Chapter 181 The Kingdom of Eternal World—Cutting flesh to serve the ghost!
Want to escape?

Of course not!
Tanjiro said solemnly: "Xiao Mao, do you have a way to send me to the Infinite City?"

"Big brother!"

Kamado Shigeru smiled bitterly: "After all I've said, do you still want to go in?"

"Because I have a reason to go!" Tanjiro subconsciously pinched the pocket containing the black pill.

Kamado Shigeru was silent.

After a long while, he exhaled: "Have you really thought it through? If you go in, there is a 99% chance that you will die!"

Tanzhilang's focus was completely different: "So, you really have a solution?"

"I can indeed mobilize the power of Infinite City on a small scale. I left the fire scene of the shrine in this way."

Kamado Shigeru nodded in affirmation, but then reminded him again with concern.

"Don't be careless! Su Beixun is different from any demon you've seen before! As far as I know, he single-handedly killed all the Upper Ranks, including Muzan Kibutsuji!"

He stared at his eldest brother with his head, which had dissipated until only his eyes were left, hoping to hear news that he had changed his mind.

But Tanjiro nodded firmly: "Even if there is a 99% chance of death, there is still a 1% chance of winning! That's enough!"

"Really... I hope my mother won't blame me after I go to hell..."

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Everything is dark.

Whether it is space or housing.

Or maybe it’s the mood…

Chi looked through the small window behind the bed at the chaotic structure outside, as if even he himself was in chaos.

The words were stuck in my throat, I couldn't say them out, and I couldn't swallow them down. Even if I opened my mouth, I could only utter incoherent words.

【why? 】

Chi asked himself.

[Obviously, the choice isn't that difficult...isn't it? ]

It's just a matter of lowering your head and completely throwing your almost nonexistent personality into the dust.

He just lowered his head and let his already shattered dignity completely disappear.

They are just... some worthless imaginary things! If I can use these to cause Su Beixun to be poisoned and die, it would be a great profit!

Put the pros and cons on both ends of the scale, and it's obvious which side it will fall to!
But why...

Just can't open your mouth?!

Chi gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

Emotions are indeed the most difficult thing for intelligent life to measure. They blur the distinction between right and wrong, and even reverse the relationship between benefits and disadvantages.

Su Beixun looked at him calmly: "Have you thought it through?"

"Do you want to ask me for a chance to realize your value? Or do you want to die and become worthless trash?"

Chi closed his eyes.

He hid the watery light of pain inside.

The sound of the heart beating in the chest is so faint.

"……I beg you……"

"What do you want from me?"

"Please...eat me..."

##
The winding white snake crawled quickly, leaving deep cuts on the wooden board!
Iguro Obanai turned her wrist, and the white snake opened its mouth and bit the pale man in the priest's uniform.

"Why don't you calm down?" The man smiled.

The air in front of his neck suddenly twisted and turned into a ball of air that twisted the white snake's head off.

Xiao Banei's body tilted due to the huge force she carried.

But before he could adjust his balance.

The next moment, Xiao Banei suddenly felt a breeze blowing over the wrist of his right hand holding the knife! His pupils shrank, and the dim light there continued to deepen and become brighter!
Xiao Banei frowned, and his figure flashed away, floating into the distance. He half-knelt down, smoothed the trembling blade, and stared at the other party with his heterochromatic pupils.

[The ability of the blood vampire technique is to distort the air to attack and defend... The effective range should be between five and ten meters.]

He silently judged based on the situation just now.

[Before starting, there is about one second of reaction time, which can be judged in advance by the gas flow direction and light changes. ]

"It's so beautiful."

The man suddenly said this.

He bowed slightly, appearing very polite: "I have been unable to resist beautiful things since I was a child... So, could you please leave your eyes to me to collect?"

Xiao Banei ignored him and continued to swing his blade around him.

The twisted air mass bounced it away again and again.

“How ungrateful.”

The man put his hands in his wide sleeves, turned his body so that he was always facing the other person, with a look of compassion.

"If I hadn't begged you with all my might, you would have been executed by the gods as a warning to others the moment you stepped into the divine realm again!"

"God?"

"Yes... immortal, far beyond human beings, this is a god!"

The man bowed his head devoutly. "I grew up in a family of priests, and I have made communicating with the gods my life's mission. Fortunately, the gods have led me on the right path. I am extremely happy."

Xiao Banei sneered: "I have never heard of a god who eats people."

He no longer paid attention to the man's crazy words, feeling the increasing numbness inside his body, knowing that he didn't have much time left.

[It has been confirmed that his blood demon art must be locked through line of sight, so...]

