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I feel a little familiar with this ghost. This ghost must have met Tanjiro before, right? Yes, it seems to have appeared before. Could it be the ghost that the three protagonists encountered when they met?

I have been here for more than a year, so it is normal that my memories are vague.

"Hello, what's your name? If you don't answer, I'll have to call you Hello."

"Hingkai."

"Are you so straightforward? Do you answer when someone asks you something? I have decided that I will give you a gentle death later."

Li Mo was surprised by the other party's straightforwardness. He didn't expect that ghosts also had such a personality. But if he thought about it carefully, ghosts were also transformed from humans. If the other party was a human, maybe they would get along well.

——How sad.

Li Mo seemed to understand the thoughts of the swordsman from the Warring States Period hundreds of years ago.

Kicking legs, jumping. "Force elimination" not only gave Li Mo the skills to relieve force, but also the control of his own body. If he couldn't even control his own muscles, he couldn't relieve the impact force on his body. "Breathing method" can also control the force of muscle groups.

The whole room became Li Mo's springboard!

"Sun Breathing, first style, round dance."

This is the most basic move, the one that Li Mo practices the most. He is not familiar with this way of exerting force, so he has the safest way. The flame appeared from the Sun Wheel Sword, which is different from the ordinary flame. It is a more blazing temperature.

The temperature of the sun is far higher than that of fire!

"The aura has changed! How is that possible? It's dangerous!"

Xiang Kai witnessed the other person's figure coming towards him. The upside-down room seemed like flat ground to him. Did he master this way of exerting force in just a few breaths?

What was even more terrifying was the opponent's Sun Blade. It felt the fear coming from deep in its blood, as if their ancestor was in fear!

Survival instinct prompted subconscious action, Xiang Kai beat his drum. With the sound of "dong dong dong", the direction of the room changed again. This time, it stood in the corridor, appearing above the two people.

——Li Mo made a vertical downward movement. Obviously, the Nichirin Sword was about to touch Xiang Kai's flesh and blood, but it immediately touched the door. The paper door of the Japanese-style mansion was fragile, and the gravitational potential energy of one person was enough to destroy it, causing it to fall down.

But that's all.

Like a dragonfly skimming the water, Li Mo leaped up and ran on the "wall" that was nearly 90 degrees vertical. The distance between them kept getting closer.

In an instant!

Li Mo rushed in front of Xiang Kai again.

All this happened within a few breaths. Zhengu barely got used to staying stable and moving in the upside-down room, while his junior brother was approaching him again.

The gap in strength is too obvious.

"hateful!"

Xiang Kai hit the drum, and this time, it was the drum on his back. The distance of a door became a world of difference. The room changed again, and Xiang Kai disappeared in front of the two.

The battle came to an abrupt end.

"Let's split up, junior brother." Zhen Gu said.

She saw that the evil ghost felt the fear from Li Mo and chose to flee the battlefield. Will it choose to escape when it sees the junior brother later? Ghosts can consume, but human physical strength has limits.

"You want to use yourself as bait?" Li Mo said to Zhen Gu.

Chapter 41: A Vertical Downward Slash

Zhen Gu wanted to split up and then when one person was entangled with the other, the other person would behead him. But this would only happen if Zhen Gu met the other person first. Because Li Mo alone was enough to kill the other person.

The premise is that the other party will not use the ability to escape.

Let Li Mo rush out and behead him. He doesn't care if this behavior damages his reputation. If a sneak attack can perfectly kill the demon, then everyone in the Demon Slayer Corps will do it. What he is worried about is the comfort of Zhengu.

"I don't want you to do this, Zhengu." After thinking for a moment, Li Mo said.

"Mo, do you think I'm some kind of weakling? I've figured out his pattern. With my speed, even if I can't chop off his head, I can still dodge his attacks perfectly."

Zhen Gu didn't like what Li Mo said just now, bait?

I am not the bait, I am the hunter. Only those who are powerless to resist are called bait. Those who are strong should be called traps.

"Okay. Be careful and we'll split up."

Seeing the look in Zhen Gu's eyes, Li Mo made a decision. He realized that Zhen Gu was not his subordinate. He proposed: "Whoever finds the ghost's trace first will make a sound to guide the other party over."

The two separated immediately. Li Mo knew very well that separation was the right thing to do.

He brought fear to Xiang Kai, and his escape was a manifestation of this. The second time he swung his sword, he used the breathing method, and the Sun Breathing, which was almost fully activated, seemed to have touched the memory of its bloodline?

Otherwise, Xiang Kai would not have escaped at all. As expected, was it because of Muzan Kibutsuji's blood? Did Tsugikoku Yoriichi leave such a deep impression on it? Then why didn't the hand ghost get scared before? Oh, I remember, I didn't give it time to react.

Li Mo thought he had found the answer. He then opened his mouth and looked forward to another thing, hoping that Xiang Kai would appear in front of him instead of in front of Zhen Gu. It was not that he did not believe in Zhen Gu's strength, but... killing ghosts was a high-risk thing.

But it doesn’t matter, just get there as quickly as you can.

Li Mo's eyes were no longer as lazy as before.

……

……

"Xiaosheng, what happened? Why did you flee the battlefield?"

Was I afraid? Was my body involuntarily afraid? It was as if the hidden memories in my blood were emerging. At that moment, I didn't see that young man. Instead, I saw another tall swordsman, wielding the sharp blade in his hand like a Shura.

"No, I can't do that. If I scare off two swordsmen who aren't even pillars, how can I become a String?"

Xiang Kai knew that the "string" demons had the lives of the demon swordsmen in their hands. And those "upper strings" had the lives of the "pillars" in their hands. And most of them were not in the single digit. Over the past hundreds of years, the "lower strings" have changed batch after batch, but the "upper strings" have always been the same few.

