The Warrior of Love

Miracles convince believers.

No matter how determined a person is, he or she will always seek comfort from faith at a moment of utter despair because of a glimmer of light and emotion.

Especially after personal contact with the great being, one's body and mind will be melted by the warm light.

It's not that the gods are so great, but that the human spirit is too fragile.

If gods really exist in this world, then what he feels now is "everything".

Before I knew it, tears began to flow from my eyes, which had already lost their normal functions.

"Ahh... I gradually understand everything. So that's how it is. God... has not abandoned our clan... That's, that's great..."

Chapter 200: Found you!

After Jiang Liu left last time, Tanjiro and others were fighting against evil spirits everywhere. In just over ten days, they did not encounter any enemies of the level of the Twelve Demon Moons, but they did kill quite a few small minions.

When Jiang Liu returned to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters this time, he saw almost no other acquaintances except Shinobu Kocho and Kanao. Although he wanted to reminisce with Tanjiro and the others, he still had the important task of defeating Muzan to do.

It should be noted that the sooner Muzan is defeated, the sooner the tragedy caused by the evil spirits will end. Although the tragedy may happen in places that one cannot see, Jiang Liu does not want to waste time if possible.

For him now, Muzan is no longer the terrifying monster he used to be, and there is no need for any preparation to defeat Muzan. Jiang Liu just put on the Demon Slayer Corps uniform, picked up the Undying Slash, and went out, heading towards the nearest "crime scene".

It is not an easy task to find Muzan. Although I met him once in Asakusa, Tokyo last time, he should have moved away long ago. No one knows where he is now.

Jiang Liu's understanding of the original plot of "Demon Slayer" was not so detailed, and he was also unable to deduce Muzan's whereabouts.

However, Ubuyashiki's words gave him an inspiration...

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Wow, look what I found?

There is a lone evil ghost here!

We can try to capture it. An evil ghost can provide us with a lot of experimental materials, which are rich in Muzan's blood.

But the evil ghost is not easy to deal with. We slowly approached it from behind, being careful not to make any noise...

Hey! I caught it, it's struggling hard!

We twist off its head and throw away the rest of the parts. This is still an alien, and the concentration of its Muzan blood is six times that of an ordinary ghost.

Of course, if time is not urgent, we can try it first... no, study it first.

——Jiang Liu looked at the "ghost head" in his hand with a thoughtful expression.

Every day the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters receives reports from the crows about special cases occurring in various regions, suspected to be attacks on humans by evil spirits. The people at the headquarters will process this information, classify it, and dispatch swordsmen of the corresponding level to solve the problems according to the degree of danger (of course, in many cases it is impossible to judge the level of danger, so there is a lot of uncertainty in the Demon Slayer Corps' missions).

Jiang Liu found a mission that was closest to the location. After arriving here, he caught the evil ghost without much effort, removed his flesh, and only left the part above the neck.

He didn't use any breathing techniques or the Sun Blade, he just used brute force to break the spine and "pull" the head off. Although it looks scary, the evil ghost's vitality is still "alive and kicking".

"You, you human!"

The evil ghost with only a head left roared ferociously, but his ferocity somehow revealed a sense of weakness.

But it was no wonder. Just now, the human in front of him crushed his blood magic with his bare hands. He subdued him easily like an adult playing with a baby. Not only did he resolve all his struggles, but he also decomposed his body into its current state...

The key point is that this person had an indifferent smile on his face from beginning to end, which really makes people feel uneasy!

"What on earth do you want to do?!"

This is what the evil ghost is most puzzled about: "You are from the Demon Slayer Corps, right? I recognize this as the Demon Slayer Corps uniform. If that's the case, why don't you just defeat me? Why don't you do it now?"

Jiang Liu did not answer him immediately, but looked his head up and down before speaking.

"Were you transformed by the Upper Strings, or by Muzan himself?"

"Ugh?"

The evil ghost was confused for a moment, probably because he didn't expect Jiang Liu to ask this.

"Transformation... What is your purpose?"

"I'm asking you!"

Jiang Liu's eyes focused and he immediately exerted force with his hands. The invisible air pressure squeezed the evil ghost's head like steel. The force coming from all directions collided with each other through the ghost's head. With nowhere to vent, a series of creepy cracking sounds were heard.

"Don't answer questions with questions!"

"Ahhhhh!!"

If it is just simple physical destruction, the evil ghost will also feel pain, but it will never lose its composure like this. After all, ghosts themselves are a kind of distorted existence, and their perception of pain is different from that of normal humans.

