The operation covered almost all areas of the world, and there were reports of ghosts causing trouble in almost every place.
All ghosts are following the will of the King of Ghosts, Onimusuji Muzan, looking for swordsmen of the swordsmanship school and eradicating them.
Strictly speaking, there is only one person in the swordsmanship school in this world, so the search for ghosts is mostly fruitless. However, the actions of ghosts are inevitably accompanied by blood and death, and various tragedies occur everywhere.
Therefore, the members of the Demon Slayer Corps basically have no time to practice. Even if they have seen a higher level, many pillars are still busy running around the world to eliminate ghosts.
Somewhere hidden in a building in a corner of the city.
This room is completely sealed, and there are even traces of the seal created by the vampire technique.
There are all kinds of bottles and jars everywhere in the room, and you can see all kinds of herbs and strange-colored liquids in them.
Zhu Shizheng stared at the potion in front of him with great seriousness.
"Hmm... There seems to be no problem with the ratio. It can cause ghosts to degenerate, but the effect is a bit poor. This level is far from being able to deal with Wuhan."
Boom!
While Zhu Shi was studying, there was a knock on the door.
Then Yushiro walked in, with a little blood still vaguely visible on his body.
"Lord Jushi."
Yushirou comes to Jushi.
Zhu Shi looked at him: "Are there any investigation results?"
"Hmm... According to the investigation, the ghosts who have started to act frequently recently seem to have received orders from their superiors, asking them to search for and kill humans of the swordsmanship school."
"Swordsmanship school? What is that?"
Zhu Shi looked over strangely.
Yushiro said with some confusion: "I don't know either, and those low-level ghosts don't seem to know either. They just received very vague instructions. I went to investigate specifically, but to no avail."
Zhu Shi's eyes flickered for a few times and said: "Such large-scale and frequent operations can only come from Wu Kai's personal instructions. It can be seen that Wu Kai attaches great importance to this matter, which means that the swordsmanship school has developed a strong interest in him. It made him feel threatened..."
Having said this, Zhu Shi thought for a moment and finally shook his head.
"Forget it, we are not suitable for contact with humans, let them restrain Wu Mei's energy like this, so that Wu Mei will not bother to trouble me... Yushiro, please reduce your outing time recently and collect herbs once a week. "
"yes."
Yushiro lowered his head and responded.
Zhu Shi lowered his head to look at the medicine bottle, and Feng Ye's figure appeared in his mind.
It's been a long time since Wu Kai mobilized all the ghosts for large-scale operations... The sudden appearance of the swordsmanship school... could it be related to that person
Forget it, those are not important, completing the medicine that can eliminate Wuhan as soon as possible is what she should do now.
…
roof.
Feng Ye was sitting on the edge of the eaves.
Neither Tamashi nor Yushiro was aware of this, and the spells and barriers created by the vampire magic that Yushiro had laid were completely useless and had no effect.
In his eyes, a microcosm of the entire world was reflected. The actions of ghosts all over the world were reflected in his eyes. The ghosts in each area and the fighting of the Demon Slayer Team were all presented in front of him.
There are humans being eaten by ghosts.
A ghost was killed by members of the Demon Slayer Squad.
Just putting the true wild rice into the world caused huge changes in the entire world, just like a dragonfly touching water, causing thousands of ripples.
But all this did not cause any waves in Feng Ye's eyes.
To this day, even the collision and war between the two worlds may not be able to make waves in his heart. If he wants to make him look sideways, he must at least rise to the level of the star field.
The reason why I sit here and watch is purely because I still have some hazy thoughts about this world in my long-term memory.
"A little... speed up a little bit."
Feng Ye looked down at the world and murmured softly.
Then he waved his right hand slightly.
Uh-huh!
The whole world was like a slide, speeding up before his eyes, day and night changing rapidly.
No one in the world was aware of it, nor was it affected in any way. It was just Feng Ye who accelerated time and traveled through time.
…
One year has passed since Masaki joined the Demon Slayer Corps.
In this year, the overall strength of the Demon Slayer Corps has made great progress, especially the many pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps, whose strength has almost risen to a higher level!
However, the improvement in strength did not reduce the number of casualties. On the contrary, the number of deaths this year reached the highest number in decades.
Because ghosts move extremely frequently under Wu Kai's orders, even though the ghost killing team is hunting everywhere, Wu Kai is also constantly creating new ghosts to hunt and kill human swordsmen for him.
The two sides formed a situation of pulling each other.
This year, the largest battle involved five pillar-level beings from the Demon Slayer Squad, as well as six of the Twelve Demonic Moons!
Among them, there are three ghosts on the lower string and three ghosts on the upper string!
In this battle, all three Demon Slayer Demons were killed, and one of the five pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps was killed and four others were seriously injured!
This was the most brutal and largest battle in decades, and it also made the Demon Slayers realize the terror and power of the Oni!
If they hadn't all climbed to a higher level in swordsmanship through the guidance of Zhen Shi, and their strength had been greatly improved, I'm afraid all five of them would have been wiped out by the three ghosts of Shang Xian!
The ghost still has the upper hand.
Zhenshen also practiced breathing techniques this year, and finally found the breathing method 'water breathing' that suited her best.
Because she is of a very high level, she also practices breathing techniques very quickly. She completed the practice of the full concentration and regular practice in just one year. She has also reached the "quasi-pillar" level in the breathing techniques, and her physical fitness is even better. It has been greatly enhanced.
Because of this, she alone blocked the newly promoted Shangxian Eryi Wozuo in that battle.
But it was just blocked.
