In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 123 Crow
"Hey, Shimizu-kun, why aren't you moving?"

When Murata saw Shimizu suddenly stop, he clenched the Nichirin Sword in his hand and looked around vigilantly.

"I'm lucky. I met a slightly stronger one. I wonder if he can take one more blow from me."

Qingshui pointed forward.

Murata looked in the direction Shimizu pointed.

In the dark and foggy jungle, a ghost figure as big as a hill was walking towards the two people.

This is a huge and fat ghost, with arms like dead branches wrapped around its head, neck, and body.

The curious shape combined with its huge size makes it look quite oppressive.

Hand ghost.

Talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!
"You must be kidding me! How can a giant alien ghost whose body has undergone a huge transformation appear in the final selection?!"

When Murata saw the hand ghost, his teeth chattered, his speech became slurred, and fear was written all over his face.

"Forty-three, forty-four..."

The hand ghost stretched out several hands in front of him and kept counting.

"I've already eaten one tonight, so it should be forty-five. No, no, there are still two left, so it should be forty-seven."

The hand ghost looked at Shimizu and Murata with his copper-bell-like yellow eyes.

Murata actually had the courage to draw his knife and stood beside Shimizu.

"Qing, Qingshui-kun, although I don't know why such a powerful ghost appeared here, ghosts of this level are simply not something that newcomers like us can deal with! We must work together to have a chance to escape. You are stronger and have a better chance. I will cover you."

Murata's voice was trembling, but his tone was still quite firm.

In this world, the moral character of most members of the Demon Slayer Corps is really beyond reproach...

However, joining the Demon Slayer Corps means choosing to disregard life and death and devoting oneself to the path of racial justice in fighting against evil spirits. This is the initial selection.

"It's useless to struggle, just let me eat you obediently~"

The hand ghost's hands that were around the neck and mouth loosened, revealing more arms, and flew towards Shimizu and Murata.

"Murata."

"Ok?"

"You're a nice guy."

As soon as the words fell, a green knife light flashed across the void.

"Breathing of the Wind, Form Eight, First Fierce Wind Slash!"

The huge spiral wind blade instantly cut the hand ghost's attacking arm into pieces, followed by the body and head.

In less than a breath, the hand ghost's entire body was torn into pieces, turning into a blood rain that fell from the sky, and then quickly turned into ashes and dissipated.

Murata was stunned.

"Well, what a pity! This guy looked quite strong, but he turned out to be so weak. He was killed in one blow again."

Qingshui shook his head regretfully.

"Well, it won't be long before daybreak comes, so you better hurry up and find the next ghost. It will be a good opportunity for you to practice with it."

"Oh, eh?"

Murata was stunned again, then hurried to catch up.

Qingshui was not like Santu, who went crazy and killed ghosts crazily in the mountains.

He just walked around, killing any ghost he saw, and when he saw a suitable one, he would let his new brother Murata go up and practice.

Even so, at the end of the night, nineteen ghosts still died at Qingshui's hands, including the most powerful hand ghost.

It seems that because of this, more people passed the final test this time. "This time, a total of nine team members survived."

Ubuyashiki Amane was holding a golden sun blade and looking at the people coming down the mountain with her two children, her face full of surprise.

Most of the people looked in a disheveled state, and some even had unclear injuries. Only Qingshui was neatly dressed and looked calm, as if he was here for a trip.

Next was Murata, who hugged his thigh. Apart from some dust on his body during the fight, he didn't suffer any injuries, not even his clothes were torn.

Nine people survived, which is the class with the highest passing rate among the Demon Slayer Corps in recent years.

Could it be because of the clear water?
Ubuyashiki Amane's beautiful eyes looked towards Shimizu.

As the wife and assistant of Ubuyashiki Yoshiya, she knew Shimizu's identity clearly, and also knew that Ikutsu, who practiced both wind and thunder breathing techniques, praised Shimizu highly in his letter to Ubuyashiki Yoshiya.

"Everyone, congratulations on having passed the final selection test. Next, please choose a piece of corundum here. The selected corundum will be delivered to the Sword Forging Village today to be forged into a Sun Blade for you."

Ubuyashiki Amane said, pointing at the corundum neatly arranged on a table.

The so-called corundum is the ore obtained after rough refining of orangutan ore.

Shimizu picked a big one at random and walked towards Ubuyashiki Amane.

"Is there something wrong, Shimizu-kun?"

Ubuyashiki Amane asked with a smile.

"Just one piece of ore and one sword may not be enough for me. May I ask Senior Tianyin if you can give the parts on this blueprint to the swordsmith to help me make it?"

Shimizu took out a few blueprints from the backpack and handed them to Ubuyashiki Tenon.

The parts are some accessories of the armor-type half-puppet made by Shimizu to assist itself in combat.

Without the gorilla scarlet iron or the knowledge to process the gorilla scarlet ore, Qingshui could only hand it over to the swordsmiths in the swordsmith village.

"I will ask the swordsmiths to help make it for Shimizu-kun."

Ubuyashiki Tenon glanced at the blueprints and found that they were all weapons mechanisms that he couldn't understand, so he put them away.

Occasionally, there will be swordsmen in the Demon Slayer Corps who have different requirements for the Nichirin Sword.

For example, Rock Pillar Gyoumei's Nichirin Sword is a meteor hammer and an axe connected by an iron chain, and Future Love Pillar Kanroji Mitsuri's soft sword is like a ribbon.

"In that case, I'll leave it to Senior Tianyin."

Shimizu nodded slightly to Ubuyashiki Amane.

The latter nodded in return and then waved towards the sky.

All of a sudden, several crows flapped their wings and flew down.

"Shimizu-kun, this is Bean. She will be used as a crow for the Demon Slayer Corps to contact you in the future. By the way, Bean likes to eat green beans, especially those with garlic flavor."

Ubuyashiki Amane said to a slender but stupid-looking crow.

"Gah—do you have any green beans?"

Crow Bean said, tilting his head.

Ubuyashiki Amane handed a bag of beans to Shimizu.

I sprinkled some green beans on my palm and fed them to the crows.

The crows here are very intelligent. I don’t know if they are born that way or have undergone special training by the Demon Slayer Corps.

If it is the latter, Qingshui would like to get this cultivation method.

Crows are a good kind of summoning beast in the ninja world. Many Konoha ninjas, especially the Uchiha, raise them and have developed some ninjutsu that work with crows as summoning beasts.

But before that, you can try to train the crow into a spiritual beast.

(End of this chapter)