The Warrior of Love

“Rustle…rustle—”

The sounds became more frequent and more obvious, and judging from the trajectory of the swaying leaves, the other party seemed to be tracking Jiang Liu's movements, and the distance between the two was constantly shrinking.

But Jiang Liu's reaction was like that of a deaf person. Not only did he not become alert, he even had the leisure to appreciate the wild flowers blooming on the roadside.

"hateful!"

Finally, the evil ghost above couldn't bear it anymore and jumped down from his hiding place.

"Are you underestimating me, human?"

The sharp whistle shook Jiang Liu's eardrums, making him frown in dissatisfaction, but he ignored the strong wind coming from behind his head and was too lazy to even turn around.

The evil ghost stared at the back of the human in front of him. The darkness did not affect his vision. He aimed at the vulnerable back of the neck and stretched out his sharp claws.

Even among ghosts, his claws were among the sharper ones, no worse than the samurai's swords. When he swung them with all his strength, they were like a blade wheel that could easily pierce through hard tree trunks.

"go to hell--"

He was almost successful, but the human still didn't react, which made the evil ghost uncontrollably excited.

No matter what conspiracy or strategy this human has, there is no way he will fail at this distance!

When the evil ghost thought about tasting human flesh for the first time in a long time, he felt a large amount of liquid secreted uncontrollably from his mouth.

"呲-"

In a flash, the human figure suddenly disappeared. The evil ghost froze on the spot and looked around blankly.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

Something fell to the ground, was it rain?

The sporadic "rain sounds" lasted only a second or two, and then suddenly burst out like a dam bursting.

“Hand, my hand, ahhhhhh!!”

The evil ghost's arms were broken at the shoulders at some point, and a large amount of smelly blood covered his body. Only then did he feel the unbearable pain.

"Damn it, damn it! I will definitely eat you. Even if I lose my hands, I will bite you to death!"

The evil ghost roared angrily: "Get out of here, don't hide, human!"

Squeak...squeak...squeak——

The sound of dead leaves being crushed came in the darkness, even drowning out the sound of blood gushing out. It was so clear that it also attracted the attention of the evil ghost.

He looked up and found that the human had walked in front of him without him knowing when. He still looked leisurely, with that defenseless back, and his walking posture and pace seemed to have not changed.

In just a few seconds, while the evil ghost was still in a daze, the figure had already walked away.

"Won't you kill me?"

What emerged in my mind was not the luck of saving a life, but a strong sense of doubt that could not be resolved.

"Why? A ghost hunter would actually let a ghost go... Hey, human——"

The evil ghost was suddenly speechless and unable to utter a word. A strange feeling coming from his throat made him realize something.

That's how it is—this thought flashed through the evil ghost's mind.

The next moment, a line of blood appeared on his neck, and his head slid off his body like broken ice.

The demon lost its life under the blow of the Sun Blade, and its body dissipated like ashes...

"the fourth……"

Jiang Liu walked along in boredom, muttering, "Even if it's a novice trial, these ghosts are too weak... or am I too strong?"

Chapter 19: Alien Ghost

Ashina Mushin-ryu swordsmanship, full concentration breathing method, giant owl alien ninjutsu.

——This is what he got after completing all of Feng’s training. It is not an inherent skill but a technique he developed on his own.

There is no need to say much about the Ashina style. It is the precious legacy left by the swordsman Ashina Isshin, and it underwent some modifications in the hands of the ninja Sekiro. If it is passed down to this generation, the moves are already very different, but the essence is still there.

The concentrated breathing method does not simply teach people how to breathe, but is combined with sword techniques. In order to adapt to the techniques of different schools, certain details are improved, and different types of breathing methods are derived.

For example, what Feng taught Jiang Liu was actually a combination of Ashina swordsmanship and breathing techniques, not just teaching one of them separately.

Strictly speaking, it can also be called "Ashina Wuxinryu Breathing Method", but Jiang Liu feels that it is not smooth, so it is more often called "Wushinryu Breathing Method" or "Breathing Method of Nothingness".

As for the last one, "Giant Owl Alien Ninjutsu", it was the secret scroll that Feng's ancestor found from Sekiro's relics. It was a school founded by "Owl", Sekiro's adoptive father and teacher, and it was quite different from conventional ninjutsu.

This is also the least passed down. I don’t know if it’s because of Sekiro’s mentality, but most of the secrets of Ashina-ryu swordsmanship were recorded and hidden, while the secrets of ninjutsu were recorded as scrolls, but then burned after some thought...

