Bleach: The Path to Transcendence

Although the process was a bit tortuous, the result was ultimately good. Both Masaki Kurosaki and 絵葉 Katagiri and their children were safe and sound.

On the seventh day after Ichigo Kurosaki was born, Masaki Kurosaki and Isshin Kurosaki declined the invitation of Ryūken Ishida and his wife, and drove their used car back to the Kurosaki Clinic.

Having left Ishida Hospital and without Soken Ishida's protection, the number of Hollows that came to harass Ichigo Kurosaki, who was still in his swaddling clothes, would naturally not be small.

Fortunately, Masaki Kurosaki, as a pure-blooded Quincy, although still weak at the moment, could easily deal with some stray Hollows wandering in the human world.

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At this moment, above the dome of Las Noches, the battle between Kūgo Ginjō and the Espada was still ongoing.

At this time, Kūgo Ginjō had already defeated the Fourth to Seventh Espada one by one, and was now fiercely fighting Ulquiorra, who was the Third Espada.

The battle between Ulquiorra and Kūgo Ginjō had entered a white-hot stage. Ulquiorra had already activated his Resurrección Segunda form after fusing with the Hōgyoku.

Kūgo Ginjō didn't dare to be careless either, and used his own Fullbring Bankai.

Black feathers spread out from behind Ulquiorra's four limbs, and he continuously fired Lanza del Relámpago, the speed reaching its limit. In comparison, Kūgo Ginjō's movements seemed slightly clumsy, but he could still barely parry.

"Zzt!"

Seeing that he was constantly being beaten passively, Kūgo Ginjō directly raised the Cross of Scaffold in his hand, and the tip of the sword instantly accumulated a Cero of purple-red color. After a moment, he shot it towards Ulquiorra in the air.

Faced with Kūgo Ginjō's Cero, Ulquiorra didn't show any weakness, and pointed out a Cero of green-black color with his right fingertip, also blasting it towards Kūgo Ginjō.

The next moment, the purple-red Cero and the green-black Cero collided violently, setting off a terrifying spiritual pressure storm!

The aftermath of just the clash between these two, if it weren't for being in the Ranked Battleground, would probably have pierced through the entire dome!

After a moment, Kūgo Ginjō's purple-red Cero overwhelmed Ulquiorra's green-black Cero. Obviously, Kūgo Ginjō was better in terms of the power of the Cero that was competing in spiritual pressure.

Seeing that his spiritual pressure was not as good as Kūgo Ginjō's, Ulquiorra immediately changed his fighting style, no longer competing with Kūgo Ginjō in spiritual pressure, but constantly condensing Lanza del Relámpago in the air, intending to use speed to completely crush his opponent.

Kūgo Ginjō saw his intention, but didn't dodge or avoid it, directly enduring countless Lanza del Relámpago, stepping on Sonído and flying into the high sky, wanting to engage in close combat with Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra retreated while continuing to fire Lanza del Relámpago.

At first, Kūgo Ginjō's Shunpo rhythm couldn't keep up with Ulquiorra, and he was riddled with countless Lanza del Relámpago. Fortunately, having implanted the Hōgyoku, he possessed considerable high-speed regeneration ability in the Fullbring Bankai state.

Therefore, while being injured by the Lanza del Relámpago, high-speed regeneration was also constantly healing his injuries.

Gradually, Ulquiorra discovered that Kūgo Ginjō's speed was getting faster and faster, from initially being pierced by countless Lanza del Relámpago, to gradually being able to catch them, and now Kūgo Ginjō was already able to wield the Cross of Scaffold with ease, blocking most of the Lanza del Relámpago.

The distance between Kūgo Ginjō and Ulquiorra was getting closer and closer.

Looking at Ulquiorra, who was almost a blur in front of him, Kūgo Ginjō tightly gripped the greatsword with both hands, circulated the spiritual pressure of his whole body, and slammed it down, a terrifying sword pressure of purple-black color, carrying the momentum of destroying the heavens and the earth, slashing towards Ulquiorra.

Under this strike, Ulquiorra, who was almost a blur, only had his arm grazed, and his entire right arm instantly turned into dust!

At the same time, the flesh at the severed part of Ulquiorra's right arm began to squirm, and high-speed regeneration was activated, beginning to repair the wound.

But Kūgo Ginjō wouldn't give him a chance at all, directly flashing, with a speed far exceeding before, and slapping down with the greatsword!

"Bang!"

This strike directly slammed Ulquiorra into the ground, his figure smashing a big pit on the special stone bricks of the Ranked Battleground.

"You won."

Ulquiorra looked at the greatsword against his throat, slowly got up, dusted off the dirt on his body, and then spoke lightly, without a trace of emotion in his voice, as if winning or losing had nothing to do with him, he was just mechanically completing the task given to him by the King.

At this point, among the Espada, Kūgo Ginjō had only yet to defeat Barragan and Stark, apart from Szayelaporro Granz, who was the Zero Espada.

As soon as his physical strength and spiritual pressure recovered, Kūgo Ginjō looked aside with soaring fighting spirit, at Barragan, who was sitting leisurely on the Bone Throne.

"Hey, old man, it's your turn!"

Hearing Kūgo Ginjō's disrespectful words, Barragan snorted coldly:

"Hmph, I admit that you can defeat all the Espada after me, you do have some ability, but your good luck ends here!"

Regarding Barragan's ridicule, Kūgo Ginjō scoffed:

"You're really old but still young at heart, still love to brag at your age!"

After the two exchanged some pre-match trash talk, as Barragan jumped into the arena, Kūgo Ginjō, holding the greatsword, directly rushed up.

At the same time, in the Palace of Las Noches, Ye Chuan was summoning Szayelaporro. Ye Chuan took out the large hand from hell that he had previously obtained in the human world, turned out a Lightning Blade, cut off a section of its little finger, and gave it to Szayelaporro.

He keenly felt a distinct aura from this large hand. Obviously, this large hand contained a lot of the hellish origin that the person calling himself Shiba had given to Ichigo Kurosaki.

If he activated Devour Soul, he could absorb the hellish origin power within it, but Ye Chuan didn't do so at this moment. After all, the hellish origin power contained within it was extremely limited. Even if it were all absorbed, the improvement to Ye Chuan's level of strength would only be minimal.

Therefore, Ye Chuan took out a portion and gave it to Szayelaporro for research, maybe he could research something amazing.

Szayelaporro took the section of little finger as if he had obtained a treasure, revealing an unusually intoxicated look.