After overcoming the weakness of his neck, Yi Wo Zuo absorbed more Wu Mei's blood, and the improvement he received was greater than that of Zhen Xi, who had just practiced the breathing method for a year. The two were almost at a draw.
The battle lasted until dawn, before Yiwozuo and others retreated.
Chapter 20 Going out
Since that battle, the demons and the Demon Slayers once again entered a period of stalemate.
It would be difficult for Onii to completely kill the Demon Slayer Team without Oniitsuji Muzan taking action himself. Even though Oniitsuji Muzan has overwhelming strength, even if there is even the slightest possibility of threatening him, he will definitely not do it. Allow yourself to take risks.
At least the so-called swordsmanship school made him feel threatened, and the information was seriously insufficient, so he did not intend to show up.
Prepare for the worst, if another Jiguo Yuanyi appears in the world, the worst he can do is hide for another hundred years, waiting for the other person to die before coming out.
The stalemate between the demons and the Demon Slayers has returned again, which means that the mortality rate of members of the Demon Slayers has begun to decrease. However, due to the frequent activities of ghosts, the workload is still very large.
Especially as captains at the pillar level, they rarely have free time.
In addition to going out to perform tasks, he also practices swordsmanship.
In a certain courtyard of the Demon Slayer Headquarters.
The Butterfly Ninja was wearing a loose kimono for training, holding his Nichirin Sword in both hands, staring ahead seriously and sharply, and then raised the Nichirin Sword and swung it vigorously.
laugh!
A ray of light appeared on the surface of the Nichirin Sword, and a flying slash was struck.
But this slash was pitifully weak, no more than an inch, and it only flew three feet, barely leaving a shallow mark on the wooden stake in front of it before disappearing without a trace.
"Or not… "
Butterfly Ninja sighed.
Her power is too weak.
A year ago, she had already mastered the normal level of the entire set, and now she has maintained this level for more than a year. Normally, she is fully capable of being a pillar-level captain.
In fact, this is indeed the case. She has firmly reached the pillar level in terms of speed and flexibility.
But the problem is that her body is too small.
With a height of only 1.5cm and a weight of only 37 kilograms, she is essentially equivalent to a small doll. She performs extremely poorly in terms of pure strength. She has almost never had the power to cut off the neck of a ghost.
Even though she learned swordsmanship from Maoshan, her performance in swordsmanship was still unsatisfactory.
Her sister Kanae, who practiced swordsmanship at the same time as her, could easily swing a slash that flew ten meters away. She even combined her breathing method with swordsmanship to create a very powerful new move.
But she never could.
"How can I help my sister if it's always like this..."
The Butterfly Ninja showed a look of reluctance and slashed several times with the Nichirin Sword in his hand. However, due to his disordered state of mind, he was unable to make even a weak slash these times.
It was at this moment that Kanae's figure appeared in the courtyard.
She came to the side of Butterfly Ninja, took out a light-colored handkerchief, gently wiped the sweat from Butterfly Ninja's forehead, and showed a gentle smile: "Okay, let's take a rest."
Butterfly Ninja paused and said, "But I haven't been able to practice it until now..."
"Okay, okay, it's rare that you have nothing to do today. Come and go out for a walk with me in the afternoon."
Kanae interrupted Butterfly Ninja's words and smiled sweetly at her: "Practice is not useful if you rush it."
She saw the urgency of Butterfly Ninja to quickly improve his strength, but she also knew that practice required deep accumulation and foundation. Butterfly Ninja may not be suitable for developing pure swordsmanship.
The powerful may not be the most suitable.
At this time, it is better to relax and take a rest and see if you can find other more suitable directions.
"… All right."
Seeing his sister's smile so close, the Butterfly Ninja finally put down the Nichirin Sword in his hand.
She returned to the house.
I rinsed my body, put on a coat, then came back to the yard and went out with Kanae.
The two soon arrived in the town.
The town is almost full of poor people, most of the clothes are shabby, and only a few people have no traces of mending on their clothes. This is already a good part of life.
Kanae kept her smile that was gentle enough to make people melt, and led Butterfly Ninja forward. Occasionally she encountered a road stall selling jewelry, so she stopped to take a look, and took off some beautiful jewelry for Butterfly Ninja to wear. .
The Butterfly Ninja was not interested in accessories or anything like that, but due to her sister's preferences, she could only stand there and let Kanae do what she wanted.
"It's beautiful!"
Kanae put another butterfly-shaped headdress on the butterfly ninja and nodded with great satisfaction.
Butterfly Ren couldn't stand her sister's praise and couldn't help but turn her head to the side.
At this glance, from the corner of his eye, he happened to see a man pulling a ball of hemp rope on a bridge not far away with people coming and going. At the other end of the hemp rope was tied a child who looked to be only a few years old.
"elder sister."
Butterfly was stunned for a moment, then called out.
Kanae followed the butterfly ninja's gaze and immediately saw this scene. She was slightly surprised. Then she put down the jewelry in her hand and led the butterfly ninja in that direction.
"Um, can you excuse me?"
Kanae chased after the man holding the child and spoke to him, still in a gentle tone.
"Um?"
The man looked back.
Kanae asked: "Excuse me, why is this child tied up? Is she a sinner or something?"
The man shrugged and said, "You'll understand just by looking at her, because she's covered in fleas and is extremely dirty, and she might even run away."
As soon as these words were spoken, Kanae and Butterfly Ninja understood that the man in front of them was not the child's parents, he was either a human trafficker, or he was bought.
Because today is an era of chaos, many people cannot even support themselves, and it is not uncommon to sell their children.
"Hello."