'I'll test my blade on this guy first.'
Lexon turned his gaze to the charging Kokushibo.
"Moon Breathing, Fourteenth Form: Catastrophe - Tenman Crescent Moon!"
Seeing the other look at him, the alarm bells in Kokushibo's heart went off, and he prepared to release the immensely powerful sword form he had used before.
But in the blink of an eye, Kokushibo found that his field of vision was gradually rising...
Then he saw his own headless body...
Kokushibo realized that his head was flying.
'My neck has been severed...'
'Too fast...'
He hadn't even seen Lexon's figure clearly.
'I can't die like this... I can't fail like this...'
A strong obsession suddenly sprouted in Kokushibo's heart.
'I don't want to die! I don't!'
He tried to regenerate his head, to break the limits of a demon, but for some reason, an invisible force was obstructing him, preventing him from regenerating.
"Twang!"
The belated sound of a biwa rang out, teleporting Kokushibo's body to another location.
But in the end, it was of no use.
Gradually, Kokushibo could only slowly die in unwillingness, turning into ashes...
With this, all the Upper Ranks were annihilated!
'He's dead...'
Lexon looked at the place where Kokushibo had died.
'He was probably about to break his limits just now, but he still died...'
'Is it because I used the Crimson Red Blade and Sun Breathing on him...'
[Ding! The Reincarnator's Demon Slaying contribution has reached 60%. Hidden world quest triggered.]
["A World Without Demons": Kill the progenitor of demons, Muzan Kibutsuji, end the existence of all evil demons, and bring peace to this world.]
[Quest Reward: Control over a base in the Demon Slayer world.]
Then, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice suddenly sounded in Lexon's mind.
'The Main God's voice?'
Lexon was a little surprised.
'So the Demon Slaying contribution has been calculated all this time... and reaching a certain level can even trigger some hidden world quest.'
'Control over a base? What's that?'
Although Lexon didn't understand, he felt that the reward for clearing a story world should be something good.
'I'll just kill Muzan. I'll know after I kill him.'
The bright red, scorching Crimson Red Blade bloomed with a terrifying temperature, distorting the air. Black mist drifted from the blade.
He was currently using the Mist Breathing style; it was the breathing style he had mastered the best.
He planned to switch to the Sun Breathing style when he slashed. After all, being able to switch breathing styles at will was also one of Lexon's hidden advantages.
The mist suddenly dispersed.
The next moment, Lexon was in front of Muzan.
"Die!"
Muzan's tube-whips once again created sonic booms as they lashed out at Lexon.
Blood Demon Art: Paralyzing Evil Eyes.
A sinister eye suddenly appeared on Lexon's neck.
Muzan's movements abruptly froze. The pause was only for a mere instant!
But this instant, in a duel between two parties with a certain power difference, was exceptionally important.
"Sun Breathing, Third Form: Raging Sun."
A scorching fire, faintly tinged with black, replaced the black mist, blooming on the blade.
A deep red, arc-shaped horizontal slash quietly landed on Muzan's neck.
The moment Muzan's head was severed, Lexon did not stop swinging his sword.
In an instant, through the Transparent World, he captured the moving vital organs and continuously swung down.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" Muzan couldn't help but let out a terrified and trembling scream.
The burning pain from the Crimson Red Blade and Sun Breathing was continuously ravaging his spirit.
This familiar pain brought with it the figure of the man he feared most from the deepest parts of his memory...
'Yoriichi Tsugikuni! Sun Breathing!'
'That was the man who had truly made him feel the fear of death!'
'And now, the successor of Sun Breathing was also making him feel the same way...'
In that moment, Muzan had the thought of escaping.
'I have to leave... I have to leave...'
'I have to live!'
'The dead Upper Ranks and everything else don't matter! To live is everything!'
'I am immortal! I cannot die!'
Muzan Kibutsuji's will to survive once again reached its peak.
However, although Lexon was using Sun Breathing, and his sword was a Crimson Red Blade, and he had the Transparent World activated, the three of them had ultimately not reached the level of Yoriichi Tsugikuni. He also couldn't use the Thirteenth Form of Sun Breathing.
Even if Lexon knew that the Thirteenth Form was a continuous sequence of the first twelve forms, it was the same. If he couldn't use it, he simply couldn't use it. The basic level of the Sun Breathing style was not enough to support him in using the Thirteenth Form.
His use of Sun Breathing now was only for its property of preventing a demon's regeneration.
Therefore, although Lexon's slashes caused Muzan pain, lowered his regenerative ability, and drained his stamina, it would still take a long time of continuously destroying all his regenerating vital organs and neck to kill him completely.
The next moment, Muzan's body suddenly exploded as if self-destructing, intending to split into countless pieces of flesh and blood and flee in all directions.
This was his strongest life-saving divine technique. He would self-destructively explode his body into 1800 pieces of flesh. As long as one piece of flesh escaped, he could rely on his powerful regenerative ability to recover.
He had escaped from Yoriichi Tsugikuni in the same way centuries ago. Even the incomparably powerful Yoriichi could only destroy over 1500 pieces of flesh in an instant.
However, how could Lexon, who was familiar with the plot and knew all of Muzan Kibutsuji's information, not know the technique the other would use when cornered?
He had long been prepared.
With a spread of his five fingers, silvery-white spider threads that seemed to have been laid out long ago, at a speed much faster than the exploding flesh, gathered from all directions, instantly enveloping Lexon and Muzan Kibutsuji in a silvery-white sphere.
Not leaving the slightest gap.
The 1800 pieces of flesh slammed into the interwoven spider threads. Not a single piece could escape!
Lexon swung his sword like a machine, destroying the pieces of flesh one by one with his scorching flames.
Muzan Kibutsuji, realizing that his escape had failed, immediately gathered the pieces of flesh and returned to his human form.
He was no longer in his female form, but the male form he had been seen in before.
Seeing that there was no more flesh to cut, Lexon then continued to capture the positions of his organs through the Transparent World and continued to slash at them.
"Ah!!!!!!!!!!"
Muzan's face was frantic. An extremely powerful, wide-area shockwave suddenly erupted from his body!
Lexon frowned slightly. The silver ball woven from spider silk instantly dispersed, converging into a silver stream that blocked his path.
'No, the strength is not enough.'
He felt that the spider threads that were hit by the shockwave were rapidly being destroyed.
The next moment, blood extended from Lexon's fingers and was injected into the spider threads, dyeing them all red and causing their strength to increase explosively.
He had just barely managed to withstand the terrifying shockwave that Muzan had unleashed.
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