The Warrior of Love

"That idiot! How could he just rush in like that?"

Tanjiro anxiously chased after Inosuke who had long disappeared, relying on his keen sense of smell to barely catch up with him. Jiang Liu and Zenitsu used him as a guide and also walked through the forest.

Inosuke was obviously extremely confident in himself and was not worried at all about encountering enemies in the mountains. Or rather, the stronger the enemy, the more excited he would be.

With his familiarity with the mountain environment, he easily led the group into the night, like a hunter snatching his prey.

However, he seemed to have forgotten his awe of the mountains. He was not the only hunter in this mountain. The evil spirits lurking in the dark were the most dangerous. Even he might not be able to escape unscathed.

"Hey, are we getting further and further away? We can't even see Inosuke at all." Zenitsu's face was full of worry and anxiety.

"Is this the instinct of the wild? Even I can't stop him." Jiang Liu sighed, "However, there may be more than one powerful ghost entrenched in this mountain. We can't just leave him alone."

"Jiang Liu is right, Zenitsu, stop complaining. The five of us came here together, so we have to leave together!"

Tanjiro's nose twitched just as he finished speaking, and he suddenly stopped and looked towards the bushes on the left.

"Who is it? Come out quickly!"

Jiang Liu also stopped, a look of vigilance on his face, while Shanyi hid behind Jiang Liu in shock.

"Susu...susu..."

The grass shook and a figure emerged from it. He staggered about ten meters away and then fell to the ground as if the string had broken.

"That piece of clothing..." Jiang Liu had very sharp eyesight even at night, and he squinted his eyes immediately, "It's someone from the Demon Slayer Corps!"

"what?"

Tanjiro hurried over and helped the man up, only to find that he was a young man slightly older than them. His already pale face looked even more like a dead person in the moonlight.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? Wake up, what happened? Are you alone? Where are the other Demon Slayers?"

"Well……"

The Demon Slayer Corps member opened his eyes in a daze, and became agitated after seeing Tanjiro's face clearly. He desperately grabbed Tanjiro's collar, but he was too weak, and his so-called "desperate effort" could not exert much strength, and his palm soon slipped away.

"do not be afraid."

Tanjiro took his hand in his, the firm, warm touch soothing him.

"It's all right now. Can you tell me what happened to you? Does this mountain exist..."

“Hurry…hurry up…”

"what?"

"Run!"

The man said to Tanjiro in a hoarse voice: "There are spiders on this mountain. Hurry up and run! Go call the pillars to exterminate the evil spirits!"

After saying this, he fainted from exhaustion.

"spider?"

Tanjiro frowned and looked at the man carefully, but found no obvious external injuries.

So how did he become so weak?

“It’s poison.”

Jiang Liu came over from behind and said, "Tanjiro, you may not have had much contact with him, but I know a thing or two about this. He is obviously very young, but he has lost a lot of hair. He has no bleeding wounds, but his skin is abnormally pale, and his lips are blue and faintly black... Maybe he was injected with some kind of toxin."

Because it was the Taisho period, it was unlikely that the person was a programmer or a otaku, so the only possibility was poisoning.

"Poison?" Tanjiro didn't quite understand for a moment.

"There seem to be some white lines on his body..." Jiang Liu's sharp eyes found something unusual, "Look, what is that?"

"Wire……"

Tanjiro fiddled with the man and found that the places he touched were somewhat sticky. In the moonlight, he saw that some translucent silk threads were wrapped around his hands.

"This is silkworm... No, this stickiness should be spider silk, right?"

"It seems that this mountain is much more dangerous than we thought. I hope that Inosuke will be safe."

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Liu took out an oil-paper bag from his waist bag and threw it to Tanjiro. The red-haired boy opened it and found several black balls the size of candies inside.

"This is?"

"This is emergency food for ninjas. It's made from honey and grains. It has a high nutritional value... I'm not asking you to eat it. Find a way to feed this person. No matter what poison he's been poisoned by, he must be in great need of calories. We have no way to detoxify him, so this is the only way for now."

Tanjiro heard that he seemed to have a hidden meaning: "Jiang Liu, you?"

"You guys stay here and take care of him. I'll go get Inosuke."

Jiang Liu cast his gaze into the darkness: "It would be fine if it was just a ghost that could control poison, but if it was a ghost that could control spiders... would it have to play hide-and-seek with spiders all over the mountain in the dark?"

"what do you mean?"

"This mission is temporarily suspended. We must first rescue this person and find out the truth. We can then proceed once we have a clear understanding of the situation."

"In that case, let me go--"

"I'm faster than you..." Jiang Liu said decisively, "and I have a way to detect the location of the spider, so I won't be poisoned."

"Then...you must be careful."

"You also have to be careful. Staying here is not necessarily safe."

Jiang Liu took a look at the spider silk and said meaningfully, "Maybe the owner of this mountain has been watching us in the dark."

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"One of them escaped? Damn it!"

In an open space in the dense forest, a woman wearing a white kimono with snow-white skin and hair was sitting cross-legged on a bluestone. She looked like the snow woman in folklore, except that there were blood-red patterns on her body that looked like eyeballs, indicating that she was not an ice and snow monster, but a much inferior existence.

She was very nervous at the moment: "If we don't solve it quickly, the ghost hunters will gather here like flies to a scent. And...tiredness will also make them angry."

Although I don't know who the "Lei" she was referring to is, I can guess from her almost trembling voice that he must be an extremely terrifying existence to her.