What later generations found were only the parts that were not burned, and there was no systematic training method. However, Sekiro's grandchildren were very talented, and they still figured out a set of unconventional ways based on the incomplete inheritance.

With these things on hand, plus his increasingly perfect body due to his divinity, the extraordinary physical fitness he had developed over the past year, and his spiritual perception abilities, ordinary ghosts were nothing to him.

You must know that this final selection is only to select the official members who can join the Demon Slayer Corps, so it is naturally impossible to let elite monsters in.

The strength of evil spirits is generally determined by two factors: one is the source of the evil spirits, the amount of blood given to them by the Demon King Muzan when they were transformed into demons, and the other is the number of people they eat, the more they eat, the stronger they are.

Of course, ghosts seem to have different levels of "talent". Some ghosts cannot become stronger after reaching their limits, no matter how many people they eat.

Those trapped here are generally just ordinary ghosts who have just eaten a few people. It is rare to see more than ten people, not to mention special individuals who possess "blood ghost arts".

Of course, “generally speaking”.

Although the memory is a bit fuzzy, Jiang Liu still vaguely remembers that during the final selection, the protagonist Tanjiro should have met a rather special evil spirit.

"Teng Xi Mountain is so big, I don't know if I can encounter it." Jiang Liu was somewhat interested in that special individual, but his mental power was not strong enough to cover the entire forest. He could not search forcibly and could only rely on luck.

"Ha! I discovered this human!"

"Don't give me that. This is my prey. I haven't eaten a human in a year!"

Two evil ghosts ran out from the darkness and rushed to attack Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu's eyes darkened slightly, with a hint of impatience flashing across his face, and the hand in his arms had unknowingly touched the hilt of the sword.

"The Heartless Style - Type One -"

Invisible spiritual waves swept across the surrounding space, clearly reflecting the shapes of all matter in Jiang Liu's mind. The moment between fingers was stretched to the extreme, and everything, including the two evil spirits that attacked, seemed to stand still.

The only thing that could move was the Sun Blade drawn from Jiang Liu's waist.

The heart was beating strongly, and a large amount of cold air was pressed into the chest cavity. The blood seemed to be ignited. Following the route and rhythm of the breathing method, the hot breath instantly spread throughout the body and even spread to the long sword.

"Yu Duyun!"

Zheng——

The cold knife light flashed twice in succession, and the blade returned to the sheath. Jiang Liu paused for a moment and continued to move forward. The two evil ghosts were already standing still on the spot. After a moment, their heads and bodies were separated and turned into ashes and disappeared.

Although it has not officially joined the Demon Slayer Corps, the Nichirin Sword is not "exclusive" but just an old item. It does not reach the theoretical strongest hardness, but it is still effective in killing demons.

The Wuxin Breathing Method only has six moves, but Jiang Liu has learned all of its secrets and combined them with his own spiritual perception to take it one step further on the original basis.

Now, even without relying on his five senses, he can still clearly capture the movements within a radius of ten meters with his mental power alone. Even though the range is not large, he is not afraid of any challenge in this area.

His sensing range is ten meters, and within two meters is his kill zone. His skillful swordsmanship makes him confident in close combat.

In fact, after developing the perception field, Feng could hardly launch a sneak attack on him. And after he thoroughly mastered the six sword moves, Feng could no longer suppress him in close combat, but would be oppressed by his physical advantage instead.

Although this may be related to the fact that Feng is no longer in peak condition, Jiang Liu's growth is undeniable.

Now he is confident that he can kill himself from a year ago in seconds with one hand, just as easily as he can kill these ordinary ghosts.

"Just shoot a rabbit, a pheasant or something, and find a place to make a fire and eat."

Making a fire in the dark was like saying loudly to everyone "I'm here", and it would attract hordes of hungry evil spirits in the mountain. It should have been a very stupid act, but Jiang Liu didn't care.

If they were just ordinary ghosts, even if there were twenty of them it would not be difficult for him to deal with them. After all, the deep mountains at night were the best hunting grounds, and here Jiang Liu, whose perception was stronger than that of evil ghosts, would become the real god of death.

He even wanted to take this opportunity to see his true strength.

But just when he was about to do so, he suddenly heard a shrill scream -

"Ah ah ah..."

"Hmm?" Jiang Liu turned around and looked in the direction where the voice came from. He walked over without hesitation, with some vague guesses in his mind.

