Chapter 160: Illusion! And the destruction of the five senses!

"Two cuts?!" Gulu laughed loudly, touching the barely noticeable crack on his neck where no blood could be seen, with a look of sarcasm on his face.

"With your weak and powerless attacks, what's the point of letting you chop a thousand times?"

The accumulated snow flew everywhere, and the ground at the feet suddenly exposed dark yellow rock!

Facing the ghost rushing towards him, Su Beixun stepped forward with the knife in one hand!

The tough skin shook the blade away! Taking advantage of the downward recoil, he twisted his left ankle and lashed the man's flank with his right leg like a whip!
The dull sound of flesh and blood colliding shook away the flying snow!

Gulu blocked with his elbow, a sinister smile on his pale face: "Not bad strength."

Su Beixun was grabbed by the ankle and thrown away instantly! Everything in the world was turning over and retreating in his sight!

The swift cold wind cut the skin, scattering plum blossom-shaped blood spots!
The moment he landed, Su Beixun used his right hand to support himself and bounced up, avoiding the man's fierce kick that followed!
As the wheel raised its head, the bright white blade, mixed with gravity, chopped down fiercely!

"Stop struggling! Fleas!!"

The man roared, gripped the blade, and looked up at the child with a sneer.

But the next second he suddenly froze!
Su Beixun held the handle of the knife, pulled his body up, and slammed his knee hard on the bottom of the handle!
"what?!"

The blade that he had grasped suddenly slipped down due to the impact! Amid the dull pain in his palm, the sharp tip of the blade fiercely pierced into his apricot-yellow pupils!

"what!!"

Gulu screamed in pain, subconsciously loosened his hands and covered his bleeding eyes. However, Su Beixun took advantage of this opportunity to step on his head and leaped further away.

He raised the blade in his hand indifferently. The blade, which had just been bought from the blacksmith shop, had become irregularly jagged in this simple collision.

"You bastard!"

Gulu rushed over angrily! He clenched his fists, and the scar on his pupil gradually healed.

Su Beixun lowered his body slightly, got into position, and placed the back of the knife on his arm.

In just a moment, everything happened!
The strong wind crushed the tree trunks, gravel flew everywhere, and circles of white snow rolled up around the two people!

There was a sound of metal cracking, the dagger hit the man's body, sparks flew, and the strong fists and kicks that came back to fight back brought about sonic booms that shook the eardrums.

【what happened……】

Gu Lu's fist slammed into the ground!

The ground cracked and then collapsed into a deep pit. The attacks that failed again and again left bigger and bigger traces!

His legs exerted more and more strength, and the sinking of his feet every time he landed continued to reduce his speed.

Su Beixun seized the opportunity, jumped in, and slashed at his body with the knife in both hands!

The blade cut through the leather with difficulty!

The ghost's chest and abdomen were wounded again! He saw his own blood splattering in the air from the corner of his eye!
【my body……】

[…Why can’t I feel anything at all?!]

Gulu's arms suddenly clasped together! However, the action that should have been quick was several beats too slow, and Su Beixun had already ducked down and pulled out of his arms!
"what have you done?!"

The man stood there in disbelief. He pressed the wound on his chest and could see blood dripping, but he didn't feel any pain!
Gulu slowly clenched his fist and dug into his palm hard, but even though his nails pierced into his flesh, there was nothing unusual!
The branches were swaying and the snow was fluttering, but he could feel nothing!

Even if he left marks on the ground with his feet, it was only because his vision and hearing were telling him the result.

"My sense of touch... is gone?!"

Gulu's pupils were trembling violently.

"I found out." Su Beixun stretched out the blade, reflecting the other party's ugly expression: "You are so slow... When I hit you with the second knife, your sense of touch had already begun to weaken."

"……how did you do that?!"

Su Beixun grinned and placed the back of his knife on his shoulder: "Of course it's my breathing method."

"Breathing technique? You said this is a breathing technique?!" Gulu's eyes widened! He was not shocked by his age when he mastered the breathing technique, but he was extremely distrustful of this statement.

He had seen many members of the Demon Slayer Corps, but no matter what breathing techniques they used, they were just slashing attacks with different moves.

How is it possible to make someone lose their sense of touch?!

"It incorporates a little bit of hypnosis."

As the answer sounded, Su Beixun took advantage of the victory to pursue! He held the knife in one hand and slashed it diagonally to the right amidst the whistling sound of cutting through the air! He squatted down and raised his elbow, blocking with his left arm while extending his right hand.

But after a huge explosion, his palm was pressing on only air and soil. Su Beixun dodged to the side, gripped the knife handle with both hands, and stabbed it hard into his neck!

