A Dimensional Journey Begins with the Dragon Clan
Chapter 375 368. You seem to be shaking?
Chapter 375 368. You seem to be shaking?
one year later.
Ghost Slayer Squad Headquarters, in the courtyard.
Xuan Hao sat in the court opposite the blind young man with purple-black veins all over his face.
This is Kenichi Ubayashiki, the head of the Ubayashiki clan.But Xuan Hao didn't know which head this was.
Because the curse is still lingering on the Ubuyashiki clan, every head of the family can only live to be in their twenties, and this one in front of him seems to be terminally ill.
"Hello, Mr. Xuan Hao." Ubuyashiki Ken said softly, and there seemed to be some reassuring magic in his voice, "You are older than me, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to call you Mister, right?"
"It's natural." Xuan Hao nodded slightly.
"In the Demon Slayer Squad, there was no strict distinction between superiors and subordinates," Kenichi Ubayashiki said softly, "'Lord' is only called by the swordsmen out of respect, maybe it's because of pity on my frail body. .”
Xuan Hao nodded slowly and did not refute the young man's words.
Because he was right, the Ubayashiki clan did not attempt to control the entire Demon Killing Squad, they just won the respect of every swordsman through their actions.
This is the case for every head of the family, and it has never changed since the establishment of the Demon Slayer Squad, and the title of "Lord" is indeed not what they call themselves. Respect.
"I don't know why you asked me to come here?" Xuan Hao asked straight to the point.
"Mr. Purgatory once recommended you to be the new 'Pillar'." Ubuyashiki replied, "He seems to recognize your strength very much. I also know that you have performed many tasks since you joined the team. According to your strength It should indeed be qualified to become a new 'pillar'."
"Are you planning to make me the new 'pillar'?"
Xuan Hao's understanding of the 'Pillar' is only that this is the strongest combat force of the Ghost Slayer Squad. As for how strong they are, how many there are in total, he doesn't know at all, and he is not interested.
It's not that he looks down on these pillars, but that the Ghost Killing Team has been established for hundreds of years, and still no one can defeat Ghost Dance Tsuji, even before Ji Guoyuan appeared, he was always beaten by ghosts. Where to go.
The reason why he is able to suppress ghosts now is still relying on the 'breathing method' taught by Ji Guoyuanyi back then.If nothing else, the so-called "pillars" of the Ghost Killing Team should be the descendants of the swordsmen who extended other breathing methods through the "breath of the sun".
"Yes." Ubashiki nodded lightly, "Your strength is much stronger than that of 'A' level swordsmen, I don't think anyone in the entire Demon Slayer Squad will question your strength, because your strength has long been qualified I have been promoted to the rank of pillar, but there is a rule in the ghost killing team who does not know when to become a pillar must kill one of the ghosts of the 'Twelve Ghost Moons', so it has been delayed until now. I think this is inappropriate."
"So what are you going to do?"
Xuan Hao nodded slowly. The strength he displayed was indeed much stronger than that of the 'A' level swordsman. Of course, he had to correct one point. It wasn't that he didn't want to be stronger, but that he couldn't meet stronger ghosts.
But to be honest, he has no interest in becoming a 'pillar', because the Ghost Killing Squad is different from other organizations, the higher the status, the better the preferential treatment...
On the contrary, in this kind of organization that has been fighting to protect human beings for hundreds of years, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. They have almost engraved 'killing ghosts' into their DNA as a mission.
Preferential treatment does exist, but it is not directly proportional to the effort.After all, the Ghost Killing Squad is not an organization recognized by the local government. There is no need to think about such things as 'power', and the so-called preferential treatment is just a convenience in life.
This can be seen from Purgatory Shinichiro, who took the lead in guarding the area he was in charge of, rushing to the forefront of everything, and ended up living in a thatched cottage.
It's not that Xuan Hao didn't think that after becoming a pillar, he could use the vast power of the ghost killing team to let them hunt ghosts while helping them find clues about his sister, but in the end he found that it didn't work at all.
Because he doesn't have any clues himself, the only way he can confirm whether someone is his sister is to resonate with the sister's soul in his body after meeting, and it's like he didn't find it when he first met Erika , this resonance is not stable.
He once tried to feel the location of the soul fragments as if in the chaotic space, but unfortunately, apart from being able to confirm that the fragments were in this world, he couldn't feel the specific location more clearly.
In other words, if he wants to find the right person, he can only confirm them one by one slowly, and being anxious doesn't seem to help at all.Rather than looking for it in a hurry, it is better to wait for the sister's soul to wake up and give him guidance.
"Mr. Xuanhao, it will be this year's 'final selection' in a short time." Ubuyashiki said to Xuanhao with a smile, "I would like you to be responsible for supervising the selection of this year, as an assessment for your promotion to the pillar rank. What do you think?"
"Is this okay? In fact, I personally think it doesn't matter if you are a pillar or not."
Xuan Hao was stunned for a moment, because this was simply giving away sub-questions.
To put it bluntly, supervising the 'final selection' is soy sauce.
The "final selection" is cruel, because ghost hunters may face danger to their lives at any time, and it is impossible to be rescued at critical moments all the time. Every swordsman has long been prepared to face death alone.
They must be able to fight the evil spirits independently.
And the "final selection" is the first threshold to become a swordsman of the Demon Slayer Squad.
They have to survive for seven days independently in the "Vine Attack Mountain" full of ghosts. This is the most basic assessment standard. The ghosts inside are very weak. If they can't even survive independently in such an environment...then Even joining the ghost killing team is just giving rations to ghosts.
The supervisor in charge of the 'final selection' is really just a 'supervisor'.
Xuan Hao didn't even need to save anyone, because those who participated in the selection should have made up their minds. The reality is cruel. When they really face ghosts, there will be no chance of repentance. Each of them should know that since they came to participate There are only two outcomes after the 'final selection'.
Either live and pass the selection to become a swordsman of the Ghost Killing Squad, or die in the vine attack mountain.
The real duty of the 'supervisor' is not to save people, but to eliminate those ghosts who have eaten too many people after each round of selection; or to prevent any 'accidents' during the selection.
"Mr. Xuanhao, please accept it." Ubuyashiki knelt down and said, "Your strength is recognized by everyone, and no one will have any objections."
"Okay, that's it."
Xuan Hao nodded slowly.
……
At night, on the way to the Fuji attack mountain.
"Help! Help..."
Suddenly there was a cry for help in the distance.
The girl who was on her way holding the sun wheel saber stopped suddenly when she heard the sound.
"Are there ghosts?" Maya Kagamikawa frowned and looked in the direction of the cry for help.
After a year of hard work, she has mastered the breathing method and twelve-style sword skills taught by the man named Xuan Hao, and is now preparing to go to Mount Fuji to participate in the 'final selection'.
Although I was prepared in my heart, I haven't met a real ghost along the way.
"Want to see it?"
Although she had doubts in her heart, her body was already moving when she asked the question.
The answer is already obvious, she wants to be a person like Mr. Yuanyi, how can she face the call for help and die.
"Mommy mommy!"
In the collapsed wooden house, a little girl called to her mother who was crushed under the collapsed wooden beams.
And behind the girl, there was a ghost with a ferocious face and a heavy hammer in his hand.
At the ghost's feet is the corpse of a deformed man.
The ghost was laughing as it waved its wart-like hammer, as if it had brought down the wooden house in the forest.
The girl's mother was crushed under a wooden beam in order to save her daughter, while the girl's father was brutally killed by a ghost in order to protect the mother and daughter.
"Mommy mommy!"
The girl yelled tearfully, clutching the hands of her mother who was crushed under the beams, at a loss.
"Run...quick...run away..."
The woman who was crushed under the beams cried weakly.
"Don't...don't..." The girl was still crying.
"Please...run away...don't worry about mom..."
