A person in Japan, a sword that soars to immortality.

Chapter 78 Escaping with a Severed Hand

"Even if you try your best, it will be in vain."

Beneath Kokushibo's feet, Raizo and Mai lay motionless, facing the ground.

Crimson blood soaked into the soil and continued to spread outwards.

Just as he raised his hand and swung his knife, preparing to end their lives, a piercing explosion suddenly rang out in the air.

Just as Kokushibo turned his head, a beam of white light instantly magnified from his six eyes.

【Breath of the Moon - Fifth Form - Lunar Calamity Vortex】

boom!

"How could this be?"

Kokushibo watched helplessly as his slash crumbled upon contact with the tip of the opponent's sword, turning completely into vapor!

Just as he was about to have his throat pierced, he desperately parried with his sword, tilting his head back at the same time, barely managing to dodge the stab.

Bang!

Taiyi didn't immediately draw his sword, but instead kicked out with a powerful kick, sending Kokushibo flying.

"Humanity!"

He adjusted his posture in mid-air, swung his knife into the ground with one hand, and after a flurry of dirt, he finally regained his footing, then felt an overwhelming rage.

Taiichi did not continue his attack. He sheathed his sword, bent down and placed his hands on Raizo and Mai's necks. After carefully feeling their necks, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's alright, as long as I'm alive."

Upon looking at their bodies, Taiyi's pupils contracted. He then unleashed his divine sense and released his true energy, drawing Raizo's hands to him and reattaching them to the severed ends.

As a light blue halo appeared in his palm, Raizo's severed hands were slowly healing.

Meanwhile, Taichi found himself in a difficult situation after discovering that Mai Asaka had gone blind.

"Unless the Qi of Yi Wood is activated to help its tissues regenerate, otherwise..."

【Breath of the Moon - Seventh Form - Mirror of Calamity - Moon Reflection】

Just as Taiichi was pondering, Kokushibo on the other side not only activated the second stage of his sword, but also immediately launched a second round of attacks.

"Sneak attack?"

"ridiculous!"

【Three Qi Circulating Through the Heavens · Water · Nine Heavens River】

Facing the five sword energies that cleaved the ground and rushed towards him at lightning speed, Taiyi merely glanced at them from the side of his eye, then casually drew his sword and unleashed nine slashes.

Bang bang bang!

Five explosions rang out. Taiyi's sword energy not only countered the opponent's attack, but also added four counter-slashes towards Kokushibo.

This move made the opponent's eye twitch, and he immediately swung his sword to block all the attacks.

"Yamada Asaemon Taichi, you seem... not to be human."

With veins bulging on his forearm, Kokushibo held his sword horizontally in front of his nose and spoke coldly.

"The weeping ox demon says so, and you say so too. Why is it that when you encounter a strong opponent, you both subconsciously assume that the opponent is not human?"

Are humans really that weak?

After the vital signs of the two people beneath him stabilized, Taiyi slowly stood up, shook his neck, stuck his sword in the ground, and began to observe the other's attributes while taking off his shirt.

[Name: Ji Guoyansheng]

【Age: 382】

【life:???】

[Essence: 6]

[Qi and Blood: 2]

[Soul: 174.7]

"As expected of the second strongest fighter in the Demon Slayer world, if it weren't for the large amount of blood being drained and the subsequent flashback that shattered their Dao Heart, the Stone Pillar and Wind Pillar would have been no match for this monster."

Taiichi narrowed his eyes and began to recall the various details of the battle in the Infinite Castle.

Ultimately, a crucial conclusion was reached: those who dealt the most damage were all supports!

Leaving aside Tamayo, Kokushibo's strength was greatly limited because of Genya Shinazugawa's Blood Demon Art, specifically the Mukan Karma Tree he obtained from Hantengu, which drained a large amount of his blood.

Even so, it still broke through the limits, and its head grew out in a flash, unlike Akaza who took forever to grow halfway.

"You're a monster, but I'm no less impressive!"

Even after understanding all this, Taiyi remained fearless.

Instead, after tying his sleeves around his waist, his expression instantly changed. His eyebrows arched, he grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, and stared at Kokushibo with a sinister smile.

With the complete attribute conversion and the title effect, my health points can be pushed up.