Blood spurted out!

"When a creature loses its sense of touch and body sensation, it becomes difficult to control its strength, its movements become too large, its reactions become slow, and its movements become uncoordinated."

As Gului swung his arms wildly, Su Beixun pulled out his blade and jumped back. He looked down at the shattered tip of the short knife and scratched his hair helplessly.

If there was a sharp enough Sun Blade, that strike just now would have been enough to completely destroy it.

Putting these distracting thoughts aside, he took a deep breath.

The cold air rushed into his lungs, and a thin white mist rose from the surface of his body. Su Beixun gripped the hilt of the knife with a deep gaze, and clenched his chubby, childlike hands tightly.

The leg muscles exerted force upward little by little, making him like a flash of light the moment he started!

But just as his left foot stepped into the wheel five meters in front of him, a huge force suddenly came from the side and knocked him flying backwards!
!!!

Su Beixun's pupils narrowed, but before he landed, he saw a red full moon approaching him from the corner of his eye.

The blood in his hand flew out and turned into rapidly spinning wheel-shaped objects, which caught up with the child in the air with a buzzing sharp feeling!
Can’t stand it!
Su Beixun made a quick judgment, twisted his shoulders to turn his body over, staggered to the ground and quickly moved sideways, while picking up a stone and smashing it hard in the direction of the wheel.

The stone stopped in the air five meters in front of him, then slowly rotated around the man.

The blade-like blood raged in the forest, chopping off many trees horizontally and diagonally. The snow was blown away, covering everything in a hazy white.

"I see."

Su Beixun's figure was hidden in the fine snow, and his voice was vague.

"You can create a rotating field around your body, and you can also use blood to form wheel-shaped blades... Although your blood demon arts are simple, you have one attack and one defense. No wonder you can sit in the position of the lower second."

Gulu frowned, and swung his blood to sweep the Fourth Middle School again, but still couldn't find anyone. He stopped immediately, letting the snow that blocked his view slowly fall.

Su Beixun was standing behind him with his hands hanging down, his eyes were bloodshot, and every strand of his hair was sticky with coldness.

A blood moon suddenly appeared, but it slipped past him by a hair's breadth.

Su Beixun didn't move, staring at the man's suddenly lifeless apricot-yellow eyes, and tilted his head: "It seems that your vision has also disappeared."

"hateful!!"

Of course, Gulu knew this better than him! His vision had been shrinking towards the center since a while ago, and now it was completely dark!
"Damn!!!"

He raised his head and roared, then reached out to dig out his eyes, but his regenerated pupils still could not see anything!
"You know, Xia Xian, you always remind me of the jokes I once read in the storybook."

The wheel roared and slammed blood towards the place where the sound came from! But that damn sound was always around him.

"When two people face off, they always have to pull each other, test each other, slowly show their strength, and reveal their trump cards bit by bit." "And the ending is often that the one who is hit with a trick first will definitely lose!"

“…How ridiculous!”

Su Beixun looked at the panic-stricken wheel whose position was spinning faster and faster, and smiled sarcastically.

"Reality is not a story. Those fools who let the enemy take the initiative in vain and then think of counterattacking when they are at a disadvantage usually cannot wait for the moment of red blood and violent counterattack!"

Gulu's arm left an afterimage, and his body split open with small cuts, sending out indiscriminate blood attacks in all directions. Then, without waiting for the result, he turned around and ran away.

He is scared!

A body without the sense of touch, eyes without the sense of sight, and ears whose sound of wind gradually faded away and was about to disappear into nothingness... These lack of senses tortured his sanity madly and made him lose all his fighting spirit!
Everything told him...

will die! ! !

[How is it possible… How is it possible…]

[A little devil... just a little devil...]

He couldn't feel his legs moving, but the sound of falling trees beside his ears let him know that he was charging forward headfirst!
【faster……】

[A little faster…]

[At least let me escape before my hearing completely disappears!!!]

Click~
In the distance there was a faint sound of branches breaking.

It was like touching the mute button, and the world suddenly became silent.

Gulu gritted his teeth, trying to let his body continue running out of habit. In the pitch-black chaos, there was no direction, no time.

He didn't know how much time had passed, sweat broke out on his forehead, but he didn't dare to relax for a moment.

Because... the smell of blood in my nose is getting stronger and stronger!

A heart is falling rapidly into the abyss!
[How could this happen… How could this happen?! ]

Gulu is filled with regret!

He never expected that he, a powerful man who was the Second Lower Moon and had a prosperous town as his hunting ground, would die here just because he curiously chased a child who smelled like him!

