The Ghost King's Gaze
"Arrogant!" Yu Hu was enraged by Bai's words, and his eyes widened. "I will let you become the most beautiful decoration of my new pot!"
"Blood Demon Art: Blood Hell Bowl!"
A huge pot appeared out of thin air, with its mouth pointed at Bai, generating a strong suction force. At the same time, a liquid as sticky as blood gushed out of it, trying to swallow and imprison her.
"Breathing of the Moon·Seventh Form·Mirror Moon·Crying Night!"
Bai's figure instantly blurred. Not by speed, but by her subtle perception of space, she escaped the Blood Hell Bowl's attraction at the critical moment. The spot where she had stood was coated in sticky blood, emitting a sizzling, corroding sound. Simultaneously, she swung her sword in retaliation. The strike wasn't a straight line, but rather a strange, refractive trajectory through the air, like moonlight bouncing off a mirror, striking the Jade Pot from several unimaginable angles.
Yu Hu hurriedly summoned the hard "Shield Pot" to block, and the crescent blade cut deep marks on the pot body.
"Oh? Interesting use of space!" Yu Hu laughed instead of getting angry, but his eyes became more vicious.
At this moment, Tokito Muichiro, who had recovered his breath, moved. He seized the moment when Yuhu's attention was drawn to Bai, and his figure dissipated like a rosy glow, and the next moment he appeared above Yuhu's side.
"Kasumi's Breathing·Seventh Form·Oboro!"
His figure turned into thick mist, making it difficult to capture. The Sun Wheel Sword moved in an erratic trajectory and went straight to the key part where the Jade Pot's body was connected to his body!
"Annoying flies!" Yu Hu cursed angrily and had to distract himself to deal with it, summoning "Senbon Needle·Fish Kill" to shoot at Wuyilang.
"Your opponent is me!" Bai Qing shouted and launched the blood ghost technique again.
"Blood Demon Art·Infernal Affairs·Mirror Realm Slash!"
She didn't attack Yu Hu directly, but instead swung her knife to "cut open" the air between Yu Hu and Wu Yi Lang! A tiny, almost invisible crack in space instantly extended, swallowing and deflecting all the poisonous needles that shot out!
"What?!" Yu Hu showed shock for the first time. This strange ability to directly interfere with space was completely beyond his understanding.
And Muichiro's slash has arrived!
“Puff!”
The blade of Xia Zhi's Breath slashed fiercely on the body of the jade pot, and cracks spread! Although it failed to completely cut it off, the huge impact force made the jade pot cry out in pain, and its movements became fatally stiff.
"Now is the time!" Although Bai and Wuyilang did not communicate, their intuition as top fighters allowed them to seize this fleeting opportunity.
Bai increased the power of Moon Breathing to its maximum, and the silver light almost completely enveloped her. She grasped the knife with both hands, and instead of rushing towards the jade pot, she suddenly plunged the tip of the knife into the ground!
"Blood Demon Art·Infernal Affairs·Infinite Corridor!"
With Yu Hu as the center, several faint silver coordinates instantly lit up and quickly connected, forming an invisible, twisted spatial cage! Yu Hu felt the surrounding scene begin to spin and fold wildly. He tried to move, but found himself standing still, all sense of direction gone. Even the summoned Hu began to deviate from its trajectory!
"Damn! What is this?!" Yu Hu was trapped in the infinite corridor and roared angrily with a hint of panic.
At this moment, Tokito Muichiro had already closed his eyes. With extreme concentration and the perfect opportunity created by Shiro, he entered that mysterious realm - the transparent world!
The structure of the Jade Pot and the flow of its energy became crystal clear to him. He saw the core, the "point" that connected all the Pots and sustained the Jade Pot's life force.
He slowly raised the Sun Blade, and with such strong grip, the blade began to emit scorching heat, gradually turning into a dazzling red color - the He Blade!
Yu Hu felt a fatal threat and struggled frantically in the infinite corridor, trying to summon the strongest blood demon magic.
But it was too late.
"Kasumi's Breathing·Fourth Form·Horizontal Slash!"
Entering the transparent world, wielding the red blade, Muichiro unleashed a striking attack of a completely different kind. The blade's light, like a horizontally flowing stream of rosy clouds, seemingly peaceful yet imbued with a severing resolve. It pierced the spatial barriers of the Infinite Corridor with unerring precision, passing through the point where the jade pot's body met its body!
"Impossible...can't..." Yuhu's fury froze on his face.
The next moment, a smooth cut appeared on the body of his pot and his body at the same time, and then, like broken porcelain, it shattered into pieces and turned into ashes!
Upper Five: Jade Pot, conquer!
The Infinite Corridor's effect faded. Muichiro panted slightly. Maintaining the Red Blade and the Transparent World had taken a toll on him. He looked at Bai and nodded slightly, a token of gratitude.
Baiya breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak when his expression suddenly changed. He turned and looked towards the other side of the battlefield - the direction where Tanjiro and Kanroji Mitsuri were.
There, a ghost power that was even larger, more chaotic, and carried an extremely disgusting and familiar aura that made her extremely disgusted was erupting wildly!
"It's... Upper Moon Four..." Bai's pupils trembled. She sensed the power contained in that power, which had the same origin as hers, but was more ancient and more twisted... the blood of Muzan!
"The situation over there is even worse!" Bai said to Muichiro hurriedly, "We must go to support immediately!"
Wuyilang also sensed the abnormality over there and said without any hesitation: "Let's go!"