"It seems that there are a few more strangers in the mountains. Are they ghost hunters too? No, we can't delay any longer! We must get rid of them quickly. I can't make any more mistakes!"

Just when she made up her mind to launch an offensive to strangle the enemy, a calm voice came from the forest.

"You seem very frightened."

"Who?!"

The white-haired woman was shocked. Someone was so close to her, but with her ability, she had no sense of it?

"Demon Slayer Corps? No, you're afraid of something else."

Under the moonlight, a slender young man walked step by step to the clearing in the woods and looked at the woman with indifferent eyes.

"Can you talk to me?"

"Humanity?!"

The white-haired woman jumped down from the rock and launched the attack without hesitation or a word.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

A few barely audible noises were heard in the air, and a faint silver light flashed under the moonlight.

The surprise attack was as thin as a hair and extremely fast. Normally, it would be impossible for human perception to capture its trajectory, let alone dodge it in time, but the man took half a step leisurely.

It was only a distance of tens of centimeters, but all the woman's attacks were ineffective.

"Well!"

The spider silk stuck on her hand loosened immediately. The white-haired woman stared at Jiang Liu with wide eyes, looking calm, and a shudder rose in her heart.

Although the fight hasn't started yet, but... the oppressive feeling this ghost hunter gives him is no less than "tiredness"!

"Who are you? Are you here to kill me too?"

As if she felt that she had said something nonsense, the woman in the white kimono raised her hands hysterically, and even more dense silver light shot out.

It seems that communication is not easy - Jiang Liu frowned.

The red light lit up, and the Sun Wheel Sword was already in his hand.

Although it is in a damaged state and has not been repaired yet, there is no need to use Bailei if it is just to deal with an enemy of this level.

"I don't know where Inosuke is. It will take a long time to find him... so let's end the battle quickly."

Chapter 56: Fake Family

Ghosts are man-eating monsters, the natural enemies of humans, and irrational beasts.

However, except for a small number of people who were transformed by Muzan voluntarily, most of them did not voluntarily become their current appearance.

However, now that they have become ghosts, they no longer have any other choice.

The desire for flesh and blood dominated their brains, the awe of the sun was engraved in their instincts, and the fear of Muzan was a curse chain that bound their souls.

These guys are beyond help.

There is no salvation and no one comes to help them. Even they themselves have given up hope and allowed themselves to sink in the abyss of desire.

The evil ghosts that Jiang Liu encountered since his debut, from the initial small fry to the later hand ghosts, swamp ghosts, handball ghosts, and even the Twelve Ghost Moons.

There is no doubt that they were once human beings, had families and their own life trajectories. After becoming ghosts, they must have experienced very painful things to become like that.

Yes, they are pitiful, but Jiang Liu will not show mercy.

If you hesitate, you will fail - this is one of the mysteries of Wuxinliu, and both Feng and Jiang Liu deeply believe in it.

No matter what they had been through, when Jiang Liu met them, they were all complete evil spirits without exception, and the blood on their hands made it impossible for them to turn back.

Then, all Jiang Liu could do was to end their suffering in a clean and efficient manner.

"I did a lot of wrong things...but I just wanted to survive, why...why did it turn out like this?"

The woman in a white kimono fell to the ground, with a thin silk thread appearing around her neck.

It was unknown what had happened, but her hair quickly faded to a plain dark brown, and the red markings on her skin gradually faded away. Her inhuman features were erased, and she looked no different from an ordinary woman.

Only now can you see that although she had a mature figure before, after returning to her original appearance she is just a skinny girl.

She is actually not that old, probably about the same age as Jiang Liu. A girl of this age should be surrounded by beautiful things, but today she is buried in darkness by the cold night wind.

With just one move, in just a blink of an eye, she was killed by Jiang Liu before she could even dodge.

This is a ghost who is not good at fighting, or not good at facing the enemy head-on.

Although her silk thread is tough, it is not sharp and cannot be used as a sword. The only advantage is that it can be remotely controlled. If it can be wrapped around a person, the body can be manipulated as a puppet.

However, this level of blood magic obviously did not pose any obstacle to Jiang Liu, and the outcome was decided the moment he drew his sword.

Style Five - Thunder Return, this is the fastest sudden and fatal sword technique. When the enemy is killed, he may not even realize that he is dead.

"I... am so scared... really scared... will I go to hell after I die?"

Having lost the power she gained from others, her special appearance became ordinary, and she looked dazed.

"I will... I have killed so many people..."

"Probably so."

Jiang Liu did not lie to comfort her: "If you do evil, you will go to hell. This is a matter of course."

"Then I really am..."

"But you won't be alone."

Jiang Liu added: "The people who turned you into a monster have even more unforgivable sins on their hands... I promise to let them go down to accompany you."

Is this an illusion? The corner of the woman's mouth curled up into a smile.

"Oh, is that so... Then I feel relieved. Thank you, swordsman... Be careful of "tiredness"."

The body of the female evil ghost turned to ashes. Jiang Liu slowly exhaled, but the gloom between his brows did not dissipate.

She is definitely not the "owner" of this mountain.

Not to mention that in Jiang Liu's memory, there was more than one evil ghost in Tian Zhu Mountain, and the strongest one among them should be a young man.

Besides, based on this woman's strength alone, it is impossible for her to kill so many members of the Demon Slayer Corps.

And she doesn't have any poison-related abilities.

From the changes in her body after she was killed, it can be seen that her blood ghost art seems to come from the gift of others, so it is not stable and it is easy to turn back into an ordinary ghost.