Sure enough, not long after walking, I saw a novice swordsman running towards me. He looked like he had seen a ghost (in every sense of the word). He was so frightened and terrified that he almost lost the ability to think and just kept running.

"Impossible! Run!"

When passing by Jiang Liu, maybe he saw someone and sobered up a little, he said in a terrified tone: "Run, there is a large alien here! Damn it, everyone is dead! You should run too!"

A large alien?

"Oh." Jiang Liu nodded, and then continued to move forward under the man's dumbfounded gaze.

"Hey you--"

Jiang Liu no longer cared about what the man said. Instead, he released his spiritual realm to sense the surrounding space.

Not long after walking, Jiang Liu saw the so-called alien eating a corpse.

"It's this guy." He nodded, even though the other party looked ferocious, he still looked calm.

It was an alien evil ghost that was about three or four meters tall, like a large tumbler or a mountain of meat.

Compared to the other evil spirits which at least looked like human beings but had changes in skin color and eye color, the one in front of him was almost like a monster from a horror movie.

Bloated flesh, bark-like skin, hideous and twisted protruding blood vessels, and who knows how many arms there are all over the body...

You can't even tell where the limbs and neck are, you can just barely tell where the head is and where the skull is.

This is the alien demon hidden in Fujisaki Mountain. Even the Demon Slayer Corps themselves don’t know when such a monster was raised in the "Novice Village". He has been lurking here for who knows how many years, carefully limiting the number of humans he eats, and has never been discovered by the outside world.

As a result, his lifespan grew longer and longer, and the number of people he had eaten grew more and more, until he grew into a monster that novice swordsmen could not deal with at all. Any young man who entered here would almost certainly become his snack if he targeted him.

However, the final selection this time seems a little different. This alien met its destined opponent, a "snack" that is not easy to swallow.

Jiang Liu did not appear in the dark. He restrained his breath and observed the movements in the field, while turning his gaze to the side.

There, there stood a red-haired young man wearing water-patterned clothing, gasping for breath and confronting the alien ghost with a knife in his hand.

The protagonist of the original work, the youngest disciple of the former Water Pillar, the inheritor of the God of Fire Kagura——

Kamado Tanjiro!

Chapter 20: The Iron Duck that is as powerful as a dragon in the mud sea!

His hands were shaking, not from fear, but from anger.

He - Tanjiro, had never been dominated by such anger before. His body seemed to be poured with gasoline and could ignite and explode at any time.

When his family was killed by a ghost, the boy felt more sadness and pain. The heart-wrenching pain made him not even have the space to be angry. But today, it was different. The actions and words of the evil ghost in front of him stimulated his anger.

Tanjiro Kamado was just an ordinary farmer's son two years ago. His family was engaged in the business of burning and selling charcoal. Because his father died early and he had many younger brothers and sisters, as the eldest son, he had to shoulder the burden of the family early on.

Although it is hard, I can hold on. My younger siblings are very cute and obedient, and my mother and older sister can also help. Life is just a little harder, but overall it is very peaceful and happy.

But all this changed when he returned home one day...

I don’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate, but that day he stayed outside for a night because of some things. When he returned home early in the morning, he found that all his family members had been killed!

The only surviving sister also lost her mind and turned into a non-human being!

Later he learned that it was not a bear or a wild boar that killed his family, but the legendary "ghost", and that his sister had been given blood by the Ghost King Muzan and was in the stage of transforming into an evil ghost.

What happened after that seemed like a dream to the young Tanjiro.

With his sister who didn't know how to recover, he didn't know where to go in this vast world. His situation was already hopeless, but he met a swordsman from the Demon Slayer Corps, and received training from a certain trainer. After two years, he finally came to participate in the final selection.

Despite experiencing major changes one after another, Tanjiro has a tough and gentle character and has never thought of giving up. Even though there has never been an example of a demon turning back into a human before, he still wants to join the Demon Slayer Corps, obtain information from the demons, and do his best to save his sister.

He is an avenger who carries a blood feud, but what drives him to act is not hatred but love for his family.

Even though the world was not kind to him, he was still kind to the world.

He holds the greatest kindness and gratitude in his heart towards those who have helped him in the past two years, and that is why he is so angry now.

Because, this evil ghost with hands all over his body gave his benefactor to——

"hateful!"

Recalling his teacher's teachings, Tanjiro forced himself to calm down, gripped the hilt of the sword tightly again and looked at the enemy, but his heart was still wavering.

"Those two people actually... Mietu and the others..."