Each Human-Headed Spider wore a ferocious expression, baring their fangs, wanting to bite into Kurozawa's flesh and blood, their eyes filled with madness and hatred.
Inside them, there seemed to be twisted, wailing souls.
Kurozawa was expressionless. He pulled his Nichirin Blade from the ground and took a deep breath.
Total Concentration! Surface Slash! Several neat, mirror-like slashes cut through the air, instantly killing all the Human-Headed Spiders.
Although there were quite a few, their strength was indeed weak.
Because he didn't want to get their blood on him, Kurozawa didn't use his hands.
He looked up at the shattered wooden house in the air, which was still suspended on the silk threads. Kurozawa lit a fire and burned it to ashes. The flames were fierce, and the burning wooden house in the large open area was very conspicuous.
This was much more noticeable than the light of a torch.
Kurozawa speculated that the Demons on Mount Natagumo might be an organized group, so he lit a fire here by the spider demon. He didn't believe its companions wouldn't see it.
Fortunately, this was an open area, and burning the wooden house wouldn't affect the surrounding forest, which was why Kurozawa did it.
"Lower Moon, did you see that?"
Looking up at the burning flames, Kurozawa walked to the side, crossed his arms, and leaned against a tree.
Since he didn't know when the Twelve Kizuki would arrive, he chose to rest temporarily and restore his combat power to its peak perfect state.
Under the moonlight, the flames gradually extinguished, and time passed minute by minute, but Kurozawa still didn't see any sign of a demon.
After waiting a while longer, as Kurozawa was about to leave, he suddenly felt a dozen gazes behind him.
Swish! A bright flash of a blade shot out from behind.
Tilting his head, Kurozawa dodged the flying strike. The momentum of the blade didn't decrease, and it landed on the ground, trembling slightly.
Looking closely, Kurozawa saw that it was a Nichirin Blade.
Frowning slightly, Kurozawa turned around and saw a dozen humanoid figures, holding chilling blades, approaching him step by step.
All the owners of the Nichirin Blades were wearing the Demon Slayer Corps uniform.
Looking closely, Kurozawa noticed that the movements of these figures were a bit stiff, like marionettes, lacking the fluidity of a normal person's actions. And at their joints, he could vaguely see threads wrapped around them.
"Threads? Controlled?"
Just as Kurozawa thought these Swordsmen might still be saved, they walked out of the shadows.
Pale faces, lifeless eyes, bluish lips - they looked like corpses. There was no saving them.
"To be able to control corpses, the abilities of these demons are truly bizarre."
The Swordsman corpses initially moved slowly, but when they discovered Kurozawa, their steps quickened. Holding their Nichirin Blades, they charged towards Kurozawa.
"Their speed isn't bad."
Perhaps thanks to the excellent physiques the Swordsmen had trained, they were still quite agile after being turned into controlled corpses, at least much faster than the lowest-level Demons.
Kurozawa didn't move rashly, waiting for the Swordsmen to rush over, while also looking at the threads connecting to the Swordsman corpses.
The threads were crystal clear and transparent, extending infinitely into the darkness behind. And due to the scattered arrangement of the Swordsmen, the distribution of the threads was also chaotic. For a moment, Kurozawa couldn't figure out the location of the final manipulator.
And just as he was searching for the Demon behind the scenes, the Swordsmen had already charged over, their blades aimed at Kurozawa's vital points.
The fastest Swordsman shifted his stance, the blade wrapped in sharp wind, stirring up tiny wind blades that slashed towards Kurozawa.
"They can even use Sword Forms, that's incredible."
Kurozawa had to admit, he was surprised.
The surprised Kurozawa flashed to avoid the attack, and his clothes were caught by the wind blades swirling around the blade, tearing a part of them. At the same time, Kurozawa struck fiercely, punching the Swordsman squarely in the chest.
Bang! Flesh and blood splattered. Where Kurozawa hit, a bloody hole went straight through. This injury on a normal person would clearly be fatal, but for a corpse, it was insignificant. The Swordsman continued to attack Kurozawa with the wind blade-wrapped attacks.
At this time, the corpses of the other Swordsmen also closed in, using various Sword Forms to surround and kill Kurozawa.
Clang! With a flick of his finger, Kurozawa knocked away a Nichirin Blade burning with flames. With a heavy sweep of his leg, he kicked the Thunder Breathing Swordsman who was in a drawing stance, shattering a large section of his ribs. Under the encirclement of Swordsmen with different attributes, Kurozawa didn't break out. He just endured their attacks while his eyes, like lightning, searched for the manipulator's location.
It wasn't that Kurozawa was being arrogant. The Swordsman corpses using Sword Forms seemed to be just the remaining training instincts of the corpses. They only had the form, and their true lethality was less than one-tenth of what it should be.
At first, Kurozawa was surprised, but when they actually fought, he found that these corpses were only as strong as ordinary Demons. As long as he avoided the sharp Nichirin Blades, they posed no threat to him.
After dodging a flame slash, Kurozawa stumbled as if he hadn't stood firm. Behind him, a seemingly unremarkable Swordsman suddenly became agile. The threads at his joints vibrated greatly, and he slashed towards Kurozawa's waist and abdomen.
Crack! Great Desolation Sword Finger! The blade was clamped between two fingers, unable to advance an inch.
The stumbling figure suddenly stopped. Kurozawa turned his head abruptly, revealing a malicious grin.
"Found you!"
The Swordsman corpse that attacked him was startled, then returned to its stiff movements. Another Swordsman suddenly became agile, but unfortunately, Kurozawa saw through the battle situation completely and didn't fall for it.
Because he lacked tracking skills and received no information from his sensory perception, Kurozawa could only reveal a weakness to lure the other party into making a move.
All the threads that vibrated simultaneously just now were connected in one direction. Although they were quickly shifted, Kurozawa still discovered and remembered it.
Boom! In an instant, the Swordsman corpses flew horizontally and then fell heavily to the ground.
Kurozawa, no longer interested in entanglement, transformed into a human Tyrannosaurus Rex, plowing through the corpses of the Swordsmen like a bulldozer, charging straight towards a certain direction with a face covered in blood.
The Swordsman corpses that could still barely move wanted to pursue, but they were quickly left behind, unable to keep up with Kurozawa's speed.
In less than a minute, Kurozawa spotted a slender white figure sitting on a large boulder.
In an instant, he slightly bent his body and leaped up with a roar, the ground beneath his feet shattering.
Through the dust and flying debris, Kurozawa cleared the distance of over twenty meters in a single bound, leaning forward with his right fist clenched, enveloped in a surging, rolling Pitch-Black Aura.
The figure sitting on the boulder was a female Demon with delicate features, her skin and hair pure white. Numerous threads extended from between her fingers, connecting to the corpses of the Swordsmen.
Startled by Kurozawa's swift, explosive approach and the ominous, despair-inducing Pitch-Black Aura, the White-Haired Female Demon had no thought of resisting. Instead, she screamed in fear, "I don't want to die! He forced me to do it!"
Forced? Sharply detecting the information in the White-Haired Female Demon's words, Kurozawa changed his trajectory. The Pitch-Black Aura brushed past her, shattering the giant boulder she was sitting on.
Once the smoke and dust cleared, Kurozawa stared at the female demon, whose clothes were torn and who lay amidst the rock fragments, and spoke calmly.
"Speak. Where is the strongest Demon on this mountain?"
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