The woman almost begged the girl in front of her to run away.
"Hey hey hey..."
The ghost who watched this scene laughed ferociously, "Escape? Where can I escape?"
Innocent human beings, do you really think that a little girl can escape from its grasp?
It sneered and approached the mother and daughter.
He raised the heavy hammer made of flesh and blood in his hand.
"Run away! Please...please..."
The woman seemed to see the heavy hammer raised by the ghost behind the girl.
It was this kind of heavy hammer that smashed her husband to pieces. With this hammer, she almost saw the end of her daughter's tragic death in front of her.
"No! I want to be with my mother!" The girl cried and dragged the woman's hand, but the woman who was crushed under the beam could not move.
"Please... please..."
Tears mixed with blood flowed from the woman's eyes.
She begged hoarsely, and she didn't know if she was begging her daughter to run away, or praying for the conscience of the ghost to find out, or for someone to rescue them in this remote countryside.
"Please...please...please..."
"No!!!!"
The heavy hammer was swung down slowly, the woman screamed hoarsely, and finally closed her eyes.
"boom--"
This is the sound of a heavy hammer falling to the ground.
It's over... The woman fell into despair.
"Mommy mommy!"
But she could still hear her daughter shouting.
A sudden surge of hope opened her eyes.
She saw the sarcoma-like heavy hammer fall on the girl's side, almost smashing the girl into meatloaf.
Of course, it's not that the ghost really found out with his conscience.
Because there was a hideous arm attached to that heavy hammer.
Someone chopped off the ghost's arm and changed the place where the hammer fell.
The woman raised her head and looked in front of her.
It was a slender girl holding a saber with a white scabbard in her hand. She could clearly see that the girl's hand holding the saber was trembling slightly. She didn't know whether it was because of too much force just now or because she was afraid of the ghost in front of her.
"Al?"
The ghost seemed a little surprised by the sudden appearance of the swordsman.
"Are you the swordsman of the Demon Slayer Squad?"
It looked at the thin-skinned and tender girl in front of it, stuck out its tongue and licked the corner of its mouth, as if it didn't care about its severed right arm at all.
"You seem to be shaking?"
The ghost looked at the girl in front of him jokingly, her hand holding the handle of the knife trembled visibly.
"Are you afraid?"
The wound on the severed right arm was constantly wriggling, and the ghost's severed right hand had grown back within a few breaths, and... a heavy hammer like a sarcoma appeared again on his hand.
Such a weapon made of flesh and blood seems to be its special ability.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya frowned seeing this scene, is this the 'ghost blood technique'?She often asked the swordsmen who came to the village about ghosts, but this was the first time she saw them with her own eyes.
It is said that ghosts with ghost blood skills are much stronger than ordinary ghosts.
Her luck didn't seem to be very good, the first ghost she met was such a ghost.
But there is one thing this ghost said wrong...
The reason why she trembled was not fear, but anger.
Because she saw the injured woman, the crying girl... and the man who had been killed by the ghost.
"Sorry……"
"I'm sorry? It's useless to admit your mistakes now~" the ghost sneered and looked at the girl in front of him, "You just cut me so painful!"
It raised the heavy hammer again and slammed it down at the female swordsman in front of it at an astonishing speed. It was just a trembling 'hina'. It must have never killed a ghost at all, right?Otherwise, the knife just now should have cut off its neck, wouldn't the ghost not even know where the weakness is?
How could such a stupid swordsman be his opponent?
"Go to hell! Human!"
"Cover her eyes."
Kagamikawa Maya said softly.
The woman who was crushed under the beam of the house was stunned, and realized that this sentence was addressed to her.
She quickly reached out and pulled her daughter to cover her eyes.
Kagamikawa Maya's hand holding the handle of the knife stopped shaking.
This is the first time she has used sword skills in actual combat. She thought she would hesitate to swing the knife at a "life", but now it seems that it may be because of anger, the hesitation in her heart has long since disappeared.
"Such a guy doesn't need pity..." she told herself in her heart.
So she drew the knife.
This knife is the sun wheel knife left by the man who taught her the breathing method.
The original rusty knife returned to its original appearance after being polished, and the word "Mie" was clearly visible on the knife body. Under her influence, the knife body turned into a light pink color, just like her pupils, like cherry blossoms. color.
The cherry-colored blade slowly came out of the scabbard, and it didn't seem to be anything special.
The sun wheel knife will change color according to the characteristics of its owner, and her knife is a light cherry color, such a color can easily make people feel weak.
"The breath of the sun, the shape of one, the round dance."
A cold voice came from Maya Kagamikawa's mouth.
The arc is drawn lightly under the moonlight. If Ji Guoyuanyi's knife is like the hot sun shining on the sky in the clear sky, then her knife is like the warm sun after the snow clears in winter.
The ghost who swung the heavy hammer froze in place.
There was unbelievable fear in its eyes.
From the moment the girl shouted 'breath of the sun', fear instantly filled its mind, as if it came from the depths of its blood, it almost forgot to continue attacking.
But the female swordsman in front of her didn't show any mercy.
The sharp long knife sliced through its neck without any resistance.
"Sorry, I am late."
It saw the female swordsman waving the knife, then ignored herself and turned to comfort the mother and daughter on the ground, and felt endless anger for a moment.
It turned out that the sorry was not directed at it!
But it seems too late to be angry now.
Its body began to collapse, and it drifted away like ashes in the wind.
"Get out of here with me."
Jia Shenchuan Maya rescued the woman who was under the beam of the house.
Although the woman's life was safe, she was injured and unable to move. She planned to send the mother and daughter to a nearby town to find a doctor.
Dawn came again.
Jia Shenchuan Maya said goodbye to the mother and daughter and left the hospital.
"thanks, thanks……"
"Thank you big sister!"
The little girl who followed her kept saying thank you. She had just lost her father, but the girl thanked her with a smile.
Looking at this scene, Kagamikawa Maya knelt down sadly, and gently stroked the girl's head.
"Take good care of your mother from now on."
"En! Thank you, big sister!" The girl nodded vigorously, "Be careful on the road, big sister!"
"Ah."
Kagamikawa Maya was stunned.
Smiling and getting up to say goodbye, holding the sun wheel knife in his hand, he continued on his way towards the target 'Vine Attack Mountain'.
On the way, she looked at the knife in her hand.
The feeling of the knife cutting across Oni's neck still remained in her hands. She really became stronger, because of the 'breath of the sun', she became stronger than she imagined.
But she seemed to hate the feeling of severing life, but from the moment she swung the knife, she knew that she might have to keep swinging the knife for the rest of the way.
It's just... Such power must never be used against humans.
At this moment, the belief in her heart is more firm. Now that she has the power to protect others, she must approach the figure in her heart, chase that sun-like figure, and protect more people.
……
"Another person who can breathe the sun?"
In the dark mansion.
Oni Wu Tsuji Wumi sorted out his thoughts with some annoyance.
He is in a very irritable mood now, because he hasn't been out for several years.
Because of that man named 'Xuan Hao'.
Yes, he had finally obtained information about this man through his ghosts all these years, but it was only a name.
The rest is trivial information like 'This man is strong. 'Is not this nonsensical?This man is likely to be a descendant of the man he met back then, and one of the top players, Hei Si Mou, could not even move a single move under this man's hands.
Wu Mi even felt that she would not be this man's opponent, so she kept shrinking in a hidden place that was rarely seen.
What troubled him was that he had nothing to do with this man, he couldn't take the risk himself, and the strongest under his command, Hei Si Mou, was no match, and the rest were just a bunch of trash.
It seems that the only way is to wait for this man to die of old age like Ji Guoyuanyi.
But it's only been a few years, and this man doesn't have 'stripes' on his body, which means that his lifespan is much longer than those swordsmen who rely on stripes to become stronger!Maybe he has to wait for decades again!
