People in Demon Slayer: The Journey That Began with Demon Slayer

After this incident, Zhi behaved himself for several days.

However, just as Yosuke was enjoying his hard-won peaceful life, Koyuki found him carrying a cat.

"Lord Yosuke, look! This cat is a demon too!"

Yosuke stared blankly at the cat in Renyuki's arms.

"Tea?"

When Chacha saw Yosuke, she meowed, broke free from Lianxue, and came to Yosuke's side, rubbing against his leg.

Yosuke picked up Chacha from the ground, rubbed it for a while, and then put it on the ground.

"Let's go back, Chacha."

Chacha refused to leave, pointing with her paw at the backpack on her back, indicating that there were letters inside.

Yosuke patted Chacha's head, then shook his head: "Some letters don't need to be read to know their contents. Let's go, Chacha, back to your master."

Chacha glanced at Yosuke reluctantly before disappearing into the night.

Yosuke silently watched Chacha leave, remaining silent for a long time.

After a long silence, Yosuke sighed, "It's time to go, Osamu, Koyuki."

Zhi wanted to ask a question, but Renxue tugged at his sleeve.

Zhi looked at Lianxue, who simply shook her head in silence.

The perceptive Renyuki noticed that Yosuke and the cat's owner had a story behind them.

Not long after Yosuke left, Chacha came here again, followed by a stunningly beautiful woman in a kimono.

Tamayo looked dejectedly at the stove, which had just been extinguished but still retained warmth.

"Yosuke...you still don't want to see me? You won't even give me a chance to apologize in person...?"

Tamayo's expression was full of sadness. Chacha noticed Tamayo's emotions and rubbed her head against Tamayo to comfort her.

......

"Lord Yosuke, where are we going next?" Osamu asked Yosuke with a puzzled look.

"I don't know, we'll just go wherever the road takes us. You want to fight, right? In that case, how about we leave all the evil spirits we encounter along the way to you?"

“Alright! Leave it all to me! As the general of the Su-ryu Dojo, I will make the name Su-ryu resound throughout the world!” Zhi patted his chest and promised.

Yosuke brought Osamu and Renyuki to Osumi Town.

Zhi found that there were very few pedestrians on the streets at night, and the few people he encountered seemed to be filled with fear, as if they were afraid of something.

Yosuke sensed a ghostly presence nearby: "Osamu, are you ready? There's a demon here, and judging from its aura, it's quite powerful."

Osamu revealed a warlike expression: "Renyuki, Yosuke-sama, just you wait and see, no matter who the opponent is, I will defeat him!"

Following the ghostly aura, the group arrived at a dilapidated temple in the mountains.

The dilapidated temple reeked of blood.

When Zhi opened the dilapidated temple door, he was horrified to find dozens of living human bodies hanging from the temple's rafters.

These people looked terrified, their mouths were gagged with rags, and they couldn't make a sound.

When they saw Zhi and Lianxue, they all made "woo-woo" sounds, begging for their help.

Deep inside the temple, on the altar where the Buddha statue is enshrined, a ghost is clinging to a human corpse, gnawing on its flesh.

Lianxue covered her mouth in disbelief: "How could this be...so cruel..."

The demon that was devouring the corpse turned its head to look at Zhi and Renxue. The demon had two horns on its forehead and blood-red pupils.

After swallowing the entrails that were being chewed in its mouth, the evil spirit said, "Do you know that after a person dies, their taste completely changes after just 30 minutes? Only by keeping them alive can you enjoy the most delicious food."

With a solemn expression, Osamu ignored the demon and instead assumed the starting stance of the Suryu technique.

The demon's eyes gleamed with interest: "Interesting. You want to steal my food? Try it if you can. If you please me, I might give you a fresh human body."

Zhi snorted coldly: "You evil spirit who slaughters humans without cause, are you ready to die?"

"Spell activation!"

A twelve-pointed snowflake array appeared beneath his feet.

"Plain Style Technique? Destructive Kill? Chaotic Style!"

Zhi rushed toward the demon at incredible speed and punched it fiercely.

In an instant, smoke and dust filled the interior of the dilapidated temple.

When the smoke cleared, the evil spirit stood unharmed before Zhi.

"A demon who wants to save humanity? How strange. I imagine you might taste different from humans. I wonder if you, being a demon, would taste even better?"

The demon stretched out its hands, and the palms of its hands turned out to be gaping, blood-red mouths.

The demon's two mouths extended two extremely long tongues, dripping with foul-smelling saliva, as it rushed toward Zhi.

"Plain Flow Technique? Destructive Kill? Void Style!"

Zhi unleashed a six-hit combo with his fist into the void, the force of which instantly severed the demon's tongue.

The evil spirit revealed a sinister smile: "Judging from your aura, you are just a newly born ghost who has only recently become a ghost. For a newly born ghost to be able to master blood demon magic, your strength is not bad."

After saying that, the tongue that had been broken off by the force of the evil spirit's fist instantly returned to its original state.

Chapter 29 The Victory of Zhi

"Blood Demon Art? Tongue Licking!"

