Chapter 103: Nadayama Crisis

Chapter 103: Nadayama Crisis

Chapter 103: Nadayama Crisis

Because Tamayo and Yushiro are ghosts, it is not convenient for them to travel during the day. In addition, the traffic roads in Neon were not well built in that era, so Lu Li and his group could not travel very fast.

It was not until the second night fell that they approached their destination.

Because of the boredom of traveling, Lu Li would also chat with Zhu Shi to familiarize himself with various information of this world.

During the process, he handed Tamayo the blood sample of the Eight Demons that he obtained in the battle of Yoshiwara, which made Tamayo surprised and a little confused.

"Is Mr. Lu also a scholar?"

Zhu Shi looked at Lu Li with a bit of expectation for a fellow traveler, but also a little doubt. Although it was a bit impolite, she always felt that Lu Li was a vulgar person.

"That's not the case. I'm just curious about the structure of a ghost's body."

After Lu Li handed the blood sample to Zhu Shi, he received a system prompt that the progress of his hidden task had improved, but he was not sure what kind of reward would appear at the final settlement.

According to the mission description, in theory, the more blood samples he gives to Tamayo, the higher the final reward will be.

"To be honest, Mr. Lu has been a great help. There are too few Demon Slayers like you who are curious in this era. The demon blood samples are really helpful for my research."

Tamayo carefully collected the blood samples and said, "In the past, there were many powerful pillars that were able to kill the lower half of the Twelve Demon Moons, but they never thought of studying the structure of demons and the reasons for the birth of their abilities."

"Ms. Tamayo, have you ever seen other pillars before?"

Lu Li asked curiously.

Tamayo looked up at the full moon in the night sky with a look of reminiscence on her face, "I have seen them a few times, but most of the time they wanted to kill me. I am lucky to be alive today."

"How could such a thing exist? Those pillars are so abominable!"

Yushiro expressed indignation upon hearing this, as he was a brainless fan of Miss Tamayo.

Tamayo shook her head. "It is natural for the Demon Slayers to kill demons. It is also normal for the Pillars to attack us when they encounter us. No one can be blamed for this."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and flicked Yushiro's forehead, "Also, Yushiro, don't interrupt when others are talking."

"Yes!"

Yu Shilang immediately became obedient. If he had not been in the car, he would have probably stood at attention.

"There are two pillars that impressed me the most..."

Tamayo returned to the previous topic, sparking Lu Li's curiosity.

"The first time I met a pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps was hundreds of years ago. He was a man with long dark red hair and earrings with a sun pattern. He was really strong, the strongest pillar I had ever seen."

Miss Tamayo continued, her expression moved. It was obvious that even after hundreds of years, she would still be shocked when she recalled it. "That was the first time I saw someone who could defeat Muzan head-on. His powerful strength made Muzan afraid. In the end, Muzan escaped by self-destructing."

"That's really a pity."

Lu Li's tone was full of emotion, and it was unclear why he felt regretful.

"Yes, Muzan Kibutsuji made the right judgment at that time. If he had hesitated for a moment, he might have been killed by that powerful pillar. As I later learned, his name is Yoriichi Tsugakuni, and he is the founder of the Origin Breathing Method."

Tamayo also lamented and felt sorry for Tsugakuni Yoriichi's failure to succeed. It was obvious that he had the strength to surpass Muzan, but Muzan was too cowardly and had first-class escape skills.

"A swordsman who uses the Initial Breathing Technique? This means that all of us who are descendants of the Demon Slayer Corps will benefit from it."

Lu Li smiled and said, "What about the second one?"

He knew that Tamayo had met Tsugikuni Yoriichi, but he was just curious about who was the second most impressive pillar for Tamayo, and he really wanted to know how Tamayo survived.

Although Tamayo has outstanding medical attainments, her fighting ability is really average. It is not easy for her to escape from the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps. If she had encountered other pillars besides herself and Yoriichi Tsugakuni before, it would be a miracle that she can survive until now.

Zhu Shi glanced at Lu Li with her beautiful eyes and smiled, "Of course it's Mr. Lu. You are a strange man, so you naturally left a deep impression on me."

"Is it weird?"

Lu left the car, looked at the mountains ahead under the night sky, and reflected on his behavior.

"Mr. Lu looks very violent, but he is actually a very principled and self-judgmental person... He is a gentle person."

Tamayo smiled and said that in her opinion, Lu Li was the most peculiar Demon Slayer she had ever seen.