"It's really embarrassing!" Guiwu Tsuji Wuchan gritted his teeth.
Now that the problems of 'Xuan Hao' have not been resolved, he has learned that 'Breath of the Sun' has other inheritors!
This is the breathing method he fears the most.
Because the person who defeated him, whether it was Ji Guoyuanyi or Xuan Hao, knew this breathing method almost to death, and he didn't dare to bet whether the person who knew this breathing method would threaten him if he grew up.
One or two are tough enough to even scare him from going out, if there are another group! ?Just thinking about it is scary.
So such seedlings must be killed in the cradle!
"film."
"exist!"
Following Gui Wu Tsuji's call, a head slowly protruded from the shadows in the corner.
"My lord, is there anything I can do for you?" The voice of this head sounded very obsequious.
"A female swordsman who used 'Sun Breath' appeared near Fuji Raider Mountain. Is it okay for you to deal with it?"
Wu Mi's voice was gloomy, although it sounded doubtful, but if he dared to refuse him...
"Yes, my lord, of course there is no problem, it is my honor to serve you!"
Shadow's exposed head was covered with cold sweat.
He knew that the lord was in a bad mood all the time, all he could do was to follow the lord's arrangement, and he couldn't even have the slightest disobedience in his heart, otherwise the consequences would be extremely disastrous.
"Then leave it to you, I hope you won't let me down."
"Definitely not humiliated!"
The ghost called 'Shadow' hurriedly escaped into the shadows, seemingly not daring to waste a moment.
The vine attacked the mountain?What kind of place it is, they are quite clear as ghosts.
No ghost is willing to go there, not only because there is the wisteria flower they hate the most, but also because it is one of the most heavily defended areas of the ghost killing team.
After all, it is related to the fresh blood of the Ghost Killing Squad, and there will always be a strong force standing there.
And it can be said that it is the home ground of human beings. Fighting human beings among the wisterias all over the mountains and plains is undoubtedly digging their own graves.
But this is the place... Now he has to go!Ying's heart is full of resentment, and of course it's not against that lord, because he dare not, his life and death are completely in the mind of that lord, even if there is resentment, it can only be passed on to the meeting that popped up suddenly Breath of the Sun' female swordsman body.
"Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!"
This is the only thought in Ying's mind at the moment, but... It is indeed a difficult problem for Oni to enter Fujishi Mountain!Fortunately, he couldn't help him. This is probably why the adults named him, right?
……
When dusk is approaching.
The girl finally arrived at her destination—Vine Attack Mountain.
This is where the 'final selection' takes place.
"Sure enough, it's just like the legend, it's obviously not the season for it to bloom."
Kagamikawa Maya caressed the wisteria flowers on the side of the road.
She walked all the way to the top of the mountain along the mountain road full of wisteria flowers.
There seems to be a lot of people gathered here.
They are all dressed up as swordsmen, with knives on their waists, and almost everyone has injuries of varying degrees. It seems that the road to the mountain is not peaceful.
These people come from different places, but the same thing is that their eyes are full of emotions called 'anger', which seems to be anger towards ghosts.
The purpose of their coming here is also the same, that is to kill ghosts.
Apart from these people, Jia Shenchuan Maya also saw a familiar figure here.
In front of the downhill road on the other side of the mountain, there is a crimson torii gate.It seems that as long as you step through this torii and go down to the other side of the mountain, you will be hell.
A spear was stuck in the center of the torii gate, and that familiar body sat cross-legged in the middle of the road, closing its eyes and meditating, as if it was waiting for something.
This person was the man who came to the village of swordsmiths a year ago and changed her fate.
The man seemed to notice her gaze, and opened his eyes to meet her gaze.
"Is it really here?" Xuan Hao muttered to himself.
The girl he looked at felt a little emotional. He thought he would have to wait a few more years to receive the news that this girl would participate in the selection. Didn't he expect to have mastered the 'Breath of the Sun' in just one year?
He clearly felt that this girl's talent was not good, but it was like fate that she really mastered the 'breath of the sun' which is difficult for ordinary people to learn, and it was within a short year.
"It's incredible."
Xuan Hao seemed to see the shadow of Ji Guo Yuan Yi from this girl, they were obviously two completely different people, even their personalities and talents were very different.
He looked up at the sky, and the sun had completely set, which meant that it was time for ghosts to come and go.
"Okay, it's almost time."
Xuan Hao's voice reached everyone's ears.
The swordsmen resting on the mountain all focused their attention on the man guarding under the torii gate.
"Cough-cough-"
Xuan Hao cleared his throat, and looked around at the people who came to participate in the selection.
"First of all, thank you for gathering here to participate in this selection. The sun has already set, and those who have not arrived will not wait. Get ready to start this selection."
Hearing Xuanhao's words, everyone was gearing up. None of the people who came here seemed to be afraid of ghosts. Rather, they should all have a deep hatred for ghosts. If it wasn't for this man blocking the way, they might have rushed down the mountain to kill ghosts .
Xuan Hao didn't care about the mood of these people, because if there were no accidents, perhaps most of them would stay here forever during the seven days of selection. It doesn't matter, since you choose to set foot on this battlefield, you should have the awareness to pay the price.
"There are many ghosts captured alive by the swordsmen of the Demon Killing Squad in this vine attack mountain. If I remember correctly, there are about 40 or so, but you can rest assured that they will never escape from this mountain. Because The wisteria flowers they hate the most are blooming here all year round, and there are many swordsmen from the Demon Slayer Squad around."
Speaking of which, Xuan Hao pointed to his back. When he took over the Teng Shishan, the swordsman in charge told him that there were only 40 ghosts in it.
Creatures such as ghosts cannot reproduce. New ghosts can only be born through the blood of Oniwu Tsuji. Dead opponent, so the number will neither increase nor decrease.
"But after stepping here, there will be no wisterias to protect you. The ghosts in the valley you will enter next can move freely. It is getting late now. If you are ready, you can start at any time. The conditions for passing the selection are very simple, survive here for seven days, and at dawn after seven days, as long as you come back here alive, you will be considered a pass. Of course, you can also try to kill all the ghosts inside, if you can do it."
The spear was slowly pulled out of the ground by Xuan Hao, and there was no obstacle to the road to the valley at this moment.
"Then please, gentlemen, I hope you come back alive."
He stepped back with his spear on his shoulders, looking expressionlessly at the swordsmen descending one after another.
"Mr. Xuanhao."
Kagamikawa Maya greeted him as he passed by.
"Thank you for your previous teaching."
"Go."
Xuan Hao just nodded slightly, his face still expressionless.Teaching doesn't count, he just demonstrated in front of this girl a martial art that doesn't belong to him.
If this girl really learned Ji Guoyuanyi's breathing method, then it should be easy to pass this selection, and he doesn't need to worry about it at all.
"Then see you later." The girl smiled and nodded, turned and walked down the mountain.
Xuan Hao quietly watched the backs of the swordsmen descending the mountain.
He is now condescending, and with his eyesight, he can have a panoramic view of the movement of the entire valley, except for some places that are shaded by trees, nothing can escape his eyes.
His task today is really just supervision. If there is any accident that can disrupt the selection, it is his time to act.
The boys and girls walked down the mountain ignorantly, but they didn't know that they were stepping into hell.
No one knew that this would be the beginning of the most special 'final selection' ever.
They walked down the mountain road one after another.
So far, there will be no more wisteria flowers protecting them.
"It smells so good... Humans have come in again. Is it time for the annual hunting again?"
In the dark forest, there seemed to be such a voice.
The ghosts imprisoned here seem to have not eaten human flesh for a year. They are imprisoned in the deep mountains and cannot go out. They can only eat some unpalatable beasts on weekdays. Now there are so many human beings all of a sudden. The breath made them agitated impatiently.
The swordsmen advanced cautiously.
