Kapitel 72: Hunter [72]: Battle in Progress (Part 2)
Muzan Kibutsuji, upon seeing the red-hot axe and meteor hammer, had unpleasant memories flash through his mind. He immediately commanded the newly grown thorn whips to intercept.
Lin Jiu inwardly laughed. How could Muzan Kibutsuji, who had long been obsessed with finding the blue spider lily and studying medicine, be skilled in combat? Even now, he didn't know which attack was more threatening and was instinctively blocking Gyomei Himejima's attack due to psychological trauma.
Although the Hashira's Nichirin blades had entered their crimson state, it only increased the damage somewhat and slowed down the recovery speed. It wouldn't take long to heal. If Lin Jiu were Muzan Kibutsuji, he would ignore Hashira's attacks and focus all efforts on dealing with Lin Jiu.
Because of Muzan Kibutsuji's instinctive block, Lin Jiu found an opportunity and crouched down to cut off one of Muzan Kibutsuji's legs. The spiritual energy sealed the soul power within the severed limb.
Muzan Kibutsuji immediately sensed that something was wrong with the regenerated leg. However, his specialty was controlling these bodily extensions as thorn whips. By transforming this leg into a thorn whip, he could use it freely without being significantly weakened.
"Three slashes!"
"Mist Breathing, Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds!"
Muichiro Tokito made his move. This was a unique technique created by this genius. For a moment, slowly flowing cloud seas appeared before Muzan Kibutsuji's eyes. The shadows of Lin Jiu and the other Hashira appeared and disappeared within them.
Feeling uneasy, Muzan Kibutsuji immediately retracted his thorn whips to form a shield in front of him. But he was still a step too slow. As the cloud seas appeared, interfering with Muzan Kibutsuji's perception, Lin Jiu immediately changed his position.
A sword thrust out from the side, piercing Muzan Kibutsuji's shoulder. But the piercing damage wasn't enough. Lin Jiu moved towards the opponent's back, dragging the blade to create a gash in Muzan Kibutsuji's shoulder.
Before the shoulder gash could heal, Lin Jiu even saw the heart located in the shoulder area beating.
"Hmm!"
Lin Jiu sensed danger approaching and turned his body to the right. A thorn whip pierced his left shoulder. If Lin Jiu hadn't just turned, it would have been his heart that was pierced!
The next moment, Lin Jiu's thigh was also pierced through flesh and blood.
[Prompt: You've been attacked by Thorn Whip, receiving 30 points of physical damage. You've been injected with cell-destroying toxins. The toxins will spread throughout your body within an hour.]
[Prompt: You've been attacked by Thorn Whip, receiving 50 points of physical damage. You've been injected with cell-destroying toxins. The toxins will spread throughout your body within an hour.]
"Be careful of the thorn whips on his thighs, they're very fast, and these whips are poisonous!"
Lin Jiu immediately warned.
He wasn't concerned about the final result of these toxins. If they couldn't kill Muzan Kibutsuji within twenty minutes, he was dead anyway. Besides, he was only human-sized, so the toxins wouldn't spread quickly. They wouldn't have much effect within twenty minutes.
As long as they could kill Muzan Kibutsuji, Tamayo could deal with these cell-destroying toxins. Just by improving the drug previously injected into Muzan Kibutsuji, it would become the antidote.
"To think that Red got injured! Can't we even provide proper support? Everyone, let's give it our all!"
Kyojuro Rengoku shouted, unleashing a [Purgatory] attack, with sword energy sweeping out like hellfire.
Lin Jiu smiled lightly. He had also noticed that there should have been eight thorn whips on the leg, but now only four remained. He had prevented the regrown leg from growing more thorn whips.
"What did you do?!"
Muzan Kibutsuji held his severed leg, clearly feeling a part of his power sealed within by some mysterious force. The same force existed at the original cut, not affecting his flesh growth but preventing him from freely controlling the leg.
Muzan Kibutsuji wanted to try crushing the severed leg to see if he could release and reclaim the power within. But thinking of the strange energy on the wound, he chose to give up.
This disappointed Lin Jiu greatly. Crushing the severed leg naturally couldn't completely release the soul power. But the dispersed soul power would be absorbed by the Reincarnation Disc.
"You guys take the right! I'll take the left!"
The leg that still had thorn whips was Muzan Kibutsuji's right leg. Lin Jiu directed the Hashira to attack from the right side to restrict those extremely fast thorn whips. He would attack from the now relatively weaker left side.
Giyu Tomioka and the others immediately understood Lin Jiu's intention and launched their attack from the right side without hesitation.
Gyomei Himejima was at the forefront, his tall figure like a city wall.
"Stone Breathing, Third Form: Stone Skin!"
He continuously swung the meteor hammer, forming an impenetrable defensive airflow.
"Water Breathing, Eleventh Form: Dead Calm!"
