Chapter 177 - Conversation Between Muzan and Takehara

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What drove Tsukuni Iwakatsu to choose to join the Demon Slayer Corps?

Is it to kill evil spirits for the sake of benevolence, righteousness and morality?

Absolutely impossible.

To Tsukuni Iwakatsu, ghosts are just things that can be used or tempered.

He joined the Demon Slayer Corps only to understand the narrow limitations of his current situation.

He wants to become stronger.

at all costs.

Jiguo Iwakatsu looked at the fields under the dark night from the window of the carriage.

On the path between the fields, a row of carriages were advancing in an orderly manner.

Most of the wounded in Jiguo's barracks were on these carriages.

The bumpy carriage made the tips of Tsukuni Iwakatsu's hair shake slightly. He withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Enichi Tsukuni, who was sitting in the carriage and looking straight ahead.

Just wait, Yuanyi.

I will prove it.

At this moment, Enichi noticed Jiguo Iwakatsu who was looking directly at him, and he was slightly startled:

"What's wrong? Brother."

"Are you not dizzy anymore? That's great..."

Just when Ji Guoyuan looked at Yan Sheng with a little surprise.

"vomit--"

The latter turned his head suddenly, stuck his head out of the window, and began to retching again.

Jiguo Yansheng's face turned blue.

Sure enough, no matter how you look at that face, it is so disgusting that it makes people angry!

As soon as Ji Guoyuan looked at his brother's back, he felt a little overwhelmed for a moment. He slowly looked away and lowered his eyes.

We haven’t seen each other for ten years, and there seems to be something wrong with my brother’s health.

It's not okay to keep doing this...

He put his hand on his chin, which was an action Shang Quannai often liked to do.

Otherwise, wait until you reach Mount Sagi, and take your brother to see Zhu Shi to treat his body that is prone to dizziness...

Just as Yuanyi was thinking for a moment, Ji Guoyansheng held his breath and suppressed the nausea in his heart.

He turned his head, his eyes wandering.

"Yuanyi."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Yuanyi broke away from his thoughts and looked at Tsukuni Iwakatsu in confusion.

"Tell me about what you experienced after joining the Demon Slayer Corps."

Jiguo Yansheng's tone was calm, but he was slightly trembling, which was caused by suppressing vomiting.

He needs to understand the gap between Yuanyi and himself now.

But he doesn't care about the other members of the Demon Slayer Squad.

Yan Sheng felt no need to care about them.

No matter how strong those people are.

Can you be stronger than Yuanyi?

——Although he has never met those people, Jiguo Yansheng intuitively thinks so.

"I understand, brother."

Yuan nodded.

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In the main hall of Tomioka.

"Great." A hoarse and deep voice sounded.

A middle-aged man with the same face as the "retainer" who died before was sitting on the floor of the hall, his back a little hunched.

He looked at Tomioka, who was sleeping peacefully, and Hanako, who was leaning on him, and smiled with relief.

"Finally, after fifty-three years, the ghost's rule is over!"

His voice echoed emptyly in the hall, but no one responded to him.

Even though there are hundreds of people standing in the hall at this moment.

His broken left arm has been bandaged, and the purple dagger is tied to his waist.

Behind the man, the numb eyes of nearly a hundred Fugang people were slowly returning to their original state.

Most of them are young people and children, and few middle-aged people are seen.

Older people can easily become enslaved by ghosts and become food rations.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that this generation of Tomioka people spent the first half of their lives in the slavery of ghosts.

It is conceivable that even if the age of ghosts ends, their temperaments may not change much.

"Is it sad?" Iwami Inkstone clasped his rosary beads. He looked at the Tomioka people with a somewhat sad look in his eyes:

"How sad, they've become numb."

The members of the Demon Slayer Squad stood at the entrance of the hall. They watched silently as the middle-aged man laughed sadly, with numerous numb figures behind him.

My wife Shancun glanced at Iwami next to her strangely.

"Monk, isn't this what we have been working hard for?" Shuiwu Yuebai said calmly, and he also looked directly at the backs of the Fugang tribe members.

"To reduce the occurrence of this kind of thing."

Kazama Chengya suddenly spoke silently.

"The development of things always follows certain rules."

"History, reproduction, and life are all like this."

"And the existence of ghosts will disrupt this pattern."

"This must be the purpose of establishing the Demon Slayer Corps."

