Bleach: Starting with Marrying Retsu Unohana

"Here, one for each of you!"

Just as Ichigo was about to say something, Genryusai picked up the sweet potato he had roasted from beside the fire and then looked at Yoruichi and the others in the distance.

"Whoo~"

With a howling gust of wind, before everyone could react, Yoruichi Shihouin, Uryu Ishida, Chad Yasutora, and Orihime Inoue all had a sweet potato in their hands, exactly the same as the one in Ichigo Kurosaki's hand.

"This……"

At that moment, everyone was stunned as they looked at the sweet potatoes in their hands. They hadn't even seen when the old man had made his move and placed the sweet potatoes in their hands.

"A master! A super master!"

At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that the old man might be a monster.

"Alright! Hurry up and eat your sweet potatoes. Once you're done, it'll be time to get going."

Just as everyone was marveling at the sweet potatoes in their hands, Genryusai Shigekuni, with the most benevolent face and the gentlest tone, uttered the most terrifying words.

Twelve thousand words, a long chapter!

Chapter 190 Yhwach: Yes, I am Ichigo's Zanpakuto.

"Old man, are you also our enemy?!"

The moment Genryusai finished speaking, Kurosaki Ichigo immediately distanced himself from Genryusai and looked at him coldly, asking in a low voice.

"enemy?"

Genryusai couldn't help but laugh after hearing Kurosaki Ichigo's words.

"Young man, are you mistaken about something?"

"It's not that I want to be your enemy, but that you want to be my enemy. From the moment you, as wandering monsters, trespassed into the Soul Society, you've already stood on the opposite side of me."

Genryusai looked at Kurosaki Ichigo with a kind smile on his face.

"Grandpa, we have our reasons for invading the Seireitei! We have no ill intentions towards the Soul Society or the Seireitei. The only reason we came here is to rescue our comrades! Is it wrong to want to save our comrades?"

Kurosaki Ichigo questioned Genryusai.

"Haha! Reasons? Every traveler who invaded the Soul Society told me the same thing. Each of them had their own reasons, after all, no one would bother invading the Soul Society if they didn't have a reason, right? At the same time, each of them told me that they had no ill intentions towards the Soul Society or the Seireitei!"

"As a result, these invading monsters in the Soul Society are either Shinigami who want us to promote them to the Gotei 13, or they fantasize about replacing the current Gotei 13 and becoming the captain, or even the commander-in-chief. Some even attempt to kill a god and become the Soul King!"

"Young wanderer, what do you think of these people's reasons compared to yours?! After hearing them, should I have granted them all? If I had, the Seireitei would probably be in chaos long ago. It is precisely because I did not do so that you can see the existence called 'order' here!"

Genryusai spoke calmly and indifferently to Kurosaki Ichigo.

“It’s different! Our reasons are different…”

Kurosaki Ichigo frowned, attempting to retort.

"You are no different from them. If you have to point out a difference, it's the difference between 'great evil' and 'small evil'! Their evil deeds will destroy the world, while your evil deeds are simply breaking the rules, but in the end, they are both 'evil'! In the end, it will still require me to trample on the rules of the Soul Society. Since it requires me to break the rules of the Soul Society, then there is no essential difference!"

“You must remember, there is no essential difference between trampling on rules a little and trampling on them all. Once you disregard the rules, it's like opening Pandora's box, and you'll never be able to stop! At that time, the entire ‘Three Realms’ will be destroyed because of your willful and reckless behavior. Can you little brats bear this responsibility?! And what will you rely on to bear it?”

Perhaps it was because Genryusai had been a teacher for too long that he subconsciously entered the role of a teacher and began to teach the young souls, such as Kurosaki Ichigo and Ishida Uryu, what exactly the rules of the Soul Society were!

"This……"

For a moment, Ichigo Kurosaki and the others all shut their mouths.

Just as Genryusai said, what the other party said did make some sense, to the point that Kurosaki Ichigo and the others couldn't find any way to refute it...

Even Ishida Uryu, a natural contrarian, nodded vigorously. If it weren't for Kuchiki Rukia's help in his fight against Kurosaki Ichigo, which indirectly helped him by paying for his mistakes, he would have said to Genryusai, "A word from you is worth more than ten years of study! I think you are right, sir! As you said, nothing can be accomplished without rules, and rules cannot be easily broken! In that case, I will not save this person. I will return to the 'human world' and will not come to the 'Soul Society' again before I die of natural causes."