There was cold sweat on his forehead.
Because they also heard the voices of quarrels coming from the depths of the darkness.
"Hey, hey! Get the hell out of here, don't snatch me! This human with thin skin and tender flesh is my prey!"
"Come on! Get the hell out of me! Whoever grabs it first will get it!"
"Long-lost fresh human flesh, I can't wait to have dinner!"
The ghosts seem to be arguing over how to divide the prey.
"Chong-"
The sound of the sun wheel knife being unsheathed.
A slender figure passed through the crowd and rushed into the woods at the head of the crowd.
A few sword lights flashed, and the world was instantly purified.
The three ghosts arguing inside never made any sound again.
"Is this girl... an idiot?" Xuan Hao looked at this scene with some helplessness.
The requirement to pass the selection is to survive here for seven days. This is just the beginning, and I will rush to the front to expend my energy to kill ghosts. Are you afraid that you will not be able to persist later?
"Let's keep up too! Help! There are only 40 ghosts, and they don't look strong! There are so many of us, what are we afraid of?"
Someone shouted, and then the swordsmen rushed into the woods one after another.
They carried knives one by one, and they didn't seem to be afraid of any ghosts at all. After all, there were quite a lot of people coming tonight. After hearing that there were only 40 ghosts, everyone didn't seem to have any worries. As long as they work together...
It is not impossible to kill them all overnight!And it was obviously a small girl who rushed out just now, how could they not even compare to a girl?
Kagamikawa Maya sheathed her knife and observed the surrounding situation.
She didn't rush out recklessly, she just wanted to try to see how strong the ghosts here are, after all, Mr. Xuan Hao said that the ghosts here are very weak.
This is indeed the case, she killed three of them in an instant just now, and these ghosts are one level weaker than the ghosts that only knew the ghost blood technique that she met before.
"If there are only forty of them... it should work."
That's right, she intends to hunt down all the ghosts here.
In this case, no one will die in this assessment!
But she also knows that her physical strength is not unlimited, and she is the daughter of a knife maker, so she also knows that the sun wheel knife in her hand also has a limit.
So it's best to kill them all in one hit.
So she slowed down her pace and began to follow behind these swordsmen.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya's strategy is very simple, as long as she follows the people, and when there is a confrontation, it will be fine. If the ghosts here are as strong as before, then she can guarantee everyone's safety.
The swordsmen are not fools either, they know that if they spread too far, they may be attacked one by one by the ghosts.
The content of the selection does not stipulate that they cannot cooperate. Except for individual strong swordsmen, it is also very common for the swordsmen of the Ghost Killing Team to act in teams.Anyone who is a normal person can understand that it is very dangerous to face ghosts alone with a human body.
So they choose to act in groups.
Although dozens of people were not crowded into a pile, they also formed a team of twos and threes, and there seemed to be a tacit understanding between each team and they did not disperse too far.
No one wants to die here, even if they have a deep hatred with ghosts, they know that only by being alive can they get revenge.
"Go to hell! Human!"
Humans team up, and of course ghosts do too.
Moreover, the physical fitness of ghosts is stronger than that of humans. With the same number, humans have no chance of winning.
The three ghosts rushed towards the three-person team on the edge.
One of the ghosts roared loudly, attracting the attention of these humans.
When these swordsmen turned their eyes to this ghost, they didn't know that there were two other ghosts hiding in the bushes.
In just one meeting, two people were injured.
"Hey hey hey! Stupid human beings."
Three ghosts with different looks surrounded the three of them.
The surrounding humans have not had time to come to support, the situation of these three people is very dangerous,
But fortunately, Kagamikawa Maya who was following behind saw everything in his eyes.
She cut off the neck of the ghost standing in front of her, and her figure flew towards the injured team member in an instant.
"I won't let others die in front of me."
She muttered to herself, and the long knife in her hand was unsheathed instantly.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of knives, two heads fell to the ground.
"thanks……"
Before the swordsmen had time to thank them, they saw the girl in front of them running in a certain direction again.
"How can there be such a fool..." Xuan Hao scratched his head with some headaches.
His attention has been on this girl from just now.
Naturally, I also saw the girl's plan, wanted to support everyone by myself?
The idea is quite good, and she seems to have such strength.
However, human physical strength is not unlimited.
Her wanting to support everyone means that she must rush to everyone who needs to be rescued at critical moments. Although this valley is not big, it is still not something she can handle at will.
It's just a newcomer who has practiced breathing method for a year, no matter how strong she is, she can't even do it. After all, she doesn't even know the complete set. What she's doing now is equivalent to attracting the hatred of all ghosts. would be in immediate danger.
This is the truth that any normal person can understand.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya will not understand.
But she did just that.
Because that's exactly what she wants to achieve.
She knows that her physical strength is limited, so she wants to concentrate and use the limited physical strength.
To be honest, if she was to persist for seven days in such an environment...it would be very difficult.
Because although the word survival sounds simple, it is conditional. To survive, food and water must be guaranteed, and none of the people who came here to participate in the selection is familiar with the ecological environment here.
To solve the necessary problems of survival while facing ghosts and survive for 7 days, although the daytime can be used as leisure time, the double torment of spirit and body will make people weaker and weaker. Survival in the environment is extremely difficult.
So instead of procrastinating until you face the ghost when you are in a bad state, it is better to shorten the battle line!
Jia Shen Chuan Maya is confident that her physical strength can survive tonight. It is not for nothing that she has been beaten all year round, and her physical strength is her only advantage!
"Just tonight, kill all the evil spirits!"
In this case, whoever will be able to relax a lot in the next 6 days, right?
The crisp sound of knives resounded all over the woods, and Kagamikawa Maya's ears moved slightly. She could clearly distinguish the movement of each place, and as soon as she heard someone encountering a ghost, she immediately went to support.
boom--
A figure fell to the side of the tree.
Masaya Sato clutched his chest in pain, his breathing was completely messed up by the ghost blow, and the sun wheel knife in his hand was also broken in the parry of the blow just now.
Before he could react, a pale sharp claw stretched out from behind the tree beside him, and he tried his best to roll and dodge in a dangerous way.
But the ghost is still chasing after him.
"Hehe—human beings, please don't move! Come into my stomach... come..."
It hadn't finished speaking when it heard a crisp sound of knives.
"bass--"
A white knife light passed by.
There were neat knife marks on the wrist of the sharp claws stretched out by this ghost, and the next moment blood sprayed, and the sharp claws fell in response.
Another flash of knife light flashed, and bleeding lines appeared on the ghost's neck instantly.
A slender figure landed behind it, jet-black hair streaked across the ghost's face, as if floating in the sky, the girl panted slightly, pumped her blood and retracted her knife, her movements flowing smoothly.
"Are you OK?"
"No...it's okay..." Sato Masaya replied blankly.
Enduring the pain, he raised his head and looked at the girl who was running fast. The girl's hair was messy because of the rapid running, but in his eyes, she was still as beautiful as an angel. The gaze from those cherry eyes made him feel very happy. The warmth made him forget the pain for a moment.
"There should be no other ghosts around here, and someone will come soon, please rest assured."
The girl left in a hurry as she said that, as if heading to another battlefield.
Sato Masaya was slightly stunned, and looked up at the sky in a daze. He felt that he was still too weak. He couldn't kill ghosts with anger alone. Why don't he go back and hunt with his father?Or if the Ghost Killing Team are all swordsmen like this, then it seems pretty good to have him as an errand runner...
Soon, as the girl said, someone came to find him. These people seemed to be the wounded rescued by the girl. They guarded together in a group, and they no longer had to be afraid of evil spirits.
"Ugh……"
Sitting on the top of the hill, Xuan Hao sighed slightly watching this scene. The battle with ghosts should be more cruel. Many people will die in every selection, even the world he participated in. This year It seems a little special.