But in addition to exerting force with his five fingers, Jiang Liu also attached a thin layer of Ryuuko Haki to his fingertips, penetrating deep into the evil ghost's head, constantly damaging the nerves like a rotating razor, and then damaging them again after they recovered...

In addition, his control over the force was extremely delicate, even more delicate than that of the most skilled surgeon. He was able to cut so unscrupulously while keeping the skull largely intact, and it looked almost unchanged from the outside.

After all, Jiang Liu didn't dare to gamble on how strong the evil ghost's vitality was. What if he really crushed him to pieces and couldn't get him back together?

"Forget it, if you don't want to answer, just let me try."

Jiang Liu raised the ghost's head to the level of his eye and forced him to open his eyes.

"look at me!"

With a cold shout, an invisible force rushed into the evil ghost's mind. The evil ghost, who was already close to collapse, immediately lost consciousness and allowed Jiang Liu to peel off his spiritual world bit by bit.

Jiang Liu's original use of mental power was very rough, but after eating the golden apple, his mental power became very "pure" and his control became much smoother, as if he was using his own hands and feet.

Now, it is even possible to perform "surgery" on enemies on a mental level.

And this is exactly the method Jiang Liu thought of.

It's very simple. Just like there is a "channel" between the Master and the Servant, there is also a certain connection between Muzan and the evil spirits under his command, and it is even closer than that between the Master and the Servant. Muzan can summon and drive the evil spirits at will, and even control the life and death of the spirits!

In other words, there is a "thread" between Muzan and other demons, or there is simply an imprint of Muzan's consciousness in the minds of demons.

Muzan uses these means to "remotely control" the demons scattered around the world. So conversely, as long as we can trace back to the past, we can find Muzan!

However, although the principle is simple, the difficulty is quite high. The mental strength needs to be far greater than Muzan himself to do this. This is why no one has ever thought of looking for Muzan in this way before - first of all, ordinary people are not aware of the existence of mental power.

But Jiang Liu is different...

Jiang Liu peeled off the evil ghost's spiritual consciousness layer by layer and excluded the chaotic intelligence waves from the detection range. He concentrated his attention to not let himself be contaminated by the evil ghost's thoughts.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to face the consciousness of ghosts, but for Jiang Liu, who once stayed in hell, this is basically like a spring breeze on his face.

Cautiously going deeper, after countless twists and turns, he finally saw in the deepest part of his consciousness a chaotic "shadow" that was completely incompatible with the surrounding mental power.

"Got you."

Jiang Liu revealed a smile, and controlled his mental power to "envelope" the shadow in one fell swoop!

Chapter 201: Let’s have fun!

"Ok?"

In a room that looked like a pharmacy, Muzan, who had transformed into a young apprentice, suddenly felt a palpitation and stopped weighing the herbs in his hands.

The extremely thin and frail boy, with his sickly white hands covering his chest and his brows furrowed, looked particularly lovable.

However, who could have known that this seemingly frail young boy was actually the ancestor ghost who was extremely selfish and caused so many tragedies?

"What's this feeling... Is there a ghost that died? But how can a mere bastard make me feel this way?"

He calmed down and tried to explore the reason. Generally speaking, as long as the ghost was converted by him, he could directly control everything about the other party to a certain extent through the spiritual channel.

The Twelve Demon Moons and other evil spirits can be regarded as "nodes" that form a detection network, and Muzan is at the center of this network, able to collect all kinds of information, which is also his greatest reliance in finding the blue spider lily.

But this time, no matter how hard he concentrated, he couldn't determine the ghost's current condition.

He was said to be dead, but the spiritual imprint seemed to still be there. But he was said to be alive...but he could not feel the location of the imprint, as if he was wrapped in a hazy fog, everything was blurry.

Strange, really strange!

Even if Tamayo escaped from his control back then and completely destroyed the mental imprint, he only lost a perception node, not as weird as it is now!

Muzan is an extremely cautious person... He is a ghost, and he turned into this appearance because he was afraid of death. After being abused by Yoriichi, he felt that the whole world was malicious towards him. Therefore, even the Twelve Kizuki were not trusted by him, and he never let anyone know his residence and identity.

Although this accident only resulted in the loss of an ordinary subordinate, the loss was not as great as the previous loss of two Lower Moons...but the strangeness of the incident made Muzan unable to let it go.

People with dark minds tend to think in a dark way.

"Someone must be trying to harm me!"

Without hesitation, he took the initiative to cut off the last connection with the lost node and completely gave up on that trash to prevent him from getting involved.

