No matter what, creating such an arrow truly wouldn't be inferior to inventing a Kido spell oneself.
Over a thousand years, Shinigami have only systematized around three hundred mature Kido spells. How could Uryu compare?
Of course, these are just the publicly known, standardized Kido.
"What I want to teach you is something else!" Ichigo continued.
With that, under Uryu's astonished gaze,
Ichigo, holding the arrow tipped with Getsuga Tensho in his left hand, actually stabbed it towards the palm of his right hand!
"Kurosaki, what are you doing?!" Uryu exclaimed, wanting to stop him.
But by then, Ichigo had already completed the action.
The sharp Getsuga Tensho-tipped spiritual arrow heavily pierced into the center of Ichigo's palm!
"Kurosaki!" Uryu stepped forward.
But with that single step,
Uryu abruptly froze.
Because on Ichigo's palm,
The faint blue patterns he had seen countless times appeared, blocking the arrow's penetration.
"Is that your defensive technique?"
Uryu realized, seeming to somewhat understand what Ichigo intended to teach him.
"Yes!" Ichigo nodded and began explaining:
"But this isn't just any defensive technique… it's an innate Quincy ability!"
"Infusing spiritual particles into your bloodstream,
To achieve a strengthening effect. This defensive ability is called Blut Vene!"
"Blut Vene?" Uryu was momentarily stunned upon hearing the name.
Because just hearing the name, he instantly confirmed this was a Quincy ability.
Quincy naming conventions were exactly like this.
"Correct, Blut Vene!" Ichigo nodded, continuing without pause. "And besides Blut Vene,"
"There is also Blut Arterie!"
"However, unlike Blut Vene, which enhances defense and promotes coagulation, Blut Arterie enhances strength. Like this!"
Holding the arrow shaft with his left hand,
Ichigo showed Uryu his empty right hand, indicating he had deactivated Blut Vene.
Then, Ichigo activated Blut Arterie in his left hand and exerted force!
Crack-
The hard spiritual arrow was simply crushed by Ichigo, scattering into fragments.
Looking at the shattered arrow, Uryu's eyes widened in shock.
He crouched down, picked up a few arrow fragments, and adjusted his glasses in amazement.
Despite being broken fragments, they stubbornly refused to dissipate into Reishi.
Moreover, holding them gave a sense of hardness.
Using his thumb and index finger, Uryu tried to squeeze an arrow fragment.
Subsequently, a sharp, stinging pain came from his fingers.
"Damn!" Uttering the curse influenced by Ichigo, Uryu stared at his finger, cut by the hard fragment, in disbelief.
'Just a fragment, yet I couldn't crush it, and it even cut him?'
This indirectly proved just how immense the strength from Ichigo's Blut Arterie earlier was.
Contemplating this, Uryu wanted to take a bandage from his pocket to wrap the wound, but Ichigo stopped him.
"Why not try the new ability?" Ichigo reminded.
"Oh, right!" Uryu focused, imitating Ichigo by carefully infusing Reishi into his blood vessels.
Instantly, a peculiar sensation spread!
As if his entire body had been brought under his control, Uryu felt he could govern his body through the Reishi.
This power felt as if it had been latent within his body all along.
Now activated, Uryu easily used Blut Vene to seal the cut on his finger.
"It really worked!" Looking at his closed wound, Uryu was ecstatic!
"Yep, this is the innate ability of Quincy!"
"Actually, Quincy have many more abilities. I feel I haven't even fully explored them all."
Seeing the shocked Uryu, Ichigo mischievously added, "I learned many of my things from my old man. Uryu, you could go home and ask your father too."
"These old guys are always hiding things. It's time they 'contributed some gold coins'!"
"Mhm!" Hearing Ichigo's advice, Uryu nodded in agreement.
Then, he got up and prepared to leave.
Seeing this, Ichigo quickly grabbed him. "Hey, where are you going?"
Uryu looked at Ichigo, puzzled. "Aren't we going home to get the old guy to 'contribute gold coins'?"
Ichigo was both amused and exasperated. "I haven't finished teaching you yet!"
"There's more!!?" Uryu was very surprised. "Didn't you already talk about Blut Vene and Blut Arterie?"
"Those are your own innate powers!" Ichigo explained. "Next, I'm going to teach you other powers!"
"Here, look at this!"
A wisp of Getsuga Tensho appeared in Ichigo's hand. He said to Ishida Uryu, "Learn. Learn this method of Reishi Composition!"
"Everything in this world related to souls is composed of Reishi. Like the binary code 01010 in computers, as long as you understand Reishi Composition, there's nothing you cannot manifest!"
"This is what I'm truly teaching you!"
"So that's how it is!" Looking at the Getsuga Tensho in Ichigo's hand, Uryu was deeply moved.
This was Ichigo's ultimate technique, and he was willing to let him analyze it? This was immense trust!
The idea of going home to get the old guy to 'contribute gold coins' was temporarily set aside. Uryu refocused his attention here and began learning.
Not long after, Ichigo had successfully handled another 'student'.
Uryu concentrated on researching how to construct and fire his own Getsuga Tensho.
Little did he know, Ichigo had specifically assigned him this time-consuming research task.
With ample time now available, Ichigo headed to the next 'training ground'.
Orihime, Jing Bing, and Xin Na had been waiting for a long time.
So long, in fact, that the three had started chatting together.
Ichigo walked over slowly. The girls' whispers reached his ears.
"Orihime... are you really only 15?" Jing Bing's tone was complex.
"Uh... that, I'll be 16 in three months. Why, Jing Bing-san?" The innocent, clueless Orihime didn't understand.
"Nothing... nothing..." Jing Bing wore an expression of utter defeat.
She reached out incredulously and touched Orihime. "You're not even 16 yet and already have this... magnitude? Heavens, are you from some planet where development happens especially fast and... large?"