Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Japan's Taisho era.

In the middle of the night, Shen Jue was awakened by the cold wind and chill.

Inside the dilapidated house, several filthy, thin boys and girls were hanging upside down from the roof beams along with Shen Jue.

Those children who were the same age as Shen Jue were already silent.

Those were Shen Jue's companions who had escaped from the orphanage together.

The children's bodies were covered in tiny cuts, and directly below them, several wooden buckets were collecting the dripping blood.

Shen Jue's body was originally covered in wounds, but they have now healed in an instant.

Shen Jue, who transmigrated into Demon Slayer, started as an abandoned baby in a brothel.

But Shen Jue was not destined to die; a woman with ulterior motives took him away and raised him.

Shen Jue was still feeling fortunate when she began a hellish life.

Shen Jue, who was taken away, slowly grew up in an orphanage called Chunnuan.

This orphanage categorizes the children it finds from various places into several tiers, hoping to extract greater value from them once they reach the appropriate age.

With the mindset of an adult, Shen Jue became the leader of the children in the orphanage, but how could a frail child fight against a group of strong thugs?

With his face bruised and swollen, and covered in injuries, Shen Jue witnessed his former twin sisters, who used to be very close to him, now only nine years old, covered in scars and bruises, being transported onto a cart like garbage, supposedly to be taken away for burial.

Shen Jue decided to run away, taking his younger siblings with him.

Back then, Shen Jue was always frantically searching for any possible cheat codes or cheat abilities.

Shen Jue only gave up on the idea after his escape plan succeeded.

Shen Jue had to lead his escaped siblings to survive in this chaotic era where humans and ghosts coexisted; he had no time to pray for any possible system or anything like that.

Until last night, the homeless Shen Jue and his companions encountered three ordinary homeless ghosts.

The traps, spears, and simple crossbows made by Shen Jue and his companions were childish resistance to the three ordinary ghosts who had traveled together.

Even the lowest-level ghost can easily shatter rocks and tear apart a human body as easily as tearing a thin sheet of paper.

Shen Jue and his siblings were knocked unconscious one by one.

The three ghosts, who had just finished eating, did not immediately tear Shen Jue and the others apart and swallow them.

Instead, they hung Shen Jue and the others upside down one by one, cut their wounds and let them bleed, just like humans would treat livestock.

The three ghosts, laughing and joking, went out together to find ingredients for cooking and grilling.

The three ghosts that had just devoured a family's three ghosts were now laughing and chatting as they carried bottles and jars back to the dilapidated house.

Shen Jue remained calm, using his hand as a knife to cut the rope suspending him, and silently fell to the ground.

In a flash, Shen Jue placed the other children on the ground.

These children had already lost their lives while in a coma.

Fear and unease still lingered in his wide-open eyes.

Shen Jue led a few people to escape, but in the end, he was the only one left.

"what?"

The three cannibals discovered that Shen Jue had broken free of his restraints and strangely healed his wounds.

"Ha, you bastard, have you evolved into a demon?"

One of the three ghosts, a handsome but ferocious cannibal, said doubtfully, "I did not share that lord's blood."

"Did you do this?"

The other two equally handsome ogres shook their heads in unison and said, "We won't do such a stupid thing."

"It doesn't matter." The handsome gourmand at the head of the group chuckled wickedly, "How about it? You're really craving your companion's flesh and blood right now, aren't you?"

"That sweet and fragrant aroma, isn't it, battling against your last shred of sanity?"

Thanks to the curse placed on his blood by Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of cannibals, these ordinary cannibals cannot be transformed into cannibals of the same level by sharing Muzan's blood.

Only the progenitor, Muzan Kibutsuji, could infect man-eating demons comparable to the Twelve Demon Moons.

The strength of a cannibal at birth depends on the concentration of Muzan Kibutsuji's blood in its body.

Shen Jue did not answer the cannibal's question; he simply calmly closed the eyes of his younger siblings one by one with his hands.

The reason the three cannibals let Shen Jue do as he pleased was, of course, because from their perspective, Shen Jue, who had just been transformed into a cannibal, could be easily killed by any one of them.

After all, the three cannibals did not detect any human scent on Shen Jue.

"I've brought quite a few precious spices," the handsome gourmand demon said, shaking the blood-stained bottles and jars in his hand. "Would you like to try not eating your companions directly?"

The other two cannibals revealed mocking expressions. They longed to see Shen Jue devour his companion alive; such a depravity, where he lost his mind in the struggle, would give them a bone-chilling excitement.

Shen Jue remained silent, only looking up calmly at the three cannibals, and then slowly walking towards them, as slow as an old man.

The handsome, gourmet-like ghost at the head narrowed his eyes and said arrogantly, "It seems you've made the wrong choice."

"Go and break his limbs, so that he may eat his companion little by little."

As soon as Junshi finished speaking, the remaining two man-eating ghosts pounced on Shen Jue, their ferocious aura enough to terrify even a tiger.

Even an ordinary cannibal can cause a horrific massacre when facing a well-organized army at night.

Its regenerative ability to recover from injuries in seconds, its reflexes and speed far exceeding those of ordinary people, and its powerful strength capable of breaking steel.

Trained soldiers would lose morale and scatter under the slaughter of ordinary cannibals.

What's more, they are three cannibals traveling together?

The two cannibals that pounced on Shen Jue seemed to already see the pitiful Shen Jue weeping and eating the corpse of his companion.

"Gera."

The crisp sound of flesh and bone tearing brought the two cannibals back to reality. The arms of the two cannibals that pounced on Shen Jue were broken off by Shen Jue as easily as breaking a cookie.

The lead goat's pupils contracted as he saw Shen Jue squat down, grabbing the ankles of the two goats with his hands, one on each side.

The two cannibals struggled desperately, but they couldn't even scratch Shen Jue's skin or leave a white mark. They could only tear Shen Jue's clothes to shreds.

Shen Jue lifted the two cannibals upside down, and the terrifying grip caused the flesh on their ankles to burst open, and their bones to groan in agony.

The cannibal's super-fast regeneration prevented Shen Jue from breaking his ankle by using too much force.

Shen Jue began to wield the two cannibals like nunchucks.

The bones in both cannibals' bodies had broken during this time.

The two ghosts let out screams, which made Shen Jue smile.

"Snapped!"

Shen Jue brandished the two ghosts, smashing the handsome gourmet ghost that was trying to escape to the ground, and then stepped on the handsome gourmet ghost's head with one foot.

Shen Jue smiled and leaned close to the handsome gourmet ghost's ear, whispering, "Look."

"Super-fast regeneration is really useful, as long as it's not exposed to sunlight or has its head severed or shattered."

"You cannibals won't die easily."

"I think I'll come to like your durable toys."

"Great!"

Na Jun's eyes widened in fear as he looked at the human-ghost.

Shen Jue's innate abilities have been multiplied to 600 times.