three Realms or wiping out the Quincy.
• Haschwalth asked whether the Quincy could live if they pledged themselves to Iori, then admitted that Yhwach’s death had left him without purpose.
• Iori urged Haschwalth to follow him and framed submission as a way to protect the other Quincy.
• Haschwalth picked up and broke Yhwach’s Zanpakuto, then knelt and swore loyalty to Iori.
• Iori accepted Haschwalth and decided the Quincy would survive, partly to honor the Soul King’s wishes and partly because their power might help resolve Hell’s problems.

Iori learned that Chaldea’s Merlin wanted him to enter a record of Ritsuka Fujimaru’s first life and build bonds that could recover her past self’s information. The chapter ended as Ritsuka and Mash faced a black swordsman and a tyrant in burning Fuyuki City.

• Iori explained that the Soul Society’s harsh measures served its survival and said he needed outside help to address the conflict between the Three Realms and Hell.
• Merlin showed Iori the abandoned Unit Zero Chaldeas, which preserved data from Ritsuka Fujimaru’s first life before she began looping.
• Merlin revealed that Ritsuka’s Servants had kept Unit Zero so they could recover her past self’s information and help free her from the weight of her sacrifices.
• Iori agreed to enter the Singularity Record and form bonds with the past Ritsuka, while warning Merlin not to hide anything from him.
• The story shifted to burning Fuyuki City, where a black swordsman and a tyrant challenged Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight.

Mash, Ritsuka, and Iori joined forces to withstand Saber King Arthur’s attack and win the battle in France, where Jeanne departed after encouraging them. In the Holy City, Bedivere returned Excalibur to the King of Lions, restoring her memories before he vanished; Artoria then prepared to face Chaldea with the holy sword.

• Mash held against Saber King Arthur’s black torrent until Ritsuka and Iori came to support her, and Ritsuka spent a Command Spell to provide more magical energy.
• With her companions’ support, Mash awakened a brilliant barrier and helped defeat the enemy in France.
• Jeanne congratulated Ritsuka on saving the era, explained that she would return to the Throne of Heroes, and urged Chaldea not to lose hope.
• Iori and Mash fought alongside Ritsuka against the King of Lions while the mortally wounded Bedivere revealed that his silver arm was Excalibur.
• Bedivere returned Excalibur to the King of Lions, restoring her memories; she acknowledged his loyalty as he turned to earth and disappeared.
• Artoria set aside the holy lance and prepared to finish the battle with Chaldea using the holy sword.