Under his black and white striped clothes, a snake-like pattern stretched from his left arm to his chest, and the floor he was standing on suddenly collapsed into a deep pit!
[As long as I can be fast enough that he can't catch me, I can win! ]

##
There was a muffled sound.

Something slid from the ground to my feet.

Chi lowered his head and found a black knife with a metal handle.

Su Beixun sat on the bed and said leisurely: "Since you are begging me, it is only natural for you to be more proactive."

His eyebrows curved, and his scarlet eyes were shaped like crescent moons, eye-catching and dangerous.

"Compared to swallowing you whole, I think only by chewing slowly can I fully appreciate the taste of the wisteria poison."

"So, from now on, you must cut off pieces of flesh of appropriate size from your body. No matter if it is too big or too small, I will refuse to swallow it."

Su Beixun supported his face and said, "Also, if you die during the journey, I will throw all your remaining limbs outside."

He laughed cruelly.

"The effect of wisteria poison has a lot to do with the dosage. So, if you want to die with me, try your best to hold on."

He pointed at the blade on the ground and smiled.

"Come on, Chi!"

"Let me see your so-called determination!"

##
Outside Tokyo.

A slender little snake slithered across the border and dove into the nearby woods.

A member of the Hidden Department who was hiding there suddenly felt a chill on his ankle. He looked down and saw a terrifying white snake staring at him.

Fortunately, he recognized its identity before he acted too aggressively and did not throw the white snake away.

"...Aren't you a companion of Lord Snake Pillar? Why are you here?"

The white snake opened its mouth and showed him the broken piece of cloth that was closed in its mouth.

Upon seeing this, the members of the [Hidden Department] no longer cared to be afraid and quickly reached out to take out the cloth strip. When they unfolded it, their faces changed drastically.

He summoned a crow and handed the item to it. He said solemnly: "Please deliver it to the lord as quickly as possible!"

##
The sharp blade cut the skin, and blood flowed along the smooth surface.

Chi's hand holding the knife kept shaking. He gritted his teeth and placed the tissue on the white porcelain plate in front of him.

Su Beixun chuckled and took it.

Only at this time, a little light could appear in Chi Siji's pupils.

He removed his limbs bit by bit until his bare bones were exposed.
A drop of blood from the knife fell into the pool of blood.

The spreading ripples disrupted the miserable scene reflected above.

Su Beixun looked at him and said, "Okay, the unimportant parts have been cut off. Only your chest and internal organs are left."

He smiled slightly and said, "A kind reminder, judging from the concentration of toxins, the most accumulated in the internal organs should be. Therefore, the most critical question is whether you can survive until I finish eating after taking out your internal organs."

Chi didn't say anything. Apart from swinging the knife, he no longer had the strength to make any additional movements.

He raised his arm with difficulty, but instead of cutting open his chest, he dug out a large piece of flesh from his face.

——Before he died, he just wanted to make the most of his remaining energy.

Therefore, he cannot waste any piece of meat!

But just as he stabbed the tip of the knife into his eye socket, an angry voice came from behind him!
"……stop!!!"

The sunlight was bright, and a burning long knife chopped down from above and embedded itself deeply into Su Beixun's head!

It split the forehead, passed between the eyebrows, and finally got stuck above the bridge of the nose.

Tanjiro looked at his brother's miserable state, his eyes full of bloodshot. He roared, grasped the hilt of the knife, and pressed down with all his strength!
The narrow blade became redder and the intense temperature continued to burn the fragile brain.

but.

Amid the harsh friction of bones and metal, Su Beixun stretched out his index finger to press against the blade.

"That's enough."

The tough long sword instantly made a twisting "creaking" sound.

Tanjiro's hands were bulging with veins, his jaw muscles were twitching, and his face was hideous! But even so, his Nichirin Sword was slowly and steadily raised upwards!

The flesh and blood healed, the gap turned into a line, and finally disappeared completely.

Su Beixun turned his head and looked at Tanjiro, whose expression was full of disbelief, and sighed softly: "Really... I gave the power of the Infinite City to Kamado Shigeru, but not to let him send the enemy here."

The wind howls!

Tanjiro's pupils suddenly shrank!
He slowly lowered his head, looking at the half of his arm exposed from his belly, his eyes trembling violently.

Su Beixun drew out his palm knife.

The blood splashed on the ground in a splatter-like pattern!
Tanjiro covered his bloody stomach, staggered a few steps, and fell to the ground weakly.

【hateful……】

He raised his head unwillingly, staring at the culprit who hurt his younger brother and sister, and the other person's figure gradually became blurred in his vision.

