After obtaining the brand-new 'Tenzui Shinkotsu', Sora left the Hōōden and went to Ichibē Hyōsube's floating island.
"You look much more spirited!"
Ichibē Hyōsube crossed his arms over his chest and looked at the changes in Sora.
"It's all thanks to the kindness of the seniors," Sora said humbly.
Although he also understood that the Soul King wouldn't have called him to the Soul King Palace for no reason.
In the past, the Seireitei had no precedent of bringing an active Captain to the Soul King Palace for training. The Zero Division's notification to Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni was just an excuse.
The Soul King definitely had a purpose for doing this.
Sora could roughly guess their purpose. It was most likely because Yhwach was colluding with Hell. With the Seireitei's current strength, it might be impossible to resolve this matter.
But regardless of the Soul King's intentions, Sora had indeed benefited greatly from this trip to the Soul King Palace.
"Your Spiritual Pressure has already reached the limit of a Shinigami. Training with me won't have much of an effect," Ichibē said.
"However, I can help you train the other powers within you."
Ichibē Hyōsube went straight to the point and took Sora to a training room.
As soon as he entered, Sora felt the huge difference between the environment inside the room and the outside world.
The Soul King Palace was already one of the few heavy spirit grounds in the three worlds, with a Reishi density even higher than the Seireitei or the Wandenreich.
But the Reishi density in this room was several times higher than outside!
Moreover, the Reishi in the environment could not be controlled by Spiritual Pressure.
A Shinigami in such an environment felt like being encased in a concrete wall.
Unable to breathe, unable to move.
However, Sora was no ordinary Shinigami. The Reishi in the environment couldn't lock down his spirit body.
Even though there was heavy resistance, he calmly followed Ichibē Hyōsube into the training room.
"Your Spiritual Pressure is too strong; the Reishi here suppresses you very little. Follow me."
Ichibē Hyōsube, like Sora, could move freely here.
The two passed through a corridor and came to a spacious room.
"I didn't originally plan to bring you here."
"But the Soul King seems to think you possess the potential to surpass Shinigami."
Ichibē Hyōsube spoke slowly.
As he spoke, the surrounding environment suddenly changed drastically.
Things in the distance fell into darkness, and a deep, secluded path appeared ahead.
An ancient torii gate stood at the end of the deep path.
At the same time, Sora found a wooden sword in his hand.
When he grabbed the wooden sword, he felt as if he had become an ordinary person.
"A consciousness space?"
Sora realized that this was no longer a realistic environment. His power couldn't be used in this consciousness space.
Ichibē Hyōsube's voice came from deep within the darkness:
"This is a sacred domain that cannot be entered without the Soul King's permission."
"If you reach the end of the path, you are a great vessel capable of surpassing Shinigami."
Sora stepped forward and entered the deep path.
With every step forward, a heavy pressure was added to his body.
"It looks close, but the distance to the torii gate hasn't changed..."
This deep path didn't look very long, only about ten or twenty meters, but after walking for a while, the distance to the torii gate hadn't shortened.
"I can't reach the end just by walking. I need to awaken my power."
Sora quickly understood the trick here. Without calling out his own power, he would never reach the end of this path.
This was an environment similar to a consciousness space, and it wasn't his own consciousness space. The power within him was restricted here.
"I can't enter my own consciousness space. Is it the wooden sword?"
Sora found he couldn't enter his own consciousness space. He tried to throw away the wooden sword, but failed.
Then, with a thought, he focused his attention on his Quincy Reigai clone.
Perhaps the wooden sword couldn't cut off the Quincy power that wasn't in the consciousness space, so the Quincy Reigai clone wasn't affected!
World of the Living.
Sora's Quincy Reigai clone was teaching four Quincy disciples in the backyard.
"I have to go out for a bit. You guys go back and practice on your own. Whoever learns 'Ransōtengai' first will get a reward!"
"Is there a reward? Then I definitely have to get first place!"
"Don't even think about it, first place is mine!"
After arranging the disciples' training, Sora had the Quincy Reigai clone leave Karakura Town.
He planned to recall his Quincy power. However, once the Quincy power left the Reigai puppet, the puppet would be destroyed.
To avoid misunderstandings, he needed to get far away from the disciples before operating.
After the Reigai puppet was far away from Karakura Town, Sora had a thought. The Reigai puppet instantly turned to ash, and the Quincy power returned to Sora's consciousness space.
At this moment, in the deep path, a brilliant blue beam of light appeared, swirling around Sora like a ribbon.
In this instant, Sora found the flaw in this space.
More power suddenly surged out from his body.
The surging power turned into golden, red, and green beams of light, swirling around Sora along with the blue beam.
"Oh? There's even Quincy power!"
Ichibē Hyōsube was still sitting in the original room, but his eyes seemed to be able to see the activity inside the deep path.
Katori Sora's body contained four types of power!
Shinigami, Hollow, Quincy, and the power possessed as the Shadow of the Soul King.
Ichibē Hyōsube carefully observed the four beams of light appearing on Katori Sora.
Among them, the beams representing the powers of Shinigami, Hollow, and Shadow of the Soul King were tightly intertwined, almost indistinguishable from each other.
The blue beam representing the Quincy power, however, was relatively independent.
"Carrying such power without shattering... he is indeed a great vessel."
Ichibē Hyōsube stroked his beard.
At this moment, he also understood why the Soul King acknowledged Katori Sora.
Meanwhile, inside the deep path, Sora sensed the changes in himself.
The four beams of light surrounding him represented his four powers.
After these four powers appeared, the torii gate ahead no longer moved away. With every step he took, he got closer to the end.
Continuing forward, the pressure on his body became stronger and stronger.
However, with four powers helping him share the pressure, Sora could still withstand it.
Under this inexplicable pressure, the lighter-colored, relatively weaker Hollow power and Quincy power also became more and more solid.
Sora's panel was changing rapidly.
His original Quincy core ability 'Reishi Manipulation' was level 92, and 'Hollowfication', representing his Hollow power, was level 90.
Now, these two abilities were improving rapidly!
A moment later.
The improvement of the two abilities stopped, and Sora reached the end of the path, arriving in front of the torii gate.
[Reishi Manipulation lv95 (200000/500000)]
[Hollowfication lv95 (0/500000)]
'Reishi Manipulation' and 'Hollowfication' each gained 500,000 experience, reaching level 95
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