Unfortunately, Uryu Ishida couldn't say that...

"Ichigo Kurosaki, don't listen to him! He's just stalling for time, waiting for the Shinigami reinforcements to arrive and surround us! We don't have much time to waste right now, let's defeat this old man quickly and keep going! You know, Rukia Kuchiki is still waiting for us to rescue her~"

Ishida Uryu gently pushed up his glasses. He first took a deep look at Genryusai standing opposite him, and then spoke to Kurosaki Ichigo beside him.

"no solution anymore……"

"Sir, I originally didn't intend to make a move against you, but my companions are waiting for me, and I don't have much time to waste here, so I'm sorry!"

As Ichigo Kurosaki spoke, he pointed his Zanpakuto at Genryusai in front of him.

"Oh? You want to fight me?"

Upon seeing this, Genryusai was immediately startled. He gently stroked his long white beard and exclaimed in surprise to Kurosaki Ichigo.

"Interesting! In that case, you make the first move, kid!"

As Genryusai spoke, he gently beckoned to Kurosaki Ichigo. This gesture, no matter how you looked at it, carried a hint of provocation. However, to Yoruichi Shihouin, Genryusai's actions resembled an adult teasing a newborn infant.

After signaling Kurosaki Ichigo to attack first, Genryusai calmly sat back down on the small stool he had placed on the ground, quietly waiting for Ichigo's attack.

"Ichigo, don't be careless! This old man is incredibly strong!"

Ishida Uryu, holding the roasted sweet potato that the old man had placed in his hand at some point, spoke solemnly to Kurosaki Ichigo in front of him.

"Yes! I know that without you saying it! Even that guy who wore a haori and called himself the captain of the 'Gotei 13,' his movements didn't exceed my visual perception, but I didn't even see this old man's movements just now..."

Kurosaki Ichigo gripped his swords with both hands, his eyes fixed on Genryusai before him. He dared not be careless for even a moment, fearing that the old man would strike everyone down in the next instant, just as he had shoved the sweet potatoes into their hands earlier.

"Aren't we going to take any action?"

Yuan Liuzhai looked at Kurosaki Ichigo, who hesitated to step forward for a long time, and asked with narrowed eyes.

"Phew! Watch out..."

After giving Genryusai a friendly reminder, Kurosaki Ichigo unleashed a surge of spiritual pressure, transforming into a dark shadow and heading straight for Genryusai.

"hehe."

Yuan Liuzhai, seeing this, still smiled.

Even as Ichigo Kurosaki's sword was already on Genryusai's head, Genryusai remained motionless, causing Ichigo, who was about to strike, to hesitate.

However, in that very moment of hesitation from Ichigo Kurosaki, Genryusai, who had been sitting on a stool warming himself by the fire, had already disappeared from Ichigo's sight.

"what?!"

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Kurosaki Ichigo's forehead. He was completely stunned by Genryusai's speed. Genryusai's movements were like magic, disappearing from Kurosaki Ichigo's sight in the blink of an eye.

In fact, with Ichigo Kurosaki's current dynamic nerves, even Ulquiorra in his unreleased form couldn't keep up with his speed. However, even Ulquiorra in his second release form was as naive as a child in front of Genryusai. It wasn't that Ichigo and Ulquiorra were too weak, but that the old man was simply too extraordinary.

"What are you doing, Ichigo?!"

"The enemy is behind you!"

Just as Ichigo was at a loss, Ishida Uryu's angry roar rang out behind him. From Uryu's anxious voice, one could hear Uryu's worry for Ichigo.

"Behind?"

Ichigo's expression froze; he knew something terrible was about to happen. Countless warnings surged through Ichigo's mind like a tidal wave. This feeling of powerlessness was something he hadn't experienced since regaining his Shinigami powers with Kisuke Urahara's help.

"Kid, what are you hesitating for?!"

Just as Ishida had warned, and as Ichigo had feared, a faint, hoarse, and weathered voice suddenly rang out from behind Ichigo.

"not good!"

The moment Ichigo turned around, he was met with a simple, unadorned punch.

"One bone!"