Minazuki Shiro glanced at Kazama Nariya in surprise, then smiled and crooked him with his elbow:

"I never thought you could say such a thing."

Iwami Inkstone remained silent for a while, he naturally understood these principles.

If you really want to talk about the principles of life, everyone in the Demon Slayer Squad can basically say one or two.

This is not a pretentious showoff, but a sentiment accumulated from real experiences.

Who hasn’t lost someone important?

"That's right!" Shuiwu Yuebai was suddenly startled. He turned to look at Shang Quannai, his heart full of curiosity:

"Your Excellency Shangquan, Your Excellency Shangquan."

"...What's wrong?" Shang Quanna was listening to the conversation between the two brothers of the country through the crow. He glanced at Shuiwu Yuebai.

"Speaking of the establishment of the Demon Slayer Corps...what was the original Demon Slayer Corps like?"

"What kind of people are those pillars?"

Shuiwu Yuebai pulled Kazama Chengya to strengthen his courage. He looked at Shang Quannai with bright eyes:

"Your Excellency Shangquan, you should know it!"

"That's right, that's right." My wife Shancun followed.

Shang Quannai was a little surprised when all the pillars looked at him. He shrugged helplessly. Finally, he glanced at the dead soldier Tomioka who was sleeping in the main hall, then turned and left the main hall.

Kanroji Sakuracake followed him without speaking, but her eyes were a little dim.

Under the gazes of several pillars, Shang Quannai's somewhat sad tone slowly came out:

"Don't worry so much."

"Do what you need to do now. There will be time to chat later."

Shangquan Nai and Ganluji Sakuracake gradually walked away, leaving the pillars looking at each other.

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With the thanks of the middle-aged man and the dead man Tomioka, the members of the Demon Slayer Squad left Tomioka's mansion.

Under the leadership of Yan Ya, everyone rushed in a straight line towards the direction of Sawu Mountain.

The Fugang people also unanimously decided to leave the mountains and leave this place that left them with sad memories.

As for a mansion castle in Noda, it was agreed by a middle-aged man, Utsuyashiki Sukeyo to draw up and seal it, and handed it over to the Demon Slayer Corps for management.

It became a new stronghold.

At the same time, the Demon Slayer Squad also promised to find a place for the Tomioka tribe to live outside.

When asked by the hidden team member responsible for psychological counseling about his thoughts on the future, Tomioka held his sister's hand and said this:

"I don't know, but it will definitely be better than before."

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Saagiri Mountain.

"That's it, I got my own Nichirin Sword." Tsukikunoichi slowly explained his journey after joining the Demon Slayer Corps.

"That's right." Jiguo Yansheng nodded.

During the conversation between the two.

The carriage drove slowly to the boundary of Samagiri Mountain.

Click.

The carriage procession stopped together.

Tsukuni Iwakatsu, who had adapted to the bumps, felt something was wrong.

Jiguo Yansheng frowned, he slightly leaned his head out of the window, and then his eyes were slightly stunned.

What is this.

What was blocking the carriage was a blood-red barrier that was slowly flowing between the two mountains.

Watching the carriage stop.

And several hidden members stepped out of the carriage, ran to the edge of the barrier, and took out something.

The Yin team members put the things they took out on the barrier, and a wave of fluctuations spread across the barrier.

Jiguo Yansheng looked back at the carriage team behind him and found that this was the only way forward.

Jiguo Yansheng vaguely felt that he had guessed something.

But he felt a little incredible.

——This thing can’t be a door.

——Those hidden members are not holding "keys".

Jiguo Iwakatsu was frightened by his own thoughts.

Then, in Jiguo Iwakatsu's numb eyes, the barrier slowly revealed a space for the carriage to pass.

Ah, it's the door.

He put his head back into the carriage and sat down expressionlessly like Jiguo Yuanyi beside him.

"Yuanyi."

"Brother?"

"The Demon Slayer Squad is... amazing." Iwakatsu Tsukikuni's face was expressionless.

When Ji Guoyuan looked at his brother's appearance, he was slightly surprised, and then the corner of his mouth curled up:

"I believe everyone will be very happy to hear my brother's approval."

Ji Guoyuan is a child who shows off his treasures to his elders, and he gets a lot of recognition.

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But, in the distance outside the carriage.

A mountaintop.

Snap, snap, snap.

The bottom of a round eyeball is wrapped with nerves, supporting the eyeball to move quickly on the ground.