Muzan's heart can be said to be extremely sensitive, as he assumed the worst right from the start.

But I have to say, at least he guessed right this time... and it did objectively slow down Jiang Liu's progress.

Because Muzan's reaction was too intense, Jiang Liu didn't have enough time to find him directly, and the ghost automatically "exploded".

However, Jiang Liu did not give up. Having already found his direction, he was not the kind of man who would be stopped by a small obstacle. Once he got serious, he would be as stubborn as a bull.

In the next few days, Wuzan could feel that a certain node was out of control at any time, and the reaction was the same every time. He was suddenly shrouded in fog and his life or death was unknown...

This made Muzan more and more sensitive and neurotic. Basically, once he noticed something was wrong, he would immediately disconnect and not leave himself any loopholes.

However, Jiang Liu's speed is getting faster and faster!

He was not very proficient at the beginning, but with continuous practice, his techniques became more and more delicate, and his thinking became more and more acute. In the end, when his thoughts were running, it was like flowing light, and he could completely deconstruct the soul of an evil ghost with just one glance.

After ten days of mutual restraint and the consumption of hundreds of evil spirits - including some of the Twelve Demon Moons - Muzan discovered in despair that the opponent not only did not give up, but instead caught up with his speed.

Even if he disconnected reflexively now, the other party could break his mental imprint in a flash...

Is this what I saw?!

——Such a ridiculous thought came to Muzan’s mind.

If he wanted to completely block the other party's probing, it seemed that he had no choice but to give up most of his men and let a few elite ones hide completely... Just like when Tsugumi Yoshiichi was here, didn't he also hide for decades?

In this way, Muzan began to prepare for his retreat, gradually abandoning most of the small demons, leaving only some individuals he thought had more potential, as well as the upper moons among the Twelve Demon Moons, and ordered them to hide collectively.

During the Taisho period, the population of Japan was already quite dense. As long as these evil spirits wanted to hide, it would be difficult for them to be discovered, let alone encounter that strange existence by chance.

What a coincidence!

During the time when Jiang Liu was hunting the small fish demons, he had already met Tanjiro and the others. After all, their targets overlapped, so it was easy for them to meet.

I don’t know if Tanjiro really has the “protagonist halo” or something, but even after Muzan gave up most of the evil spirits, he still encountered one, and it was an upper-rank one…

He seems to be Inosuke's connection, a heretic demon who disguised himself as a human and mingled among the crowd, and even developed a sect.

Since they met, Jiang Liu naturally would not be polite. After letting Tanjiro and the others take turns to practice on each other, when he saw that the protagonist group was about to lose, he decisively took action to defeat the opponent.

Well, although he is a pervert, his mental disorder cannot make him as strong as a ghost. Jiang Liu can crush this guy if he is a little more serious, and then he can carry out his research with ease.

The process went quite smoothly. The Upper Ranks had the highest concentration of Muzan's blood, and Muzan paid much more attention to them than to other evil spirits. The mental imprint was particularly deep, and Jiang Liu could capture more information.

This time, before Wuzan broke the connection, Jiang Liu had already penetrated to a certain extent and grasped a trace of connection in the dark -

"found it!"

The moment he determined the direction and approximate distance, Jiang Liu immediately restrained his mental power and allowed Muzan to kill this upper-rank demon.

“I don’t know if Muzan has noticed anything unusual… You need to hurry up.”

After taking a look at the rather embarrassed Tanjiro and Nezuko, Jiang Liu thought for a moment and decided that it would be faster for him to act alone. Speed ​​was of the essence, so he just said hello to the others and left.

Life level "Perfect", Adventurer level lv3. In addition, with the use of techniques such as "Shaving", Jiang Liu's speed can be described as lightning when he bursts out with all his strength.

At least ordinary people cannot see his existence at all, as elusive as teleportation.

It was really faster than flying - at least at this stage, the speed of "Sakura Ryu o Tendo" was not as fast as him running on the ground.

After two hours of full speed galloping, Jiang Liu crossed countless towns and mountains, and finally arrived at Muzan's hiding place: a small town that looked nothing special.

Well, although it’s not a bustling metropolis, there are still several thousand people here, so it’s a bit troublesome to find.

In that case——

Jiang Liu opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and shouted out with a shocking sound like thunder.

"The sun is so nice, let's go out and play together, Muzan-chan!"

At the same time, the spreading perception field swept across the entire town, and the domineering aura of knowledge covered every corner like mercury pouring out of the ground.

Chapter 202: Exploring Life