When Shiro and Muichiro arrived at the battlefield where Tanjiro was, the situation was far more complicated and desperate than they had imagined.
What lay before him was not a single demon, but a catastrophic melee. A gigantic demon, resembling a wrathful Myōō, named "Zenpokuten," controlled several wooden dragons, unleashing deafening roars and thunderous lightning, madly overwhelming the entire arena. Love Pillar, Kanroji Mitsuri, had awakened her markings, her pink-green braids flying. With astonishing strength and speed, she confronted "Zenpokuten" alone, but she was clearly at a disadvantage. Each block proved incredibly difficult, and the blood oozing from her mouth betrayed her internal injuries.
Tanjiro, not far away, was battling Hantengu's hateful clone alongside a young man named Fushigawa Genya. Further away, Nezuko's trunk lay open, with no sign of her, only a scorching breath remaining.
Giyuu, having arrived before Shiro and the others, was now caught up in the fray. His haori was stained with dust and sawdust, and as he swung his Nichirin sword, a powerful stream of water continuously cut through the wooden dragons that attempted to entangle and attack Mitsuri and Tanjirō, relieving them of the immense pressure. While his "Nagi" field was able to neutralize some of the attacks, the area-of-effect attacks of "Hateful Amber Sky" were too violent, forcing him to struggle, unable to break through the defenses and deal with the core.
"Mr. Tomioka!" Bai exclaimed, immediately realizing the urgency of the situation.
"Two more bugs coming?" "Zenbotian" taunted in a dull voice like thunder, and a wooden dragon immediately turned around, opened its huge mouth, and sprayed high-pressure destructive sound waves towards Bai and Wuyilang!
"Breath of the Moon·Form of Freedom·Moon of Disgust·Eclipse!" Bai immediately swung his sword, and a huge crescent-shaped slash accompanied by countless full-moon blades rushed towards the sound wave, crushing and offsetting it in mid-air.
Wuyilang said nothing, and directly activated the red sword and the transparent world. With a flash of light, he accurately cut off another wooden dragon that was attacking him.
"Shiro! Tokito!" Tanjiro shouted when he saw the reinforcements, his voice filled with anxiety and fatigue, "These are not the real ones! The real one is hiding! It's a coward named 'Kei'!"
At this moment, the clone of "Hate" who was fighting with Tanjiro and Xuanya suddenly let out a shrill scream, and its body split apart and began to dissipate - obviously, the real body was suffering a fatal attack elsewhere!
"Success?" Xuan Mi gasped, in disbelief.
However, almost at the same time as the "hatred" dissipated, the huge "Hateful Amber Sky" also let out an unwilling roar, and its huge body and all the wooden dragons began to collapse and turn into nothingness.
"The main body... was killed?" Mitsuri Kanroji half-knelt on the ground exhausted, looking at Tanjiro in confusion.
Tanjiro shook his head violently, his sense of smell finding the key: "No! That's not right! There's... there's a fainter, more hidden breath escaping!"
Bai's perception also came into play at this moment. She captured more clearly than Tanjiro the core aura that shared the same origin as all the clones, yet was extremely weak and rapidly retreating from the battlefield! It cunningly used the terrain and wreckage to hide, fleeing towards the village!
"There!" Bai and Tanjiro pointed in the same direction almost at the same time.
"Chase!" Yiyong said succinctly, and rushed out first. He would never let the culprit who caused such great destruction escape.
Shiro, Muichiro, Tanjiro, and the slightly recovered Mitsuri immediately followed. Xuanya was temporarily unable to move due to the side effects of demonization and his injuries.
Following the scent, they finally came upon a shocking sight beside a relatively intact village house—Nezuko! She was burning in the sunlight, yet she didn't turn to ash. Instead, she used her burning body to tightly entangle a short, ugly, and frantically struggling and wailing old ghost—it was none other than Hantengu's true form, "Qi"!
"Nezuko!" Tanjiro's eyes were bloodshot, he was shocked that his sister had overcome the sunlight, but also worried about the pain she would suffer from being burned by the sunlight.
"Overcome...sunlight..." Confined by Nezuko and scorched by the sun, "Timid" uttered a final whisper of fear and disbelief. Immediately, its body, under the combined influence of the sun and Nezuko's flames, began to rapidly dissipate.
However, just before it completely dissipated, Bai's heart suddenly shrank! She clearly felt a cold, vicious, and endlessly greedy gaze, as if it penetrated time and space, using the connection of "Qi" before death to fiercely sweep across Nezuko and her!
It’s Muzan!
He knew! He knew the secret of how Nezuko overcame the sunlight, and he also confirmed once again the existence of her as a "traitor"!
This icy shudder made Bai stiffen instantly.
At that moment, a pair of warm, firm hands pressed down on her slightly trembling shoulders. It was Giyu. He didn't know exactly what Bai had sensed, but he could sense her fear. He shielded her behind him, his deep blue eyes like the calmest ocean, facing the invisible yet malicious gaze. The Nichirin Blade emitted a low hum.
The feeling of being watched receded like the tide, but the chill it left behind lingered.
The battle seemed to be over for now. The Swordsmith Village was saved. Nezuko had created a miracle.
But everyone understood that the real storm had only just begun. Muzan would never give up. And Shiro knew that next time, Muzan's wrath would be directed at both Nezuko and herself. She, Giyuu, and all their companions were about to face the Demon King's all-out, frenzied counterattack.
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