If killing Demon Dance Tsuji Muzan is the ultimate goal of all Demon Slayer Teams, then killing a ghost is a solid step towards the ultimate goal.
Every time one of the upper strings is killed, it is equivalent to tearing apart a layer of shield that protects Oniwu Tsuji Mukai. When all the upper string ghosts are killed, Oniwu Tsuji Mukai will be completely exposed, and there will be nothing to stop him. in front of me.
Judge based on strength.
Kanae is not sure of defeating Tongmo.
But at this moment, there are still four hours until sunrise, and she and her sister are the best at flexible entanglement. If they can entangle Tong Mo until sunrise, there is hope that Tong Mo will die in the sun. under!
"Obviously I have told you my name. In exchange, you should tell me your name directly. But if you really hope to get the information about Shang Xian, it's not that I can't tell you..."
Tong Mo smiled.
The moment he said this, Butterfly narrowed his pupils and subconsciously shouted, "Sister, be careful."
Tong Mo, who was still standing in the same place, suddenly disappeared at a ridiculous speed. When he reappeared, he was already beside Kanae, and the folding fan in his hand was gently slashed towards the back of Kanae's neck.
"Breath of flowers, shape of nine, sunflower."
Uh-huh!
A beam of radiant light suddenly bloomed, turning into an arc like the sun, surrounding Kanae's entire body in the center, with almost no blind spots for defense, blocking Tong Mo's folding fan directly from the outside, making a ding-ding-dong-dong sound during the collision. sound.
After blocking Tong Mo's blow, Kanae didn't hesitate at all. Her whole body turned into a bunch of afterimages, and she directly opened the distance between Tong Mo and came a few meters away. Tongmo is caught in the middle.
Chapter 43 Collision
Being flanked by the Butterfly sisters, Tong Mo didn't feel any urgency or nervousness at all. Instead, he shook the fan in his hand again and said with a smile: "Sure enough, sister is much stronger..."
"If I eat you, it might be of great help to me. I might as well regain my previous position."
"Yeah, by the way, you just wanted to know the information about Shangxian. The guy in Yiwozuo has been working hard for many years, and he finally made progress not long ago. He beat me once and made me drop from second place to third place. He’s ranked third, and he’s still a little bit reluctant to do so, but he’s worked hard for so long, and it doesn’t seem to matter if he wins once.”
Tong Mo talked nonchalantly.
If the person in front of him were other pillars or men, he would have been uninterested in saying more, but what appeared was a rare and powerful girl who happened to be a sister. It was rare that he was willing to say more.
This kind of information is not important at all, not to mention that the two girls in front of him will soon become his food.
"I see, you are the second one from the past."
Kanae responded softly.
Tong Mo smiled and said: "Yeah, so can you tell me your name now? And your sister..."
"Butterfly Kanae."
Kanae gently raised the Nichirin sword in her hand and said: "Xiao Ren is a very gentle person, and I am too. Death by the sun is too painful for ghosts, so I hope you don't resist, I will let you not A painful death.”
"Oh, my, you said something terrible in an understatement."
Tong Mo's movement of waving the folding fan gradually stopped, and the smile in his eyes gradually turned into calmness.
next moment.
"Insect Breath."
"Flower Breath."
Kanae and Butterfly Ninja acted almost at the same time, breaking out one after the other.
The Nichirin sword in Kanae's hand was swung, and a brilliant light was shed. The long petals were like sword light, falling towards Tongmo from the front, trying to split Tongmo in half.
The Butterfly Ninja waved the Nichirin Sword gently in his hand, and countless dots of light filled the air like mist, blocking Tong Mo's sight and making everything in Tong Mo's field of vision temporarily blurry.
"As expected of sisters, they work together perfectly."
Tong Mo praised him.
But this time the voice became quieter.
He turned his right hand, and a folding fan also appeared. He held one in his left hand and in his right hand. With himself as the center, he swung it out to the left and right sides, blooming pieces of frost light.
This cold frost spread in the void and turned into ice crystal lotus flowers, covering an area of nearly ten meters. It not only destroyed the attacks of Kanae and Butterfly Ninja, but also covered them all in the ice crystal lotus impact. In the range.
Vampire technique - lotus leaf ice.
The ice crystal lotus struck in all directions, forcing Kanae and Butterfly Ninja to resist by wielding Nichirin Swords, smashing or flying all the approaching lotuses.