He has great strength, but he will not just hack to death a ghost without thinking; he looks like a rough warrior, but he has a meticulous heart; he does not look like a very cultured person, but he has a heart to explore the unknown and knows how to collect blood samples of ghosts.

Moreover, the other party judged her own value and protected her without the instructions of the lord, which made Tamayo very curious about the inner world of the man next to her.

"Oh, I didn't even know I was so gentle."

Lu Li curled his lips and thought to himself that he was not some kind of Asian male protagonist.

He gradually slowed down the car and finally stopped at the foot of the mountain. After arriving at the foot of the mountain, the fog suddenly became much thicker, even the bright moon in the sky was obscured, and the stars became dimmer.

"No more gas?"

Yushiro asked in confusion when he saw Lu Li stop the car.

"It was true that I was running low on gas, but that's not why I stopped."

Lu Li looked at the misty mountain in front of him, turned around and asked Zhu Shi, "Ms. Zhu Shi, what is this place? Do you know?"

He didn't know much about the details of the maps of Japan in this era. Before, the Crow only pointed out the general direction to him but didn't tell him the exact destination. This was to protect the lord's location from being leaked.

Although the news of him becoming the Sound Pillar has been reported to all members of the Demon Slayer Corps, he has not yet been officially appointed at the Pillars Conference, so it is currently impossible to directly know the lord's whereabouts.

The crow said that he would tell him the direction to go in stages, and finally Yin would lead him to the place where the lord was. Well... Honestly, Lu Li felt that this hiding method also had many bugs. In the original work, it was kept secret from Muzan's camp for thousands of years, but it was hard to say now. As long as there were a few smart people in Muzan's camp, it would be too easy to find the Demon Slayer Corps' base camp and the Swordsmith Village.

"If I remember correctly, this mountain... should be Mount Nada."

Miss Tamayo thought for a moment and said that she had lived for hundreds of years, traveled all over the country, and was familiar with these remote mountain locations.

"It seems like the mountain is quite lively."

Lu Li looked up and saw the flickering fire behind the mist in the mountains.

"Ga-nannandong-nannandong--"

Just as Lu Li got off the car, the sound of a crow was heard in the sky. It was not the crow of the lord before, but the crow of other Demon Slayer Corps members. It circled and descended to Lu Li's side while shouting in a droopy duck voice.

"Lord Naruhira, please go up the mountain to provide support as soon as possible. The Demon Slayer Corps members have encountered many Twelve Demon Moons in the mountain!"

The voice of the crow was urgent, "Master Sound Pillar has been in a tough battle!"

Lu Li frowned when he heard that. He knew that the Spider Mountain had the Lower Five of the Twelve Demon Moons, but a guy of this level should be killed instantly by the Sound Pillar. Before, Lu Li had never thought of coming to Spider Mountain to play a small dungeon, because in his opinion, the Lower Five was just a drop in the ocean and was far less attractive than the Upper Six.

But how could a guy of the level of the Lower Fifth possibly put the Sound Pillar in a tough fight?
Although the Sound Pillar did not appear in the final battle in the original work and never opened his markings, his basic strength is still very strong. Otherwise, he would not have been able to fight with Jifutaro for so long. If he is in a tough battle now, it can only mean that the enemy has other arrangements here!
Is it the Explorer? Or is there another upper string?

Lu Li's brain thought quickly and made a decision, "Ms. Tamayo, you and Yushiro wait for me at the foot of the mountain. If you encounter members of the Demon Slayer Corps coming down the mountain, you should hide first."

If the Sound Pillar can put himself in a tough fight, then the opponent must have at least an Upper Rank lineup. He is not sure if he can protect Tamayo and the other two while fighting, and he has no time to explain the current situation to the other members of the Demon Slayer Corps. The best way is to let Tamayo and the other two hide first.

After finishing the explanation, Lu Li stopped talking and turned into a gust of wind as he took a step, sweeping through the fallen leaves in the forest and rushing towards the depths of the Tian Spider Mountain.

…………

Going back a little in time, a fierce battle was breaking out deep in the forest, on a flat area on the mountainside.

A tall man nearly two meters tall stood in the forest. He was wearing a sleeveless Demon Slayer Corps uniform and a diamond headdress with light blue chains hanging on both sides of the headdress. He had a prominent ponytail at the back of his hair, and his outfit was very fashionable and gorgeous.

At this time, the man was holding two swords connected by chains. The flames were shining against his handsome face. Sweat was dripping from his forehead and he was breathing heavily.