"Damn it! I won't accept this..."

"I'm not reconciled!!"

Gulu twisted his body like crazy, but all this only existed in his imagination! In reality, he just stood there in a daze, and Su Beixun used the short blade that had been broken into sawtooth to saw his neck bit by bit.

The five senses of human beings are connected to the nerves. When they gradually disappear, the body will not receive any commands from the brain at all!
Whether it's running, punching, or lifting a muscle...if you don't have strong enough instincts, you will be at the mercy of others!

"My Lord...I will not let you go!"

After the head was completely cut off, the wheel broke free from the impact a little and screamed weakly.

But Su Beixun ignored him. Holding the broken short blade, he looked back into the depths of the forest.

"Come out."

A cold breeze blew.

An old voice came from the shadows: "Child, I mean no harm."

The person who came deliberately made loud footsteps to point out his position in order to lower the other party's vigilance.

Although there was no moon, the snow still reflected its appearance clearly due to the strong reflection of the white color.

Red Tengu mask, blue wave kimono... Su Beixun narrowed his eyes, he didn't expect that the person coming would be Urokodaki Sakonji.

Was it attracted by the ghost from the Mizutani family?
But it stands to reason that this predecessor [Water Pillar] should have retired long ago and should have just stayed in Narrow Mt. Misty to do his work as a trainer and should not show up in public again.

...But it doesn’t matter!

Maybe he happened to be out nearby, or he went on a mission on a whim... Su Beixun was too lazy to delve into this useless reason.

The atmosphere became silent for a moment.

It was Urokodaki Sakonji who couldn't help but speak up: "Kid, if you have nowhere to go, I'm willing to provide you with a place to stay."

He was really moved!
No one knows how big a shock it was to him when he rushed here in a hurry to save people and saw a ghost with "Xia Er" engraved in its pupils running away frantically!

That was why he stepped on the branch and broke it in a moment of distraction.

You know, under the [Ghost King] Muzan Kibutsuji, only the twelve strongest demons can be awarded the title of [Kizuki].

There are six waxing moons and six waning moons in the twelve demon moons, respectively, according to the words engraved in their pupils.

Although the [Lower Moon Demons] are nothing compared to the strongest swordsman in the [Demon Slayer Corps] who holds the title of [Pillar].

But a child who is only eight years old, has no training, and is holding a cheap dagger from a blacksmith shop, can single-handedly defeat [Lower Moon Two] with almost no injuries. This talent is simply indescribable!
Therefore, even though he dislikes his cold-bloodedness, Urokodaki Sakonji also wants to leave this power for all mankind!
"Judging from how fast you came here, is my poor brother still alive?"

Su Beixun smiled playfully and said, "Is it okay? He should hate me to the core."

Urokodaki Sakonji was silent for a moment: "I can see that Akagi still cares about you. As long as you are willing to apologize, he will definitely forgive you."

"What if I don't want to?"

The old man pursed his lips and said bluntly: "...then I would prefer Chi!"

Su Beixun looked at him for a moment, threw the still living head in his hand away, and sneered: "Interesting."

In the snow-covered world, the child walked farther and farther away in the wind and snow.

Urokodaki Sakonji just sighed and didn't force it. However, he still decided to report everything that happened to the Lord and let the Lord decide what to do.

……

It was almost dawn when we left the forest.

After experiencing two battles in just one night, although the injuries were not serious, his tired body and the damage caused by the forced breathing method required time to recover.

But there is also good news -

Although it was just a first try, integrating [Hypnosis] into breathing techniques and sword skills was indeed a feasible way. And perhaps because of [Engraving Skills], his body was extremely adapted to this breathing rhythm.

"Let's call it [Breath of the Blur]." Su Beixun looked at the broken knife in his hand, thought about it, and decided to throw it into the space temporarily.

——The [Breath of the Dark] gradually erodes the opponent's five senses through constant collisions, cutting, and the sounds and sights of battle!
Unlike other sword skills that are parallel to each other, [Breathing Method] is a gradual accumulation process. As the battle time increases, it will gradually reveal its true power.

However, it took so long just to make [Lower Moon Two] enter a state where all five senses were destroyed, so Su Beixun couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied.

Although he was new to the technique and not very experienced, he still decided to learn another set of breathing techniques to increase his margin for error.

……

With all kinds of thoughts in mind, Su Beixun went into a hotel and slowly fell asleep.

But in the quiet night with snow falling.

In the different dimension attached to the world - [Infinite City], things are "in full swing"!
(End of this chapter)