But there seems to be nothing wrong...
(End of this chapter)
one year later.
Ghost Slayer Squad Headquarters, in the courtyard.
Xuan Hao sat in the court opposite the blind young man with purple-black veins all over his face.
This is Kenichi Ubayashiki, the head of the Ubayashiki clan.But Xuan Hao didn't know which head this was.
Because the curse is still lingering on the Ubuyashiki clan, every head of the family can only live to be in their twenties, and this one in front of him seems to be terminally ill.
"Hello, Mr. Xuan Hao." Ubuyashiki Ken said softly, and there seemed to be some reassuring magic in his voice, "You are older than me, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to call you Mister, right?"
"It's natural." Xuan Hao nodded slightly.
"In the Demon Slayer Squad, there was no strict distinction between superiors and subordinates," Kenichi Ubayashiki said softly, "'Lord' is only called by the swordsmen out of respect, maybe it's because of pity on my frail body. .”
Xuan Hao nodded slowly and did not refute the young man's words.
Because he was right, the Ubayashiki clan did not attempt to control the entire Demon Killing Squad, they just won the respect of every swordsman through their actions.
This is the case for every head of the family, and it has never changed since the establishment of the Demon Slayer Squad, and the title of "Lord" is indeed not what they call themselves. Respect.
"I don't know why you asked me to come here?" Xuan Hao asked straight to the point.
"Mr. Purgatory once recommended you to be the new 'Pillar'." Ubuyashiki replied, "He seems to recognize your strength very much. I also know that you have performed many tasks since you joined the team. According to your strength It should indeed be qualified to become a new 'pillar'."
"Are you planning to make me the new 'pillar'?"
Xuan Hao's understanding of the 'Pillar' is only that this is the strongest combat force of the Ghost Slayer Squad. As for how strong they are, how many there are in total, he doesn't know at all, and he is not interested.
It's not that he looks down on these pillars, but that the Ghost Killing Team has been established for hundreds of years, and still no one can defeat Ghost Dance Tsuji, even before Ji Guoyuan appeared, he was always beaten by ghosts. Where to go.
The reason why he is able to suppress ghosts now is still relying on the 'breathing method' taught by Ji Guoyuanyi back then.If nothing else, the so-called "pillars" of the Ghost Killing Team should be the descendants of the swordsmen who extended other breathing methods through the "breath of the sun".
"Yes." Ubashiki nodded lightly, "Your strength is much stronger than that of 'A' level swordsmen, I don't think anyone in the entire Demon Slayer Squad will question your strength, because your strength has long been qualified I have been promoted to the rank of pillar, but there is a rule in the ghost killing team who does not know when to become a pillar must kill one of the ghosts of the 'Twelve Ghost Moons', so it has been delayed until now. I think this is inappropriate."
"So what are you going to do?"
Xuan Hao nodded slowly. The strength he displayed was indeed much stronger than that of the 'A' level swordsman. Of course, he had to correct one point. It wasn't that he didn't want to be stronger, but that he couldn't meet stronger ghosts.
But to be honest, he has no interest in becoming a 'pillar', because the Ghost Killing Squad is different from other organizations, the higher the status, the better the preferential treatment...
On the contrary, in this kind of organization that has been fighting to protect human beings for hundreds of years, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. They have almost engraved 'killing ghosts' into their DNA as a mission.
Preferential treatment does exist, but it is not directly proportional to the effort.After all, the Ghost Killing Squad is not an organization recognized by the local government. There is no need to think about such things as 'power', and the so-called preferential treatment is just a convenience in life.
This can be seen from Purgatory Shinichiro, who took the lead in guarding the area he was in charge of, rushing to the forefront of everything, and ended up living in a thatched cottage.
It's not that Xuan Hao didn't think that after becoming a pillar, he could use the vast power of the ghost killing team to let them hunt ghosts while helping them find clues about his sister, but in the end he found that it didn't work at all.
Because he doesn't have any clues himself, the only way he can confirm whether someone is his sister is to resonate with the sister's soul in his body after meeting, and it's like he didn't find it when he first met Erika , this resonance is not stable.
He once tried to feel the location of the soul fragments as if in the chaotic space, but unfortunately, apart from being able to confirm that the fragments were in this world, he couldn't feel the specific location more clearly.
In other words, if he wants to find the right person, he can only confirm them one by one slowly, and being anxious doesn't seem to help at all.Rather than looking for it in a hurry, it is better to wait for the sister's soul to wake up and give him guidance.
"Mr. Xuanhao, it will be this year's 'final selection' in a short time." Ubuyashiki said to Xuanhao with a smile, "I would like you to be responsible for supervising the selection of this year, as an assessment for your promotion to the pillar rank. What do you think?"
"Is this okay? In fact, I personally think it doesn't matter if you are a pillar or not."
Xuan Hao was stunned for a moment, because this was simply giving away sub-questions.
To put it bluntly, supervising the 'final selection' is soy sauce.
The "final selection" is cruel, because ghost hunters may face danger to their lives at any time, and it is impossible to be rescued at critical moments all the time. Every swordsman has long been prepared to face death alone.
They must be able to fight the evil spirits independently.
And the "final selection" is the first threshold to become a swordsman of the Demon Slayer Squad.
They have to survive for seven days independently in the "Vine Attack Mountain" full of ghosts. This is the most basic assessment standard. The ghosts inside are very weak. If they can't even survive independently in such an environment...then Even joining the ghost killing team is just giving rations to ghosts.
The supervisor in charge of the 'final selection' is really just a 'supervisor'.
Xuan Hao didn't even need to save anyone, because those who participated in the selection should have made up their minds. The reality is cruel. When they really face ghosts, there will be no chance of repentance. Each of them should know that since they came to participate There are only two outcomes after the 'final selection'.
Either live and pass the selection to become a swordsman of the Ghost Killing Squad, or die in the vine attack mountain.
The real duty of the 'supervisor' is not to save people, but to eliminate those ghosts who have eaten too many people after each round of selection; or to prevent any 'accidents' during the selection.
"Mr. Xuanhao, please accept it." Ubuyashiki knelt down and said, "Your strength is recognized by everyone, and no one will have any objections."
"Okay, that's it."
Xuan Hao nodded slowly.
……
At night, on the way to the Fuji attack mountain.
"Help! Help..."
Suddenly there was a cry for help in the distance.
The girl who was on her way holding the sun wheel saber stopped suddenly when she heard the sound.
"Are there ghosts?" Maya Kagamikawa frowned and looked in the direction of the cry for help.
After a year of hard work, she has mastered the breathing method and twelve-style sword skills taught by the man named Xuan Hao, and is now preparing to go to Mount Fuji to participate in the 'final selection'.
Although I was prepared in my heart, I haven't met a real ghost along the way.
"Want to see it?"
Although she had doubts in her heart, her body was already moving when she asked the question.
The answer is already obvious, she wants to be a person like Mr. Yuanyi, how can she face the call for help and die.
"Mommy mommy!"
In the collapsed wooden house, a little girl called to her mother who was crushed under the collapsed wooden beams.
And behind the girl, there was a ghost with a ferocious face and a heavy hammer in his hand.
At the ghost's feet is the corpse of a deformed man.
The ghost was laughing as it waved its wart-like hammer, as if it had brought down the wooden house in the forest.
The girl's mother was crushed under a wooden beam in order to save her daughter, while the girl's father was brutally killed by a ghost in order to protect the mother and daughter.
"Mommy mommy!"
The girl yelled tearfully, clutching the hands of her mother who was crushed under the beams, at a loss.
"Run...quick...run away..."
The woman who was crushed under the beams cried weakly.
"Don't...don't..." The girl was still crying.
"Please...run away...don't worry about mom..."
The woman almost begged the girl in front of her to run away.
"Hey hey hey..."
The ghost who watched this scene laughed ferociously, "Escape? Where can I escape?"