The demon's palms and mouth, from which rows of terrifying spikes grew, charged toward Zhi once again.

"Plain Flow Technique? Destructive Kill? Void Style!"

Osamu punched the demon's tongue again.

However, when Zhi's fist touched the demon's tongue, it was not broken as before. Instead, it was like a spring, dissipating the force of the fist and continuing towards Zhi.

Zhi used his arms to push aside the demon's attacking tongues, then charged at the demon for a close-quarters attack.

"Plain Flow Technique? Destructive Kill? Footwork? Crown Cut!"

Zhi braced himself on the ground with both hands, then raised his leg upwards towards the evil spirit, aiming for a powerful kick to the head.

The evil spirit was struck by Zhi's powerful kick, and the immense force sent it flying backward, crashing heavily into the Buddha statue behind it.

The Buddha statue shattered instantly, and the evil spirits and fragments of the Buddha statue fell to the ground together.

Zhi wanted to press his advantage and was about to use Blood Demon Art to unleash a devastating attack, but he was unable to move his body, and his meridians felt like they were being crawled by ants, which was unbearable.

Zhi exclaimed in disbelief, "What happened? Why can't I move?!"

The evil spirit crawled out from the shattered Buddha statue, and the dent on its head caused by Zhi's kick returned to normal.

"You just touched the spikes on my hands and tongue, which contain a deadly poison that even ghosts cannot resist."

Zhi looked at his arm with a grim expression. When he had used his arm to pry open the demon's hand and tongue, the sharp barbs on the demon's tongue had pierced his skin, leaving a needle-like wound on his arm.

The demon shook off the dust and looked at Zhi expressionlessly: "Next, I will savor your taste as food."

Seeing the evil spirit about to approach Osamu, Koyuki, who loved her husband dearly, couldn't help but intervene.

"Blood Demon Art? Carving Jade and Cutting Ice!"

Inside the dilapidated temple, snow began to fall like willow catkins, quickly forming a hollow ice wall that blocked the path between Zhi and the evil spirit.

The demon felt the cool touch of snowflakes falling on its face and looked at Lianxue in surprise: "The second new demon to master Blood Demon Art?"

With Lianxue's help, time was bought off, the toxins in her body were successfully neutralized, and she regained control of her body.

"Plain Flow Technique? Destructive Kill? Kick Style? Flying Star Thousand Wheels!"

Zhi's feet, entangled in the turbulent currents, rushed towards the demon, their trajectory unpredictable, like a wandering meteor, seemingly without any strategy as he fiercely kicked at the demon.

Faced with such a fierce kick, the demon could only raise its hands in front of its body to barely defend itself.

But the demon's defenses were still breached by the kick, and it was once again struck hard in the head.

The demon's head spun around a few times as if being screwed in, its eyes glazed over, and it collapsed to the ground.

"We...we won?!"

Zhi happily hugged Renyuki, then thought of showing off to Yosuke, but found that Yosuke's expression did not change at all.

"Just a heads up, aside from the Nichirin Blade, the sun, and wisteria flowers, which can cause fatal wounds to demons, other ordinary injuries won't kill them."

Zhi looked behind him in disbelief. The fallen demon had actually stood up again and put its head back in place after it had been twisted several times.

Faced with Yosuke, who was hiding his demonic aura, the evil spirit thought that Yosuke was a newborn demon similar to Kazuya and Koyuki.

A bloodthirsty smile appeared on the demon's face: "He's right. We are ultimate beings. This little bit of damage can't even hurt me."

Upon seeing this, Zhi immediately rushed forward, wanting to continue the attack.

"Blood Demon Art? Ghostly Sounds Enveloping the Ears!"

The demon's clothes suddenly burst open, revealing a huge, blood-red maw on its stomach. As the maw opened, a sickeningly loud sonic wave entered Zhi and Renxue's ears.

Zhi and Lianxue clutched their heads, kneeling on the ground in agony, blood trickling from their ears, and both of them felt they couldn't hear anything.

"I am currently the most promising demon to become a Lower Moon demon and a direct subordinate of that lord. You new demons think you can kill me? There's a limit to your dreams!"

Hearing what the demon said, Yosuke was filled with thoughts: "It seems that Muzan Kibutsuji still established the Twelve Demon Moons? I wonder who will replace Osamu when Akaza, who was to become Upper Moon Three, disappears."

The temporarily deaf Zhi stood in front of Renyuki, his eyes fixed resolutely on the demon:

"I swear I will become stronger and stronger, how could I possibly fall here? The stronger you become, the more excited I get! Since I can't kill you, I'll blast you into mincemeat and see if you survive!"

"Plain Flow Technique? Destruction Kill? Annihilation Style!"

With veins bulging on his forehead and blue fighting spirit emanating from his body, he unleashed a devastating punch at the evil spirit.

The intense turbulent flow of fighting energy completely destroyed the already crumbling temple.

Faced with Zhi Zhiqiang's powerful punch, the demon also unleashed his strongest Blood Demon Art.

"Blood Demon Art? (Strange)"