It was none other than one of the nine pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps, the Sound Pillar, Tengen Uzui.

He stared at his opponent with a serious expression, and at the same time shouted loudly, "Tanjiro, run with that pig! Wake up that Huang... Forget it, don't call him."

At this time, except for his main battlefield, the Demon Slayer Corps soldiers who originally came to conquer Nada Spider Mountain have basically been wiped out, leaving only five newcomers who had joined the Demon Slayer Corps not long ago.

Originally, he received the news from his wife and wanted to go and meet them, but halfway he received a request for support from this side, saying that the waning moon of the Twelve Demon Moons had appeared, so he changed his route and came here to provide support.

When he arrived, the first group of Demon Slayer Corps soldiers who entered Nada Mountain had all been killed. What was worse was that a second group of reckless newcomers had also entered the mountain.

He thought that after his arrival, he could quickly kill the waning Twelve Demon Moons and save the survivors, but he didn't expect that things would be far more troublesome than he expected.

The information that the lord sent to the crow said that Muzan had expanded the Twelve Demon Moons, and now there must be far more than twelve Twelve Demon Moons. The fact is that there are two more Twelve Demon Moons on this mountain besides Lei.

This kind of appearance of groups is something that the Demon Slayer Corps had never dared to imagine or encountered before. It only shows that Muzan has really many subordinates and they all know how to act in a group.

The worst thing was that in this mountain, he encountered an unexpectedly powerful enemy, that was the Upper Moon of the Twelve Demon Moons, the Upper Five!
"Mr. Uzui, watch out behind you!"

Tanjiro carried the sleeping pig and ran wildly to avoid the blood demon arts of the evil spirits, and loudly reminded Uzui Tengen.

In fact, there was no need for Tanjiro to remind him. Uzui Tengen jumped up quickly and dodged the silk thread cutting from behind and the blood demon technique that was like a bullet.

He tried to adjust his body in mid-air, but another attack came quickly. It was a huge goldfish that fell from the sky and opened its mouth wide to swallow him.

Because he had nowhere to gain leverage, Uzui Tengen could only hastily respond with his two swords and blocked the goldfish's ugly mouth. However, he was also knocked away by the powerful force and hit a big tree with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

The blood demon arts of the surrounding evil spirits fell like raindrops, chasing after Uzui Tengen who had just been injured and had no time to catch his breath.

At this moment, a flash of lightning flashed, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, with snot bubbles on his face, rushed over and hugged the Sound Pillar, and the two of them avoided this wave of bombing together.

Because of the effects of the sonic pillar bombs and some blood magic in the chaos, the surrounding trees began to burn. It was clearly the darkest night, but the surroundings were bright.

Figures came from all directions, and what surprised the Sound Pillar was that although these ghosts did not have the number of the Twelve Demon Moons, in his perception they were not much weaker than the Lower Five.

The most troublesome things are the two figures above.

On the upper left tree trunk, there is a jade pot, and a strange white creature grows out of the mouth of the pot. The head of that thing is very different from the appearance of a human. There are two green lips in the place where the eyes should be, and there are eyes on its forehead and mouth, and five purple fins on the top of its head.

The sclera of the eye above is white, the iris is golden yellow with "上弦" engraved on it, and the eye below the face is engraved with "五".

This extremely unique-looking guy has a muscular upper body but no arms. He has two small hands on each side of his head and five small hands on each side of his body. At this moment, his little fingers are moving excitedly, as if they were playing a musical instrument.

"What a beautiful man! I want to make you into a work of art~"

Yuhu spoke in a feminine and eerie voice, the little hands on her body hugging each other tightly, "Your head will definitely make a great pot, right?"

The figure standing on the tree trunk on the upper right is different from Yu Hu in that he is a handsome man. He is wearing a well-fitting suit, has a well-proportioned body, and has medium-length black hair with rose-red ends and slightly longer blue-green ends at the bottom.

There were three large yellow squares and three small yellow squares on his cheeks. He looked at the Sound Pillar and Tanjiro and the others below with a happy smile as if in love, and spoke in a neutral voice, "If I can kill the Pillar, that adult will also recognize me. It is a supreme happiness to be able to work for that adult~"

In his light green eyes, there was a clear sign of "lowering crescent" and "one"

At this time, the heart of Camellia, the only surviving explorer from the Demon Slayer Corps camp in the field, had sunk to the bottom.

She and another explorer had originally just wanted to come to Nada Mountain to pick up a Lower Moon head, so how did they run into this?!

(End of this chapter)