The eyes move quickly, and their small size is difficult to detect.

After the first eyeball observed five people around it, it quickly rushed forward.

rustle--

Following behind it was a stream of eyeballs formed by densely packed eyes.

Each eyeball is observing the surroundings and leaving in different directions.

An eyeball hung on the treetop nearby, observing its surroundings.

In the middle of the eyeball, these words were written:

【四】

After briefly identifying the direction, the eyeball began to run wildly in the direction of Mount Samagiri.

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In the infinite city.

The giant tree of blood vessels grows in the vast and seemingly endless infinite city.

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"What do you want to do?!" The cold voice suddenly sounded and became sharp.

"You want to get the blue Hibiscus flower, right?" Another voice said with a somewhat teasing tone.

"..."

"I observed your memory and discovered that the blue Bana flowers discovered so far were picked and sent away by that person."

“What was left in place was picked away.”

"Although I don't know where it was sent, according to inertial thinking, the most likely possibility is that it is in the opponent's base camp."

"To make it clear, the blue Higanbana flower should be near Saagiri Mountain at the moment."

"What do you want to say?"

The cold voice and the normal voice kept switching, and these two voices echoed in Infinite City.

But the strange thing is that the source of these two voices is the same person.

The man had a mask on his face and was sitting in the center of Infinite City with his naked upper body and perfect muscular lines.

Takehara raised his head, looked at the giant vascular tree not far away, and said in a normal voice:

"Since the cyan flower is in the opponent's hands, why don't we take the initiative?"

Takehara's tone was plain and concise, and full of doubts about the other person in his body.

"?" The owner of the cold voice felt strange about Takehara, and even thought he was a bit stupid.

Take the initiative? What brain?

But he didn't say it directly. After all, he still has an inextricable relationship with the other party.

"...There is no need to argue with those lunatics, just wait for the next time the blue Higanbana appears."

The cold voice stiffened for a while, and his tone became contemptuous.

That's right, this cold voice is Wu Ke.

The food that was shared was not digested.

Instead, he used his own healthy cells that already existed in the bodies of several ghosts to reorganize his consciousness.

And angrily obliterated the self-awareness of several strings.

However, Wu Kai found that he seemed unable to kill Takehara, who had the blood of Kamiizuna.

"...Are you an idiot?" Takehara was silent for a while, and then said disdainfully: "Why are you so stubborn at this time?"

"You!" Wu Kuan was stunned for a moment, then became furious.

What are you talking about? I am obviously trying to give you a step down, a brainless inferior creature!

Takehara and he now share the same body, and any action they take requires the consent of both of them before the body can move.

Otherwise, the body will become stiff and unable to move in place.

And Takehara, who has the blood of Shang Quanna, can even vaguely surpass Mukai in terms of body control.

Being bound like this by something he created with his own hands, Wuxian felt equally humiliated in his heart.

In the end, Wu Kuai suppressed his inner anger and said as calmly as possible:

"You...you..."

Wu Kai took a deep breath.

"idiot!"

"Do you want to die?! Have you forgotten how I came back last time!?"

But after all, he still couldn't suppress his anger, and Takehara's physical expression became ferocious as Muzan roared.

"...You are really an idiot." Takehara frowned and scratched the back of his head.

"Just wait for the opportunity."

"According to your previous observations in memory, those two guys didn't last long in Saagiri Mountain."

"Usually there's only one miko watching over there, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

Takehara spoke to Muzan in his body with an indifferent tone.

"If you keep hiding like this, you will eventually die."

"Right?"

Wuxian wanted to refute, but couldn't.

The corners of Takehara's lips raised slightly, and he whispered his last words:

"You..."

"Aren't you most afraid of death?"

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In the infinite city, there was a terrible silence.

Apart from the sound of blood flowing in the giant tree of blood vessels, no other sounds could be heard.

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"I have arranged for Naruto's eyes to go to Mount Samagiri for surveillance."

"Since you have no objection, then when the time is right, we will leave immediately."

Takehara sat on the top of the giant vascular tree, holding an eyeball in his hand and playing with it casually.

"...You..." Wuhan said hesitantly.

"Of course, if you find the blue Higan flower, you will immediately return to Infinite City without stopping at all."

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Saagiri Mountain.

An eyeball slowly climbs.

Then, he fixed himself at a place far away from the barrier, but where he could clearly see Mount Samagiri.

It slowly transformed and disguised itself as a flower.