Innocent human beings, do you really think that a little girl can escape from its grasp?
It sneered and approached the mother and daughter.
He raised the heavy hammer made of flesh and blood in his hand.
"Run away! Please...please..."
The woman seemed to see the heavy hammer raised by the ghost behind the girl.
It was this kind of heavy hammer that smashed her husband to pieces. With this hammer, she almost saw the end of her daughter's tragic death in front of her.
"No! I want to be with my mother!" The girl cried and dragged the woman's hand, but the woman who was crushed under the beam could not move.
"Please... please..."
Tears mixed with blood flowed from the woman's eyes.
She begged hoarsely, and she didn't know if she was begging her daughter to run away, or praying for the conscience of the ghost to find out, or for someone to rescue them in this remote countryside.
"Please...please...please..."
"No!!!!"
The heavy hammer was swung down slowly, the woman screamed hoarsely, and finally closed her eyes.
"boom--"
This is the sound of a heavy hammer falling to the ground.
It's over... The woman fell into despair.
"Mommy mommy!"
But she could still hear her daughter shouting.
A sudden surge of hope opened her eyes.
She saw the sarcoma-like heavy hammer fall on the girl's side, almost smashing the girl into meatloaf.
Of course, it's not that the ghost really found out with his conscience.
Because there was a hideous arm attached to that heavy hammer.
Someone chopped off the ghost's arm and changed the place where the hammer fell.
The woman raised her head and looked in front of her.
It was a slender girl holding a saber with a white scabbard in her hand. She could clearly see that the girl's hand holding the saber was trembling slightly. She didn't know whether it was because of too much force just now or because she was afraid of the ghost in front of her.
"Al?"
The ghost seemed a little surprised by the sudden appearance of the swordsman.
"Are you the swordsman of the Demon Slayer Squad?"
It looked at the thin-skinned and tender girl in front of it, stuck out its tongue and licked the corner of its mouth, as if it didn't care about its severed right arm at all.
"You seem to be shaking?"
The ghost looked at the girl in front of him jokingly, her hand holding the handle of the knife trembled visibly.
"Are you afraid?"
The wound on the severed right arm was constantly wriggling, and the ghost's severed right hand had grown back within a few breaths, and... a heavy hammer like a sarcoma appeared again on his hand.
Such a weapon made of flesh and blood seems to be its special ability.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya frowned seeing this scene, is this the 'ghost blood technique'?She often asked the swordsmen who came to the village about ghosts, but this was the first time she saw them with her own eyes.
It is said that ghosts with ghost blood skills are much stronger than ordinary ghosts.
Her luck didn't seem to be very good, the first ghost she met was such a ghost.
But there is one thing this ghost said wrong...
The reason why she trembled was not fear, but anger.
Because she saw the injured woman, the crying girl... and the man who had been killed by the ghost.
"Sorry……"
"I'm sorry? It's useless to admit your mistakes now~" the ghost sneered and looked at the girl in front of him, "You just cut me so painful!"
It raised the heavy hammer again and slammed it down at the female swordsman in front of it at an astonishing speed. It was just a trembling 'hina'. It must have never killed a ghost at all, right?Otherwise, the knife just now should have cut off its neck, wouldn't the ghost not even know where the weakness is?
How could such a stupid swordsman be his opponent?
"Go to hell! Human!"
"Cover her eyes."
Kagamikawa Maya said softly.
The woman who was crushed under the beam of the house was stunned, and realized that this sentence was addressed to her.
She quickly reached out and pulled her daughter to cover her eyes.
Kagamikawa Maya's hand holding the handle of the knife stopped shaking.
This is the first time she has used sword skills in actual combat. She thought she would hesitate to swing the knife at a "life", but now it seems that it may be because of anger, the hesitation in her heart has long since disappeared.
"Such a guy doesn't need pity..." she told herself in her heart.
So she drew the knife.
This knife is the sun wheel knife left by the man who taught her the breathing method.
The original rusty knife returned to its original appearance after being polished, and the word "Mie" was clearly visible on the knife body. Under her influence, the knife body turned into a light pink color, just like her pupils, like cherry blossoms. color.
The cherry-colored blade slowly came out of the scabbard, and it didn't seem to be anything special.
The sun wheel knife will change color according to the characteristics of its owner, and her knife is a light cherry color, such a color can easily make people feel weak.
"The breath of the sun, the shape of one, the round dance."
A cold voice came from Maya Kagamikawa's mouth.
The arc is drawn lightly under the moonlight. If Ji Guoyuanyi's knife is like the hot sun shining on the sky in the clear sky, then her knife is like the warm sun after the snow clears in winter.
The ghost who swung the heavy hammer froze in place.
There was unbelievable fear in its eyes.
From the moment the girl shouted 'breath of the sun', fear instantly filled its mind, as if it came from the depths of its blood, it almost forgot to continue attacking.
But the female swordsman in front of her didn't show any mercy.
The sharp long knife sliced through its neck without any resistance.
"Sorry, I am late."
It saw the female swordsman waving the knife, then ignored herself and turned to comfort the mother and daughter on the ground, and felt endless anger for a moment.
It turned out that the sorry was not directed at it!
But it seems too late to be angry now.
Its body began to collapse, and it drifted away like ashes in the wind.
"Get out of here with me."
Jia Shenchuan Maya rescued the woman who was under the beam of the house.
Although the woman's life was safe, she was injured and unable to move. She planned to send the mother and daughter to a nearby town to find a doctor.
Dawn came again.
Jia Shenchuan Maya said goodbye to the mother and daughter and left the hospital.
"thanks, thanks……"
"Thank you big sister!"
The little girl who followed her kept saying thank you. She had just lost her father, but the girl thanked her with a smile.
Looking at this scene, Kagamikawa Maya knelt down sadly, and gently stroked the girl's head.
"Take good care of your mother from now on."
"En! Thank you, big sister!" The girl nodded vigorously, "Be careful on the road, big sister!"
"Ah."
Kagamikawa Maya was stunned.
Smiling and getting up to say goodbye, holding the sun wheel knife in his hand, he continued on his way towards the target 'Vine Attack Mountain'.
On the way, she looked at the knife in her hand.
The feeling of the knife cutting across Oni's neck still remained in her hands. She really became stronger, because of the 'breath of the sun', she became stronger than she imagined.
But she seemed to hate the feeling of severing life, but from the moment she swung the knife, she knew that she might have to keep swinging the knife for the rest of the way.
It's just... Such power must never be used against humans.
At this moment, the belief in her heart is more firm. Now that she has the power to protect others, she must approach the figure in her heart, chase that sun-like figure, and protect more people.
……
"Another person who can breathe the sun?"
In the dark mansion.
Oni Wu Tsuji Wumi sorted out his thoughts with some annoyance.
He is in a very irritable mood now, because he hasn't been out for several years.
Because of that man named 'Xuan Hao'.
Yes, he had finally obtained information about this man through his ghosts all these years, but it was only a name.
The rest is trivial information like 'This man is strong. 'Is not this nonsensical?This man is likely to be a descendant of the man he met back then, and one of the top players, Hei Si Mou, could not even move a single move under this man's hands.
Wu Mi even felt that she would not be this man's opponent, so she kept shrinking in a hidden place that was rarely seen.
What troubled him was that he had nothing to do with this man, he couldn't take the risk himself, and the strongest under his command, Hei Si Mou, was no match, and the rest were just a bunch of trash.
It seems that the only way is to wait for this man to die of old age like Ji Guoyuanyi.
But it's only been a few years, and this man doesn't have 'stripes' on his body, which means that his lifespan is much longer than those swordsmen who rely on stripes to become stronger!Maybe he has to wait for decades again!
"It's really embarrassing!" Guiwu Tsuji Wuchan gritted his teeth.