[Really... so strong. ]

##
In the darkness, some long-lost memories suddenly became clear.

The snow is falling heavily.

In the snow that turned even the night into white, a thin man wearing a mask danced wildly in a circle surrounded by a bonfire.

Tanjiro sat under the eaves, blowing hot air into his palms, trying his best to resist the biting winter.

He always found it incredible when he saw his father, who was in poor health and dressed in thin clothes, dancing from night to day.

until one day.

After a huge black bear attacked him but his father easily chopped off his head, Tanjiro couldn't help but ask his doubts.

"Tanjiro, open your five senses!"

The man held the old axe stained with blood, touched his son's head and spoke gently.

“To feel the shape of the body, to know every blood vessel under the flesh, to control every muscle in the body.”

“Remember, absorb, and then delete all unnecessary movements.”

“Endure the pain and persevere!

“One day, you’ll reach a new world of complete transparency.”

##
"Tanjiro!"

Everything happened so fast!

When Aka came to his senses, Tanzhilang had already lost consciousness!
"This is impossible!"

Strength surged up from nowhere in Chi's body, and his pale face became rosy as if it were a last burst of light: "You have obviously consumed so much wisteria poison, why is there no effect at all?!"

"...No impact?" Su Beixun tilted his head.

He pointed at the blood on his forehead that had not yet been wiped off and said, "If I hadn't been poisoned, his knife wouldn't have been able to even cut my skin."

This completely unimaginable fact made Chi Fangcun confused! He held the knife that had been dyed red, and he didn't know what to do.

Did he really eat it?

[Am I really not influenced by him? ]

[Is all this... just an illusion?! ]

Chaotic thoughts kept turning over in his mind, making Chi Xin uneasy.

But after just a moment, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

【At this point, I have nowhere to go.】

In the darkness, he groped and tried to cut the last bit of flesh from his chest.

——Now, he can only pray for God’s favor.

And mercy!

##
The sound is fragmented.

Countless snakes were crawling wildly in the room!

They suddenly jumped out from various hidden corners and bit the pale man in the priest's uniform from behind!

The man was no longer as calm as before, his clothes were torn and the surroundings were filled with distorted air.

But for Xiao Banei, who has honed [Snake Breathing] to the extreme and can easily pass through any narrow gap, the opponent is no different from an undefended person.

The winding Sun Blade left wounds on the man's body one after another! The poisonous snake bared its fangs in the shadows and suddenly wrapped around his pale neck when he was not prepared!
Muscles tighten.

The man's head was instantly split in two by the huge force!
He let out a scream.

But Xiao Banei also stumbled and fell to the ground after swinging the knife.

The bandage on his mouth was red without a single tinge of color. It had been more than 15 minutes since he last took the medicine, and his body was already riddled with holes from the poison.

Xiao Banei lay weakly on the ground, and a beautiful girl with pink hair slowly emerged in his mind.

[Mitsuri...]

But now!
A dark shadow suddenly appeared on the floor!

Xiao Banei's pupils shrank and he turned around instantly.

The man who had lost his head was standing behind him tremblingly and suddenly punched him!
【Oops! 】

The pale fist bones grew bigger and bigger in the pupils!
Xiao Banei gripped the hilt of the knife tightly, but he couldn't muster the strength to stand up!
Just as he gritted his teeth and prepared to withstand the blow, a slender hand suddenly appeared and slapped the man on the back!
Then, there was a surging purple-red flame!
Xiao Banei frowned and asked in surprise: "It's you?"

##
The heart was placed on the tray, and the broken skeleton in front of it had already lost its breath.

"You still didn't make it to the end."

Su Beixun shook his head and looked at the scarlet blood covering his feet.

The Mizutani family was turned around and reorganized into a huge platform.

Tanjiro, who was still breathing weakly, was moved by the wood and appeared at his feet.

"It's time to end this farce."

He raised his foot and was about to step down.

But suddenly!
A long white snake suddenly jumped out and cut off his foot fiercely!
Obana half leaned over, shook off the blood on the knife, and protected Tanjiro behind her.

"You're still alive...it looks like the priest is dead."

Su Beixun moved his newly grown ankle: "I really can't expect the strength of a newly born evil ghost to be high."

He turned his head to avoid the slender hand that was pressing on his head, leaned forward, and instantly hit the attacker's ribs with his elbow, cracking them.

Nezuko covered her chest and took two steps back, then walked around him and stood beside her brother, looking at his injuries with concern.

She was holding a small cloth bag in her hand, which contained black pills that could alleviate the poison.

(End of this chapter)