Yes, Genryusai had no intention of drawing his sword when facing Kurosaki Ichigo. With Kurosaki Ichigo's soul, which had only just entered the third level of spiritual power and had not even learned Bankai, and whose spiritual pressure had just been promoted to the level of a captain, he was not even qualified to let Genryusai release his Zanpakuto.

"I'm going to die! I'm definitely going to die!"

The moment Yuan Liuzhai threw his punch, his aura seemed to reach its peak!

At this moment, Yuan Liuzhai's fist, as big as a bowl, kept growing larger in Kurosaki Ichigo's eyes, and in the blink of an eye it became as big as a mountain, with the momentum of an overwhelming force!

As Ichigo watched the fist slowly approaching him, leaving him nowhere to hide, every nerve cell in his body was sending out SOS signals. Ichigo knew clearly that if this punch hit his head, he would die.

Just as Ichigo's death star was shining brightly, his body suddenly moved, surpassing even Ichigo Kurosaki's own movements, and positioned his Zanpakuto horizontally in the trajectory of Genryusai's punch.

"boom!!"

With a deafening roar, Zangetsu in Ichigo's hand shattered into countless fragments. As for Ichigo, who had been struck by Genryusai's punch, he was sent flying, smashing through more than thirty walls and carving a trench a hundred meters long in the ground before collapsing into a pool of blood, completely unconscious. Perhaps Ichigo never expected that his all-out effort to withstand Genryusai's attack would still result in him smashing a street through the Seireitei!

At this moment, Ichigo was truly pathetic, like a broken doll no one wanted and tossed into a trash can, or a worn-out 'carpet' laid out on the ground for people to trample on. If it weren't for the fact that Ichigo's spiritual pressure was still relatively stable, everyone would have thought that Ichigo was completely dead at this moment.

"Ichigo..."

Things happened so fast that no one present was prepared. Yulong's lips were a little dry, and he subconsciously uttered the name of Kurosaki Ichigo.

"I'm going to save Ichigo!"

While Uryu was at a loss, Inoue Orihime risked her life and rushed towards Kurosaki Ichigo like lightning. Kurosaki Ichigo's injuries were too severe, and if she did not provide first aid, Ichigo would definitely die.

"Where are you going?"

However, before Orihime could get close to Ichigo, a hoarse voice rang out in front of her. Orihime instinctively looked towards the source of the voice and was met with a kind old man and a pair of cold eyes that were as indifferent as a Grim Reaper watching his prey.

"boom!!"

In an instant, a violent spiritual pressure, seemingly without restraint, descended upon Orihime Inoue's frail spirit. Under Genryusai's spiritual pressure, Orihime felt like a lone boat on a vast ocean. She felt as if something had exploded in her mind, as if someone had struck her head with a hundred-ton hammer, smashing her into a pile of minced meat.

"Puff~"

As the sound rang out, Inoue Orihime collapsed to the ground. Even though Genryusai hadn't done anything, just exchanged a glance with Orihime, her spirit seemed to disintegrate.

"As fragile and weak as a newborn baby."

In response, Genryusai commented as he looked at the fallen Orihime.

In fact, Orihime's spiritual pressure is not weak under the tutelage of Michiha Nemo Aura; it has already reached the level of a fifth-rank spiritual power. According to the previous standards of the Gotei 13, she could be a vice-captain in a weaker division!

Even in the current 'Gotei 13', she could be a high-ranking officer. Unfortunately, she encountered the Great Demon King Yuan Liuzhai. In Yuan Liuzhai's eyes, those below the third level of spiritual power are infants, the third level of spiritual power are children, the second level of spiritual power are teenagers, and only the first level of spiritual power is considered an adult. Yuan Liuzhai is too lazy to even look at those below the first level of spiritual power, as they are too weak.

"Inoue!"

After Inoue collapsed, Ishida Uryu finally reacted, drew his Spirit Bow, and a powerful Holy Annihilation Arrow condensed on his bowstring.

"An arrow made of spirit particles? I see. Are you a Quincy?"

"Since Yhwach led the Quincy to invade the Soul Society a thousand years ago and launched a full-scale war against the Shinigami, I haven't seen a Quincy for a very long time."

Seeing you now, this old man suddenly feels a little nostalgic for the old days~

The moment Ishida Uryu drew his bow, Yamamoto Genryusai, who had been fifty paces away from Ishida Uryu, was now standing in front of Uryu and asking him a question.