Even after being weakened by the aura, Heishibo's health points, though still reduced by 20%, were still 1000 points higher than mine.

"but......"

"The gap isn't that big, the advantage lies with me!!!"

boom!

The red, blue, and white air currents condensed into one, resembling a tornado reaching the sky, spinning upwards and piercing straight into the heavens.

Taiichi raised his sword, pointed it at Kokushibo, and roared with a sinister laugh:

"You're the one who cut off the Naruto Hashira's hands and blinded the Sakura Hashira, right?"

"So what?"

Kokushibo also took off his shirt, revealing a muscular physique just like Taichi's, and coldly replied.

"Then I will also cut off your hands and gouge out your six eyes!"

"Insanity!"

The moment Taiyi finished speaking, all six pupils of Kokushibo's eyes contracted simultaneously, and the uncontrollable rage in his chest seemed to burn everything around him to ashes.

The two moved almost simultaneously, each gripping their weapons and charging at each other.

"Jikoku Iwakatsu, you must remember this!"

"I am Yamada Asaemon Taichi, the greatest samurai in the land..."

"He is also a Shura Martial Immortal walking among mortals!"

The emperor rides dragons and tigers, his sword energy sweeping across the river.

【Three Qi Traverse the Heavens - Metal - Severing the River of Oblivion】

The white Geng metal energy suddenly burst forth in Taiyi's eyes. For the first time, the inner core in his central palace was transmitted at its maximum speed, releasing all its true energy and pouring into his entire body.

cut! cut! cut!

A will to sever everything filled Taiyi's soul, as if he felt that he and the divine sword Futsu-no-Mitama in his hand had become one.

The wind whips up the clouds, and thunder roars across the vast expanse.

The blood moon was completely obscured, and the only thing filling the world was Taiyi's boundless fighting spirit and extremely violent killing intent.

He traversed the air, thrusting out a sword that instantly created a crack in the path he passed through. The rampant sword energy sliced ​​all the floating objects around him into powder.

In Kokushibo's eyes, Taichi was still in human form just a second ago.

But in the next instant, he seemed to see a giant sword emanating a stinging sensation that was growing larger and larger in his vision.

"How could I be defeated by humans!"

Kokushibo suddenly opened its mouth, as if trying to inhale all the surrounding air into its lungs.

Then his heart pounded like a drum, his arms, covered in veins and vines, bulged out of his biceps, and he swung them with all his might to meet Taiyi's attack.

[Breath of the Moon - Fourteenth Form - Calamity - Full Moon]

Hundreds of slashes came from all directions, then converged into one, like a spinning drill piercing the opponent.

Even with the fiercest attacks, Taiyi withstood the convergence of the Black Death Behemoth's sword energy and surged forward.

"Break it for me!"

boom!

The deafening sound of an airburst echoed throughout Edo, startling and frightening countless people, while cattle, sheep, chickens, and ducks huddled in corners, howling incessantly.

Then the sky turned white, leaving only two dark figures that crossed paths and disappeared in an instant.

There was a snap.

The great katana with its slashing blade, along with the hands that were holding its hilt, fell to the ground with a thud.

Meanwhile, Kokushibo, who was facing away from Taiichi, had both rows of eyes on his face split open, completely severed by the sword energy, and blood gushed out, unable to heal.

"Yamada Asaemon Taichi, you and I are sworn enemies!"

Whoosh!

With a frantic shout, Kokushibo leaped into the night and vanished.

Taiyi had his back to the other person and did not turn around.

Lean less.

Ding!

[Conversion period has ended]

"Fool, if you get away this time, you'll be even less likely to kill me next time."

With the attribute restored, the half-white hair turned black again.

Taiichi took two steps forward, collected blood from Kokushibo's severed hand with a test tube, and then let the rest of the things, including the sword, begin to turn to ashes.

"With this, it seems... Tamayo can also help me cultivate my soul?"

Taiyi held the test tube in front of him and raised an eyebrow.

But he quickly stopped joking and, looking in the direction where Kokushibo had disappeared, began to make plans in his mind.

"His health and vitality are already so high, just how high will Muzan's attributes be?"

"The best course of action now is to quickly nourish the inner elixir, collect materials, and practice both internally and externally."

"At the same time, it's already past mid-May, and autumn is not far away. If you have the chance, you might as well explore Paradise Island first."