Bleach: The Path to Transcendence

After Ichigo's brutal torment, the once exceptionally ferocious Bakuyō Knife has now become exceptionally docile.

It extends scarlet, flesh-like tentacles, constantly nuzzling Ichigo's clothes, as if it were fawning over him.

"Affected!"

Ichigo's left hand suddenly gripped the steel fork-shaped hilt, and in an instant, a mass of scarlet flesh surged out, instantly enveloping his left arm. In the blink of an eye, this flesh transformed into a jet-black dragon head, with a crimson spiritual pressure blade spewing from the dragon's mouth.

"Hmm? This knife actually has the effect of amplifying spiritual pressure?"

Ichigo's face was full of surprise. He discovered that after devouring the Spirit King's blood crystal, the originally green blade of the Bakuyō Knife had turned crimson, and strands of bloodthirsty baleful aura, like maggots attached to bone, constantly lingered on the blade.

Moreover, in the process of manipulating this knife, the Bakuyō Knife not only did not devour his spiritual pressure, but instead continuously replenished itself.

However, compared to the ability to share spiritual pressure, the spiritual pressure that this knife can amplify is really insignificant.

"Clang!"

Immediately afterward, Ichigo grasped Annihilation God with his other hand, gently colliding it with the enhanced Bakuyō Knife.

In that instant, Ichigo was shocked to realize that he could no longer release hisZanpakuto. The feeling was as if the myriad connections between him and Annihilation God were completely severed and shielded by an invisible force.

A full two hours later, Ichigo was finally able to re-establish communication with hisZanpakuto. And after sealing Ichigo's Annihilation God, the originally scarlet spiritual pressure light blade on the Bakuyō Knife slowly reverted to its original green color.

Seven days later, the blade of the Bakuyō Knife returned to its crimson color once again. Ichigo eagerly collided it with Amagai Shūsuke'sThunderfire.

As expected, it was exactly the same as the previous situation with Annihilation God.Thunderfire was sealed for two hours. During these two hours, Amagai Shūsuke also completely lost contact with hisZanpakuto.

But unlike before, this time the Bakuyō Knife only took less than half an hour for the blade to regain its bloody glow.

When it sealed Ichigo's Annihilation God initially, Ichigo was at the first level of spiritual might in spiritual pressure sharing, which greatly depleted the Bakuyō Knife. Now that it was sealing Amagai Shūsuke'sThunderfire, who only had a third level of spiritual might, the Bakuyō Knife naturally only needed half an hour to recover.

"Good heavens, it's truly equality for all! As long as aZanpakuto comes into contact with it, it will definitely be sealed for two hours!"

"And this is just the most basic use; this Bakuyō Knife has not been properly developed yet..."

Ichigo played with the fork-shaped Bakuyō Knife, his face full of uncontrollable joy. Who would have thought that a seemingly useless Spirit King's blood crystal, coupled with this Bakuyō Knife with its special ability, could create such a divine artifact.

"This Bakuyō Knife is too ferocious; you can't control it. From now on, I will keep it safe for you."

As he spoke, Ichigo hung the Bakuyō Knife, which had already reverted to its steel fork form, on his waist. The Bakuyō Knife seemed to sense his joy as well, dividing into flesh bud-like tentacles, intimately nuzzling his clothes.

"I..."

Amagai Shūsuke, who was beside him, saw this and his lips twitched slightly, as if he had something to say, but in the end, he chose to remain silent, swallowing the words back.

"Ahem, you should go back first. You are now the captain of the Eighth Division; you must be busy with official duties, unlike a leisure person like me."

Ichigo did not deliberately want to seize Amagai Shūsuke's sword. His main concern was that Amagai Shūsuke would have difficulty taming this fierce sword.

Furthermore, if this Bakuyō Knife, which could sealZanpakuto, remained in Amagai Shūsuke's hands, Ichigo was really afraid that he would have a rush of blood to the head one day and run off to challenge Captain Commander Yamamoto, throwing his life away in vain.

By confiscating this sword, he was actually cutting off those unrealistic thoughts of Amagai Shūsuke. In short, this was all a disguised way of protecting him.

......

Seireitei Southern End,Tsunayashiro Street.

Tsunayashiro Street, just hearing the name, one knows that this entire street belongs to theTsunayashiro family. This place is located in one of the most spiritually dense areas of the entireSeireitei. In the main residence of a courtyard in the center of the street, Tsunayashiro Tokinada's five limbs were severed, he was reduced to a human stump, lying weakly on the bed, his eyes hollow, his expression extremely distracted.

Beside him, a group of people dressed in maid attire waited on him.

The head maid picked up a flesh-replenishing agent, accurately stabbing it into Tsunayashiro Tokinada's severed arm. As the agent slowly injected, the flesh at the wound began to wriggle strangely, and the severed arm showed signs of slow growth.

But just at the crucial moment when the new limb was about to form, a dark golden lightning light burst out from the severed area without warning. In an instant, the newly formed limb was dissolved by the lightning light and turned into nothing.

"Why is it still not working?" Tsunayashiro Tokinada's voice was hoarse, and he roared in near despair.

These days, he had tried all kinds of methods. Whether it was the Fourth Division's exquisite healing arts or the black technology of the Research and Development Bureau, none of them had any effect on repairing his severed limbs. He had injected this flesh-replenishing agent hundreds of times, but every time a new limb just peeked out, it would disappear in an instant.

Moreover, his Recreate the Spirit King project implemented in the Giant Hollow was a blatant challenge to the existing ruling structure of Soul Society. Central Forty-Six knew exactly what he did. Not punishing him was already the greatest respect given to him in view of his status as the head of theTsunayashiro family.

His actions greatly weakened theTsunayashiro family's voice in Central Forty-Six. This incident was a heavy blow to theTsunayashiro family.

"You bunch of trash, if you can't cure my injuries, I'll drag you all to feed the Hollows!"

After Tsunayashiro Tokinada's body became incomplete, his temperament became increasingly eccentric and perverse. Hearing this, the group of beautiful maids in front of the window trembled with fear and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

"Lord, spare us..."

"Hahaha!"

Looking at the maids kneeling on the ground, Tsunayashiro Tokinada let out a chilling, hideous laugh. For him, who was now completely limbless and had lost his male abilities, torturing and killing maids had become one of his few pleasures.

Night fell, and Tsunayashiro Tokinada suddenly woke up from his sleep.

Looking at the beautiful maid in front of him wearing thin gauze, and thinking of his current state as a disabled person, his expression suddenly became twisted, and he shouted angrily at the maid:

"Get out, who allowed you to come in!"

Unexpectedly, the maid was not frightened by his anger at all, but instead let out a chuckle:

"Hehe,Tokinada brother, living like a pile of mud, isn't it very painful? Let me help you get rid of it!"

In an instant, the maid in front of him tore off her disguise, revealing her true face - a short-haired girl dressed in black robes, pretending to be a Soul Reaper.

"Tsunayashiro Kiyo, weren't you..."

Tsunayashiro Tokinada was so shocked that he couldn't even complete his sentence.

Tsunayashiro Kiyo's lips curled into a faint smile:

"Letting you, the disgrace of theTsunayashiro family, occupy the position of family head for so long. Now, it's time to restore order!"

"Splurt!"

As soon as the words fell, Tsunayashiro Kiyo raised the long sword in her hand high, and with a swift stroke, directly beheaded Tsunayashiro Tokinada.

"Thud!"

Tsunayashiro Tokinada's head rolled to the ground, his eyes wide with anger until his death, staring fixedly at the specially shaped long sword in Tsunayashiro Kiyo's hand, which was once abandoned him - Enrakyōten!