On top of the train, countless pieces of demon flesh appeared, forming tentacles or directly wrapping around their feet, attempting to stop them, but to no avail.
Once the demon flesh got close to Fang Wuwei, it would instantly be annihilated by the golden energy around him, turning into scattered ash, while Tanjiro was agile and difficult to catch, not to mention he was right next to Fang Wuwei...
Enmu, now completely desperate, had the entire train covered in layers of his demon flesh. This anomaly naturally alerted the Reincarnators in the engine room.
"No! Enmu... what's going on?!"
"Oh my god! Look at the Main God System! The captain is dead!!"
"Huh? He rebelled?!"
Before they could react, demon flesh instantly proliferated within the engine room, forming a giant basin that then rose high, attempting to conceal its neck.
But unfortunately, this move was useless against Fang Wuwei; it even helped him a bit and caused huge trouble for the Reincarnators who were in the engine room.
Facing the enormous demon flesh before him, Fang Wuwei adjusted his breathing, golden energy flickering in his hands...
"Golden! Ripple Overdrive!!"
[Ripple Qigong, B-rank talent, description: The power of the sun!!]
This move was Fang Wuwei's trump card against demons. He had drawn it a long time ago, but there had never been a suitable opportunity to use it. Against humans, its damage was not as good as his punches and kicks. It was only effective against things that couldn't stand the sun.
However, it was a decent cultivation method for strengthening the body during normal times.
Golden Ripple energy flickered in Fang Wuwei's hands as he punched the colossal demon flesh before him. That section of demon flesh instantly disintegrated into ash, but it quickly recovered. However, Enmu's pained wails from below indicated that this move was not easy for him to endure.
It's not over! What you did in the dream! It's not over yet!!!
Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!
Fang Wuwei's fists moved ceaselessly, the golden Ripple energy in his hands shining with a dazzling light like the sun, delivering hundreds of punches in the blink of an eye.
The sun's Ripple energy spread downwards along the demon flesh...
As Enmu's screams from below grew more intense and the train shook wildly, the wall made of demon flesh instantly collapsed.
The wailing echoed throughout the entire train, making the Flame Pillar, who was fighting fiercely, smile even more.
And Ikenouchi Maki...
"Master, Master, Master, Master, where did you go? It's so scary, so scary, so scary, so scary. I want to go home, boo hoo hoo..."
Through the wall broken by the demon flesh, with Tanjiro's shocked expression, the two leaped down.
But Enmu clearly didn't want to give up resisting. Countless eyes suddenly emerged from the internal flesh walls, each eye full of eeriness and illusion.
Blood Demon Art: Forced Sleep, Eye!
Just looking into them would cause instant unconsciousness. This was Enmu's trump card.
Evidently, this move was effective. Tanjiro looked into one of the eyes and instantly went limp, falling unconscious...
As for Fang Wuwei...
Hmm?! You dare try to hypnotize me?!
Ah, you really dare?!
Tsukuyomi!!!
Enmu's vision blurred. When he opened his eyes again, he had reverted to human form, bound to a cross and unable to move. Before him was that familiar, terrifying, eerie red world, and that even more eerie man... and that sword...
The eye that met Fang Wuwei's gaze instantly exploded, blood gushing out. The train below shook even more violently, and Tanjiro also awakened as Enmu's mind collapsed.
What's going on? I haven't even cut my own throat yet? How did the dream end on its own?
"Tanjiro!!!"
The demon flesh, with the Ripple energy Fang Wuwei had just injected, began to rapidly spread downwards. Enmu's body started to disintegrate and melt. Countless attacks that were brewing also turned to ash. The demon flesh receded, no longer able to heal or regenerate, revealing Enmu's fatal weakness—his neck.
Fang Wuwei's cry completely woke Tanjiro. Although he was still quite dazed, he drew his sword and stepped forward. The flowing shadow on his blade was no longer water Ripples but aimed at that neck bone...
"Hinokami Kagura: Clear Blue Sky!"
Flames emanated from Tanjiro's tightly clenched teeth. His blade was no longer soft water but scorching fire, weaving a perfect circle in the air, severing Enmu's fatal neck.
Enmu felt his head being severed from his body. With a sliver of breath remaining, he let out his loudest wail yet. The train began to shake frantically. He had gone completely insane, extending countless tentacles inside the train, attempting to devour all two hundred-plus people onboard, hoping to recover this way...
But unfortunately, none of the people defending inside the train were pushovers. When the tentacles grabbed the ordinary people inside the train, almost instantly, the Flame Pillar sliced these countless tentacles into several pieces.
The Flame Pillar erupted, rapidly traversing all eight carriages in that short instant, using the scorching heat of Flame Breathing and his benevolence to protect everyone amidst Enmu's train's shaking, attacks, and rolling.
"Ripple Overdrive!!"
Climbing and clinging tightly to the bottom of the train, Fang Wuwei plunged his hands into Enmu's body. The Ripple energy spread wildly with his breathing. Enmu's demon flesh and body, touched, died; contacted, perished, as if exposed to the sun. Enmu began to turn into ash...
Although it was indeed the sun.
Finally, under Enmu's frantic rolling, the Mugen Train overturned.
Tanjiro!
Fang Wuwei glanced over, seeing Tanjiro, who was unsteady on his feet. He reached out, grabbed him, and leaped high, jumping out of the train.
As for the people inside the train and his cheap apprentice, he trusted the Flame Pillar. In the original story, he could protect everyone on the train. Now that Inosuke hadn't left the train and was helping the Flame Pillar and the others resist Enmu's attacks from within, how could the Flame Pillar make a mistake?
After jumping off the train and landing steadily, Fang Wuwei set Tanjiro down. Looking at the collapsing train in the distance and the people slowly crawling out from underneath, Fang Wuwei was a bit concerned. Although no one died in the original story, they all seemed to have various injuries, and he was quite worried about his cheap apprentice's safety.
However... he seemed to have something more important to pay attention to...
On the radar, those red dots still inside the train, those Reincarnators, hadn't come out yet.
"Sir, I never knew there was such a breathing technique that could produce such powerful energy!"
Tanjiro's voice came from beside him, his tone filled with admiration. To cause such damage to a demon with just a punch and a kick was simply powerful.
"Although, sir, I hope you can join the Demon Slayer Corps, killing people is absolutely forbidden. I hope you..."
"Shh..."
Fang Wuwei reached out and covered Tanjiro's chattering mouth, looking into the thick smoke stirred up by the overturning train in front of them...
From within, several figures emerged...
"Cough, cough, cough... Enmu..."
"What do we do now? The captain's dead."
"What else can we do? Wait for Upper Rank Three to arrive and let him... when that happens, we'll follow the plan and take the immobilized Tanjiro and the others..."
Before they could finish speaking, they realized that things seemed to be different.
"Hello, you scumbags from the Main God Space."
Tanjiro was not with Inosuke. Instead, a man they didn't recognize was standing in front of Tanjiro.