Living in the forest part 5

After using byakuyas memories and battle experience to consolidate my ability to wield his bankai I spent a year refining my strength and reaching the pinnacle of speed. Following in the footsteps of Yoruichi I was able to use kido to augment my speed and achieve shunko. Since doing those two task only took about 2 months, I decided to spend the next 8 trying to achieve a decent level with healing kido by using a combination of byakuyas kido mastery and orochimarus in depth knowledge of anatomy. I'm not going to lie it was gross looking through those memories and I am now desensitized to blood and gore but I was able to advance by leaps and bounds. I was not at the level of Unohana Retsu but I was able to surpass the equivalent of tsunade.

While training in the art of kido I was able to reach rank 90 by the end of my third year in the forest. Bathing in the vital orb didn't really do much to me physically but my mental energy was strengthened when I used it to consolidate myself at rank 80. With the advancement in my mental energy came the expanded range of information my mind could handle at any given moment which really strengthened my control over both senbonzakura kageyoshi and sode no shirayuki.

After reaching rank 90 I did not absorb a soul ring nor did I use the orb of vitality to give myself a qualitative change because I was sure something big would happen as soon as I decided to flood my system with such potent energy so instead I spent my time subduing spirit beasts to siphone spirit essence from them.

Today marked the end of my third year within the forest or to be more precise the end of my third year with daily visits to the forest since I now lived in my own dimension. since the energy in the orb advanced enough to pick myself 2 new abilities I sat down to ponder what powers to pick.

I sat down in front of my fifth ring and sent a mental comand to the rich vital orb to start aging my fifth and sixth spirit rings. after they both hit the 500,000 year mark I stopped and saw that I had enough energy to age one more ring to the 500,000 year mark so I commanded the orb to age my seventh ring.

Once that was taken care of I quickly dived into the depths of my fifth ring to choose a suitable power. After a while I found the ability I was looking for and quickly chose Orehimes powers to reject reality. With the age of my ring supplementing the original powers they quickly evolved using the extra vitality to accommodate to my soul. The attack and defense properties of her ability transformed into my ability to create and manipulate impenetrable energy constructs. The color of these constructs changed to a deep vibrant forest green due to the rich vitality in my inner world. By using my dimension as a foundation the power of Orehime was able to replicate a menos grandes ability of total negation which is just a fancy way of saying that the area inside a shield exists outside of this dimension and thus no attacks can penetrate my defense. I could not really evolve the ability to reject reality to heal since that ability was already so powerful but that was fine considering how broken that skill was to begin with. Given Byakuyas skill at using kido I would not need to train much to master these new abilities since Byakuya has masterful control over kido and how to use them in battle to get the best effect.

After finishing up with my fifth ring I moved on to my sixth ring and chose Susanoo as my spirit ability from the list of options. Once I selected it I was able to watch it evolve in front of my very eyes. The energy produced from orehimes evolved power gave the Susanoos already powerful defense a qualitative boost. by building upon the principles of orehimes negation my Susanoo was able to isolate the space within the energy construct to exist outside of this reality and thus make any attempts at breaching Susanoo defense to be useless.

After jumping for joy at how well my two new rings complimented each other I was excited to see what would happen once I chose an ability for my seventh spirit ring. while getting used to using Susanoo in combat would take some practice it could wait until later.

I sat in front of my seventh ring and dived into the posible abilities to chose from. After looking around I made my decision and quickly picked on Aizens shikai shatter Kyōka Suigetsu was what i picked for my seventh ring because I wanted to pick an ability that complimented the Genjutsu ability of my eyes and itachis experience with wielding illusions in battle. After having the 500,000 year spirit ring supplement Kyoka Suigetsu the limitations of having someone look at the release was lifted. Now anyone within my field of influence can be marked and subjected to Kyoka Suigetsus illusion ability. Along with the power came centuries of memories that aizen used to perfect his illusions and techniques whether they be kido skills or sword skills if they were used in battle they were included. With these new memories I knew I was going to spend the next year gathering experience by using the spirit beasts to test out and perfect my ability to wield my new power with the memories as a guide line to quickly reach the pinnacle of perfection it took aizen centuries to master. while no memories accompanied my non zanpakuto acquired abilities, I had enough memories of similar substance to guide me.