"How about it? Am I qualified to be your Hakuda teacher? This is the secret footwork · one of the Shihouin Four Techniques · Mirage. If you want to learn, call me teacher. I can teach you!"
A strange scene appeared.
The four Shihouin Yoruichi turned their heads together and said to Ran Yan in unison.
This kind of shadow clone, which is difficult to distinguish between true and false, is actually achieved by stealth footwork.
No wonder even the tsundere Kuchiki Byakuya couldn't help but learn the trick of Utsusemi, which he repeatedly used to save his life at critical moments.
"You said, is it possible to attack four clones at once?"
Ran Yan stood still and did not pursue, but chuckled lightly, then lifted his right foot from the ground, like a spinning top, and swept across the air towards the four Yoruichi.
Whirl
With a sharp whistling sound, a vacuum slash without any Reiatsu fluctuations swept out, like a crescent moon, catching up with the four Yoruichi in an instant.
"What?"
Yoruichi quickly leaned back, dodging with one arched foot, letting the slash almost brush her body and fly over her head.
At the same time, she stepped on the ground with both feet, and her body maintained the posture of an arch bridge. She was ejected into the air and continued to distance herself from Ran Yan.
However...
When she was in mid-air, a hand suddenly came out from behind, five fingers like steel claws, clasped the back of her neck, and lifted her up.
"When?"
Yoruichi was stunned for a while, and then twisted her body and limbs to struggle.
However, she was like a cat being strangled by the back of the neck—it didn't work at all.
"Hateful!"
After struggling to no avail, Yoruichi could only stop with a displeased face, then turned her head and looked behind her.
Seeing this, she was immediately stunned.
What came into view was Ran Yan holding the back of her neck with one hand, while stepping on the air, like stepping on an invisible ladder, walking on the ground in mid-air.
"You... you can stay in the air without using Reiatsu? How is it possible? What kind of footwork is this? And the slash you performed just now, the footwork, the strange twisting dodges—none of it had Reiatsu! Where did you learn this exquisite and boundless Hakuda?"
The scene in front of her stunned Yoruichi.
Shinigami can't fly, but with the help of Reiatsu, they can move through the air.
But the problem is—from start to finish, she didn't feel the slightest Reiatsu when Ran Yan used Hakuda.
"The fledgling Hakuda. It's called Shinigami Six Styles. Want to learn? Call me teacher, and I'll teach you."
Looking at Yoruichi's blank look, Ran Yan couldn't help laughing and teasing.
"You!"
No matter how cool Yoruichi usually was, she was mad when Ran Yan used her own words to tease her back. Her teeth itched for a while, and so did her heart.
As the young head of the Shihouin clan, she had been exposed to top-tier Hakuda and Shunpo since childhood. She had never seen such exquisite techniques.
But Ran Yan's newly created Hakuda was truly unique—completely different from Soul Society's traditional methods, and genuinely exciting.
Still, considering that she'd just bragged about being his teacher, only to be flipped and taunted back, it was embarrassing.
Today had truly been humiliating.
Ran Yan read the Hakuda textbook and crushed everything she had learned since childhood with what he developed.
This made Yoruichi feel too ashamed to even offer to teach.
She was even more embarrassed to ask to learn from him.
"Finger Spear, Shave, Moonwalk, Paper Art, Tempest Kick, Iron Body. A total of six techniques. This is Shinigami Six Styles."
After seeing the eagerness in Yoruichi's eyes, and the look of wanting to learn but unable to lose face, Ran Yan smiled inwardly, then loosened his grip and eloquently explained the essence of Shinigami Six Styles.
This set of Six Styles was just created by his Hakuda after reviewing the Spiritual Arts Academy textbooks. He had been worried about it.
Since Yoruichi wanted to learn, he wasn't stingy.
Especially considering her tsundere attitude and how she'd been quietly helping him.
Teaching her these techniques was like binding the future Goddess of Flash to his side.
"Sure enough, it's a complete departure from Soul Society's traditional Hakuda. Just how broken is Ran Yan's talent? Zanpakutou, Reiatsu, Kendo, Kidou, Shunpo, Hakuda... he excels in every field."
When Yoruichi heard this, she didn't speak—but her ears perked up.
After Ran Yan explained the Six Styles thoroughly without holding anything back, she felt embarrassed, warm, and moved.
Though she came here to "teach," what she received in return was much more.
She thought she could help Ran Yan, but ended up learning from him instead.
This made her feel like his back was getting further and further away, hard to reach.
"No wonder you don't like my Hakuda. Based on textbook knowledge alone, you casually created a set of moves that—though not using Reiatsu—aren't inferior to my family's thousand-year-old techniques. Even a Shinigami with mediocre Reiatsu would gain great power after learning this."
After listening to Ran Yan's explanation, Yoruichi fell into a daze.
She didn't just lose the chance to teach—she practically got a free lesson.
She felt like she was falling behind.
"You can't say that. Your Hakuda still has some merit."
Seeing the usually energetic Yoruichi looking downcast, Ran Yan had to offer a bit of comfort.
"Right! You admit it has merit! Here, let me show you my Hakuda and Shunpo. This is the complete Shihouin secret footwork. If you learn it, it's not teaching—it's an exchange."
Yoruichi immediately perked up, and without waiting for a response, began demonstrating all her footwork techniques.
She didn't care whether Ran Yan learned it or not.
Giving him Shihouin footwork wasn't free learning—it was an exchange.
From Mirage to Utsusemi, she held nothing back.