"Muzan!" Tanjirou roared, his years of accumulated resentment now completely transformed into a firm resolve to tear Muzan to shreds.
Why?
Why did he repeatedly take away the existence of those around him!
Why could he still utter such blasphemous words without any psychological burden!
Tanjirou's crimson eyes were bloodshot, and the rage in them seemed to want to burn Muzan to ashes!
Hinokami Kagura: Enbu!
Facing the dozens of blood-red thorns, Tanjirou's pitch-black nichirin blade burst forth with dazzling flames, and the burning fire severed the thorns with a single strike. As they fell to the ground, the sound of Muzan's demon blood being scorched by the flames could be heard.
Tanjirou rushed forward, his nichirin blade slashing at Muzan's waist without hesitation. Muzan's freshred eyes looked at Tanjirou with indifference, not even bothering to laugh at his suicidal act of coming before him. While dodging Gyoumei's flying meteor hammer, his arm transformed into a thorny whip and casually struck towards Tanjirou's head!
Sweat dripped from Tanjirou's face as he let out a soft breath.
Hinokami Kagura: Mirage Rainbow!
The attack aimed at Tanjirou's head slammed into the wall, leaving only fragments of Tanjirou's tattered haori. Muzan sharply turned his head to the side, Tanjirou gripped his nichirin blade tightly with both hands, shouting.
"You! What do you consider life to be?!"
"Buzz!" A loud buzzing suddenly echoed in Muzan's mind, the sound stimulating him to the point of blacking out. The next second, the excruciating pain of being pierced through his body struck!
Hinokami Kagura: Solar Heat Haze!
"Ahhh!" Tanjirou shouted, using all his strength to pin Muzan to the wall from the side with a single strike!
Muzan gasped, clutching his faintly aching head. Yoriichi Tsugikuni's repeated questions echoed in his mind, that face gradually overlapping with Tanjirou's in front of him. Muzan's crimson eyes seemed to shatter even further!
Pouring power into the bone whips behind him, he controlled them to bat away the rapidly incoming meteor hammer. Muzan's hand, with its sharp nails, was about to grab Tanjirou's head.
Fine snow drifted before his eyes, and an extreme chill assaulted him from above. The next moment, the arm he had extended towards Tanjirou flew off, a complex sensation of numb cold and scorching pain.
Muzan gritted his teeth, and the nine bone whips originally behind him instantly increased by eight more, moving at an astonishing speed even faster than before. Even Yoizumi couldn't react in time and was pierced through the abdomen.
Blood overflowed from his lips as his nichirin blade severed the thorny whips around his waist, pulling out and discarding the remaining ones in his body. After his wound healed in a breath, Yoizumi understood one thing.
That Muzan's attacks carried a cell-destroying toxin!
Yoizumi immediately looked at his younger brother beside him, seeing him clutching the cheek that Muzan had first grazed with a pained expression. The wound had proliferated with a large amount of rotting flesh, and his breathing was rapid.
He raised his hand to treat his brother, enduring the bone-chilling and heart-burning pain. The coldness in Yoizumi's eyes grew deeper as he stared at Muzan, who showed no weakness under the combined assault of Kyoujurou and Gyoumei Himejima.
Perhaps due to excessive use of Blood Demon Art, or the side effects of the activity-boosting potion, Yoizumi raised his palm and pressed it against his increasingly violent heartbeat. His fingernails showed a tendency to lengthen, and his teeth felt an unbearable itch.
Hearing his brother's accelerated breathing and complex aura, Tanjirou looked at him uneasily, pulling on Yoizumi's sleeve.
"Yoizumi-nii? What's wrong with you?!"
Yoizumi subconsciously looked at Tanjirou, but Tanjirou suddenly widened his eyes, seemingly surprised by Yoizumi's current gaze.
Tanjirou opened his mouth, looking at his brother's somewhat distorted eyes.
Yoizumi-nii's demonization... seemed to have worsened.
"Boom!"
Gyoumei Himejima was flung away by Muzan, smashing through several walls before Gyoumei Himejima managed to stop himself with brute force.
"Die!" Muzan roared, his bone whips sweeping around. The smoke from the collapsing buildings obscured their vision. Kyoujurou, in the smoke, barely dodged a bone whip that grazed his waist, but still suffered considerable damage.
Breath of Insect: Centipede Dance: Hundred-Legged Serpent Abdomen!
Shinobu frowned, her petite body transforming into an invisible afterimage. Violent footsteps echoed from all directions, each step breaking the ground and leaving deep imprints. Her unpredictable footwork twisted and turned like a nimble viper!
"Cough... ha..." Yoizumi forcibly suppressed the abnormalities in his body, gripping his sword hilt and flashing to Muzan's side. Snowflakes and ice crystals adhered to Muzan's skin, and every breath he took was filled with white mist.
Breath of Snow: Fifth Form: Ice Sleet Shower!
A large amount of airborne moisture condensed into ice, and the nichirin blade instantly shattered the solid ice. Ice needles accurately pierced into Muzan's body.
"Tsk!" Feeling the stiffness in his body, Muzan urged the blood within him to dissolve the ice shards that sought to freeze him.
Shinobu's footsteps grew closer until she lunged in front of Muzan. Her nichirin blade, with a blade only at its tip, powerfully stabbed directly through Muzan's body, which shattered like ice upon impact.
Breathing angrily, Muzan's heavy breaths echoed in everyone's ears. He was, after all, the Demon King; the ice Yoizumi had plunged into his body was successfully absorbed by him. Staring hatefully at everyone, Muzan's hand slowly clenched.
Feeling the approach of danger, Yoizumi grabbed Shinobu's hand, wanting to pull her away from Muzan's side, but the next second... "Boom!"
A nearly world-destroying shockwave leveled the surroundings!
Everyone was thrown by the impact. Yoizumi's left half was blasted away, Kyoujurou Rengoku was pinned under the rubble, unable to move, and Gyoumei Himejima crashed into a wall, his body going into spasms.
Tanjirou was embedded halfway into a stone wall, unconscious.
Yoizumi's body regenerated, and a comforting expression appeared in his distorted vertical pupils as he looked at Shinobu, who was staring at him with red-rimmed eyes.
"It's okay, Shinobu."
His incomplete body became whole again. Seeing that Shinobu was unharmed, Yoizumi felt relieved and stood up.
He continuously cut down Muzan's attacking bone whips, while simultaneously sensing Tanjirou's and the others' vital signs, confirming that they were all still alive.
Since his attacks did not have the effect of delaying regeneration, Muzan's bone whips regenerated the moment they were cut. At this point, the two demons were engaged in a pure test of speed and endurance.
Taking out the remaining half-bottle of activity-boosting potion from his pocket, which had been shattered by the shockwave, Yoizumi drank it down, glass shards and all, and squinted at Muzan.
It should be about time.
For Yushiro.
"Boom!" The ceiling above Muzan suddenly cracked open, and Kanroji Mitsuri, who Muzan believed to be dead, descended from above, wielding her long, flexible soft sword, instantly shredding Muzan's bone whips.
"Sorry I'm late!"
Iguro Obanai pulled Kyoujurou from the rubble, speaking softly.
"Are you alright, Rengoku?"
Kyoujurou's orange-red eyes widened in a daze, not even caring about the blood continuously oozing from his forehead.
He only knew.
Kanroji and Iguro had returned from the dead!
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