Giyu Tomioka's unique technique was deployed. The core principle of this move is perception. It's about being as calm as water, greatly enhancing one's perception to catch attacks entering the range.
These two Hashira were responsible for defense and sensing Muzan Kibutsuji's thorn whip attacks. The remaining three Hashira were naturally responsible for the offense.
"Flame Breathing, Fifth Form: Flame Tiger!"
"Wind Breathing, Third Form: Clear Sky Wind Tree!"
"Mist Breathing, Second Form: Eight-Layered Mist!"
When Gyomei Himejima broke several thorn whips, creating a momentary opening, the three Hashira launched their attacks from different angles.
"Rengoku!"
Giyu Tomioka suddenly called out to Kyojuro Rengoku, who was at the edge of his domain. The Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku immediately stopped his attack upon hearing the call and dodged to the side. A whip mark appeared on the ground where he had been standing.
"Troublesome! That guy's perception ability is very strong, but the problem isn't just that, it's also the drug injected into my body earlier! My speed has slowed down!"
Muzan Kibutsuji thought to himself.
Lin Jiu didn't know what Muzan Kibutsuji was thinking. If he did, he would know that apart from himself, Muzan still didn't take the other Hashira seriously. The drug injected into Muzan Kibutsuji's body earlier only had two components, and the one that could significantly slow down Muzan Kibutsuji's speed should be the aging drug.
In other words, avoiding the attack just now mainly relied on Giyu Tomioka's perception of the Dead Calm domain, as well as the soul damage. Yet Muzan Kibutsuji attributed the cause to the drug.
The compound drug was just something Lin Jiu mentioned briefly while waiting for Tamayo to make the demon blood drug. The real fusion drug needed cooperation between Tamayo and Shinobu Kocho, who was more skilled in researching toxins, to create.
Muzan Kibutsuji knew it wasn't the time to think about these things. He also realized that the greatest threat wasn't the grand attacks from the several Hashira, but the seemingly ordinary slashes from the guy on the other side.
Seeing more than half of the thorn whips coming towards him, Lin Jiu calmly took out the small Nichirin blade and threw it at Muzan Kibutsuji.
Muzan Kibutsuji's pupils constricted. He had already experienced the feeling of being drugged, and being weakened another layer would mean certain death. He hurriedly dodged to the side.
This also caused the trajectory of the thorn whip attacks to change. Lin Jiu found an opening among them and, at the cost of several wounds, landed the fourth slash on Muzan Kibutsuji.
"Go away!"
Seeing Lin Jiu about to continue swinging his sword, Muzan Kibutsuji was shocked! He raised the thick thorn whip serving as his thigh and kicked towards Lin Jiu's chest. As long as he could damage these swordsmen's lungs, he could limit them. The opponent would surely retreat.
Cutting such thorn whips was useless. Lin Jiu ignored the thorn whip kicking towards him and continued to slash at Muzan Kibutsuji.
"Five slashes!"
Lin Jiu spat out a mouthful of blood. He was kicked away by Muzan Kibutsuji and could feel several of his ribs breaking. His life value suddenly dropped to just over sixty percent.
However, he immediately gave himself an injection, recovering 15% of his life value. This was the last [XT-12 Life Vitality Potion]. Lin Jiu still had three portions of golden fried rice, but they couldn't be used in battle. However, he still had two green-quality recovery items obtained from contractors that could be used.
"Cough cough..."
Lin Jiu spat out two mouthfuls of blood, the pain in his lungs intensifying.
At this moment, Muzan Kibutsuji was recovering from the damage inflicted by the Flame Hashira and others. If he had to face Lin Jiu's attacks on this side, he couldn't fully deal with the sword techniques of Kyojuro Rengoku and the others.
After kicking Lin Jiu away, Muzan Kibutsuji was hit by flames and wind blades. If Lin Jiu had still been nearby, he would have also been hit by the sword techniques of Rengoku and the others.
But Muzan Kibutsuji rarely made a smart decision. If he had held onto the thought of letting Lin Jiu get hurt together and hadn't kicked him away, Lin Jiu would have endured these sword techniques and killed him.
"I see it! Muzan has multiple hearts and brains!"
Giyu Tomioka, who had been in a state of concentrated mental perception, suddenly widened his eyes, reaching the state of a see-through world, and saw the internal structure of Muzan Kibutsuji's body.
"Energy is draining! Don't waste your energy on this. Those wounds on him that can't heal are the vital points. Attack those places!"
After entering the see-through world state, Giyu Tomioka felt mentally exhausted and his physical strength was rapidly depleting. He immediately said to the other Hashira.
Because he knew that none of the Hashira present were inferior to him, they could enter this state of transparent vision. But there was no need to waste such energy.
Lin Jiu's few slashes had already made Muzan Kibutsuji's spirit somewhat collapse, and the scars left by Yoriichi Tsugikuni on his body were revealed, completely exposed.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
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