At the same time, the same thought came to both of them.
So strong!
The butterfly ninja was under great pressure and was forced to retreat ten meters away, all the way to the edge of the open hall, while Kanae also took a few steps back.
At this time, the anger, disgust and other emotions in Butterfly Ren's heart disappeared, replaced by deep solemnity.
Same goes for Kanae.
She once fought against Yi Wo Zuo before she transformed. At that time, she couldn't keep up with Yi Wo Zuo's speed, let alone strength. If Zhen Xiang hadn't unilaterally suppressed Yi Wo Zuo, she would have been beaten one on one. The nest was quickly defeated.
The power Tong Mo displayed at this moment, although it was just the tip of the iceberg, was definitely not inferior to Yi Wo Zuo, and compared to Yi Wo Zuo, who was more inclined to melee attacks, Tong Mo who used long-range methods was more difficult to deal with.
The second string of the past...
Very unusual indeed.
Kanae knew in her heart that if she hadn't made progress in practicing swordsmanship over the past year, and her strength had improved by at least 30 to 40% compared to the past, it would have been difficult for her to resist Tong Mo.
Even now, she is not sure that she can defeat the opponent head-on. The only possibility of victory is to delay and persist until the moment of sunrise.
At this point, there is no way out.
Even if there were, Kanae and Butterfly Ninja would not retreat.
"Flower Breath."
"Insect Breath."
The two sisters took action again. Their minds were connected, and their tacit understanding of cooperation was far greater than the cooperation between other pillars.
Insect Breath is a derivative of Flower Breath. Many of the combat techniques created by Butterfly Ninja are not so much independent combat techniques as they exist to cooperate with Kanae!
now.
The swordsmanship released by the two people combined with each other to an extremely perfect degree.
Among the petals that spread out, dexterous bees fluttered. It was a combination of flowers and insects, which dazzled people and caused a lot of confusion for a while, not knowing where the reality was.
“…”
Tong Mo said nothing this time.
Facing the Butterfly Sisters' nearly combined skill, even he no longer felt relaxed and comfortable.
In one-on-one situations, Kanae was almost at the bottom among many pillars, not to mention the newly promoted Butterfly Ninja, but the cooperation between the two of them was almost as good as the cooperation between two stronger pillars.
The blood ghost technique scatters lotus flowers.
Tong Mo waved the folding fan in his hand and sprinkled it forward.
Even he couldn't tell for a moment which part of the attack mixed with flying insects and flower petals was real or fake, so he could only fight with a large-scale vampire technique, covering all the real and fake attacks.
Ice crystals bloomed all over the sky and then shattered, turning into pieces of ice crystal petals. Each petal was as sharp as a blade. It swept forward and directly collided with the fluttering petals and flying insects.
The aftermath of this confrontation was greater than imagined.
boom! ! !
With a roar, the wooden floor in the entire hall shattered from the center, and the walls on all sides also cracked and cracked one after another, until the entire building exploded from bottom to top!
Countless wood chips and gravel flew out in all directions.
Among the broken and collapsed buildings, Tong Mo's figure floated in the frost. An icicle rose from under his feet, lifting him directly from the ruins. At the same time, he looked towards the ruins below, looking for the figures of the Butterfly Sisters.
Where
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Then a chill suddenly came from behind.
In the back!
Without any hesitation, Tong Mo held a folding fan in each hand and swung it towards the back.
Attacking from behind were two Sun-wheel knives, reflecting the light of the moon. The tips of the swords were filled with dazzling sword light. They relied on each other and tried to cut off Tongmo's head, but were blocked by the two folding fans. Block.
"It seems I can't be too foolhardy."
Tong Mo spoke expressionlessly.
In terms of individual strength, none of the butterfly sisters is his opponent and will be defeated quickly by him.
But the cooperation between the two turned out to be much more difficult than he expected, and it was not as easy to deal with as he imagined. At least he had to be serious and think about the way of fighting.
Chapter 44: The Red Eyes on the Other Shore
Crackling!
There was a continuous sound of ice crystals cracking and breaking.
The perfect cooperation between Kanae and Butterfly Ninja, the fusion of breathing techniques and even combat skills and swordsmanship from the same source, burst out with unparalleled power, so much so that they even suppressed Tong Mo for a while.
The Insect's Breath makes up for the connection flaw of the Flower's Breath, and the Flower's Breath covers up the shortcomings in the Insect's Breath attack. They complement each other and are extremely fast. In a short period of time, Tong Mo has no time to release many of his vampire skills.
