"You little brat! What did you say!" Daki glared at Tanjiro and questioned.
As soon as her voice fell, the sashes that were coiled behind Daki shot towards Tanjiro.
"Water Breathing, Third Form, Flowing Dance!"
Seeing that Daki had launched an attack on him, Tanjiro immediately used Flowing Dance to dodge, but even with Flowing Dance, Tanjiro was still somewhat unable to keep up with Daki's speed, just as he dodged the stabbing sashes, other sashes then sealed off the place where Tanjiro was about to land.
Causing Tanjiro's footwork to be greatly restricted, Tanjiro had no choice but to be forced to take Daki's attack, and swung his sword again to cut at the sashes that were stabbing towards him.
However, Tanjiro did not use Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash to cope with it, because Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash put a great burden on the arm, so it could not be used many times, unless Tanjiro reached Ryuji's level, then he could reduce the burden on his arm by improving the accuracy, and lowering the number of slashes, so that he could control it freely.
Although this could greatly reduce the burden on the arm, it was not possible to use it without restraint, if he kept using Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash non-stop in battle, it would still cause a great load on the arm, thereby affecting the battle.
It seemed that it would still cause a burden on the arm, but in reality, as long as he did not use it non-stop, even if he used Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash three times in a short period of time, the load on the arm was not as serious as before, and it would not affect the battle.
However, Tanjiro had not reached this level now, so the Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash he was using now put a very large load on his arm.
If he used it continuously in a short period of time, Tanjiro's arm would simply not be able to withstand it, but Ryuji would no longer have this situation, because Ryuji had sublimated the original Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash to another level, greatly reducing the load of the technique on the arm.
Tanjiro had not reached that level with the technique, so Tanjiro had to make a careful decision about the use of Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash.
Because once he used it excessively, it would easily cause his arm to be unable to support the battle anymore.
"Water Breathing, Fourth Form, Striking Tide!"
In the end, Tanjiro chose to use the fourth form, Striking Tide, to cope with Daki's sashes.
Striking Tide was also a series of slashes, but compared to the sword speed of Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash, Striking Tide was much slower, the sword speed of Striking Tide was two to three slashes a second, the speed depended on the user of the technique.
Looking at it this way, Striking Tide seemed to be a slowed-down version of Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash, although both were a series of slashes, the way the two techniques were used was completely different, so Striking Tide and Water Surface Slash - Chain Slash were two different things.
The slash path of Striking Tide presented a winding wave shape, there was a meaning of turning, and the slash path of Water Surface Slash was a straight horizontal slash.
With different attack methods, the characteristics of the two techniques were also completely different. The attack of Water Surface Slash was more straightforward, and faster, but the power was much inferior to Striking Tide.
As Tanjiro used Striking Tide, the Nichirin Blade in Tanjiro's hand then became like a winding torrent, entangled with Daki's sashes that were like spirit snakes.
However, in this collision, Tanjiro's Nichirin Blade did not cut off Daki's sashes, when the Nichirin Blade touched Daki's sashes, it only deflected the sashes from their original attack trajectory.
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