I want to become an upper-rank one.

"Boom!"

It beat the drum on its back.

Space moved again. Xiang Kai's blood demon art was related to this room, the room was turned upside down, rotated, changed positions, alternating, and even the last long-range attack. It once thought that its blood demon art was useful to Master Muzan, until the appearance of that female ghost. Its ability was limited to a room, while that woman's space movement was even greater.

I am grateful enough that Master Muzan did not abolish my status as a "Lower Moon" because of this. It is only because I can no longer eat people that Master has eliminated me from the ranks of "Lower Moon".

——Then, as long as I can eat more people, I can return to the ranks of the "lower moon". So I can't retreat because of this setback.

"My journey started with these two demon-killing swordsmen."

Xiangkai heard footsteps outside the door again, and this time he did not beat the drum to exchange space. After another mental activity, the fearful thoughts were excluded from his mind.

"Ah, it seems I found it first."

"It's you. I thought that man would come first."

Zhengu stood at the door, looking at the tall Xiangkai with a calm face, tilting his head and saying; "Are you looking down on me?"

"Chong-"

The back of the Nichirin sword touched the scabbard, and then the sound of metal cracking appeared in the house. The act of informing was done, and Shinkomo devoted his whole body and mind to the battle in front of him.

Boom, boom, boom! The drums sounded, and the room began to turn upside down. The invisible beast stretched out its claws, twisting the air, and claw marks appeared on the wall and the ground. In a short time, the entire room was slashed by claw marks, leaving three grooves on each side. But the only thing it couldn't touch was the clever girl.

Zhengu danced in the room, and the upside-down room became a stage. In her repeated attempts, she kept getting closer to Xiangkai, but the frequent claw marks kept forcing her back.

Xiang Kai is very difficult to deal with. There are many places to gain leverage in the narrow room. Zhen Gu can fully display his advantage in agility, but he can adapt to the opponent's blood demon art and the inverted space. However, the claw marks from the bulge in the abdomen are too much of an advantage in this narrow space.

"What a trouble..." Zhengu said in a low voice.

"I also think you're troublesome, so I'm going to start! Beat the drum quickly!"

Xiang Kai stepped into the room, and immediately began to beat his hands. The six drums continued to be beaten, and his hands formed afterimages in the air at this moment. The dull drum sounds of "dong dong dong" became rapid and short, and the room began to spin like a spinning top, and the room itself was constantly changing.

Originally, the center of gravity was vertically downward, but as the room turned upside down, it became one side of the body that was descending. Gravity was constantly pulling at the feet, the sides, and the top of the head. The definition of "down" was constantly being modified, and the center of gravity was constantly changing. The house itself was changing. The flat tatami that was originally placed on was replaced by a pottery pot in the next second, and then a desk in the next second.

The claw marks continued to strike. Like a violent storm, these invisible claw strikes were like sharp blades, sharp weapons, and were damage that the human body could not withstand. In order to adjust the center of gravity, the last few claw marks were almost a graze.

There were too many changes, and relying solely on the body's ability to adjust would not be able to keep up. Could he still dodge the next attack as narrowly as he did now? Zhen took a deep breath and immediately found a way to break the situation.

"Water Breathing, Nine Form, Water Stream Splash."

The Sun Blade danced in the air, as if waves appeared in the room. Using the sword shape, I increased my leverage points in the room to help me dodge better. But doing so would not allow me to get close to the opponent's body.

——Defense is equal to slow death. Do we have to rely on ourselves to adapt to the changes in this world?

"Do you still want to persist? You are very agile, but you can't get close to me. Your burst is still much weaker than that man."

The speed of the moment is too fast to keep up.

Zhen Gu's eyes became sharper. In fact, she had a bold idea. With the help of the sword shape of water splashing, she could reduce the points of force, get close to the opponent and kill him with one strike.

But you only have one chance, if you can't do it...

——Mutation, appearance.

When Xiang Kai stood right above her, Zhen Gu unexpectedly saw sawdust floating down from above.

"Click——!!!"

Then, there was the sound of breaking wood.

Above Xiang Kai, the screen that served as a wall suddenly shattered into pieces. A figure fell vertically from the "ceiling". Another light appeared in the room illuminated by the lights.

That is something hotter than fire.

"How come you suddenly appear here! Young Master...!"

Before Xiang Kai finished speaking, he wanted to hit the drum on his back again, but the opponent's Nichirin Sword was faster, and in a flash, his hand was cut off, and then his head was also chopped off.

The knife rose and fell. Xiang Kai's head flew up, and his blood ghost art naturally could not be maintained, and the room returned to normal again. Originally, gravity was under Li Mo's feet, and his vertical falling trend was changed in an instant. Gravity came to his side, pulling him into close contact with the ground.

Long-term training allowed Li Mo to stand up again. Then he heard the question from Xiang Kai.

"Why?" asked Xiang Kai, who had only a head left.

"Why? Are you asking me why I can get here so quickly? Indeed, with the sound of your drums, the room is constantly changing. The distance between me and this room is constantly changing, sometimes very close, but very far away the next second. I hate this feeling, but I found that the displacement of space is based on the room as the boundary."

Li Mo said, "So, how do you define a room? Is it a closed and narrow space? If I remove the wall between two rooms, is it one room or two rooms?"

The answer is obvious. In Xiang Kai's cognition, the space surrounded by four walls is a room. When all the rooms outside become one, where else can he be replaced?

"I see. I understand."

Along with these last words, Xiangkai's body completely disappeared like burnt firewood.

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