Sora's Quincy power had been born.
His panel underwent a massive change.
[Base Abilities (Quincy):
Reishi Manipulation Lv 1
Blut Vene Lv 1
Blut Arterie Lv 1
Hirenkyaku Lv 1]
An additional section for Quincy attributes had appeared on his panel!
The panels for Shinigami and Quincy were quite different.
A Shinigami's spiritual pressure comes from within, while a Quincy, in addition to their own spiritual pressure, can also manipulate external spiritual particles.
Reishi Manipulation is a basic ability that every Quincy is born with.
They rely on this ability to control external reishi.
Its importance to a Quincy is no less than the importance of spiritual pressure to a Shinigami.
Blut Vene and Blut Arterie are techniques that enhance a Quincy's combat power by directly infusing reishi into their blood vessels.
Blut Arterie increases offensive power, while Blut Vene increases defensive power.
Hirenkyaku is the high-speed movement technique of a Quincy. Under normal circumstances, it doesn't have a major advantage over Shunpo.
Sora's current Shunpo level was not low, so raising the priority of Hirenkyaku wasn't as high.
He planned to prioritize leveling up the first three abilities.
Sora was eager to test his new Quincy abilities, and the giant eye was still waiting for him outside.
He immediately left his inner world and returned to the bottom of the crater lake.
"My Lord... it seems you have dealt with the will of Yhwach..."
The voice came from the giant eye.
After it stopped transmitting the Quincy power, it could no longer sense the trace of Yhwach's will within Sora.
"It's been taken care of. I have awakened the Quincy power within my body, thanks to your help!"
Sora said with a smile.
He had gained a great deal this time.
Without the giant eye's help, the Quincy power within him might have taken decades or even centuries to gestate.
The loss from using the 'Bloodline Extractor' was too great. The amount of Quincy blood he had extracted from Tsukisaki Kurosaki was very small, and it would have taken a long time to nurture this power.
Although a few decades or a century is not much for a Shinigami—the stronger they are, the longer they live, and even if Sora stopped improving, he could still live for another two or three thousand years—
obtaining the Quincy power sooner meant he could improve it sooner.
Moreover, this time he had also eliminated the risk of being targeted by Yhwach's Auswählen, so he no longer had to worry about his Quincy power being reclaimed.
"To be of service to you... is my honor... My own expenditure was somewhat great... I must now sleep for a time...
Remember... do not go to Hell... until you have surpassed the limits of a Shinigami...
That place... is the Lord of Hell's domain... He may sense the King's Shadow upon you..."
The giant eye said slowly.
"I won't go to Hell until I am strong enough," Sora nodded gently.
Even without the warning, Sora would not go to Hell unprepared.
The giant eye's eyelid slowly closed.
Sora noticed its golden pupil had become a bit dimmer, not as bright as when he first saw it.
Transmitting the Quincy power had taken a heavy toll on it. This was not a loss of spiritual pressure, but more like a human who has donated too much blood; it would need a long period of rest to recover.
As the eyelid closed, the trench at the bottom of the sea disappeared, returning to its previous state, with lava flowing slowly across the lakebed.
Sora thought the Soul King's aesthetic sense was rather unique. Unable to resist his curiosity about the lava, he drew his Zanpakutō and scooped some up.
Once it left the main flow, the lava on the tip of his blade was cooled by the lake water into a dark gray rock.
"It's real lava... a wondrous structure..."
He had thought this layer of lava was the giant eye's skin.
Sora began to test his newly acquired Quincy abilities.
He focused his mind and sensed the surrounding spiritual particles.
His perception was vastly different from before.
Previously, he could only sense the existence of these particles with his spiritual sense, but now he could control them.
"Using my own spiritual pressure to leverage the reishi in the environment..."
Sora held out his hand and tried to gather a ball of reishi in his palm.
It formed quickly, a blue sphere of light floating above his hand.
However, most of the reishi in this ball came from Sora himself; very little was drawn from the environment.
"In a high-reishi land, a Quincy's Reishi Manipulation ability acts like an amplifier... but my own level is too low, so the efficiency is poor."
Sora was not surprised. His Quincy abilities had only just awakened, and their effect was still small.
But this was a qualitative change from nothing to something.
He dispersed the ball of reishi and looked at his experience bar.
He still had thirty thousand unallocated general experience points. With a thought, he invested them all into Reishi Manipulation.
[Reishi Manipulation Lv 50 (0/1000)]
Just like a Shinigami's base abilities, the experience required for the initial levels was very low. Reishi Manipulation jumped directly from level 1 to level 50.
After leveling it up, Sora could clearly feel the difference.
He once again condensed a reishi ball in his palm.
The surrounding spiritual particles quickly gathered, and a blue sphere of light floated above his hand.
The external reishi was much easier to control.
Most of the reishi in the ball in his hand was now composed of particles from the external environment.
This time, he had only used a tiny amount of his own spiritual pressure to successfully manipulate the external reishi.
Before, controlling external reishi was like a normal person trying to carve ice from a block with their bare hands.
Now, after improving his ability, it was as simple as scooping water from a river.
His ability to manipulate external reishi had improved by leaps and bounds!
Sora tried to change the shape of the reishi ball in his hand.
His past training in Kidō-based swordsmanship had already given him the ability to shape reishi. He quickly molded the ball into the shape of a spirit bow.
Placing his left hand on the bowstring, he quickly formed a reishi arrow.
Upon release, the arrow shot forth, flying swiftly into the distance.
Swoosh—
A giant turtle Hollow was in the arrow's path. The arrow instantly pierced through its shell.
"The speed is good. When I get back, I'll have to ask Yoruichi if the Shihōin Clan has any captured Quincy spirit bows in their collection... a spirit weapon should be able to increase the power of the arrows," Sora thought to himself.
Quincy spirit bows were useless to Shinigami, so most of the spoils of war captured in the past had been destroyed.
However, some noble families would collect the spirit bows of powerful Quincy to display their military might and achievements.
Sora noticed a new skill had appeared in his skill bar:
[Heilig Pfeil (Mastered level)]
The reishi arrow fired by a Quincy is a Heilig Pfeil.
Sora had directly mastered this skill, and its proficiency had even skipped the beginner and proficient levels.
There were similarities between forming a reishi arrow and forming a spiritual pressure blade, except that the arrow was mainly formed from external reishi, while Sora used the reishi from within his own spiritual body to form a blade.
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