Although Kanae and Butterfly Ninja are both young, as independent pillars, both of them have extremely rich combat experience, and at this moment they have already understood Tōmo's weaknesses.
Too much reliance on vampire magic!
As the ghost of Shangxian, Tongmo is extremely powerful. He once even overpowered Yiwozuo and occupied the second position of Shangxian. However, he also has an obvious flaw, that is, most of his strength relies on the blood ghost technique. !
In other words, compared to his blood ghost technique, his close-hand combat ability is much inferior. In addition, although his blood ghost technique is instant, it will also be affected when the distance is too close. Many restrictions.
The simple explanation is - the mage was slapped in the face.
If he were allowed to distance himself, release the blood ghost technique calmly, and hit all kinds of large-scale attacks one by one, no matter how well Kanae and Butterfly Ninja cooperated, they would definitely be suppressed.
But the current situation is that Tong Mo was too reckless when facing the sisters Kanae and Butterfly Ninja, and underestimated the power of the two's coordinated breathing techniques, so that he suddenly fell into a very unfavorable situation.
Although he had already reacted and desperately wanted to distance himself, the Butterfly sisters, who had also grasped this key, could not easily give him such an opportunity. The two of them were entangled with him almost to death, fighting at close range. , every sword threatened his neck, hitting his fatal point, trying to chop off his head.
Originally, my younger sister, Butterfly Ninja, was too petite and weighed 37 kilograms, so the sword she swung was not powerful enough to cut off the demon's neck. However, after seeing and practicing Shine's sword skills, she gained some understanding. The huge shortcomings in this part have been made up a lot, so that the Nichirin Sword in her hand at this moment also has the power to directly threaten ghosts.
Ding ding dong dong.
While the petals and butterflies were flying, Tong Mo waved the two folding fans up and down, constantly resisting the attacks of Kanae and Butterfly Ninja, and the smile on his face completely disappeared.
His eyes kept wandering on the bodies of Kanae and Butterfly Ninja, and he was retreating step by step, constantly trying to distance himself, but he was constantly pursued by the two sisters.
"I was a little careless. I didn't expect that their breathing skills and sword skills cooperated so perfectly, and even merged together. At this distance, I forced the vampire technique to freeze them in that moment, but I His neck will also be in danger of being severed..."
Tong Mo's face was expressionless, his eyes full of calmness and scrutiny.
As a former Demon Slayer who had survived for hundreds of years, his combat experience was no worse than that of any member of the Demon Slayer Squad. At this time, he completely abandoned all messy thoughts and focused on looking for loopholes in the two sisters' cooperation.
His strength was so powerful that even if he was entangled in close combat by the two sisters, he was not even given a chance to release the vampire technique, causing him to retreat step by step, but he was never able to be breached by Kanae and Butterfly Ninja.
Those attacks that occasionally hit him healed in an instant because they didn't hit his neck.
At his level, other attacks are useless unless they are aimed at the neck.
over time.
Tong Mo's heart gradually calmed down, and there was a hint of calmness in his eyes.
"It seems like that's all."
Although he was carelessly suppressed by the two sisters in front of him, and couldn't even find a gap to release the vampire technique, but after such a long stalemate, the two sisters in front of him were still unable to pose a fatal threat to him!
As long as he can't really cause a fatal attack, it will be more and more beneficial to him if the stalemate continues. After all, he is a ghost and his physical strength is almost unlimited. No matter how fierce the fight is, it will not gradually weaken as time goes by.
on the contrary.
As human beings, Kanae and Butterfly Shinobi may be able to sustain this kind of high-intensity attack and full breathing battle for one hour or even two hours, but the longer the time, the greater the loss of physical strength. Even if there are no flaws, It will gradually become weaker as the world goes by.
According to his judgment, under such a high-intensity onslaught, Kanae and Butterfly Ninja would not be able to last for four hours and delay the battle until dawn!
As long as the physical strength of the two of them decreases and slows down a little, he will immediately be able to take out his hand and release the blood ghost technique to counterattack. At that time, the offensive and defensive situation will be reversed immediately, and the two sisters will be at his mercy.
If Tomo can judge the situation, Kanae and Butterfly Ninja can naturally do it too.
"It's not going to be good if this continues."
"Damn it, it's all my fault for being too weak..."