Now that the problems of 'Xuan Hao' have not been resolved, he has learned that 'Breath of the Sun' has other inheritors!
This is the breathing method he fears the most.
Because the person who defeated him, whether it was Ji Guoyuanyi or Xuan Hao, knew this breathing method almost to death, and he didn't dare to bet whether the person who knew this breathing method would threaten him if he grew up.
One or two are tough enough to even scare him from going out, if there are another group! ?Just thinking about it is scary.
So such seedlings must be killed in the cradle!
"film."
"exist!"
Following Gui Wu Tsuji's call, a head slowly protruded from the shadows in the corner.
"My lord, is there anything I can do for you?" The voice of this head sounded very obsequious.
"A female swordsman who used 'Sun Breath' appeared near Fuji Raider Mountain. Is it okay for you to deal with it?"
Wu Mi's voice was gloomy, although it sounded doubtful, but if he dared to refuse him...
"Yes, my lord, of course there is no problem, it is my honor to serve you!"
Shadow's exposed head was covered with cold sweat.
He knew that the lord was in a bad mood all the time, all he could do was to follow the lord's arrangement, and he couldn't even have the slightest disobedience in his heart, otherwise the consequences would be extremely disastrous.
"Then leave it to you, I hope you won't let me down."
"Definitely not humiliated!"
The ghost called 'Shadow' hurriedly escaped into the shadows, seemingly not daring to waste a moment.
The vine attacked the mountain?What kind of place it is, they are quite clear as ghosts.
No ghost is willing to go there, not only because there is the wisteria flower they hate the most, but also because it is one of the most heavily defended areas of the ghost killing team.
After all, it is related to the fresh blood of the Ghost Killing Squad, and there will always be a strong force standing there.
And it can be said that it is the home ground of human beings. Fighting human beings among the wisterias all over the mountains and plains is undoubtedly digging their own graves.
But this is the place... Now he has to go!Ying's heart is full of resentment, and of course it's not against that lord, because he dare not, his life and death are completely in the mind of that lord, even if there is resentment, it can only be passed on to the meeting that popped up suddenly Breath of the Sun' female swordsman body.
"Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!"
This is the only thought in Ying's mind at the moment, but... It is indeed a difficult problem for Oni to enter Fujishi Mountain!Fortunately, he couldn't help him. This is probably why the adults named him, right?
……
When dusk is approaching.
The girl finally arrived at her destination—Vine Attack Mountain.
This is where the 'final selection' takes place.
"Sure enough, it's just like the legend, it's obviously not the season for it to bloom."
Kagamikawa Maya caressed the wisteria flowers on the side of the road.
She walked all the way to the top of the mountain along the mountain road full of wisteria flowers.
There seems to be a lot of people gathered here.
They are all dressed up as swordsmen, with knives on their waists, and almost everyone has injuries of varying degrees. It seems that the road to the mountain is not peaceful.
These people come from different places, but the same thing is that their eyes are full of emotions called 'anger', which seems to be anger towards ghosts.
The purpose of their coming here is also the same, that is to kill ghosts.
Apart from these people, Jia Shenchuan Maya also saw a familiar figure here.
In front of the downhill road on the other side of the mountain, there is a crimson torii gate.It seems that as long as you step through this torii and go down to the other side of the mountain, you will be hell.
A spear was stuck in the center of the torii gate, and that familiar body sat cross-legged in the middle of the road, closing its eyes and meditating, as if it was waiting for something.
This person was the man who came to the village of swordsmiths a year ago and changed her fate.
The man seemed to notice her gaze, and opened his eyes to meet her gaze.
"Is it really here?" Xuan Hao muttered to himself.
The girl he looked at felt a little emotional. He thought he would have to wait a few more years to receive the news that this girl would participate in the selection. Didn't he expect to have mastered the 'Breath of the Sun' in just one year?
He clearly felt that this girl's talent was not good, but it was like fate that she really mastered the 'breath of the sun' which is difficult for ordinary people to learn, and it was within a short year.
"It's incredible."
Xuan Hao seemed to see the shadow of Ji Guo Yuan Yi from this girl, they were obviously two completely different people, even their personalities and talents were very different.
He looked up at the sky, and the sun had completely set, which meant that it was time for ghosts to come and go.
"Okay, it's almost time."
Xuan Hao's voice reached everyone's ears.
The swordsmen resting on the mountain all focused their attention on the man guarding under the torii gate.
"Cough-cough-"
Xuan Hao cleared his throat, and looked around at the people who came to participate in the selection.
"First of all, thank you for gathering here to participate in this selection. The sun has already set, and those who have not arrived will not wait. Get ready to start this selection."
Hearing Xuanhao's words, everyone was gearing up. None of the people who came here seemed to be afraid of ghosts. Rather, they should all have a deep hatred for ghosts. If it wasn't for this man blocking the way, they might have rushed down the mountain to kill ghosts .
Xuan Hao didn't care about the mood of these people, because if there were no accidents, perhaps most of them would stay here forever during the seven days of selection. It doesn't matter, since you choose to set foot on this battlefield, you should have the awareness to pay the price.
"There are many ghosts captured alive by the swordsmen of the Demon Killing Squad in this vine attack mountain. If I remember correctly, there are about 40 or so, but you can rest assured that they will never escape from this mountain. Because The wisteria flowers they hate the most are blooming here all year round, and there are many swordsmen from the Demon Slayer Squad around."
Speaking of which, Xuan Hao pointed to his back. When he took over the Teng Shishan, the swordsman in charge told him that there were only 40 ghosts in it.
Creatures such as ghosts cannot reproduce. New ghosts can only be born through the blood of Oniwu Tsuji. Dead opponent, so the number will neither increase nor decrease.
"But after stepping here, there will be no wisterias to protect you. The ghosts in the valley you will enter next can move freely. It is getting late now. If you are ready, you can start at any time. The conditions for passing the selection are very simple, survive here for seven days, and at dawn after seven days, as long as you come back here alive, you will be considered a pass. Of course, you can also try to kill all the ghosts inside, if you can do it."
The spear was slowly pulled out of the ground by Xuan Hao, and there was no obstacle to the road to the valley at this moment.
"Then please, gentlemen, I hope you come back alive."
He stepped back with his spear on his shoulders, looking expressionlessly at the swordsmen descending one after another.
"Mr. Xuanhao."
Kagamikawa Maya greeted him as he passed by.
"Thank you for your previous teaching."
"Go."
Xuan Hao just nodded slightly, his face still expressionless.Teaching doesn't count, he just demonstrated in front of this girl a martial art that doesn't belong to him.
If this girl really learned Ji Guoyuanyi's breathing method, then it should be easy to pass this selection, and he doesn't need to worry about it at all.
"Then see you later." The girl smiled and nodded, turned and walked down the mountain.
Xuan Hao quietly watched the backs of the swordsmen descending the mountain.
He is now condescending, and with his eyesight, he can have a panoramic view of the movement of the entire valley, except for some places that are shaded by trees, nothing can escape his eyes.
His task today is really just supervision. If there is any accident that can disrupt the selection, it is his time to act.
The boys and girls walked down the mountain ignorantly, but they didn't know that they were stepping into hell.
No one knew that this would be the beginning of the most special 'final selection' ever.
They walked down the mountain road one after another.
So far, there will be no more wisteria flowers protecting them.
"It smells so good... Humans have come in again. Is it time for the annual hunting again?"
In the dark forest, there seemed to be such a voice.
The ghosts imprisoned here seem to have not eaten human flesh for a year. They are imprisoned in the deep mountains and cannot go out. They can only eat some unpalatable beasts on weekdays. Now there are so many human beings all of a sudden. The breath made them agitated impatiently.
The swordsmen advanced cautiously.
There was cold sweat on his forehead.
Because they also heard the voices of quarrels coming from the depths of the darkness.
