Heavenly Steel: Single Step, Deadly Snake

A Heavenly Steel technique developed by Gin Furyūmonji, the former Hunter-nin captain, whom he also learned to Arui Gobetsu, the current captain. Using the innate ability of the heavenly steel blades to turn into chakra, the user may extend the blade, in the form of chakra, far beyond normal limits. The limit depends on the user's own abilities. In Gin's case, with his sword Shinshitsu, the wakizashi can go as far as a hundred times it's normal length, giving it a maximum lying around the two hundred feet. This gave Shinshitsu the nickname Hyapponzashi (百本差し, Hundred-span) when Gin was still in the Hunter-nin. Arui's capabilities, with his sword Kamishini, are much lower than Gin's, giving his maximum around the seventy feet.

Because heavenly steel also reproduces the properties of the owners chakra, Arui's version holds a cutting ability like no other, being able to slice through stone and metal almost effortlessly. The dust properties of Gin aren't as obvious as in Arui's case, but the blade holds a corrosive ability. The actual, monocular-size disintegrating powers are shown in another heavenly steel technique of his. Gin's version is apparently also very sharp, shown when he wrecked gigantic devastation with the technique upon his defection, sling through buildings, defenses, persons and even barriers with one sweep of his chakra-turned sword.