"Hey, hey! Get the hell out of here, don't snatch me! This human with thin skin and tender flesh is my prey!"
"Come on! Get the hell out of me! Whoever grabs it first will get it!"
"Long-lost fresh human flesh, I can't wait to have dinner!"
The ghosts seem to be arguing over how to divide the prey.
"Chong-"
The sound of the sun wheel knife being unsheathed.
A slender figure passed through the crowd and rushed into the woods at the head of the crowd.
A few sword lights flashed, and the world was instantly purified.
The three ghosts arguing inside never made any sound again.
"Is this girl... an idiot?" Xuan Hao looked at this scene with some helplessness.
The requirement to pass the selection is to survive here for seven days. This is just the beginning, and I will rush to the front to expend my energy to kill ghosts. Are you afraid that you will not be able to persist later?
"Let's keep up too! Help! There are only 40 ghosts, and they don't look strong! There are so many of us, what are we afraid of?"
Someone shouted, and then the swordsmen rushed into the woods one after another.
They carried knives one by one, and they didn't seem to be afraid of any ghosts at all. After all, there were quite a lot of people coming tonight. After hearing that there were only 40 ghosts, everyone didn't seem to have any worries. As long as they work together...
It is not impossible to kill them all overnight!And it was obviously a small girl who rushed out just now, how could they not even compare to a girl?
Kagamikawa Maya sheathed her knife and observed the surrounding situation.
She didn't rush out recklessly, she just wanted to try to see how strong the ghosts here are, after all, Mr. Xuan Hao said that the ghosts here are very weak.
This is indeed the case, she killed three of them in an instant just now, and these ghosts are one level weaker than the ghosts that only knew the ghost blood technique that she met before.
"If there are only forty of them... it should work."
That's right, she intends to hunt down all the ghosts here.
In this case, no one will die in this assessment!
But she also knows that her physical strength is not unlimited, and she is the daughter of a knife maker, so she also knows that the sun wheel knife in her hand also has a limit.
So it's best to kill them all in one hit.
So she slowed down her pace and began to follow behind these swordsmen.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya's strategy is very simple, as long as she follows the people, and when there is a confrontation, it will be fine. If the ghosts here are as strong as before, then she can guarantee everyone's safety.
The swordsmen are not fools either, they know that if they spread too far, they may be attacked one by one by the ghosts.
The content of the selection does not stipulate that they cannot cooperate. Except for individual strong swordsmen, it is also very common for the swordsmen of the Ghost Killing Team to act in teams.Anyone who is a normal person can understand that it is very dangerous to face ghosts alone with a human body.
So they choose to act in groups.
Although dozens of people were not crowded into a pile, they also formed a team of twos and threes, and there seemed to be a tacit understanding between each team and they did not disperse too far.
No one wants to die here, even if they have a deep hatred with ghosts, they know that only by being alive can they get revenge.
"Go to hell! Human!"
Humans team up, and of course ghosts do too.
Moreover, the physical fitness of ghosts is stronger than that of humans. With the same number, humans have no chance of winning.
The three ghosts rushed towards the three-person team on the edge.
One of the ghosts roared loudly, attracting the attention of these humans.
When these swordsmen turned their eyes to this ghost, they didn't know that there were two other ghosts hiding in the bushes.
In just one meeting, two people were injured.
"Hey hey hey! Stupid human beings."
Three ghosts with different looks surrounded the three of them.
The surrounding humans have not had time to come to support, the situation of these three people is very dangerous,
But fortunately, Kagamikawa Maya who was following behind saw everything in his eyes.
She cut off the neck of the ghost standing in front of her, and her figure flew towards the injured team member in an instant.
"I won't let others die in front of me."
She muttered to herself, and the long knife in her hand was unsheathed instantly.
Accompanied by the crisp sound of knives, two heads fell to the ground.
"thanks……"
Before the swordsmen had time to thank them, they saw the girl in front of them running in a certain direction again.
"How can there be such a fool..." Xuan Hao scratched his head with some headaches.
His attention has been on this girl from just now.
Naturally, I also saw the girl's plan, wanted to support everyone by myself?
The idea is quite good, and she seems to have such strength.
However, human physical strength is not unlimited.
Her wanting to support everyone means that she must rush to everyone who needs to be rescued at critical moments. Although this valley is not big, it is still not something she can handle at will.
It's just a newcomer who has practiced breathing method for a year, no matter how strong she is, she can't even do it. After all, she doesn't even know the complete set. What she's doing now is equivalent to attracting the hatred of all ghosts. would be in immediate danger.
This is the truth that any normal person can understand.
Jia Shen Chuan Maya will not understand.
But she did just that.
Because that's exactly what she wants to achieve.
She knows that her physical strength is limited, so she wants to concentrate and use the limited physical strength.
To be honest, if she was to persist for seven days in such an environment...it would be very difficult.
Because although the word survival sounds simple, it is conditional. To survive, food and water must be guaranteed, and none of the people who came here to participate in the selection is familiar with the ecological environment here.
To solve the necessary problems of survival while facing ghosts and survive for 7 days, although the daytime can be used as leisure time, the double torment of spirit and body will make people weaker and weaker. Survival in the environment is extremely difficult.
So instead of procrastinating until you face the ghost when you are in a bad state, it is better to shorten the battle line!
Jia Shen Chuan Maya is confident that her physical strength can survive tonight. It is not for nothing that she has been beaten all year round, and her physical strength is her only advantage!
"Just tonight, kill all the evil spirits!"
In this case, whoever will be able to relax a lot in the next 6 days, right?
The crisp sound of knives resounded all over the woods, and Kagamikawa Maya's ears moved slightly. She could clearly distinguish the movement of each place, and as soon as she heard someone encountering a ghost, she immediately went to support.
boom--
A figure fell to the side of the tree.
Masaya Sato clutched his chest in pain, his breathing was completely messed up by the ghost blow, and the sun wheel knife in his hand was also broken in the parry of the blow just now.
Before he could react, a pale sharp claw stretched out from behind the tree beside him, and he tried his best to roll and dodge in a dangerous way.
But the ghost is still chasing after him.
"Hehe—human beings, please don't move! Come into my stomach... come..."
It hadn't finished speaking when it heard a crisp sound of knives.
"bass--"
A white knife light passed by.
There were neat knife marks on the wrist of the sharp claws stretched out by this ghost, and the next moment blood sprayed, and the sharp claws fell in response.
Another flash of knife light flashed, and bleeding lines appeared on the ghost's neck instantly.
A slender figure landed behind it, jet-black hair streaked across the ghost's face, as if floating in the sky, the girl panted slightly, pumped her blood and retracted her knife, her movements flowing smoothly.
"Are you OK?"
"No...it's okay..." Sato Masaya replied blankly.
Enduring the pain, he raised his head and looked at the girl who was running fast. The girl's hair was messy because of the rapid running, but in his eyes, she was still as beautiful as an angel. The gaze from those cherry eyes made him feel very happy. The warmth made him forget the pain for a moment.
"There should be no other ghosts around here, and someone will come soon, please rest assured."
The girl left in a hurry as she said that, as if heading to another battlefield.
Sato Masaya was slightly stunned, and looked up at the sky in a daze. He felt that he was still too weak. He couldn't kill ghosts with anger alone. Why don't he go back and hunt with his father?Or if the Ghost Killing Team are all swordsmen like this, then it seems pretty good to have him as an errand runner...
Soon, as the girl said, someone came to find him. These people seemed to be the wounded rescued by the girl. They guarded together in a group, and they no longer had to be afraid of evil spirits.
"Ugh……"
Sitting on the top of the hill, Xuan Hao sighed slightly watching this scene. The battle with ghosts should be more cruel. Many people will die in every selection, even the world he participated in. This year It seems a little special.
But there seems to be nothing wrong...
(End of this chapter)
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